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to Glasgow. 31 gold medals up for grabs here at the Commonwealth | :00:47. | :00:56. | |
Games, this is what is coming up. We are heading across the river to the | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
Hydro to see the climax of the men's team final of the artistic | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
gymnastics, will England pick Scotland to the gold medal? And the | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
noisy neighbours next door will be going at it again inside the SECC as | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
England's Reece McFadden and Northern Ireland's Rory Dodds have | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
big fight in the last eight. Plenty of other sport, and BBC Three it is | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
the badminton. And on the red button you can watch live coverage of the | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
artistic gymnastics that we are talking about this afternoon. | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
Meanwhile, on the BBC Sport website, lots of great sport to look forward | :01:39. | :01:39. | |
to. So to the gymnastics in a moment, | :01:40. | :02:03. | |
but first the headlines. Defending 110 metres hurdles champion Andi | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
Taylor is out after clattering the first two hurdles of his heat. | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
Eilidh Child breezed through the first 400m hurdles heat. Andrew | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
Osagie is disqualified from the men's 800 metres heats after coming | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
together at the finish with friend and training partner Joe Thomas. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
England are expected to launch an appeal. A Canadian 1-2 at the | :02:30. | :02:41. | |
mountain biking, Catharine Pendrel conquering the course to take gold. | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
And Sam Oldham has suffered a severe ankle injury in a dismount and left | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
the arena in a wheelchair, but English gymnasts are on course to | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
secure gold inside the Hydro. I am delighted to say that Beth Tweddle | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
is with me in the studio as we go over the Hydro later to look at the | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
men's team final in the artistic gymnastics. I have to talk to you | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
about Sam Oldham's injury, it looks really bad. You can see on the | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
replay that when he landed awkwardly on his ankle, the coaching team were | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
straight on to make sure he was OK. Yes, he came in a little bit short, | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
all the impact was on his left ankle, so the medical staff and | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
coaches were straight to him. Obviously, we will just let them do | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
their assessments and wait for the verdict. We can see what happens, it | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
looks like a twisted ankle, the coaching team straight on. It is | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
really unfortunate, he has just come back from injury, making his form | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
and has been having a great Games, so we have just got to leave them, | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
and luckily we have got that depth of strength in the English team to | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
carry on the competition without him. So disappointing, given he had | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
hurt his ankle is at the World Championships. It is devastating for | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
any athlete, he has done all the preparation to be here, he is in | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
great form, and there's nothing you can say that will make him feel | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
better. We have just got to wait to see what the final verdict is on | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
that ankle. A fantastic arena, fantastic crowds as well, because | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
the fans have been queueing up - for British gymnastics, it is a big | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
thing. It has been flying high recently, with the Europeans, 25 | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
medals, and Nile Wilson making his debut in the senior competition, Max | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
Whitlock, European champion, so many people to support, then Daniel | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
Purvis, Daniel Keatings on the Scottish team, Adam Cox, a previous | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
Commonwealth medallist. So many to watch. Across to the Hydro, a | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
terrific venue, fantastic atmosphere, the newest landmark on | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
the riverside with a full Olympic size gymnastics layout, it is also | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
hosting the boxing and netball finals. We can join the commentary? | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
Matt Baker, Mitch Fenner and Christine Still. | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
-- the commentary team of Matt Baker. | :05:08. | :05:17. | |
So there is the list of Canadians. That will change, because Louis | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
Smith is going to have to go on parallel bars. He will be first up, | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
as you can see, now that Sam Oldham is out of the arena. And the high | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
bar. And the high bar as well, it is three scores that count. I think he | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
will have a swing, why not? He can work it. When I spoke to him, he | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
said he had not been on the high bar in the lead up to the competition, | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
so it will be very interesting. Yeah, time will tell, will he go out | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
and have a couple of long swings and back away? They will probably decide | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
after the first three work. A couple of long swings and back away! So | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
Liam Davie for Scotland, the City of Glasgow club. Globe out nice | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
flourish with one arm, leisurely, easy approach to his swimming. Very | :06:15. | :06:23. | |
clean, keeping the swing, guaranteeing the release. Another | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
one coming up! Oh, and Evie lead didn't get across the bar for | :06:31. | :06:41. | |
rotation. -- and he really didn't. This is very, very brave to | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
continue. Showing very good technique, here is | :06:44. | :06:59. | |
the wind-up. He made the dismount, but what part of the body made | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
contact? It was certainly the upper chest and neck area. He pulled in on | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
the release and cost to close. Oh, that will have taken the wind out of | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
the sails, and didn't he do well to continue and land the dismount | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
safely? Fantastic, actually it was a really good routine, big style. | :07:21. | :07:21. | |
Well, Louis Smith, they need really good routine, big style. | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
now! Parallel bars, I assume he has worked this. When he started his | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
comeback, he said, I am just here to do the pommel horse, but he needs to | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
make sure of his place in the team. There will be some deductions, but | :07:36. | :07:49. | |
not as many as if he had fallen off. He is a gritty competitor, lovely | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
