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Delivering a legacy is the real challenge for the 2014 Games

Doug Gillon on Wednesday: �Legacy� must be much more substantial after the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games closing ceremony. Staging the event itself is the easy part. Delivering a legacy is the real challenge.

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DOUG GILLON, Athletics Correspondent

I recall the circus leaving Edinburgh when I was a kid.

A vast bare patch marked where the big top had been.

I stood in the middle and fantasised. I was the liveried, top-hatted ringmaster, cracking a make-believe whip. The jangling music still echoed in my head.