Commonwealth Games 2014
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Goal keeper pips Australia’s Laura Geitz to the top spot after superb year for England and Melbourne Vixens
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Rory McIlroy, Lewis Hamilton and Gareth Bale are the bookies' favourites but who do you think should win the award?
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After winning silver medal at the Commonwealth Games, she equalled the British high jump record and now has a two-metre jump in her sights, she tells Simon Burnton
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Tim Jonze: Usain Bolt wouldn’t sprint around the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury, so why are big-name acts like the Foo Fighters closing sporting events?
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Donald McRae: England’s Commonwealth queen explains her boundless energy and why she tries extraordinary moves no one has done before
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First minister says yes campaign 'has work to do' as polls show support stalling after TV debate with Alistair Darling
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When Nicola Adams was growing up, women weren't allowed to be boxers. Now she's won Olympic and Commonwealth gold. Here she talks to Homa Khaleeli about making history against the odds – and why she still won't call herself a feminist
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Loyalty and distrust – with gags and wordplay – feature strongly in this year's line-up as Scotland's independence vote looms
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Letters: For the greater part of the 19th century, Indians took no more interest in cricket than did the British in kabaddi
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Paul Connolly: Australia has been dropping down Olympic and Commonwealth tables but does that make us less of a nation?
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Our favourite things this week Our favourite things online this week: from 1990s football to NFL busts
Featuring cricket and rugby during the First World War, Louis van Gaal’s balls and Commonwealth Games 2014 highlights -
The skills gained from doing sports, such as learning to focus and to improvise, could improve your academic performance
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The Commonwealth Games 2014 captured the British public’s imagination these last two weeks, and we asked you to share your photos and experiences of the event. Here are some of the best ones. Thanks to everyone who took part
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Men’s 4x100m relay final, in which England took the silver medal, attracts audience of the Games to BBC1. By John Plunkett
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Our sport picture editor, Jonny Weeks, has trawled through 82,346 photographs of the Commonwealth Games to select his favourite shots
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Sportblog Commonwealth Games 2014: not defined by the sport but by Glasgow itself
Andy Bull in GlasgowAndy Bull: There was a desperately low standard in some events at these Games but the fans were not deterred and still turned up in their droves -
Australian athlete Genevieve LaCaze 'photobombed' singer Kylie Minogue on stage at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony in Glasgow. The steeplechase runner said she was celebrating her 25th birthday and decided to jump onto the stage, lasting about a minute before being ushered off by security
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The Commonwealth Games draws to a close at Glasgow’s Hampden Park in a colourful ceremony celebrating 11 energetic days.
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Perry Crosswhite wants the government to provide more funding for Australian athletes after they finished behind England in the medals table
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Australian steeplechase runner lasted for more than a minute on stage before being escorted off by security guards
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There were golds for Australia in squash, hockey and netball but they still finished behind England in the medals table
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Ewan Murray and Hannah Miley: Did we witness a sporting event to live long in the memory, or were we simply allowing ourselves to be kidded?
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Our photographer captures the best of the road race action on the last day of the 2014 games in Glasgow
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The Glasgow games were declared the best ever, and finished in typically raucous style
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Glasgow has delighted in its event, with well over a million tickets sold and a palpable buzz about its streets for the duration
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Glasgow 2014: From Erraid Davies’s bronze medal to bagpipes, our writers pick their best moments from the Commonwealth Games
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Nick Matthew failed to win a fourth squash gold medal when he and doubles partner Adrian Grant narrowly lost 10-11, 11-7, 11-9 to Cameron Pilley and David Palmer of Australia
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England’s athletes smashed their medal targets and topped the Commonwealth Games table for the first time in 28 years
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Letters: Pumeza is a graduate of our Opera School at the University of Cape Town. She – along with many others – is literally changing the face of opera
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The husband and wife team beat Chris Langridge and Heather Olver by a score of 21-9, 21-12
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Geraint Thomas won gold for Wales in the men’s road race after Lizzy Armitstead and Emma Pooley made it an England one-two in the women’s event
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Geraint Thomas won the men’s road race gold medal for Wales on the final day of the 2014 Commonwealth Games
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The English netball team failed to win the bronze medal after they lost a physical encounter against Jamaica
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Bobby Crutchley’s side came out on top in the shootout after being pegged back to 3-3 in regulation time
Ian Jack on Saturday Glasgow a friendly city? True enough, but this was not always its reputation