Day 9 Commonwealth Games Sportsday

Hello and welcome to Commonwealth Games Sportsday. This is your last

stop of the evening fall of the best action from today. I promise we will

get everything in before midnight. Having up - Bolt is back on the

track, and he is in fighting mood fit as well. 16-year-old Fragapane

goes into the record books. And how not to do it - we will show you some

of the day's mishaps which you might have missed. Good evening from

Glasgow. There is no time to get nostalgic about the fact that the

Games are almost over. It was another huge night at Hampden Park.

We finally got a glint of the great Usain Bolt in action. He had a few

words for those that had doubted his commitment to the Commonwealth

Games. There were five slightly more surprising performances which

resulted in more medals for England and Scotland. Patrick Leary rounds

up the athletics action. Usain Bolt says newspaper reports

that he made disparaging comments about the Commonwealth Games are

nonsense. Usain Bolt was one of the last leg of the 4x100m is for

Jamaica, and they had left him a bit to do.

STEVE CRAM: Here is, here he goes. And the Usain Bolt show starts! The

crowd cheering him on. Jamaica qualified for the final. Thank

goodness for that. Everything has been good so far, just the weather.

Everything has been great. The fans have been wonderful, I am happy to

be here. Those words will reassure the organisers, but these images are

what matter. Jamaica had brought a superstar in the women's race as

well. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and her team were out on their own. But

England also qualified, as did Wales. It has not just on a night of

celebrities printers, there has been action in the field as well. Luke

Cutts failed at five metres 55, leaving his fellow Englishman with a

chance for gold. And Steve Lewis took it. It was England's first gold

in this event. In the high jump, Isobel Pooley took what she called a

leap of faith with the bar at one metre 92. The Englishwoman got the

silver medal. Australian Eleanor Patterson took gold. Little was

expected of Jade Lally in the discus. But a seasons best of more

than 60 metres got her a bronze. Scotland's big hope was Lynsey

Sharp, going in the 800m. STEVE CRAM: Who is going to come

second? Silver for Scotland! The emotion of the moment was magnified

by illness and injury in her build-up. Even this morning I was in

hospital in the village until 5.30 this morning. This was my

everything, and I had not slept at all. There was no way I was not

going to get a medal today. In the final race of the evening, Tiffany

Porter of England was up against Sally Pearson of Australia. Sally

Pearson took it. Hampden Park has been rivalled by the Hydro, just

behind me, for passion and performances in these past few days.

Claudia Fragapane has got four gold medals. There were also golds for

Daniel Purvis and Nile Wilson, as Natalie Pirks reports. The smile

sparkles as brightly as the gold medals she cannot stop winning.

Today, Claudia Fragapane made Commonwealth Games history at just

16. The nerves of her parents were severely tested on the beam, her

least favourite piece of apparatus. And that is a new dismount she has

been working on. The crowd seemed to love it, but what do the judges

think I know it was not enough, and she could only finish fifth. But the

floor was up next, and in that, she is world-class. Her mother could not

watch, and her sis Ilion dad looked on nervously. Her performance used

class. She maybe just four feet seven, but her family is large. They

were watching on back at home. When gold was confirmed... It was the

reaction of a family whose star gymnast has just won the most golds

of any British woman in a single Games for 84 years. I am only 16 and

it has just been great betting four gold medals. Her proud parents

cannot quite find the words. I thought she rate. Winning two, three

and four, words do not... I cannot believe it myself. Fragapane had

funds and fraud at every leap. -- fans enthralled. Wilson was awarded

gold for his higher execution score, but Jim Thomas getting the silver.

And Dan Purvis won Scotland's second gymnastics gold in the parallel

bars. Perfect form ahead of the World Championships in October.

Another teenager triumphed at the Royal Commonwealth Pool. 19-year-old

Jack Laugher won his second gold of the Games, in the synchronised

springboard. He is fast making a name for himself in the diving

world, to rival Tom Daley, who got silver in the synchronised 10m

platform event. Tom Daley was the man the crowd were cramming into the

Royal Commonwealth Pool to see this evening. He was competing for the

first time alongside James Denny, the duo having hardly trained

together. So, it was a slow start, but they began to improve when it

mattered. Their final routine was near-perfect, seeing them climb from

fourth to second. But the Australian power grab gold. Really happy. All I

could remember, I just said to James, give it everything, give it

all you have got, because who knows, anything can happen in diving. Jack

Laugher had already won gold and silver, going into the synchronised

event with Chris Mears. They were favourites, and they led from the

start. Their team-mates came third. In the women's one metre

competition, Scotland had the chance to win their first Commonwealth

diving medal since 1958. Grace Reid made an impressive start, but

slipped down to fifth. Jennifer Abele of Canada claimed gold.

