Scots Support ‘sport Your Trainers’
The organising committee of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games has gained the support of more than three quarters of a million Scots for its campaign ‘Sport Your Trainers’ – with the aim of getting as many people as possible to wear their trainers today, to celebrate Commonwealth Day.
The six-week campaign has been supported by Sebastian Coe, Daley Thompson and government ministers, and members of the public will wear their trainers in fire stations, schools, universities, police stations and local councils right across the nation.
The campaign will run annually on Commonwealth Day, up until 2014, when the city of Glasgow will host the Commonwealth Games.
Glasgow 2014 chief executive John Scott said: ‘The response we have had to the campaign in its first year is nothing short of overwhelming. This has proved that Scotland is a nation wholeheartedly proud to host the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, in 2014, and genuinely see this as a Games that the whole country can get behind and be part of’.
If all the trainers worn today to support the campaign were put end-to-end, they were cover the distance of ten marathons.
Eight-time gold medal winner Daley Thompson CBE added: ‘The Commonwealth Games is very special to me and I’m really looking forward to Glasgow 2014. I’ll be wearing my trainers on March 14th and hope that hundreds of thousands of people all over Scotland will join me’.
