Team Scotland’s Beach Volleyball players took a step closer to their historic debut at the Commonwealth Games when they arrived at Coolangatta and visited the competition venue for the first time.
The experienced pairing of Lynne Beattie and Melissa Coutts have been out training on the competition court and are impressed with the set up.
“The venue is spectacular with the high rises in the background and the setting is beautiful with the sea and the waves. We’d seen photos before, but nothing quite prepares you until you’ve seen it for yourself” said Beattie.
Coutts added “It’s good to get here – to feel the sand and the wind swirling around.”
Both women are feeling good ahead of the competition starting tomorrow, but won’t be resting on their laurels.
“It’s a tough pool. We have Australia as the hosts, Cyprus who we have played before and Grenada who are really unknown to us” said Coutts.
But the Scotland team have also had some tough conditions to train in that will have served to test their determination even further. The Scottish winter saw both men’s and women’s pairs convince a farmer in Edinburgh to provide access to his barn to create an indoor court for training.
“Winter has been tough. The Games haven’t come at a good time from that point of view for us, we would obviously want to be training outside” said Coutts.
“You can be as hardy as you want, but if the sand is freezing, you can’t go out and play, which is why the barn has worked so well for us” added Beattie. “Warm weather was always in our plans and we travelled to a tournament in Florida last month and felt ready for the Gold Coast after that”.
Arriving in Australia last week, helped cement this preparation further.
Coutts said “We had six solid days on the Sunshine Coast, which was fantastic. The training venues and exhibition matches were perfect preparation – it couldn’t have been better”.
Although focused on the task ahead, the significance of Beach Volleyball’s debut at the Commonwealth Games has not been lost.
“It’s great to be part of the Commonwealth Games. Beach Volleyball is a sport that deserves to be here – it’s good to watch – dynamic, quick, entertaining, with a different, party atmosphere, where people are encouraged to cheer”, said Coutts.
Beattie agrees and firmly believes the sport’s debut at the Games will make an impact beyond the next couple of weeks, not just on the Gold Coast, but back in Scotland.
“I think it’s massive. Young people need players to aspire to be like. We’re competing against sports like football and rugby that are in the news all the time and it’s events like this that help to inspire and show that there are opportunities in our sport.”
The men’s pair of Robin Miedzybrodzki and Seain Cook also got a taste of the 4000 seater venue and were equally impressed.
“It was crazy walking in to it all – the whole set up right here on beach is fantastic” said Miedzybrodzki. When you walk on to centre court, it gives you goosebumps thinking about walking out in front of a crowd that size”.
“Ever since we found out about Beach Volleyball being included in the Commonwealth Games, Seain and I have been talking about how we do it, how we come together to train and prepare, first of all for qualification. Once we qualified in September, we stepped it up to another level.”
As if training in the Scottish winter is not challenging enough, the pair also have to navigate the fact that Cook lives in Holland, while Miedzybrodzki lives in Edinburgh.
“It takes a lot of logistical planning, but Seain plays volleyball in Holland every day in his indoor team at a very high level and he’s taken the transition to Beach very well”, Miedzybrodzki added.
Looking ahead to the competition next week, Cook said: “We’re feeling pretty confident with the pool. We trained with Canada, so we’ve seen them. We’ve seen Sierra Leone, but not a lot of Sri Lanka.”
Miedzybrodzki concluded: “We’ve got to go out there and play at our top level and hopefully we do and it brings us close to the top of our pool and we go on to fight it out in the later rounds. It’s one match at a time, one set at a time, one contact at a time.”
Team Scotland’s men are second match on court on Friday 6 April against Sri Lanka at 11:30hrs (02:30hrs UK time) time, swiftly followed by the women taking on Grenada at 12:30 (03:30hrs UK time) the same day.
Team Scotland’s badminton players were quick off the mark, winning both their matches on day one of competition. They wasted very little time in getting the better of Pakistan in their opening Mixed Team match. Setting the tone in the Mixed Doubles were Alex Dunn and Eleanor O’Donnell, the young duo racing through their match to win 21-12, 21-13, the first winners of any Badminton contest at Gold Coast 2018.
O’Donnell summed up their efforts: “The nerves showed a little bit right at the start as for both of us. It’s our first Games, so just getting out on court and playing our first match was good; we settled down well, got a good lead and won the match.”
