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Two of the men’s team are no strangers to Games pain either.<\/p>\n
Kyle Jimenez and Ross Malcolm lost in the bronze-medal game to New Zealand in Gold Coast in 2018, and again four years later against Canada. <\/p>\n
They were not going to let their opportunity pass a third time.<\/p>\n
New Zealand – who had beaten them in the round robin – were the opposition again, but the Scottish-born duo – and US-raised team-mates Skylar White and Owen McCormack – kept their shape in an angst-ridden contest to win 18-16.<\/p>\n
“We needed to keep it interesting for you guys,” White, whose father is from Kilmarnock, told fans afterwards. <\/p>\n
He added: “Towards the end, I told the guys ‘you can be hurt tomorrow, you can feel sore tomorrow, but right now it’s time to nut up and get it done’.”<\/p>\n
McCormack, who qualifies through his Scottish mother, said the feeling of taking bronze ranked among the “top two… and it’s not two” in his life.<\/p>\n
He also paid tribute to Malcolm and Jimenez, who have long been passionate advocates for the sport in Scotland as well as elite performers. <\/p>\n
And that duo spoke movingly about what this success could mean in a wider sense.<\/p>\n
“Coming into this we all believed we could get a medal as a team, but no one else thought anything of us – we proved the world wrong today,” Jimenez said. <\/p>\n
Malcolm added: “Every time we play on an international stage we punch above our weight. Hopefully we get the coverage and the publicity that the sport deserves.”<\/p>\n
Amid the joy, though, there was disappointment for the wheelchair men’s team, who lost their bronze-medal match to Canada 19-9.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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