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2014 Commonwealth Games
23 July - 3 Aug
Over 2 Billion People in the Commonwealth
-(To Be Held in Scotland, UK)



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Team Scotland Announce First Athletes for Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games


By Daily Mail UK




They're the flower of this generation, pride of the nation, each special in their own individual way. And the first 27 men and women to be officially confirmed as Team Scotland picks for Glasgow 2014 all appear to understand the responsibility that goes with the privilege of selection.
As a group, the four squash players and 23 representatives from track and field named yesterday cut an impressive enough figure. Especially when you consider that European indoor 800 metre champion Lynsey Sharp — a medal contender if ever there was — is missing from the group because of injury.
Individually, there are some remarkable characters to pick out. From para athlete Meggan Dawson-Farrell being selected just months after multiple brain surgery, to more mundane tales of recovery from the inevitable ‘injury hell’, they’ve all leapt beyond normal boundaries in order to get this far.




Team Scotland have named 27 athletes who will compete at next year's Commonwealth Games


ATHLETICS TEAM SO FAR

Susan Partridge, Marathon (Sowerby Bridge, HX6)
Derek Hawkins, Marathon (Elderslie, PA5)
Libby Clegg, T12 100m (Newcastleton, TD9)
Eilidh Child, 400m Hurdles (Kinross KY13)
Guy Learmonth 800m (Berwick upon Tweed, TD15)
Chris O’Hare 1500m (West Linton, EH46)
Laura Muir, 1500m (Milnathort, Kinross KY13)
Meggan Dawson-Farrell, T54 1500m (Tullibody, FK10)
Samantha Kinghorn, T54 1500m (Kelso)
Eilish McColgan 3000m Steeplechase (Carnoustie, DD7)
Laura Whittle, 5000m (Loughborough LE11)
Stephanie Twell, 5000m (Twickenham)
Mark Dry, Hammer (Moray)
Andrew Frost, Hammer, (Broxburn, EH52)
Susan McKelvie, Hammer, (Broxburn, EH52)
Nicholas Percy, Discus (Isle of Wight)
Allan Smith, High Jump (Edinburgh EH30)
David Smith, High Jump (Barrhead, Glasgow G78)
Jayne Nisbet, High Jump (Edinburgh)
Emma Nuttall, High Jump (Edinburgh, EH12)
Jade Nimmo, Long Jump (Falkirk, FK1)
Sarah Warnock, Long Jump (Prestonpans, EH32)
Jax Thoirs, Pole Vault (Glasgow, G13)
Women’s 4x400m Relay


And now? Well, that’s up to them. With the burden of qualification removed, they can run, jump and throw with freedom. Go for the medals that may define this stage of their careers — bringing home a record haul for the nation in the process.
Even this far out, you could predict genuine challenges from the likes of Sharp, Eilidh Child, Eilish McColgan, Chris O’Hare, Laura Muir, Susan Partridge, Derek Hawkins, Mark Dry and Andy Frost, to name just a few. Or how about Steph Twell, a bronze medal winner over 1500m in Delhi three years ago, putting her fitness problems behind her with something special in the 5k?
Having set the selection standards high enough to avoid a surplus of passengers turning up just to wear the jersey and take a few photos, athletics already looks less of a poor relation to the medal factories of swimming and cycling. As encouraging as what some of the picks have done so far is their realisation of the hard work that lies ahead.

Speaking after being handed the Team Scotland No 2 shirt at the People’s Palace, venue for the marathon finish, Hawkins can only imagine what it’s going to be like pushing for the line after 26 miles next year.
The adrenaline of home support should drive him on when his body is all but broken, he thinks. As long as he doesn’t get too carried away with the frenzy at the outset, racing off at an unsustainable pace.

Oh, and if it was up to him, Olympic hero and World Champion Mo Farah would be lining up in Glasgow. Just not next to Hawkins on the start line of the road race.




Eilish McColgan wins the final of the 3000m steeplechase in Birmingham this summer



SQUASH TEAM SO FAR

Alan Clyne, Men’s Singles, Men’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles (Inverness/Edinburgh)
Harry Leitch, Men’s Doubles (Edinburgh)
Frania Gillen-Buchert, Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles (Edinburgh)
Alexandra Clark, Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles (Edinburgh)


The 24-year-old, who spent five weeks training alongside Farah and a host of distance-running greats in Kenya last winter, said: ‘Mo certainly never mentioned anything to me about the Commonwealth Games. Yeah, I hope he’s here. But I hope he does the track!’
‘I started a couple of runs with Mo in Kenya in January — and then he took off. It was quite good watching Mo, seeing how professional he is and how he goes about things.

‘Kenya is quite an eye-opener. I went there ranked second in Britain for 2012 in the marathon, thinking: “Yeah, I’m not bad.”
‘Then you turn up at the track and there are about 150 athletes battering it out, and the majority of them leave you for dead.
‘It makes you realise: “I am there, I am at X and I need to get to Y.”
‘I know the marathon is going to be maybe one of the toughest events at the Games next year. A few years ago, Kenya had about 24 of the top 25 times in the marathon, and it’s still pretty high now. You’ve also got the world and Olympic champion from Uganda, so it’s a pretty loaded event if they send their strongest teams.
‘Looking at previous results, my PB would suggest a medal. I’ll be able to judge it later on when I know the form I’m in during the build-up. Hopefully top eight, that’s my expectation.’



All smiles: Libby Clegg (left), Sarah Warnock (middle) and Frania Gillen-Buchert (right) after being named in Team Scotland


Hawkins won’t run another marathon between now and Glasgow, knowing that it can take up to eight weeks to recover. He’ll do a half-marathon, some distance races on the track if he feels ready, plus training runs pushing close to marathon distance.
He’ll fit all this in with working up to 15 hours a week in his local Morrisons in Johnstone, where he admits his till shifts are sometimes like torture for someone who has to constantly watch his diet.

‘Quite often, I’m seeing all this junk food going across the till and I feel really tempted,’ he confessed. ‘I get all sorts of cravings for it.
‘Pizza is a weakness and I’m quite prone to biscuits. Jaffa Cakes would be the worst, so I just have to keep away from them.’




Mark Dry competes in the hammer qualification during day two of the European Athletics Championships in June 2012


Temptation will be resisted and training regimes maintained for the next 300 days, at least, as the best athletes available are joined by peers and rivals, as others are invited on board a team likely to number between 250 and 270 competitors in total — easily Scotland’s biggest ever.

As chef de mission Jon Doig said: ‘There were 19 track and field in Delhi and we announced 23 today. The Games I have been involved in, there are more people in contention across a greater number of events than we have had in the past. It’s early stages and things can change but, if you look at that spread at the moment, we are in a better shape, not only in athletics but across the board.’

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2014 Commonwealth Games

23 July - 3 Aug -To Be Held in Scotland, UK



Over 2 Billion People in the Commonwealth







Commonwealth Games Schedule





The 20th Commonwealth Games will be 11 days of top competition hosted in Glasgow in July and August 2014.
Having previously hosted the 1970 and 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, this will be the largest multi-sport event ever held in Scotland.
Over the last decade the country has also staged World, Commonwealth, European or British events in all 17 sports in the 2014 Games roster.