Kieran Merrilees and Kirsty Gilmour made light work of their Singles matches to wrap up the best-of-five tie, meaning the pressure was off by the time the Doubles parings of Martin Campbell & Patrick MacHugh and O’Donnell & Julie MacPherson took to court to confirm a 5-0, straight games victory.
Back in action later in the day, Team Scotland took on one of the surprise packages in Sri Lanka, who had pushed favourites India hard in the morning session. With the same order of play as the morning, the first game was always going to be the closest and it proved to be the match of the day as it went deep into the third game. With both sides having chances to win it, Dunn and O’Donnell were unlucky to lose out 17-21, 21-16, 25-27.
The Singles ties put Scotland back in the driving seat, with Merrilees and Gilmour producing business-like performances. Gilmour was a class above her opponent but Merrilees was playing quality opposition, straight after that roller-coaster Mixed Doubles game.
“That was a crazy game and it was hard to warm up,” he said. I was keeping an eye on the score but trying not to get too emotionally involved because I knew my game was going to be a big one for the team. My opponent was very experienced and I think at London 2012 he made the last 16 – he’s a lot better than his ranking would tell you, so I knew it was going to be a hard game and I wasn’t expecting to win as comfortably as that.”
Dunn was back on court for the Men’s Doubles alongside his partner Adam Hall, the duo in fine form and good value for their straight games win. With the tie in the bag and Team Scotland’s place in the quarter-finals assured regardless of the result against India at 14:00hrs (07:00 hrs in the UK) tomorrow, Gilmour and MacPherson won the Women’s Doubles to secure a 4-1 win on the night.
Team Scotland’s weightlifters are raring to go at Gold Coast 2018 with Lisa Tobias set to kick off their campaign inside the stunning new Carrara Sport and Leisure Centre.
With Weightlifting and Powerlifting taking place on the first six days of competition, Tobias takes to the platform first on at 14:00hrs (05:00hrs UK time) on Thursday 5 April in the lightweight 48kg category. The 37 year old mother of two has an amazing story, with the former gymnast having only taken up Weightlifting after watching Glasgow 2014.
Fifth in the Commonwealth Championships held in the same venue last year, Tobias said: “I had a brilliant Commonwealth Championships last year and with it being in Gold Coast, the whole venue and everything about it was so inspiring. To know I kept my composure under that sort of pressure gives me a lot of confidence. To think that I’ll be back in that same place to compete again for the Games is so exciting, I can’t wait!”
Competing in the 58kg event a day later Jodey Hughes has a similar story, also taking up Weightlifting post 2014. Up against some top competitors she’ll focus on breaking the Scottish record and hoping to place as highly as possible.
Sunday will see Sydney based Scott Wilson go in the 94kg event, whilst his teammate Zach Courtney is in action on Monday evening in the 105kg event. Both men boast a combined personal best of 313kg, the sum of their snatch and clean & jerk bests.
Micky Yule is the final Scot in action in the Men’s Heavyweight Powerlifting and he will perhaps pose the biggest medal threat.
An agonizing fourth in Glasgow, Yule is gunning for silverware down under, despite a series of injury setbacks over the past 12 months. The World, European and Invictus Games medallist commented: “In September I had an operation where they had to break my left femur to complete the surgery, after which I had three months of intensive rehab. A week after I’d completed it I then re-broke it in a different place, so I’ve had two femur breaks in the last five months. I was discharged from hospital on 9 March and I went straight to Edinburgh and I’ve been training like a caveman since!
“Success is medals – I came fourth in Glasgow and I’ve had more sleepless nights from coming fourth than I did after my injury. It doesn’t bug you for a week or a month, it bugs you for four years. That’s the thing for the Commonwealths or the Paralympics, it’s one pop every four years and it’s the same for everybody. There’s no excuses, but on 10 April it has to happen and that’s the mind-set I’m taking in.”
The Men’s Team competition is first up for Scotland at the Oxenford Studios with Gavin Rumgay, Craig Howieson and Colin Dalgliesh facing the host nation Australia in the first group stage on Thursday 5 April at 18:30hrs (09:30hrs UK time). The second match will see the team face Kiribati on Friday 6 April at 12:00hrs (03:00hrs UK time).
