:00:35. > :00:40.Good evening and welcome to another edition of Sport XIV. It has been a
:00:41. > :00:46.busy month, here is what is happening tonight. We go to to to
:00:47. > :00:55.with two legends, Josh Taylor and Ken Buchanan. I think you did do the
:00:56. > :01:00.right thing! Ian McCafferty and Iain Stewart remember the incredible 1970
:01:01. > :01:07.5000 metres final. You have to make it better than yesterday. A tale of
:01:08. > :01:14.heroism you will never forget. I want to spread the sport as much as
:01:15. > :01:20.I can. The table tennis crusades... I guess, like most sports, there is
:01:21. > :01:25.advanced technology. And Jen McIntosh, how she keeps glory in
:01:26. > :01:29.asides. And we will be paying tribute to our curling heroes from
:01:30. > :01:31.Sochi, but first Edinburgh boxer Josh Taylor will be carrying the
:01:32. > :01:38.hopes of a nation into the ring with him this summer. How well-prepared
:01:39. > :01:46.is he? Well, we had in meet up with another legend, Ken Buchanan, and
:01:47. > :01:55.the sparks flew. The winner, Josh Taylor!
:01:56. > :02:04.Buchanan comes forward... He has kept the title!
:02:05. > :02:14.Josh, what do you think of yourself this year? I am really confident for
:02:15. > :02:20.the Commonwealth Games. I went to the last ones in Delhi in 2010 and
:02:21. > :02:25.won a silver medal, I was only 19 and had only been boxing three
:02:26. > :02:29.years. I lost out to a more experienced Englishman. Through
:02:30. > :02:33.experience, he beat me, used his head and stuff. I was a bit
:02:34. > :02:36.disappointed at the time, I was that close to winning gold. But a couple
:02:37. > :02:42.of days after, I got the silver medal in my pocket, and with three
:02:43. > :02:47.more years' experience, I am confident and I cannot wait. He will
:02:48. > :03:04.be hard to beat when the Commonwealth Games decamps to
:03:05. > :03:09.Glasgow...... There will be 4000 in the arena shouting mining, it will
:03:10. > :03:11.put hairs on the back of my neck. You remind me of a younger version
:03:12. > :03:16.of myself. You remind me of a younger version
:03:17. > :03:26.abroad, does it hamper you in any way? Do you feel that? If anything,
:03:27. > :03:29.I like being the underdog, the more shouting makes you more determined
:03:30. > :03:39.to win, more determined to win. It doesn't matter, it is just you and
:03:40. > :03:43.him in the ring, isn't it? Delhi was never really a place you
:03:44. > :03:50.would go for a fight, like, did you know what it was going to be like?
:03:51. > :03:56.When I went there, it was the heat, roasting, it was really dry heat,
:03:57. > :04:04.and a different culture. In the village, there were monkeys running
:04:05. > :04:11.about everywhere. They were chasing people about the stadium, doing a
:04:12. > :04:18.sprinting session before the event, and one came running out of the
:04:19. > :04:25.tunnel, chasing guys around. What was it like being in Madison Square
:04:26. > :04:34.Garden at the time when Muhammad Ali was the main name? He has to fight
:04:35. > :04:38.you for the dressing room? He asked if he could share the dressing room,
:04:39. > :04:50.I said, where you go, don't be so daft! I looked up at the place, all
:04:51. > :04:57.the names, and I said, I saw chalk on the table and I drew a line. When
:04:58. > :05:02.I got to the end, the place was quiet, you could hear a pin drop,
:05:03. > :05:09.and he says, Kenny, what are you doing? I said, well, this is my
:05:10. > :05:20.dressing room, he asked if you could share it. I am world champion. He
:05:21. > :05:25.says, I know, the line, that is your side and that is my side. I said,
:05:26. > :05:27.Ali, if you step over the line, you are going to get that. I am glad he
:05:28. > :05:41.laughed! It is the pinnacle of amateur
:05:42. > :05:48.boxing, the Olympics, the biggest stage. You will have been the first
:05:49. > :05:53.guy since Dick McTaggart to win a gold medal. Yes, and I was the same
:05:54. > :06:00.weight as him, that was my goal, to be the first to win a medal since
:06:01. > :06:06.Dick. It was not to be, but it was still a really proud moment. I never
:06:07. > :06:13.made the Olympics myself. You did the business in the pro game. I took
:06:14. > :06:20.a few punches! Show me that hall of fame ring, look at that. If I can
:06:21. > :06:26.achieve half as much as you... You will do that. Imagine that, Josh
:06:27. > :06:38.Taylor, champion of the world, imagine that. I will have to come
:06:39. > :06:42.back and bad you! -- batter you! Two tough guys there. Powerlifters
:06:43. > :06:47.Micky Yule redefines the word tough. When you see what happened to
:06:48. > :06:53.him in Afghanistan, he tells his story.
