{"id":724846,"date":"2026-08-02T19:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724846\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T19:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:33:11","slug":"commonwealth-games-matt-bostock-wins-gold-in-points-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724846\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games: Matt Bostock wins gold in points race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Sunday, 2 August 2026 17:48\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/325327-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: Manx Radio <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Manx cyclist wins Isle of Man&#8217;s first Commonwealth Games gold since 2006\n        <\/p>\n<p>Manx cyclist Matt Bostock has won gold in the points race at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p>He took a slender victory over Australia&#8217;s Oliver Bleddyn in the 40km race, which was the final event in the velodrome at this year&#8217;s games.<\/p>\n<p>It follows up two fourth-placed finishes for Bostock earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>The gold is the Island&#8217;s first in the Commonwealth Games since 2006, when Mark Cavendish won the scratch race in Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, 2 August 2026 17:48 Picture credit: Manx Radio Manx cyclist wins Isle of Man&#8217;s first Commonwealth Games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,96,758,755,756,757,128,50,759,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-724846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}