Eilish McColgan: How One Scottish Runner Became the World’s Most Portable Geopolitical Metaphor
The world’s collective attention span, already shorter than a TikTok reel, has latched onto Eilish McColgan with the same ferocity it reserves for missing submersibles and celebrity divorces. From a windswept track in Eugene, Oregon, to a floodlit stadium in Doha, the Scottish distance runner has become an unlikely geopolitical weather vane: whichever way she…