Founder of the Great North Run Sir Brendan Foster previewed this year’s event by paying tribute to those taking part in it. Daniel Wales reports.
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00:0043 years since its inception in 1981, Great North Run founder Sir Brendan Foster
00:06previewed this year's event by paying tribute to those involved in it.
00:11It's not our event, we organise it, but we aren't the actors. The actors are getting ready, they're
00:17pinning their numbers on, they're turning up on Sunday morning, they're coming on the stage,
00:21they're acting it out. They're good actors by the way, they do a brilliant job and they're
00:26different. So they get involved in the atmosphere, the atmosphere makes it,
00:30the people who come make it, the spectators on the roadside make it, the region welcomes people,
00:36that makes it. So if you want to analyse it, we organise it, but the people make it work.
00:43You're now talking about 60,000, which is massive and unobtainable and unimaginable, but
00:50it's still there, it's 43 years, it's getting stronger, it's getting more varied.