Glasgow's Golden Games Reporting Scotland

they competed and they did us proud. Beautiful!

Gold for Neil Fachie. Standing ovation here inside the velodrome.

It was the most beautiful experience. Good submission.

Scotland are going to make it! It's gold for the second time in two days

in the velodrome. His friends on and off the green and they have done it

again. Dan Keatings is through. Well, he's laid down the gauntlet

now. It was fantastic. He was fantastic. He was fantastic. We were

all fantastic. That's what you've got to do to win gold medals.

Good evening from a special edition of Reporting Scotland celebrating

our Golden Games. The sport is over, the party is about to begin. It's

been by far Team Scotland's best-ever performance at a

Commonwealth Games. We've taken 19 golds, 15 silver and 19 bronze. So,

in terms of what we should have achieved based on our population,

we've certainly punched above our weight. Over the next half hour

we'll be joined by a host of the athletes who've had us on the edge

of our seats over the last 11 days. We'll also be looking to the future

- that oft-quoted Games legacy. But first Lisa Summers rounds it all up.

Lynsey Sharp gets the silver medal. You don't have to win gold to be a

national hero. Sometimes it comes down to steely determination. This

was honestly my everything and there was no way I was going to go through

everything I've been through not to get a medal today. Or an infectious

smi. I'm just really happy. But sometimes it is the winning that

counts. And if you can't believe it. Ross Murdoch is going to take the

gold for Scotland. Silver to Scotland and it is Michael Jamieson.

I can't believe it. It is a dream come true. I never believed it I

would come to this stage. Even with broad shoulders, sometimes the

weight of the nation is too much. I worked as hard as I could but it's

not happening. That's sport, I guess. Glasgow's Games has

delivered. The Budget, ?575 million, a fraction of which the ?9 billion

spent on the London Olympics. It has meant creative solutions to venues,

a track at Hampden built on thousands of stilts. By the end of

the year the purpose-built athletes' village will be turned into 700

family homes. There've been moments to savour for those in the midst of

the action. But with the world looking on the crowd took centre

stage. When you are fighting for glory, who do you want on your side.

It is like a thunderstorm. Every time you land a punch, the roars! I

can't explain it. Away from the action the city's been soaking it

all up. It hasn't all been plain sailing. Issues with transport, the

ticket fiasco, and who could forget these flats. The quiet American

charge of which the show. We wanted to create a fun environment and I

really think people have responded and this has been a lot of fun. The

success of this Games will be a model for the future. A handover to

the Gold Coast is almost under way. Australia can can guarantee

sunshine, but even in Glasgow it had a role to play.

The athletes are currently getting ready for tonight's closing

ceremony, but a short time ago some of them came into our studio.

Welcome Lynsey Sharp, 1,800 metres silver medallist. Drew Christie and

Samuel Eto'o, who, and Viorel Ekto. Are you going to make

hospitalisation part of your next race preparation? Hopefully not. It

was probably the worst preparation you could ever have for a

competition, but it was adrenaline that carried me through and

determination. In terms of that home strait, what can you remember of it?

I can't remember much of it. People have asked me how the crowd was and

I don't even remember that. I just remember it being an amazing

atmosphere and it has become a trademark, my last 100m, and I

really enjoyed chasing people. I didn't even know what position I

was. In just catching people untilty get to the line. You certainly did

that. We saw in your interview how overwhelmed it was and how much you

put into it. Drew, in terms of pressure, home team, a lot of

pressure you were under. In shooting, you can't let any of that

get to you. No, the home pressure, because I'm local, everybody was

there. You shoot over two days, so you've got to just go home and sleep

with the score and go the next day. The crowd was just unbelievable. For

a start they wouldn't cheer. But I wanted them to cheer, because it

brings you on. We walked out on the final. It was just... Something I've

never heard before. Screaming and shouting. It was a bits of a shock

in a way, but it helped and it got me there. Viorel Ekto, first

wrestling medal for Scotland in 20 years. That's a bonus. I didn't

realise that until I heard Michael Kavanagh. I knew I could win a medal

but wasn't sure I would make history and be the first one in 20 years.

And even more important, your nine-year-old son watched you

compete. Yes. What was his reaction? At first at half-time when we had

lunch we met. He was a little bit annoyed with me. Trying to give me

coaching points, keep your head up? I thought oh, he's quite serious

about it. He was worried I wouldn't get the medal but I was pretty

confident about the semifinal medal which I lost to Canada. I thought,

I'm coming here to win my medal. You all did did us proud. Thank you so

much for all the enjoyment you've given us. Are you ready to party

tonight? Definitely. The athletes weren't the only stars of the show.