The team event follows the Olympic format, which sees teams of three players play a maximum of four Singles matches and one Doubles match. Each athlete competes in a maximum of two individual matches. The event ends when one team has won three individual matches.
The competition is conducted with qualifying groups of three or four teams progressing to a round of 16 and then on to a knockout competition to determine final rankings.
Looking ahead to the competition, Craig Howieson said: “We’re all in a good place, because we’ve had such good preparation. We’ve all been out here for a while now and we’ve had a good few training sessions.
“We all feel nice and relaxed – it’s about as relaxed as I’ve ever felt going into a major competition. Once we get into the hall it’s like any other competition, but we’re all just keen to get going now.”
Following the conclusion of the team competition, all three players will contest the Men’s Singles; with Rumgay and Howieson then combining as the Men’s Doubles pairing.
Following the draw Team Scotland’s boxers now know their first-round opponents at Gold Coast 2018, with the competition to be held at Oxenford Studios. Scotland has an impressive record in Boxing at the Commonwealth Games, with athletes winning medals at every Games since its inception in 1930.
Three athletes who competed at Glasgow 2014 return to the ring for Scotland. Flyweight, Reece McFadden, who wowed crowds on his way to a bronze medal four years ago faces Keevin Allicock of Guyana in the first round. Scott Forrest, Heavyweight returns against Elly Ocholla (Kenya), while Light Flyweight Aqeel Ahmed has a bye.
Two 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games gold medallists – John Docherty (Middleweight) and Sean Lazzerini (Light-Heavyweight) – make the step up to the senior Games in the Gold Coast. John has been drawn against Mauritius’ Jean Alberte; while Sean is the only fighter in the ring on the first day of competition, starting his Games against Australian Clay Waterman.
Scotland’s first female boxers at a Commonwealth Games will take to the ring with Featherweight Victoria Glover facing Valerian Spicer of Dominica and Light-Flyweight Megan Gordon facing India’s MC Mery Kom.
Mitchell Barton, the Super Heavyweight faces Patrick Mailata of New Zealand, before Nate Collins takes on Colan Caleb of Nauru in the Lightweight division. Light Welterweight Robbie McKechnie has been drawn against Thomas Blumenfeld of Canada.
Making his Commonwealth Games debut, Welterweight Stephen Newns will take on John Moleni of Tonga and is looking forward to getting into the ring.
“We have had our heads down, focusing on training and we know we did really well,” he said. “Everyone’s looking really fit and ready to compete and do the country proud.
“I will be the first boxer from Scotland to compete in these Games so I’ll be looking to make a positive start for the team and my country. All the preparation for the big stage is done, now it’s time to get down to business.”
All preliminary round fights take place between 5 and 9 April.
Tonight, Eilidh Doyle became the first female flag bearer to lead out Team Scotland at an Opening Ceremony, as the 21st Commonwealth Games got underway on the Gold Coast.
Broadcast to over a billion viewers worldwide and to an audience of 35,000 at the Carrara Stadium, the ceremony welcomed 4,500 athletes on the eve of this month’s multi-sport spectacular.
The night began with lifesavers and indigenous performers who took centre stage during the ceremony, with the centre of the stadium transformed into an inland beach, where Ricki-Lee Coulter and Deltra Goodrem performed in the sand.
Towel-twirling dancers wearing board shorts and bikinis frolicked on the beach as Coulter performed from a deck chair, the setting awash with waves as part of a dazzling light show.
A didgeridoo orchestra, ballet dancers from the renowned Bangarra Aboriginal dance troupe and a traditional smoking ceremony also featured as part of a strong indigenous theme.
An estimated 1.5 billion people worldwide were treated to a celebration of Gold Coast beach life and indigenous culture in the three-hour showcase, with a giant effigy of famed white whale ‘Migaloo’, which passes the Gold Coast each winter, floated into the stadium as the ceremony climaxed.
But the biggest cheer of the night was reserved for the procession of the athletes from the 71 Commonwealth nations and territories athletes. Children clad in floral rash vests and matching pink rescue boards ushered them all into the stadium, which was decked out with props including a Gold Coast lifeguard tower and surf boat.
