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Day in a sentence: Shooting's teenage maestro Amber Hill takes aim, while Ross Murdoch and Michael Jamieson head a big day in the pool.
Also in action: Joanna Rowsell (Eng), Jason Kenny (Eng), Martyn Irvine (NI), Chad Le Clos (SA), Fran Halsall (Eng), Jemma Lowe (Wal), Sally Conway (Sco).
Gold medals won today: 22. Cycling - track (men's sprint, individual pursuit and Para-sport 1,000m time trial B tandem, women's individual pursuit), gymnastics (rhythmic individual all-around), judo (men's -73kg and -81kg, women's -63kg and -70kg), shooting (men's 10m air rifle, women's skeet and 10m air pistol), swimming (men's 200m free, 100m back, 50m fly, 400m medley and 4x100m free relay, women's 50m breast, 100m fly and Para-sport 100m S8 free), weightlifting (women's 53kg, men's 62kg).
Highlights include:
08:45 - Shooting: England's Amber Hill, who won the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award in 2013, competes in the women's skeet.
Hill, now 17, won a senior World Cup event aged just 15 and has already equalled world records in her sport. Major shooting events are rarely staged in the UK, so the Commonwealth Games will be one of Hill's biggest tournaments ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics.
"I know a lot of people will be watching me and there will be high expectations of me, but I think that's a good thing," said Hill last month. "I am sure there will be a few nerves but nerves can push you on. I am just really happy to be representing England."
11:00 - Track cycling: World champion Joanna Rowsell will be the favourite for England in the women's individual pursuit, though Canada and Australia will be well represented and Scotland's Katie Archibald has a strong shot at a medal, as does Elinor Barker for Wales.
19:00 - Swimming: Another chance to see Michael Jamieson, in the men's 100m breaststroke semi-finals, is followed by a succession of major finals and a real opportunity for Australian swimmers to make their mark on the Glasgow Games.
The men's 100m backstroke features Mitchell Larkin and Ben Treffers, both in the world's top 10, with England's Chris Walker-Hebborn hoping to reach the podium. The women's 50m breaststroke - dominated internationally by Devon-trained Lithuanian Ruta Meilutyte - will be a chance for Jamaica's Alia Atkinson to shine. Atkinson, 25, was one of just three non-track-and-field athletes in her country's 50-strong squad for London 2012. She faces Australia's Leiston Pickett and England's Sophie Taylor.
Few will be able to look past Australia for the men's 4x100m freestyle relay, while their swimmers are also the favourites on paper for the men's 200m freestyle, though defending Commonwealth champion Robbie Renwick returns for Scotland. Alicia Coutts and Madeline Groves form a formidable Aussie duo in the women's 100m butterfly, which should also feature Fran Halsall for England and Jemma Lowe for Wales.
Also: Badminton (team event, group stage), boxing (men's preliminaries), hockey (09:00 India men v Wales, 11:00 South Africa men v Scotland, 14:00 Australia women v Wales, 16:00 Scotland women v Malaysia, and other group stage matches), lawn bowls (preliminary rounds, Para-sport mixed pairs B2/B3 semi-finals), netball (11:30 England v Wales, 17:00 Scotland v Saint Lucia, 19:00 Jamaica v Northern Ireland, and other group stage matches), squash (singles round of 16), table tennis (team qualifying round and classification).
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Michaela Breeze qualified for Glasgow after a record-breaking 93kg lift in the Welsh Championships Gold medals won today: 29. Cycling - track (men's 1,000m time trial, points race and Para-sport sprint B tandem, women's scratch race), gymnastics (rhythmic apparatus finals), judo (men's -90kg, -100kg and +100kg, women's -78kg and +78kg), lawn bowls (Para-sport mixed pairs B2/B3), shooting (men's skeet and 10m air pistol, women's 10m air rifle and 25m pistol, Queen's prize pairs), swimming (men's 100m breast, 200m fly and Para-sport 200m S14 free, women's 50m free, 100m back, 200m breast and 4x200m free relay), triathlon (team relay), weightlifting (women's 58kg, men's 69kg).
Day in a sentence: An Ashes showdown, husband-and-wife home nations drama and team triathlon makes its debut.
Highlights include:
09:30 - Netball: On 20 January 2013, a packed house at the University of Bath saw England beat Australia at netball for only the third time in history. By the end of the month, England had completed an unprecedented 3-0 series whitewash and the stage was set.
Australia remain the world's number one netball nation, but New Zealand and England are close behind and the English team spent much of May touring Australia and playing the country's state teams in preparation for the Commonwealth Games.
The absence of England captain Pamela Cookey through injury may prove a big factor, though, despite her insisting "the team can definitely win a medal in Glasgow".
England meet Australia in their second group game.
12:30 - Triathlon: The mixed relay makes its Commonwealth Games debut in Strathclyde Country Park, featuring national teams of two men and two women in a quick-fire swim-bike-run format, handing over to the next team-mate once they finish their own mini-triathlon.
The mixed-gender format leads to some exciting match-ups, for example pitting top Welsh women against England's Brownlee brothers. Andrea Hewitt led a strong New Zealand team to second place behind Germany at the last mixed relay world championships, with the same quartet named in the Kiwi squad for the Commonwealth Games. Australia and Canada are also expected to challenge.
