{"id":837912,"date":"2026-08-01T14:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837912\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T14:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:19:12","slug":"commonwealth-games-2026-live-mackenzie-little-leads-huge-australian-contingent-in-athletics-finals-diamonds-in-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837912\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games 2026 LIVE: Mackenzie Little leads huge Australian contingent in athletics finals; Diamonds in semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Roman is eight months old, he won\u2019t remember the day his dad carried him around Glasgow stadium, ear muffs on for the noise, a flat cap on for the cold, and because it looked cool as hell. But his dad will remember it.<\/p>\n<p>It was the day Matt Denny carried Roman around Scostoun Stadium having just defended his Commonwealth title and become the first man in 68 years to win back-to-back discus gold medals.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matthew Denny celebrates with his son Roman.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/c00c75f551a9bc41c9b639738b951b2d20e0157c.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Matthew Denny celebrates with his son Roman.Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was nice. Becoming a Dad has been a big one for me, and to be able to have him share that moment and with Mia (his wife) obviously they\u2019re the biggest part of my life so to share that moment with him, and he\u2019s not going to remember, but I know I will. You know when I\u2019m old and gray,\u201d Denny said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roman is eight months old, he won\u2019t remember the day his dad carried him around Glasgow stadium, ear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-837912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}