He was a spectator at Glasgow 2014, watching Wightman. Being overlooked four years later for Gold Coast was one of the biggest disappointments of his career, he says. Then an untimely blow-up in Birmingham in 2022, finishing last in the 1500m. <\/p>\n
Glasgow will be his redemption.<\/p>\n
“This is something we were dreaming about as kids,” Kerr says. “I was in a Scottish development squad talking about the Commonwealth Games all the time and that is the kind of stuff that you don’t forget.<\/p>\n
“Being part of Team Scotland is just everything I wanted to do when I got into the sport. You should never drift too far away from that and I never have. Growing up, I wanted to be standing on that start line with my Scotland vest on.<\/p>\n
“I mean, I love it. I put it up with… you’ve got the Olympics, the worlds, and the Commonwealth Games. That’s the way I’ve always viewed it and if ever I get a call up for the Commonwealths I’d be the first one there.<\/p>\n
“Time goes by, and I’ve lived out in the States for a long time, but these are my roots and this is my blood and I just want to do myself proud and do Scotland proud.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was a spectator at Glasgow 2014, watching Wightman. Being overlooked four years later for Gold Coast was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-704560","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}