Fachie undecided on future after missing out on gold

Neil Fachie had disappointment oozing retired of each pore successful nan almost-overwhelming power of nan Velodrome National successful Paris, aft coming up conscionable short successful his effort to take sides his Paralympic title.

Gold went to Great Britain team-mates James Ball and aviator Steffan Lloyd successful nan men’s B 1000m clip trial, a duo that produced aft years of chasing down Fachie’s success.

It seemed a bamboozling conundrum for nan Aberdonian to grasp successful nan power of that moment. Not winning. Accepting metallic alternatively than gold.

“Silver... it's not bad, is it?” he said to BBC Scotland, almost arsenic if trying to person himself. “I request to punctual myself it's still beautiful damn good.”

It is, of course. But you don’t execute what Fachie has by settling for second.

“I conscionable can't look to take sides nan Paralympic title,” he added.

“I've sewage an annoying ratio of gold, silver, gold, silver, which intends possibly astatine 44 I’m going to person to travel backmost and return nan golden [in Los Angeles].

“It's not easy anymore and I'm not getting immoderate younger. I still don't know. I don't want to look astatine a motorcycle for a period aliases 2 and past I'll person to spot what happens.

“I will miss this dearly if I do locomotion away.

"Maybe nan Commonwealth Games will hap successful Glasgow successful a mates of years and possibly I'll effort and beryllium nan astir successful Scot of each time.

“That's still thing connected nan cards, but there's a batch of boxes to tick earlier then.”

That determination is down nan statement but this was group up to beryllium Fachie’s crowning glory. Perhaps, nan culmination of an unthinkable haul that now includes 5 Paralympic medals.

A 3rd golden laic successful wait, and this chance, successful nan arena he still holds nan world grounds for, seemed 1 he would surely take.

“I'm evidently disappointed. I did travel for gold,” Fachie added.

“With a thigh and a half to spell I could consciousness I was really struggling. I deliberation I tin locomotion distant proud though. I cognize I couldn’t person done immoderate more.”

One Scot who did execute Paralympic golden successful nan velodrome was Jenny Holl, aviator for Sophie Unwin, successful nan women’s B 3,000m individual pursuit.

“It’s incredible,” she told BBC Scotland. “I've sewage truthful galore family present and my friends and it's truthful awesome for them to person travel out. To person them present conscionable intends truthful much.

“We had nan world champs successful Glasgow past twelvemonth and I had them each location truthful I knew what it was for illustration to person them cheer successful a crowd for me.

"That's nan each nan separator we needed.”