line in the handstand as well. Smooth swing turn, very efficient. | :07:52. | :08:06. | |
The front somersault. He is living with the times. | :08:07. | :08:16. | |
Just one more bit, just the landing, wonder. From Louis Smith! | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
He answered the call in the moment of need. Well, the England team | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
would certainly have been shaken by the fact that Sam Oldham has left | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
the area and the arena, but Louis Smith, well, what a job for England! | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
Just that slight hesitation at the start, but afterwards he got this | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
new lazy style into the swing, and that was really good to see. He | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
really is taking this very, very seriously and has produced a good | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
routine. Still no news on Sam Oldham, but it has got to be | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
ligament damage, maybe a fracture. 12.133, Liam Davie. | :08:59. | :09:10. | |
Scotland's bid for a first ever team silver at the Commonwealth Games | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
continues now with Daniel Purvis on high bar. He was fourth at the | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
British Championships earlier this year. Dan, of course, a member of | :09:21. | :09:30. | |
the worlds most exclusive club, very few in it, showing his work on the | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
start. Very quick through the Rybalko but | :09:34. | :09:51. | |
was laid on the catch. One and a half turns, so the second half of | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
the routine makes good some of the problems with the first. He will | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
need a good one, the double-double, and once again the second half of | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
the routine saves the routine. Well, they will stay ahead of Canada. | :10:09. | :10:19. | |
Again, a little bit of an edgy performance. 14.133 for Louis | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
Smith, that is a good score on the parallel bars. 8.2 execution, he is | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
back with style, isn't he? I'm not just talking about the hairdo! It is | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
good to see him. Yeah, I wonder if I could do a hairdo like that. I | :10:39. | :10:47. | |
wouldn't try it, Mitch! The image has completely floored you, hasn't | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
it, Matt? Well, Max Whitlock has been so impressive all the way | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
round, let's just enjoy his parallel bars. Locks out nicely. | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
I will tell you what, he is on a roll. | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
He has to be in perfect here. The pirouette sorted, there we are, | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
plenty of room to set that up, nice and high and clean. | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
Healey, he dropped the hips but did well. Out Keogh what art. -- out to | :11:29. | :11:53. | |
one bar. Double pike, just a stiff back, and really he has been | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
consistent all the way through. He has this remarkable ability just to | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
adapt his body and almost his style to each piece of apparatus, soft and | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
flowing when he needs to be, attacking at the right time. | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
Dan Purvis, then, 13.833 for high bar. The scores have been quite | :12:13. | :12:26. | |
tight on high bar today. Very. They genuinely are, and they have been | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
today. The 19-year-old, very good athlete and parallel bars. -- on. | :12:33. | :12:42. | |
Tall, elegant gymnast. Can be stunning on this apparatus, and that | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
was a good start. Watch closely here, super Tkatchev. Here we go | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
again, was a good start. Watch closely | :12:54. | :12:54. | |
here, super Tkatchev. Here we go the straddle Tkatchev, all the really | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
here, super Tkatchev. Here we go the straddle exciting work. Smooth | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
squats dislocation into the handstand with half turn. The | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
Tkatchev with half turn, very smooth. This is lovely work, needs | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
to keep his concentration. The dislocated swing, you can see | :13:10. | :13:24. | |
the shoulders endo. Accelerating up into the air, one twist, one great | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
landing. Frank Baines, very impressed. Well, he is proving to be | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
a very valuable member of Team Scotland today. He is having a good | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
day! Brilliant day! And he looks just like the gymnast who came out | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
here yesterday, a bit overwrought, a bit stunned by it, knows what he is | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
coming to today. Well, Max, with 14.5, huge parallel bars score, and | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
yet another individual final for Max. And he needs just over 14 for a | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
19 all-round score, that is incredible. This is the first time | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
that Nile Wilson hasn't been out first, with the men for Great | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
Britain, England I should say. Oh, lovely half turn. And to one | :14:16. | :14:33. | |
rail, you know, he was a junior a few weeks ago, and this is just | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
incredible. On the senior stage, to produce work like this! | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
An incredible performance. He is starting to really enjoyed it. | :14:44. | :15:08. | |
Yesterday, he said he was starting to feel the pressure. Now, he is | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
feeding off it. I introduced him by saying Great | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
Britain but surely that is a flash of the future. He has got to be | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
selected. The selectors will be watching. | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
It was a strong decision to bring him into this team, there were a lot | :15:30. | :15:39. | |
of others left at home. Frank and Nile have come through the | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
ranks together. Daniel Keatings, for the high bar. | :15:46. | :16:07. | |
It has always -- he has always been one of my favourite gymnasts to | :16:08. | :16:20. | |
watch. He deserves to do well here, in front of his home crowd. | :16:21. | :16:30. | |
With his own coach on the floor with him. Coach to Louis Smith as well. | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
One thing is for sure, people like you. -- he will fly here. | :16:39. | :16:58. | |
There is a huge roar from the crowd, the last gymnast up on high | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
bar, for Scotland. A smooth start. Good acceleration. | :17:04. | :17:26. | |
The big release, a full turn in the double back. Smoothly in. A little | :17:27. | :17:36. | |
off-line. But he recovered while. The Tkatchev with a half turn. He is | :17:37. | :17:44. | |
going for broke here. Squats out into a good, straight line. He is | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
very stylish. A gymnast who likes to be perfect in his performance. We | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
just need a big dismount, concentrate. A full twist. What a | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
delight. A superb performance for Scotland. | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
And great from the individual perspective as well. | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
He was actually smiling before he hit the deck. A terrific | :18:17. | :18:27. | |
performance, a great finish. The pressure is slowly easing now. | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
