Maids join Games party despite ‘crazy’ ban
GOLD Coast Meter Maids are walking the Surfers Paradise strip despite being warned they face a $750 fine for doing so.
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Team Cameroon jets home, hunt for missing athletes continues
CAMEROON athletes and officials have made an emergency dash back home from the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games after eight athletes – or a third of their team – went missing from the village over the past four days.
Reporter falls in pool on live TV
A BBC presenter left Commonwealth Game swimmers in stitches when he took an unexpected plunge mid-interview.
Chase star hopes for better chemistry
HE’S known as the stats man, but ‘The Supernerd’ Issa Schultz is hoping to garner the title ladies man in his new quest for love on the Gold Coast.
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Swimming WAGs say it’s fair to share
YOU know you’re close with your boyfriend when you can wear his shirt to a swish event.
Games a watershed moment for female sport
SUNRISE host Sam Armytage says Australian sport has reached a turning point when it comes to gender equality and believes the stars of this year’s Commonwealth Games will be the girls.
Games’ boss inadvertent Twitter blunder
A MAJOR advertising journal appears to have been caught in a Twitter sting and Games chair Peter Beattie appears to have been unwittingly caught up in it.
‘Oh, Ricki can’t sing, she’s sh*t’
A FED up Ricki-Lee Coulter has denied she was lip syncing at the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony and believes she “can’t win” when it comes to public perception.
Games boss: Expect perfect transport? You’re a lunatic
THE Gold Coast Commonwealth Games boss says anyone expecting perfect public transport during the event is ‘a lunatic’.
Games bosses defend ‘bored’ Camilla
COMMONWEALTH Game bosses have leapt to the defence of Prince Charles’ wife Camilla, saying there’s a reason she was caught reading a magazine during the Opening Ceremony, and it’s one many of us might be able to relate to.
Opening show: Backstage tensions revealed
ALL was not as happy as it might have appeared behind the scenes of the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony, with claims tensions were boiling backstage ahead of the big night.
Inspiration in the links between our nations
PRINCE Charles has delivered a message of the connectness between Commonwealth nations from the Queen in his Games opening ceremony speech on the Gold Coast.
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