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Colorful & Vibrant Ceremony ends "Best Ever" Games at Glasgow
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| Kylie Minogue |
Popstar Kylie Minogue whipped the crowd into a spin with her classic hits as she lead the closing ceremony for what has been entitled the 'best ever' Commonwealth Games in History
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The Singing sensation changed costume twice as she performed to the 40,000-strong crowd and up to 8 million viewers at home.
After the show she tweeted she had an "amazing night" and said she it was an "honour to be there."
Lulu also returned to the stage to perform her hit "Shout" while fellow Scot Dougie Maclean sang his classic Caledonia, a song which has grown to become a common part of Scottish culture and an unofficial national anthem.
The ceremony rounded off with fireworks and a mass performance of Auld Lang Syne.
Scotland may have said farewell but all eyes will be on Australia when they host the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast in 2018.
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Commonwealth Games End with England on Top
Glasgow: England finished on top of the Medal Tally in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014. It was their first time after 28 long years. But the former table-toppers Australia also had some consolation wins.
As soon as the Day started, England were already going to stay at No.1 position, dethroning Australia.
The last day had just 11 Gold Medals on the line. Lizzie Armitstead bagged the first gold for England in the women`s cycling road race upgrading her performance 4 years ago in New Dehli.
Fellow English rider Emma Pooley finished 25 seconds behind to finish second and add to the silver she won in the time trial.
Geraint Thomas from Wales won gold in the men`s 168km road race.
Thomas, thrived despite having a puncture with 6km still to go to finish in a time of 4 hours 13 minutes & 5 seconds.
Australia yet again thumped India 4-0 in mens hockey final to win a 5th consecutive Commonwealth title, & later finished 1st in netball with a 58-40 win over the Kiwis, who beat them 4 years ago.
Kashyap Parupalli from India was a popular winner in the men`s singles title in Badminton as he beat Derek Wong of Singapore in a three-game classic to win gold.
"I`m so happy," said the 27-year-old Indian. "This championship means such a lot to me. These Games come every four years and that`s what drove me on."
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Vikas Gowda, Wrestlers Yogeshwar, Babita bag Gold Medals for India
Discuss Thrower Vikas Gowda clinched a Gold Medal for India in athletics after 56 years.
Wrestlers Yogeshwar Dutt & Babita Kumari also tasted Gold along with Geetika Jhakar & Pawan Kumar who bagges a Silver & a Bronze each.
Gowda upgraded his Silver medal from the 2010 Games, finishing with a best attempt of 63.64m on 1st place, 56 years after the legendary Milkha Singh's golden run in the 440 yards at Cardiff Games.
London 2012 Olympics bronze medallist wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt beat Jevon Balfour of Canada in men's freestyle 65kg category final. He was awarded the bout due to technical superiority after he took a 10-0 lead within 1 minutes 53 seconds of the 1st period.
Babita also upgraded her Silver medal from 2010 Games. She won with a scoreline of 9-2 against the 32-year-old Brittanee from Canada.
Grappler Geetika Jhakar had to settle for Silver as she lost 7-0 to Canada's Danielle Lappage in women's 63kg freestyle category.
Earlier, Wrestler Pawan Kumar scored a comeback victory over Pakistan's Muhammad Inam to clinch the bronze medal in men's freestlye 86kg category. Both were tied at 6-6 but Pawan was adjudged the winner since he scored the last point.
Updated Medal Tally:
| P | COUNTRY |  |  |  | T | ||
| 1 |
| 44 | 40 | 39 | 123 | ||
| 2 |
| 36 | 36 | 41 | 113 | ||
| 3 |
| 27 | 13 | 25 | 65 | ||
| 4 |
| 14 | 13 | 16 | 43 | ||
| 5 |
| 13 | 20 | 14 | 47 | ||
| 6 |
| 13 | 11 | 15 | 39 |
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England Clinch 10 Gold Medals on Day 6
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| Ben Proud |
Australia suffered their first Commonwealth relay defeat in eight years in the men's 4x100m medley relay at the hands of England, who wrapped up 10 Swimming Gold Medals to close their swimming meet.
19-year-old sensation Ben Proud claimed his second gold of the Games by beating star duo Cameron McEvoy and James Magnussen in the men's 50m freestyle.
World Champion in 100m freestyle, Cate Campbell handed the Aussie women 4x100m medley relay gold after Daniel Tranter won the men's 200m individual medley to take Australia's final gold medal tally to 19.
England won the final race though, the team of Chris Walker-Hebborn, Adam Peaty, Adam Barrett and Adam Brown clocked a Games record time 3min 31:51sec to become the first English team to beat Australia in the 4x100 medley relay since 1950 games.
Updated Medal Tally after Day 6:
| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Brozne | Total |
| 1 | Australia | 34 | 31 | 36 | 101 |
| 2 | England | 33 | 33 | 27 | 93 |
| 3 | Canada | 16 | 5 | 18 | 39 |
| 4 | Scotland | 13 | 11 | 13 | 37 |
| 5 | New Zealand | 11 | 9 | 11 | 31 |
| 6 | India | 10 | 15 | 11 | 36 |
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Sushil Kumar and Amit Kumar bag Gold Medals for India
2014 Commonwealth Games Glasgow Day 6
Wrestlers bring laurels for India
Sushil Kumar defeats Qamar Abbas (Pakistan) in men's 74kg freestyle wrestling to win India's 10th gold.
