Episode 10 Queen's Baton Relay

Nine months before the start of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow,

the Queen's Baton set off on an epic odyssey around the world.

Designed in Glasgow, the baton has travelled

to 70 of the Commonwealth's nations and territories...

..covering 118,000 miles...

..taking 288 days...

..across six continents

to some of the world's largest countries...

THEY CHEER

..and the tiniest and most remote islands...

I feel so very happy!

..passing between many of the Commonwealth's

nearly two billion people.

Adventurer Mark Beaumont has followed its progress

round the world.

These guys are absolutely flying. They've already done miles!

Meeting athletes preparing for the Games...

Not a chance!

..and young sports stars of the future.

Ha-ha! He's laughing.

The first destination is India...

..where ancient ways of life sit alongside the modern.

India is home to almost a fifth of the world's population

and was the last nation to host the Commonwealth Games.

And now, India welcomes the baton.

It's obviously a huge source of excitement.

Hundreds and hundreds of people have already got a chance to touch it,

to get photographed with it, even to see it.

I mean, that's electric, it's just so exciting.

But I think that that pace is also just

a reflection of the pace of life here, of Delhi.

It's just an amazingly busy, busy place.

India excels at the sport of wrestling,

winning 84 medals at previous Commonwealth Games.

And in a backstreet of New Delhi lies the secret of their success.

Hello, Mark!

-Good morning. Deepak, yes?

-I am Deepak. Welcome to the akhara.

Young men have trained in ancient mud wrestling houses

like this for 3,000 years.

Boys join as young as nine

and give over their lives to rigorous practice,

living a monastic life, guided by discipline and celibacy.

Everywhere in India you see children

going to akharas, learning wrestling.

What age do you start?

They started at the age of... some nine, novices, yeah?

-From the age of nine.

-How old were you when you started?

-Maybe 11.

-11?

And he went on to become one of the best wrestlers in India.

I can see why. Look at the size of him!

Because the lifestyle,

because the sport is everything these young men do,

do they have to leave the sport behind before they have family life?

When you are married, your power fails.

So, you have to stop doing practice.

So, generally, children who marry are considered not likely to go

into professional mud wrestling.

Not one to shirk from a challenge...

Mark, don't lose the fight!

..Mark takes on champion wrestler Naveen Mor.

Pull the leg! Pull the leg!

Yes, yes, good!

Don't fall down, no!

My mouth is full of dirt.

And, er, I've not even had breakfast yet!

Quite a tough way to start the day.

You know, Naveen is one of the best wrestlers of India.

-He can go on fighting some two or three hours like this.

-Me too!

The baton leaves India to continue on its huge voyage.

How many countries?

70 nations and territories. 70.

-Here is number four.

-Number four?

-Yeah.

DRUMMING

The Games are providing inspiration

for the young swimmers of the Maldives.

Where do you train?

In the sea.

What do you do if you see a big fish underneath you?

I go faster and I try to finish!

In this part of the world, talented athletes can challenge tradition.

-ALL:

-Hello, Glasgow!

Brunei is one of the richest nations in the world...

..and home to a pioneering female competitor.

Who is your best athlete here?

-BOTH:

-Maziah.

Yeah, Maziah.

Maziah Mahusin is already a household name here in Brunei.

At 20 years old, she is their first female Olympian.

Maziah's achievements are remarkable,

because she is the only

international female athlete in Brunei.

It's been a lonely journey for me for the past five years.

At first, I have this female sparring partner to work with,

but some of them, like, gain employment,

so I just keep on training with the guys, and I'm conscious, like,

you have to follow the guys behind, so it's really challenging for me.

How do you stay motivated when you're training with guys,

who you feel you are always chasing?

I like to challenge myself more,

because I was the fastest in Brunei, so

when I go to overseas competitions, I was like, oh, I was the slowest!

So, I think I want to be the fastest also among other countries.

Mark bravely decides to take on the number one woman in Brunei.

Did I win? No?

-No.

-She's fast!

The baton stops by the Gold Coast,

the host of the Commonwealth Games in 2018.

How are you feeling?

Um, a little nervous, actually!

