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Georgia Baker will have to wait until tomorrow to try and write Australian history, after finishing third in the women’s points race to secure the bronze medal.
A win today would have made Baker Australia’s most-successful Commonwealth Games cyclist – she’s currently tied with Anna Meares, Matthew Glaetzer and Bradley McGee for five gold medals.
Baker will be in action again tomorrow in the women’s elimination race to give it a crack.
Welsh Olympic medallist Anna Morris takes the gold, while countrywoman Jessica Roberts takes silver.
In, out, no mucking about.
The royal family leave the stands of the Chris Hoy velodrome after watching both men and women’s tandem events, along with the men’s semi-finals of the sprint.
Australia had another medal winner, this time in the men’s tandem sprint, with Kane Perris and pilot Luke Zaccaria picking up their second bronze medal of the Games.
“I had absolutely no idea,” Perris said of the Royal family watching his bronze medal race from the stands.
“I heard on Thursday there was a royal in the audience as well, but I might have been a little bit more nervous, so I’m almost glad that I didn’t know. But hopefully, we put on a bit of a show with the tandem sprinting.”
It’s been go, go, go here at the track, but our Australian women have just won silver in the tandem B 1000m time trial.
That’s the second silver medal of the Games for Jessica Gallagher and pilot Jacqueline Mengler-Mohr, after they also won silver in the tandem B sprint earlier in the week.
The Royal family were at the velodrome for the tandem time trial, but Gallagher had no idea when she got on the bike.
“We had Princess Anne in for our sprint day, so we just assumed they love tandem racing,” Gallagher said.
“One of the downsides of being visually impaired is that I can’t see in the stands, so I wouldn’t have a clue who’s down there.
If you’ve been at the velodrome for as many days as I have, you start to realise that everything, but the cycling, runs to a script.
They play the same songs, they make the same jokes, they play the same games with the crowd.
At this point, I could probably run you through from start to finish.
You wouldn’t know it sitting in the crowd, but the Prince and Princess of Wales have just arrived at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.
I say you wouldn’t know because no one has said anything.
There’s been no announcement over the loud speakers, no rumbling or mumbling from the crowd, and the big screens inside the velodrome are focused on the action on the track – the only reason I know is that someone tapped me on the shoulder to tell me.
We were told a corporate box was being prepared for them, but they’ve decided to sit in the crowd like everybody else.
Catherine, the Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Louis, Princess Charlotte and William, the Prince of Wales are all watching on during the women’s tandem B 1000m time trial.
They were unbeatable all tournament and storming towards a gold medal title defence.
But Shamera Sterling Humphrey said if anyone was going to beat the Diamonds, it was obviously going to be the Jamaicans
“We have the inside information on them [ the Diamonds] and thanks to the Suncorp Super Netball season for giving us the upper hand, playing them week in, week out,” she laughed.
A scrum of Australia media were waiting for the Aussie Diamonds after their nail-biting loss to Jamaica in a semi-final tonight.
We’ve just had a chat with Kate Moloney, who admitted the loss “hadn’t quite sunk in yet”.
“Really disappointing but credit to Jamaica, they really came out and really gave it to us,” she said. ” We probably just didn’t execute the way we needed to.”
Australia may have won gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, but netball fans might remember they did have one loss during the tournament, in the pool stages. Any guesses who they lost to?
That’s right … Jamaica.
I make that the last time the Diamonds lost at the Commonwealth Games, given their domination through the group stage of this tournament.
Australia claimed gold and silver in the women’s T38 200m with Rhiannon Clarke and Briseis Brittain winning gold and bronze.
Clarke came off the bend and was strong down the home straight to overtake England’s Sophie Hahn and win gold in 27.53s.
“Going into that, I knew it was possible to be able to get that medal, but it feels really real now. It’s crazy. Oh my gosh!” Clarke said.
A newfound self-belief – inspired by Australian boxing star and housemate Liam Wilson – has helped Jye Dixon claim Australia’s first boxing gold medal of the Commonwealth Games and fuel ambitions of one day becoming a world champion.
After a measured opening round, the Queenslander took control to comfortably defeat India’s Jadumani Singh Mandengbam in the men’s 55kg bantamweight final, with all five judges awarding him the bout.
Dixon was mobbed by his coaches after the unanimous victory and struggled to contain his emotions as Australia celebrated its first boxing gold of the Games.