BBC Sport will be right at the heart of the action with coverage across BBC television, radio, and via the BBC iPlayer Radio app, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app.
Further details of specific disciplines and schedules the Games are available on the official Glasgow 2014 site.


Wednesday 23 July

Opening Ceremony at Celtic Park

The ceremony will include the Parade of Nations - a formal procession by 4,500 athletes and their coaches - and the end of the Queen's Baton Relay, the conclusion of an epic journey which has included visiting the 71 Commonwealth nations and territories.


Thursday 24 July

Aquatics (Tollcross National Swimming Centre)
Swimming heat: 10:30-12:30
Swimming semi-final, final: 19:00-21:00

Badminton (Emirates Area)
Preliminaries: 09:00-12:30, 14:00-17:30 & 19:00-22:30

Cycling (Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome)
Track qualification & semi-final: 11:00-13:45
Track qualification & final: 16:00-18:45

Gymnastics (The SSE Hydro)
Rhythmic qualification: 12:00-15:30
Rhythmic final: 18:00-21:30

Hockey (Glasgow National Hockey Centre)
Preliminaries: 09:00-12:30, 14:00-17:30 & 19:00-22:30

Judo (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Preliminary: 10:00-16:00
Final: 18:00-20:45

Lawn Bowls (Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls Centre)
Preliminary: 08:45-14:00 & 15:45-21:00

Netball (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Preliminaries: 11:30-15:00 & 17:00-20:30

Squash (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Preliminaries: 11:00-15:00 & 16:30-21:00

Table Tennis (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Qualification: 09:30-14:30 & 16:00-21:00

Triathlon (Strathclyde Country Park)
Final: 11:00-18:00

Weightlifting (Clyde Auditorium)
Preliminary: 10:00-12:00
Finals: 15:30-18:00 & 19:30-22:00





Friday 25 July

Aquatics (Tollcross National Swimming Centre)
Swimming heat: 10:30-12:00
Swimming semi-final, final: 19:00-21:15

Badminton (Emirates Area)
Preliminaries: 09:00-12:30, 14:00-17:30 & 19:00-22:30

Boxing (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Preliminaries: 13:00-17:00 & 18:30-22:30

Cycling (Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome)
Track qualification & quarter-final: 11:00-13:30
Track semi-final & final: 16:00-18:30

Gymnastics (The SSE Hydro)
Rhythmic final: 13:30-17:30

Hockey (Glasgow National Hockey Centre)
Preliminaries: 09:00-12:30, 14:00-17:30 & 19:00-22:30

Judo (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Preliminary: 10:00-16:00
Final: 18:00-20:45

Lawn Bowls (Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls Centre)
Preliminary: 08:45-14:00
Preliminary, semi-final: 15:45-21:45

Netball (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Preliminaries: 09:30-13:00 & 15:00-20:30

Shooting (Barry Buddon Shooting Centre )
Qualification, final: 08:45-18:00

Squash (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Preliminaries: 12:30-16:30 & 18:00-21:00

Table Tennis (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Qualification: 09:30-14:30
Classification, preliminary: 16:00-21:00

Weightlifting (Clyde Auditorium)
Preliminary: 10:00-12:00
Finals: 15:30-18:00 & 19:30-22:00





Saturday 26 July

Aquatics (Tollcross National Swimming Centre)
Swimming heat: 10:30-12:00
Swimming semi-final, final: 19:00-21:15

Badminton (Emirates Area)
Preliminary: 09:00-12:30
Quarter-final: 18:30-22:30

Boxing (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Preliminaries: 13:00-17:00 & 18:30-22:30

Cycling (Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome)
Track qualification, quarter-final & semi-final: 11:00-13:30
Track semi-final & final: 16:00-19:30

Gymnastics (The SSE Hydro)
Rhythmic final: 09:30-12:30

Hockey (Glasgow National Hockey Centre)
Preliminaries: 09:00-12:30 & 14:00-17:30

Judo (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Preliminary: 10:00-16:00
Final: 18:00-20:45

Lawn Bowls (Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls Centre)
Preliminary, final: 08:45-15:00
Quarter-final: 16:45-19:45

Netball (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Preliminaries: 09:30-13:00 & 15:00-20:30

Rugby Sevens (Ibrox Stadium)
Preliminaries: 10:30-15:00 & 18:00-22:30

Shooting (Barry Buddon Shooting Centre )
Qualification, final: 08:45-18:00

Squash (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Preliminaries, quarter-final: 12:30-16:30
Quarter-final: 18:00-21:00

Table Tennis (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Classification, quarter-final: 09:30-14:30
Classification, quarter-final, semi-final: 16:00-21:00

Triathlon (Strathclyde Country Park)
Final: 12:30-14:30

Weightlifting (Clyde Auditorium)
Preliminary: 10:00-12:00
Finals: 15:30-18:00 & 19:30-22:00




Sunday 27 July

Aquatics (Tollcross National Swimming Centre & Royal Commonwealth Pool)
Swimming heat: 10:30-12:30
Swimming semi-final, final: 19:00-21:15

Athletics (Glasgow City Marathon Course & Hampden Park Stadium)
Marathon final: 09:00-13:00
Track & field preliminary, final: 14:30-18:00

Badminton (Emirates Area)
Semi-finals: 09:00-13:00 & 18:30-22:30

Boxing (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Preliminaries: 13:00-17:00 & 18:30-22:30

Cycling (Emirates Arena & Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome)
Track qualification, semi-final & final: 15:00-19:30

Hockey (Glasgow National Hockey Centre)
Preliminaries: 09:00-12:30, 14:00-17:30 & 19:00-22:30

Lawn Bowls (Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls Centre)
Preliminary, semi-final & final: 08:45-15:45
Preliminary, final: 17:30-20:45

Netball (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Preliminaries: 09:30-13:00 & 17:00-20:30

Rugby Sevens (Ibrox Stadium)
Classification, quarter-final: 10:30-14:15
Classification, semi-final. final: 17:15-22:30

Shooting (Barry Buddon Shooting Centre )
Qualification, final: 09:00-18:00

Squash (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Preliminaries, semi-final: 13:00-16:30
Semi-final: 18:00-20:30

Table Tennis (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Final: 09:30-15:00
Semi-final: 16:30-21:30

Weightlifting (Clyde Auditorium)
Preliminary: 10:00-12:00
Finals: 15:30-18:00 & 19:30-22:00





Monday 28 July

Aquatics (Tollcross National Swimming Centre)
Swimming heat: 10:30-12:00
Swimming semi-final, final: 19:00-21:15

Athletics (Hampden Park Stadium)
Track & field preliminary, final: 10:00-13:00
Track & field preliminary, semi-final, final: 19:00-22:00

Badminton (Emirates Area)
Finals: 09:00-13:00 & 15:00-19:15

Boxing (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Preliminaries: 13:00-17:00 & 18:30-22:45

Gymnastics (The SSE Hydro)
Artistic qualification: 13:30-16:00
Artistic qualification: 19:00-21:30

