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The Commonwealth Games ended on Monday with a familiar look.

Once again the Games' twin superpowers hoovered up close to half the golds on offer. Together, they won 124 of the 280 on offer.

England can take heart from winning more medals overall than at any previous Games.

Further down the table, Scotland also left with a bumper haul. Apart from their home showing at Glasgow 2014, they won more golds and more medals than at any other Games.

Wales dropped from seventh to eighth in the medal table compared to Gold Coast, while Northern Ireland rose to 11th from 20th after hitting a rich seam of boxing success.

On the Alexander Stadium track, Scotland's Eilish McColgan rode a wall of sound to a tearful 10,000m win.

At the Thames Valley VeloPark, England's Laura Kenny invoked the magic of London 2012 to banish her own doubts and win scratch race gold.

In the Sandwell Aquatics pool, Alice Tai triumphed, six months after taking the decision to have her right leg amputated below the knee.

While a snorting steampunk bull stole the show at the opening ceremony, Malala Yousafzai's words echoed through the action.

Yousafzai was 15 when she was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan, a revenge attack for demanding her right to education.

A decade later and now a resident of Birmingham, a graduate of Oxford University and a Nobel Prize winner, she told the crowd about the power of sport.

Taken from Commonwealth Games: Birmingham breathes life into Games - BBC Sport