Boxing Jaismine Jaismine beats Michaela Walsh by unanimous decision to win another gold for India. She was just too good for an excellent opponent, and Walsh warmly congratulates Jaismine after the decision is confirmed.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n Women\u2019s 10,000m race walk Gold, silver and bronze for Australia, with Jemima Montag finishing ahead of Elizabeth McMillen and Rebecca Henderson.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Jaismine has taken the second round on all five cards, so she\u2019s two ahead on three of the cards going into the last round.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Boxing: women\u2019s 57kg final The defending champion, Michaela Walsh of Northern Ireland, is up against the brilliant Indian Jaismine Jaismine. A tight first round was scored 3-2 in Jaismine\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a006.25 EDT<\/p>\n Boxing No surprise in the women\u2019s 54kg final, with the mighty Preeti Preeti winning India\u2019s first gold of the day. Spoiler: it\u2019s not the last.<\/p>\n Preeti dominated Canada\u2019s Scarlett Savannah Delgado throughout a 5-0 points victory.<\/p>\n India\u2019s Preeti Preeti dominates Scarlett Savannah Delgado on her way to gold. Photograph: James Fearn\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a006.36 EDT<\/p>\n A boxer has made history for \u2060Tuvalu by winning the tiny Pacific island nation\u2019s first Commonwealth \u2060Games medal without winning a single fight.<\/p>\n Twenty-year-old Tarona Taafaki, \u2060one of five entrants in the women\u2019s 75kg category, received a bye to the semi-finals where she lost on an unanimous points decision to India\u2019s Lovlina Borgohain on Friday. At Commonwealth Games<\/a>, all boxers eliminated in the semis receive bronze medals.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very proud and very glad to be able to represent my country on this big stage,\u201d said Taafaki, one of only eight athletes and paraathletes from her country in Glasgow. \u201cProbably 95% of the audience don\u2019t know where my country is, so I feel very privileged to represent Tuvalu.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a> They call it the Miracle Mile: the race still regarded as the greatest in Commonwealth Games<\/a> history. And 72 years later in Glasgow, it finally has a worthy successor.<\/p>\n Rewind to 1954. In May Sir Roger Bannister had become the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. Six weeks later, the Australian John Landy lowered his mark by more than a second. Then came their epic clash in Vancouver.<\/p>\n \u201cI felt it was a piece of unfinished business to be able to reproduce the performance of my sub-four-minute mile in a race,\u201d Bannister later said. \u201cHowever, at the half-mile \u2026 he was 15 yards ahead and I thought either he\u2019s going to break a world record in 3min 56sec or he\u2019s going to have to slow.\u201d<\/p>\n Somehow Bannister dragged himself back into it by the bell, yet Landy was still leading as they turned into the home straight. But there was to be a dramatic late twist.<\/p>\n Because the roar of the crowd was so great, Landy was unable to hear his pursuer, so he looked over his left shoulder. At which point Bannister attacked and flew past his great rival on his right shoulder before storming to gold in 3:58.8.<\/p>\n On Saturday night the men\u2019s mile should provide another contest for the ages, with Scotland\u2019s Josh Kerr and Jake Wightman facing Australia\u2019s new superstar Cameron Myers.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a006.13 EDT<\/p>\n Teenage race walker Isaac Beacroft hit the accelerator on a dramatic final lap in the 10,000m then had to hit it again, celebrating Commonwealth Games<\/a> gold 20 metres before the finish despite his Kenyan rival Stephen Kihu lurking just a few steps behind.<\/p>\n The result was the Australian highlight on a mixed day at Scotstoun Stadium in Glasgow, as Sarah Billings claimed her country\u2019s first 800m women\u2019s bronze in 36 years, even as track and field stars Nina Kennedy, Torrie Lewis and Lachie Kennedy were left disappointed.<\/p>\n Beacroft, the under-20 world record holder, stormed away from Kihu with 300m to go to secure gold. \u201cProbably the last 15 laps, I was just waiting for Kihu to go, but he never did, so I sat in, and eventually had to go,\u201d he told Channel Seven. \u201cI went hard, about 95%, and then I knew he was going to come with me, but then I had another gear in there to really make it over.