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JUDO: Anthony Njagi out, as the Commonwealth Games start

Kenya's flagbearer Mercy Obiero leads the delegation during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Celtic Park in Glasgow [AFP PHOTO/ GLYN KIRK]

General Service Unit's judoka Antony Njagi found the going tough and was eliminated in the preliminaries of judo just as the Commonwealth Games started in earnest here.

Njagi, a Corporal at the GSU Training School, saw his dream to re-affirm the GSU Swahili spirit: 'Fanya Fujo Uone' loosely translated as (riot and face the consequences), go up in smoke.

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