Possible Clues:

• Red athlete can produce vegetable
• Variety of bean
• Bean Mark allowed to fall on to carpet
• If one 28 down, by the sound of it, that's what one's been and become, by the sound of it
• Sounds as if one's been very red in the face durning track event
• Flushed athlete, one going up the pole
• Type of bean
• Red-faced athlete found in the garden
• The plot may see Russian athlete up the pole
• Athlete of dubious morality trained climber in garden