\u201d<\/p>\n He secured the breakthrough win, but not without fraying the nerves of his father and coach David. \u201cHe\u2019s having a panic,\u201d Beacroft told Channel Seven with a smile. \u201cHe thought I was going to get chased down, and started celebrating too early. Rubbish.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Boxing The first hands will be thrown just after 11am in women\u2019s 54kg final between Scarlett Savannah Delgado and Preeti Preeti. That\u2019s the first of 14 finals day on the last day of boxing at this year\u2019s Games.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>England’s Nathan Maguire wins gold!<\/p>\n Men\u2019s 1500m T54 final Nathan Maguire powered to victory in the last lap, with Daniel Sidbury (England) taking silver and Sam Rizzo (Australia) the bronze.<\/p>\n Maguire, the husband of the great Hannah Cockroft, is being interviewed with their two-month-old daughter Rosie in his arms.<\/p>\n double quotation markI was so boxed. And then I felt like Moses \u2013 it just parted and I got through. I don\u2019t know how it happened!<\/p>\n There was a little bit of panic. When I heard the bell (for the last lap) I thought, \u2018Oh my god, I\u2019m so stuck.\u2019 I dropped them a lot more than I expected!<\/p>\n Nathan Maguire crosses the line to win gold. Photograph: Phil Noble\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a005.50 EDT<\/p>\n More from day eight in Glasgow<\/p>\n Share<\/a>New Zealand beat England in netball semi-final<\/p>\n The Black Ferns will play Australia or Jamaica in tomorrow\u2019s gold-medal match after beating England 61-54 in the first semi-final at the Hydro.<\/p>\n New Zealand, who took bronze four years ago, are one game away from winning Commonwealth gold for the first time since 2010. This will be their first final since Glasgow 2014, when they lost to\u2026 Australia.<\/p>\n New Zealand celebrate after beating England. Photograph: Owen Humphreys\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a005.57 EDT<\/p>\n Day eight at the Games<\/p>\n There are late developers in sport, and then there is the brilliant Georgia Hunter Bell, who continues to defy sporting gravity at the age of 32.<\/p>\n And on Friday night under the Glasgow lights, she gave a tactical masterclass to outwit \u2013 and then outpace \u2013 the 800m world champion Lilian Odira and complete her set of global medals.<\/p>\n Incredibly it was only two years ago that she made her international debut here in Scotland\u2019s biggest city. Back then she was a part-time runner working in tech. Now, staggeringly, she is one of Britain\u2019s biggest sports stars and the proud owner of Olympic, World, European and now Commonwealth medals.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Netball semi-final New Zealand are just too good for England: they lead 55-44 with 7.38 to play.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The first athletics finals of the day are under way. They are, I think, the men\u2019s shot put T57 and the men\u2019s triple jump.<\/p>\n Then we have these events to follow in the next couple of hours:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Adam Ramsay-Peaty x Donald McRae = a belter of an interview<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Netball semi-final England are under the pump against New Zealand in the first of today\u2019s two semi-finals \u2013 they trail 46-37 at the end of the third quarter. It\u2019s a long way back from here.<\/p>\n New Zealand took control in the first quarter, after which they led 16-11. The second was all square, 13 apiece, but New Zealand all but doubled their lead by taking the third quarter 17-13.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a005.09 EDT<\/p>\n Preamble<\/p>\n Hello and welcome to live coverage of a bumper day nine at the Commonwealth Games<\/a>. There are \u2013 count \u2018em, Stan \u2013 44 gold medals up for grabs in the next 12 hours or so.<\/p>\n The athletics highlights include the men\u2019s 800m, men\u2019s and women\u2019s 400m, men\u2019s and women\u2019s mile, men\u2019s, women\u2019s and mixed 4x100m relay, men\u2019s triple jump, women\u2019s long jump and the women\u2019s javelin.<\/p>\n There was an early start at the Hydro, where a huge netball semi-final between New Zealand and England is well under way. Let\u2019s get straight into that.<\/p>\n![\"Sean](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Sean-Ingle,-L.png\")
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