First into the stadium as the last Games hosts was Scotland, led by Olympic, World and double Commonwealth medallist, Eilidh Doyle.
Excited to have been chosen by her peers for the honour, Doyle said: “When you’re the first country out, you just want to do a good job. But as soon as we walked out and we got a really nice reception, I was able to wave the flag and it was brilliant – really nice to see so many saltires in the crowd, a lot of support out there”.
“It was crazy. It was over really quickly. (Glasgow 2014 flag bearer) Euan Burton had told me to savour it and I tried to, but the flag was quite heavy. I was trying to enjoy it and make sure I was moving the flag. It just was amazing!”
There was universal acclaim for the event from fellow athletes and Para-Bowler Mike Nicoll said: “The Opening Ceremony has been fantastic. The atmosphere is brilliant and everyone is so happy to be here. Gold Coast has put on such a great show for us – it’s only made me even more excited to get started tomorrow.”
Triathlete, Erin Wallace also revelled in the occasion: “The organisers put together an amazing opening ceremony and it was just incredible to be part of it. I am really looking forward to competition now. After the Youth Games experience in the Bahamas last summer, I hope that I can continue to improve and achieve my personal goals.”
Competing in his third Games, Table Tennis Player Craig Howieson added: “It’s my third Games and my first time marching in the Opening Ceremony. It’s an incredible feeling and I hope it gives us a boost for the start of competition tomorrow.”
Other Scots to feature prominently in the Opening Ceremony were Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) President, Louise Martin CBE, former Team Scotland Rugby Sevens captain Colin Gregor and hockey player Rhona Simpson who are now both members of the CGF Athletes’ Commission and had the honour of carrying in the CGF flag.
In Commonwealth Games tradition, the Gold Coast 2018 Queen’s Baton Relay concluded its journey tonight with Australia’s track and field star Sally Pearson carrying it on its final leg before handing it over to, HRH The Prince of Wales to read out the message it contained from The Queen and declaring the 21st Commonwealth Games open.
The sporting action gets underway at 09:00hrs tomorrow with Scotland’s Badminton players first to take to the court in the Mixed Team event against Pakistan.
Four years ago in Glasgow, Team Scotland got off to a dream start with two gold medals on the opening day of the Swimming competition. Here on the Gold Coast both Hannah Miley and Ross Murdoch will be defending their titles on day one, as the six-day swimming programme begins tomorrow (Thursday 5 April) at the Optus Aquatics Centre.
Hannah Miley could make history if she secures gold in the 400m Individual Medley. The 28-year old has held this title since Delhi 2010 and would become the first Scottish athlete ever to have won gold in the same event at three consecutive Games.
The main challenge will come from Canadian Mary-Sophie Harvey as well as Aimee Wilmott and Abbie Wood of England. Miley holds the current Games record for the event of 4:31.76, which she set at Glasgow 2014 and goes in the second of the two heats.
Ross Murdoch made the headlines at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games by winning gold in the 200m Breaststroke, touching out fellow Scot Michael Jamieson. Finishing just outside the medals in fourth at last year’s FINA World Championships, Murdoch is beginning to show the form that took him to the top of the podium four years ago.
Other Scottish medal hopes for the 200m breaststroke come from double Olympian, Craig Benson and Calum Tait, who was just pushed out of the medals in Glasgow by England’s Andrew Willis.
Stephen Milne kicks off his Games campaign in the 400m Freestyle. Milne finished eighth in the event in Glasgow and will be up against two strong Australian swimmers; silver medallist from 2014, David McKeon and Mack Horton, who won silver at last year’s Worlds. James Guy also starts his competition in this event and will be looking to kick-start England’s medal count.
Glasgow 2014 bronze medallist in the 50m Breaststroke, Corrie Scott, makes her third consecutive Games appearance for Team Scotland in this event, while her training partner Lucy Hope is in action in the 200m Freestyle.
Scott McLay, Team Scotland’s most decorated athlete at a Commonwealth Youth Games with five medals at Bahamas 2017, moves into the senior ranks for the first time and starts his campaign off in the 50m Butterfly, alongside Sean Campsie.
Craig McNally also returns for Team Scotland and starts his competition with the 100m Backstroke, while 16-year old Keanna MacInnes makes her senior debut in the 100m Butterfly.