15:30 - Weightlifting: England's Zoe Smith, the 5ft 2in winner of Commonwealth weightlifting bronze in Delhi four years ago, returns to competition in Glasgow having almost quit the sport following a series of injuries last year. Smith faces Welsh Commonwealth legend Michaela Breeze in the women's 58kg category on Saturday. Breeze, 35, won gold in both 2002 and 2006 but finished as the silver medallist in the heavier 63kg class four years ago. Welsh team-mate Christie Williams, in the same class, is trained by Breeze and goes up against her mentor.
16:00 - Track cycling: Think of cyclists from the Isle of Man and Mark Cavendish may come to mind first, but Manx team-mate Jonny Bellis hopes to complete a remarkable recovery by contesting the men's points race in Glasgow on Saturday.
Bellis, 25, spent a month in a coma after being knocked from a scooter while training abroad in 2009. Doctors feared he would be paralysed - he suffered a stroke and his weight plummeted. Yet, 10 months after the crash, he took his first tentative ride back on a bike.
He made his pro cycling comeback in 2010, but recently told the BBC he has taken the last few years to find his competitive edge again. Now, he believes he is back in the right place. "I'm not saying I'm going to get a big result in Glasgow," he said, "but I'll go there in the best possible physical shape and do everything I can to get my name back out there. Who knows what might come afterwards?"
Northern Ireland's Martyn Irvine is also expected to take part in the points race, though Sunday's scratch race - in which Irvine won the 2013 world title and silver a year later - is his preferred track event.
18:00 - Judo: Glasgow marks the return of judo to the Commonwealth Games schedule for the first time in 12 years and Saturday sees two of the biggest British names in action.
Euan Burton has been a fixture for the past decade and Glasgow 2014 will be the Scot's swansong, competing in the men's -100kg category. He also serves as a coach for the Scottish team.
Burton's wife, Gemma Gibbons, also fights on Saturday for England in the women's -78kg event. Gibbons won a memorable silver medal at London 2012 and married Burton a year later - this will be the first time since they met that the two have competed for their respective home nations rather than GB.
"I'll still be cheering on my wife, though, as will my family," Burton told the Daily Record. "They'll have saltires and St George's cross flags. Although my nana wasn't so sure at first. Gemma asked if she'd be supporting her at the Games and nana said 'of course, hen'. But when Gemma told her she'd be fighting for England, she said 'oh, I don't know about that, then'."
19:00 - Swimming: South Africa's Chad le Clos lines up in the men's 200m butterfly, the event in which he won Commonwealth gold four years ago and then a memorable Olympic title at London 2012 - made all the merrier by his father Bert's overjoyed reaction. Le Clos is the year's world-leading athlete over the distance and hot favourite to successfully defend his title.
In the women's 50m freestyle, Australia's Cate Campbell and England's Fran Halsall will duel for gold. They were the two fastest swimmers in the heats at last year's world championships, eventually taking silver and bronze respectively behind the Netherlands' Ranomi Kromowidjojo. The 200m breaststroke could be a chance for Sycerika McMahon to win Northern Ireland's first-ever Commonwealth Games swimming medal.
Also: Badminton (team quarter-finals), boxing (men's preliminaries), hockey (14:00 Australia men v Wales, 16:00 India men v Scotland, and other group stage matches), netball (09:30 Australia v England, 11:30 Scotland v New Zealand, 19:00 Wales v Trinidad and Tobago, and other group stage matches), rugby sevens (all preliminary matches), squash (singles quarter-finals), table tennis (team quarter-finals and women's semi-finals).
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John Kelai will be hoping to defend his marathon title Gold medals won today: 24. Athletics (men's and women's marathons, men's 5,000m, women's Para-sport long jump T37/38), cycling - track (men's keirin and scratch race, women's sprint, points race and Para-sport 1,000m time trial B tandem), lawn bowls (women's singles and fours), rugby sevens, shooting (men's and women's double trap events), swimming (men's 100m free, 50m back and 4x200m free relay, women's 200m back, 50m fly, 200m medley and Para-sport 100m SB9 breast), table tennis (women's team), weightlifting (women's 63kg, men's 77kg).
Day in a sentence: Athletics begins at the Games.
Highlights include:
09:00 - Marathon: Glasgow's marathon route involves two laps through Merchant City, George Square and Buchanan Street as well as Bellahouston and Pollok Park, crossing the River Clyde four times.
Speaking of routes, Steve Way's unlikely path to the England marathon team has attracted considerable attention in the run-up to the Games. He weighed more than 16 stone and was smoking 20 cigarettes a day when he decided to change his lifestyle in 2007. "At that point, half our meals were takeaways. I realised I had to do something radically different," he told the Guardian.
Now, 40-year-old Way runs up to 140 miles in training each week around his day job in a bank and will line up alongside team-mates Ben Moreau and Nicholas Torry for the men's race. Kenya, who enjoyed a highly successful Delhi Games four years ago - winning 33 medals, 12 of them gold - will expect more joy in this year's marathon, an event in which the nation rarely misses the podium. John Kelai, who won the Delhi men's marathon in 2010, will be defending his title.
Lee Merrien , who raced for Team GB at London 2012 and had been hoping to compete for Guernsey in the Glasgow marathon, has pulled out with a stress fracture.
11:00 - Lawn bowls: Sunday sees the final of the women's singles, won by England's Natalie Melmore at the Delhi Games four years ago. Melmore, who turns 25 the day after the 2014 final, is back in action for England, as is Val Smith, the New Zealander she beat in Delhi.