:06:54. > :07:00.It was just another normal day in Afghanistan or me, I was a senior
:07:01. > :07:04.NCO on a search team in charge of finding the IEDs, the improvised
:07:05. > :07:09.explosive devices. We would go out and try and locate them, and them,
:07:10. > :07:16.find them, blow them up, get rid of them, so I ended up blowing up,
:07:17. > :07:24.instantaneously losing my left leg and really damaging my right leg. I
:07:25. > :07:30.was pretty happy that I was going to be all right. I had planned where I
:07:31. > :07:34.was going to take casualties back, so I knew that I needed to still be
:07:35. > :07:38.conscious, and you last thing I can remember is the hot air of the
:07:39. > :07:43.engine and the downdraught of the tune of coming in. They got me on,
:07:44. > :07:49.and there were surgeons on that Chinook, so I was not overly happy,
:07:50. > :07:54.but I was pretty happy when I got there!
:07:55. > :08:01.I used to do able-bodied powerlifting, squat, bench press,
:08:02. > :08:05.death that. I represented the army in the combined services doing that,
:08:06. > :08:10.I had done a few competitions. -- deadlifts. Once I got injured and
:08:11. > :08:16.lost my legs, I didn't see a way of getting back into powerlifting. I
:08:17. > :08:25.was really enthusiastic when I heard that I could do the bench press and
:08:26. > :08:30.two Paralympic powerlifting. Sport Scotland ran a talent programme back
:08:31. > :08:34.in 2011, and Mickey was one of the ones that volunteered for that, and
:08:35. > :08:40.ever since then he's been part of the programme. He is an ideal
:08:41. > :08:44.athlete to work with. He is thinking about what he needs to do all the
:08:45. > :08:47.time, and he is pushing us, pushing me as a coach to think about it and
:08:48. > :09:01.do better. When you go through the stuff that
:09:02. > :09:06.myself and some of the other lads have been through, I think you've
:09:07. > :09:08.got to be optimistic. You can't be looking back on stuff. You've got to
:09:09. > :09:13.look at the looking back on stuff. You've got to
:09:14. > :09:17.a lot of guys that had worse injuries than me, and I know that
:09:18. > :09:22.they are still cracking on with their life, and they are still
:09:23. > :09:24.making the best of every day. So there's no reason for me to start
:09:25. > :09:30.getting down on myself and worrying about stuff. Some of the lads didn't
:09:31. > :09:36.come back. I mean, I got injured, I just need to get on with my life the
:09:37. > :09:39.best I can, and at the moment it's doing my Paralympic powerlifting.
:09:40. > :09:44.It's just give you something else to go for. Every day worrying about
:09:45. > :09:47.your next operation or worrying about how you're going to walk on
:09:48. > :09:55.your prosthetics that day, or are your prosthetics going to really
:09:56. > :09:58.hurt you that day? Not only that, I have to get my training done, and
:09:59. > :10:02.hit all my targets that has been said by my coaches, doing my
:10:03. > :10:06.build-up for the competition, so you end up thinking more about that, and
:10:07. > :10:09.before you realise, you're walking has got better and you are better on
:10:10. > :10:14.your prosthetics, and you're not paying attention to the pain that
:10:15. > :10:18.you might be going through whilst you are doing that. It sounds a bit
:10:19. > :10:23.of a cliche, but it is still very much a team sport. I have got my
:10:24. > :10:27.coach Neil here, I have got coaches that I work with down in Leeds,
:10:28. > :10:34.videos, nutritionists, dieticians who are guiding me. -- physios. Be
:10:35. > :10:43.your best on that day and do not leave it to chance. And don't fail,
:10:44. > :10:47.because you deserve to be there. It is an inspiration for everyone
:10:48. > :10:53.involved, to be talented, to excel at something, it shows real warrior
:10:54. > :10:58.spirit. I am confident that I can achieve everything I plan to be in
:10:59. > :11:04.Glasgow. I am going there to try and get a medal, and I need to keep on
:11:05. > :11:08.training had. It would be the end of such a bad period of my life,
:11:09. > :11:12.finishing on a high. It would be closing that door on that day, on
:11:13. > :11:19.the 2nd of August, it will mean everything. Now it is time for a bit
:11:20. > :11:24.of nostalgia. For those of you old enough to remember, Scotland hosted
:11:25. > :11:29.its first ever Commonwealth Games 44 years ago, and the last individual
:11:30. > :11:32.track event of the meet, the men's 5000 metres, went down in history as
:11:33. > :11:39.one of the greatest events ever seen on home soil.
