Five-time Commonwealth champion bowler Alex Marshall and two-time judo champion Sarah Adlington will be Scotland’s flagbearers at Thursday’s Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
With five golds, one silver and one bronze, Marshall is Scotland’s most successful athlete at the Commonwealth Games while Adlington is chasing an unprecedented third judo gold at the Games.<\/p>\n
England’s flagbearers will be Sian Honnor, a four-time medalist in bowls, and swimmer Luke Greenbank.<\/p>\n
Boxer Rosie Eccles, who turns 30 on the day of the ceremony, and bowler Daniel Salmon are Wales’ flagbearers.<\/p>\n
Northern Ireland’s duo will be confirmed on Thursday.<\/p>\n
“It is a huge honour and a great feeling,” Marshall told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
“It is not often I get emotional but I certainly had a tear in my eye this morning.”<\/p>\n
Honnor said: “I didn’t know I was nominated until I went on to select who I wanted to do it. I think for bowls to be included in the shortlist is amazing and a great platform for the sport.<\/p>\n
“To be chosen, there are no words. I am absolutely honoured to be leading England in that way.”<\/p>\n
Eccles said it was a “huge honour” while Salmon was in tears when speaking to the BBC.<\/p>\n
“I still am a little speechless,” Eccles said. “I feel so fiercely proud to represent Wales anyway but to carry to the flag and lead some amazing athletes out…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five-time Commonwealth champion bowler Alex Marshall and two-time judo champion Sarah Adlington will be Scotland’s flagbearers at Thursday’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-539322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}