Scot Heather Stanning and Helen Glover have just won gold in the Women’s Pairs on the Olympic’s rowing lake at Eton Dorney.
They led all the way and won from a strong field in some style – a dream gold.
They are also the first British women ever to win a gold at any Olympic rowing event.
This is Team GB’s first gold of the London 2012 Games and the road of the crowd was indescribable.
At the medal ceremony, the crowd sang the National Anthem and, not for the first time, one has to ask why on earth Britain does not change this to Land of Hope and Glory.
No country’s national anthem should celebrate a monarch but the country itself – as others do.
And at an Olympic Games, as in anything one can think of, what is wrong with hope and glory?
Hurrah! And what a nice pair of genuine people too.
Come on Andy (and all the rest)!
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Well done the GB women rowers. They cruised it.
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What a fantastic achievement, and it just shows the benefit of a union between Scotland and England in forming a strong GB.
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Hang on, who do you classify as a Scot? She was born in Somerset and now lives in Scotland. Does that make her a Scot? If so, what about those like Chris Hoy who live in England but were born in Scotland? You can’t have it both ways.
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The Scottish Government has claimed her here – http://www.sisport.com/sisport/7330.html – as ‘a Scot who has made onto Team GB for London 2012′.
We have made inquiries and found that Heather Stanning has lived in Lossiemouth in Moray since she was something like ten years of age and is happy to be seen as a Scot.
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She’s British this week
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All being equal & assuming Heather gets picked, will she be representing Scotland or England in the Commonwealth games?
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for alan
You can indeed have it both ways! If you are born in Scotland…you will always be a Scot.
But, if you come to live in Scotland and feel Scottish then that is also ok.
See, it’s not difficult at all!
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