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00:46So my name is Elizabeth Elliot and I'm a Highland Games thrower and I'm based in Glasgow.
00:50I have entered today to compete at Burnt Island Highland Games.
00:54It's a very big day for women at Highland Games today.
00:57It's the first time that Burnt Island have ever hosted Ladies Heavies and I'm very proud to be part of it.
01:02It's very unusual to have Ladies Heavies at the Highland Games.
01:06The last few years we've perhaps had about 7 Highland Games in Scotland.
01:10I think the numbers have increased this year up to around 20 which is fabulous.
01:15The committees are very very supportive of it and it's great to see.
01:19I'd certainly like to encourage young women to enter the sport.
01:22We have track and field athletics, we have people out there throwing shot, discus, hammer.
01:27It would be great to see them change over at some point in the summer and join in on the Ladies Highland Games.
01:33We've had a great day. I managed to place second overall.
01:37Second place in the caber which I'm delighted about and all in all I'm pleased with my performance.
01:43My name is David Adamson. I've been part of these games since 1953 when I was a small boy.
01:50I used to come round with Jim Crichton who was his chieftain for many years and put the pegs in round the beans.
01:59Now the Games itself has been going on for 370 years.
02:06The second oldest Games in Scotland.
02:10The Games is very important to the town.
02:14It's a day out for folk coming from Bathgate, Linlithgow, Roxburn.
02:21They all come here. Cowdenbeath, Kelty, Lough Ely.
02:25They all come down Kirkcaldy.
02:28They used to attract, the attractions here was about 35,000 people would appear here for the day.
02:38At one time when Inverkeithan Bypass was getting built, the head of the police opened the road to allow the staff to get away
02:49because it was chock-a-block from Burntisland right up to the bridge.
02:54That's the intensity and the amount of people that was attracted to these Games.
03:01Along the lines of the Games themselves, they've had many, many top athletes who've represented Great Britain in the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games.
03:13Geoff Cates was a well-known man.
03:16Heavyweight, world champion.
03:19We had George McNeill, an amateur who couldn't run in the coming Games because he was a professional at the Games.
03:30He was the world champion for 110 metres.
03:37We used to have one or two other ladies coming here and competing with the men.
03:42But this year is the first year we've started a ladies' head heavyweight division and they're competing just now.
03:51You've got to come to the Games in Scotland to enjoy, relax, see everybody with smiles on their face.
04:01Oh, that was good and things like that.
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