The new documentary highlights the previous trip to the European champion to life outside the athletics
Eilidh Doyle did not know that at the time, but in front of the entry of the European Closed Championship in front of the arena of the emirates, the last career race.
The most decorated Scots in the footsteps and the field were on the foot of the British and Northern Ireland that night and properly guided the women’s 4x400m.
Six years later, he still passes a club, only otherwise. Helping the next generation of athletics was in the mind, even before hanging his stamps, Doyl joined the Scottish Athletics Council in September 2018.
His post-election competitive life is presented in detail in a new documentary, called Eilidh Doyle – Switching to BlackjackCreated by Urbane Media for the governing body. In the film, the 38-year-old talks are coming to a career of his athletics, motherhood and something to return to something.
The main conversation with the Scottish Athletics Forum, the Award Dinner and Club Conference on the change in the Holdle’s career, and she feels passionate that it will now be used and guided by the best athletes.
“I was a PE teacher before I was a full-time athletes, and even when I was still competing, I studied different ways to see what it was there,” says Doyle.
“In my career as athlete, I think I learned a lot, and I felt a lot.
“I am a member of the Scottish Athletics Council. I also work with different coaches across the country. As a athlete, you are a lot in your bubble.
“There are many of us there, athletes who have been so many championships and have had success or success, but they have experienced important skills and experiences.
“They can share it with others. We can use our athletes that come to retire or retire and try to tell their stories and learn about their journeys. We have some wonderful people who can pass up and share their felt for the next generation. “
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Further roles – Doyle is now working at the University of Edinburgh as an educator and youth sports, as ambassador – Give other opportunities.
None of them thought, probably because he was honored in the Hambard after the collaboration games in Glasgow 2014, then marked the champion of 400m in Zurich.
“It’s a wonderful life, being able to walk around and do what you love is wonderful, especially when you’re in shape and you’re good.” “High ones come when you’re running really well and you’re just full with confidence.
“There was no better feeling for me than crossing the line I left there.
“Sometimes you can really train really, really really hard and don’t get the result that you think you think is always dominated by beds.”
The documentary contains in the Doylemouth Stadium – where the Hampden’s behind was used during Glasgow 2014, laid after those games. The event fell between the Olympic Games in London and Rio. Competing with one third, many parts of the original plan in Tokyo were.
“In 2019, I competed in the closed season, and then I left a year to have a child. In 2020, my program should be returned after the Olympic game. If I were realistic It would be the third Olympic Games. And then the hungry blow and everyone stopped.
“No one really didn’t really know what’s going on, and it felt that I had another opportunity and more time to return to full fitness. But during that time, I think that many people were the same, my motivation was just up and down.
“One day I was training in Graymouth and turned to Brian, who is my husband, but my coach was then.I think I’m done “I think I’m satisfying now. His answer was as follows. – Oh, thank you that you got there, thanked the benevolence“
“Bryan could see that my motivation was not so there. The decision is not enough there. But he could not say that he came out. It must come from me. “
