{"id":823268,"date":"2026-07-25T16:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T16:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823268\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T16:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T16:34:12","slug":"glasgow-2026-commonwealth-games-eilish-mccolgan-to-miss-glasgow-games-defence-after-foot-fracture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/823268\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games: Eilish McColgan to miss Glasgow Games defence after foot fracture"},"content":{"rendered":"<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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And, despite cautious optimism that she had recovered enough to race on Monday at Scotstoun, McColgan and her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-823268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}