Queen's Baton Relay around Scotland
The Baton is in Glasgow today on its journey to Gold Coast in Australia
Last updated 22nd Aug 2017
The Queen's Baton returns to Glasgow today, three years after the city hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games, on its journey to in Australia.
The baton will travel Scotland for five days, starting at the Glasgow School of Sport in Bellahouston and also visiting the Emirates Arena and the former Athletes Village.
Jon Doig, Chief of Commonwealth Games Scotland, says the focus is on getting young people involved...
It's the 42nd stop on the baton's global tour which will end at the opening ceremony in Gold Coast.
It is starting its visit at the Glasgow School of Sport in Bellahouston where Olympic and Commonwealth silver medal-winning swimmer Michael Jamieson will be the first bearer.
The baton's route takes it to youth and community projects with a strong focus on Games legacy.
At lunchtime it will be in the former Commonwealth Games Athletes' Village in Dalmarnock, which is now a residential area and then over the new pedestrian cycle and footbridge into South Lanarkshire, for a loop of the Cuningar Woodland Park, which is one of the 2014 legacy projects.
It will end the day at a public event in George Square, where there will be a meeting between Bonnie the Seal, the new face of the Glasgow 2018 European Championships and the much loved former Glasgow 2014 mascot Clyde, who is now fully immersed in his new Team Scotland role