Woods won gold, then lost it and had to do it again
Brilliant scenes at the athletics track as Scotland’s Melanie Woods has won the gold medal and set a Games record for the women’s T54 1500m final.
Woods won a crash-marred race just under two days ago and set a Games record, but after protests from Australia and Mauritius, organisers ruled the race should be re-run today.
Woods looked very emotional under her racing glasses following the race as she led from start to finish to post a Games record time of 3:32.20.
Mauritius racer Noemi Alphonse finished second in 3:32.98 and Australia’s Eliza Ault-Connell finished third in 3:40.84.
Dramatic call as T54 1500m race to be re-run this morning
The final of the women’s 1500m T54 will be re-raced on Friday night (AEST) after Australian veteran Eliza Ault-Connell’s successful protest.
Ault-Connell was taken out by Canada’s Nandini Sharma, who was disqualified.
Scotland’s Melanie Woods crossed the line first in the initial race and looms as the rival to beat for Ault-Connell, who at 44 years old is at her fourth Games.
The race saw carnage due to several incidents as multiple athletes were forced to ground or off the track.
Sharma’s disqualification remains in place leaving six of the original seven competitors in this race.
The medals were not due to be presented until yesterday, so no one has to be stripped of their physical medals from the first race.
Roy Ward with AAP
More medals on offer as cycling reaches day two
Good evening readers.
I find myself out at the Chris Hoy velodrome again for day two of the cycling, where there are plenty more medals on offer.
Australia had a fantastic start to the cycling and para cycling yesterday, picking up three gold, two silver and a bronze to top the cycling medal tally after the first day of competition.
Here’s a run down of this evening’s events and the Aussies in action (all times in AEST).
7pm: Women’s sprint qualifying: Molly McGill, Liliya Tatarinoff and Alessia McCaig
7.30pm: Women’s 4000m individual pursuit qualifying: Claudia Marcks and Sophie Edwards
9.29pm: Men’s 4000m individual pursuit qualifying: James Moraiarty, Oliver Bleddyn and Conor Leahy
Warriors on track to score first win
The winless Warriors of Northern Ireland are on track to end their netball competition on a high as they lead fellow winless team Trinidad and Tobago 40-18 at half-time in their classification match.
Today is classification day for the teams who have missed out on the semi-finals, which will be played tomorrow.
The teams are playing for 11th and 12th place. Both sides have taken some pastings this tournament against the big sides, so this more even battle will be welcomed by both of them.
Australia will play Jamaica in their semi-final tomorrow AEST with New Zealand and England playing off in the other semi.
The gold medal match will be played on Sunday evening AEST.
Mollie O’Callaghan joins other stars in missing Pan Pacs
Australia will head to next month’s Pan Pacific Championships without several of its biggest swimming stars after Commonwealth Games gold medallist Mollie O’Callaghan became the latest high-profile withdrawal.
Swimming Australia confirmed on Friday that O’Callaghan, who won the women’s 200m freestyle and three relay gold medals in Glasgow, will return home instead of travelling with the team to California as she continues to manage the back injury that has troubled her since last month’s national trials.
The 22-year-old still collected four gold medals at the Commonwealth Games but was below the lofty standards she has set, with her individual times well short of the world-leading marks she has produced over the past three years.
The sport axed by Victoria 2026 and salvaged by Glasgow
Victoria’s clumsy and expensive disposal of Commonwealth Games hosting rights sparked little hope among Australian athletes, unless you happen to be a judoka.
When Victoria drew up grand plans for the 2026 Games, expanding the event to be a 21-sport extravaganza spread out across five regional bases in the state, there was no room for judo.
It was a bitter blow for the sport.
Especially after Birmingham 2022 had been Australia’s greatest ever Games from a judo perspective, with 11 athletes bringing home two golds among a 10-medal haul.
The medal tally so far
Check out the medal tally after day seven.
What to watch today
Why are we seeing such fast times at the track? The athletes explain
It was clear this Scotstoun Stadium track was quick from the very first race.
Never before at a Commonwealth Games had the first two 100-metre races been run in 10 seconds flat and 10.01s.
This new, blue track by the company Mondo, which calls it the Sportflex Super X 720 track, whatever that means, is incredibly quick.
Welcome
Hello everyone and welcome to another day of our live coverage of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Plenty to look forward to today, but particularly the 200-metre finals at the track at the end of the day.
Let’s get into it.
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