United Kingdom –Katie Byres says that training with other top-class athletes every day is spurring her on to achieve Commonwealth glory. The 20-year-old pole vaulter from Hadfield embarks on her first Commonwealth Games in Glasgow later this month. She heads into the event full of confidence and on the back of good recent form, and she believes that is partly due to her decision to move to Loughborough last year. She re-located to the Leicestershire town so that she could be based at the High Performance Centre, which is also HQ to a number of British athletes. She told the Advertiser: “Loughborough has top-class facilities. more
