FIT, toned and high-energy athletes are going for Commonwealth Games gold on and off the field, flooding Tinder in search of romance, with revealing photos and boasts about having the ability to “go all night long”.
CASTER Semenya has sealed the first of her planned two Commonwealth Games gold medals, charging home to win the 1500m by a stunning 15 metres.
EVERYTHING we have loved about Kurt Fearnley for more than a decade was on full display at the Commonwealth Games but it was what he said post-race that struck a chord with us all.
IN the 2018 Commonwealth Games, superman of the pool Mitch Larkin has medals falling out of his pockets and even managed to do something the great Ian Thorpe never did.
SHE’S the most dominant junior hammer thrower in Australian history and now Alexandra Hulley is a Commonwealth Games silver medallist.
WITH legs shaking from nerves, boom Queensland sprinter Riley Day has negotiated her first individual senior race for Australia — but a bigger moment awaits.
INJURY-prone long jumper Henry Frayne has produced the performance of his life in qualifying, breaking the Commonwealth Games record. We wrap the morning athletics here…
YOHAN Blake won’t be going back to Jamaica any time soon given his failure to fulfil Usain Bolt’s orders to deliver Jamaica the 100m Commonwealth title.
BORN in a Kenyan refugee camp to a South Sudanese mother, Joseph Deng says he’s proud of the Australian colours he wears, as he prepares for the Commonwealth Games 800m final.
AUSTRALIA’S 10,000m trio finished unplaced in the gruelling track event, but their stunning act of sportsmanship following the race toward the last place-getter didn’t go unnoticed.
HER jaw dropped. Her face froze. Not even Bronte Campbell could believe what she had done. For the first time in three years she had beaten her decorated sister Cate in the 100m freestyle.
CASTER Semenya last night impressively started her Gold Coast assault on another slice of athletics history, but is running into an uncertain future.
FORGET public transport, if you want to get to the Gold Coast quickly for your Games event, driving is the clear winner. Our journalists tried out all modes of transport from Brisbane to Carrara, and even cycling technically proved faster than the train.
AUSSIE para sprinter Evan O’Hanlon has set Carrara Stadium alight with his win in the T38 100 metres final. But his performance was overshadowed by the gold medal-worthy moustache he was sporting, and it even has its own Twitter account.
AUSSIE 800m runner Brittany McGowan has sensationally slammed having her times compared to the blistering speed of controversial South African star Caster Semenya.
THE integration of para athletes onto the main billing at the Commonwealth Games has been more than vindicated by the athletes’ performances and the reaction of crowds, making para-normal the infectious new vibe on the Gold Coast.
BRITISH triathletes Jonny and Alistair Brownlee have taken their chances with a real-life Borobi as they soak up a little Gold Coast culture, but despite the “amazing experience”, there’s one thing they hope they don’t have to explain when they get home after their encounter.
FORGET diamonds, it’s clear that on the appropriately named Gold Coast, gold is a girl’s best friend, as triumphant triathlete Matthew Hauser discovered on a night out in Surfers Paradise.
IT’S been a slow start to the Games as far as the partying scene is concerned, but clubs on the glitter strip say it’s the calm before the storm as athletes near the end of competition.
NO Big Tuna, no big deal. Cold stricken champion Kyle Chalmers may have suffered a shock loss but a rousing pool rally and Australian cycling’s wheels of thunder made it a night to savour.
AUSTRALIA has experienced another Jane Saville moment with Claire Tallent disqualified in sight of gold in the women’s 20km walk. Watching her sob on the pavement as others went by was gut wrenching to see.
FROM banning phones at dinner to putting a rubber duck in the ice bath, training in a heat chamber and poaching key staff from Great Britain — Australian cycling is fast rebuilding from the rubble that was left after the last Olympics.
BRISBANE’S decathlon medal contender Cedric Dubler has not trained in the javelin for seven weeks, which should raise concerns for cameramen everywhere.
THE Gold Coast is set to use the Commonwealth Games as a springboard to launch a bold bid for one of the biggest dates on the world athletics calendar.
IN his first two state throwing events Queensland farm boy Matt Denny finished last, but on Sunday the 21-year-old showed the power of persistence to win his first open international medal.
