Gillian Cooke, a bobsleigh world champion, had hoped to qualify for Scotland in the long jump for Delhi, where she had planned to improve on her 11th place Commonwealth finish in Melbourne in 2006.

But unfortunately for Cooke, who competed alongside Nicola Minichiello in the bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics, she is still struggling with a hip injury sustained in a high-speed crash at the Whistler Sliding Centre in February and is unable to compete.

Cooke, who has a personal best of 6.43m in the long jump, revealed July’s Scottish Athletics’ deadline to post a qualification leap will come around too soon.

But the 27-year-old, who won bobsleigh gold at Lake Placid in 2009 at the World Championships, revealed its winter sports and not long jump medals that now dominate her thoughts.

“I love the Commonwealth Games and I think it is a great event – if I had not picked up the injury then I might have been able to go because there is a lot of cross over between the long jump and my bobsleigh training,” said Cooke.

“But to do it I would have needed to be training almost straight away having come back from Vancouver but unfortunately I picked up a hip injury.

“In the crash we had in Vancouver unfortunately my hip took the full brunt of the impact and it’s still sorting itself out.

“It’s an occupational hazard in bobsleigh but unfortunately the qualifying period ends at the end of July and I think that will be too soon.

“I would need to be in full training to be getting that distance and there is no way I am going to be in any shape to do that and so I’ll have to be supporting Scotland from the sofa.

“The Commonwealths were always in the back of my mind but bobsleigh is my sport, it is bobsleigh that I am funded in and so it is that that is my primary focus.”

Since her Olympic disappointment – Cooke, who acted as a brakewoman for Minichiello in Vancouver, has retrained as a driver.

And with the countdown to Sochi in 2014 even now starting to tick – Cooke admits major bobsleigh medals are already occupying her thoughts.

“We are obviously at the start of an Olympic cycle now and it is a time to re-group and work out what we are going to do and how we are going to move forward with the gold medal in Sochi in mind,” she added.

“When we got back from the Olympics I didn’t have much rest at all because I went back out to Canada to do a month of driving school training.

“I did four weeks of training there and I loved it. It will be a while before decisions are made about how the teams will shape up but I managed to get from the top to the bottom in one piece at the end of the month.

“We got in some really quality training and it is a bit early to say that the aptitude to make it as a driver.

“But it is definitely something I am looking into doing now and something I’ll be going away and doing as much training on over the next few months as possible.”