Hockey (Glasgow National Hockey Centre)
Preliminaries: 09:00-12:30, 14:00-17:30 & 19:00-22:30

Lawn Bowls (Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls Centre)
Preliminary, final: 08:45-16:00
Preliminary: 17:45-20:00

Netball (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Preliminaries: 09:30-13:00 & 17:00-20:30

Shooting (Barry Buddon Shooting Centre )
Qualification, final: 08:30-18:30

Squash (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Final: 12:00-17:00

Table Tennis (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Final: 11:00-16:30

Weightlifting (Clyde Auditorium)
Preliminary: 10:00-12:00
Finals: 15:30-18:00 & 19:30-22:00





Tuesday 29 July

Aquatics (Tollcross National Swimming Centre)
Swimming heat: 10:30-11:45
Swimming final: 19:00-21:30

Athletics (Hampden Park Stadium)
Track & field preliminary, final: 10:00-13:15
Track & field semi-final, final: 19:00-22:30

Badminton (Emirates Area)
Preliminaries: 09:00-15:00 & 16:30-22:30

Boxing (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Preliminary, quarter-finals: 13:00-17:00 & 18:30-22:45

Cycling (Cathkin Braes Mountain Bike Trail)
Mountain bike final: 11:30-16:00

Gymnastics (The SSE Hydro)
Artistic qualification: 12:00-14:30
Artistic final: 16:30-19:30

Hockey (Glasgow National Hockey Centre)
Preliminaries: 09:00-12:30 & 14:00-17:30

Lawn Bowls (Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls Centre)
Preliminary: 08:45-14:00
Preliminary: 15:45-21:00

Netball (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Preliminaries: 09:30-13:00 & 17:00-20:30

Shooting (Barry Buddon Shooting Centre )
Qualification, final: 08:30-18:30

Squash (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Preliminaries: 11:30-16:00 & 17:30-21:00

Table Tennis (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Qualification: 09:30-14:30 & 16:00-21:00

Weightlifting (Clyde Auditorium)
Finals: 15:30-18:00 & 19:30-22:00

Wrestling (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Preliminaries: 10:00 - 12:30
Finals: 16:30 - 18:30





Wednesday 30 July

Aquatics (Royal Commonwealth Pool)
Diving preliminary, final: 10:00-12:45
Diving final: 18:00-20:45

Athletics (Hampden Park Stadium)
Track & field preliminary, semi-finals, finals: 10:00-13:00 & 19:00-22:15

Badminton (Emirates Area)
Preliminaries: 09:00-15:00 & 16:30-22:00

Boxing (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Quarter-finals: 13:00-17:15 & 18:30-22:45

Gymnastics (The SSE Hydro)
Artistic final: 13:00-16:30
Artistic final: 18:30-22:00

Hockey (Glasgow National Hockey Centre)
Preliminaries: 09:00-12:30 & 14:00-17:30

Lawn Bowls (Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls Centre)
Preliminary: 08:45-14:00
Preliminary, quarter-final & semi-final: 15:45-18:45

Netball (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Preliminaries: 09:30-13:00 & 17:00-20:30

Squash (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Preliminaries: 11:30-16:00 & 17:30-21:00

Table Tennis (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Preliminaries: 09:30-14:30 & 16:00-21:30

Weightlifting (Clyde Auditorium)
Finals: 15:30-18:00 & 19:30-22:00

Wrestling (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Preliminaries: 10:00 - 12:30
Finals: 16:30 - 18:30





Thursday 31 July

Aquatics (Royal Commonwealth Pool)
Diving preliminary: 10:00-13:00
Diving final: 18:00-21:30

Athletics (Hampden Park Stadium)
Track & field preliminary, semi-final, final: 19:00-22:30

Badminton (Emirates Area)
Preliminaries: 13:00-17:00 & 18:30-22:30

Cycling (Glasgow City Cycling Time Trial & Road Race Courses)
Time trial final: 10:00-15:30

Gymnastics (The SSE Hydro)
Artistic final: 15:00-19:00

Hockey (Glasgow National Hockey Centre)
Preliminaries: 09:00-12:30 & 14:00-17:30
Classification: 19:00-23:00

Lawn Bowls (Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls Centre)
Quarter, semi-final & final: 08:45-15:45
Semi-final & final: 17:30-20:45

Netball (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Classification: 17:00-21:00

Squash (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Preliminary, quarter-finals: 11:30-16:00 & 17:30-21:00

Table Tennis (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Preliminary: 09:30-14:30
Preliminary, quarter-final: 16:00-21:30

Weightlifting (Clyde Auditorium)
Final: 15:30-18:00

Wrestling (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Preliminaries: 10:00 - 12:30
Finals: 16:30 - 18:30





Friday 1 August

Aquatics (Royal Commonwealth Pool)
Diving preliminary, final: 10:00-12:15
Diving final: 18:00-20:30

Athletics (Hampden Park Stadium)
Track & field preliminary, final: 19:00-22:30

Badminton (Emirates Area)
Quarter-finals: 13:30-16:30 & 18:30-21:30

Boxing (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Semi-finals: 13:00-16:30 & 18:30-22:30

Gymnastics (The SSE Hydro)
Artistic final: 14:00-18:00

Hockey (Glasgow National Hockey Centre)
Classification, semi-final: 10:00-16:15
Classification: 18:00-22:00

Lawn Bowls (Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls Centre)
Finals: 08:45-16:00 & 17:45-21:00

Netball (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Classification: 09:30-13:30

Squash (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Preliminary, semi-finals: 11:30-16:00 & 17:30-21:00

Table Tennis (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Preliminary, quarter-final, semi-final: 09:30-14:30
Quarter-final, final: 16:00-21:30





Saturday 2 August

Aquatics (Royal Commonwealth Pool)
Diving preliminary, final: 10:00-13:00
Diving final: 18:00-21:15

Athletics (Hampden Park Stadium)
Track & field final: 19:00-22:30

Badminton (Emirates Area)
Semi-final: 09:00-14:00
Final: 17:00-22:00

Boxing (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Semi-finals: 14:00-17:30 & 19:00-22:00

Cycling (Glasgow City Cycling Time Trial & Road Race Courses)
Road Race final: 08:30 - 17:00

Hockey (Glasgow National Hockey Centre)
Classification, semi-final: 10:00-16:15
Final: 18:00-22:30

Netball (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Semi-final: 10:00-14:00

Squash (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Semi-final, final: 11:30-17:00

Table Tennis (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Semi-final, final: 09:30-14:30
Final: 16:00-20:30

Weightlifting (Clyde Auditorium)
Powerlifting finals: 10:00-12:30, 14:00-16:30 & 18:00-20:30





Sunday 3 August

Badminton (Emirates Area)
Final: 10:00-16:00

Cycling (Emirates Arena & Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome)
Time trial & road race final: 08:30-17:00

Hockey (Glasgow National Hockey Centre)
Final: 10:00-14:30

Netball (Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Precinct)
Final: 10:00-15:00

Squash (Scotstoun Sports Campus)
Final: 11:30-16:00


Closing Ceremony



Eleven days after it all started, the Closing ceremony will celebrate all that has been achieved. And in the process, Glasgow intends show the world a thing or two about how to throw a great party.
The theme of the ceremony is friendships - Glasgow's chance to say 'thank you' and hand over to the next Commonwealth city.

