Duathlon won by locals

The City of Edinburgh got what it hoped for this weekend when home-town girl, Catriona Morrison, stormed to victory at the 2010 GE Edinburgh ITU Duathlon World Championships. The senior men’s race was dominated by the Belgians, who finished 1-2-3 with Bart Aernouts claiming the gold.
Gwen Jorgensen (USA) made the early running in the elite [...]

GE Edinburgh ITU Duathlon this weekend

The 2010 GE Edinburgh ITU Duathlon World Championships are set to take place this weekend. World titles will be contested at Edinburgh’s iconic, and very hilly, Holyrood Park – one of the most challenging courses ever used for an ITU Duathlon World Championships, as confirmed by those athletes already at the race site.
The Edinburgh crowd [...]

Boroughmuir RFC get new shirts

Scotland’s leading workplace design firm as agreed a deal to become an official sponsor of one of Edinburgh’s top amateur rugby clubs.
Space Solutions, which has enjoyed impressive growth despite the recession, has agreed a four-figure deal to become the new First XV shirt sponsor of Boroughmuir Rugby Club for the 2010/11 Premier [...]

Delhi here we come!

The athletes who will represent Scotland at next month’s Commonwealth Games in Delhi were named today.
Scots will compete in 16 of the 17 sports disciplines in India. The oldest is 72-year-old bowler Willie Wood, at the Games for a record eighth time, and the youngest is diver Grace Reid, aged 14.
The Delhi Games will be [...]

2010 Edinburgh ITU Duathlon World Championships

On the weekend of 3rd – 5th September 2010, Edinburgh will stage the ITU Duathlon World Championships, the highest-level competition in the sport’s annual calendar and the most prestigious duathlon competition ever staged in the UK.
A week before the 2010 Budapest ITU Triathlon World Championships up to 1,000 of the World’s best Elite and Age [...]

Forth 1 Join up with Scottish Rugby

BAUER Media Scotland has announced an exciting new partnership with Scottish Rugby ahead of this month’s final leg of the IRB Sevens World Series.
Bauer Media will become the Official Radio Partner of the Emirates Airline Edinburgh 7s being held at Murrayfield in Edinburgh next weekend (Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 May).

Radio Borders sports commentator [...]

Where can I go swimming? Sailing? to Play Tennis?

Do you know where your nearest swimming pool is? Or the nearest tennis court? Well Edinburgh Leisure have a list on their site of all the venues which they manage…..some of them may surprise you! Did you know that they manage the Port Edgar Marina?
As well as this there are some very good sports [...]

Trotting horses

The Reporter has a bit of a passion for horses generally, and trotting horses in particular just because they are so strong and beautiful…
The UK’s top harness racers head to Musselburgh this weekend (17 and 18 July) for the country’s most important fixture which culminates in a Champion’s Day on Sunday.

The East Lothian racecourse is [...]

The Open

The Champions Challenge was due to be played this afternoon (Wednesday) but inclement weather has meant its cancellation. Twenty five former Open Champions were due to tee off.
We hope that the actual golf competition itself which is due to start on Thursday morning will be able to go ahead. Tiger Woods is here along [...]

BMF

There they go – those people wearing red, blue and green bibs (where green means superfit). They are told what to do by the ex military person who is in combats and a navy T-shirt. Not barked at – just told in a nice friendly fashion that you are about to do an hour of [...]

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