Stornoway swimmer Kara Hanlon splashed onto the podium with a hat-trick of gold medals, and a silver, at the 2020 British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Long Course Championships in Sheffield.
“Pasta makes you go fasta,” laughs Kerry MacPhee, as she earned a well-deserved podium place on the sun-kissed island of Lanzarote, with another bewildering and remarkable display of racing on her steel two-wheeled horse.
As Lewis Pugh and Max Holloway rose from the rising and falling waters of Loch Orasaigh, just outside Grimsader in the Lochs region of Lewis, in nothing more than swimming trunks and goggles in the midst of one of Mother Nature’s notoriously wild wintry Hebridean moodswings, they appear unaffected.
“How can you not love this?” asks Norman Ferguson as he grins almost maniacally on the shores of Loch Trolamoraig as he strips down to nothing but his shorts.
Whether you consider it brave - or bonkers - a handful of sea swimmers stripped down to their swimmers on New Year’s Day for a Hebridean ‘Loony Dook’ at Bosta Beach in Bernera.
Anybody running on a daily calorie deficit of at least 4,000 calories is going to run into trouble sooner or later – never mind someone like Stuart Macdonald who is bordering on ZERO per cent body fat, trains like a Trojan on a gallon of Red Bull and is built like Hercules’ bigger, more muscular brother.
Connor Maclean galloped home to break the tape with a massively impressive top ten finish in the Lindsays Short Course XC Champs at Kirkcaldy at the weekend.
Secondary schools across Lewis and Harris are being invited to enter pupils to make up teams of four for the annual S1 & S2 Team Swimming Gala In conjunction with Sport and Health & Active Schools.
Both Mod Football Cups were in the warm grip of island players at the weekend and having their passports stamped ahead of a return to the Hebrides from Am Mòd Nàiseanta Rìoghail Glaschu 2019 to Stornoway and Uist and Barra.
Edinburgh wing and former Hawick star Darcy Graham is the only player retained from the starting line-up which defeated Samoa – and the only Borderer – in Scotland’s XV to face Russia in the Rugby World Cup on Wednesday.
Badminton is far from a sport for the faint hearted. At the top level it is a ferocious sport, taxing on the body and a sport which requires elite level effort and talent.
Bodies crashing into one another. Bones thundering together. Players in matching jerseys piling on top of one another with the ball lost beneath the swarm.