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Glasgow 2014: Queen Elizabeth II Launches Commonwealth Games Baton Relay

Queen Starts Commonwealth Relay with Message in a Baton

BBC Sport -3 hours ago


The Queen has signalled the start of the 2014 Commonwealth Games Baton Relay by inserting a handwritten message into the ceremonial baton.
It was then sealed, before its journey of more than 190,000km through Commonwealth territories in Asia, Oceania, Africa, North and South America and the Caribbean.
The message will be read out by The Queen at the opening ceremony of the Games at Celtic Park in Glasgow.



The Queen inserted her message into the baton during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace


The Queen's Baton Relay - heralding the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow - has been launched at Buckingham Palace.
The baton contains the Queen's hand-written message to the Commonwealth and will visit all 70 competing nations and territories over the next 288 days.
It will travel to Scotland on Thursday before heading to India for its first international stopover on 11 October.
The baton's journey will end at the opening ceremony on 23 July 2014, when the Queen will read the message inside.
The empty baton was escorted to Buckingham Palace by pipers and cyclist Sir Chris Hoy, a six-time Olympic Gold and double Commonwealth Gold medallist.
During the launch ceremony, the President of the Commonwealth Games Federation, Prince Imran of Malaysia, said the relay had power and meaning.

"The relay unites two billion citizens of the Commonwealth in a celebration of sport, diversity and peace," he said.
"It will also bring the 70 nations and territories of the Commonwealth together.
"Every time the baton is passed it will cement the Commonwealth friendship and reinforce the ways in which we are connected."

The ceremony also heard from Lord Smith of Kelvin, chairman of games organiser Glasgow 2014.

He said: "The spirit of friendship that will be displayed as the baton is passed from hand to hand reflects the warm welcome that nations and territories of the Commonwealth can expect when they come to Glasgow and to Scotland next summer.
"This is a historic moment for Glasgow 2014. We will treasure it and we look forward to following closely the Queen's baton relay on its momentous journey."




Following the speeches, the Queen placed the hand-written scroll,
which contains her message to the Commonwealth, inside the baton.

It was then sealed for its journey of more than 190,000km through Commonwealth territories in Asia, Oceania, Africa, North and South America and the Caribbean.
The first baton bearer was Alan Wells, the Scottish sprinter who won gold in the men's 100m at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.




The first bearer Alan Wells carries the baton from Buckingham Palace


He said: "As the final runner of the Queen's Baton Relay (QBR) at the last Commonwealth Games on Scottish soil in Edinburgh in 1986, the baton and what it symbolises is incredibly special for me.
"It is a real honour for me to now be named as the first baton-bearer for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games."

Wells handed the baton on to Scottish swimmer Caitlin McLatchey, who won two gold medals at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.
A short relay then took place up and down The Mall involving Scottish athletes Cara Kennedy (artistic gymnast), Morgan McKinnon (triple jump) and Ruairi Kirkwood (swimming).
Other participants included Izzy Conway, a volunteer or Clydesider at the games, Aamir Meymood, the 13-year-old Shawlands Academy pupil who designed the Glasgow 2014 tartan, games ambassador Julie McIlroy and 12-year-old Beth Gilmour, who will be accompanied by games mascot Clyde, whom she designed.




Those attending the ceremony included Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond.


'Momentous Year'

He said:

"The start of the Queen's Baton Relay, with two of Scotland's greatest-ever athletes, is another step towards what will be a momentous year for Scotland.
"2014 promises the greatest-ever Games and the relay will provide a fantastic celebration of sport and culture across the Commonwealth, with Glasgow and Scotland at its heart."

During its international journey the baton will spend an average of one to four days in each nation, with an extended duration of seven days in Wales, two weeks in England and 40 days in Scotland.
It will not stopover in the Gambia, which last week withdrew from the Commonwealth, saying it will "never be a member of any neo-colonial institution".
The baton has a lattice design, made from layers of titanium fused together by laser, which means the message is visible.




The baton's journey around the globe will be documented by adventurer
and broadcaster Mark Beaumont for the BBC.


The designers said the message from the Queen was "pivotal" and they were keen it should not be "hidden away".
The parchment, handmade in Glasgow using linen and plant fibre, is also "dramatically" illuminated by LED lights within a transparent cylinder to make the sealed scroll easier to see.
The brief for designers stated that the baton should be easily handed from person to person, should weigh no more than 2kg and must be able to withstand all weathers for the 10-month relay.
The baton's handle is made of elm wood sourced from the grounds of Garrison House on the Isle of Cumbrae and was constructed using a boatbuilding technique called bird-mouthing, which means it is light, strong and durable.
The top of the baton contains a granite "gemstone" which will be detached by opening a puzzle mechanism and given as gift to each nation and territory.
The gems are made of water-resistant granite unique to Scotland and were sourced from Ailsa Craig in the Firth of Clyde.
Glasgow 2014 will be the 20th Commonwealth Games and will feature 17 sports in 11 days of competition, with 261 medal events.




The Commonwealth of Nations has 54 members, but 70 teams participate in the Commonwealth Games
because a number of British overseas territories, Crown dependencies and island states compete under their own flag.


The UK nations - Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland - compete separately in the Commonwealth Games, as do the smaller home territories such as Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.

The first Queen's Baton Relay was staged for the 1958 Commonwealth Games in Cardiff and has been the curtain raiser to the Games ever since.
But until 1998, the relay would only travel through England and the host nation.
By 2002, in Manchester, it was covering 100,000km and visiting 23 nations.
Melbourne 2006 was the first baton relay to visit all the nations which sent teams to the Games.


VIDEO of the Queen Putting Message in Baton




Glasgow 2014: Queen's Baton Relay route

The Queen's Baton Relay has been the Commonwealth Games' curtain raiser since 1958. The baton will visit all 70 Commonwealth nations and territories ahead of the opening ceremony in Glasgow on 23 July 2014.
It will leave Buckingham Palace on 9 October 2013, then go on to Glasgow, before landing in India on 11 October.
The baton will then make its journey from Delhi - which was the host of the 2010 Games - along a route detailed below.


VIDEO of the Queens Baton Route & History of The Commonwealth Games









The relay will culminate in a 40-day tour of Scotland in the summer of 2014.


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Glasgow Hosts Pre-Games Hockey Events


The Glasgow National Hockey Centre will host the Five Nations and FIH Champions Challenge I events in April and May.

Scottish Hockey will host a Five Nations competition at the Glasgow National Hockey Centre as part of their Commonwealth Games preparations.
The mens event from 23-29 April, will feature the Scots as well as Argentina, Belgium, England and Pakistan.
It precedes a major women's tournament at the same venue.

