Nicholas Devlin usually spends his Saturday mornings in Aldi in East Kilbride. Shelf stacking. Cleaning up. Bit of work on the tills.<\/p>\n
Not this week, though. This week he was fighting for Scotland.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old delivered an accomplished performance in front of family, friends and team-mates at the SEC to see off Finbar O’Sullivan of New Zealand in the men’s lightweight category.<\/p>\n
Devlin’s win was unanimous, taking all three rounds, to move into the last 16 and within two bouts of securing at least a bronze medal.<\/p>\n
His target is gold, though, with the prospect of turning professional on the horizon and leaving behind his days in the supermarket.<\/p>\n
“I’ve used up my holidays this year so I’ve had to take time off unpaid,” Devlin told BBC Sport Scotland. “But they’ve been a great support to me, letting me work round my training and stuff, so I can’t thank them enough.<\/p>\n
“I’d pick this any day of the week, though…<\/p>\n
“The nerves were worse this morning but once I got started I went emotionless and a bit numb almost, and got on with it.<\/p>\n
“All my family and friends have paid their hard-earned money to come and watch me and I want to make them proud and get a medal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicholas Devlin usually spends his Saturday mornings in Aldi in East Kilbride. Shelf stacking. Cleaning up. Bit of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-825717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}