Fachie won double gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
With five gold medals and one silver, he is Team Scotland’s second most successful athlete.<\/p>\n
“Had it not been Glasgow I don’t think I would have been going,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“Yes, I have been drawn back in, purely because Scottish Cycling asked the question and I love Team Scotland – I have loved every minute of every Commonwealth Games I have ever done so that was obviously a big big draw and I couldn’t say no.<\/p>\n
“The opportunity came up where questions were asked, ‘could you make it back?’ and I am still slightly sceptical as to what shape I will be in when I get there because I have not been in full-time training for a while but I couldn’t say no because watching it would be fun but obviously being out there is a whole different game.<\/p>\n
“I don’t expect to be back in gold-medal winning shape necessarily but I am confident I can get back to being very competitive and hopefully be challenging for a medal, I wouldn’t be doing it if I wasn’t going to do myself justice.”<\/p>\n
So, having been tempted back to the track, will Glasgow be the full stop on what has been a glittering career?<\/p>\n
Fachie said: “I sometimes don’t like those who say they are going to retire and come back and I don’t want to be quoted and then something comes up but I cannot see how I am going to race again beyond this point.<\/p>\n
“It is a great way to go out, right? It is home territory, a home team, where you have won before and you have had a great event \u2013 it just feels like the right opportunity to me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fachie won double gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. With five gold medals and one silver,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-450378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}