The stunning islands of the South Pacific are scattered

across the world's largest ocean.

These nations are home to some of the most remote

communities on the planet.

First stop, Papua New Guinea.

Hip, hip!

-ALL:

-Hooray!

Hip, hip!

-ALL:

-Hooray!

HE SHOUTS IN HIS OWN LANGUAGE

We're not allowed past until the village... HE SHOUTS

Until the village chief has seen the baton, accepted it,

and we are allowed to carry on through.

It's a wonderful welcome,

but it can also be quite an intimidating welcome!

THEY SHOUT AND WHOOP

This is the first time for the Queen's Baton, yes?

-I feel so very happy!

-Wonderful.

-Wonderful.

The locals have a special way of honouring the arrival of the baton.

THEY SING AND SHOUT

To the people of the village, eels are more than just fish.

The eels are basically, growing up here, it is

part of the spirit of the people living there.

We've seen incredible celebrations, and on some of the costumes,

I've seen bird beaks, what does this mean?

The songs represent our story, or our legend,

or something like that, so when people sing or dance using

those bird beaks or animal parts, it represents our legend to us.

Is there still a strong connection between the wildlife and the people?

Exactly. Because the animal element is basically our life.

The Commonwealth Games allow small nations

and territories to compete as themselves, not as part

of a larger nation.

So for many islands in the South Pacific,

it's a chance to make a name for themselves

on the international stage.

The very smallest country in the Commonwealth is Nauru.

It only has 9,500 citizens,

but Nauru has won 28 Commonwealth Games medals.

Woo-hoo!

What sports is Nauru good at?

-Um, weightlifting. Weightlifting and...

-Weightlifting.

And power-lifting.

Deamo Bagugu is an air steward by day,

but he's also a power-lifting champion.

It's the most rustic gym I've ever been in. It's like a Rocky gym!

All the gyms in Nauru are like this.

But this is a bit cleaner one, because it's a fire station.

Deamo is determined to succeed on the world stage,

but for the moment, he continues to break local records.

I want the big world to know that we're not just a tiny dot island.

We will be recognised in lifting heavy weights,

like weightlifting and power-lifting.

Deamo regularly lifts up to 300 kilos.

All right, without killing myself, what's a good challenge on the squat?

Maybe 90, 100 kilos?

Let's go for 90. HE LAUGHS

90 kilos. That's what I weigh.

So, if I can do this, that's my own body weight.

-This is under half what you lift, isn't it?

-Yup.

He's not going to be impressed.

Control all the way down,

and explosive power with your breath out.

Wish me luck!

Go on, Mark!

Good, good, big Mark!

Push!

SMATTERING OF APPLAUSE

Yeah!

Many of the islands here are very small.

So small, in fact, that in Tuvalu,

the runway doubles up as a sports field.

Thank you! I hope all these kids will become

players for the future of Tuvalu.

Thank you.

But these nations produce athletes with giant ambition.

Samoa is home to a world-class rugby sevens team...

..even though it's drawn from a population of under 200,000.

The team's up there with the best,

but is yet to win a Commonwealth medal.

I believe we have not been fortunate enough

to achieve any medals in the past, so that is our ultimate goal,

to make sure we get to that level and not miss out again

and wait for another, say, four years, I think.

There seems to be a real bond between the players.

Does that go back to the family and the culture here in Samoa?

Oh, definitely.

That brotherhood and togetherness we have,

it's drilled and it's our upbringing from our family,

so it's not something new that you come into rugby and you do it -

when you come from your families, you already know.

This sense of brotherhood is central to Samoan culture.

So, do you go through this process every Sunday?

Yeah, we have to do this every Sunday.

And who is it in the family who does this?

Mainly me and my brother that do this every Sunday.

-Is it the boys' job to prepare the food?

-It is always the boys' job.

The link between one player to the other, it's very,

very closer than you think.

They are not going in there as players,

they are going in there as warriors, as a war team.

THEY CHANT A HAKA

-ALL:

-Hello, Glasgow!

Hello!

FAST DRUMMING

After passing through the Cook Islands,

the baton arrives in the Kingdom of Tonga...

