Scots fail to sparkle at sodden Scotstoun

Tinseltown in the Rain by local legends The Blue Nile welcomed athletes to a soggy Scotstoun Stadium for day two of the Commonwealth Games athletics.

Persistent rain would soon turn torrential, with a little thunder and lightning thrown in making conditions tricky, to say the least.

Andrew Butchart admitted he may have "wished too much" for rainy conditions, after finishing 13th in the 10,000m where fellow competitor Samuel Simba Cherop ran with one shoe and one soggy sock for much of it - and still finished seventh.

"I said beforehand I was wishing for the rain - I maybe wished too much because it came down pretty heavy," Butchart told BBC Scotland.

"I enjoyed it tonight and that's what matters to me. I had fun.

"The crowd were what made that special for me, even if the performance wasn't. I heard shouts every lap. Hats off to them [in the open stand] for doing that, I would have definitely stayed at home tonight if I was in that stand for sure."

Butchart did not show any signs of being too disheartened with his performance, and just moments after the race was already calmly talking about a debrief and looking ahead to the 5,000m.

Elsewhere, Angela McAuslan-Kelly was among five hammer throwers unable to clear the net on her first throw, after stepping on a puddle on the release, moments before the first cracks of thunder of the evening.

She was unable to fully recover, finishing 11th with her only non-foul reaching 54.26m.

Allie Routledge sits 14th in the women's heptathlon, registering 3,102 points after the first four events and setting new personal bests in the 100m hurdles and the 200m.

She will continue her efforts to climb up the table on Wednesday morning in the long jump.

Jamie Phillips came agonisingly close to booking his place in the 800m semi-finals on his Games debut, but the 20-year-old missed out by just 0.04 seconds.

Fine margins was a trend in the early session for the Scots. Brodie Young - who in 2022 traded this kind of dour weather for a scholarship in New Mexico - failed to qualify from the 400m heats by 0.02 seconds.