Duhan van der Merwe closes in on Scotland try-scoring record

You have to feel for any of the delegates at this week’s 75th anniversary Nato summit in Washington DC who stepped out for a breath of air around Capitol Hill on Wednesday afternoon.

For one thing, fresh air was rather thin on the ground, the US capital being in the midst of an excessive-heat warning after six consecutive days of temperatures of at least 36C and humidity up around 80 per cent.

The city is still heaving; perhaps not the perfect setting for 20-odd burly men to be barrelling around on scooters. But that is how a large chunk of the Scotland squad preparing for Friday night’s clash with the Eagles chose to spend their day off, Huw Jones leading a two-wheeled tour of the