-ALL:

-Hello!

..a nation known as the Friendly Islands...

THEY WHOOP AND CHEER

One heart, one love, everywhere!

..until it comes to the national sport - boxing.

In the last Commonwealth Games, Tonga won two bronze medals.

An incredible achievement for a nation with just one boxing ring.

Their next big hope is 22-year-old Osika Finau.

Where do you normally train, what's the facilities?

Here, you are looking at the facilities and where we train.

So, we just have a punching bag,

then our skipping ropes, gloves...

And for weights, we use push-ups.

The facilities are basic, but this place gives the young men

and boys of Tonga the chance to escape from street violence.

Is there a lot of fighting?

And is boxing a good way to teach people not to fight,

because you are disciplined?

Boys from other school and boys from other school,

they meet up, they fight in the street, it's like a big thing here.

And I was in a school that used to fight like that, but now,

I mean, I've been trained to box and stuff,

I see that it's really childish and it's...

Boxing helps you to discipline yourself.

But there's more to Tonga's boxing success than just discipline.

-No kicking!

-HE LAUGHS

I think that personality of a Tongan

contributes to their interest in boxing.

HE LAUGHS He's laughing!

It's the heart.

I think that's the key that make a Tongan unique.

This is how to be a man.

It doesn't matter what you have.

What matters to me is what I know I can do.

We all have two arms, two legs, one heart. I have the same.

In the tiny nation of Niue, it's sports day,

and a chance to celebrate local culture.

We use what we have, which is our culture,

and we have to keep our culture, every sports day we have,

we have to have some cultural sports,

so it's always balanced with the other sports as well.

Woo-hoo!

Disaster!

But on another island,

the most popular sport has been imported from elsewhere.

Norfolk Island lies close to Australia and New Zealand,

making this a popular destination for expats.

And its residents have a particular fondness for one sport.

Despite the island's size, the lawn bowls team

is a surprisingly strong contender for a medal in Glasgow this year.

But for the players, it's not all about winning.

From what I've seen, it always looks like a very sociable sport.

It's very social, and if we weren't on camera,

we'd have a beer on the bench behind us.

We could do that!

Grab a bowl, any bowl, and see how you go.

-And you don't need any sort of a run-up?

-No, you don't need a run-up.

MARK WHISTLES

And that was good, really good weight, as we call it.

Because you finished level with the jack.

-Do you think I'm ready for a bit of competition?

-Why not?

Yeah, we'll get the boys in and we'll have a game. OK, boys?

Oh, didn't curl in!

He's looking good, this guy. He's doing well.

Oh, he held on to it, and it bump, bump, bumped!

My golly! He needs a little bit more green, that's all.

The baton leaves the South Pacific Islands

and heads for a whole new continent.

Epic landscapes and nature at its most magnificent.

It's also home to more than a billion people...

..and some of the finest athletes in the world.

UPBEAT BRASSY MUSIC

What are you looking forward to at the Commonwealth Games?

Well, much gold for Nigeria!

For some African nations, poverty and disease have led to disability.

In Cameroon, Etienne Songa runs the National Paralympic Committee.

In Cameroon,

the people with disability account for about a little bit more than

20 percent of the population, which means more than two million people.

And most of these guys, about 60 to 70 percent, are youngsters,

I mean below 25.

So, it means that if you get all these guys, I mean, most of them,

involved in sport, you can imagine the pool.

So, we have to have them involved into the para sports,

this for me is the biggest challenge.

Young athlete Patrick Bakounga is partially sighted.

So, what do you get out of sport?

Pour moi, le sport...

-TRANSLATOR:

-The sport makes me forget that I'm impaired.

HE SPEAKS FRENCH

In my neighbourhood, they respect who I am,

because I practise the sport.

What's your record for the 100m?

HE TRANSLATES

PATRICK SPEAKS FRENCH

-11.3.

-That's impressive! Incredible.

Patrick started running ten years ago and works with a guide.

To guide - I'm guiding with my arm, or by verbal?

By verbal and by hands.

You can speak to him, you can

speak to him that you enter the curve, now we are going

left on a straight line, let's go faster, let's go highness, OK?

