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Commonwealth Games road races live

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Aka Emma Pooley's final race before retiring from pro cycling. Best wishes to Emma in her future endeavours, and let's hope for one more day of crazy attacking. Oh and for equality's sake, there's a men's race later.

Here's a look at the course through Glasgow city centre.

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It was used for last year's British Nationals, with Lizzie Armistead winning the women's race, and a much-missed Manxman taking the men's title. Interestingly his win didn't come from a bunch sprint. Instead a strong group of 6 riders escaped early on and the bunch never saw them again. Thanks to some anti-Sky collaboration with David Millar, Cav easily won the day.

Described by one team manager last year as "80% kermesse and 20% flanders", the course is more selective than it first appears, with a few short sharp ramps (see below) to launch attacks. The women do 7 laps/98km, the men 12 laps/168km.

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Startlists can be found here for the women and here for the men.

In the women's race Lizzie Armistead is the pre-race favourite (provided she has recovered from her La Course crash), with support from the likes of Pooley and Lucy Garner. However Australia look very strong on paper, headlined by Hosking, Hoskins and Cromwell. Other strong riders include TT champ Linda Villumsen from New Zealand, Leah Kirchmann from Canada (fresh off a podium at La Course) and Scotland's own Katie Archibald.

The men's race is wide open, with no clear favourite, although once again the Australian team looks the strongest. They have already stated they are determined to set up a sprint finish for either Mark Renshaw or Caleb Ewan. It will be up to the other teams to disrupt the Aussie plan, possibly through some GB / Skybot collaboration from the likes of Geraint Thomas for Wales, Peter Kennaugh for the Isle of Man and Ian Stannard for England. Other contenders include Svein Tuft for Canada and CTU agent Jack Bauer.

One for the early birds, the women's race begins at an ungodly 8:00am (BST) with the finish scheduled sometime after 10:30am. Coverage will be definitely be live on the BBC Sport website here, and I'm sure the latter stages at least will be shown on BBC TV. I'm sure Sarah will be up bright and early to cover the action - follow her on Twitter @pigeons.

The men's race starts at a slightly more reasonable midday (BST) with the finish due after 4pm. Again live BBC stream here, with BBC TV most likely showing last hour or so.

Oh and remember, no VDS points - it's just for fun!