24/07/2014 Newsround


24/07/2014

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Hi, I'm Hayley and here on Newsround we have

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Going for gold - Team England claim their first

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And Mo Farah withdraws from the competition.

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It's only the first day of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

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but team England have already bagged some gold medals.

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They won their first gold in the women's triathalon.

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Jodie Stimpson, who missed out on the London Olympics, sprinted

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ahead of everyone else to the finish and England's Vicky Holland took

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And in the men's triathalon the Brownlee brothers took first

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Older brother Alistair took gold and Jonathon claimed the silver medal.

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And England's Sophie Thornhill and pilot Helen Scott won

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the first ever para-cycling medal in the velodrome, taking

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Scotland just missed out on the top prize in that race

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but Aileen McGlynn and Louise Haston claimed silver, which is the

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The other big story today is news that Mo Farah, England's double

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Olympic champion, has withdrawn from the games because of a stomach bug.

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Mo said it was a tough decision to make but his

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The 5,000m and 10,000m Olympic champ was set to

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He's decided to stay at his training camp in Southern

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France to prepare for the European Championships in Zurich next month.

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There's the biggest ever number of para-sports Medals to be won

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at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games - 22 up for grabs and for the first

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A couple of weeks ago Martin got a sneak preview of the velodrome

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and took along para-cycling fan Kieran, who also uses a wheelchair.

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And not only that but he also gave Kieran the surprise of his life

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by introducing him to his idol, Paralympic medallist David Weir.

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Argue -- I knew Kieran? Are you surprised to see me? Yes. This is

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really weird. Are you all right? Sorry to shock you. I knew you were

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my biggest fan so I thought I would come and say hello, as I am in

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Glasgow. This is amazing! I can't believe you kept this from the

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all-day! This is... Thank you so, so, so, so much!

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Well, you can hear more from Kieran on the Newsround website,

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he's written a diary of the day to tell us more about what

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