Team Scotland duo Neil Fachie and Craig MacLean have admitted that they felt that their chances of gold had gone after falling behind in the final of the men's sprint B2 tandem event at the Commonwealth Games, but that the home crowd spurred them on to win.
The Australian pair of Jason Niblett and Kieran Modra took the first race and looked set to win their second, but the Scottish partnership pulled it back to overtake their competition right at the death, before winning convincingly in the final race to claim the gold.
Fachie told BBC Sport: "I thought that was our day done after losing the first race. But with the roar of that crowd, we couldn't not win it. We'd have regretted it for the rest of our lives had we not won."
Maclean added: "It was painful, it was definitely a war of attrition out there. We were pretty surprised to win the last two rides after losing the first one. We didn't think we'd come back from that."
The Scottish duo also won gold in the 1000m time trial yesterday.
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Giuseppe Labellarte
Giuseppe Labellarte