Nile Wilson. Scott Morgan for Canada. | :18:33. | :19:05. | |
A big floor and fault man. Plenty of attack. Oh, yes. -- vault. A full | :19:06. | :19:20. | |
twist and straight front. Massive vault. Look how clean, | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
straight down the middle. He is the second-highest Scott | :19:27. | :19:50. | |
defined -- behind Frank Baines. Clay now. | :19:51. | :20:06. | |
Double front. The question is Werther freaked down first -- world | :20:07. | :20:25. | |
the feet? If not, it will be a zero. Let us have a closer look. | :20:26. | :20:40. | |
I think he will get away with that. Just about. | :20:41. | :21:11. | |
Is Louis Smith going to have a go, it doesn't look like it. | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
I think Sam would have been laughed up on high bar. If they have had | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
three people go through, they will not bother. | :21:22. | :21:37. | |
That will turn into a 206 five plus total, they are world-class. | :21:38. | :21:46. | |
It just remains to see who will be taking that bronze medal place. | :21:47. | :22:02. | |
Whether Australia will get in there. England are untouchable, there is no | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
way that Scotland can catch them. That was a big school. | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
-- score. Look at the difference, eight marks clear. Scotland, then | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
Canada, Australia. Canada have a cushion as well. | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
They will have to go badly to pieces for Australia to catch them. | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
It looks like another gold medal heading to team England. | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
The big story is Australia are in fourth and may miss out on a medal. | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
Australia have been struggling for the past couple of years in men's | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
gymnastics. The girls side didn't even send any | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
gymnasts to the 20 13th World Championship, they were ready. It | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
may be a different story. -- 2013. You talk about the strength | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
and depth of England, they have been remarkably consistent. | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
They have constituency, difficulty, they have everything. They are eight | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
marks ahead of Scotland. They are too strong. | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
Before we started the Commonwealth Games, you were talking about | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
Scottish gymnastics, and the state of British gymnastics. You said the | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
noisy Scottish crowd would roar them on to victory but not even they can | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
do that. England are too far ahead, there is | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
nothing Scotland can do except save that silver medal. They have never | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
had a team basil so they will be over the moon. It is a boost for | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
Scottish gymnastics. -- team medal. They have no leeway with three men. | :23:50. | :24:10. | |
That is what we are used to seeing in finals. | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
They had to do it in qualifying in the Europeans, they can cope with | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
it. This is the last piece of apparatus. | :24:24. | :24:39. | |
Just the top three. Oldham macro is out, we still have not heard -- | :24:40. | :25:05. | |
Oldham. They will have taken him to the | :25:06. | :25:26. | |
hospital straight away. Without a doubt. I won't imagine they will | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
release any information until they are sure. | :25:32. | :25:40. | |
You said he had his eye on the Japanese gymnast who is out of this | :25:41. | :25:52. | |
world, of the scale. When you have a target like that, you leave the rest | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
of the world behind, even if you are in second place. The only manned | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
collection man to top 93 as a total -- the only man. That is staggering. | :26:06. | :26:20. | |
Enjoying a slow motion Mexican wave which has caught Louis Smith's I. | :26:21. | :26:31. | |
He has finished his job, done his bit for the team now. | :26:32. | :26:40. | |
Interestingly, Louis Smith is the seventh highest parallel bars | :26:41. | :26:49. | |
school. -- score. That would be his only final. Nile Wilson gets a shot | :26:50. | :26:59. | |
at the parallel bars. Now, Adam Cox. A 5.2 difficulty. | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
This could be the last performance we ever see from Adam Cox, he could | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
well retire after this. He powers down, a precise slip, | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
double twist. Really delighted to have landed that. -- flip. He has | :27:19. | :27:30. | |
really performed well today. He has dug deep for the team. | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
He punched his way through the twist. He had to tuck his legs in. | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
Then he stretched out to make the double turn. Celebration! | :27:40. | :27:49. | |
Let us sit back and be impressed because this will be something. | :27:50. | :28:10. | |
Oh, yes. He put the half turn in. A good release. A little bit wild. A | :28:11. | :28:27. | |
full turn setting up. Keeping the swing pure. That is better. | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
Easy through. A round and a half turn. | :28:34. | :28:46. | |
Changing the shape. Here comes the dismount. That will do nicely. A | :28:47. | :28:54. | |
little step forward. A twisting double. What a competition. | :28:55. | :29:02. | |
Just outstanding. We will see him tomorrow in the competition. I | :29:03. | :29:05. | |
cannot wait. He has looked on fire these last two | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
days. He is so focused and driven. Lytwyn of Canada on the parallel | :29:10. | :29:25. | |
bars. A very powerful gymnast. That was | :29:26. | :29:33. | |
good height, good left. Going smoothly up to the handstand. Nicely | :29:34. | :29:42. | |
done with the full turn on one arm. And backwards as well. A super | :29:43. | :29:48. | |
height on the front somersault. loss of leg form on that swing turn, | :29:49. | :30:05. | |
and none on the double pike. He is delighted with that, keeping | :30:06. | :30:13. | |
Canadian hopes alive. Adam Cox, 14.066. Looking secure in silver | :30:14. | :30:23. | |
medal position. Team Scotland, 5.2 difficulty this, then, Dan | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
Keatings. Opting for the double twist, yeah, | :30:27. | :30:44. | |
easily done! A pace back to bring it under control, but well done, and | :30:45. | :30:50. | |
they love it. Yes, we will see Dan in the all-around. And a bit of a | :30:51. | :30:57. | |
while since we have seen many all-around competition is from | :30:58. | :31:00. | |
Daniel Keatings, great to see him finish that six pieces with a very | :31:01. | :31:09. | |
confident double twisting Tsukahara. Not the start score of | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
song, just out of 5.2, so not massively into the 15s with it, but | :31:15. | :31:26. | |
a good, solid vault. You see the little divider in Max's bag, little | :31:27. | :31:33. | |
compartments. 14.766, yes, he wraps up his bandages and puts them in one | :31:34. | :31:43. | |
section. Nile Wilson. He is rounding off his competition on high bar. | :31:44. | :31:51. | |
A young man that... Oh, plenty of height on the flight, good, straight | :31:52. | :32:00. | |
arms on the swing. Good through the Coleman, kept his knees together, | :32:01. | :32:02. | |
quite a task. Rybalko, one and a half turns, | :32:03. | :32:11. | |
nicely, nicely done. through the junior ranks they really | :32:12. | :32:30. | |
have technique hammered into them, and he is showing it well here. | :32:31. | :32:43. | |
The deep pike out to set up the dismount, and tiny little | :32:44. | :32:54. | |
adjustments. Oh, I am a senior gymnast, and watch me go! Nile | :32:55. | :33:01. | |
Wilson, the penultimate gymnast for England, and that, without question, | :33:02. | :33:07. | |