WHEN Dane Bird-Smith was struggling to find a reliable training partner, man’s best friend delivered. But of all the dogs to choose to match the gold medal-winning walker’s pace, you’d think “Rocky” would have been the last one he’d choose.
AUSTRALIA and the Commonwealth has been absolutely crushed by the heartbreaking scenes Aussie Claire Tallent’s breakdown.
BACKED by John Steffensen to medal on in the Commonwealth Games, Australia’s fastest man Trae Williams admits he does sometimes wonder about his decision to run from a possible NRL career.
AUSTRALIA’S Francois Etoundi broke a fellow weightlighter’s nose four years ago, now he wants to make peace. Injured Indian athletes are in trouble, Missile’s bizarre gold celebration and a hell of a black eye this Welsh athlete. QUIRKY MOMENTS.
HAVING secured the 2017 world and now 2018 Commonwealth titles, Jake Birtwhistle has declared Australia the new standard-bearer for mixed team relay after a dominant gold medal display.
DANE Bird-Smith will have the depth of first-hand knowledge of a course which normally falls to golf greats like Greg Norman and Tiger Woods when he strives to win Australia’s first 20km walk gold on Sunday.
SALLY Pearson’s shock withdrawal from the Commonwealth Games comes at an awkward time for the hurdles champion who is looking to breath life into sponsor talks that had stalled of late.
THE early warning signs we should have seen and the brave face in a time of true grief at the opening ceremony – the full story behind Sally Pearson’s Commonwealth Games withdrawal.
SALLY Pearson must be increasingly flexible about her training schedules if she hopes to bounce back from her Gold Coast disappointment at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
THE news sent shockwaves around our loungeroom.“Sally Pearson has just called a media conference,” said an obviously stunned triathlon commentator Dave Culbert.
THERE were fashion disasters, grating television hosts but nothing beats the look of wonderment and joy on every athlete’s face as they enter the stadium, writes Mike Colman.
SHE was forced to pull out of the Commonwealth Games with a knee injury after missing the London Olympics due to a brain tumour, but devastated high jumper Amy Pejkovic is already formulating a plan to be ready for the Tokyo Olympics.
SALLY Pearson took things easy on the Gold Coast this morning as she continues to manage her fitness ahead of her home Commonwealth Games.
IT is the image of Matt Shirvington competing in lycra at the Commonwealth Games in 1998 Aussies can’t erase from their minds, and the former sprinter grudgingly admits it regularly overshadows his impressive on-track achievements.
COMMENT: Even if she’d been from Goulburn or Geelong, Sally Pearson would have been the best choice to lead Australia’s athletes into the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
SALLY Pearson has been pipped for the honour of carrying the Australian flag at Wednesday night’s Opening Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in favour of hockey legend Mark Knowles.
AUSSIE sporting greats have pleaded for hometown hero Sally Pearson to be handed the honour of carrying the nation’s flag into Wednesday’s opening ceremony.
THERE is a familiarity surrounding Ashleigh Gentle’s push to become Australia’s first Gold Coast Commonwealth Games gold medal winner.
A WORRIED Sally Pearson says she will be able to confront whatever her Commonwealth Games fitness fate is, realising that her management of an achilles problem can only go so far.
AUSTRALIA’S track and field glamour girl Morgan Mitchell reveals the hidden pain which has haunted her Commonwealth Games preparation.
IT’S THE little things that have helped Claire Tallent walk her way to the Commonwealth Games less than a year after becoming a first-time mum.
RILEY Day knows she has a date with the devil. It will be sitting on her young shoulders as she steps up to the blocks in the 200m sprint in front of more than 35,000 hometown fans in her first Commonwealth Games.
FOR Australian athlete Anneliese Rubie, switching from 400m to 800m seemed crazy enough to work.
CATHY Freeman and her coach Nic Bideau hatched their plan for one of the most controversial moments in Commonwealth Games history at the breakfast table.
WITH Australia embroiled in a sporting armageddon, Hollywood superstar and Rabbitohs owner Russell Crowe sees a saviour on the horizon. Enter Sally Pearson! And she’s up for the challenge.
FORMER world champion Yohan Blake said he is ready to “take over’’ world men’s sprinting after cruising to a win in Brisbane in his last race before the Commonwealth Games.
ONLY 7 days to go! Get into the Games spirit with limited edition Gold Coast 2018 Official Borobi Pin Collection, available via the token in The Courier-Mail from Wednesday, April 4. Pin your hopes on the Aussies and collect all five!