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“It is another fantastic opportunity to showcase international hockey and the world's top players here in Scotland” David Sweetman Scottish Hockey chief executive

Scotland, India, Korea, Belgium, South Africa, Ireland, Spain and USA will compete in the FIH Champions Challenge I event from 27 April to 4 May.
The Glasgow National Hockey Centre will host the Commonwealth Games competition in the summer.

David Sweetman, Scottish Hockey chief executive, said:

The competitions will offer the players - under the guidance of Scotland men's head coach Derek Forsyth and his equivalent for the women's team, Gordon Shepherd - the opportunity to test themselves against some of the world's best teams ahead of the Commonwealth Games, with South Africa, India, England and Pakistan strong nations in the sport.

The women's team are currently in South Africa and have lost the first three of their five Tests against the hosts in Pretoria.

The final two Tests take place on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 February.

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Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony

We had no shortage of wobbles. Susan Boyle fluffed a line at the start of Mull Of Kintyre. A billion toes around the world curled as poor Prince Imran of Malaysia, President of the Commonwealth Games Federation, struggled to wrench the official welcome message out of the Queen’s baton.But as Wednesday night’s opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games grew on us, so did the feeling that we were not just watching Glasgow en fête. We were actually seeing a celebration of something — dare one say it — terribly British.

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Dancers performed with a 'Loch Ness monster' during the Commonwealth Games ceremony at Celtic Park




Susan Boyle fluffed a line at the start of Mull Of Kintyre, which she performed to a 40,000-strong crowd


Might it, indeed, have been a turning point in the tone and direction of the great Scottish independence debate?Here was an event that seemed to embody all our quintessential national values, more so than the opening bash for the London Olympics.It was both eccentric and joyously self- deprecating. Look at that replica of Glasgow’s statue of the Duke of Wellington with a traffic cone on his head.

Would any other country have revelled in a fondness for insulting an illustrious statesman? I don’t remember much of that during the joyless opening of Vladimir Putin’s Winter Olympics earlier this year.

At every turn, Glasgow 2014 opted for the quirky and original. How enchanting to see those Scottie dogs ushering in the athletes instead of the usual parade of air hostesses.When pageantry was required, it was done brilliantly, of course. Britain — and our Forces are unquestionably British — leads the world in that department.

The Pipes and Drums of the Scottish Regiments could not be faulted. Nor could the Red Arrows with their smoke trails of red, white and blue — even if some were expecting them to emit only the last two (perhaps the clue is in the name).



A billion toes around the world curled as poor Prince Imran of Malaysia, President of the Commonwealth
Games Federation, struggled to wrench the official welcome message out of the Queen’s baton (above)





Her Majesty smiled as the script was finally released from the baton by Prince Imran of Malaysia


Highlights from Glasgow Commonwealth Games opening ceremony:




Most of the music was world-class, particularly the beautiful Nicola Benedetti on her Stradivarius, and the 2,296 voices of Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Youth Choir.


But at times, too, there was the feel of a knees-up in a village hall. And it was intentional.
Thus, we saw the ‘chair dance’, featuring all those sturdy Glasgow matriarchs in colour-coordinated party frocks, gyrating around their chairs and dusting down the seats for their honoured guests. Some of it was a little clumsy.

But it was unquestionably genuine. What it lacked in professional polish, it made up for in enthusiasm. And it had absolutely none of those tiresome political undertones that ran through Danny Boyle’s spectacular at London 2012.

Armed with dazzling special effects, Boyle set aside every great British achievement, from Magna Carta to railways, television and football, in favour of point-scoring about the NHS and the workers of the Industrial Revolution.
Glasgow, on the other hand, included every last national icon in the mix. But it chucked out all the chippiness.





There were nods to Scotland throughout the opening ceremony, which kicked off the 11-day competition




Dancing teacakes also featured in the ceremony which was attended by The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh


Given that this summer marks the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, for example, there must have been a strong temptation to throw in a bit of Robert the Bruce. No doubt Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond would have loved that.
But the Commonwealth organisers have been scrupulous about insulating their event from the independence debate.
Glasgow was awarded these Games in 2007, several years before anyone mentioned anything about a referendum in September. The Games, they point out, were here first. The politicians can just put a sock in it.
You could not possibly imagine a scene as dowdy as the chair dance at a modern Olympic opening ceremony. The Olympics expect and demand a money-no-object, synchronised Hollywood production.

But then, the modern Olympics long ago parted company with the Corinthian aspirations of their founding fathers. The Commonwealth Games — with just a 20th of an Olympic budget — have not.
They retain, at least in part, a sense of that amateur spirit upon which Britain (there it is again) built so many of the world’s favourite sports.





Singer Rod Stewart also performed to the jubilant crowd at Wednesday's ceremony





There were musical performances from world-class stars including Nicola Benedetti on her Stradivarius
-In Brian Oliver’s hugely entertaining book The Commonwealth Games — Extraordinary Stories


Behind The Games, he recounts how Marcus Stephen, a teenager from the tiny Pacific island of Nauru, registered for the 1990 Commonwealth Games with just three days to spare.
When he won gold in weightlifting, the entire island went bonkers and declared a national holiday. Within a few years, Stephen had been elected president and was addressing the UN.

Today, wandering through the Athletes’ Village, you can find some of the world’s fastest sports stars queuing for lunch alongside the Norfolk Island’s badminton team. Only six people on Norfolk Island play competitive badminton — and five of them have come to Glasgow.

They train in the island’s only community hall, where the ceiling is too low to meet official badminton standards and where they have to remove their court markings whenever there is a dance or wedding due.

Asked what they are most looking forward to in Glasgow, one of them replied: ‘Opponents.’ Yet today, they might be sitting down next to Sir Bradley Wiggins. It’s part of the infectious charm of an event which, far more than any Olympics, embraces the underdog. That’s not an English or Scottish thing. It is, unquestionably, a British thing.

As parochial and tribal rivalries were set aside on Wednesday night to ensure a robust welcome for the Queen — not to mention the athletes from south of the Border — there must have been discomfort among the strategists in the nationalist camp.





More than 40,000 people watched the ceremony at Celtic Park and up to a billion tuned in from home

Indeed, might we not look back on that evening as a key moment in the independence saga? Might a platoon of small dogs, an inflatable Loch Ness Monster and some dancing teacakes have done more to save the Union than a succession of turgid speeches by Westminster’s political elite?
For the principal charges levelled against the ‘Better Together’ campaign, run by former Labour Chancellor Alastair Darling and supported by all three main UK political parties, are that it has been poorly organised and is far too negative.
These Commonwealth Games, surely, represent the exact opposite.

There we have Celtic Park stomping away to Rod Stewart, a half-Scottish, half-English international rock legend (born Highgate, London) who happens to be a lifelong Celtic supporter.

So, too, is another of Wednesday’s performers, Billy Connolly, a native Glaswegian who recently put his Scottish home on the market and talked about buying a place on the south coast of England.

In the days ahead, we will see English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish elite athletes all competing under their home nation’s flag — but who’d never have got there without being part of Team GB.

And no one, surely, feels more at home in both Scotland and England than the Queen. Yesterday I followed her on a tour of Commonwealth venues — and she never stopped smiling.