has sealed it for England. They will take gold. Scotland, 14.133 for Dan | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
Keatings, that will secure silver for them. So Frank Baines can enjoy | :33:13. | :33:20. | |
this a little bit. He must still focus, though, a 5.6 difficulty. And | :33:21. | :33:26. | |
he has been very secure today. He needs a good strong vault. Two | :33:27. | :33:49. | |
and a half twists, half turn on the Tsukahara with two and a half | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
twists, it is going to be a bit of a battle for the finals with these | :33:54. | :33:59. | |
guys. Oh, yes! Just a nonchalant step to the side, yeah, good news | :34:00. | :34:05. | |
for Scotland, it is silver for them, first time ever in 18 final. He | :34:06. | :34:13. | |
looks delighted, doesn't he? Nile Wilson, 14.8. 6.2 difficulty, for | :34:14. | :34:21. | |
someone who was a junior a couple of weeks ago! Hello, World | :34:22. | :34:27. | |
Championships, he should get a T-shirt with that written on. Well, | :34:28. | :34:35. | |
the job of rounding off England's competition falls to Kristian | :34:36. | :34:41. | |
Thomas. It will be the first time since 2002 that England have won | :34:42. | :34:49. | |
this team, dish and. -- this team competition. And you couldn't have a | :34:50. | :34:50. | |
nicer bloke to be finishing competition. And you couldn't have a | :34:51. | :34:57. | |
it for you. And he is on song. Dreamlike in his execution, long | :34:58. | :35:01. | |
lines, look at this, full turn, plenty of time! He have to struggle | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
a little bit, but you have to admire him. | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
Tkatchev with half turn, keeps the swing pure and simple. | :35:12. | :35:27. | |
And here it comes, stand it up, that will do! Oh! Fantastic! The ever | :35:28. | :35:44. | |
reliable Kristian Thomas does the job for Team England, they will take | :35:45. | :35:50. | |
gold! And what a thoroughly deserved the Finnish there. He is really the | :35:51. | :35:56. | |
backbone of the team these past years. The national coach, who is | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
one of the Russian coaches that have come, they have really moulded into | :36:01. | :36:09. | |
the British system. His personal coach, Scott, is the other coach on | :36:10. | :36:12. | |
the floor. What a great job they have done, how well to focus once | :36:13. | :36:21. | |
Sam got hurt. Frank Baines, 14.566, certainly good enough for silver for | :36:22. | :36:22. | |
Scotland. So the job of gaining bonus marks | :36:23. | :36:45. | |
goes to Dan Purvis. Parallel bars, pommel horse, and others to contend | :36:46. | :36:55. | |
with over the next few days. Dan Purvis focuses in on the vault. | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
Precise, lovely height, two and a half twists, and he makes it look as | :37:02. | :37:10. | |
easy as can be! He almost does that as a crowd-pleaser, doesn't he? He | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
waved to the crowd almost as part of his landing. Oh, he will be | :37:15. | :37:19. | |
delighted, and so we should be, a great team effort. You know, they | :37:20. | :37:24. | |
were under a lot of pressure to hang on to the coat-tails, I suppose, of | :37:25. | :37:31. | |
England. Lagat this! Two and a half twists, little bit of centre, but | :37:32. | :37:37. | |
who cares? -- look at this. A good way to wrap up your team effort and | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
your individual challenge, Dan Purvis, very popular young man, | :37:42. | :37:45. | |
quiet, unassuming, but hugely talented. | :37:46. | :37:54. | |
Look at that. You see, this is important, again, 15.033, good job, | :37:55. | :38:08. | |
Kristian Thomas, very good job, Team England. And our thoughts are with | :38:09. | :38:13. | |
some old at the moment, who somewhere is having an X-ray. -- Sam | :38:14. | :38:18. | |
Oldham. Well, Canada are holding onto that | :38:19. | :38:31. | |
bronze medal position. On parallel bars, this is Scott Morgan. They | :38:32. | :38:37. | |
have done well to keep their focus with all this racket going on for | :38:38. | :38:40. | |
Scotland and England! This is lovely. Lots of good work on | :38:41. | :38:44. | |
parallel bars at this competition, it is not an easy piece. Oh, that is | :38:45. | :38:49. | |
lovely. Healy with his hips well out, this | :38:50. | :39:09. | |
is good technique from him. Oh, and what a pity! The wheels can fall off | :39:10. | :39:17. | |
at the most unlikely place. He just slightly overcooked that, didn't he? | :39:18. | :39:24. | |
He seemed to explode, basically. What a disappointment for him, it | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
was going really well, some lovely stuff. Very difficult skill to | :39:29. | :39:34. | |
negotiate. But you need to carry on. There is the double pike. | :39:35. | :39:41. | |
Good enough for bronze, Nathan Gafuik scores 13.533. | :39:42. | :39:59. | |
Oh, yes, goodness me, after that horrendous high bar incident, I am | :40:00. | :40:08. | |
sure he is absolutely feeling it. We will try to get a chat, find out. | :40:09. | :40:14. | |
But 14.833 secures and confirms that Scotland take a silver medal and | :40:15. | :40:21. | |
make history for the first time ever, a team medal at the | :40:22. | :40:26. | |
Commonwealth Games. Paul has been in charge and looking after the | :40:27. | :40:30. | |
Scottish team. Usually his job is to contend with the British team here, | :40:31. | :40:36. | |
just consoling Liam. It is worth saying that all three teams in the | :40:37. | :40:41. | |
medal positions, one of them England, 250, 260, it would be worth | :40:42. | :40:47. | |
looking at whether the English score has beaten the British score at the | :40:48. | :40:53. | |
Europeans. They have been hugely impressive, Mitch, haven't they? | :40:54. | :40:57. | |
Sort of solid, mentally solid. And to lose what was potentially one of | :40:58. | :41:03. | |
your highest scoring gymnasts and still produce a score like that, | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
three quarters of the way round, remarkable. Absolutely remarkable, | :41:10. | :41:12. | |
and Team Scotland, Team Scotland, then, take silver! For the first | :41:13. | :41:23. | |
time in Commonwealth Games history, Gymnastics Scotland take a team of | :41:24. | :41:29. | |
silver! Adam Lanza every bit of this, doesn't he? He has sort of | :41:30. | :41:32. | |
been there every bit of the way through, seen the days when there | :41:33. | :41:38. | |
was no chance for Scotland. Great moment for | :41:39. | :41:44. | |
Dan Purvis, the two Dans, Frank Baines as well. Welcome to the world | :41:45. | :41:56. | |
of selection to the British team. It is going to be a tough choice! From | :41:57. | :42:01. | |
one to another, they are all world-class. What a team! | :42:02. | :42:13. | |
There is your bronze medallists. And a bit of a story with Australia, you | :42:14. | :42:26. | |
know, not a single medal for the Australian men. They will put that | :42:27. | :42:34. | |
right with the women, won't they? They were not massively impressive | :42:35. | :42:41. | |
last night, they are lying second, but they will have to do the job. | :42:42. | :42:47. | |
Confirmation, then, that England are Commonwealth Games champions ahead | :42:48. | :42:51. | |
of Scotland, who take silver, making history, the first time ever that | :42:52. | :42:55. | |
Scotland have had a medal at the team Jaguar jets in the Commonwealth | :42:56. | :42:57. | |
Games. Scotland have had a medal at the | :42:58. | :42:57. | |
team Jaguar jets in the Canada take bronze, Australia out of the medals | :42:58. | :43:03. | |
in fourth. Wales fifth, a solid, strong performance from them, ahead | :43:04. | :43:09. | |
of New Zealand in sixth. Max, Commonwealth team gold, how | :43:10. | :43:15. | |
does that feel? It is amazing, there is still another competition at | :43:16. | :43:17. | |
this, so we're just waiting to see we can put in a good score, come | :43:18. | :43:23. | |
together and prepare for this. In front of a crowd like this, it is | :43:24. | :43:29. | |
amazing. We have seen you congratulating the Scottish team, | :43:30. | :43:32. | |
you train with those guys, what has it been like to put one over on | :43:33. | :43:36. | |
them? It is very different, these are guys who are friends and | :43:37. | :43:40. | |
team-mates, and it is interesting, a bit of fun training with them and | :43:41. | :43:44. | |
against them, and they have done a great job, and hopefully they can | :43:45. | :43:49. | |
come out on top. At that point back row when you landed from the high | :43:50. | :43:53. | |
