When, just a few months ago, Archie Goodburn was being rushed, by ambulance, to hospital in the depths of a seizure, representing Scotland on the international stage this summer seemed a very dim and distant prospect.
The breaststroke swimmer, who turns 25 today, has brain cancer. Two years ago, after noticing several unusual symptoms, he underwent a battery of tests and scans and was told he had three tumours in his brain. And they were inoperable.