Karen Murphy, considered one of the world's greatest bowlers by Melmore, returns to the Australia team having been controversially overlooked in 2010.
14:30 - Athletics: The 5,000m is one of the highlights on the first day of action but it will not feature double Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah after he pulled out because of injury.
The fastest men in the world get their campaign underway with England's Harry Aikines-Aryeety, Richard Kilty and Adam Gemili in action in the 100m.
17:15 - Rugby sevens: Sevens has been in the Commonwealth Games since 1998, but this year's tournament is all the more important as the sport will be in the Olympic programme for Rio 2016. Glasgow will be a big test of the leading Commonwealth nations' preparations so far.
New Zealand must start as clear favourites - they have won all four Commonwealth sevens tournaments to date and are champions of the past four World Series. Few would dare bet against the All Blacks, especially with Fiji, serious contender on the sevens circuit, out of the running. Fiji were only reinstated to the Commonwealth earlier this year after a full suspension relating to a military coup and, by that point, they were too late to qualify a team.
South Africa should give New Zealand a run for their money, while England - losing finalists at Melbourne 2006 - are rarely outside the world's top four. This will be the culmination of new coach Simon Amor's first full season in charge.
Also: Badminton (team semi-finals), boxing (men's preliminaries), hockey (09:00 Scotland women v Australia, 11:00 England women v Malaysia, 21:00 Malaysia men v England, and other group stage matches), netball (09:30 Jamaica v Scotland, 17:00 England v South Africa, 19:00 Northern Ireland v New Zealand, and other group stage matches), squash (singles semi-finals).
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Gold medals won today: 27. Athletics (men's 100m, shot put, Para-sport 100m T37 and Para-sport discus F42/44; women's 100m, hammer throw and Para-sport 100m T12), badminton (mixed team event), lawn bowls (men's pairs and triples), shooting (men's 50m pistol and 50m rifle prone events, women's trap and 50m rifle prone events), squash (men's and women's singles), swimming (men's 200m back, 50m breast, 100m fly and Para-sport 200m SM8 medley, women's 800m free, 100m free, 100m breast and 200m fly), table tennis (men's team), weightlifting (women's 69kg, men's 85kg).
Guernsey's Chris Simpson will be taking part in his fourth Commonwealth Games Day in a sentence: England expects in squash finals, Scotland hopes for badminton glory and men's 100m looks wide open in the absence of Yohan Blake and Usain Bolt.
Highlights include:
14:30 - Squash: The singles finals take place on Monday with England expected to dominate the men's event. World champion Nick Matthew and James Willstrop are the top two seeds, with Matthew looking to become the first man to retain a Commonwealth singles title. India's Saurav Ghosal is the top non-English entrant as the fourth seed.
Malaysia's Nicol David is the defending women's champion and will take part in her fifth Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. David has led the women's world rankings for eight years and is favourite for gold, but England's Laura Massaro won this year's women's world title and has high hopes as the second seed. "I want to finish my career by saying I squeezed everything out of it," Massaro told the Independent in May.
14:00 - Hockey: Australia's women face England in a group-stage clash which could set the tone for both nations' tournaments. Australia won both the men's and women's events at Delhi 2010, but the recent Hockey World Cup in the Netherlands is a better form guide: Australia were the top Commonwealth nation, losing to the Dutch in the women's final, while England's women finished a surprising 11th of 12 teams.
England coach Jason Lee paid the price in the aftermath of that tournament, parting company with the side in late June, leaving performance director Danny Kerry - himself the former women's coach - in emergency charge of the team for the Commonwealth Games. These are unusually turbulent times for a squad which helped GB win Olympic bronze at London 2012 on the back of a succession of major medals. England fell from third to sixth in the rankings after their poor World Cup.
Wales will face Scotland's women in the following match at 16:00 BST. Scotland's women avoided relegation from the top tier of European hockey with a vital win over Ireland last year and are widely seen as an improving side featuring the likes of Great Britain star Emily Maguire. Scotland are ranked 16th in the world heading into Glasgow 2014 while Wales, comparative minnows, are ranked 32nd.
15:00 - Badminton: Badminton's team final precedes the individual events at Glasgow 2014, offering fans the chance to see a best-of-five format featuring men's and women's singles and doubles plus mixed doubles.
Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore are the leading Commonwealth nations, with India and England not far behind - the absence of Malaysian world number one Lee Chong Wei, who is injured, may give rivals a little more hope.
Hosts Scotland have a strong entry led by Imogen Bankier and Robert Blair , while their mixed doubles rivals Chris and Gabby Adcock are expected to form the backbone of the England line-up alongside leading men's singles player Rajiv Ouseph.
18:30 - Boxing: Women's boxing makes its Commonwealth Games debut and England's Olympic champion Nicola Adams remains the star attraction as the world number one at flyweight. Team-mate Natasha Jona s has dropped down to lightweight, where Alanna Murphy is Northern Ireland's entrant, having recently become the first woman ever to face Olympic superstar Katie Taylor for an Irish national title - previously, Taylor had simply been handed belts through a lack of opposition.
Savannah Marshall, the 2012 world champion, fights for England at middleweight having come through shoulder surgery during the winter - she'll face the likes of Canadian two-time world champion Ariane Fortin. India have left out legendary boxer Mary Kom, the once-invincible fighter beaten by Adams en route to 2012 women's flyweight gold, in favour of Pinki Jangra.
