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Commonwealth Games 2018 are being held on the Gold Coast of Australia on the 4th-15th April.
more info to follow
An 11 year old will be competing in the table tennis
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/42788772
An 11 year old will be competing in the table tennis
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/42788772
Is that within the rules?
Is that within the rules?
Apparently each sport has its own rules.
Nice to know that Sally Pearson has qualified for the Commonwealth Games.
Mark Horton of Australia isn't interested in defending his 200m freestyle title.
Nobody noticed I put 2017 instead of 2018 in the heading :lol:
I did suddenly notice the year in the heading, today.
Jessica Peris of Australia, the daughter of Nova Peris, has failed a drugs test. Jessica had hoped to get into the Aussie team for the Commonwealth Games.
Dai Greene, the former 400m hurdler, has completed his first race since June 2016 in 50.08s which is 0.58s slower than the qualification time. He's already been included in the Welsh Commonwealth Games team, but needs to run faster before the 4th of next month.
Helicopters could be used for the athletes to get them to their venues, if the roads on the Gold Coast become grid locked with traffic.
The opening ceremony starts at 7pm (19.00pm) their time.
I thought that Gold Coast was the name of an area of Eastern Australia - I hadn't realised that it is in fact a city. How ignorant am I?:facepalm:
I thought that Gold Coast was the name of an area of Eastern Australia - I hadn't realised that it is in fact a city. How ignorant am I?:facepalm:
Snap :)
I wouldn't call it a city. More of an urban sprawl with a beach. There is a great theme park, though - Dreamland - which includes Tiger Island where you can pet a tiger!
Nan Stanford will be the Welsh captain.
Claudia Fragapane has done her Achilles heel and won't be taking part at the Commonwealth Games.
Only four more Wednesdays to go.
Omar MacLeod will miss next month's Commonwealth Games as he didn't make himself available for selection.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/43308650
Omar MacLeod will miss next month's Commonwealth Games as he didn't make himself available for selection.
Sorry to be an ignoramus but who is Omar MacLeod?
JAMES4578
08-03-2018, 10:28
Sorry to be an ignoramus but who is Omar MacLeod?
He's a Jamaican Hurdler (World and Olympic champion) Profile (https://www.iaaf.org/news/series/omar-mcleod-hurdles-jamaica) BBC Athletics (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/43313988)
If you know anyone aged between 16 and 25 years old and they live in the Birmingham area, the council would be interested in hearing from them. As they're looking for dancers, no experience needed, to appear on the TV during the closing ceremony on the 15th of next month.
All the adults tickets went on sale from $20 (about £11.28p). More tickets have gone on sale and everyone, who gets one, also gets free transport.
Though not at this year's Commonwealth Games, World Taekwondo is hoping the sport will be included at the Birmingham one in four years time.
https://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/sport/commonwealth-games/usain-bolts-advice-for-yohan-blake-ahead-of-commonwealth-games/news-story/f74dc2546887e39
Prince Charles will officially open the Games on the 4th of next month.
Yohan Blake, the Jamaican athlete, has said Usain Bolt will be in the crowd to watch the athletics.
Mark Cavendish has withdrawn from the Isle of Man team due to injury.
The Red Button will be showing the opening ceremony between 10am and 1pm (10am to 13.00pm). BBC 1 will be showing it between 10.30am and 2pm (10.30am to 14.00pm).
According to my TV magazine, BBC 1 will now be showing the opening ceremony between 10.30am and 1.30pm (10.30am to 13.30pm). The highlights will be shown on BBC 2 between 7pm and 8pm (19.00pm and 20.00pm)
Sally Pearson is battling against an Achilles tendon.
One of my cousins lives in Scarborough, Queensland. She's told me, the torch will be going through Redcliffe, Queensland, tomorrow, which isn't very far from where she lives.
It'll be interesting to learn who will our flag bearers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/435477992 This gives the daily guide, if anyone is wanting to watch it.
Eilidh Doyle will carry the Scottish flag at the opening ceremony on Wednesday.
Alistair Brownlee will carry England's flag and Jazz Carlin will carry the Welsh flag at the opening ceremony tomorrow.
Rosalind
05-04-2018, 09:25
Alistair Brownlee will carry England's flag and Jazz Carlin will carry the Welsh flag at the opening ceremony tomorrow.
I wonder if the flag carrying for Alistair impacted on his performance. I didn't see the triathlon and only heard the result but I wondered at the timings when I saw the length of the ceremony yesterday.
JAMES4578
05-04-2018, 09:58
Looks like an unwise decision from Alistair, however may not have been the crucial factor. Both brothers citing injury over the past month, they were in leading pack after swimming/cycling but struggled in the run. Jonny was 7th and Alistair 10th. Scott Mark Austin took Bronze(though don't know much about him) with title won by South African Henri Schoeman. Scotland have taken cycling gold with Neil Fachie, and Matt Rotherham, well done. England's Amiee Wilmott edged out Scotland's Hannah Miley in 400m individual medley, whilst pity for Hannah well done to Amiee! England have also now taken Men's Team Gold Gymnastics with Bronze for Scotland, great stuff! Bronze for James Guy in 400m free style with Olympic champion Australian Mark Horton taking Gold.
