David Weir has won just about everything in his 22-year career: eight London Marathons, six world championship titles, six Paralympic gold medals, but never a Commonwealth Games marathon. He has one Commonwealth medal, a gold in the 1500m at Glasgow in 2014 and was hellbent on winning a second to go with it. He is 43 and knew this might be his last chance to do it.
Seventy minutes into the race, it became clear he was going to. Weir had a 90-second lead over the field, with six miles or so to go. And that’s when his wheelchair’s left tyre burst.
