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BBC News
03-07-2025
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McColgan prodigy Tait sets sights on Olympics
Not only does Scottish track athlete Sarah Tait boast Eilish McColgan as one of her mentors but she also has taken one of her 24-year-old broke McColgan's 12-year Scottish record in the 3000m steeplechase at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition in Oregon last form earned her a place on the Great Britain team for the European Athletics Team Championships, where she finished second in the same event on her international Tait, who came through at Lasswade Athletics Club but is based in the United States, has set her sights on next year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and a first Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028."I went to watch some of my teammates in Paris last year and I thought it was absolutely amazing what they were doing," Tait told BBC Scotland."I would love to be there one day, but I didn't think quite how realistic it would be and then just this year I am like: 'Do you know what, I am actually really close'."In a few year's time, I definitely believe that will be possible.""I have this new found belief in myself and that is definitely credit to my training group in the US and my training partners as well." McColgan 'always there for me' Tait was the first recipient of McColgan's 'Giving Back to Track' programme, which was set up three years ago to help young women make their way in plenty of support and encouragement, Tait says breaking her mentor's record was something she had targeted for a while."Eilish has supported and mentored me for a good few years now and she always said she thought I would be the one who would take her record down," she revealed."Eilish really took me under her wing. I am still in touch with her now, we still go back and forth. She always sends me a congratulations message, she is always there to support me and I am really grateful for everything she has done for me."Having just completed her studies at West Virginia University, Tait admits she is "still figuring things out" in terms of where she is going to base herself as she prepares for next summer's Commonwealth Games, which she says is her "priority".As a 13-year-old, Tait went to watch the athletics at Hampden Park when the games last visited the city in 2014."I just can't wait to hopefully be a part of it and be part of inspiring the next generation because that was me sitting in the stands watching - so I really hope that can be me on the start line this time," she added.
BBC News
29-06-2025
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- BBC News
GB finish fifth at European Athletics Team Championships
Great Britain finished fifth overall at the European Athletics Team Championships in GB team, captained by discus thrower Lawrence Okoye, finished on 381 points, 3.5 points behind the Netherlands in fourth and three points ahead of sixth-placed Tait, making her international debut, was one of the standout performers on the final day, adding 15 points to GB's tally with a second-placed finish in the women's 3,000m steeplechase - just three hundredths of a second behind Finland's Ilona were also third-place finishes for Revee Walcott-Nolan in the women's 1500m and Toby Harries in the men's Walton, who had surgery on her throwing arm just five months ago, threw 58.63m to finish fourth in the women's javelin, while Scott Lincoln also finished fourth in the men's shot Sawyers continued her comeback from a 20-month lay-off with an Achilles injury with a sixth-placed finish in the women's long the final event of the night, the 4x400m mixed relay team of Lina Nielsen, Toby Harries, Emily Newnham and Samuel Reardon finished finished third with a time of three minutes 9.6 seconds - the same time as second-placed Italy - to earn GB their final 14 Friday, 21-year-old Reardon set a championship record and ran a personal best time of 44.60 to win the time places the double Olympic bronze medallist seventh on the all-time list for European Amo-Dadzie, nicknamed the 'world's fastest accountant', clocked 10.07 as he claimed top spot in the men's successfully defended the crown they won in Poland in 2023.
