NOT MY VAULT I CRIED WHEN I TOOK BRONZE
Daily Record|August 02, 2022
SHANNON ARCHER broke down in tears as she leapt into the history books with a vault bronze medal.
FRASER WILSON
NOT MY VAULT I CRIED WHEN I TOOK BRONZE

The Scot delivered Scotland's first medal in female artistic gymnastics and admitted even she couldn't believe her feat.

Archer's sister is working in the Games' events team and the 24-year-old ensured she set up a huge family party in front of her watching mum and gran by nabbing her first global medal.

But it all got a bit too much for the Edinburgh star after confirmation of her medal flashed up on the big screen. She said: "I just looked at the scoreboard and instantly cried.

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