Sports Writer

IN just a few weeks, it will be the 10-year anniversary of the London Olympics.

THERE’S always something particularly nerve-wracking about the final competitive appearance before a major championship.

THERE are few better people to spearhead Scotland’s men’s hockey team over the next month than Alan Forsyth.

FOR years, most sports have considered one subject too hot to handle: the transgender issue.

JOSH KERR has always been one to look at the bigger picture.

WHEN Kate Richardson took the plunge and switched from triathlon to cycling, she was entirely unsure as to how it would go.

JOSH TAYLOR has had a confounding four months which has resulted in him completely altering the course of his career.

THERE is little doubt that sport is, in the main, a force for good. But my goodness, when it goes bad, it goes really bad.

HERE are few national championships that display the level of quality of the British Athletics Championships and certainly, next weekend’s meet, which begins in Manchester on Friday, promises to be truly world class.

FEW teams mix youth and experience quite as seamlessly as Commonwealth Games squads, and Team Scotland’s swimming contingent for Birmingham 2022 has done quite a job in blending the two.