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Tin-Tin Ho. Delight on their faces, a well played match. That, you feel, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tin-Tin Ho and Liam Pitchford the a well played match. That, you feel, | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
future of English table tennis. Success for Paul Drinkhall and | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Joanna Drinkhall, their different styles combine to bring success, but | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
did immense credit to Liam Pitchford and to Tin-Tin Ho, | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
silver-medallists. It is more they can have expected. The mixed | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
doubles, gold, silver and bronze, a massive injection for | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
So, delirious moments, for the married couple and now they | :00:38. | :00:48. | |
have gone two better, and got themselves the ultimate prize, the | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
gold-medal for Paul and Joanna Drinkhall. Deserve it adulation, a | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
standing ovation from the majority of the crowd. The these two, | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Pitchford and Tin-Tin Ho, their time will come, but didn't they play | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
well? -- for these two. They played their part in a terrific | :01:05. | :01:33. | |
gold-medal match. The Shaw, we will be seeing a lot more of them for -- | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
for sure, we will be seeing a lot more of them for many years to come. | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
Applause, then, for the victors, as they leave the stage. A brilliant | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
afternoon's work for the Drinkhalls. | :01:57. | :02:05. | |
Just some highlights then found they did it. Paul Drinkhall playing | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
particularly aggressively in the last game, really taking it to the | :02:13. | :02:21. | |
seventh seeds. And there it was on the match point, a dead net cord, to | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
the disappointment of Liam Pitchford. Delight on their faces, | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
gold-medal winners, Paul and Joanna Drinkhall. | :02:33. | :02:41. | |
Joanna, a Commonwealth champion, how does that sound? Amazing! Don't, you | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
are going to start me! Amazing, if you at the beginning of the | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
tournament we would be playing our own team mate in the final, it has | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
been such a great event for endless table tennis. We are just so happy | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
to win. Muted televisions at the end, is that just because of the | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
weight finished with that net cord? Yes they got robbed because of the | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
net, but we got robbed of a proper celebration because of a lucky point | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
to finish on. Great for in this table tennis, like Joanna sat, great | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
for English table tennis. -- like Joanna said. We have | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
how much does it mean to you personally, because I know after | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
Delhi you said you had unfinished as Miss? I came for for medals, I have | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
only got two, but one of them is gold, and it is amazing to win it | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
with Jo being my wife, it is extra special. It is amazing. The way they | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
came back, were you worried at all? We knew they were tough opponents, | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
they are really good players. You have still got another sets to win, | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
you can't finish it there and we are both well experienced to know that. | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
They come up with really good fighting spirit. They made us really | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
fight for the title. I am happy to say we took it. How do you celebrate | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
a gold medal? Bottle of champagne, it has got to be, or a feud. I have | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
got to play a bronze medal match in the women's doubles first, so I will | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
do that, and then... I will cheer them on with a bottle of champagne. | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
I will join him after. Congratulations. Hasn't it been a | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
good day for husband and wife teams? We saw the Adcocks in badminton | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
progressing to the mixed doubles final, and then the Drinkhalls | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
taking the Commonwealth gold. Probably a good time to hand over to | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
Mike television has bid for the last ten days, many shakes Mac LAUGHTER | :04:46. | :04:55. | |
-- my television husband. What a netball match we saw earlier between | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
England and New Zealand, that is the one thing about this Commonwealth | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
Games, I was transfixed as to what was going on in the netball court. | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
It was a great finish. That sums up the Commonwealth Games, that we all | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
become experts for 11 days, and we get really fixated on different | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
sports. Sports that we might never have watch before until Glasgow | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
2014. Good to see you, good afternoon, folks. Here we are, | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
mid-afternoon on day ten of Glasgow 2014. Let's run you through what you | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
can expect between now and the end of the day on BBC Three. In | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
badminton, we will see who can seal their place in the singles and | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
doubles events finals. Coverage to come from the Emirates Arena. We | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
will find out who is closing in on the three gold medals on offer in | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
table tennis. As we head into the evening, it will also feature the | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
women's three-metre springboard final from Edinburgh. | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
We kick off this session with badminton. It is a sport that | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
requires more fancy footwork than those involved on Strickler come | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
dancing. As far as team England are concerned, the third seed is a real | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
medal hope as far as they are concerned. Let's get a handle on how | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
he burst onto the scene in terms of badminton. | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
I have very fond memories of playing in the last game and doing well. It | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
was my breakthrough. Announcing myself on the world stage a bit | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
more. It has been a long time since England had a top-class men's | :06:46. | :06:55. | |
singles player, but it is Rajiv Ouseph through to the final. I did | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
not play as well as I wanted to, but it was something I aspired to, being | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
in the final of the Commonwealth Games. I was in two minds about how | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
I played it that day, but getting the silver medal was probably one of | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
the highlights of my career. The first Englishman for 24 years to | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
reach a Commonwealth Games final in men's singles. | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
If I can do the same as I did last time, I would be very happy. | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
Obviously I would love to do one better. It is going to be tough, but | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
I don't see why I can't produce a few good wins. If I am consistent, I | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
am confident in my ability to come back and win a medal again. We have | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
a very strong team. As one of the older players in the team, I try and | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
use that experience to try and help everyone else, especially in the | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
team event. We did not really perform how we wanted to in the | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Olympics, so if we can bring back some credibility to badminton by | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