Amit Kumar beats Ebikweminomo Welson (Nigeria) 6-2 in 57kg freestyle wrestling to win gold.
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13-year-old Erraid Davies wins Bronze at Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games 2014, Glasgow, Scotland
Schoolgirl Erraid Davies won a bronze medal in the women's 100m breaststroke final at Glasgow Games 2014 after the 13-year-old set a new personal best for the 2nd time in the day.
Davies, Scotland's youngest-ever Comonwealth Games competitor, had come 2nd in the heat on Sunday morning & fought her way to the bronze medal in the last quarter of the final.
Supported largely by the crowd, she finished just behind Australian silver medallist Madeleine Scott in 1 minute and 21.38 seconds, with New Zealand's Sophie Pascoe took the gold.
"I'm really happy. It's another PB and I could really hear the crowd in the last 25m. Mum and Dad are here to watch and I'm not sure what we'll do to celebrate later." she said.
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Commonwealth Games 2014 Day 4 Results
Day 4 of the 2014 Commonwealth Games saw the track-and-field athletes trot out for the first time and the conclusion of the popular Rugby Sevens tournament, giving fans in Glasgow plenty to look forward to.
Here's the list of every medal won on Sunday:
| Sport | Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Athletics | Men's Marathon | Michael Shelley (AUS) | Stephen Chemlany (KEN) | Abraham Kiplimo (UGA) |
| Athletics | Women's Marathon | Flomena cheyech Daniel (KEN) | Caroline Kilel (KEN) | Jess Trengove (AUS) |
| Athletics | Men's 5000m | Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku (KEN) | Isiah Kiplangat Koech (KEN) | Zane Robertson (NZ) |
| Athletics | Women's Long Jump T37/38 | Jodi Elkington (AUS) | Bethy Woodward (ENG) | Johanna Benson (NAM) |
| Cycling | Men's Keirin | Matthew Glaetzer (AUS) | Sam Webster (NZ) | Mohd Azizulhasni Awang (MAL) |
| Cycling | Men's 20km Scratch | Shane Archbold (NZ) | Glenn P O'Shea (AUS) | Remi Pelletier (CAN) |
| Cycling | Women's Sprint | Stephanie Morton (AUS) | Anna Meares (AUS) | Jess Varnish (ENG) |
| Cycling | Women's 25km Points | Laura Trott (ENG) | Elinor Barker (WAL) | Katie Archibald (SCO) |
| Cycling | Women's Time Trial B2 | Sophie Thornhill (ENG) | Aileen McGlynn (SCO) | Brandie O'Connor (AUS) |
| Lawn Bowls | Women's Singles | Jo Edwards (NZ) | Natalie Melmore (ENG) | Colleen Piketh (SA) |
| Lawn Bowls | Women's Fours | South Africa | Malaysia | New Zealand |
| Rugby Sevens | / | South Africa | New Zealand | Australia |
| Shooting | Men's Double Trap | Steven Scott (ENG) | Matthew French (ENG) | Asab Mohd (IND) |
| Shooting | Women's DoubleTrap | Charlotte Kerwood (ENG) | Shreyasi Singh (IND) | Rachel Parish (ENG) |
| Swimming | Men's 100m Free | James Magnussen (AUS) | Cameron Mcevoy (AUS) | Tommaso D'Orsogna (AUS) |
| Swimming | Men's 50m Back | Ben Treffers (AUS) | Mitch Larkin (AUS) | Liam Tancock (ENG) |
| Swimming | Men's 4x200m Free Relay | Australia | Scotland | South Africa |
| Swimming | Women's 200m Back | Belinda Hocking (AUS) | Emily Seebohm (AUS) | Hilary Caldwell (CAN) |
| Swimming | Women's 50m Fly | Francesca Halsall (ENG) | Arianna Vanderpool Wallace (BAH) | Brittany Elmslie (AUS) |
| Swimming | Women's 200m Medley | Siobhan O'Conner (ENG) | Alicia Coutts (AUS) | Hannah Miley (SCO) |
| Swimming | Women's 100m SB9 Breast | Sophie Pascoe (NZ) | Madeleine Scott (AUS) | Erraid Davies (SCO) |
| Table Tennis | Women's Team | Singapore | Malaysia | Australia |
| Weight Lifting | Women's 63kg | Olauwatoyin Adesanmi (NIG) | Obioma Okoli (NIG) | Punam Yadav (IND) |
| Weight Lifting | Men's 77kg | Sathish Sivalingam (IND) | Ravi Katulu (IND) | Francois Etoundi (AUS) |
And here's the updated medal tracker, which saw a change at the top of the board:
| Rank | Country | Gold | Siler | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Australia | 26 | 21 | 26 | 73 |
| 2 | England | 23 | 17 | 17 | 57 |
| 3 | Scotland | 11 | 8 | 11 | 30 |
| 4 | Canada | 7 | 3 | 8 | 18 |
| 5 | India | 6 | 9 | 7 | 22 |
| 6 | New Zealand | 6 | 5 | 10 | 21 |
| 7 | South Africa | 5 | 5 | 8 | 18 |
| 8 | Wales | 2 | 8 | 8 | 18 |
via:http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2143073-commonwealth-games-2014-day-4-results-updated-medal-table-and-glasgow-schedule?search_query=commonwealth%20games%20day%204
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