Speaking ahead of the opening day of competition, National Coach and Team Leader for Aquatics, Alan Lynn, said,
“We are under no illusions as to the scale of the challenge ahead of us in Gold Coast. Taking on the might of Australia, Canada, England and South Africa with their World and Olympic champions is a massive test for our small team. We are confident that if our swimmers perform at their best we can return home proud of their efforts and pleased at the outcomes.”
The Swimming competition starts tomorrow, Thursday 5 April and continues until Tuesday 10 April, before the Diving programme begins on Wednesday 11 April. The Aquatics programme is being held at the Optus Aquatics Centre.
Team Scotland’s Para-Sport athletes will look to set the tone, as the Cycling competition gets underway at the Anna Meares Velodrome in Brisbane tomorrow (Thursday 5 April).
Gold Coast 2018 will host the largest integrated Para-Sport programme in Commonwealth Games history, with the Blind & Visually Impaired (B&VI) riders first into the arena. Scotland collected medals in all four Para-Cycling events in Glasgow four years ago, and will be looking for a repeat of that success at Gold Coast.
Neil Fachie, gold medallist at the 2012 London Paralympic Games and silver medallist at Rio 2016, teams up with new pilot Matt Rotherham in the Men’s B&VI Time Trial on day one. The pair flew into the pre-Games Cycling preparation camp in Sydney via the World Para-Cycling Championships in Rio, where they delivered a stunning double gold medal winning performance. They were the only team to break the one minute barrier in the Time Trial, registering an impressive 59.6 seconds, as Fachie scooped his 11th World title. It was swiftly followed by title number 12, as the duo powered to gold in the Sprint.
Fachie said: “I’ve only really been riding with Matt since December, but we’ve come along incredibly well in that time. We can take a huge amount of confidence from our performance in Rio, mostly because our rivals here in the Gold Coast were also out in Rio, so putting in such a strong time sent out a pretty strong message.
“In order to win again we’re going to have to put in another fantastic performance will require us to execute every part of our race perfectly so it’s by no means a foregone conclusion.”
Aileen McGlynn and Louise Haston, double silver medallists at Glasgow 2014, also come into the Games with high hopes, having combined to collect Time Trial silver medals at the 2017 World Championships on top of their 2014 successes. They begin their campaign in the Women’s B&VI Sprint, with their heats the first event on the Cycling programme at 14:30hrs (05:30hrs UK time).
Team Scotland’s 13-strong Track Cycling team will be in action across five days of competition with Olympic medallists Katie Archibald and Callum Skinner among those taking to the line in their first event on Friday 6 April. Skinner goes in the Men’s Keirin, while Archibald gets her Games underway with the 3000m Individual Pursuit, the event in which she collected bronze in Glasgow four years ago.
Looking back on Glasgow, Archibald said: “Four years ago, I was a very different rider and that was an incredible achievement at the time. Now I think I’d be disappointed to leave without a medal, though you can say those kinds of things and they can come back and bite you.”
Archibald also shared her delight in being back with Team Scotland, embracing the only opportunity to represent her country in a multi-sport Games, a break from her Team GB riding.
“It’s a completely different feel. Riders like my brother [John Archibald] and Kyle Gordon have taken a huge block of time off work to be here, so it’s different dynamic with them. You can sit at the dinner table more like friends on a trip rather than colleagues doing business. I noticed it especially at the Glasgow Games. I was so new to the GB set-up then, and was so intimidated by it that it felt really nice to come home to Team Scotland. And it does now too – especially now my brother’s here as well.”
Both Archibald siblings will be in Individual Pursuit action on Friday as John goes in the men’s event alongside Kyle Gordon and Mark Stewart. He has gone from strength to strength since converting from Road Cycling last year, taking British Championships gold in the Points Race on the same night that Katie won gold in the Scratch Race.
Kyle Gordon, runner-up to Archibald in last year’s Scottish Championships, will be hoping that the time granted by a six-month sabbatical from three-week rotations on the north east oil rigs helps push him into the reckoning at his first Games. It is also a first Games appearance for promising 20-year-old prospect Jack Carlin, who won silver in the Keirin at last year’s European U23 Championships, and for Jonathan Wale, silver medallist at the 2018 British Track Championships and gold medallist at the 2018 Minsk World Cup, respectively.