The ceremony at Glasgow's Celtic Park ended with the Queen's speech and an incredible fireworks display


It wasn’t just down to Ronald Talasasa, the 50-year-old manager of the Solomon Islands team, who told her he’d been trying to meet her since the age of ten and could now die happy.
It was, as one of the royal party pointed out, that the monarch was going from here to begin her holiday at what is perhaps her dearest spot on God’s earth — Balmoral.

The uncomplicated and noisy welcome that greeted her at Celtic Park bespoke a fundamental problem for Mr Salmond.
That 40,000-strong crowd — non-corporate and overwhelmingly Scottish according to the ticket office — were not clapping her for political reasons. They were not singing God Save The Queen to make a Unionist point. Many will not even have made up their minds which way to vote on September 18.

It was simply that in this great moment in the fortunes of modern Scotland, their natural instinct was a very simple one: they wanted to come together, not to stand apart.


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You're spoiling one's view! The Queen struggles to watch the Commonwealth Games from behind lady-in-waiting's huge hat... which is a clashing shade of green

• After watching the hockey, the Queen moved on to watch the swimming
  
• Her Majesty sat in stands at Tollcross International Swimming Centre
• But her view was somewhat obscured by her lady-in-waiting's green hat
• Like the Queen, she also wore a bright - but clashing - green ensemble
  
• The Queen craned her neck to see over the Hon. Annabel Whitehead
  

Daily Mail UK, 25 July 2014


When one is the monarch, one is used to being given a comfy seat in the front row.
But yesterday the Queen found herself perched several rows back as she watched the Commonwealth Games swimming heats.
She was given an ordinary plastic seat and then found her view obscured by a woman in a rather large hat.

The offending spectator was her own lady-in-waiting, the Hon Annabel Whitehead, who made matters worse by having chosen a very similar shade of green in which to dress.








Queen Elizabeth II spent most of her time at the Commonwealth Games swimming races trying to see over her lady-in-waiting's enormous hat





Her Majesty, who had been visibly enjoying herself at the hockey earlier that day,
appeared to be finding it difficult to see what was going on over the head of the Hon. Annabel Whitehead








At one point, the Queen looked somewhat dejected as she sat back in her chair glumly.
After a while, she appeared to be giving up trying to get a better angle

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The Opening Ceremony’s most unlikely stars: 41 Scottish Terriers lead out the nations to the delight of watching fans

• Scottish Terriers used to lead out teams at Commonwealth Games bonanza
• The 41 dogs have become the unlikely stars of the Opening Ceremony
• Animals walked around Celtic Park each labelled with team name it was representing

Forty-one Scottish Terriers became the unlikely stars of the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony.

The Scotties were the highlight of the show for many of the millions watching at home, as social media sites were flooded with praise for the animals.

It is the first time dogs have been used to lead in the teams.





A Scottish Terrier accompanies the Scotland team during the Opening Ceremony. The dogs proved a hit on social media sites




The dogs were walked around the Celtic Park stadium on leads - each labelled with the team it was representing


The dogs were walked around the Celtic Park stadium on leads - each labelled with the team it was representing.

Some made the walk round the stadium twice with different teams. Some, their little legs too tired to make walk, were carried by their owners.

Others appears to bound along to the music, wagging their tails.

The owner of the ‘Canada’ dog waved the animals’ little paw, to the delight of the crowd.

Dale Bray tweeted: ‘The little Scottish Terriers make it completely worthwhile to sit through the #commonwealthgames opening ceremony.’

Another said: ‘These Scottish Terriers walking each team in are EVERYTHING. Best addition to the Commonwealth Games!’.

The Scotties were the highlight of the show for many of the millions watching at home, as social media sites were flooded with praise for the animals




Some of the Scottish Terriers made the walk round the stadium twice with different teams





Flag bearer and Rhythmic Gymnast Frankie Jones of Wales leads Welsh athletes during the Opening Ceremony - along with a Scottish Terrier




Cyclist Martyn Irvine waves the flag for Northern Ireland as the nation's athletes arrive - with a Scottish Terrier leading the way


Casting directors had scoured Scotland for 41 Scottish Terriers – and found the last one just four weeks ago.

Thirty of the dogs walked around the stadium twice in order to lead out all 71 nations and territories taking part, resulting in a quick five-minute costume change mid-ceremony.

The dogs wore a maroon check coat bearing the name of their designated nation, while their owners wore matching wool trousers and skirts.

They had been recruited from dog groomers and Scottish Terrier groups, in secret, so as not to ruin the surprise for the global audience.

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No Farah!
-Olympic Hero Mo PULLS OUT of Commonwealth Games after Being Hospitalised with Abdominal Pains

• Double Olympic champion due to go for gold over 5,000 and 10,000 metres
• Team England said he made good progress on recovery from recent illness
• But he wants to get back to full fitness in time for European Championships
• He had previously been admitted to hospital in the US with abdominal pains
  
• It comes morning after Games launched with spectacular opening ceremony
  

Mo Farah has pulled out of the Commonwealth Games, it was revealed today.

The 31-year-old double Olympic and world champion - who had previously been admitted to hospital with abdominal pains - was due to go for gold over 5,000 and 10,000 metres in Glasgow.

Team England said he had made good progress on his recovery from a recent illness, but withdrew to focus on getting back to full fitness in time for next month's European Championships in Zurich.




He's out: Team England announced that Mo Farah, 31, had withdrawn to focus on
getting back to full fitness in time for next month's European Championships in Zurich


The news is a major blow to the Games, coming the morning after they launched with a spectacular opening ceremony at Celtic Park.
Farah said: ‘I have taken the tough decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games. The sickness I had two weeks ago was a big setback for me.'




Olympic celebrations: The 31-year-old Londoner was set to be one of the biggest stars in Glasgow
Farah added: ‘Training is getting better here in Font Romeu but I need another few weeks to get back to the level I was at in 2012 & 2013.




‘I really wanted to add the Commonwealth titles to my Olympic and World Championships but the event is coming a few weeks too soon for me as my body is telling me it's not ready to race yet. Best wishes to my fellow athletes in Glasgow.’

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WILLIAMS SUSPENDED OVER FAILED TEST





Rhys Williams, the Wales' 400 metres hurdles champion, has been provisionally suspended after being charged with an anti-doping violation.
The 30-year-old, the son of rugby union great JJ Williams, becomes the second Welsh athlete to be forced out of the Commonwealth Games over an alleged anti-doping violation after 800m runner Gareth Warburton.

Welsh Athletics said in a statement: "Welsh Athletics can confirm the provisional suspension of Rhys Williams after being charged with committing an anti-doping rule violation under the IAAF Anti-Doping Rules.
"Rhys has the opportunity to respond to the charges against him and to have those charges determined at a full hearing before the national anti-doping panel.
"Welsh Athletics strongly supports clean sport and has established a comprehensive education programme for its athletes.
"Welsh Athletics is obviously concerned that this is the second anti-doping violation by a senior Welsh international athlete and will be conducting its own internal review.
"Welsh Athletics will not be making any further comment."