bar, you looks like you knew you had nailed it. Yeah, I mean, there was a | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
lot of pressure going last on high bar, such high-pressure apparatus, | :43:59. | :44:03. | |
and I just wanted to get through the routine cleanly and finish the | :44:04. | :44:06. | |
competition for the lads, because we have been training so hard, | :44:07. | :44:08. | |
competition for the lads, because we have been training so you know, for | :44:09. | :44:11. | |
the whole team and Sam as well. You had to wait whilst I was injured | :44:12. | :44:16. | |
before you could do your vault, how hard was that? Any news? Not yet, he | :44:17. | :44:22. | |
has gone to be assessed, we don't know what the situation is yet, but | :44:23. | :44:26. | |
we wish him all the best, I am pretty sure he will be fine in a | :44:27. | :44:33. | |
couple of weeks. Your first senior competition, what a way to do it? | :44:34. | :44:37. | |
Yes, it has been unbelievable, the whole experience, the village first | :44:38. | :44:41. | |
has been a supportive environment and this at faecesing I have never | :44:42. | :44:47. | |
experienced anything like it. It looked very comfortable, well done | :44:48. | :44:50. | |
and Lewis, you came in and said you had a lot to prove coming back to | :44:51. | :44:54. | |
competition, do you think you have answered your critics? I think so. | :44:55. | :44:59. | |
Today has been a brilliant experience, despite what happened to | :45:00. | :45:02. | |
Sam, we had to concentrate on what we needed to do and put pressure on | :45:03. | :45:10. | |
us, but we did the job and we have had fun, we love the Commonwealth | :45:11. | :45:13. | |
Games, it has been a great experience. Well done. And a | :45:14. | :45:23. | |
fantastic performance, but we have got to focus on Max Whitlock, the | :45:24. | :45:29. | |
first time he has broken 90 in his career. What a time to do it. | :45:30. | :45:36. | |
Unbelievable for the guys, to score plus 90, that is on a world level. | :45:37. | :45:45. | |
Max is looking towards Reo and he will take confidence from that. Here | :45:46. | :45:49. | |
are some of the highlights from Max. Earlier these year he said of his | :45:50. | :45:54. | |
desire to make 90 points. He said it is important, because it puts him up | :45:55. | :45:58. | |
there with the rest of the world. He is spot on. Yes he know what is he | :45:59. | :46:04. | |
wants out of his career and he is so focussed, you see him in training, | :46:05. | :46:08. | |
he gets his job done and he gets out. But that vault, it is an | :46:09. | :46:16. | |
incredible vault and his high bar, he has upgraded that, that was known | :46:17. | :46:23. | |
as one of his weaker pieces. But as an all-round gymnast you don't have | :46:24. | :46:27. | |
a weak past. What is he like? He is a lovely kid. As a competitor? He is | :46:28. | :46:32. | |
one that you don't want to go up against. He is consistent and he | :46:33. | :46:37. | |
loves it. As soon as he gets in front of the crowd and he has | :46:38. | :46:40. | |
Olympic and world and Commonwealth Games experience he know what is it | :46:41. | :46:45. | |
takes to be on the rostrum. He has been talking about being right up | :46:46. | :46:51. | |
there with the best, how good is he? I saw him as a junior in 2010 and he | :46:52. | :47:02. | |
had something special and his lines within gymnastics, they're just | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
incredible. He has that attention to every detail. He is not just happy | :47:08. | :47:10. | |
to go through a routine. He wants to go through a routine with | :47:11. | :47:14. | |
perfection. That is what you need to be at the top. The viewers are | :47:15. | :47:20. | |
loving Max. He is trending on Twitter and has a flock of new | :47:21. | :47:32. | |
female followers. Earlier he hadn't made a thousand Voller -- followers. | :47:33. | :47:40. | |
But now it has rocketed. Well done to Max and Team England. A silver | :47:41. | :47:45. | |
for Scotland. Let's hear from them. Dan, you look you came and did a | :47:46. | :47:52. | |
good job? Yes, we thought we had the potential, we were hoping to be the | :47:53. | :48:00. | |
first team to get a medal and we have a silver. What was your | :48:01. | :48:08. | |
experience? It has been fantastic, coming out of retirement, the crowd | :48:09. | :48:12. | |
was unbelievable. Js to be part of the team, these boys are so good, | :48:13. | :48:17. | |
I'm honoured to be part of it and so pleased we did so well. It is | :48:18. | :48:28. | |
deafening, there was a roar, from the crowd, what was that like, after | :48:29. | :48:33. | |
coming back from a broken back? Obvious ly, the crowd helps you. | :48:34. | :48:38. | |
They keep on cheering you, no matter what happens, you can have a fall, | :48:39. | :48:44. | |
but they stir you back on to do a clean routine. It gives you a lot of | :48:45. | :48:51. | |
energy and focus. We saw you grimacing, were you disappointed at | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
times? Yes, I was disappointed, because I wanted to come out and do | :48:56. | :49:01. | |
some clean routines for my first major Championships, I cannot be too | :49:02. | :49:05. | |
disappointed, I'm in with a great team and the guys have done well and | :49:06. | :49:09. | |
to be part of a silver medal winning team for the first time in Scottish | :49:10. | :49:19. | |
history is amazing. You have done brilliantly and Dan, pipped to it by | :49:20. | :49:25. | |
your Team GB team mates? Yes, they're a strong team. But before | :49:26. | :49:29. | |
coming out, we wanted to get that team medal and that is what we did. | :49:30. | :49:34. | |
To compete on home soil it was so much fun. I really enjoyed it. It | :49:35. | :49:38. | |
felt like a flash back to the Olympics. You were saying there is a | :49:39. | :49:42. | |
lot of bant we are the English team who, will take home the bragging | :49:43. | :49:46. | |
rights, do you think it will be unbearable? I don't think so, we are | :49:47. | :49:51. | |
all friends and training together has been fun. It has been a | :49:52. | :49:56. | |
different experience and pushes that much further and we enjoyed it. Well | :49:57. | :50:02. | |
done. I bet the English team will be telling the Scotland team all about | :50:03. | :50:07. | |
that. It is an amazing storey, Scotland have been on the front and | :50:08. | :50:12. | |
back pages of newspapers, but this is a remarkable story, because | :50:13. | :50:17. | |
Scotland didn't enter a team in 2010. Yes it is history and Delhi | :50:18. | :50:26. | |
they didn't even send a Teme team. A-- a team. In 2002 they didn't have | :50:27. | :50:31. | |
a chance of a medal. They weren't in that mind set. They were going do | :50:32. | :50:38. | |
their own personal bit. And great to see Daniel Keatings back? Yes the | :50:39. | :50:43. | |
fact he has finished that and hopefully will be in the all-round | :50:44. | :50:47. | |
final and he has a couple of other finals. The pommel final will be | :50:48. | :50:54. | |
exciting. That is the men's team and now the women's team final. Who is | :50:55. | :50:59. | |
your money on? England are going in with a 1.5 mark lead and if they can | :51:00. | :51:05. | |
keep it waum and -- calm and steady, we should take the gold. But you | :51:06. | :51:09. | |
never know and the crowd will be cheering the England team on. Do you | :51:10. | :51:12. | |
wish you were there? I watched them yesterday and I raced back to see | :51:13. | :51:16. | |
bars and I thought I would feel a bit, oh, I wish I was there, but I | :51:17. | :51:22. | |
thought, great for them, I am glad I haven't had to do all that work! And | :51:23. | :51:28. | |
the team is in such a healthy state. That has made my job to step aside | :51:29. | :51:37. | |
easier. Thank you. Beth won gold in Manchester in 2002 at the age of 17. | :51:38. | :51:52. | |
This is her story. For me, gymnastics was the closest I was | :51:53. | :52:00. | |
going to get to flying. I was very shy at school, but as soon as I | :52:01. | :52:05. | |
stepped out on to the gymnastics floor, that shyness disappeared and | :52:06. | :52:13. | |
I came into my own. As a young kid, I think I was a nightmare. I had far | :52:14. | :52:19. | |
too much energy. I wanted to be moving, I didn't want to just sit | :52:20. | :52:25. | |
and watch TV and my mum thought, what are we going to do to channel | :52:26. | :52:32. | |
this energy? I wouldn't say I was naturally talented, I could do some | :52:33. | :52:35. | |
of the stuff and I picked up things, but I was willing to work and I | :52:36. | :52:39. | |
loved the challenge. If somebody said you would never do that, it was | :52:40. | :52:45. | |
a case of, I will show you I can do that. You can tell where your feet | :52:46. | :52:51. | |