Neah Evans and Eileen Roe will have to wait until day three of competition to start their bid as they both line up in the Points Race alongside Katie Archibald.
All of Team Scotland’s Squash players will get their Singles campaigns underway on day one of the Games. Kevin Moran is the only player facing the prospect of two matches, if he overcomes Jules Snagg from St Vincent & The Grenadines in the afternoon session at 13:10hrs (04:10hrs UK time).
Competing in his third Games; Alan Clyne will get his competition underway in the evening; as will his doubles partner Greg Lobban. Both players have a bye in the morning session.
It’s Scotland v Malaysia in the first matches in the Women’s Singles. Having competed at the Delhi Games in 2010, Lisa Aitken will mark her return against Aifa Azman at 13:50hrs (04:50hrs UK time) before Alison Thomson makes her Commonwealth Games debut against Sivasangari Subramaaniam at 20:00hrs (11:00hrs UK time).
Aitken and Moran team up for the Mixed Doubles, which starts on 10 April, with a match against the Caymen Islands pair of Caroline Laing and Jacob Kelly. Lisa is back in action again the same day with Alison in the Women’s Doubles against England’s Jenny Duncalf and Alison Waters. 2017 World Championships silver medalists Clyne and Lobban also get their Doubles bid underway with a match against Manda Chilambwe and Kelvin Ndhlovu of Zambia.
All athletes are back on court again on 11 April facing the Cayman Islands and another English pair in the Women’s Doubles at 11:45hrs and 18:45hrs respectively (02:45hrs and 09:45hrs UK time); Guyana in the Men’s Doubles at 19:30hrs (12:30hrs UK time); and India in the Mixed Doubles at 20:15hrs (11:15hrs UK time).
Games debutant Alison Thomson said: “The venue is absolutely brilliant, and there’s a very bold colour scheme in place which is very striking – it’s definitely got the wow-factor.
“Having visited the venue and trained on the main competition court, I’m really looking forward to getting the chance to play in front of the crowds.”
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Full coverage details
All times BST and subject to late changes. Extra live streams may be added.
Wednesday, 4 April
Opening Ceremony
10:30-13:30 – BBC One (10:30-13:30, BBC Red Button and online; repeated 13:45-17:00, BBC Red Button)
Today at the Games
19:00-20:00 – BBC Two (repeated 22:00-23:00, BBC Red Button)
Thursday, 5 April
Live coverage
00:15-06:00 & 09:15-13:00 – BBC One (00:45-02:30, BBC One Wales)
00:00-14:00 – BBC Red Button and online
06:00-09:15 & 13:00-17:15 – BBC Two
Additional live online streams
00:25-02:45 – Triathlon: Women’s race, Connected TV and online
00:25-02:00 – Hockey: Women’s pool match, India v Wales, Connected TV and online
02:20-04:00 – Hockey: Women’s pool match, Scotland v New Zealand, Connected TV and online
03:55-06:15 – Triathlon: Men’s race, Connected TV and online
05:20-07:00 – Hockey: Women’s pool match, England v South Africa, Connected TV and online
05:50-07:30 – Netball: Pool match, England v Scotland, Connected TV and online
07:55-11:10 – Gymnastics: Men’s team final & individual qualification, Connected TV and online
08:20-10:35 – Basketball: Men’s pool match, England v Scotland, Connected TV and online
09:55-12:40 – Track cycling: Finals, Connected TV and online
10:25-13:25 – Swimming: Semi-final and finals, Connected TV and online
10:25-12:00 – Hockey: Men’s pool match, Pakistan v Wales, Connected TV and online
11:20-13:00 – Netball: Pool match, Australia v Northern Ireland, Connected TV and online