The enthusiastic volunteers braved everything from a heat wave to a

monsoon to welcome hundreds of thousands of of visitors. They

wielded their all-important foam fingers. Aileen Clarke has been

hearing about their Games experience. Morning. High fives?

Peter Anderson may be down from Peterhead but he's been making sure

that visitors from Glasgow are heading in the right direction.

Greeting people from the station, the first face they see, the face of

the Games. They smile, get them going for the day. And you have a

happy smiling face? Yes. From helping out with hurdles at Hampden

to escorting the athletes. Did you have a good time? Brilliant.

Clydeside verse had to be cheery and cope with long hours. Clara has come

up from Oxford. I did the Paralympic Games and it was such tonne if I

thought, why not be part of the convention as well. Becoming a

Clydesider was daunting for Carol from castle Doug laughter. I was

worried about coming to Glasgow. I'm in a permanent state of loss. It has

been great fun. I've never enjoyed this as much. These volunteers have

come with many skills. Kathleen Donnelly usually nurses seriously

ill patients. She's taken two weeks holiday to provide first aid. You

gets to talk to people a lot more. You see a lot more people. I've met

amazing people, the most amazing time. William has been catching the

taken from Livingston at half past six in the morning most days. The

medal as ceremonies are just amazing. Have you met anyone famous?

Amir Khan yesterday. Rain or shine these volunteers have smiled,

pointed people to the right place and even turned photographer. All in

a day's work, says James. Glasgow computer programmer-turned

Clydesider. It is just a way of helping keep the memories alive.

That's really what the Clydesiders are about. We want people to have a

good time. We want people to remember they have had a good time

after the event. So tomorrow the Clydesiders will return to their

normal lives and their day jobs. Come on, let's face it, they have

done more than their share of high fives.

Scotland's greatest success came in judo, where Team Scotland won 13

medals, including six golds. Earlier I spoke to some of their star

performers. Judo's success at the Games was unparalleled. You guys did

your bit. Welcome Euan Burton, gold medallist and Team Scotland flag

bearer, Matthew Purssey, winner a after spectacular silver, and gold

medallist Sarah Adlington. If you have done nothing tells with this

gold medal, it means that we will never run your disappointing

interview of London ever again, when you were so upset. That must be

cause for celebrating if nothing is. I think John Beatty ran it the other

morning on the radio. Hopefully it is behind me now and there are

happier clips of video to show. Can you encapsulate your feelings when

you knew you had managed to win it? First of all, massive relief.

There's a lot of pressure on the whole of the team. Our guys did

fantastically from day one and you didn't want to be the person that

let's the team down. I it was relief to start with and then excitement

and an enormous amount of pride. Great to do it in front of the home

support. And you are retiring? Yes. Do you know what will you be do? I

don't think it will be pipe and slippers just yet. I'm working as a

high-performance coach for the national team. It is time to see

that the guys go on to even greater success. Matthew, did you feed off

that home support? Most definitely. It was an incredible environment.

I've never fought in a place like that with so much support and

encouragement, so it pushed the whole team on to achieve what we

did. Have you been enjoying your new-found celebrity? There's

pictures of you handing out your medal to all and sundry and getting

your pictures taken. Incredible. I don't think any of us imagined what

the reception would be like. Being recognised and people calling you by

your name. When When people shout your name. Siren remarks you've been

reunited with your medal? You lost it? It was misplaced for a little

while. Tell me about it. The night I fought, getting back into the

village after being on the BBC, I put it in one end of the airport

scanner and it never came out the other end. I thought somebody had

taken at a time, the sort of thing I would do to everyone else. At the

end of the night people Assad, Sarah, we haven't got your medal. I

went to security and told her that my medal was lost, and she hadn't

seen it and it hadn't been handed in. She checked the scanner and it

was stuck beneath. You won't do that again. You've all done us proud. You

enjoy the party tonight. Are you going to let your hair down? Some of

us haven't got much hair left. We'll be letting our hair down. You

deserve it. People make Glasgow - that's been

the slogan throughout the Games. But what did the people who live in and

around the Games venues make of it all? Catriona Renton has been

gauging opinion. It was seven years in the making to get the city ready.