:11:40. > :11:48.He will either destroy himself or win...
:11:49. > :12:18.300 metres left! But look at McCafferty! And on the track now,
:12:19. > :12:25.the athletes assembling. McCafferty, the eighth fastest man of all time.
:12:26. > :12:33.Iain Stewart, many people's favourite for this race. I did not
:12:34. > :12:38.think you would be favourites to win it, obviously. You did not think I
:12:39. > :12:46.would be favourite, but you were still a danger to myself, Keino,
:12:47. > :12:50.Clarke, Dick Taylor. I was still only 21, and the three others were a
:12:51. > :12:55.star-studded field of distance runners. I was the ninth fastest guy
:12:56. > :13:04.in the race going into it, which is ridiculous, really. I had run
:13:05. > :13:06.against him in Dublin, he beat the ridiculous, really. I had run
:13:07. > :13:13.world record. I thought he would be the danger in Edinburgh. I didn't
:13:14. > :13:21.really trust anybody on the Scottish coaching staff. My parents are from
:13:22. > :13:25.Musselburgh just down the road, but I was the first of our family to be
:13:26. > :13:30.born outside of Scotland. I definitely didn't trust any of the
:13:31. > :13:36.management team. 5000 metres, 12 and a half laps of the track. I think
:13:37. > :13:44.the thing was, with the race itself, it was a proper 5000 metres race.
:13:45. > :13:55.The time for the first 400, 70.7. Very slow. If the race had been
:13:56. > :13:59.going the way it should have been going for the first couple of laps
:14:00. > :14:06.we would have had a world record, I'm sure of it. I remember saying to
:14:07. > :14:11.you we would have been second. I turned around and looked at the
:14:12. > :14:25.scoreboard. I could not believe it was going that fast because it did
:14:26. > :14:31.not feel that fast. That's right. When you won at Iceland I was like,
:14:32. > :14:38.that's a gift from the gods. You have got to be totally confident. I
:14:39. > :14:43.thought I was doing the right thing. You did do the right thing because
:14:44. > :14:58.the way we left it before final was really confident.
:14:59. > :15:22.when lose or draw, that is it. I think the last 200, you were not
:15:23. > :15:33.hanging about. I was round as fast as I could going on the street. I
:15:34. > :15:40.was bursting. I still regret that last 100 metres because, looking
:15:41. > :16:03.back, I sometimes think that I gave up a bit. Maybe with about 20 yards
:16:04. > :16:13.to go. Yes, it was quite a noise, wasn't it? It was quite emotional.
:16:14. > :16:19.The crowd and obviously my wife, she was looking for me. She had come
:16:20. > :16:27.down to the side of the track and I could not see her. A lot of people
:16:28. > :16:35.still remember that race, a huge number, to me in Edinburgh and ask.
:16:36. > :16:38.I get that as well. Loads and loads of people remember it so it
:16:39. > :16:44.definitely made quite an impact, didn't it? With the couple of
:16:45. > :16:50.friends I went to the restaurant and there were loads of people coming up
:16:51. > :16:53.assuming I would have a Scottish accent and they were getting really
:16:54. > :16:57.offended that I hadn't. I sort of apologised. I bet our track record
:16:58. > :17:03.against each other is apologised. I bet our track record
:17:04. > :17:14.It is great to see you again. Really good to see you again. Table tennis
:17:15. > :17:20.is the biggest participation sport in the world. 40 million people play
:17:21. > :17:25.either recreationally or competitively. It is not the same
:17:26. > :17:29.here in Scotland where it is a minority sport. Our number two
:17:30. > :17:37.ranked player, Craig Harrison, is the man on a mission to change that.