-You should just try to contact him with the speaking.

-Perfect.

Let's give it a go.

Left, left!

OK? Straight.

That's good. Hey, well done.

Well done.

This guy is seriously fast!

CHEERING, CHANTING AND SINGING

Sport can provide life-changing opportunities

for talented young women.

In Uganda, the first ever women's Steeplechase Olympic gold

was won by Dorcus Inzinkuru.

What was it like, the reaction

when you came back to Uganda with a gold medal?

Well, it was great, you know, it was really amazing.

The whole crowd, the whole city, I was welcomed as a hero, you know?

So, it's very, very lovely.

To me, it is a great achievement

for my country and I would like to go back again for Glasgow.

In Tanzania, hope is being offered to young women

by a revolutionary cricket club.

The club was set up over a decade ago to help

women from disadvantaged backgrounds pursue a career in the sport.

One of them is their star cricketer, Mwanaidi Ibrahim.

Mwanaidi, what has being involved in sports

done in terms of your family life and your community?

SHE SPEAKS IN HER OWN LANGUAGE

-TRANSLATOR:

-As far as her family life is concerned,

she doesn't have a father, she lives with her mother and grandmother.

Both of them are unemployed.

And through cricket, which has opened the door

and get employment, basically, she is running the family.

Can you explain to me what it is about the situation, the game,

that makes you emotional?

SHE SPEAKS IN HER OWN LANGUAGE

She says without the game,

she cannot imagine without the game, because without the game,

she would most probably be somewhere in the streets, trying to

earn a livelihood.

Whatever recognition, whatever few happiness which she has got in

this life, is to the game, and that basically is getting her through.

SHE SPEAKS IN HER OWN LANGUAGE

-TRANSLATOR:

-Cricket has helped

to travel around the world, and in that process,

I have met different lots of people, and through that interaction, it has

helped me to broaden my mind, and that has helped me in my day-to-day.

This doesn't feel like the safest place to stand!

Those balls are coming pretty fast.

I've played cricket literally once or twice in my life,

and that was maybe 15 years ago.

I'm quite keen to have a go.

I'm scared!

Whoa!

Whoa!

Well done.

The baton travels to the Seychelles

and a dip in the warm Indian Ocean.

For talented young people across the African nations,

sport offers the chance to transform lives.

19-year-old Nijel Amos came from humble beginnings,

walking eight miles to school each day in rural Botswana.

His talent for running was spotted by his geography teacher,

who coached him from the school dirt track,

all the way to the London 2012 Olympics.

Nijel was 18 at the time, and ranked very much as an outsider.

But then he came out of nowhere to seize the silver

medal in the 800m.

He'd become the fourth fastest man ever over the distance and

a hero in his home country.

It's a moment Nijel's marked for ever.

Getting your fastest time tattooed on your arm - if you go faster in the future?

Also famed for its world-class young athletes is South Africa.

Covering half a million square miles,

this vast country is a Commonwealth Games giant.

At the last games, South African athletes won gold

medals in athletics, lawn bowls and swimming.

And in downtown Johannesburg,

one young athlete dreams of adding her event to that list.

18-year-old Kirsten Beckett has been training since she was five.

Now she is one of the best South African gymnasts of her generation,

and an inspiration to the younger children she trains with.

But it hasn't come easily.

Well, I train six days a week

about four hours a day

and during those four hours, strength is definitely a huge part in it

because without strength I don't think you'd be able to be a gymnast.

So we spend a lot of time on strength work, flexibility,

stamina as well is very important.

There's a lot of girls here aged, you know, five, six, seven.

When do you need to start taking it more seriously?

You should start taking gymnastics more seriously

when you're about the age of 11 or 12

and you start to hit your peaking stage.

That is so much younger than almost any other sport I can imagine.

What was that like for you

when you had to start dedicating more and more time to gymnastics?

I think, for me, when I was younger, it was all fun,

whether I took it seriously or not.

I did it because I loved it and I wanted to come every day.

I want to make a name for South African gymnastics,

you know, that's one of my big goals.