19:00 - Athletics: If you're expecting to see six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt in the men's 100m final at Glasgow 2014, you'll be disappointed. The Jamaican track legend and six-time Olympic champion is expected to feature only in the 4x100m relay event (held on 1 and 2 August). Team-mate Yohan Blake will miss the Commonwealth Games entirely, leaving Nickel Ashmeade, Jason Livermore and Kemar Bailey-Cole flying the Jamaican flag in the 100m.
Adam Gemili, Richard Kilty and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey are the English entrants for this event, with neither James Dasaolu nor Chijindu Ujah - who recently became the third British male to run sub-10 seconds - performing well enough during the qualifying period to be selected. There will be no Scottish or Welsh participants.
Visually impaired Northern Irish sprinter Jason Smyth has been selected to race in the 100m despite struggling with injury and failing to meet the qualification time. Aled Davies, captain of the Welsh team for Glasgow 2014, competes in the Para-sport discus F42 event with Daniel Greaves representing England. Scotland's Libby Clegg, twice a Paralympic silver medallist, races in the women's T12 100m.
19:00 - Swimming: London-born Ellen Gandy was a silver medallist for Britain in the 200m butterfly at the 2011 World Championships - now, in 2014, she will swim for Australia at the Commonwealth Games. Gandy, who spent years training in Australia leading up to London 2012, said: "I just felt Australian. Had the Olympics not been in London, I might have considered changing before."
Gandy is now the favourite to win the 200m fly in Glasgow, with former team-mate Jemma Lowe, for Wales, leading the home nations' hopes. Meanwhile, England's Ollie Hynd looks for gold in the Para-sport 200m SM8 individual medley, in which he won the Paralympic title at London 2012, and Wales' Jazz Carlin goes head-to-head with Australia's Jessica Ashwood in the women's 800m freestyle.
Also: Boxing (preliminaries), gymnastics (artistic qualifying), hockey (11:00 Scotland men v Wales, 14:00 Australia women v England, 16:00 Wales women v Scotland, and other group stage matches), netball (09:30 Wales v Barbados, 17:00 Northern Ireland v Saint Lucia, and other group stage matches), shooting (men's 50m pistol and 50m rifle prone, women's trap and 50m rifle prone).
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David Calvert will be attending his 10th Commonwealth Games, having first competed at Edmonton 1978 Gold medals won today: Athletics (men's 110m hurdles, hammer throw and decathlon, women's 400m, 1500m, 10,000m and triple jump), cycling (men's and women's mountain bike events), gymnastics (men's and women's artistic team events), shooting (men's trap, 25m rapid fire pistol and 50m rifle three positions, women's 50m rifle three positions, Queen's Prize), swimming (men's 50m free, 1500m free, 200m medley, 4x100m medley relay, women's 400m free, 50m back, 4x100m medley relay and Para-sport 200m SM10 medley), weightlifting (women's 75kg, men's 94kg), wrestling (men's 57kg, 94kg and 125kg, women's 48kg and 75kg).
Day in a sentence: Mountain bikers take to the trails as Britain's leading gymnasts clash.
Highlights include:
12:45 - Shooting: Tuesday marks the climax of the Commonwealth shooting event with the individual Queen's Prize, a full bore target rifle event unique to the Games: competitors fire at targets across a range of distances in an event supposedly inaugurated by Queen Victoria who, in 1860, offered a £250 purse to the winner of the first such tournament.
Northern Irish full bore shooter David Calvert returns to the Commonwealth Games for a 10th time as part of the team for Glasgow, having won four gold and four bronze medals since his debut at the Edmonton Games of 1978.
11:30 - Mountain bike: Canada's Catharine Pendrel is a former world champion and will start among the favourites in the women's cross-country event on the new Cathkin Braes mountain bike trails, to the south of Glasgow.
Mountain biking returns to the Games having been dropped in Delhi four years ago. Since its debut on the programme in 2002, Canadians have won three of the four available gold medals, a run interrupted only by England's Liam Killeen in the 2006 men's race. In 2014, there is no Killeen but London Olympian Annie Last will be one of England's leading contenders.
This year, the Western Isles' Kerry Macphee will race for Scotland in the women's event having transferred from triathlon in a scheme designed to maximise Scottish medal potential, while Kenta Gallagher is one to watch for the hosts in the men's race.
Gallagher elected to ride for Scotland despite having the option of competing for England: "I've lived in Scotland all my life and all my friends are Scottish. I don't think they'd approve if I turn up for a Commonwealth Games in Scotland wearing a St George's cross on my back," he said in 2012.
16:30 - Artistic gymnastics: Both team finals promise to deliver one of the biggest home-nations battles of the Games, particularly a men's event which splits Great Britain - one of the world's leading teams - into England and Scotland.
London 2012 silver medallist Louis Smith, overlooked by GB for this year's European Championships, has nevertheless secured selection to the English team for Glasgow 2014 having mounted a high-profile nine-month comeback to gymnastics. While Smith is a pommel horse specialist, team-mates Kristian Thomas, Sam Oldham and Max Whitlock will be England's big hitters on all six apparatus in the team event.
For Scotland, Dan Purvis and Daniel Keatings are the stars of the show: both have won world medals in the past and Purvis was part of GB's bronze medal-winning team at London 2012. They are joined by Frank Baines, a former European junior all-around champion who represents Scotland's next generation at the age of 19.