:17:38. > :17:51.Pete Howison is teaching PE at this school in Edinburgh. His first love
:17:52. > :17:56.is table tennis. But not played like that. He set up an after-school
:17:57. > :18:01.table tennis club in order to give students an introduction to the
:18:02. > :18:06.game. I started it up last year when I started that this school. It is a
:18:07. > :18:10.massive thing for me, I do not think enough people know about table
:18:11. > :18:17.tennis. I want to spread the sport as much as I can. I have between ten
:18:18. > :18:21.and 20 youngsters, every Thursday for an hour. I now have five or six
:18:22. > :18:27.who are taking it up more seriously and are training three times a week
:18:28. > :18:32.at the club I started when I was nine. The emphasis is on them
:18:33. > :18:37.enjoying it and having fun. If there was anyone had the extra motivation
:18:38. > :18:41.to go out and improve, there are a few already that have shown that,
:18:42. > :18:46.that would be great. If we can get them up to an elite level or how
:18:47. > :18:55.high they can that would be a very satisfying and proud moment for me.
:18:56. > :19:07.After a day of teaching it is time for three hours of demonstration. My
:19:08. > :19:13.old man built a table in the attic when I was seven. I think my dad
:19:14. > :19:17.realised I could be good a lot earlier than I did. It was him
:19:18. > :19:26.encouraged me to join a club and pushed me to do that. This year has
:19:27. > :19:35.started well for Craig, he has already taken home silverware. I won
:19:36. > :19:40.at the West of Scotland from p which is part of the great British Grand
:19:41. > :19:48.Prix circuit, there are 12 each year. I won my maiden title in
:19:49. > :19:56.Glasgow a few big day for me. I have never beaten Gavin, the number one,
:19:57. > :19:59.he is a full-time athlete. He is a real professional athlete as well
:20:00. > :20:04.and for me to be able to get a result like that is really
:20:05. > :20:09.satisfying. It shows that all the hard work I have been doing in here
:20:10. > :20:15.and in the gym and work my sports psychologist has been paying off. I
:20:16. > :20:21.have played him on teen times since I was 14 and came close a couple of
:20:22. > :20:27.times but never managed to beat him. It is nice to get that monkey off of
:20:28. > :20:35.my back. It is a huge weight off my shoulders. So, an impressive start
:20:36. > :20:43.to 2014 but nothing is being taken for granted ahead of the 2014
:20:44. > :20:48.Commonwealth Games. I am focusing at the moment, but not thinking too far
:20:49. > :20:52.ahead. If we do get there then we want to do everything in our power
:20:53. > :20:55.to make sure we have a good performance. If we get to the top
:20:56. > :21:04.eight in the quarterfinals performance. If we get to the top
:21:05. > :21:11.are number one and number two. They have vast experience between us.
:21:12. > :21:16.That will hopefully carry over to Glasgow. The other big experience
:21:17. > :21:20.that is important is the Commonwealth Championships which
:21:21. > :21:24.were in Scotstoun in Glasgow back in 2009. We have had a little taste of
:21:25. > :21:29.what the crowd might be like and what they call is like and stuff
:21:30. > :21:36.like that. Hopefully it will prove to be valuable and we will use it to
:21:37. > :21:41.our advantage. Here's a round-up of what else has been happening this
:21:42. > :21:58.month. These Scottish Badminton Championships saw doubles success.
