Glasgow Commonwealth Games<\/p>\n
Our lawn bowlers will be the first Kiwis in action, when the Glasgow Commonwealth Games begin over night.<\/p>\n
Singles exponent Shannon McIlroy, and women’s pair Katelyn Inch and Selina Goddard will contest their opening pool games at the Scottish Exhibition Centre – the first time bowls has been staged indoors at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
McIlroy is a former world singles champion, while Inch and Goddard captured bronze at Birmingham four years ago.<\/p>\n
Organisers have scheduled an extra day’s competition before the opening ceremony, due to the larger-than-expected number of entries.<\/p>\n
The opening ceremony will take place early Friday morning at the OVO Hydro indoor arena, seating capacity of 12,000.<\/p>\n
This will also be the first time an opening ceremony has taken place indoors.<\/p>\n
Not all the NZ team will march into the stadium – some will be saving themselves for their competitions over the next few days.<\/p>\n
Men’s singles – Shannon McIlroy v Tonga 8.30pm<\/p>\n
Women’s pairs – Katelyn Inch & Selina Goddard v Kenya 12.45am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glasgow Commonwealth Games Our lawn bowlers will be the first Kiwis in action, when the Glasgow Commonwealth Games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-540092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540092","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=540092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}