Dare to Dream . . . Sporting Inspiration Can Be Child's Play Doug Gillon On Wednesday

The HeraldJuly 22, 2009

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SPORTING inspiration takes many forms. Sometimes the fuse is lit by seeing your team or country win at rugby or football. The Test antics this week of Andrew Flintoff will surely have done it for a future generation of England cricket enthusiasts, while a new generation of golf enthusiasts must have been spawned by what they witnessed of Tom Watson.

Beijing Olympic champions Chris Hoy and Becky Adlington are already role models for young swimmers and cyclists, and teenager Tom Daley's world diving title in Rome yesterday, after failure in China, is a triumph which will resonate far beyond the Plymouth brotherhood of bullies who made his life a misery.

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Dare to Dream . . . Sporting Inspiration Can Be Child's Play Doug Gillon On Wednesday

Perhaps, somewhere this week, an octogenarian recalled the day his father took him to Lord's, and England's last victory over Australia there three-quarters of a century ago . . . a poignant reminder of the reason for his lif...

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