{"id":32720,"date":"2026-07-26T01:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/glasgow-2026-commonwealth-games-eilish-mccolgan-to-miss-glasgow-games-defence-after-foot-fracture\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T01:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:55:31","slug":"glasgow-2026-commonwealth-games-eilish-mccolgan-to-miss-glasgow-games-defence-after-foot-fracture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/glasgow-2026-commonwealth-games-eilish-mccolgan-to-miss-glasgow-games-defence-after-foot-fracture\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games: Eilish McColgan to miss Glasgow Games defence after foot fracture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And, despite cautious optimism that she had recovered enough to race on Monday at Scotstoun, McColgan and her team have taken the decision to withdraw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sadly, I won&#8217;t be competing at Glasgow 2026,&#8221; she said in a statement. &#8220;After almost 10 weeks out, it probably won&#8217;t come as a huge surprise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The good news is I&#8217;m back running. The bad news is I&#8217;ve simply run out of time to get myself, and my toe, back into spikes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Having started the year stronger than ever, I know the fitness is there but having only taken my first run outdoors a couple of weeks ago, the clock was always against me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll be in Glasgow all week cheering on Team Scotland and wish everyone on the team the best of luck at the Games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/cewrk7ee4n1o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, despite cautious optimism that she had recovered enough to race on Monday at Scotstoun, McColgan and her team have taken the decision to withdraw. &#8220;Sadly, I won&#8217;t be competing at Glasgow 2026,&#8221; she said in a statement. &#8220;After almost 10 weeks out, it probably won&#8217;t come as a huge surprise. &#8220;The good news is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32722,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32720\/revisions\/32722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}