High Standards were set in the run up to the 2014 Commonwealth Games for the Wales team, with a target of 27 medals set by the Commonwealth Games Council for Wales. This surpassed the team's total achieved at the
2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. The first major set back for the team was the withdrawal in June of world triathlete champion
Non Stanford, who was unable to recover in time from a stress fracture to her ankle. Two weeks later it was announced that double cycling world champion
Becky James would also be withdrawing from the Games, also due to an injury. A week before the Games began triathlete
Helen Jenkins, another medal hopeful, was forced to leave the Welsh team, again through injury. Other team members forced to withdraw through injury close to the opening of the Games included weightlifter Faye Pittman and judoka Kyle Davies. As well as the athletes who left the squad through injury, several hopefuls' withdrawals were more controversial. On 16 July it was announced that 800m runner
Gareth Warburton had been charged with anti-doping rule violations and was unable to be selected, this was followed on the opening day of the Games with the withdrawal of 400m hurdler and team Wales vice captain
Rhys Williams again after failing a drug test at a Grand Prix event earlier that month. Further disappointment for Welsh medal hopes came from the boxing team. Olympic silver medalist
Fred Evans was unable to compete after long negotiations between the Welsh camp and the Home Office and Games officials resulting in a refusal of accreditation. Earlier in the year Evans had admitted his part in a nightclub assault. A second loss from the boxing team was female fighter Ashley Brace, who was disqualified from taking part in the Games as she was adjudged to have once been a professional kick-boxer and was thus not an amateur fighter. The loss of so many world class athletes led Chef de Mission Brian Davies to conceded that the initial target of 27 medals was now optimistic. ==Medalists==