AUSTRALIA overcame the shock second quarter ejection of Opals star Liz Cambage to cash-in the most bankable gold medal of the Commonwealth Games. Meanwhile, a boxer has accused judges of favouring Aussie athletes.
GIVEN Australian sport’s love of a good statue, how about one featuring four female athletes out the front of Carrara Stadium?
THE image of Mel Breen face down on the Carrara Stadium track summed up Australia’s relay woes this afternoon, and it wasn’t the only thing that went wrong in a disappointing end to the athletics campaign.
WHEELCHAIR hero Kurt Fearnley will vie with swimming superstars Mitch Larkin and the Campbell sisters for the honour of carrying the Australian flag at the closing ceremony farewell party for the Commonwealth Games on Sunday night.
NO Sally Pearson but Michelle Jenneke has delivered a brave effort to finish fourth in the 100m hurdles. Meanwhile, Bendigo bowler Aaron Wilson kickstarted a party and continued a team tradition by tearing his shirt off after winning gold.
“EXHAUSTED from it all”: Michelle Jenneke will take a break from hurdling after admitting that things behind the scenes are starting to get to her.
Having lived a lifetime of beating odds and expectations, Kurt Fearnley has promised one more enormous effort in his last appearance in an Australian team.
CASTER Semenya raced effortlessly into Commonwealth Games history last night, leaving athletics bosses with the tough decision of how much further they will allow her to run.
AUSTRALIA has been sensationally disqualified in the 4x400m relay after a mistake by Steve Solomon during the final changeover.
ENJOYING the growth and success in her thirties she had expected in her twenties, Aussie javelin gold medallist Kathryn Mitchell says there are no plans to stop any time soon.
COMMONWEALTH Games officials have come under fire for giving a sprint star an in-poor-taste “bullet” in the cruellest fashion.
SOUTH Australia’s Kurtis Marschall has followed in the footsteps of his idol Steve Hooker to claim gold in the pole vault.
HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Chris Hemsworth has admitted to feeling star struck as he watched the athletics with sprint legend Usain Bolt, describing the experience as the “highlight of my year”.
IN ONE of the most bizarre finishes to a sprint race ever seen, England’s Zharnel Hughes was halfway through his victory lap before he was sensationally stripped of the gold medal for impeding another athlete.
LUKE Mathews dedicated his surprise 800m bronze medal to his mother Liz, who has resurrected his career over the past nine months.
Australian discus thrower Dani Stevens is eyeing Olympic gold after smashing her opponents the Commonwealth Games record at Carrara to win by almost eight metres.
HURDLER Kyron McMaster paid tribute to his coach, who tragically died in Hurricane Irma, as he broke through to become the British Virgin Islands’ first ever Commonwealth Games gold medallist.
AUSTRALIA’S Kurtis Marschall has followed in the footsteps of his idol Steve Hooker to claim gold in the pole vault.
BROOKE Stratton’s brave campaign to rebound from fractures in both feet finished in tears and 7cm short of a Commonwealth Games long jump gold medal.
WITH the Commonwealth Games giving Usain Bolt “goosebumps” and “the urge to compete”, the world’s fastest man says he wants to return to top-level sport — but not sprinting.
MICHELLE Jenneke has produced her best time in more than a year to make the final of the 100m hurdles with fellow Aussie Brianna Beahan also qualifying.
BRUCE McAvaney was in awe when “beautiful” sportsmanship took centre stage after a moment of utter devastation on the Gold Coast.
IN a race which echoed to the big footsteps beside her, Queensland teen Riley Day last night felt a “a punch in the guts’’ when she missed the Commonwealth Games 200m final by just .01sec.
GIVING Australians a tag for him other than “brother of Mitch’’, Brandon Starc produced a career best performance to secure high jump gold on a night it rained medals at the athletics stadium.
AUSSIE high jumper Brandon Starc has leapt out of the shadow of Test cricketer brother Mitchell, soaring to the Commonwealth Games high jump gold medal on Wednesday night.
TEENAGE para-athletics superstar Isis Holt has lived up to her nickname by adding Commonwealth Games gold to her expanding CV of sprint titles, as Australia had more success at Carrara.
DARLING Downs thrower Queenslander Matthew Denny will aim to become the first man since 1938 to win a medal in the hammer throw and discus at the same Commonwealth Games.
IT was fourth time lucky for Aussie Kathryn Mitchell who smashed the Commonwealth Games javelin throw record on her way to a much-deserved gold medal.
WHEN South Africans Akani Simbine and Henricho Bruinjies finished one-two in the men’s 100m on Monday night all the talk was about Jamaican Johan Blake’s shock third placing.
WHILE the swimmers might dominate the medal tally, Tamsyn Lewis has revealed it’s the track and field athletes who know how to party.
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