In the women's team event, England can call on the considerable world-class experience of Rebecca Downie and Hannah Whelan, alongside exciting younger talents such as Ruby Harrold and Claudia Fragapane. Raer Theaker leads a young Welsh team while India McPeak, who competed in her first world championships for Ireland last year, is on the Northern Ireland team. Canada and Australia will both field strong women's squads led by Victoria Moors and Lauren Mitchell respectively.
19:00 - Swimming: The last night of swimming action features the two 4x100m medley relays alongside the women's 400m freestyle, which may be another chance for Wales' Jazz Carlin to impress. Australia's Bronte Barratt has been Carlin's closest rival over this distance so far in 2014.
The longest men's event on the programme, the 1500m freestyle, is a chance to see 18-year-old Mack Horton , billed as the leading light of Australia's next generation of swimming talent. England's Daniel Fogg is tasked with stopping him, while London 2012 silver medallist Ryan Cochrane will be defending the Commonwealth title he won for Canada at Delhi 2010.
19:30 - Weightlifting: The men's 94kg category pits England's Sonny Webster and Owen Boxall against Scotland's Peter Kirkbride. Kirkbride, 26, competed at London 2012 despite suffering a torn biceps muscle mid-event, while Boxall is the current British champion. Faavae Faauliuli, the Samoan who narrowly beat Kirkbride to Commonwealth gold in India four years ago, will be back to defend his title in Glasgow.
The women's 75kg class features England's Mercy Brown, who broke eight British records when she earned her qualification for Glasgow 2014 at the British Student Championships in March. Brown faces tough competition from Canada's top female weightlifter, Marie-Eve Beauchemin-Nadeau, who won silver in the event at Delhi 2010.
Nigeria will be the nation to watch in the weightlifting tournament as a whole - their lifters picked up four gold medals at the Delhi Games and the team's coach has vowed to double that figure in Glasgow.
Also: Badminton (singles and doubles preliminaries), boxing (men's quarter-finals), hockey (09:00 New Zealand men v England, 16:00 Wales men v South Africa, and other group stage matches), lawn bowls (preliminary rounds), netball (09:30 England v Trinidad and Tobago, 17:00 South Africa v Wales, 19:00 Malawi v Scotland, and other group stage matches), squash (doubles pools), table tennis (singles qualifying round).
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Sarah Barrow and Tonia Couch are England's leading contenders in the 10m synchro diving Gold medals won today: 19. Athletics (men's 400m, high jump and long jump, women's 3,000m steeplechase, shot put, javelin and heptathlon), diving (women's 3m synchro and 10m synchro, men's 1m), gymnastics (men's and women's artistic all-around events), weightlifting (women's +75k, men's 105kg), wrestling (men's 61kg and 97kg, women's 53kg, 58kg and 69kg).
Day in a sentence: Hockey hots up and Delhi divers defend their titles.
Highlights include:
09:00 - Hockey: A clash between Scotland's women and England starts the day, and much could potentially ride on the outcome: this is the final group game for both teams, who to finish in the top two of a section which also includes an in-form Australian team. Wales play Malaysia in the following game.
Scotland and England have been kept apart in the men's tournament, where the group stage finishes a day later with the Commonwealth hosts against Australia and England against Canada. Scotland's men will need to get past Australia and India to reach the semi-finals, but Scotland captain Chris Grassick has been drawing inspiration from the World Cup run of the Costa Rican football team.
10:00 - Diving: The opening final of the 2014 diving programme is the women's 10m platform synchro, closely followed by the women's 3m springboard synchro. Canada's divers lead the world rankings among Commonwealth nations in each discipline, but Australia's Melissa Wu will look to defend her 10m synchro title from Delhi 2010 with new partner Rachel Bugg, who replaces Alex Croak.
Canadian chef de mission Chantal Petitclerc has billed the nation's divers as "the team to beat" in Glasgow - they feature double 2010 champion Jennifer Abel in the 3m synchro alongside Pamela Ware.
Malaysia's coach, meanwhile, believes his divers can better their Delhi medal total of four - their best ever - and reach the podium in even greater numbers this year.
Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow , who finished fourth at Delhi 2010 and fifth at London 2012, are England's (and the home nations') leading contenders in the 10m synchro event, with Rebecca Gallantree and Alicia Blagg challenging in the 3m. Victoria Vincent, the 13-year-old late addition to the England diving team after rules over the Games' lower age limit were clarified, is set to compete in Thursday's 10m individual event.
16:30 - Wrestling: Five gold medals can be won on the second of three days of wrestling at Glasgow 2014, featuring three women's weight categories - 51kg, 59kg and 67kg - alongside two for men, 60kg and 97kg.
Wrestling at Glasgow 2014 is freestyle, one of the two Olympic disciplines (the other being Greco-Roman, which is not being held here). Indian wrestlers won 10 of the 21 available titles at Delhi 2010 and will hope to be similarly dominant in Glasgow. India have reportedly set an ambitious overall target of 125 medals at these Games.
Leon Rattigan, who won bronze in the men's 97kg category in 2010, returns to the English team alongside wife Yana and competes on Wednesday.
19:00 - Athletics: The men's 400m sees Grenada's Kirani James - the Olympic champion - set to face bronze medallist Lalonde Gordon of Trinidad and Tobago. Martyn Rooney races for England.
