YESTERDAY it was the turn of the cycling time trials to add speed, excitement and chaos to the streets of Glasgow.

Elizabeth Keenan heard one of the commentators add a description to one of the city's more challenging areas that she had never heard before.

Says Elizabeth: "He said the race was 'entering the Gallowgate, a peripheral boulevard connecting the suburbs to the centre of Glasgow'. Ooh la la."

Sleeping in

THERE have been big crowds using Mount Florida station after the athletics at Hampden.

The platform was crowded the other night as the flow of trains to Glasgow Central was interrupted by a train going the other way to Neilston.

Many visitors were unsure where Neilston was, and a chap with a loud voice declared: "Been to Neilston a few times."

Then he added: "Mind you, that's only because I've fallen asleep on the train."

Weather woes

SO was Usain Bolt misquoted, talking about the weather rather than the Games themselves?

As SNP MSP Roseanna Cunningham put it: "Jamaican athlete not impressed by Scottish weather? Most Scots aren't impressed by the Scottish weather."

Party time

WE mentioned the officials and volunteers getting into the party spirit at the Games.

Gordon Wallace was using the Subway where an official was encouraging passengers in a very theatrical manner to move to the end of the platform.

Says Gordon: "Being most impressed with the employee's performance, my friend said to him as we passed, 'Can I have some of what you've had?'.

Immediately the would-be thespian replied, 'I think you'll find it too expensive, and, apart from that, she doesn't like to share'."

Form a queue

AND Normal Brownlee says: "Must mention the police officer who was organising the queue for the Subway. He was a laugh, telling us we were the best queue he had ever seen, how proud he was of us, and telling others they were letting the queue down by walking too slowly."

City living

AFTER a gold medal winner failed a drugs test at the Games, Stephen Grant commented, a tad harshly: "You can't ban athletes at the Games for having traces of drugs on them. They've been walking around Glasgow for a fortnight."

Made up

IT can be a bit rough staying in Glasgow for too long.

Mark Chapman, who has been presenting the BBC programme Tonight at the Games from Pacific Quay alongside Clare Balding, said the other day that Clare had asked him before the show began: "What time you going to make-up Mark?"

He had to tell her: "I've already been to make-up."

Take a shot

THE Games even go as far as Carnoustie, where the shooting was taking place at the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre. A Hamilton reader swears to us that he told his wife they were shooting all week at Barry Buddon, and she replied: "Poor Barry."