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SCOTTISH SPORTING<br />
HEROES: THEN, ‘TILL<br />
NOW<br />
It would be difficult to talk about Scottish<br />
sporting heroes without mentioning<br />
football and we’ll it out of the way<br />
up top. It is impossible to overlook<br />
Jock Stein and Celtic’s achievements<br />
in the ‘60s & ‘70s when Stein won nine<br />
consecutive titles as the Celts manager<br />
from ’65 to ’74. Though his greatest<br />
achievement was undoubtedly in the<br />
European Cup in 1967, when Celtic<br />
became the first ever British side to be<br />
crowned European Champions. On<br />
Andy Murray: Tennis<br />
What more can be said about<br />
Andy Murray?<br />
The Scot has won three<br />
Grand Slams, two-time<br />
Olympic titles, the Davis<br />
Cup and the 2016 ATP<br />
World Tour Finals.<br />
Who can fail to remember<br />
the moment Murray became<br />
the first Brit since Fred<br />
Perry to win at Wimbledon<br />
in 2013?<br />
Goosebumps stood tall<br />
as living rooms across the<br />
country reached fever pitch.<br />
Murray achieved a 2016<br />
Wimbledon victory as well,<br />
to add to his 2012 US Open<br />
win, putting him among the<br />
greats.<br />
Sir Chris Hoy: Cycling<br />
Sir Chris Hoy is Britain’s most decorated<br />
athlete and the world’s most successful<br />
Olympic cyclist of all time; there’s a<br />
reason he is a household Scottish name.<br />
Winning his first Olympic gold in Athens<br />
2004, Hoy would become the first<br />
British athlete in a century to win 3 Gold<br />
medals at a single Olympic Games in<br />
Beijing 2008.<br />
His magnificent career resulted in a<br />
grand total of six Olympic, 10 World and<br />
two Commonwealth titles to his name.<br />
Winning the 2008 BBC Sports Personality<br />
of the Year, Sir Chris Hoy’s name will<br />
go down in Scottish, British and World<br />
athletic history forever.<br />
Source: Google Images<br />
David Wilkie: Swimming<br />
Although born in Sri Lanka, David Wilkie<br />
was a Scottish hero. Moving to Edinburgh<br />
at the age of 11, he became one of the most<br />
renowned British swimmers of all time.<br />
Wilkie would earn an Olympic gold medal and<br />
set a world record time of two minutes & 15.11<br />
seconds in the 1976 200m breaststroke. He was<br />
the first Brit to win an Olympic gold medal for<br />
swimming after a 16-year drought.<br />
He is also the only person to have held British,<br />
American, Commonwealth, European, world<br />
and Olympic swimming titles at the same<br />
time.<br />
Source: Google Images<br />
By Cameron Storer<br />
<strong>TELT</strong>: Winter Edition 27<br />
Illustrations by Susan Kudla
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