Wha's like us? Not too many if we start to believe in ourselves

It was a message that could as easily have been scripted by Alex Salmond, but was in fact delivered by Mike Whittingham, the Englishman who is director of high performance at the sportscotland institute of sport.

Reflecting on the performance of Scottish athletes at the Olympics, he said: "What this says is Scotland, a small nation, can deliver and achieve success on the world stage and, if we believe in ourselves, this is something we can take forward to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow," he said.

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