Adam Peaty will swim the 100m breaststroke in the early hours of tomorrow morning and the semi final will be later in the morning.
I wonder if the flag carrying for Alistair impacted on his performance. I didn't see the triathlon and only heard the result but I wondered at the timings when I saw the length of the ceremony yesterday.
BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/43650292) - Commonwealth Games: Scotland's Marc Austin wins bronze, Brownlee brothers miss out
Alistair, who carried the England flag during the opening ceremony, said his build-up had been hampered by a calf injury.
He said: "I would have preferred my calf to be good two months ago. If it was and I was able to train in that time, I reckon I would have been able to win that race."
Jonny said his training had been disrupted by an issue with his thigh.
"It was pretty terrible today," said Jonny. "My first thought was 'I wish I was fit'."
The Brownlees have a second chance to win a medal when they compete in the mixed team relay on Saturday, 7 April at 04:01 BST.
Rosalind
05-04-2018, 22:42
BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/43650292) - Commonwealth Games: Scotland's Marc Austin wins bronze, Brownlee brothers miss out
Yes I heard about the injuries after my original post. The team event is fun - hopefully they can come back with something.
Adam Peaty swims at about 11.30am, today, and could break his own world record.
Well done to Adam Peaty breaking the Games record, this morning. His final will be around about 10.50am tomorrow.
JAMES4578
06-04-2018, 18:17
Of course no guarantee but with his run of success Adam should have another great result tomorrow!
Well done to Adam Peaty and James Wilby, who came first and second in the 100m breaststroke.
JAMES4578
07-04-2018, 10:14
Congrats to Adam after another yet another Gold, well done! Perhaps not his best but can't always totally excel though he wad said to not be happy with performance. Another gold for Neil Fachie, fab! A Bronze for Scoland's Duncan Scott in 200m Butterfly for his 3rd medal, great! Welsh cyclist Elinor Barker pipped Kate Archibald to take Gold in the points Race, a great silver for Scot Jack Carlin in Men's sprint but was so close to taking New Zealand's Sam Webster to a final leg-well done all! . Gold and Silver for England in the All round Gymnastics with Nile Wilson and James Hall last night, great stuff! The Brownlee Brothers got on the podium with a silver in the Mixed relay with Jess Learmonth and Vicky Holland but too big a gap for Alistair to make up at the end with Australia taking the honours -still good result and great to see! In overnight action great Gold for aptly named Duncan Scott in 100m freestyle whilst England's Sarah Davis gets silver in Weightlifting 69kg, good news. James Guy fastest qualifier in 100m butterfly after pulling out of event yesterday, Scott Sean Campsie 2nd fastest.
The closing ceremony starts at 10.30am, next Sunday, according to the BBC website.
A great swim from Duncan Scott today defeating the reigning Commonwealth and Olympic champions to claim gold. Well done, Duncan!!! My daughter taught him History and says he is a lovely lad - he used to bring her lunch from the dining room sometimes because he worried about her working through her lunch hour and not eating! How many teenage boys would do that? Great performances from many other athletes from the home countries too. It's so good to see them all doing so well.
RosieBear
08-04-2018, 19:53
Just watching a bit of the Men's walking .....it's a bit of an odd discipline, isn't it... all the time I'm thinking oh for god sake just run like normal people.
I'm convinced that they are running sometimes - it's such a slim margin.
Good luck to Adam Peaty in today's 50m breaststroke final at 12.07pm.
Good luck to Jazz Carlin in the 800m freestyle final at 10.43am today.
Jazmin Carlin came sixth, as it was a one, two and three for the Aussies.
Shock!!! Adam Peaty gets the silver.
JAMES4578
09-04-2018, 11:30
Major surprise and pity for Adam, however hasn't been performing consistently in top form. South Africa's Van Der Burgh takes 50m Breaststroke title again, James Wilby 3rd. Not great for Jasmin Carlin though. Earlier James Willstrop takes the squash Gold at age of 34 and with Sarah Jane Perry also for England taking silver after losing 5 setter, well done! Gold for Alice Kinsella and Nile Wilson for England in Gymnastics, Holly Arnold has world record taking Gold in Javelin F46, fab!
themass15
09-04-2018, 17:53
Good day at the Games for the British teams. Thought Peaty coming 2nd was a bit of a shock!
I'm sure I'll be treading on many toes here but I just feel that Adam Peaty comes across as rather arrogant and the eulogising from the commies reminds me of Fed. Well done to all the British medal winners today though - fantastic performances!
The organisers of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham want to show it as a "diverse, young and a contemporary city". On Sunday morning, during the closing ceremony, there will be 400 dancers in Birmingham dancing to Mr Blue Sky by ELO. Amerah Saleh, a poet, will also be there as will Lady Sanity, a rapper. The ceremony will begin at 11am.
There will also be a film by Daniel Alexander during the closing ceremony.
The athletes for the men's 110m hurdles being introduced to the crowd.
Jamaica come first and second.
Ronald Levy wins it with Parchment coming second and Hough of Australia third. What happened to Pozzi?
