It was largely about Dans and dans as Scotland's Commonwealth Games gymnastics and judo teams were unveiled at The Hydro yesterday.
With the weightlifting squad also named, 29 competitors were added to what will, eventually, be Scotland's biggest-ever team at a Games and no-one is more excited to be taking part than Daniel Keatings.
Still only 24, the gymnast's career has been repeatedly blighted by injury dating back to the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne where his Scotland debut ended in the agony of three spinal stress fractures.
A remarkable recovery brought success at European and World level, with Keatings becoming the first British gymnast to win an all-round medal at the World Championships in 2009. However, ankle ligament damage contributed to him missing out on the London Olympics where Daniel Purvis, who is joining him in a Scotland Commonwealth Games team for the first time, won a team bronze medal.
"In 2012 I was injured a lot and didn't get selected for the Olympics and that was always in the back of my mind. Before that I'd never been overlooked in selection, so it's a bit of a relief," Keatings said yesterday.
Since relatively few sportsmen have a home Games during their careers and even fewer get a second chance, he is determined to seize it.
"After what happened with the Olympics it makes you realise that it doesn't come around often. It's such a special, major event and just to be selected is a major achievement in itself - especially in your home country," Keatings acknowledged.
"It was devastating in 2012. If it had been because I wasn't good enough I could take that, but because it was through injury that just made it harder because I could maybe have avoided that if I'd been a little bit more careful in the gym.
"Those things happen, though. I spent a lot of time beating myself up about it. Especially with the success of the London Games and the success of my teammates. I went there to support them and I was really happy for them but I wanted to be a part of it and that was the really hard thing for me.
"That disappointment is now fuel to the fire. It's driving me on towards the Commonwealth Games."
Keatings and Purvis are among a number of English-born members of Team Scotland and no-one expressed more eloquently why so many of them are opting for the competition's host country than Sally Conway, one of the judo players who has accrued sufficient dans to make the grade.
She admitted she had no reason to take special interest when, the last time her sport was included in the Games at Manchester 12 years ago, Graeme Randall memorably won gold for Scotland. But that changed when, in spite of having no Scottish connections, she was persuaded to move north as an 18-year-old.
"I was in Bristol at the time. I didn't know I was going to be Scottish until I moved up, but I wouldn't change it now," she said. "I left school at 16/17 and went to do full-time training at Bisham Abbey, but that closed down and my judo coach at the time said I should come up and train full-time with the set-up in Edinburgh and see how you like it.
"I did a couple of weeks, absolutely loved the training, loved the whole atmosphere, loved Edinburgh, then went back home for a month, but I decided this is what I want to do. So I packed my bags, my dad drove me up to Scotland and I've been here ever since."
Part of a wider British team most of the year, Conway, one of the best in the world at 70kg, says she has had little in the way of stick or pressure from English team members regarding that decision.
"I've been up here so long now that people think I'm Scottish anyway. Not the accent as much, but after nine years up here I'd hope it had changed a little," she laughed. "However, this is the right thing to do and if I was to fight for England that wouldn't fit with me."
As expected, multiple Olympians Sarah Clark and Euan Burton had their inclusion in the team confirmed and it will almost certainly be the last chance to see either in action. For Clark, 36, it will be a natural conclusion. "Some days you wonder whether you are going to get through the day, whether it is due to injuries or how hard the training is," she said. "But after Glasgow it would be a fitting time to close the door on that part of my judo life and a lot of other doors will open."
Team Scotland's latest recruits:
Artistic gymnastics
Frank Baines, Adam Cox, Liam Davie, Daniel Keatings, Daniel Purvis, Cara Kennedy, Erin McLachlan, Amy Regan, Carly Smith, Emma White
Judo
James Austin (-100kg), John Buchanan (-60kg), Andrew Burns (-90kg), Euan Burton (-100kg), Patrick Dawson (-73kg), Matthew Purssey (-90kg), Chris Sherrington (+100kg)
Sarah Adlington (+78kg), Sally Conway (-70kg), Sarah Clark (-63kg), Stephanie Inglis (-57kg), Connie Ramsay (-57kg), Kimberley Renicks (-48kg), Louise Renicks (-52kg)
Weightlifting
Peter Kirkbride (-94kg)
Georgina Black (-63kg), Louise Mather (-69kg), Sophie Smyth (-58kg)
Para-sport powerlifting
Michael Yule
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