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Colorful & Vibrant Ceremony ends "Best Ever" Games at Glasgow
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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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