Jimmy Magee commentating on John Treacy's Olympic silver win at the Los Angeles Olympics, 1984.

John Treacy won the World Cross Country Championships in 1978 and 1979. But at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, he collapsed in his 10,000 metres heat. Then at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, he won the silver medal in the marathon, and Jimmy Magee was there for RTÉ.

The crowd stand to the Irishman from Villierstown in Waterford.