THEY are here! Some of the best athletes from around the world have hit the Gold Coast for the Commonwealth Games. Before things officially kick off, check out some of the biggest head-to-head battles we can’t wait for.
JAMAICAN sprint star Yohan Blake remembers the day he ran the second fastest 100m time in history as like being “a plane taking off’’.
THE heat and craziness of Delhi in 2010 holds a special place in the heart of wheelchair champion Kurt Fearnley.
SELF-PROCLAIMED sprint queen and dual Olympic champion Elaine Thompson has some advice for rising Aussie star Riley Day.
GAMES debutant Trae Williams says he loved being trash-talked by a former world champion when Jamaica’s Yohan Blake told him publicly last week to not be “scared’’.
AUSTRALIA’S Comm Games competitors have the chance to restore the country’s pride on the back of the cricket cheating scandal that has left a disillusioned public questioning whether athletes can be considered role models.
RILEY Day will delay her 18th birthday celebrations this week to focus on a Commonwealth Games preparation which now includes a 200m race against Jamaica’s Olympic sprint double champion Elaine Thompson.
DUAL Olympic gold medallist Elaine Thompson is yet to confirm whether she will attempt the sprint double on the Gold Coast.
AUSSIE hurdler Michelle ‘Jiggling’ Jenneke was in no mood for dancing before her Commonwealth Games preparation race on Thursday.
SPRINT kings Jamaica are out to dominate the track at the Commonwealth Games but they will have to do it without former 100m world record-holder Asafa Powell.
RWANDAN athletes have been issued a stern warning that they face being charged with treason and thrown in jail if they try to flee life under their authoritarian government while at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
DARLING Downs athlete Matthew Denny will measure his Commonwealth Games medal claims against Scotland’s hammer thrower Chris Bennett when they compete in Brisbane on Thursday night.
THERE’S something Australians just don’t get when it comes to hurdles star Michelle Jenneke — and she wants us to know it.
IT’S two weeks until the Commonwealth Games gets started on the Gold Coast, and Sally Perason has withdrawn form the final warm-up event, opting instead to focus on her training.
COMMONWEALTH Games officials were trying to keep Usain Bolt’s appearance under wraps but a fellow sprinter let the cat out of the bag during a media sleepover at the athletes village.
JAMAICA’S former world champion Yohan Blake is the biggest star yet to arrive for the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast – and he says the only man in the world to run a faster 100m had some choice words of advice before he left home.
SALLY Pearson has altered her Commonwealth Games lead-up plans and intends to race twice in Brisbane this month.
CRAIG Mottram says his kids don’t believe him when he tells them he owned the MCG for a night at the Commonwealth Games in 2006, but he did.
IT was the event which made her a Commonwealth Games legend but Raelene Boyle cannot hide the truth … she hated it, writes Robert Craddock.
THE next lesson of Queenslander Joseph Deng’s athletics education will be to race two top Englishmen in Brisbane before his Commonwealth Games debut.
IT was dubbed “the Miracle Mile”. But by the end of the marathon, a world record holder had wilted in the extreme heat and collapsed — within sight of the finish line — after covering a gruelling 27 miles.
WITH a 50m lead heading into the final lap, reigning Olympic 5000m champion John Ngugi looked home for all money, but then Andrew Lloyd dug deep and something special happened. WATCH THE VIDEO.
OLYMPIC 1500m champion Matt Centrowitz is a left-field entry for Brisbane’s two international athletics meets this month.
AUSTRALIA’S famous dancing hurdler Michelle Jenneke is getting the jump on the hype and the haters ahead of April’s Commonwealth Games.
RECORD-BREAKING British athlete Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile in under four minutes, has died aged 88, his family announced on Sunday.
AUSTRALIA endured a day to forget on day three of the world indoor athletics championships as main medal hopes Sally Pearson and Ryan Gregson crashed out in their semi-finals.
DEFENDING Commonwealth high jump champion, Eleanor Patterson, has been sensationally overlooked for selection in Australia’s 109-member team for next month’s Games.
A THIN entry of only seven other Commonwealth athletes have their names down alongside that of Sally Pearson in the 60m hurdles at the world indoor titles in Birmingham, England.
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