As someone who has never enjoyed sport, I was taken by surprise at my enthusiasm for the Commonwealth Games.
The whole event provided much excitement and fun and it was great to see Scotland doing so well. The work and commitment of the athletes was indeed impressive.
However, we do know that much of this success was helped by the huge investment there has been in sport. Is it now time that the same investment goes into music and creative art opportunities? After all, participation and pleasure in these activities can last much longer into old age than physical sports.
Ruth Currie,
241 Wilton Street,
Glasgow.
THE Games provided a wonderful showcase for a wide range of sporting events, some of which are rarely given much media attention. The skill and athleticism displayed by the fantastic sports men and women of all the countries involved will hopefully inspire our children and young people to take up sport.
I do hope that little girls will emulate the women on the athletics track and in the sports halls, rather than believe you have to dress like Kylie Minogue in an Ann Summers-style outfit to get attention. I thought she was over-exposed in more ways than one at the end of the games. You can't take two steps in those heels, let alone walk 500 miles.
Gwen Irving,
Church Avenue, Cardross.
IT was to be welcomed that England, for once, did not use God Save the Queen - the royal anthem of all Commonwealth countries having the Queen as head of state - as its national anthem. However, for England to use Jerusalem was equally inappropriate, given that the words are based on a legendary event dated to some 500 years before any significant Anglo-Saxon (English) settlement in South Britain.
Finally, why can we not have a Scottish national anthem using the tune Highland Cathedral?
Dr Alexander S Waugh,
1 Pantoch Gardens,
Banchory.
AFTER the success of the Commonwealth Games, it is a dreadful thought that the airwaves will be subjected to a new season of football.
More spectators watched the three stages of the Tour de France in England this year than attend all Scottish football matches put together. I am certain that many television viewers would welcome a much greater variety of sports. Scotland's fitness levels are much lower than those of most of Europe.
It's not as if Scottish football is of a very high standard. I have watched professional footballers training, and they are nowhere near as fit as the athletes we saw at Hampden and at the other venues.
DF Macgregor,
15 Kinkell Terrace,
St Andrews.
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