'i Want To Turn Bad Glasgow Memories Into Good Ones'

And how. A swimmer of immoderate repute during her teenage years, Gordon maintained that initially but recovered herself keen to effort thing else.

That thing would beryllium para-canoeing. "You've still sewage nan the h2o constituent and, if you've sewage a disability, h2o gives personification specified a consciousness of state because it's easier to move astir connected h2o than connected land," she says. "It conscionable ticked nan boxes."

Soon, she was invited connected to nan British team, moved to Nottingham and has been location since, winning world medals and Paralympic metallic successful Paris successful 2024.

Gordon moreover recovered clip to dip into wintertime sports, going to nan 2022 Winter Paralympics arsenic a nordic skier aft being cajoled into giving it a spell by 2026 Games flagbearer Scott Meenagh.

Canoeing is her main sport, though, to nan grade that she will beryllium competing astatine a World Cup arena and World Championships either broadside of nan Commonwealths.

And it is her training for that that led Gordon to take powerlifting arsenic her intends of fulfilling a life's dream of being portion of Team Scotland.

"Bench property is 1 of nan cardinal exercises for canoeing truthful erstwhile nan programme was announced, I looked astatine nan database and I thought that mightiness beryllium nan one," she explains.

"I had to unlearn rather a spot and study it again but hopefully it will use maine connected nan h2o too."

Gordon is keen to temper badge expectations, insisting these Games are really astir thing overmuch bigger for her than podium places.

Having watched immoderate of nan swimmers she trained pinch triumph golden successful 2014 - "I was successful nan crowd and capable to to singing Flower of Scotland 3 times watching Hannah Miley, Ross Murdoch and Dan Wallace" - she has agelong wanted to correspond Scotland.

"Commies has been specified a large dream for me," explains nan aspiring bagpiper, sitting successful her English location surrounded by Scottish memorabilia. "More truthful than what immoderate group mightiness reason are bigger goals, for illustration a Paralympics.

"Glasgow is simply a metropolis that holds a batch of memories for me, but not needfully for nan astir affirmative of reasons. So, nan thought of being capable to make it much of a affirmative vibe for my family and friends is going to beryllium a existent afloat circle moment."