Obviously this year I want to make the Commonwealth Games

and hopefully medal,

and I want to win the African champs.

Many of the Commonwealth's nations and territories are small islands,

keen to make their mark on the world.

In the South Atlantic

lies the tiny British territory of the Falkland Islands.

8,000 miles from Glasgow,

and home to just 3,000 people.

The islands are exposed and windswept...

which is why the most popular sport here

takes place...indoors.

Doug Clark is the team captain

at Stanley Badminton Club.

Oh!

Well, they call it the fastest racquet game in the world, and you can see why.

-I didn't stand a chance. Bit of practice?

-Yeah, you'll be fine.

Doug and his team are preparing to take part

in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games...

giving this small British territory

a rare opportunity to compete on the world stage.

What are the main challenges you face?

Competition.

You know, we get to go to the Island Games once every two years.

We... We get to go to the Commonwealth once every four years,

so we're trying to plug those gaps with more tournaments.

And so, competition is a real, real factor

which is detrimental to our badminton.

To give his team a boost,

Doug has called on a secret weapon.

Rebecca Pantaney won gold for England

at the 1998 Commonwealth Games

and she's been coaching the Falklands team

for the past seven years.

And who will you be cheering for at Glasgow?

Falklands.

No. I know a lot of people in the UK, I know a lot of the coaches.

I'll still work with some of them,

but I'll be there with the Falkland guys

and I'll be proud to be there for them.

They may be the underdogs,

but the Falklands badminton team is relishing the chance

to take on some of the world's top professionals.

Makes me feel very proud

when I wear the kit and represent my country.

Because we are so small, we try and stand out the most,

just to say, "We're here!"

We're quite far away but we're still here.

From the South Atlantic,

the baton makes its way to the blue seas of the Caribbean.

The most easterly of the Caribbean islands is Barbados.

After Nigeria's rugby-sevens team dropped out of the Games,

Barbados was called up to take their place.

So now they've got a real race to get ready in time,

cos they're facing some of the toughest teams in the world.

The team's come a long way

since they were placed last

at the Caribbean Championships a few years ago.

And now they're preparing for the competition of their lives.

Not every nation has access to the most modern training facilities,

so they've improvised,

creating their own back-yard gym.

-Not a chance!

-Every time.

-You're fast!

-And that's under the midday Caribbean sun. What a place to train!

-Exactly.

Tyres, rope - simple, get your speed training in easily.

And this is how you do your training off the pitch?

Yeah, off the pitch we get together, we use everyday simple stuff

-and we get the resistance we need.

-Whoo! I like it.

They may be Commonwealth Games newcomers,

but for the players it's the opportunity of a lifetime.

It's going to be amazing, you know?

It's a big, big thing to see your idols,

watching them from a youth coming up to a bit of manhood.

To step on the field and actually have them teach you something,

it's a big, big thing. We joke around,

as a child you want to be like someone, look up to somebody,

and now we have to come back and say I'm going to be myself

and put my best foot forward

to play against who I looked up to, you know?

In nearby Grenada,

another young athlete has set her sights on being the best.

Nye Cruickshank is 12 years old

and has been swimming competitively since she was five.

Three years ago she was diagnosed with bone cancer in her left femur

and underwent an operation to remove part of her leg.

But that hasn't stopped her

dreaming about becoming Grenada's first-ever para-athlete.

Is swimming different now,

after the operation,

-than before the operation?

-No.

It's the same.

I just have to work harder.

The swimming is very important to her.

She uses swimming also as therapy

to help her to strengthen her leg.

Swimming has been like a lifeline to her,

especially after the surgery.

Nye's experience has inspired her to pursue dreams beyond swimming.

What's the reason you want to be a doctor?

To help children.

Is that because of how much you've been helped by doctors?

Yes.

Nye's a rising star in Grenada,

where a Paralympic Committee has only recently been formed.

That means, in the future,

Nye could have a chance at competing

at the Paralymic and the Commonwealth Games.

It will be good for,

you know, Grenada, other people,

other children who may have disabilities, you know?

Once, you know, they can see

there's nothing you cannot do.

And I would like to see that,

even if she has to be the lead person

to open that door for others to follow.