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Hurdler son of Welsh rugby legend JJ Williams is kicked out of the Commonwealth Games after being charged with doping offence

25 July 2014

The 30-year-old son of the former British and Irish Lions winger has said he is 'utterly devastated' by the news and claims he has not 'knowingly' taken any banned substances.

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ENGLAND SECURE EASY WIN
By Press Association - July 25th 2014,

England effectively secured their place in the quarter-finals of the mixed team event at the Commonwealth Games with an emphatic 5-0 victory over friends and rivals Jersey.Jersey's team contained three former England internationals but they proved no match for their old colleagues, who did not drop a single game and moved into a commanding position at the top of Group F.
Only an unlikely set of results in the final round of games in their group, including a landslide defeat to rank outsiders Mauritius, can deprive second seeds England of a place in the last eight at the Emirates Arena.

Heather Olver and Chris Langridge opened proceedings with a comfortable 21-7 21-13 victory over two of the ex-England players, Mark Constable and Mariana Agathangelou.
Sarah Walker beat another, repeating her National Championships final victory over Liz Cann by a 21-15 21-13 scoreline.
Rajiv Ouseph proved far too strong for Alexander Hutchings, cruising to a 21-8 21-8 success, while Chris Ad**** and Andy Ellis crushed Constable and Hutchings 21-7 21-12 in men's doubles.
Lauren Smith and Gabby Ad**** wrapped up the tie with a 21-8 21-10 victory over Solenn Pasturel and Agathangelou.
Olver, one of Agathangelou's best friends, admitted afterwards the atmosphere on court had been unusual.
She said: "It was a little different. In the last Commonwealths I was competing with Maz.
"It is always a little tricky to go on and play like that but we had a job to do. I knew if we played well we would win."

The players also expressed delight and surprise at the strong support they received at the packed venue during the afternoon.
"I am really impressed with the crowd," said Langridge. "It's nearly full and everyone's so passionate for England. I'm shocked.
"I thought there would be a lot of dislike for England, but it has been amazing."

Northern Ireland notched their first win of the competition as they overcame Mauritius 4-1.
There were victories for Tony Stephenson and Alannah Stephenson in singles. Tony Stephenson and Tony Murphy won in men's doubles, as did Sinead Chambers and Caroline Black in the women's pairs.

The only blemish was the loss of Ciaran and Sinead Chambers in three games in the mixed doubles to Kate Foo Kune and Aatish Lubah.
Earlier in the day, Wales' hopes of reaching the quarter-finals ended in a 4-1 loss to Canada.
The impressive Carissa Turner and Sarah Thomas secured their only win in the women's doubles rubber, beating Alex Bruce and Peng Soon Chan 21-16 14-21 21-18 on their fourth match point.
Yet by then the tie had already been lost. Turner put up a spirited performance against world number 19 Michelle Li but could not prevent a 21-14 21-14 loss.

Thomas and Oliver Gwilt were beaten in the mixed doubles by Toby Ng and Alex Bruce, Daniel Font went down to Andrew D'Souza while Joe Morgan and Nicolas Strange lost a tight match 27-25 21-14 to Adrian Liu and Derrick Ng.

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SCOTLAND GO DOWN TO SOUTH AFRICA
By Press Association - 25th July 2014

Scotland's medal chances in the men's hockey contest at the Commonwealth Games already look slim after they lost their opening match to South Africa. Derek Forsyth's team went down to the Africans for the third time in six weeks after Andrew Cronje and Ignatuis Malgraff confirmed a 2-0 win at the National Hockey Centre at Glasgow Green.

It was supposed to be a day to remember for Grinstead midfielder Ross Stott as he celebrated his 100th cap for the Scots but it ended up being a family disaster as brother Niall was sin-binned for dangerous play three minutes into the second half.

And with Scotland down to 10 men South Africa turned the screw, winning a penalty stroke when Cronje's net-bound strike hit Ross Stott on the shoulder.

Cronje took the stroke himself, slotting underneath goalkeeper Jamie Cachia's despairing reach before Malgraff confirmed the win with a close-range effort late on.

The Scots still have to face the world's number-nine ranked side India on Saturday and then Wales before their final group game with world champions Australia needing at least two victories if they are to make the semi-finals.

That looks unlikely now but centurion Stott is not giving up hope.

He said: "It was a big day for me but it didn't end the way I wanted it to. I was honoured to win my 100th cap but I suppose you can blame the Stotts for the result.

"I didn't think Niall's offence was a yellow card but I suppose the penalty call was correct as it did hit me on the shoulder.

"But we still believe we can qualify. We just need to win our next couple of games, so this is just a minor setback."

Scotland had their chances to avenge those two recent defeats at last month's Investec London Cup but striker Kenny Bain was in particular guilty of some erratic finishing as the former Kelburne frontman wasted five decent chances.

They had little luck with the refereeing calls. William Marshall thought he had fired the hosts ahead after bundling his way into the circle, only for the officials to spot an illegal use of the foot in the build-up.

Wales, meanwhile, are also under pressure after they went down 3-1 to India in their opener.

Rupinder Singh cracked a spectacular strike off the crossbar after six minutes from India's first set-piece chance, but penalty-corner specialist Vokkaliga Ramachandra Raghunath showed his team-mate how it is done as he swept home his 110th international goal a quarter of an hour later from another set-piece.

The Dragons had spent most of the half soaking up Indian pressure but hit back immediately as Andrew Cornick netted from a tight angle.

But the Indians regained their lead eight minutes after the break when Rupinder Singh slammed home from another penalty-corner routine before Gurwinder Chandi tapped home the third.

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Amber Hill's Commonwealth glory bid ends after shoot-off defeat in women's skeet
By Mike Dawes - 25 July 2014

Teenage shooter Amber Hill's bid for Commonwealth Games glory came to an end after a dramatic sudden-death shoot-off in the women's skeet.

Having shot a disappointing 65 out of 75 in qualifying,16-year-old Hill faced a three-way shoot-out with England team-mate Sarah Gray and Panagiota Andreou of Cyprus.
Andreou was first to crack but Gray held her nerve for five rounds of double clays while Hill missed with her fifth.




Gone: Amber Hill saw her bid for Commonwealth Games glory end in Carnoustie

It was a sad end for one of Team England's best medal hopes but the 2013 BBC Young Sports Personality of the year bowed out gracefully.
'I've really enjoyed it and had a really good day,' she told Press Association. 'I started off well but had a few problems with my last round but I've had a great time and it's been a really good experience.
'I can't say I wasn't nervous. In the first round nerves were definitely there. But I've got to turn it into the positives and look to the future. Sarah shot an incredible final and deserved to go through.

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Boxing

Scott Fitzgerald off to winning start with impressive unanimous victory over St Lucian Ron Bastien

England's Scott Fitzgerald made an early impression in the welterweight division at the Commonwealth Games after wobbling St Lucia's Ron Bastien inside the first five seconds of the opening round.

The Preston man rammed home a left hook which sent his opponent reeling backwards into the ropes, and fired the same shot early in the third to score a conclusive stoppage win.
Fitzgerald said: 'It is great to get in there and when I knocked him down early it gave me confidence. I looked for it a bit too much to begin with but in the end I got him.'

