USAIN BOLT will keep his own counsel until after tonight's 4 x 100 metres relay heats.
The transcript of an interview with a London-based quality newspaper was published yesterday. The paper claims it is critical of Glasgow, but most would interpret it as comment about the weather.
It is suggested that Bolt called Glasgow "sh*t". In Jamaica this is an extremely rude word, not the everyday one it has become in Britain. It is a word not in Bolt's lexicon, I am informed by someone who knows him well. If he'd actually thought it, Bolt is more likely to have used the word "crap."
More pertinently, Bolt is the face of Richard Branson's Virgin Media - a company which is a fierce rival Times proprietor Rupert Murdoch.
When Kenya celebrated a clean sweep of medals in the women's 10,000 metres, I was standing close to Tegla Loroupe, holder of the world marathon record before Paula Radcliffe. "It is the first time our women have done this," she said. "I feel really proud."
She has been helping the three girls for several years, and Flomena Cheyech Daniel, who won the marathon, was another inspired by Loroupe, a familiar figure on Glasgow's streets as a former competitor in the city's women-only 10k race.
Success helps extended families back home. Loroupe has a Peace Foundation that has succeeded in reducing cattle conflict in Kenya.
Now retired from mainstream competition, she runs for charity. She is the inspirational manager of the Kenyan women's team here but is known to write cheques for tens of thousands to send children abroad for medical treatment.
Wrestler Viorel Etko won bronze, but deserves gold for persistence. I remember him in tears in 2002, outside the athletes' village in Manchester. He had been selected by Scotland but his British passport failed to arrive.
Now married to a former Scottish international gymnast, and having competed for Moldova and Romania, he calls Scotland home.
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