Bruce Mouat: “In an ideal world, it would obviously be held in a place that didn’t have these issues, but as an athlete I want to come away with an Olympic medal.”

On January 29, 2022 By Andrew HendersonIn Sport, Winter sports3 Comments

For Bruce Mouat, the upcoming Winter Olympics is the culmination of a lifetime of hard work. The most successful curler in the world in 2021 is already in Beijing for the Games, which will start for Mouat on Wednesday before the opening ceremony even takes place. It is set to be a busy, and history …

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Pride Active Conversations: “You can’t just step in there and say you’re a female and compete if you haven’t transitioned.”

On August 15, 2020August 14, 2020 By Andrew HendersonIn Football, Sport, Winter sports1 Comment

It has been five weeks since LEAP Sports Scotland launched their Pride Active Conversations series, with special guests Philippa York, John Dickinson-Lilley, Beth Allen, Amy McDonald and Callum Skinner completing the line up for the first batch of interviews. Cyclist York, formerly the UK’s most successful athlete ever in the sport as Robert Millar, was …

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Extra Time with Pride of the Terraces

On January 12, 2020January 11, 2020 By Andrew HendersonIn Basketball, Football, Rugby, Sport, Winter sportsLeave a comment

Sometimes the people I interview say too many good things for me to use it all in the interview pieces, so here I've gathered some of that extra stuff into one article in a general look at homophobia in sport.

John Dickinson-Lilley: “Pretty much everybody was telling me I was overreacting, but words matter. Words do matter, words do have power.”

On December 7, 2019March 23, 2020 By Andrew HendersonIn Sport, Winter sports3 Comments

John Dickinson-Lilley became the UK's premier blind skier before his retirement, but that was at times in spite of comments from his fellow competitors about his sexuality.