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THIS time last year, there were loose signs of the sporting world edging closer to something vaguely resembling “normal” but as it turned out, much of the year continued to be blighted by cancellations, withdrawals of athletes due to…

AS WE celebrated the bells almost a year ago, the sporting forecast seemed somewhat bleak and considerable uncertainty remained over how much sport would even happen over the course of 2021.  Doubt remained over whether or not the…

However much you dislike football or rugby or the Olympic Games, there are few who choose to ignore the action completely when their home country is in action.  The loosening of the rules around nationality in recent years began to…

RETIREMENTS come early and often in sport. Most cause only a ripple, some go unnoticed entirely. But every so often, an athlete’s departure feels like more than just a full stop in one individual’s career. Sometime, it feels like the…

MORE often than not, issues within sport that are deemed serious are, in the grand scheme of things, not serious at all. A team in the relegation zone, a bad run of form, and even injuries here and there are, in reality, not a matter…

FOR as long as I can remember, the Commonwealth Games have been a major focal point for so many sports in Scotland. For countless athletes, outwith the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games is the highlight. The facts it is a…

IT’S easy to assume athletes lead a charmed life. In many respects, this is true. In particular, for those at the top, the fame and fortune they enjoy can often make it difficult, impossible even, to empathise with any suffering they…

WATCHING the Tokyo Olympics through a Scottish lens, as most of us in this country invariably do, it was easy to believe British track and field is in a supremely healthy state. A dozen Scots in the team, silver and bronze from Laura…

But this week, it is no overstatement to say we might well and truly have seen the end of an era.  Roger Federer’s announcement that he is to undergo a knee operation once again, with the surgery putting him put of action for “many…

IT has been a sad week waking up each morning and being unable to switch on the television and instantly become heavily invested in a sport I know nothing about. For an Olympic Games that took forever to arrive, it seems barely…