:21:59. > :22:04.There was doubles success for one girl when she took the title 's
:22:05. > :22:10.success in the mixed doubles. In squash this paling missed out on
:22:11. > :22:17.gold at the British doubles open but for Klein, who is based in America,
:22:18. > :22:22.it was a useful exercise. It is good to come back and take some
:22:23. > :22:27.competitions. We try to fit in training whenever we are back for
:22:28. > :22:31.two Normans. It is good to have an event like this and have some
:22:32. > :22:36.countries, and play with us. It is good. The preliminary rounds of the
:22:37. > :22:42.Scottish boxing Championships saw victories for Lewis Benson and Conor
:22:43. > :22:46.Law. Benson has recently moved up a weight clash which means a clash
:22:47. > :22:53.between these two friends is a possibility. We travelled together a
:22:54. > :22:58.broad and because he was at a different weight division
:22:59. > :23:02.broad and because he was at a buying. Now he has stepped up. Not
:23:03. > :23:03.broad and because he was at a that it bothers me, it would be a
:23:04. > :23:17.good fight, it makes Championships better. Knew just takes it on the
:23:18. > :23:22.line! Lord your shaved eight seconds off of her personal best in
:23:23. > :23:32.Birmingham, she is off to the world indoors. I just went for it and
:23:33. > :23:36.managed to hold everybody off. We all know what a big year this is
:23:37. > :23:41.going to be 14 Scotland, but what about the team behind the team?
:23:42. > :23:46.Everyone at the Institute of sport in Stirling is doing everything they
:23:47. > :23:57.can to make sure the athletes are supported every step of the way. At
:23:58. > :24:10.long, long last, Katherine Grainger is the Olympic champion. The waiting
:24:11. > :24:15.is over. He is keeping on playing those shots. Behind our great
:24:16. > :24:25.athletes are great coaches, behind them is the sport Scotland Institute
:24:26. > :24:30.of sport. Performance sport is not cheap. 38 million have gone into
:24:31. > :24:35.sport across the Glasgow Commonwealth cycle. It is an
:24:36. > :24:43.expensive business but we have investment into performance sport.
:24:44. > :24:49.We invest and provide expert advice to the governing bodies which can
:24:50. > :24:57.take the form of business expertise, physiotherapy, medicine, sports
:24:58. > :25:03.science, innovation. This shooter is someone who has benefited from the
:25:04. > :25:08.support. People are essentially standing still, you look around and
:25:09. > :25:12.it is not really challenging but it is an endurance sport which a lot of
:25:13. > :25:20.people do not see. You are holding those positions for hours at a time.
:25:21. > :25:25.It is pretty brutal sometime. That is why the videos are important,
:25:26. > :25:32.helping you build strength so you do not permanently injure yourself.
:25:33. > :25:43.Being able to train for longer has an impact on how I shoot and my
:25:44. > :25:49.performance. We have to build up a lot of core stability. The lackeys
:25:50. > :25:52.and yoga are really good for physical awareness, improving my
:25:53. > :26:02.balance and things like that. -- Pilates. You have may seen some of
:26:03. > :26:07.the crazy positions that the shooters get into. It is a very
:26:08. > :26:13.asymmetrical sport so it is important we give her strategies to
:26:14. > :26:17.recover and balance out those asymmetries. Typically tightness
:26:18. > :26:22.around the neck and shoulders, lower back and hips. She has a very
:26:23. > :26:31.specific routine she does before she shoots and then afterwards. I work
:26:32. > :26:37.with a nutritionist to help with my training. When you compare what a
:26:38. > :26:43.rugby player would need to eat and drink compared to a gymnast for
:26:44. > :26:46.example, we try to make sure she is eating and drinking regularly
:26:47. > :26:49.throughout the day, not going to long without having something to eat
:26:50. > :26:57.and the snacks she is having least energy slowly so
:26:58. > :27:04.levels are not shooting up and down. That will help maintain her
:27:05. > :27:10.concentration and accuracy. So what is the desired return on a ?30
:27:11. > :27:16.million investment? The team target will be set once the team is known.
:27:17. > :27:19.We have worked in partnership with Commonwealth Games Scotland and
:27:20. > :27:23.collectively we are looking at a best ever games performance for
:27:24. > :27:29.Scotland which would be more than 33 medals. Our partners are also
:27:30. > :27:33.looking forward to it. There has been a real collective spirit with
:27:34. > :27:37.everybody working together to make sure the athletes are best placed to
:27:38. > :27:46.deliver the performances they are capable of. That is all we have time
:27:47. > :27:54.for as usual. Let's leave you with the exploits of James Murdoch and
:27:55. > :28:01.Muirhead who made us so proud on the ice in Sochi.