come off. For the first year, I just did it for fun and went on a couple | :52:52. | :52:56. | |
of times a week and then the coaches sort of said, we like what we see | :52:57. | :53:01. | |
here, we would love her to go to the elite side and that is when it | :53:02. | :53:05. | |
became serious and I started doing five days a week, 20 hours a week | :53:06. | :53:11. | |
and to be hobbest -- honest if school wasn't in the way I would | :53:12. | :53:16. | |
have been there 24/7. Do not miss the chalk. One thing. However much | :53:17. | :53:22. | |
you had a shower, it was still in your hands. I was never a kid that | :53:23. | :53:30. | |
dreamt of becoming a big jibbing nas, I just -- gymnast, I just | :53:31. | :53:35. | |
wanting the challenge and the results just kept getting better and | :53:36. | :53:48. | |
better. I did the Europeans in April and then there was the Commonwealth | :53:49. | :53:53. | |
Games throughout the summer of 2002. Obviously all eyes had been on this, | :53:54. | :53:58. | |
it was going to be in Manchester, it was the closest I would ever get to | :53:59. | :54:05. | |
competing in my home town and it was a very special time. As soon as you | :54:06. | :54:09. | |
walked to the apparatus and started to go up the steps, the roar was | :54:10. | :54:17. | |
unbelievable. We weren't used to being high-profile and people know | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
your name and who you were. I remember after the qualification we | :54:22. | :54:25. | |
walked out and there was people shouting and screaming your name, | :54:26. | :54:29. | |
asking for autographs. It was a surreal moment and then that whole | :54:30. | :54:35. | |
competition, it wouldn't -- couldn't have gone any better for me. Now the | :54:36. | :54:44. | |
European bronze medallist, Beth Tweddle of England. This is the | :54:45. | :54:49. | |
piece she wants. Have to keep control. Up to the dismount. Lovely | :54:50. | :54:54. | |
and high. Beautiful twist. I remember doing the bar final and as | :54:55. | :55:00. | |
soon as I landed, I had the biggest smile on my face. To come home with | :55:01. | :55:09. | |
two silvers and a gold, I was only 17 and I didn't realise how much of | :55:10. | :55:17. | |
an impact that was going to have. People ask me to pick one moment | :55:18. | :55:21. | |
from my career that I treasure and you can't pick one moment. For me | :55:22. | :55:26. | |
there is three moments. One was London, because it took me 20 years | :55:27. | :55:33. | |
and it was the last moment of my career. It has been a long wait for | :55:34. | :55:37. | |
a medal. The other was winning the fist world title in 2006. The third | :55:38. | :55:47. | |
is the Commonwealth Games. It was a special moment. That is a truly | :55:48. | :55:54. | |
inspirational story. We have been a bit cruel, we didn't tell her we | :55:55. | :55:58. | |
were going to run that film. But great memories there and British | :55:59. | :56:04. | |
gymnastics is in such a good place, because of you. What do you think | :56:05. | :56:08. | |
when you look back? You know, I still don't realise what I did. I | :56:09. | :56:13. | |
did gymnastics, because I loved it. Every day from the age of even I | :56:14. | :56:16. | |
kept going through that door with a smile on my face. Even my coach, | :56:17. | :56:22. | |
Amanda, she admitted I didn't necessarily have something special, | :56:23. | :56:27. | |
I was just willing ing to work and I was determined. You were also a keen | :56:28. | :56:32. | |
swimmer, at which age did you realise that it was gymnastics for | :56:33. | :56:37. | |
you and not swimming? I did both up to the age of seven or eight and | :56:38. | :56:42. | |
then they started to clash and there was no doubt that gymnastics was the | :56:43. | :56:48. | |
No 1. Participation numbers right across the board in the UK have gone | :56:49. | :56:53. | |
up since London 2012. That is a remarkable change around isn't it? | :56:54. | :56:58. | |
Yes, there is so many of us doing so well now. You have Lewis Smith and | :56:59. | :57:03. | |
Daniel Purvis and Daniel Keatings, you can't just name one. There is so | :57:04. | :57:07. | |
many. It helps the younger kids that they have that sort of role model to | :57:08. | :57:12. | |
lack up to and they think, we have seen them training in the gym, they | :57:13. | :57:17. | |
only work hard, it is nothing special. Why can't we do it? That | :57:18. | :57:22. | |
will always help. Across the UK there are many other sports. We talk | :57:23. | :57:27. | |
about football and rugby and cricket, but my children go to | :57:28. | :57:32. | |
gymnastics on a Sunday morning and the place is full. I think London | :57:33. | :57:38. | |
2012 and Glasgow 2014 has done wonders for British sport. You know | :57:39. | :57:42. | |
about the football, cricket, rugby, but it is show casing the lesser | :57:43. | :57:49. | |
known sports whether it is bowls or gymnastics, there is so many aspects | :57:50. | :57:54. | |
and I believe every child has their calling. I did so many sports before | :57:55. | :58:03. | |
I found gym mas ticks. -- gym mas ticks -- gymnastics. And you can | :58:04. | :58:07. | |
find out more information on our web-site. And see how Matt Baker got | :58:08. | :58:19. | |
involved in the sport. Thank you Beth. I have a bit of breaking news. | :58:20. | :58:28. | |
A 16-year-old Nigerian weightlifter has failed a doping test after | :58:29. | :58:35. | |
become the youngest female to win a Commonwealth Games medal. She has | :58:36. | :58:39. | |
been suspended after testing positive after winning the 53 | :58:40. | :58:44. | |
kilogram gold on Friday. More on that during the day. Now to the | :58:45. | :58:52. | |
wonderful scenes here in Glasgow in the mountain biking. This has been a | :58:53. | :58:57. | |
terrific event. Beautiful scenery there. A testing course, we have had | :58:58. | :59:02. | |
the women's mountain biking. Now it is the men. That is on BBC 3 if you | :59:03. | :59:09. | |
fancy some live mountain biking. We have been at the Hydro in Glasgow | :59:10. | :59:15. | |
and the noisy neighbours at the SECC are making lots of noise this | :59:16. | :59:19. | |
afternoon. Because over there now it is the boxing, a passionate crowd at | :59:20. | :59:24. | |
the best of times. Fantastic support and for Scottish boxers, but the | :59:25. | :59:30. | |
crowd welcoming the boxer from around the world and some tasty | :59:31. | :59:42. | |
bouts this afternoon. Reece McFadden from Motherwell has been one of the | :59:43. | :59:46. | |
standout performers at the boxing so far, highlighted by that victory | :59:47. | :59:49. | |
over Charlie Edwards of England, but with every round that goes by, the | :59:50. | :59:54. | |
pace quickens, the intensity increases, and Oteng Oteng, a bronze | :59:55. | :00:00. | |
medallist in Delhi, will be a tough task this afternoon. Richie | :00:01. | :00:05. | |
Woodhall, how tough? Yeah, it will be a tough contest in against an | :00:06. | :00:11. | |
experienced guy, but he has the confidence of beating the world | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
number one. These guy is the limit for McFadden. I have been impressed | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
with his attitude, raising the tempo, raising his performance | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
level, and he can beat this fella. He has had two hard fights, and on | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
paper you would have thought Edwards would beat him, who knows how far he | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
can go? When you are 19, remember, you were once! Is there almost the | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
folly of youth, you just think, I can do this? Absolutely, he is on | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
home soil, the crowd behind him, and some kids are nervous, but this | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
fella, no nerves in him at all, which is really good. At 19 years of | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
age, that is probably his greatest strength, not fazed by the occasion. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
Long that may continue. Let's see how he got on. | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
The opening bell sounds in this flyweight quarterfinal between | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
boxers from Scotland and Botswana, the man wearing red, operating out | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
of the southpaw stance, has gate-crashed the senior | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
international scene of boxing, elite Olympic boxing, with some | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
