THE COURIER’S sport obsessed reporter watched from behind his fingers as his cousin paddled his way to an Olympic medal.
Ben Ramage was on his way back to Campbeltown, on the 926 West Coast Motor service, last Thursday evening while his cousin, Aberdeenshire’s David Florence, competed in the canoe slalom C2 final in Rio De Janeiro.
Ben said: ‘I was terrified I’d miss the final because of the often dubious mobile signal, and a quickly decreasing battery level, but thankfully both held on until all the competitors had finished.