12:20-14:00 – Hockey: Men’s pool match, South Africa v Scotland, Connected TV and online
Today at the Games
18:30-20:00 – BBC Two
Commonwealth Games Extra
20:00-21:00 – BBC Four
Replays
14:00-00:00 – BBC Red Button and online
Friday, 6 April
Live coverage
00:15-06:00 & 09:15-13:00 – BBC One
00:00-14:00 – BBC Red Button and online
06:00-09:15 & 13:00-17:15 – BBC Two
Today at the Games
18:30-19:00 – BBC Red Button
23:25-23:55 – BBC One
Replays
14:00-18:30 – BBC Red Button and online
19:00-00:00 – BBC Red Button and online
Saturday, 7 April
Live coverage
23:55-06:00, 10:00-12:00 & 14:15-16:30 – BBC One (coverage starts late Friday night)
00:00-14:30 – BBC Red Button and online
06:00-10:05 & 12:00-14:15 – BBC Two
Today at the Games
18:00-19:30 – BBC Two (not in Northern Ireland)
Commonwealth Games Extra
20:00-21:00 – BBC Four
Replays
14:30-19:30 – BBC Red Button and online
Sunday, 8 April
Live coverage
23:55-06:00 & 13:00-16:30 – BBC One (coverage starts late Saturday night; 00:30-04:00, BBC One Scotland)
00:00-14:00 – BBC Red Button and online
06:00-13:00 – BBC Two
Today at the Games
17:00-18:30 – BBC Two (17:00-17:45, BBC Two Wales; not in Northern Ireland)
Commonwealth Games Extra
20:00-21:00 – BBC Four
Replays
14:00-17:30 – BBC Red Button and online
Monday, 9 April
Live coverage
23:30-06:00 & 09:15-13:00 – BBC One (coverage starts late Sunday night; 00:45-03:00, BBC One Wales, 01:45-03:00, BBC One NI)
00:00-14:00 – BBC Red Button and online
06:00-09:15 & 13:00-17:15 – BBC Two
Today at the Games
18:30-20:00 – BBC Two
Commonwealth Games Extra
20:00-21:00 – BBC Four
Replays
14:00-00:00 – BBC Red Button and online
Tuesday, 10 April
Live coverage
00:00-06:00 & 09:15-13:00 – BBC One (00:15-03:00 BBC One Scotland, 00:20-03:00, BBC One Wales)
00:00-14:00 – BBC Red Button and online
06:00-09:15 & 13:00-17:15 – BBC Two
Today at the Games
18:30-20:00 – BBC Two
Commonwealth Games Extra
20:00-21:00 – BBC Four
Replays
14:00-00:00 – BBC Red Button and online
Wednesday, 11 April
Live coverage
00:00-06:00 & 09:15-13:00 – BBC One (01:00-03:00, BBC One NI)
00:00-14:00 – BBC Red Button and online
06:00-09:15 & 13:00-17:15 – BBC Two
Today at the Games
18:30-20:00 – BBC Two
Commonwealth Games Extra
20:00-21:00 – BBC Four
Replays
14:00-00:00 – BBC Red Button and online
Thursday, 12 April
Live coverage
00:00-06:00 & 09:15-13:00 – BBC One (00:15-03:30, BBC One NI)
00:00-14:00 – BBC Red Button and online
06:00-09:15 & 13:00-17:15 – BBC Two
Today at the Games
18:30-20:00 – BBC Two
Commonwealth Games Extra
20:00-21:00 – BBC Four
Replays
14:00-00:00 – BBC Red Button and online
Friday, 13 April
Live coverage
23:45-06:00 & 09:15-13:00 – BBC One (coverage starts late Thursday night)
00:00-14:00 – BBC Red Button and online
06:00-09:15 & 13:00-17:15 – BBC Two
Today at the Games
18:30-20:00 – BBC Two
Replays
14:00-00:00 – BBC Red Button and online
Saturday, 14 April
Live coverage
00:00-06:00, 10:00-12:00 & 13:15-16:30 – BBC One
00:00-14:30 – BBC Red Button and online
06:00-10:00, 12:00-13:15 & 22:00-23:55 – BBC Two
Today at the Games
18:30-20:00 – BBC Two
Commonwealth Games Extra
20:00-21:00 – BBC Four
Replays
17:30-00:00 – BBC Red Button and online
Sunday, 15 April
Live coverage
23:55-06:00 – BBC One (coverage starts late Saturday night)
00:00-12:15 – BBC Red Button and online
06:00-15:00 – BBC Two
Today at the Games
18:30-20:00 – BBC Two
Commonwealth Games Extra
20:00-21:00 – BBC Four
Replays
14:30-00:00 – BBC Red Button and online
BBC Scotland is also providing extensive coverage in its daily television and radio news programmes and online.