Boycotts and Broken Dreams

Clip from the 60min BBC documentary about the financial and political calamity that surrounded the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. In this clip, Scottish long-distance runner Liz McColgan talks about how she won the first ever women’s 10,000m race.

Producer/Director: Martin Conaghan and Jay Merriman-Mukoro.

Originally broadcast on Thursday 17 July 2014 on BBC ONE Scotland. Also broadcast on BBC FOUR.