eye-catching performances in the opening two rounds of the | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Commonwealth Games boxing tournament, Scotland's Reece | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
McFadden. His opponent in blue, ranked 30th in the world, reigning | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
bronze medallist at flyweight from Delhi four years ago, Oteng Oteng | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
from Botswana. Just listen to the support that | :01:44. | :01:55. | |
McFadden is receiving. Botswana have got a sizeable contingent in the | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
crowd as well here at the SECC, as McFadden takes a good right hand | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
over the top from Oteng. But he is so quick, McFadden, that sometimes | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
even when he is caught, his hand speed allows him to get through with | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
shots of his own. One of his strengths is his elusiveness, he | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
stays very small, create a small target, sitting on the back foot, | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
southpaw, he waits, and as is opponent comes, like Andrew Selby in | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
that first contest, a terrific performance, but Selby, as he was | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
moving away, that is what McFadden does, and then he springs and attack | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
as you are moving away from him. Very quick hands, very quick feet, | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
and of those tactics have worked tremendously well in the first two | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
contests that he has had. The first two contests have been upset of | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
considerable proportions, beating the world number one, Andrew Selby, | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
in his opening bout, a bout where Selby was Dr points for the | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
mouthpiece continually falling out of his mouth. -- docked. Take | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
nothing away from McFadden's performance. In the second round of | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
the tournament, he beat England and Great Britain's Charlie Edwards, | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
another GB podium boxer. So he has had huge success against home | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
nations boxers, and boxers of better experience. No respect of the | :03:29. | :03:29. | |
nations boxers, and boxers of better experience. No respect reputations | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
of the men he has been facing, and this SECC crowd are really pumped | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
up, the intensity and focus, and he has delivered some breathtaking | :03:41. | :03:41. | |
performances. He is has delivered some breathtaking | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
performances. one win away from a place on the Commonwealth Games | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
medal roster, something that Oteng Oteng experienced in Delhi four | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
years ago. He had a bye in the first round and then had a stoppage win | :03:55. | :03:55. | |
over Ricardo Blackman. Right hands whipped in underneath | :03:56. | :04:11. | |
from Oteng. The bell sounds. An irrepressible character, really, he | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
has got a graze. I don't know how that significance in terms | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
has got a graze. I don't know how whether it will get worse in the | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
contest. Some fast counters here from McFadden. I didn't think it was | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
too bad a round at all. Oteng missed the target, often with the right | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
hand, could not get too, then back comes McFadden. A clever tactic. | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
Look at that shot from McFadden, he throws the branches in threes and | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
fours. Let's have a look at the schools. They have all gone for | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
McFadden, yeah, I agree with that. McFadden taking the opening round in | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
unanimous fashion. The graze is just above the right eyebrow, the corner | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
applying the petroleum jelly. Not leading any blood visibly at the | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
moment, but that is something that McFadden will be looking to cover up | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
and prevent from getting worse during because of this contest. What | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
he does very well, wrong, is waiting on the back foot, but now and again | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
he will counterattack. He will wait for the opponents delayed and then | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
quickly accelerate, beat him to the punch, and that keeps the judges | :05:29. | :05:38. | |
happy. They cease on going forward now and again, but the majority of | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
the tiny sits on the back foot. -- base eats someone. That is why he | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
got that first round. Oteng was not far away with a long | :05:48. | :05:59. | |
right hand. That often determines the tactics for the remainder of the | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
bout. Oteng of doing goes to the furthest mutual corner. -- Oteng | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
Oteng. Some repairs to the waistband on the trunks of McFadden. | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
It is a shame, because just before that, Ronald, the pace was suiting | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
McFadden, he slowed it down, making Oteng weight, trying to come | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
forward, and that suits McFadden - he can see the attacks coming | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
forward. This fella in blue, the attacks are too slow, McFadden is | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
doing really well. Brilliant from McFadden, quickness of feet and of | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
thought as well, and he is continuing to grow under the ring | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
lights here in terms of confidence. A hugely experienced man in front of | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
him, Olympian from London 2012, two time participant in the World | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
Championships, Oteng Oteng, losing in the second preliminary round on | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
both occasions. So plenty of global experience, McFadden acquitting | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
himself brilliantly once again. Sneaky left hand got through from | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
McFadden, got himself back, staying close to centre ring, operating off | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
the ropes, relying on his quickness to, the better. Coming back with | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
threes and fours, not just singles from McFadden. We have seen it time | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
and again, a box on the back foot boxing well, but the judges do not | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
like that style anymore. It is changing, this game is, you have got | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
to be able to do them both, on the back foot but then push your | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
opponent back. He did just there, exemplifying that tactic, sitting | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
back on the ropes. Again, the best of McFadden coming out of his | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
trance! Michael Keane in action once more. -- trunks. A little bit more | :07:54. | :08:02. | |
blood coming out of that cut on his left eye, he will just have to watch | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
