It wasn’t the colour she wanted, but Caitlin Rainey made history by claiming Scotland’s first medal in women’s boxing at a Commonwealth Games by taking bronze on Friday.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old lost on split-decision to Northern Ireland’s Kaci Rock, having taken the first round in their semi-final bout.<\/p>\n
Rock landed an impressive hit at the end of the second to force a nail-bitingly close final round, which just went in her favour.<\/p>\n
Taxi driver Rainey was naturally disappointed with the outcome having “just fallen short” but she was able to find the positives in her historic performance at these Games.<\/p>\n
“I’m proud of myself and I hope I’ve made my family proud by doing this,” she said. <\/p>\n
“I’m disappointed not to be in the final and give the fans something to cheer for but I can take a lot away from this.<\/p>\n
“I hope I can inspire the next lot coming through and they can go one better than me and get that gold medal for Team Scotland that we’re all rooting for.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wasn’t the colour she wanted, but Caitlin Rainey made history by claiming Scotland’s first medal in women’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721051","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=721051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}