And, one day, it was. The triple gold medallist is the most successful Scottish Olympian of all time, and is now backing a campaign to save his local velodrome in Edinburgh. He also describes what it's like to have 50,000 people welcome him home from Beijing: "It's like a football team having won the cup".
The art of poi, or juggling with a ball on a rope (sometimes with the ball on fire), features in Wolverhampton's youth magazine Krash. Writer Ellie Merchant set up Poi in the Park this year to bring people who do poi together. They met for the first time this summer. She talks to three fans about why it is "an amazing skill to learn".
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