The torrential rain led to some occasions being stopped on the Scotstoun Stadium
Torrential rain hit the athletics occasions on the Glasgow Commonwealth Games on Tuesday(Image: Andy Buchanan/AFP through Getty Images)
Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games athletics has been hit with a torrential downpour this night, with the rain so heavy some occasions needed to be stopped.
One of the most important occasions on the video games, the athletics drew an excellent crowd to the Scotstoun Stadium on Tuesday regardless of some persistent rain.
As the night went on nonetheless the rain grew to become torrential, with runners within the 100m heats splashing by way of puddles on the monitor regardless of the very best efforts of a crew of ‘moppers’.
There had been additionally issues about security for rivals within the excessive leap, whereas the hammer circle was described as ‘a pond’.
And as thunder and lightning threatened to reach, organisers took the choice to pause the ladies’s excessive leap closing and the ladies’s hammer throw till the rain had eased.
On BBC Radio 5 Live, commenters and former GB 400m runner Allison Curbishley stated: “They [the organisers] will be squirrelled away in the bowels of the stadium trying to work out the weather with their various weather apps but because there’s no wind, these rain clouds are just not moving.
“It’s like someone is just standing up there with a watering can.
“It’s so hard for the athletes right now, especially in the field events. Some of the best high jump athletes haven’t even started competing yet and are just sat out there getting soaked.”
On social media the heavy rain prompted one question from viewers in areas of the UK which have been hit with document heatwaves – ‘when can we get some of that’?
One wrote: “Could do with some of that rain they’re currently having in Glasgow”, whereas one other person stated: “Feel like I’m watching a Commonwealth Games from a different time of the year with that weather in Glasgow while it’s warm and sunny in Yorkshire.”
And one other stated: “It’s absolutely p*****g it down in Glasgow; I’ve not seen rain for about 3 weeks now. Send some of that stuff down here.”
Not everybody was impressed nonetheless. IOD Sports, who’re following the India crew, wrote: “This event going on in pouring rain. What are Organisers thinking?? Atrocious conditions in Glasgow.”
Others described going aheads with occasions within the rain as “madness”, whereas one other stated merely “Whatever group of people thought putting the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow — even in July — need need intense psychiatric intervention.”
