When the Commonwealth Games athletics programme starts in Glasgow on Sunday, the standard of European hurdling will shine more than any other discipline.
And there will probably be no louder cheer at Hampden Park than if Eilidh Child triumphs in her final which takes place on Thursday night.
Child, Europe’s leading 400m hurdler, will find herself in one of the races of the Games as she faces Jamaican Kaliese Spencer, the world no 1.
But while on times Spencer is quicker than the Scottish athlete, the backing of more than 50,000 home fans can do wonders for a runner - as Child is about to discover.
She goes into the Commonwealths with a season’s best of 54.39 which she ran when the IAAF Diamond League was staged in this same venue just over two weeks ago. Spencer has run 53.41.
Emotions will be high for one of Scotland’s biggest hopes who will then head to the European Athletics Championships in Zurich as a big gold-medal favourites.
Whether Welshman Dai Greene will in Zurich will probably be decided over the next few days.
Greene is the defending Commonwealth 400m hurdles champion but after a lengthy period of injury, he still needs to achieve British athletics’ European qualifying time of 49.80.
He has run only once this summer, in Budapest at the start of July, where he won in 49.89.
A time of 48.52 brought gold in the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in 2010 for a man who had clearly established himself as the best in the sport after winning the European Athletics Championships title a few months earlier in Barcelona before becoming world champion in Daegu the following summer.
In the women’s 100m hurdles, England's Tiffany Porter could gain the scalp of Australia’s Olympic champion Sally Pearson.
Even though Pearson has a year's best of 12.59, that was from Perth in February, and Porter has been running quicker since with her 12.65 putting her second on the European Athletics rankings.
The men’s 110m hurdles will be a perfect stage for Will Sharman to secure the first major title of his career.
Sharman is having one of the best summer’s of his life which has included finishing second at the European Team Championships in Braunschweig at the end of June in 13.21.
He will surely be in the medal shake-up in Zurich and in Glasgow, with the absence of Jamaica's world no 1 Hansle Parchment who has run 12.94, the Englishman will fancy his chances of gold.
Parchment’s teammate Andrew Riley, who has run 13.19, will prove a tough test, though.
Away from the hurdles, Britain's Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford will look to add this title to his London glory competing for England while in the women’s 3000m steeplechase, the clock will be turned back to the last time Scotland staged the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1986.
Then, Liz Lynch – now more famously known as Liz McColgan - won the first major gold medal of her career with an emotional run in the 10,000m.
This time it is her 23-year-old daughter Eilish’s chance, running over barriers where the Kenyans are a dominant force but determined to make a mark just like her mum all those years ago.