TEN years ago, Glasgow hosted the Commonwealth Games – and now it looks like the famous sporting event could be on its way back to the city in 2026.

Here, we look back at the glorious summer of 2014, with a round up of 14 fascinating facts about the multi-sports event.

1 Around 4800 athletes fought for 261 gold medals across 17 sports in 13 venues at Glasgow 2014.

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2 The opening ceremony on July 23 at Celtic Park featured Rod Stewart, Nicola Benedetti and Amy Macdonald, plus cute Scottie dogs and dancing teacakes, and Karen Dunbar and John Barrowman.

Karen Dunbar and John BarrowmanKaren Dunbar and John Barrowman (Image: Richard Heathcote/Getty Image:)

3 The closing ceremony at Hampden on August 3 featured Kylie Minogue, Lulu and Deacon Blue.

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4 Around 150,000 volunteers – who were known as the Clydesiders - took part in the event.

5 The Glasgow Games were the first to integrate para sports.

6 More than 140 Commonwealth records were broken in Glasgow.

7 During the 11 days the Games took over the city, nearly 3.5 million people passed through Central Station.

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8 The motto for the 2014 Commonwealth Games was Bring It On.

9 More than 50,000 cuddly Clyde Mascots were sold during the run in Glasgow, and he featured in 25 statues around the city – one of which went missing after the closing ceremony. It was eventually traced by police.

10 More than half a million people popped in to the Live Site at Glasgow Green.

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11 The Commonwealth Games Queen’s Baton Relay journeyed through Glasgow over two days, involving comic Hardeep Singh Kohli, Britain’s Got Talent winner-turned-superstar singer Susan Boyle (who took the baton around the wards at Yorkhill Hospital) and a host of extraordinary ordinary Glaswegians.

Fireworks after the closing ceremonyFireworks after the closing ceremony (Image: Jamie Simpson/Newsquest)

12 Scotland’s first gold medal at the games was Kimberley Renick in judo. Her sister Louise also won gold.

13 Sir Chris Hoy had to rescue the baton-opening ceremony when Prince Imran of Malaysia could not get the lid off. The baton had travelled 288 days via 71 countries, and contained a message from the Queen, who looked on in amusement as the two men wrestled with it until they finally got it open.

14 Team Scotland fielded its largest team ever for the 2014 Games, with 310 taking part. Between them they achieved a record haul of 53 medals: 19 gold, 15 silver and 19 bronze to finish fourth on the medal table.