For some young people across the Caribbean nations,

there's little access to higher education.

But what many islanders are finding

is that sport can provide a gateway to academic success.

In St Lucia, an after-school programme

is harnessing both the sporting and academic ambitions

of young athletes.

I really enjoy running

and when I run I feel happy.

The club is very fun.

It gives you physical fitness.

Rockets Athletic Club has been running for over a decade.

In the past many athletes who were gifted,

their academics suffered.

And we are trying to change that dynamic,

that they must balance academics and sporting life.

Getting a sport scholarship to a university abroad

can be a life-changing opportunity.

I hope to get a track scholarship

for me to go to school to study architecture

and start building houses,

open my own business in my country

and build a house for my mum.

St Lucia is set to host

the Commonwealth Youth Games in 2017

and many of its young athletes are hoping to be future stars.

Do you have any dreams for the future, for running?

I want to go to the Olympics.

To run against other people, and I hope I can come first.

I want to become the world's fastest man.

That's a good dream.

Montserrat was famed for its beauty

and was once known as the Emerald Isle of the Caribbean.

But this island is dominated by a volcano.

Avalanches of gas and molten rock rolled down the slopes

and the scientists here have told them

it could be lethally dangerous for years to come.

This used to be the main town of Plymouth,

almost completely gone and deserted.

You can see exactly where the volcano flows came through the town.

Everyone had to move to the other end of the island.

And that volcano is still active, I can smell sulphur.

With the country devastated,

more than half of the population left the island.

The loss of people and land

had a huge impact on everything,

including sport.

But 19 years later,

young athletes are busy preparing for the Commonwealth Games.

We train on

a 300-metre track, a grass track...

sometimes we train on the beach,

because, like in Christmas, they have an annual festival

and they take up the field

because that's the biggest section on Montserrat.

As the nation continues to rebuild itself,

one of the biggest problems

is keeping sporting talent here on the island.

Lester, though, has opted to stay.

What keeps you going, year after year?

Basically it's just that I like competing

and I like putting Montserrat on the map.

And I would like to be

out there like a Usain Bolt

or one of them big athletes and making money

so when I die my children are safe, you know?

Across the Caribbean,

many young people are opting to move abroad for more opportunities.

In Anguilla, a tennis academy is

helping its students aim for scholarships in the United States.

Tennis for me would be like a gateway to college,

it's an opportunity to get a college scholarship

and the harder I train, the better I become,

the more likely I will be to get one.

Most of the children would love to go to school,

to acquire a higher education.

But they are limited in the fact that the parents may not have

the financial resources to do so.

So what we have found out is that using sports as a vehicle,

that coupled with the academic background,

will give these students the opportunity to realise

the dream of going to higher education.

Go to give yourself room...

Mitch studied in the US on a tennis scholarship before returning to set up the academy.

Following in his footsteps is Tamisha Richardson.

I want to play tennis in college and be able

to come back and work as a physiotherapist

and also if I could teach tennis and even have my own clinic,

or my own academy one day, that would be really good for me.

I want us to show that Anguilla, although we're small,

although we have 14,000 people,

that we have talent,

we have people that could do great things.

To the east lies an island where a pioneering scheme means

home-grown talent is staying put.

Jamaica is known for its sprinting prowess,

and is home to some of the fastest athletes in the world.

World champions Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Usain Bolt are

a product of an incredible plan that was put in place to nurture sprint

stars here and to stop losing them to scholarships in the States.

It was the brainchild of coach Dennis Johnson.

Sprinting is a methodology, it's a method.

It's a skill that you have to learn.

You ever seen somebody come from the back

and just run past everybody and hit the tape?

-You ever seen that?

-Bolt.

Bolt.

That's not what you saw,

because it's physiologically impossible

to increase your speed after six seconds.

Whoever you are. So that is an impossibility.

What you've actually seen

is the guys behind him

tiring quicker.

Dennis's programme is continuing to work.

This year, 19-year-old Javon Francis smashed Usain Bolt's

own 400m record at Jamaica's Inter-School Championships.

I said, "Oh, my God!"