Well done to Ben Proud of Plymouth, who has just won the gold medal in the 50m breaststroke.
Pouring it down with rain on the Gold Coast.
JAMES4578
10-04-2018, 10:31
Great gold for Ben Proud in 50m freestyle and silver for Duncan Scott in 200m Individual Medley just missing out to Aussie Mitch Larkin. This is 6th medal for the Scot , well done! Bronze for Welsh swimmer Georgina Davis in 50m backstroke with Gold going to Australian Emily Seebohn. Didn’t go well for Pozzi in hurdles unfortunately and injury forces Tom Daley out of individual platform but will compete in syncro. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/commonwealth-games/43376891
Josephine
10-04-2018, 15:08
The organisers of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham want to show it as a "diverse, young and a contemporary city". On Sunday morning, during the closing ceremony, there will be 400 dancers in Birmingham dancing to Mr Blue Sky by ELO. Amerah Saleh, a poet, will also be there as will Lady Sanity, a rapper. The ceremony will begin at 11am.
Well that's not very young or contemporary! ;)
Well done to Ben Proud of Plymouth, who has just won the gold medal in the 50m breaststroke.
I'm so pleased for Ben Proud after his questionable disqualification in the butterfly - he's so talented and yet so totally unassuming. Well done, Ben!
Toni Minichiello seems to curse the athletes that he picks for medals. Yesterday, he claimed Pozzi would win. Pozzi came nowhere. Today, Toni claimed Robbie Grabarz would win either a gold or silver medal in the high jump. Robbie did a no height in three attempts.
JAMES4578
11-04-2018, 12:16
Commentators curse though pity for Robbie, though a few do the same here :laugh: Jack Laugher had the Gold touch in retaining 1m Springboard, great stuff! Scott James Heatley (with some heritage) performed well to take the Bronze, well done!
England's Zharnel Hughes disqualified for impeding Jareem Richards after apparently coming 1st in 200m (Trinidadian named winner) Appeal underway but has now been upheld. Northern Ireland's Leon Reid in 3rd place. Earlier Jack Laugher with another Gold in 3m and Virgin Island winner Kyron McMaster in 400M Hurdles, fab and Sophie Hahn takes 100 K38 fab!! Silvers for Scot Elidh Doyle, silver and Bronze for English athletes Kyle Langford and Dina Asher Smith. Pretty good performances from all, well done! Kenya's Wycliffe takes Gold in 800 but celebrating a bit early nearly cost him!
More great results in the diving as Tom Daley/Dan Goodfellow took the Gold in 10m Syncro (though tight in the end and a mistake from both in comp - taking silver English pair Dixon and Williams who pushed the Australians into 3rd place), Still great from both after a lack of training. Scott Grace Reid took the 1m Springboard over Aussies Sheehan and Qin. Laugher and Mears also took Gold in 3m Syncro- congrats , all-fabulous!
Katarina Johnson Thomson won the Heptathlon , well done! Not best performance and picked up injury at end , hopefully ok going forward. Bowler Alex Marshall also won Gold for Scotland in Men's Fours, well done! As expected Caster Semenya easily won the 800 for the double as did Uganda's Joshua Kiprui with 5000/10,000 double.
on the penultimate day the Home Nations won 14 out of 44 possible medals, fabulous!
12/4 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/43739299) 13/4 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games) 14/4 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/43764636)
Watched Callum Hawkins' heartbreak happen live last night. Disgrace how long it took to get help to him.
JAMES4578
15-04-2018, 10:19
Definitely heartache for Callum and distressing scenes, shocking it took so long to get help! Australia's Michael shelley took the Gold in Marathon followed by Uganda's Munyo Solomon , fellow scot Robbie Simpson done well to take the Bronze. At least Callum seems to be recovering well. Final Day (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games) Some other news on final day, Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge win Badminton Doubles Gold over Indian 2nd seeds Rankireddy and Shetty, England also took netball Gold over Australia. Scotland missed out on Badminton Bronze to New Zealand.
I really feel for poor Callum Hawkins. I was watching the marathons and it was really distressing to see him weaving about, collapsing and then getting up to try to finish the race before finally collapsing.
Glad to hear he is OK and sitting up in bed. Such a brave athlete and so disappointing for him that he was not far off the finishing line and a gold medal.
I agree with Steve Cram and Paula Radcliffe that he should have received medical help sooner than he was. Surely the organisers would have had people watching the event on screens and at the first sign that he was in trouble have organised medical help. I've read that he refused medical help - it was obvious that he was in no condition to make such a decision.
RosieBear
15-04-2018, 14:54
What about that netball gold! England :worship: Made history just to reach the final, 4 down deep in the 4th against Aussies, how they pulled that win out in literally the last second I'll never know :clap::clap::clap:
JAMES4578
16-04-2018, 13:38
Final detailed Medal Table from the official site Medal Standings (https://results.gc2018.com/en/all-sports/detailed-medal-standings-.htm) Mind you there didn't seem as much interest this time. (far more posts for the Winter Olympics)
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/apr/16/gold-coast-commonwealth-games-finale-birmingham-2022
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