A selection of what the athletes have had to say on the fifth day of action in Glasgow. 

New Zealand's Zoe Hobbs (pictured, left) was in disbelief after winning the Athletics 100m final at the EDF Scotstoun Stadium ahead of England's Amy Hunt and Torrie Lewis of Australia:

"This is a surreal moment for me. Just making the Commonwealth Games was hard enough... So to be walking away with any colour of medal, let alone a gold, is just incredible. I needed to see the result on the scoreboard because I needed it to feel real. It was just disbelief."

No Scotland No Party? Certainly in the case of Mary 'Queen of Shots' Stevenson when asked how she would be celebrating winning gold in the Para Mixed Pairs B2-B3 Bowls:

"Get drunk."

Meg Pilkington's mum has been an ever-present in The Hydro crowd at Glasgow 2026, even texting the Wales Netballer during matches to tell her where she's sitting:

"Afterwards, she always always says, 'Could you hear me shouting? Can you hear me cheering?'. And I'm like, 'No mum, I can't hear you', but I know she's there. She just needs a megaphone, I think."

After winning the Men's Vault and Horizontal Bar for Canada, artistic gymnast Felix Dolci will be leaving Glasgow with four gold medals, a silver and a bronze. Reason enough to celebrate...?

"Hell, yeah. A couple of beers, some great food, a little dessert, why not?"

Juggling full-time employment with top-level sport isn't a problem for Scotland's Angus Doig, who claimed bronze in the 88kg Weightlifting:

"I'm a fulltime firefighter in Cheshire, Crew Watch Blue - big up - and I train out of my garage by myself. I do all my own programming, nutrition (and) I coach myself. Being a firefighter actually works really well for this sort of thing because I have a very regular shift pattern - that allows me to train consistently."

Northern Ireland's Katherine O'Connor is in pole position to win the Heptathlon after four events, but you wouldn't know it after her assessment of the Shot Put at a sodden EDF Scotstoun on Tuesday night.

"Every time I dried the shot and then put chalk on the shot, the rain would make the chalk slippier. The whole thing was a nightmare."

After winning the Men's 100m Freestyle to continue his country's dominance in the pool, Flynn Southam highlights some other things Australians are good at.

"People say Aussies don't have culture. I beg to differ. I can't wait to be back home, crack open a cold beer, and go for a fish and a surf on the beach. I think that's what it means to represent Australia."