Island communities dont often get the chance to get together and show what they can achieve. But every two years, its sport that brings them closer. They come from europe, the South Atlantic and the caribbean. 2a islands, 1a sports, across six days of action. This is the island games. 900 miles away off the north coast of scotland, shooter Ross Donaldson and his teammates are starting the long trip south. When you can get an island games squad, theres anticipation, theres excitement. So weve got 20 bikes, a lot of football kit, sailing kit, athletics kit. In st peters port, Team Managers are checking in athletes and equipment. 103 of us all arrived here safely. Im delighted. Going to head over to the two hotels, and then well unpack all the bikes and the kit. Carlos and his bikes have travelled all the way from shetland. 2a hours between us leaving and the bikes arriving. So not too bad. Well, its quite warm here. We do have a day or two to sort of acclimatise and get the bikes togethe
across the island, jacqui bowles is on a mission. i ve been here for a week and i ve set myself a quest to get a photo of myself with every island competing in the games, all 24. and i literally have st helena to get my 24. so i ve come to a football match. with just a couple of hours left before herferry home, jacqui s tracked down the missing team as they played their last game. now, we didn t know what to expect. we came into the unknown. so we only have six teams in a league and no international competition here. and that s probably if they come to the island, the navy or something