Glasgow 2014: Your guide to every Commonwealth Games sport
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Are you baffled by the full-bore rifle events? Don't know jack about lawn bowls? Here's your essential need-to-know guide to each sport at the Commonwealth Games.
Track and field makes up nearly a fifth of the gold-medal events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. |
Shuttlecocks can travel faster than a Formula 1 car - and they are much more environmentally friendly |
The Home Nations will be packing a punch in boxing and there will be 13 gold medals up for grabs in Glasgow |
Find out more about the only sport at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where a knight of the realm is competing |
The sport is a balletic blur of twists and turns, with divers hitting the water at speeds of up to 35mph |
Bars, beams, balls - it's the sport that has it all, with ribbons on |
Australia have dominated Commonwealth hockey - and their men and women will be the teams to beat once again in Glasgow |
The sport whose name translates as "the gentle way" is back on the Commonwealth Games schedule for the first time since 2002 |
If you think lawn balls is sedate and a little dull, you don't know jack |
The world's best netball teams are always at the Commonwealth Games so this is the title they all want to win |
Rugby sevens was invented less than two hours' drive from Glasgow |
Scotland's Jen McIntosh and England's Mick Gault have Commonwealth records in their sights in Carnoustie |
There's no hiding place in the glass box where players can burn up to 1,000 calories an hour |
Australia won half of the gold medals on offer in Delhi - but the Home Nations are ready to make a golden splash of their own in Glasgow |
A sport which is said to have helped bring about the end of the Cold War - now Singapore have got their eyes on Commonwealth domination |
Triathlon's popularity is on the rise so no surprise it's back on the schedule after an eight-year gap |
Lifting two or three times their bodyweight is par for the course for elite weightlifters and powerlifters |
A sport of the ancient gods played by some very tough modern athletes |