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Shantae Amankwaah is the youngest gymnast in Team England's squad [Getty Images] In 2014, when the Commonwealth Games were last in Glasgow, a little-known teenage gymnast, Claudia Fragapane, became one of Britain's breakthrough stars as she won four gold medals on her debut.
Twelve years on, with the competition returning to the same city, another Bristol-born teenager is hoping to one day follow in Fragapane's footsteps when she makes her own Games bow.
Shantae Amankwaah, who is part of the same Bristol Hawks gymnastics club where Fragapane began her career, said it is "surreal" to be heading to the same competition.
"I've always looked up to her. Even in 2014 I was only young, and I didn't go to this gym yet, but she had so many big achievements, and when I came, she was always someone I looked up to," Amankwaah told BBC Points West.
"It's really inspiring, especially because…
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