But there was disappointment for the first home nation boxer Lewis Benson, who dropped a split decision to Bowyn Morgan of New Zealand.
Benson was wobbled by a left hook midway through round two and despite a gutsy display he could not do enough to haul back the points deficit.




Cruise: England's Scott Fitzgerald (right) got off to a flying start in the welterweight division in Glasgow

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Explosions lit up the Glasgow skyline as the city celebrated having the eyes of the
world upon it for an event organisers hope will compete with the London Olympics




Technicolour: The whole show was dominated by a 300ft screen running the length of the Celtic pitch and showed defining moments from Scottish history



A smiling Queen Elizabeth is presented with a posy during the 2014 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony, as the Duke of Edinburgh looks on




Regal: The Queen is driven into the arena, to the delight of the estimated 40,000 spectators





An audience of around 40,000 have gathered at Celtic Park to witness the arrival of the Queen's baton and mark the official start of the 11-day competition
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COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2014

England's Weir Eases to Gold in T54 1500m Final at a Wet Hampden Park
-to Complete Full Set of Medals



David Weir revived memories of his London 2012 heroics by racing to Commonwealth gold at Hampden Park.


Friday, Aug 1st 2014


Rudisha can only Win Silver as Amos Sprints past him to Claim 800m Commonwealth Gold



LAURA WILLIAMSON: David Rudisha dominated the 800 metres at the London 2012 Olympics like a true champion and he lost the Commonwealth Games final like one, too. The world record-holder and Olympic champion had only praise for his conqueror Nijel Amos, the Botswanan who won silver behind Rudisha two years ago but sprinted clear of the tall, elegant Kenyan in the straight to win Commonwealth gold in 1min 45.18sec on Thursday night.


Laugher and Mears Win Gold in Synchronised 3m Springboard Diving



Jack Laugher claimed his second gold of the Games after combining with Chris Mears to win men's synchronised three-metres springboard title.


Melmore and Winch Win Silver in Women's Pairs Bowls
Second Best: England duo Jamie-Lea Winch (left) and Natalie Melmore (right) Show off Their Silver Medals

• South Africa's Tracy-Lee Botha and Colleen Piketh took gold
  
• Northern Ireland's Mandy Cunningham and Barbara Cameron won bronze

England bowlers Jamie-Lea Winch and Natalie Melmore suffered a 20-17 defeat in the women's pairs final against South Africa.


Moneylegs Claims 200m Silver, with Nigerian Okagbare Completing Sprint Double


Jodie Williams claimed a brilliant silver in the 200m as her England team-mate and name-sake Bianca Williams came home in third to win bronze. Williams, a prodigious junior, landed her maiden senior major championship medal, finishing very strongly down the home straight to clock 22.50s and go second on the British all-time list.





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COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2014- FINAL DAY
- ENGLAND Tops Medal Tables


HIGHLIGHTS OF GAMES IN GLASGOW

Daily Mail UK, 3 August 2014


After 11 days the sun will shortly set on the 20th Commonwealth Games,
-but for thousands of athletes, organisers and volunteers memories of Glasgow 2014 will last a lifetime.

Before any medals were around necks the winners of the opening ceremony were undoubtedly the little Scottie dogs who shuffled out to steal the show and the dancing Tunnock's teacakes who raised a smile, not to mention supermarket sales of the traditional treat.

There was an early record too, when an unprecedented appeal by cycling legend Sir Chris Hoy and Hollywood heartthrob James McAvoy on behalf of Unicef raised more than £3.5 million towards education, vaccines and health care for the Commonwealth's needy children.

The sporting action got off to a cracking start for the home nations, with England beginning as it meant go on by taking the very first medal, a triathlon gold for Jodie Stimpson at Strathclyde Country Park.
Scotland's first medal meanwhile went to Aileen McGlynn and pilot Louise Haston who won silver in para-cycling at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome. The hosts did not have to wait long for their first gold, with judo star Kimberley Renicks taking the top spot on the podium in the women's under-48kgs.
Not to be outdone, her elder sister Louise completed a family double shortly after with a golden victory in the under-52kgs category.

The thrill of the Games now fully under way, sports fans had little time to mourn the news that Olympic hero Mo Farah would not compete for Team England at the Games due to illness.
When Ross Murdoch snatched gold in the 200m breaststroke from Games poster boy Michael Jamieson, no-one looked more shocked than wide-eyed Murdoch himself.

All cameras were on the world's fastest man, Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt, when he flew into Glasgow ahead of his relay gold and told media he expected to see "a lot of rain and kilts",

There were indeed kilts a plenty - including on the winner's podium - but as temperatures hovered around 27C (81F) during week one, visitors to a traditionally wet Glasgow were seen using their umbrellas as sun shades instead.

As the medals rolled in so did members of the royal family, with the Queen delighting members of the Australian women's hockey squad by "photobombing" a selfie between team mates Jayde Taylor and Brooke Perisat at Glasgow Green, while Harry, William and Kate were spotted cheering from the stands at events across the city.

"Super Sunday" saw more more than 350,000 spectators watch free and ticketed events, including the marathon success of Australia's Michael Shelley who crossed the line to win the men's race with a personal-best time of two hours, 11 minutes and 15 seconds.

But for many UK viewers the star of the event was England's Steve Way, the 40-year-old who completed his transition from a 16-and-a-half stone smoker seven years ago to one of the world's top runners by taking 10th place.

Another undisputed star of the Games was Shetland schoolgirl Erraid Davies who at 13 stole Commonwealth hearts with bronze in the women's 100m breaststroke and lit up Tollcross International Swimming Centre with her smile.

There were reports that everyone was not quite as happy with the Games. Bolt denied he had slurred the competition to a Times journalist, going on to describe the event as "awesome" and thereby reassuring his army of fans.
Among them perhaps were the three security guards who were reportedly removed from their duties after taking a "selfie" with the charismatic sprinter.

Not all the Glasgow 2014 action remained within sporting arenas, with Australian weightlifter Francois Etoundi making a contrite appearance before a sheriff on Thursday.
Etoundi was ordered to pay £400 compensation to Welsh weightlifter Gareth Evans after he admitted headbutting him in the athletes' village earlier in the week.

Back to sport, and there were golds for London 2012 hero Tom Daley in the diving and in the boxing ring Nicola Adams claimed the first women's boxing gold in Commonwealth Games history.
The final evening of the competition saw the BBC One Games audience peak as 8.4 million people tuned in to watch Jamaica take gold and England silver in the men's 4 x 100m relay.

Even the heavy rain - as forecast by Bolt - did not dampen the roar of the 40,000 Hampden crowd who watched with glee as the biggest name of the Games adopted a tartan scarf and danced along to The Proclaimers' anthem I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles).
The sprinter did have a rival for the affection of Games enthusiasts, in the form of a cuddly, purple-haired thistle named Clyde. More than 46,000 of the mascots have been bought since July.

Glasgow 2014 organisers can congratulate themselves on a successful Games if sports fans' biggest disappointment was not being able to get their hands on the now sell-out toy.





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