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Commonwealth Games feel like a home games for seven home nations

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Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey fans cheer on local heroes as Glasgow welcomes seven teams from British Isles

Peter Kennaugh won gold for Great Britain at the London Olympics in the cycling team pursuit, but for the 25-year-old, Saturday's silver at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow still felt "pretty special".

Kennaugh rides for Team Sky and, as the current British road race champion, might have felt almost as aggrieved as Sir Bradley Wiggins at being excluded from this year's Tour de France squad. Sky's loss, however, is the Isle of Man's gain the 25-year-old hails from Douglas, and his 40km points race Commonwealth medal took the total won by the island since its 1958 Games debut to 11.

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