Boothman was just seven when the Games where last in her home city of Glasgow.<\/p>\n
Despite her tender age, she can remember the spectacle, but rather the athletics than the cycling.<\/p>\n
However, it wasn’t too long after that the teenager made her first trip to the venue she would win her maiden Games medals in, making the 15-minute journey from her house to the velodrome for her “first accreditation on the track”.<\/p>\n
What a vital visit that was.<\/p>\n
Now living in Spain, she returned to the familiar venue with four world junior titles, three European junior titles and world junior records to her name. <\/p>\n
Hopes were high on her return to these shores, and from “doing my recovery rides on my old training roads,” to leaving with at least two bronze medals, it’s been a “special” time for the teenager.<\/p>\n
For a wee while, it appeared as though there’d be one picture on the podium, but there was to be drama in the drome.<\/p>\n
Wales’ Anna Morris was stripped of her silver in the women’s 10km scratch race, being downgraded to fifth after obstructing another sprinter, opening the door for Boothman’s bronze.<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t be happier,” she told BBC Sport Scotland seconds after discovering she’d done the double.<\/p>\n
“I went into that scratch just as an opportunity to race after my individual pursuit and really expected nothing. <\/p>\n
“To come away with another medal, I literally couldn’t be happier. I can’t quite believe it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boothman was just seven when the Games where last in her home city of Glasgow. Despite her tender…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721925","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=721925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}