And now the Games have flown by. One of the areas that got the biggest

transformation was the East End, home of which the velodrome, the

athletes' village and Celtic park. In the months and weeks leading up

to the Commonwealth Games there were concerns in the East End of the city

about what would happen here. But now after the event we've come back

to the streets to find out what people made of it. It was an

upheaval at the time but they were organised. We didn't know they were

organising, that's the thing. I thought white with a, I thought it

would be a lot worse. I think it was really good. It was typical Glasgow.

Everybody was in a good mood. Have you been enjoying the Commonwealth

Games? Yes. What have you enjoyed? The swimming. It's been brilliant.

The people's friendly and it's amazing. We are in training for the

next one. We've seen people from all over the world come to Glasgow, but

it's not just tourists who have been soaking up the atmosphere, like here

in the heart of the city. Is I think Glasgow has embraced it. I think

they have done everybody proud. I'm nearly greet greetin, What is your

favourite bit of the Commonwealth Games so far? Have you met Clyde?

Yes. Was he nice? Is it's bin brilliant. Amazing how we came

together. Didn't manage to get tickets for the events but on

Glasgow Green this morning, the things they've put on for the kids,

first class. Out of this world. I've never seen nothing like it. It has

brought the people that live in Glasgow together and you can see a

change in the city and I hope it lasts. I just hope people use the

velodrome, the swimming and all the facilities that are left over. The

slogan section section people make Glasgow and it seems that it is the

people that helped make the 2014 Games.

The athlete who started the swimming goldrush was Hannah Miley and her

gutsy swim in the 400 metres individual medley. I spoke to her

earlier today. Firstly about her amazing fightback. Miley looks like

she's taken a lead. She has! The crowd are going nuts! The noise the

crowd made was immense and it lifted me up. I kicked as hard as I could,

stroked as hard as I could. I so wanted a it. In that last 50, all

that was going through my head was, I want this so bad. As soon as I

touched the wall I lunged and saw the red dot. Hannah Miley wins gold

for Scotland. What a start for the Commonwealth Games. I was so

delighted I managed to win the race. I turned round and it was like a

double shot. The time I produced was one of the fastest in my career. The

crowds are on their feet. I was in the crowd. Your dad. Have you seen

the footage of your poor dad? No, I haven't. That's the one thing I

haven't been able to see yet. It's been such a tough journey. For him

autumn the hard work he's put in and the knowledge. We've gone against

the grain a little bit with some things. We kind of feel we are

always battling to try to get what we know works. To get that result,

it just, a huge kudos to him. It shows all the hard work he's put

into it. This is what you've got and I'm so proud of him. Really grateful

that he stuck with me and stayed as my coach. Do you have enough energy

left to party on down tonight? We shall see. I'm more of a morning

person than an evening person. When When it gets to 29 or 9.30 my

batteries run out quickly. We'll look out to you in the city centre

tonight. Ll look out to you in the city centre tonight. What has been -

this is a ll look out to you in the city centre tonight. What has been -

this is a difficult one - your defining moment of these Games? I

think it was touching the wall after the 400 metres and I was able to

defend my title successfully. Once I Once I've finished my career I can

say, I've tried everything to get my swimming, and it was a great result

and all the hard work we've done. Years of planning and investment

went into making sure Glasgow 2014 would be lifted by the success of

Scottish athletes, and the results have been spectacular. So how do we

build on that? Stewart Harris is the chief executive of Sport Scotland.

Congratulations! You must be very proud. Very, very proud of Team

Scotland. All of them. The medallists in particular. 53 medals,

a fantastic achievement in front of family, friends and the home nation.

We hear so much about legacy. Opinion is divided as to whether

there is such a thing and if we do get it, whether it would be

sustained. The first thing you have to do to create a legacy is have a

plan. As soon as the Games were announced for Scotland we set up a

plan to celebrate our ambitious plans. The institute had already

been in place for 14 years, which provides the services for those

athletes that you've seen in the last 11 days. Sport science,

medicine, great coaching and great facilities. We've also been doing a

huge amount in communities, with schools and clubs, building capacity

so that we can allow young people and communities to access sport.

