Commonwealth Games 2014 Mountain Bike Track competition
click here to read more
Two members of Castlemilk High's bike club and Mr McLean's S3 English class recently took part in a competition to help name the features of the Commonwealth Games 2014 Mountain Bike Track at Cathkin Braes. The pupils had to come up with memorable names that were both descriptive and would sound good when the commentators mention them during events.
The school were delighted when S3 pupil Christopher Lochrie's entry for "Broken Biscuits" was chosen as a winning name. The feature will now be officially named this and will have a place board for riders to beware of!
The Cathkin Braes Mountain Bike course is being developed by Glasgow City Council as Glasgow’s first international standard mountain biking course.
The competition was a partnership between Glasgow City Council, South Lanarkshire Council and Glasgow 2014 and was used to inspire children and young people to participate in a project that is close to their local community.
Glasgow 2014’s HQ Commonwealth House hosted an awards ceremony on Wednesday, 5 December which saw the winners announced for eight distinctive features of the course which will host Mountain Biking at the Commonwealth Games. The naming competition invited 17 schools across two local authorities within 1.5 miles of the venue to submit suggestions after being given a description of the look of each individual aspects of the course deemed its most interesting and challenging. Inspired by the challenge young people submitted 800 suggestions for the naming of the eight unique features that are on the course.