Athletes celebrate Special Olympics success

TWO of the city's finest athletes are celebrating after taking bronze and silver at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens.

Caitlin Dodds, the only woman in Team GB's squad of five golfers and two coaches, was up against the highest women's group but managed to secure a bronze, despite having taken up the sport only three years ago.

The 19-year-old, from Davidson's Mains, will now be ranked the third-best learning disabled female golfer in the world.

Team mate Mark Britton, from Glasgow, also earned a bronze making it four medals in all for the GB golfers.

Meanwhile, Edinburgh's David Fergus will bring home GB's only medal in the swimming, a silver in the 100m individual medley.

Since it was his father's birthday he promptly took it off from around his neck and hung it around his father Graham's neck, saying: "I won it for you, Dad."

It was a further success for the 25-year-old, who took part in the last Games in Shanghai in 2007.

By yesterday the team had amassed 267 medals for Special Olympics GB, including 115 gold, 90 silver and 62 bronze.

The event ran from June 25 until yesterday and saw 7500 athletes from 185 nations travel to the Greek capital to compete.