Mum's lesson fuelling Rowe desire to make most of Games chance

Mum's lesson fuelling Rowe desire to make most of Games chanceImage source, Olly Hasell/SWPix.comImage caption, Elliot Rowe is following in his mother's cycle tracksByTyrone SmithBBC Sport Scotland Senior ReporterPublished13 minutes agoElliot Rowe says the abrupt way his mum's cycling career ended has taught him to "make the most of it" every time he gets on his bike.The 20-year-old Scot will make his Commonwealth Games debut in Glasgow next month.Mother Sarah pulled on the Team Scotland colours at the 1994 Games in Canada before representing Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.Less than a year later, she suffered a career-ending leg injury after being hit by a car during a training run near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire.That experience helped shape Rowe's approach to his own cycling journey."Every time I go away on a race, every time I go away training, I just make the most of it because I know pretty well that you don't know what is going to happen," he explained. Vollering wins Giro to complete Grand Tour trilogyPublished1 day agoGold may still prove elusive, but Evans eager to embrace Glasgow GamesPublished5 days ago"You don't know whether it is the last time you ride your bike."Everything can change very quickly and I think that was something we were always pretty aware of, both me and my sister, and I think, even with school and stuff, we knew we needed to apply ourselves to have something else to fall back on."Because it is nice to have a dream of racing a bike, but it is so fragile this sport that it can come to an end before it even starts almost."Rowe admits that, while his mum is "really proud" of what he is achieving, he doubts she was "ever really keen that me or my sister got into the bike racing because she knew what it entailed and how hard it is".The Aberdeenshire rider won silver at the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games, was third in t...