Strathclyde Country Park event of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The 2018 European Triathlon Championships were held at the Strathclyde Park as part of the multi-sport 2018 European Championships. The park was the venue for the T in the Park music festival on the years 1994-1996. On the June 2012 Strathclyde Country Park was host to the Western District Open Water Swimming Championship that attracted up to 70 competitors. Following the race 57 people were discovered to be suffering from stomach cramps, sickness and diarrhoea 5 of the 57 tested positive for norovirus. All water based activities were subsequently temporarily suspended. Experts attributed the
Opera in Scotland a lack of political will to start implementing it. The site in Castle Terrace was eventually leased for office development in 1988. Subsequently Festival opera has found its home in large traditional Edinburgh venues, renovated in turn to bring them up to modern standards. For some years in the 1980s it was the Playhouse with its impressive official capacity of 2900. Since 1994 the Festival Theatre (formerly The Empire) has been used both for the Festival and by Scottish Opera on their visits to Edinburgh. Elsewhere in Scotland, operas are also staged in a wide range of multipurpose theatres/performance spaces