Also: Badminton (singles and doubles preliminaries), boxing (quarter-finals), hockey (09:00 Scotland women v England, 11:00 Malaysia women v Wales, and other group stage matches), lawn bowls (Para-sport open triples B6/B7/B8 semi-finals), netball (17:00 Scotland v Northern Ireland, 19:00 Barbados v England, and other group stage matches), squash (doubles pools), table tennis (singles and doubles preliminaries).
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Paralympic and world champion Aled Davies will skipper Wales at the Games Gold medals won today: 25. Athletics (men's 200m, 800m, 400m hurdles, discus and Para-sport 1500m T54, women's 200m, 400m hurdles, long jump and Para-sport 1500m T54), cycling - road (men's and women's time trials), diving (men's 3m, women's 10m), gymnastics (artistic apparatus - men's floor, pommel horse and rings, women's vault and uneven bars), lawn bowls (Para-sport open triples B6/B7/B8, women's triples), weightlifting (men's +105kg), wrestling (men's 65kg and 86kg, women's 55kg and 63kg).
Day in a sentence: Louis Smith gets back on the horse as the Commonwealth's cyclists tackle the time trials.
Highlights include:
10:00 - Cycling time trials: The Commonwealth's fastest road cyclists hit the time trial circuit - 40km for men, 30km for women - taking in Glasgow's East End as well as the countryside of East Dunbartonshire and North Lanarkshire.
Sir Bradley Wiggins will be considered favourite for men's time trial gold, with English team-mate Alex Dowsett winning silver in the same event at Delhi 2010. Australia's strong road team includes national time trial champion Michael Hepburn, while defending Commonwealth champion David Millar is included in the Scotland line-up. Svein Tuft, a world silver medallist in 2006, was a late call-up to the Canadian team.
In the women's time trial, New Zealand's Linda Villumsen looks a strong prospect, having won silver in Delhi and medals at world level for each of the past five years, though time trial success depends on how the Glasgow course suits each individual rider.
Northern Ireland's Wendy Houvenaghel, three times a world champion on the track and now back working as a dentist at the age of 39, will be on the time trial start line alongside England's Emma Pooley , who is one of the pre-race favourites and the new British national champion. Scotland will be represented by rising talent Katie Archibald.
15:00 - Artistic gymnastics: Thursday sees the start of gymnastics' individual apparatus finals, the day's highlight being the men's pommel horse, expected to star England's Louis Smith. The 25-year-old won Britain's first individual Olympic gymnastics medal in a century on the pommel horse at Beijing 2008, upgrading that bronze to silver at London 2012. Having initially stepped away from the sport to focus on a TV career after the Games, Smith announced a comeback in late 2013 and is now in the England team for Glasgow.
Team-mate Max Whitlock, the world silver medallist, is likely to form his strongest rival, while Scotland's Dan Keatings has twice won the European pommel horse title. Australia's Prashanth Sellathurai, the Delhi Commonwealth champion and a finalist alongside Whitlock at last year's Worlds, has not been selected.
19:00 - Athletics: Dai Greene defends his 400m hurdles titles on behalf of Wales, with Trinidad and Tobago's world champion Jehue Gordon also set to feature. Greene, 28, defeated Gordon in early July having spent most of the past year on the sidelines following a succession of hernia operations.
Six-time Paralympic champion David Weir leads an eight-strong Para-sport squad within the English athletics team and will compete in Thursday's 1500m T54 with team-mate Will Smith. Shelly Woods, Jade Jones and Lauren Rowles represent England in the women's 1500m T54, alongside Meggan Dawson-Farrell and Samantha Kinghorn for Scotland.
Jamaica look set to dominate the men's 200m with Rasheed Dwyer and Warren Weir in form, though the presence of Anguilla's Zharnel Hughes will be of interest to British spectators: the 18-year-old will be eligible to run for Great Britain at Rio 2016 should he choose to do so and meet the selection criteria. An exciting talent, Hughes hit the radar with a victory over 100m at this year's Jamaican Championships, but will only feature in the 200m in Glasgow.
Nigerian superstar Blessing Okagbare , already a Diamond League champion this year as well as a 2013 world bronze medallist on the track, is a leading contender in the women's 200m. Also a successful long-jump competitor, the 25-year-old has suggested she will prioritise the sprints over her jumping in Glasgow. The Bahamas' Anthonique Strachan could be a challenger, while Jodie Williams is set to feature for England.
Also: Badminton (singles and doubles preliminaries), hockey (09:00 England men v Canada, 14:00 Australia men v Scotland, and other group stage matches plus women's classification matches), netball (classification matches), squash (women's doubles quarter-finals), table tennis (quarter-finals).
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Table tennis star Charlotte Carey represented Wales in the 2010 Commonwealth Games as a 14-year-old Gold medals won today: 20. Athletics (men's 3,000m steeplechase, 10,000m and pole vault, women's 800m, 100m hurdles, high jump and discus), diving (men's 3m synchro and 10m synchro, women's 1m), gymnastics (artistic apparatus - men's vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar, women's beam and floor), lawn bowls (men's singles and fours, women's pairs), table tennis (men's doubles and women's singles).
Day in a sentence: Sally Pearson and Singapore seek success.
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14:00 - Artistic gymnastics: The last day of gymnastics concludes with more apparatus finals, including the women's floor event, where two Canadians will hope to take a title won by England's Imogen Cairns in Delhi four years ago.
Ellie Black reached the world final for Canada in Antwerp last year, but team-mate Victoria Moors could shine with a unique "double double" - a double twisting double layout move now named after her in the sport's scoring system. Australia's Lauren Mitchell won silver in Delhi and could win another medal this year while, in the absence of Cairns, England will look to the likes of Hannah Whelan and Claudia Fragapane.