Because it is all very well having a velodrome, if you are a lad from

Govan, never mind a girl from Inverness. It was packed out before

the Games even happened. The facilities in Glasgow are being

used. We've got ambition to do even more across the country. We have a

fantastic sports village in Aberdeen, Ravens Craig, sterling,

lots of facilities that are part of the legacy, but we are not finished

yet. Which sport do you think will get a bounce from the Games? I think

the one there's been a lot of talk about is netball. We are keen in

Sport Scotland to get more girls playing sport and the feed-back is

positive about that Did leader of Glasgow City Council and Scotland's

First Minister say they are delighted with how the Games have

gone. The way the people of which Glasgow have done what they do best,

which is get it right. We've just seized these Games as our own. We've

had with the time of our life and we've made all of our visitors feel

welcome. The overwhelming impression of Glasgow and Scotland's Games is

of a job extremely well done. Seven years and more in the planning. We

hope we've taken the baton on for the Commonwealth and can present it

to the gold cost. There've been meant of which magic moments over

the last 11 days. Not all of them sporting. Take a look at this.

At this very moment the athletes are getting ready for the closing

ceremony at Hampden but let's hear the Games memories of a few more of

our guests from earlier on. On the sofa is Mark, who won bronze in the

hammer, Kirsty Gilmour who won a silver in badminton and Neil Fachie

and Dougie MacLean, double gold medallists in the paracycling. Mark,

you competed in the cauldron of passion that was Hampden. How did

you find it? Unbelievable. I think everybody's got the same answer. It

is hard to explain the feeling. You can feel the crowd. When you walk

into the cage and they announce your name, and it is announced that you

are going into throw. 48,000 people are screaming at you and willing you

to do your best. It is an undescribable feeling. Your heart is

pounding. The most incredible feeling I will never forget. Kirsty,

people think of badminton as a sedate sport but, crowd were

brilliant. I was there on Saturda The fierceness with which you play

and t athleticism. Is I don't think this has done badminton as a sport

any harm. No, the badminton gets quite a hard wrap but as soon as

people see it in the flesh, the I've not heard anyone with disappointed

with what they've seen. I think its reputation is getting the stronger.

Neil and Craig, no stranger to winning, but Neil I think this is

your first time in a Scotland jersey. We compete for Great Britain

many times which is an honour as well, but to put on the Scottish

jersey is special as well. It was nice not only was it our first time

and we managed to win two golds, and again it it was crowd, who were

phenomenal. The sport we've had was unreal. Great support but was there

ever a time you had to talk yourself game or perhaps would have gone out

too fast or tried too hard because of it? I don't think so. Sing our

events lend itself to the passion the crowd were filling us with. We

had to draw on it at one point because we were 1-0 down in the

sprint. Sprint. The crowd got us up and it made the race for us. What

are you all going to do this evening? Are you all going to the

closing ceremony? I hope shot. What are your plans? Not a clue. We'll

all meet and there'll be a lot of hanging about before we get to walk

into the stadium, and I think it is maybe off to Scotland House. Some of

which you seem a wee bit bemused by this. Are you? It is all a bit

unfamiliar to some of which us but it is great to get recognition and

see all the different sports. We see a lot of football and rugby but to

get these sports in the limelight for a brief time, it is special.

Coming from another sport, I've been able to learn a lot more about

different sports. We all thank you for giving us great enjoyment over

the last 11 days. You deserve a night off. Is

They will get a rousing welcome tonight. We are just a couple of

hours away from the opening ceremony - another closely guarded secret.

All we know is that its theme is of a night out entitled "All Back To

Ours." Jane, can you tell us any more? I really can't, Jackie. Sworn

to secrecy. We know that Lulu, Deacon Blue and Kylie Minogue will

be performing here this evening. I'm not allowed to get my cameraman to

show you what's going on down, there the transformation of the stadium.

It looks absolutely brilliant. The The Sunday checks are going on. No

doubt they will all pipe up again. That's given us one or two wee hints

as to the flavour of what's going to be happening here tonight. And

there'll be the official handover from Glasgow to the Gold Coast,

where the competition, the Commonwealth Games will be held in

four years' time. And then a Calais of cheerio Glasgow, you've been

pure, dead brilliant. That's it from the this special programme

celebrating the Golden Games. Tomorrow it is back to business from

usual. We'll have the memories, the enthusiasm of which the volunteers,

that opening ceremony and these very well-behaved little ladies. This is

Aggie and Tilly, who were stars of the opening ceremony. It has been

quite a fortnight. We'll leave you on this special Reporting Scotland

with some unforgettable images. Goodbye.