Wales' sporting week in photos

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Team Wales enter Celtic Park for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games
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Team Wales enter Celtic Park for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games

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Jemma Lowe competes in the women’s 100m butterfly on the first day of the Commonwealth Games.

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Wales' netball team were beaten 63-26 by Australia in their opening game in Glasgow.

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Nikara Jenkins, Laura Halford and Frankie Jones won Wales' first medal of the 2014 Commonwealth Games with a team silver in rhythmic gymnastics.

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Owain Dolan-Gray is tackled during Wales' 3-1 defeat to India in the men's hockey at the Commonwealth Games.

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Bernhard Langer in action on the second tee on the second day at the Senior Open Championship at Royal Porthcawl.

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Matt Ellis and pilot Ieuan Williams secured bronze in the men's para-sport 1000m time trial B2 tandem.

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Elena Allen had to settle for silver in the women's skeet, losing out to Australia's Laura Coles.

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Glamorgan players congratulate Graham Wagg after he claimed the wicket of Michael Klinger in the T20 Blast match against Gloucestershire in Cardiff.

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World number one Andrew Selby was beaten by Scotland teenager Reece McFadden in their flyweight first-round bout.

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Frankie Jones and Laura Halford won silver and bronze in the individual all-around rhythmic gymnastics final.

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Calum Jarvis is presented with his 200m men's freestyle bronze medal - Wales' first of the Games in the swimming pool - by the Earl of Wessex.

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Frankie Jones’s third medal of the Commonwealth Games was a silver in the individual hoop final.

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Wales rugby sevens team kicked off their Commonwealth Games campaign with a comprehensive 52-0 victory over Malaysia at Ibrox.

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Frankie Jones secured Wales’ first gold in Glasgow, winning the individual ribbon final to add to the five silvers she had already won.

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Elinor Barker is all smiles after securing bronze in the women's 10km scratch race.

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Michaela Breeze took 58kg weightlifting bronze with England’s Zoe Smith winning gold.

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Jonny Lewis of Newport-Gwent Dragons is tackled by Scarlets’ Lee Rees during the Welsh leg of the Premiership Rugby 7s at the Arms Park.

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Newport County continued their preparations for the new season with a 1-0 friendly win over Carl Zeiss Jena at Spytty Park.

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Jacques Rudolph contributed 61 runs in Glamorgan’s seven-wicket One-Day Cup victory over Middlesex.

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Judoka Natalie Powell celebrates after defeating England's Gemma Gibbons to secure Wales' second gold at the Commonwealth Games.

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Georgia Davies came close to winning gold but had to settle for silver behind Australia's Emily Seebohm in the 100m backstroke final.

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Mark Shaw overcame New Zealand's Sam Rosser in the +100kg bronze match, before announcing his retirement.

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Wales' sevens team were denied a place in the semi-finals of the medal competition by a late Australia comeback at Ibrox.

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Jazz Carlin won her 800m freestyle heat comfortably and set a new Commonwealth Games record to qualify for the final.

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Gylfi Sigurdsson scored twice in Swansea City's 4-0 pre-season win at Plymouth Argyle.

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Mats Daehli featured in Cardiff City's 4-1 friendly win at Yeovil.

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Elinor Barker (left) was pipped to gold by England's Laura Trott in the women's 25km points race.

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Team Wales captain Aled Sion Davies was edged out by England's Dan Greaves in the Para-sport F42/44 discus event.

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Paul Taylor, Jonathan Tomlinson and Marc Wyatt won bronze in the men's triples

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Sean McGoldrick began the defence of his bantamweight title defeating Australia's Jackson Woods on a split decision.

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Jazz Carlin is congratulated by Canada's silver medallist Brittany Maclean after winning gold in the 800m freestyle.

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Rhys Jones holds up the bronze medal he won in the 100m T37 at Hampden Park.

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Craig Pilling beat Omar Tafail of England 8-5 in the men's freestyle 57kg category to secure bronze - Wales' first ever medal in wrestling.

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Georgia Davies won Wales' second gold medal at the swimming pool with victory in the 50m backstroke final.

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Jazz Carlin secured her second medal of the Games with silver in the 400m freestyle.

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Daniel Jervis came from nowhere in the final 50m of the men's 1500m freestyle final to win bronze.

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