that. We are inside the final minute of the second round, McFadden took | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
the opening round in unanimous fashion. The reigning national | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
champion at 52 kilograms, only 19 years of age, the man from | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
Motherwell. And here he is, sitting in the corner once more, looking to | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
lay that trap and use that commend us quickness to score effectively | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
off the ropes. Oteng Oteng loses his balance, and look how quickly | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
McFadden wanted to capitalise, in a flash, leading to macro shots go. | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
Yeah, it is important, you have got to have fast reactions, faster | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
reflexes, but he has got them. He does not need to be square on the | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
ropes, but such a tricky little man to nail down, a frustrating boxer to | :08:51. | :08:59. | |
box against, and that is probably his strength, to frustrate the | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
opponent, make him make mistakes, then he goes back at him. The bell, | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
a spring heeled walk back to the red corner for Reece McFadden, another | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
strong performance. But that cut, oh, my goodness! That appears to | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
have gotten worse, there is a smear of blood which I thought was the | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
eyebrow opening up, but it has got a little bit deeper. They will have to | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
get to work on that. That is when he jumped on Oteng Oteng when he lost | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
his balance. I think he may have stepped on his foot, then pushing | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
him back. Yuna what? Let's have a look at these schools, yeah! Two | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
judges to one, clever boxing by McFadden, frustrating his opponent, | :09:41. | :09:41. | |
finding a way to win these rounds. Oteng Oteng looking to retain at | :09:42. | :09:55. | |
least the bronze medal he picked up in Delhi four years ago, but facing | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
a deficit here against a compact, clever boxer, Reece McFadden from | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
Scotland. Into the third and final round, McFadden looking to continue | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
this fairy tale run that has been bought by his boxing brilliance here | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
and Glasgow 2014. He has beaten the world number one, AGB | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
representative, and here he is facing the 30th ranked boxer in the | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
world, the highest ranked flyweight after Andrew Selby in the | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
tournament. Launch day long left hook, Oteng Oteng from Botswana, and | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
in the opening two rounds, McFadden executing his game plan brilliantly. | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
Limbs intertwining, twisting, as the boxers tumbled to the canvas, but | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
both up instantly. There does not appear to be any leg injury, or one | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
that limits the mobility of McFadden, that would be a serious | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
impediment to a boxer who relies on his legs as heavily as he does. Just | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
a counterattack there, just stepping in. He gets caught there. He has got | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
to stay concentrated, you must concentrate fully now. Coming to a | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
part of the contest where his opponent will really commit himself | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
with that right hand, there it is, look. McFadden has got to | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
concentrate now. McFadden evaded most of the right hands, that long | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
right cross from Oteng Oteng did get home. We are at the midway point of | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
this third and final round, backfired on took the opening two | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
rounds, in unanimous fashion, then from two of the three judges. -- | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
McFadden Coke. Beyond this midway point now, Oteng Oteng increasingly | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
looking for one shot to bring about a finish. He will be aware of the | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
fact that he is trailing in the contest. Remember, he is a stoppage | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
win in his second round bout after receiving a bye in the opening | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
round, so he does possess a fair did. McFadden will have to watch | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
that. It is important for McFadden to work on the inside now, getting | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
these opportunities. It is a stalemate, nothing really landing, | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
so he has to end of the sequence may be on the hook, but two or three | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
shots on the inside. At this stage, Oteng going forward, looking to | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
score the odd shot here and there. It is not decisive, but at the end | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
of the day McFadden has got to work a little bit harder on the inside | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
just to finish this contest off. Inside the final 30 seconds, | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
McFadden bearing his gumshield and grinning, the work in this round has | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
not been as clean or grinning, the work in this round has | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
the Scottish boxer. Having said that, Oteng Oteng really having | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
the Scottish boxer. Having said difficult time landing cleanly on | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
this compact, elusive little boxer. Falling short once again, both | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
boxers will hear the ten second clapper, a furious finish, McFadden | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
in an exchange, getting onto the front foot and driving Oteng Oteng | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
backwards towards the ropes. Oteng raises his hand, but more in hope | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
than expectation, I suspect. A familiar celebration for McFadden | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
now, taking a bow, and acknowledging the vocal support that he is | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
receiving from the crowd here at the SECC, a true reflection of the | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
outcome of that bout, I think. Oteng Oteng knows his Commonwealth Games | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
is coming to an end and that Reece McFadden will be the one going | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
through to the medal stages. Another good performance by McFadden, just | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
finishing the round very strong, probably lost the round by a couple | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
of judges, I would say. The work was not as clean as in the first two, | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
but nevertheless he is the contest very well. He thinks he has won it, | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
so do we, and what a story this is for this young fellow. Ladies and | :13:54. | :14:03. | |
gentlemen, what a fantastic contest, your appreciation for both boxers. | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
CHEERING AND | :14:08. | :14:08. |