I was so excited, I don't know what to do.

I wanted to break a record at champs

to motivate me, to make me train hard like

Usain Bolt there, Yohan Blake, Nesta Carter.

Quite a few guys who have good talent.

I say, "I want a good talent like these guys."

I want them, when I walk out to say,

"Oh, that is Javon Francis."

I just want to make a mark for myself.

Over the Caribbean Sea is the only Commonwealth

country in Central America, Belize.

In San Pedro,

triathlete Kent Gabourel is in training for the Games.

Hey!

-Good run?

-Yeah, good run.

-Pretty warm?

Yeah, I'm used to this, this is the time of day I usually train.

I cannot believe you train on these bikes.

Where are we going to go?

We're going to go over that way

so we could get a glimpse of what I do

and I know it's different from what I'll be

facing in the Commonwealth Games but this is what I have and what I have to work with,

so let's go, man.

Kent trains on heavy steel beach bikes.

They have wide tyres,

one gear and no brakes.

And now you're onto the rough stuff.

Yeah, this is what I have to deal with every time in my training.

This is totally different from what I'll meet in Glasgow.

This is more like mountain-biking.

I'd love to see your other Commonwealth triathletes

racing on bikes like this on roads like this.

I would definitely whip them cos I have the advantage,

this is what I'm accustomed to, this is all I need to ride best.

Kent's not only focusing on his own future.

Belize is the third-most violent country in the world,

with many young people ending up in prison.

What is it that you are worried about?

What is it that the children are getting into?

Well, drugs. Drugs

and gangs, that's the main things I worry about here.

I hate to see young guys throw away their life

in such a manner.

So that's why I try to educate them as much as I can.

One young person he's been mentoring is Nestor.

After a short time in jail, Nestor joined a football club run by Kent.

His ambition now is to turn professional.

I was into bad things and doing things...now all my friends see I'm doing football.

So now all of them going to keep out of trouble

and try to be someone like me.

If I can do it, they can do it, too.

My mum, right now, she's proud of me,

cos I stopped doing bad things in the street.

I hurt my mum a lot early,

so now it's time to change and show her who I am, I really am.

Kent's inspiring the next generation of triathletes, too.

We all hope the best for him,

so when he goes to represent Belize,

because I know how much he

is working out and training for this

and we all wish him the best of luck.

Canada is the second-largest country in the world.

It covers six times zones

and is the place where the first-ever Commonwealth competition was held.

Called the British Empire Games,

they took place in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1930.

One former athlete who remembers the event, and who competed just

four years later at the Empire Games in London, is 98-year-old Vi Smith.

What's your memory of running in London in 1934?

What was the event like?

It was a lot of fun, we met a lot of people from other countries.

And it was very nice to know

you could call home if you were out of your country.

You think the Canadian team will have fun in Scotland this year?

Oh, I hope so!

SHE LAUGHS

They shouldn't be there if they don't do well.

LAUGHTER

Yeah, they'll do well.

The baton leaves Canada,

the site of the very first Games, 84 years ago, and draws ever closer

to the 20th, in Glasgow.

It enters the British territory of Gibraltar.

And it's a significant stop

because it's the last before it reaches the British Isles.

What an incredible journey it has been!

The baton is carried back onto the British Isles by one

of the biggest names in UK Sport.

It is a massive honour

to bring this baton back home into the British Isles.

After visiting the Channel Islands, the journey continues north

to the Isle of Man...

..Northern Ireland...

..Wales - even the top of Snowdon...

..and England.

Getting ever closer to the Commonwealth Games' host nation.

It's been an incredible odyssey.

The Queen's Baton set off from London.

And over nine months,

travelled 118,000 miles through six continents.

And now, it finds its way home, crossing the border into

Scotland at Coldstream.

The start of a 40-day tour of the host nation.

People throughout the country have been nominated by their communities to carry the baton.

It's passed hand-to-hand, from city to villages...

..Highlands to islands...

..until this morning the baton finally arrived in the city of Glasgow.

In just three days' time, its epic journey will draw to a close,

where in Celtic Park, the Queen will read out the message...

and the Games will begin.