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The 17 sports of the Glasgow 2014 programme and the Scottish bodies that ran them, plus an A to Z of other activities.
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Ever fancied gymnastics? Or perhaps table tennis is more your thing? With 17 sports to choose from, you can get a taste of the Commonwealth
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Aquatics
Aquatics is a core sport of the Commonwealth Games, and two disciplines will feature on the Glasgow 2014 sports programme - Swimming and Diving.
Athletics
The Athletics disciplines of Track, Field and Marathon will feature across seven days of Glasgow 2014 competition
Badminton
Badminton is a contest of supreme skill, agility and precision, and we will be welcoming many of the best athletes in the world.
Boxing
Boxing is one of the most physically tough and demanding sports on the Games programme. It requires immense discipline, skill and dedication, coupled with rigorous physical and mental commitment.
Cycling
Cycling is well represented throughout the Commonwealth and the Glasgow 2014 programme involves the disciplines of Mountain Bike, Road and Track, promising an exciting mix of speed, strength, endurance and tactics in this adrenaline-packed sport.
Gymnastics
Two Gymnastics disciplines – Artistic and Rhythmic – will take place in the new Scottish National Arena, where the grace, flexibility and athleticism as well as the pure strength of the athletes will be on display.
Hockey
Hockey is an immensely popular team sport played throughout the Commonwealth nations and regions. This proud tradition has produced a number of World and Olympic champions
Judo
Judo, which was developed from a martial art into a sport at the end of the nineteenth century, has grown in popularity throughout the Commonwealth. It is a highly physical sport with a strong ethical code and guiding philosophy.
Lawn Bowls
As one of the core sports of the Commonwealth Games, Lawn Bowls is strongly represented throughout the Commonwealth and will feature a number of former or aspiring World Champions. This sport also provides for the most diverse group of competing athletes, coming from all age groups and backgrounds.
Netball
With a single gold medal up for grabs amongst the 12 competing nations, Commonwealth Games Netball lives up to expectations as a fast, action-packed and exciting display of athleticism, skill and tactics
Rugby Sevens
A concertina version of the traditional Rugby Union game, Rugby Sevens is by contrast a fast and furious contest with high point-scoring, hard hits and lung-bursting sprints.
Shooting
Shooting events combine an intense level of focus and concentration, skill and nerve, and the four disciplines each have their own appeal and challenge.
Squash
Squash is a highly energetic racquet sport that requires outstanding levels of fitness, combined with a deft touch for precise ball placement within the enclosed field of play
Table Tennis
Rated as one of the world's top five most popular sports, Table Tennis is a spectacle of accuracy, speed and placement, with split second reactions of athletes required to keep the ball in play.
Triathalon
Combining the three unique and challenging disciplines of swimming, cycling and running, Triathlon demonstrates the fitness and endurance as well as the mental and physical strength of some of the world's most talented athletes
http://www.triathlonscotland.org/
Weightlifting
Weightlifting requires superhuman strength and gravity-defying power, as male and female athletes thrust huge weights into the air with every lift
http://www.weightliftingscotland.co.uk/
Wrestling
The sport of Wrestling involves a classic contest between two athletes seeking ascendancy through a range of grapples, holds, pummels, throws and pins
http://www.scottishwrestling.org/