Team GB [at the Beijing Olympics] comprises 313 athletes, with Scotland punching above its weight with 10% of the total.

Many of the Scots are already major medal winners, including Gregor Tait and Kirsty Balfour of the City of Edinburgh club.

Now the grand-dad of the team at 29, Tait goes in the 100m and 200m backstroke, while Balfour— several years a worshipper at Perth Christian Centre—will be praying to overcome Australian world record holder Leisel Jones in the 200m breaststroke.

• Full story at the Dundee Courier.

• Filed under Edinburgh + East, Scottish Christian News Monitor, Sport, Tayside, Fife + Central.