COMMONWEALTH Games stars are to look back on the event with memory experts from Glasgow Caledonian University to aid work on tackling dementia.
Gold-medal winning Judo sisters Kimberley and Louise Renicks, weightlifter Louise Mather and Scotland hockey star Nicola Skrastin will be among the members of the Glasgow 2014 squad taking part in a Commonwealth Games Memories Day as part of efforts to use sport to tackle isolation, depression and dementia.
The university and charity the Sporting Memories Network (SMN) will be asking those who took part in the Games this year, and in previous years, to share their experiences, which will be recorded by student "memory makers".
SMN was established to develop and promote the use of sporting memories to improve the well-being of older people.
Other athletes taking part include Colin Gregor of Scotland's Rugby Sevens squad who won his first cap in the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in 2006 and then was named in the Glasgow 2014 team.
Participants will also include some of the volunteers who helped make the 2014 Games successful, plus spectators and media professionals.
Dr John Harris of GCU said: "There are a number of individuals, including many staff and students here at GCU, who are passionate about sport and it is a real pleasure to be able to bring these people together."
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