Argyll sailor first Scot to qualify for London 2012
Luke Patience from Rhu, who learned to sail at the age of 7 on the Gareloch, competed at 9, internationally at 18 and now, at 25, with his partner Stuart Bithell, has been confirmed as a member of the...
View ArticleJackie Baillie’s Olympic tips: Argyll’s Luke Patience and Gordon Reid
The fact that these two young Olympic athletes are from her constituency has only a little do with MSP Jackie Baillie’s enthusiastic support for them.She is encouraging all of us to look out for their...
View ArticleFirst Olympics medal for Scots member of Team GB
Daniel Purvis, a member of the Team GB Men’s Gymnastics team is now the proud possessor of a completely unexpected Bronze medal.The team turned in a controlled, skilled and gutsy performance – and...
View ArticleMichael Jamieson sets second British record in wnning Mens 200m Breaststroke...
Scots swimmer, Michael Jamieson, set a new British record in the heat that got him into tonight’s first semi-final of the Men’s 200 metre Breaststroke.He has just swum that semi and destroyed the field...
View ArticleScott Brash gets his gold pillar box for Team GB’s showjumping Gold
This is going to sound like New York, New York – but Scot, Scott Brash is a member of the Team GB showjumping team that has just won Gold.That’s another special issue postage stamp with a Scots...
View ArticleGolden Gladiator Hoy to go for Glasgow 2014
The BBC called him a gladiator. There is no better word to describe Chris Hoy – and particularly in the away he has just won his last Olympic Gold.In the final of the Keirin, in a dangerously talented...
View ArticleLondon 2012: how Britain came to feel good about itself
These have been Sebastian Coe’s games.He drove the successful campaign to get the 2012 Olympic Games for Britain. From that award onwards, he has wrestled the nation to the floor to make the Games the...
View ArticleParalympics start next week
With the Opening Ceremony on Thursday 29th August, the 2012 Paralympics Games begin in action the following day, Friday week, 30th August.‘Paralympics’ means ‘parallel Olympics’ and does not, as many...
View ArticleIndependence, sport, funding and ambition
Former Scottish First Minister, Labour’s Henry McLeish is to chair a Working Group on Scottish Sport.Since he left office through ‘a muddle, not a fiddle’, McLeish has progressively grown in status as...
View ArticleBritain wins first ever Olympic medal on snow
After the Shower of Scotland rugby performance in yesterday’s Calcutta Cup at Murrayfield, today, 9th February, has brought huge celebrations as Team GB took its first ever medal on snow – and in a...
View ArticleElise Christie storms into short track final at Sochi – and…
[12.20 Update om final below] Scotland’s Elise Christie has just become the first British woman to make it into the Olympic final of the Women’s Short Track Speed Skating.In a thrilling semi-final,...
View ArticleLooks like second disaster for Elise Christie at Sochi
[Updated below 11.00] Elaine Christie and a second skier have just appeared to touch the line first together, in the Women’s 1500 metres short track skating Heat 2 [in the morning of 15th February].The...
View ArticleBoth Team GB Curling teams into semis at Sochi
The Women’s curling team went through to the semi finals of the Winter Olympics at Sochi s last night, 17th February. They lost the last match but the permutations of the round robin played out to...
View ArticleOnly the UK could claim Winter Games performance as epic
Who but the UK would try to claim, with a straight face, that what is being described as ‘a haul of medals’ from the 2014 Sochi Winter Games – one gold, one silver and two bronze – is in fact an epic...
View ArticleNo nationalist politicisation of the Games?
It was revealed late last night that the Ministry of Defence [MoD] had been approached with a request that the Res Arrows – who overflew Glasgow and Celtic Park in the Commonwealth Games opening...
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