16:00 - Table tennis: Defending champion Feng Tianwei, of Singapore, is the favourite to win Friday's women's singles final. However, Singapore team officials have cautioned that India, Australia and Canada have all strengthened their squads in the intervening four years.
Among the home nations' hopes is Tin-Tin Ho, the youngest member of the England table tennis squad at 15 years of age, who was named after her sport (TT equates to "table tennis") by her ping pong-obsessed father, Charles. Along similar lines, her brother is named Ping. The Welsh squad for the women's singles includes 20-year-old twins Angharad and Megan Phillips.
On the men's side, a strong England squad includes Liam Pitchford and Paul Drinkhall alongside the experienced Andrew Baggaley, who won two gold medals in Manchester on the Commonwealth debut of table tennis in 2002. Drinkhall's wife, Joanna, will play in the women's tournament - they won mixed doubles bronze together in Delhi.
17:45 - Lawn bowls: The men's singles final caps the bowls tournament at Glasgow 2014 - an event won by Wales in 2010 courtesy of Rob Weale, who returns to the Commonwealth Games this year as part of a squad in which ages range from the mid-20s to early 70s.
Sam Tolchard , who topped his group in Delhi only to miss out in the semi-finals and lose the bronze medal play-off to Northern Ireland's Gary Kelly, is back in the England team for Glasgow. Kelly, meanwhile, has been replaced for 2014 by Martin McHugh.
19:00 - Athletics: Australian Olympic champion Sally Pearson says she will make a late decision on pairing up the 100m sprint with the hurdles at Glasgow 2014, but Friday's 100m hurdles is her speciality: the 27-year-old won gold in this race in both London and Delhi.
Fitness will be Pearson's issue. She has been nursing a sore hamstring this season and has yet to hit her best form, but she told Australia's ABC: "I know I have that competitive drive still in me to become a better athlete, a faster athlete and become Commonwealth Games champion."
Few in the Commonwealth are capable of matching Pearson even on a bad day. One of her closest rivals is England's Tiffany Porter, whose best time of the year - 12.71 seconds - is within range of Pearson's 12.59, set back in February.
In the absence of Mo Farah, Kenya look set for success in the men's 10,000m, with Canada's Cameron Levins the fastest in the world this year from any other Commonwealth nation.
Also: Badminton (singles and doubles quarter-finals), boxing (semi-finals), hockey (women's semi-finals), netball (classification matches), squash (women's doubles semi-finals).
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England's Tom Daley will fight to defend his 2010 Commonwealth title in the individual 10m platform event Gold medals won today: 33. Athletics (men's 4x100m, 4x400m, 1500m, triple jump and javelin, women's 4x100m, 4x400m, 5000m and pole vault), boxing (13 finals), diving (women's 3m, men's 10m), hockey (women's final), squash (women's doubles), table tennis (men's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles), Para-sport powerlifting (four disciplines).
Day in a sentence: Powerlifting and powerful punches ahead of Daley's dives and a night of relay racing.
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10:00 - Powerlifting: The entire Para-sport event of powerlifting takes place on Saturday, with four gold medals available. A formula which multiplies a competitor's bench press by a figure representing their bodyweight is used to decide the champions.
Natalie Blake and Ali Jawad will compete for England, while Afghanistan war veteran Micky Yule - injured by an improvised explosive device while serving in 2010 - represents Scotland. Yule, 35, has had more than 40 operations on his long path to recovery. He said: "It can be a bit daunting going through this rollercoaster with all the different operations. Having something like the Commonwealth Games to look forward to helps me get on with my life."
14:00 - Boxing: All 13 boxing titles are decided in two marathon Saturday sessions, including 10 men's events and - for the first time - three women's events. Only two of 10 finals went ahead without British participation in 2010 - resulting in gold medals for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - so expect some success here.
A strong Welsh squad for the men's events includes European champion Andrew Selby and defending Commonwealth bantamweight champion Sean McGoldrick. England's male squad features middleweight world bronze medallist Antony Fowler and two European bronze medallists in Charlie Edwards (flyweight) and Joe Joyce (super-heavyweight). Scottish fighters include Delhi lightweight silver medallist Josh Taylor and Lewis Benson, who came through a selection box-off for his welterweight place.
Northern Ireland's Paddy Barnes is one of his team's biggest medal hopes having won the light-flyweight title in 2010, alongside two Olympic bronze medals and a European gold. "Anything else than gold would be a massive disappointment," the Belfast 27-year-old said in early July. India's Devendro Singh should be among Barnes' challengers - Barnes beat the 22-year-old in the London 2012 quarter-finals.
Can Paddy Barnes retain his Commonwealth title for Northern Ireland? Pakistan's nine-man team for the Commonwealth Games have been training at British boxing star Amir Khan's facilities ahead of their contests. Their team, appropriately, includes another boxer named Amir Khan, fighting at light-welterweight. Australia's squad includes heavyweight Jai Opetaia, a cousin of Everton and Australia footballer Tim Cahill.
18:00 - Diving: Saturday's individual 10m platform contest is Tom Daley's signature event, and one he won at Delhi 2010 alongside the synchro gold. Then, he was the world champion with a home Olympic dream ahead of him; now he is the Olympic bronze medallist pushing on to Rio 2016.
