Susan Egelstaff

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Reese Lynch (in red) will make his long-awaited professional debut next month (Image: AFP via Getty Images) Patience is an imperative quality for every boxer to possess, and it’s just as well Reese Lynch has it in abundance. The wait the 24-year-old has been forced to endure before making his professional debut has seemed, at times, interminable. But finally, over a year after his last competitive outing, a date has been set for Lynch’s first foray into the professional ranks.

1 week ago | heraldscotland.com | Susan Egelstaff

Lucy Grieve has recently broken into the GB team (Image: Ian MacNicol/Scottish Swimming) Lucy Grieve can remember the exact moment she realised she might just be more talented than most in the water. As a 12-year-old, Grieve reached the B Final at the Scottish Short-Course Swimming Championships and given she was competing with, and beating, fully-grown women, it suddenly dawned on her that swimming may be a more realistic career path than she had ever contemplated.

1 week ago | heraldscotland.com | Susan Egelstaff

Dennis Taylor of Northern Ireland in action during the 1985 Embassy World Snooker Championship Final at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. Taylor beat Steve Davis 18-17 in a dramatic black ball finish. (Image: Getty Images) The best thing about sport are those moments which encapsulate the beauty, the thrill, the heart-break and the joy. The moments which have all these qualities, though, are rare, and it’s why they’re so memorable.

2 weeks ago | heraldscotland.com | Susan Egelstaff

Gavin Rumgay won his 18th Scottish title last month (Image: NQ Design) By the age of 40, most athletes’ best is in their rear-view mirror. Not Gavin Rumgay, though; he remains seemingly unbeatable within Scotland and his goals are as ambitious as they’ve always been. Last month, Rumgay won his 18th Scottish national table tennis title, extending his own record for most Scottish titles ever, and now he has the world record in his sights.

2 weeks ago | heraldscotland.com | Susan Egelstaff

Grand Slam Track is the brainchild of Michael Johnson (Image: Getty Images) If you could appoint one person, and one person only, with the task of rescuing your sport from a dramatic dip in popularity, there’s worse people you could choose than Michael Johnson. With four Olympic gold medals and eight world titles over 200m and 400m, the American is one of track and field’s all-time greats.