“We’re investing a lot of time to make sure we have a stronger talent pool so that we have more Scots competing on the world stage as we’re seeing in this 10 days.
“That’s going to be probably a stronger measure of how much impact we’ve made with the system we’re trying to put in place.
“We’re not just solely focusing on the Commonwealth Games. Our focus is looking beyond Commonwealth Games to world stage.”
With more than 40 years experience, gymnastics coach Sandy Richardson is hopeful the plan will pay dividends.
“The coaches are out there,” he told BBC Scotland.
“We’ve got the coaches but they’ve got other jobs because they can’t afford to just coach or the children can’t get out of school during the day – there’s no point in them being there if the children aren’t there.
“We’ve got the facilities but we’re sharing them with pre-school, recreational gymnasts and gymnastic parties, things like that.”