In the absence of the sport's dominant Chinese competitors, England's Daley - now 20 - is the favourite. He must watch out for Australia's Matthew Mitcham, New Zealand's Li Feng Yang (who switched nationality when injury brought an early end to his career in China) and Canada's Maxim Bouchard. Bouchard, 23, suffered serious internal injuries when a platform collapsed underneath him at an event four years ago, but has recovered to make his first Commonwealth Games appearance.
Canada's Pamela Ware and Jennifer Abel lead the rankings in the day's other diving event, the women's 3m springboard, with Australia's Anabelle Smith and England's Hannah Starling also contenders. Grace Reid, who finished sixth aged just 14 in Delhi, competes for Scotland.
19:00 - Athletics: The final night of Commonwealth Games athletics includes the men's and women's 4x100m and 4x400m relays. England won the men's 4x100m gold in Delhi four years ago - Mark Lewis-Francis is the sole member of that team to reach Glasgow and he could be joined by Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and Richard Kilty, members of GB's bronze medal-winning team at this year's inaugural World Relays event.
Jason Smyth heads up the Northern Ireland 4x100m team, but Jamaica will start as favourites ahead of Trinidad and Tobago. This is set to be Usain Bolt's night at the Glasgow Games.
Jamaica are again the world-leading women's 100m relay quartet this year, with Veronica Campbell-Brown and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce among the athletes eligible to form their Glasgow team. England, though, won in Delhi with both Trinidad and Tobago and Nigeria on form at the World Relays in May. Wales will also be on the start line.
The Bahamas will have been buoyed by the way they ran the United States close for men's 4x400m gold at the World Relays, with Australia the defending Commonwealth champions ahead of Kenya in the men's race. India seem unlikely to keep the women's 4x400m title they won on home soil, leaving England in the reckoning along with Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Nigeria. Scottish teams are entered in both races.
Also: Badminton (semi-finals and bronze medal play-offs), netball (semi-finals).
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Scotland women's hockey team aim to beat their seventh-place finish at the 2010 Games in Delhi Gold medals won today: 11. Badminton (men's singles and doubles, women's singles and doubles, mixed doubles), cycling (men's and women's road races), hockey (men's final), netball, squash (men's doubles and mixed doubles).
Day in a sentence: The last remaining sports reach their climax ahead of the closing ceremony.
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08:30 - Cycling road race: If you go shopping in Glasgow on Sunday, be prepared for your day out to involve cyclists: the shops of Argyle Street and Buchanan Street will form the backdrop for parts of the men's and women's road races, which take on a 14km circuit starting at Glasgow Green.
Mark Cavendish had been a leading contender for men's road race gold, but a crash on the opening day of the Tour de France has ruled the Manxman out. That could leave Scotland's David Millar in the hunt for gold, given that he finished close behind Cavendish in last year's British Championships, held on a similar Glasgow course. Despite Cavendish's absence, the Isle of Man will still have British national road race champion in contention, while Team Sky's Geraint Thomas will sport his Welsh colours.
Many riders are unavailable for selection as a result of pro cycling commitments; for example, Australia will be lacking Cadel Evans, Richie Porte and Mick Rogers, but the likes of Mark Renshaw will still ride in Glasgow despite participating in the Tour de France.
England's Lizzie Armitstead won the women's equivalent of that race and will have riders such as Laura Trott riding in support of her at the Commonwealth Games. Scotland's Claire Thomas , meanwhile, broke her hip in June when her bike slipped on spilled diesel, but is determined to reach the Glasgow road race start line.
10:00 - Badminton: All five individual badminton events come to a close with the men's singles and doubles followed by the women's equivalent and, lastly, the mixed doubles.
England's Rajiv Ouseph lost to Lee Chong Wei in the Delhi 2010 men's singles final, but the Malaysian superstar is missing through injury this year. Will that open the door for Ouseph? He may have to get past India's Parupalli Kashyap and another Malaysian, Chong Wei Feng, both of whom are ahead in the world rankings. India's Saina Nehwal, a gold medallist on home soil at Delhi 2010, remains the women's singles favourite in Glasgow.
Mixed doubles could be the scene of a high-stakes clash between the home nations. English couple Chris and Gabby Adcock are the top-ranked pair in the event, but Scotland's Robert Blair and Imogen Bankier will be hot on their heels for the host nation.
12:30 - Hockey: The men's gold medal should, on paper, belong to Australia - the team ranked first in the world and winners of June's Hockey World Cup. However, highly regarded coach Ric Charlesworth has decided to step down before the Commonwealth Games with his team on top, and Australia's opponents will have to hope that has an impact on their form.
India's men have something to prove. Having lost to Australia in the 2010 Commonwealth final in front of a home crowd, the Indian team went to London 2012 but lost all five of their pool matches, finishing last in the tournament. New Zealand and England, who reached the World Cup semi-finals last month, will also have designs on getting to the final.
13:00 - Netball: Australia should, again, be a fixture in the netball final having won five of the past six world titles. Yet at Delhi 2010, an otherwise-unbeaten Australian team were upset 66-64 by New Zealand in the final.
Going by the world rankings, New Zealand may again reach the final in 2014 but Delhi bronze medallists England will want to get in the way, despite the absence of captain Pamela Cookey. Outsiders for medals on the final day will be Jamaica and Malawi, fourth and fifth respectively four years ago, a result that equalled the best world or Commonwealth performance in Malawi's history.
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