Mark Reason

Asks if the world’s best athletes don’t care about the CommGames, why should we?

Or, in the case of these Games, imagine a track meet where Usain Bolt only wants to run the relay, therefore justifying his appearance on promotional posters, and Yohan Blake, the world’s second fastest man, reckons it’s ‘‘not in my best interests’’ to compete. And now Mo Farah’s pulled out to concentrate on the European Champs. If a lot of the athletes