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Nigel Walker have corrected it on Wikipedia three times and it keeps coming back up. "It’s brilliant. The amount of people that ask me about it and I never applied and I certainly didn’t compete. It’s unbelievable." Nigel Walker Nigel Walker (born 15 June 1963) is a former Welsh track and field athlete and Wales international rugby union player. He is currently National Director at the English Institute of Sport (EIS). He was born in Cardiff. Walker represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the 110 metres hurdles. In 1992 however, he failed to make the squad