THREE years ago, the city was still abuzz following the success of the Commonwealth Games.
Yesterday, just as in 2014, when the Glasgow Games started in a blaze of sunshine, the warm weather returned as the baton that symbolises the next staging of the sporting spectacle arrived on the latest leg of its tour.
With the Gold Coast Games being held in Australia next April, it is on a 142,915-mile journey over 388 days through Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and Australasia.
Glasgow was the first stop on a five day trip north of the Border, with one resident of the former Athletes Village in Dalmarnock waking up to officials carrying the baton after a knock at the front door.
Patricia Kameni, 23, lives in the house which formed the base for Team Scotland’s organising committee. She was given a photo album showing what it looked like before she moved in – and 8,000 athletes and officials lived in the village.
Ms Kameni said: “I was a bit surprised when the knock at my door came and I was told who used to live in my living room.”
Among the party was Lord Smith of Kelvin, the former chair of the Glasgow 2014 organising committee. The current chair of the Clyde Gateway regeneration project, Lord Smith said he was proud that legacy promises were being kept.
Lord Smith was greeted by South Lanarkshire Provost Ian McAllan on footbridge linking the village across Clyde to the new Cuningar Loop Forest Park as the baton passed to Team Scotland cyclists and local riders. The forest park and bridge was built on vacant scrubland. At Glasgow School of Sport, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, council leader Susan Aitken and other dignitaries greeted Glasgow 2014 poster boy, the former swimmer Michael Jamieson with the baton.
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