England now have eight medals from these Commonwealth Games, beating

their previous best of six. There is the prospect of more on the final

day here in Edinburgh. Tom Daley goes again, in the individual 10m

platform event. Next, another sport which involves absolute precision.

Lawn bowls has the most picturesque backdrop at the Games. Today, Darren

Burnett got gold in the singles, and the team will also victorious. Rishi

Persad reports. The lawn bowls came to a climax at the Kelvin Grove

centre, with three gold medals up for grabs. It was a day to remember

for Team Scotland. In the men's fours, the team dominated England.

The men in red and white shook hands with the score at 16-8. Foster and

Marshall were winning their second gold of the games, following the

men's pair. Things got even better for Scotland with Darren Burnett, a

policeman from Arbroath, taking the gold medal in the men's singles, to

add to his world indoor title which he won earlier this year. The

38-year-old was in complete control of his game. He overpowered his

Canadian opponent, Ryan Bester. Earlier, Natalie Melmore and

Jamie-Lea Winch came up just short in a dramatic encounter against

South Africa in the women's pairs. Northern Ireland defeated Jersey in

the battle for bronze. And so ends an extremely successful Games for

the lawn bowlers of the Home Nations. Every player won a medal.

Scotland won three goals. -- golds. And some of the other stories in the

headlines - England's women's hockey team have made it through to the

final tomorrow, after a thrilling semifinal win over New Zealand. New

Zealand equalised late on, taking the game to penalties. Bogey putt

Maddie Hinch was the hero. -- goalkeeper Maddie Hinch. Paddy

Barnes is one of four boxers from Northern Ireland to have booked

their place in a gold medal match tomorrow. He beat his Ugandan

opponent in the bronze medal match today. These have been a record

Games for Northern Ireland, with nine boxers guaranteed medals. One

she made it through to the gold medal flyweight match, on a split

decision. She will face Nicola Adams tomorrow.

Teenage Nigerian weightlifter Chika Amalaha has been stripped of her

medal following a failed drugs test. Her result was nullified. The gold

medal has been awarded to the competitor from Papua New Guinea. A

teenager making headlines for different reasons is 15-year-old

Tin-Tin Ho, who is guaranteed at least a silver medal in the table

tennis mixed doubles, alongside partner Liam Pitchford, after they

knocked out the title favourites, from Singapore. They will face Paul

and Joanna Drinkhall, in an all English final tomorrow.

When it comes to women's table tennis, nobody in the Commonwealth

can touch Singapore. A clean sweep in the singles for the third Games

in a row. Just like in Delhi in 2010, the women's singles was won.

The men's doubles was the only one they missed out on four years ago,

but they put that right, by beating the Indian pair. If there was a gold

medal for celebrating, then the number four seed is definitely won

that. So, gold and bronze for Singapore although the Indians still

made it onto the top step. Unlike their gymnast Kumar, who did not get

on quite so well. The silver medallist from 2010 went home

empty-handed. As did the Malawi netball team. But they have

impressed in Glasgow, beating South Africa in a fifth-place play-off.

And this was their post-match celebrations. They were not the only

ones leaving Scotland with a smile. But marks in synchronised diving

were not too high on this particular occasion. With just two days of

competition left, England stay top of the table.

Scotland have 17 gold medals. Their previous record was 11.

Now, we have been taking a look behind the scenes of the

Commonwealth Games on this show, with our reporter Chris McLaughlin.

The Friendly Games are living up to their reputation, aren't they? They

are indeed. Euan Burton, with a fantastic story. The first ever

medal for the country of Kiribati. And it was a gold. What a great

picture. Jessica Lloyd has bagged silver and bronze in Glasgow, but a

member of staff gave her a gold to complete the set - chocolate, of

course. And Phoebe Richards, Welsh hockey player, treated this

post-Commonwealth Games treat - muffins in the ice bath. More from

you in a moment. There were some striking images in the papers for

tomorrow as well. This is the sport section of the guardian. Nicola

Adams, on track to win first ever female gold in boxing, says the

paper. And in the Times, it richer of Claudia Fragapane. And the back

page of the express also has Fragapane.

No Bolt in the newspapers, but it has been his day, very much. I was

down at Hampden today and there was a buzz around the place. Everybody

was just saying, do not drop the baton. He confirmed that he does

like Glasgow, the Glaswegians are happy. Said all of the reports were

nonsense. He is a happy man, and winning, and fast! Thank you very

much. That is it from, love games sports day, on the day when

England's Claudia Fragapane got her fourth gold medal. The 16-year-old

is in the record Books. Good night from Glasgow.