Sri Lankan cyclists spark a police response on M74 Highway

Sri Lankan cyclist team for Commonwealth Games ....
                             nabbed while practising on British Highway
A team of Sri Lankan cyclist-competitors who have arrived to participate at the Commonwealth Games scheduled to commence today in Glasgow, Scotland in Britain have by mistake tried to engage
in a training session on a highway in Scotland and have been taken into police custody of that country.

The highway known as MH74 Motorways runs from Glasgow West upto Gretna English border. Cyclists, pedestrians and other slow-moving vehicles are prohibited from using the said highway.

Four members of the Sri Lankan Cycling team who had come to attend the Commonwealth Games had been,as seen in photos, been training in yellow and orange-coloured uniforms on this highway when British residents who became upset over this sight had been amused and had even published photos of this occasion in their Twitter accounts.

While certain British media has published the incident with a tone of humour, the Daily Mail in Britain says that, ".... having seen the breadth of the road, these Sri Lankans may have thought that this is an ideal place for training in cycling".

Prior to this, in 2002 at the Manchester Competition, Kenyan cyclists too had been nabbed in this manner having used M61 Highway, the newspaper said.