Willie Wood sets his sights on 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi

Others may be running scared of the Commonwealth Games but Willie Wood, 71 but "feeling 30 years younger", will be straining every sinew over the coming days, and - he hopes - weeks, at the World Indoor Championships in an effort to secure his place in the Scotland team for Delhi. If selected it will be his eighth Commonwealth Games and, extraordinarily, it should have been his 10th.

While the rest of the shivering country huddles around stoked fires for comfort, Wood will be strutting his stuff at the Potters Leisure centre at Hopton-on-Sea on the freezing Norfolk coast where the bowls clans have gathered for their annual get-together.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/