For the Scots, the Highland Games are to kilt for

By Malcolm Knox
Updated July 30 2014 - 11:08am, first published 3:00am

With athletes roaring from effort, achieving mighty feats while wearing kilts and vomiting in exhaustion before thousands of enthusiastic spectators, it was hard to believe this was not the biggest sporting event in Scotland.

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