RED WIGHT AND BLUE

After his unhappy time at the Commonwealth Games, world champ Wightman is happy to be back in Team GB colours

- NEIL SQUIRES

JAKE WIGHTMAN flies to Munich today for the European Championships, mightily relieved the Commonwealth Games are behind him.

The burden he carried as a world 1500m champion desperate to deliver for Scotland, but running on empty emotionally after his career-changing triumph in Oregon (above, right) a fortnight earlier took its toll.

A bronze in Birmingham (above) was the best he could drag out of himself.

But the buttons have been reset and after running the ninth-fastest 1,000m in history in returning to winning ways in Monaco on Wednesday, the speed is there for a tilt at a summer double in the 800m next week. “It’s mad how different