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sport in an arena like that would be fantastic to watch.”
Scottish international hill runner Des Crowe would also make for the 6,000-seat Olympic Park velodrome.
“It’s the bikes, Chris Hoy and all the boys in the track and road squads.
“I just think we’ve got a fantastic team,” he said.
“Cycling has cracked it, but it’s taken years. It’s not an overnight thing.
“They brought in Dave Brailsford (British Cycling performance director) and he searched all sorts of sports, not just cycling, to groom a team to compete at world level.
“There’s a lesson there for all sports, I think.”
Des, formerly of Shettleston, now of Dundee Hawkhill Harriers, has coincided holidays and London 2012.
“I think the BBC are putting out 17 hours a day. That’ll do.”
Fittingly, the young Olympic sport of mountain biking was the choice of teenage Kinross road runner Rowan Hookham.
The 16-year-old Dollar Academy pupil has watched the world’s top riders at Fort William, and would make tracks for the Olympic mountain bike venue at Hadleigh Farm in the Essex countryside.
“It’s brilliant to watch,” said Rowan. “There aren’t many sports where balance, fitness, strength and stamina have to be harnessed at the same time as technical know-how.
“My friends have been asking me to try it – maybe one day.”