Aths program to heat up, but not the weather
Welcome to a wet aths track for day two of field and track. This is a big day, well night, on the track.
Tonight we’ve got the men’s 100m finals with Australia’s fastest man Lachie Kennedy hitting the track for the first time in the semi-finals – the sore point for some including Rohan Browning about the weird qualification they have employed here in Scotland. Anyway both of them and Eddie Nketia will be running in the sprint finals. So too will Torrie Lewis in the women’s 100m.
Meanwhile Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson would be short odds – if you were a betting person – to take gold and silver in the high jump. While the field is strong the pair are in exceptional form. The romance is with Eleanor winning gold again in Glasgow 12 years after she won the high jump gold here as a 17-year-old schoolgirl. (I wrote a bit about this earlier, so I’ll self-indulgently encourage you to give it a squiz).
The forecast is not great for the day – rain periodically during the day and the track is wet after overnight rain. Currently there is a mix of clear blue and leaden grey skies so make of that what you will. It’s 19 degrees so not cold in the scheme of things, but this is apparently summer.
The women’s heptathlon is underway now. Australian pair Tori West and Mia Scerri were both in the same 100m hurdles race. West is now into fourth in the overall rankings and Scerri tenth.
Big schedule for penultimate day of swimming
The penultimate day of swimming here in Glasgow. Nowhere near as many fans as the weekend action, but we crack on with some racing. Ten different events this morning for heat session.
Will Petric is a big medal chance in the men’s 400m individual medley and will be aiming to qualify in a good lane for tonight’s final. Same goes for Jenna Forrester in the 200m individual medley after her win yesterday in the 400m IM.
Interesting that Cam McEvoy (50m freestyle champion) and Kyle Chalmers are still down to the 50m butterfly heats. Free spin time for McEvoy, but Chalmers has a 100m freestyle final tonight. With Flynn Southam nipping at his heels, you wouldn’t have begrudged Chalmers to trying to conserve all his energy.
However, Chalmers is a gold medal chance in the butterfly. Women’s 50m freestyle heats should be a walk in the park for Australia’s world champion Meg Harris, while Olympic gold and silver medallist Zac Stubblety-Cook is in action in his favoured 200m breaststroke event.
Giddy up.
Aths program to heat up, but not the weather
Welcome to a wet aths track for day two of field and track. This is a big day, well night, on the track.
Tonight we’ve got the men’s 100m finals with Australia’s fastest man Lachie Kennedy hitting the track for the first time in the semi-finals – the sore point for some including Rohan Browning about the weird qualification they have employed here in Scotland. Anyway both of them and Eddie Nketia will be running in the sprint finals. So too will Torrie Lewis in the women’s 100m.
Meanwhile Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson would be short odds – if you were a betting person – to take gold and silver in the high jump. While the field is strong the pair are in exceptional form. The romance is with Eleanor winning gold again in Glasgow 12 years after she won the high jump gold here as a 17-year-old schoolgirl. (I wrote a bit about this earlier, so I’ll self-indulgently encourage you to give it a squiz).
The forecast is not great for the day – rain periodically during the day and the track is wet after overnight rain. Currently there is a mix of clear blue and leaden grey skies so make of that what you will. It’s 19 degrees so not cold in the scheme of things, but this is apparently summer.
The women’s heptathlon is underway now. Australian pair Tori West and Mia Scerri were both in the same 100m hurdles race. West is now into fourth in the overall rankings and Scerri tenth.
Monday’s highlight: Australian makes history with brilliant 10,000m gold
Rose Davies looked at the big screen and couldn’t work out how far ahead she was. She had taken the lead with two laps of the 10,000 metres to go, and she was flying.
But the screen was deceptive. Were her opponents closing? Had she gone too early?
“I was running scared. You know, anything could happen, and I had no idea where the girls were,” she said.
“I was trying to look on the big screen, but I was just going as hard as I could in the last 100 metres. But yeah, once I crossed the line, I was very happy.”
A massive day for Victoria … which could have hosted the Games
It has been a massive couple of days in Victoria, leading up to Jacinta Allan’s resignation today.
Her exit speech focused heavily on her decades of achievement, but the Commonwealth Games and Big Build corruption were glaring omissions. This feature looks past the official farewell to examine the frustration, the failures and the fault lines of her premiership.
In Glasgow, Australian athletes have dominated the 2026 Commonwealth Games medal table – a success Premier Jacinta Allan was once supposed to bask in. But their glory ended up taking place far away from her.
Instead, Allan was attempting to fend off a leadership challenge from colleagues despairing at Labor’s bleak prospects of retaining power in November’s state election.
The government’s disastrous, and some might say farcical, decision to withdraw as host of the Games just months before Allan became leader eliminated any prospect of political gain Labor might have hoped for from the event.
Read more and check out our latest coverage
Photos: A memorable moment for Scotland
This was a memorable moment for the host nation on Monday. Silver medallist Reuben Ward and bronze medallist, both representing Scotland, were ecstatic after the men’s pommel horse event.
State of play: The medal tally so far
Good evening folks
My name is Scott Spits, and I’m easing into the live blogging hosting chair for the start of all action from Glasgow on day five of the Commonwealth Games. There are stacks of events on the schedule: the men’s and women’s 100m on the track, basketball games, gymnastics gold up for grabs, and Australia takes on Malawi in the netball.
Bring. It. On.
What to watch on day five
The medal tally so far
First shoes, now speed suits: Australia joins arms race to get an edge in athletics
Australia is exploring developing a new high-tech, aerodynamically streamlined “speed suit” for its runners, similar to the one worn by Scot Josh Kerr when he broke the mile world record earlier this month.
Speed suits have joined super shoes in the arms race for an edge in athletics.
Kerr wore a running spike specially tailored by his shoe and apparel company Brooks, as well as an aerodynamically designed and tested speed suit with few seams, holes and a blend of fabrics, all of which were tested in a wind tunnel.
Australian Athletics head coach Andrew Faichney said the coaches and athletes were collaborating with their sponsor Puma to explore a similar speed suit for Australian athletes.
“There is only so much in athletics that technology can affect, it is not like cycling and other events. Running a mile it’s just you and your contact with the air and with the ground,” Faichney said.
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