Aimee Lewis
BBC Sport at the opening ceremony in Glasgow

The Welsh team walks in and the music being played is Push the Feeling On by Nightcrawlers?! Madness. Scotland - we gave you Tom Jones!

Here come the hosts...

Huw Edwards
BBC News presenter on BBC One:

"I feel this is a very big moment tonight. I know there is a bigger cheer to come but I'm feeling good about Welsh prospects here at Glasgow."

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Welsh cyclist Elinor Barker has already tasted gold in 2014 as part of the Great Britain side that won gold in team pursuit at the World Track Cycling Championships in February and the 19-year-old is a a big medal hope for her country in Glasgow.

As is swimmer Jazz Carlin, who will be chasing three in the women's freestyle at 200m, 400m and 800m. She is bidding to be the first gold medal-winning Welsh female swimmer in 40 years.

Current world number one flyweight Andrew Selby is a huge medal prospect for Wales. He may have missed out on a medal at London 2012, but he has the class to put that right in Glasgow.

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This is quite a moment for Frankie Jones, given that the Welsh flag bearer had to learn to walk again after undergoing hip surgery following the London Olympics.

That, in part, has contributed to the rhythmic gymnast's decision to retire after Glasgow at the age of just 23 but she will leave the sport with plenty of memories. This is her third Commonwealth Games for Wales, having finished 12th overall in Melbourne in 2006, then won silver in Delhi four years later in the hoop discipline.

Not bad for someone who was born and raised in Northamptonshire but qualifies through her family ties to Neath.

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Wales are looking pretty slick. Smart suits with classy patriotic red touches.

Aimee Lewis
BBC Sport at the opening ceremony in Glasgow

"The rows next to me have woken from their mid-parade slumber now the European regions are walking in. The gentleman who gave out a big old yawn not five minutes ago is now moving his head from side to side to some Technotronic. Another gentleman, in tartan trousers, is watching the Maltese team's arrival through a pair of binoculars. The Scottish team should prepare to be hit by a wall of sound."

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Northern Ireland's medal hopes are led by 2010 light-flyweight boxing champion Paddy Barnes, who also won bronze medals at both the Beijing and London Olympics and opted to stay amateur in order to defend his Commonwealth crown in Glasgow.

David Calvert is making a record 10th appearance in the Games, having first competed in in Edmonton in 1978. He is Northern Ireland's most successful competitor with four gold and four bronze medals in the Full Bore Rifle singles and pairs events.

Pole vaulter Zoe Brown comes into these Games in red-hot form having recently broken the Northern Irish record. Her clearance of 4.45m is the second best by a Commonwealth Games competitor this year.

Hazel Irvine
BBC Sport presenter on BBC One:

"It has been a great week for Northern Ireland. Rory McIlroy wins the Claret Jug at the Open and they have brought their biggest team ever here to Glasgow."

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The man parading the Northern Ireland flag is cyclist Martyn Irvine. The 29-year-old from Newtownards won gold in the scratch race at last year's World Track Championships and a bronze in the team pursuit at the last Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Irvine is expected to take part in four events in Glasgow but he clearly did not expect the honour, saying: "There are a lot of other athletes in the team with bigger CVs."

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Northern Ireland are out. Green blazers, murky chinos and some big aviator shades for some. Strong.

Guernsey emerge to Aphex Twin's Window Licker. Small team, big tune.

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Team Scotland tweets:, external We've been waiting years for this - Bring it on! #Glasgow2014

Athletes from three British Isles crown dependencies are making a rare sporting appearance in their own colours. Shooters Steve Le Couilliard and Tim Kneale are carrying the flags of Jersey and Isle of Man respectively, while squash player Chris Simpson is the man leading Guernsey around Celtic Park.

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Hazel Irvine
BBC Sport presenter on BBC One:

"Some very familiar names from London 2012 in the England team, still going strong, like Nicola Adams, David Weir, Bradley Wiggins, Mo Farah, Greg Rutherford, the list goes on and on. Sir Bradley will be back on the track for the first time since Beijing."

John Murray
BBC Radio 5 live commentator

"Don't you think England would have been better with pinstripes and bowler hats? I think I could have come up with a better uniform idea in two minutes."

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We have trawled the video archives and throughout Glasgow 2014 will recall some of the moments from the history of the Commonwealth Games that rocked the world.

At the 2010 Games in Delhi England's Tom Daley scored seven perfect 10s on his way to a diving gold.

The 16-year-old went on to win the 10m platform title in Delhi with a narrow victory over Australian Olympic champion Matthew Mitcham to add to his earlier gold in the 10m synchro. Two years later, Daley took bronze in the Olympic 10m final at London 2012.

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The Tour de France's loss is the Commonwealth Games' gain as Bradley Wiggins returns to track cycling in the men's team pursuit along with the likes of Ed Clancy and Steven Burke, who won gold at London 2012.

For a long time it looked as though Glasgow would be deprived of the chance to see Mo Farah in action, but the double Olympic champion is in Scotland and raring to go. Farah is aiming to become the first person ever to achieve the 5,000m and 10,000m double at the European and World Championships, along with the Olympic and Commonwealth Games.

England's hopes in the diving are led by Olympic medallist Tom Daley, who will be hoping to make a metaphorical splash in the men's 10m platform and synchronised 10m platform.

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The man wafting the Cross of St George is three-time world squash champion Nick Matthew.

A double gold-medal winner at Delhi the Delhi Commonwealth Games four years ago, the 33-year-old was voted for by his England team-mates.

The Sheffield native is the second Yorkshire athlete to carry the flag after Karen Briggs, a judoka from Hull, did so in the Auckland Games 24 years ago.

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England come out and they got a hearty cheer from the Glasgow crowd. Extraordinary times indeed.