this is the island games. 900 miles away off the north coast of scotland, shooter ross donaldson andmmates are starting the long trip south. when you can get an island games squad, there's anticipation, there's excitement. so we've got 20 bikes, a lot of football kit, sailing kit, athletics kit. in st peter's port, team managers are checking in athletes and equipment. 103 of us all arrived here safely. i'm delighted. going to head over to the two hotels, and then we'll 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, it's quite warm here. we do have a day or two to sort of acclimatise and get the bikes together and check out the courses. i've got two bikes. this is the one for the road race. i've got a different one for the time trial. but you try and get as much advantage as you can within the rules. most of the teams have got two bikes with them just to try and hopefully be as quick as they can. biggest unknown is the other islands. so when you've got people com