getting medals in these games, I think it might get the interest back | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
up in badminton. It is kind of a semi-home game, so we will have a | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
lot of interest in ourselves again, media and family and friends, so we | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
need to be used that pressure in a positive way. Hopefully I can use my | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
experience from London in a positive way. It is going to be a new | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
experience for us but hopefully that will be something we can bring back | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
a medal or two from. After beating his training partner | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
in the quarterfinals, axed up for Rajiv Ouseph was an Indian opponent, | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
somebody ten one had already beaten earlier. We join the best of three | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
contest with one game all. Don't forget, up for grabs is a place in | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
the final. COMMENTATOR: You have to use that | :08:50. | :09:09. | |
pace. Which has done there. Yes. Just coming back to the point | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
before, I said at the end of the second game, Kashup is very | :09:15. | :09:29. | |
confident. Rajiv Ouseph hast to up the pace in order to secure an | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
earlier finish, than if he is just waiting and playing. An earlier | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
finish within the rally, you mean? Yes, thanks. Presumably it will | :09:44. | :09:57. | |
become very intriguing then because Ouseph will become more attacking | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
and Kashyap will have Ouseph will become more attacking | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
rallies. That is what I love about this chess game we are having. It | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
goes like a yo-yo. The reaction of the rally from | :10:10. | :10:55. | |
Kashyap. Now, something has happened here. Walker, the men's doubles | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
player, has come to the coaching bench because the two Indian coaches | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
have gone on to the adjoining court where the number one seed, PV sin do | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
is play another one single semifinal. She was 9-3 down and now | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
11-10 up in the first game. I think he was in trying to give his | :11:20. | :13:18. | |
advice on the other court first and then coming back here again. Yes, it | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
is difficult for the coaches when he have players on two courts at the | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
same time. And they are both demanding your attention. | :13:29. | :14:10. | |
Oh, yes. What a smash. And what a way to build the rally. This is the | :14:11. | :14:23. | |
way Ouseph can win the match, playing patiently that adding on a | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
little bit of pace when you have two and then go for these big finishes. | :14:28. | :14:29. | |
He has got the better smash of the two players. | :14:30. | :14:49. | |
Here, we have this patients come in between. He has got to run for that | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
one. -- bastions. Well taken. Rajiv Ouseph take the | :14:56. | :15:11. | |
shuttle late in his deep, forehand corner. Lookout he hits this. His | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
opponents know they are going to play the straight drop, and they are | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
moving in. He has do make the physical effort to leap up and take | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
it early, deep in his forehand corner. That is what his coaches | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
asking him to do. -- his coach 's. Well played. Once again, this is a | :15:30. | :16:07. | |
very fine example of playing with patience, waiting for his chance, | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
but having the better attack and a wonderful follow-up comment here. -- | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
wonderful follow-up, here. He has got it back! That is good | :16:15. | :17:20. | |
anticipation by Kasia. -- by Kashyap . Rajiv Ouseph showing fatigue after | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
that rally. Look at that retrieving. Yes, look at that, hands on hips. | :17:27. | :17:46. | |
That hurt. Both physically and, I should think, mentally. Yes, it is | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
painful, always. It is wide. Another gruelling rally. | :17:50. | :19:17. | |
This match has now been in progress for example the one hour. It is 1-1, | :19:18. | :19:27. | |
and 6-6 in the deciding game. Oh, it was not wide by much, was it? It is | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
becoming a very, very hard, physical battle between these two players. | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
Who is going to crack first? He missed it. Mental discipline. | :19:40. | :20:15. | |
Yes. It is tough out there. You have been on court for a little over an | :20:16. | :20:16. | |
hour. You have | :20:17. | :20:32. | |
little harsh, that was a good opportunity, he just missed it. Yes, | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
by a whisker. He was just out. It was a good chance to take. But | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
obviously, he should have kept it in. And the game plan of Kashyap is | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
still intact. This is so important, isn't it? | :20:49. | :21:43. | |
Psychologically. It is. And the umpire is not allowing the | :21:44. | :21:52. | |
players to towel down. . I think that is available hard, when | :21:53. | :22:15. | |
the players have just had a rally like that. I know the rules say that | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
play must be continuous. But sometimes you need a little bit of | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
latitude, after a rally like that, and the length of the match. It | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
would be It is another very, very physical | :22:29. | :23:08. | |
rally. But that is interesting. Kashyap is starting to open up, you. | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
What a mistake by Rajiv Ouseph. -- to open up, here. Well, both players | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
physically putting themselves through a gruelling match. And I | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
think when you have long rallies like that, and | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
think when you have long rallies error, rather than your opponent | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
playing a winner, you can devastating, psychologically. But | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
you see coming here, I can see both players wandering around, taking | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
their time. I know the umpire has given Rajiv Ouseph a verbal warning | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
about going and towelling down. And of course, after a verbal warning, a | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
player can get a yellow card, which I believe is a monetary fine, if | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
they break the rules again, and then they can get a red card, which is a | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
points deduction, if they keep breaking the rule after that. Then | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
they get a black card and disqualification. But you have do | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
have an understanding of what these athletes are going through. If both | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
men are taking their time in between points, that is permissible, I | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
think, really. If one was really wanting to go on quickly and the | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
other wasn't, I can understand the umpire's intervention. Yes, but they | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
are going by the letter of the law. Yes, and to be honest, that is why | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
we have rules. I'm not criticising the umpire. But this is a nice | :24:38. | :24:46. | |
little break for Kashyap Parupalli. An important advantage. And twice in | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
the last three rallies, he has been the one opening up on the attack. | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
That is a definite change. Here, we see it again. | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
I think it is right, what he is doing here, Rajiv Ouseph, not going | :25:04. | :25:29. | |
cross court but straight down the line. That is something he has got | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
to do now, when he is in these big matches, he has got to go straight. | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
Every time it is going across, if he is coming back, you has got to do a | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
lot of covering on the court. Yes, because he would have do is cover | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
the full diagonal because if he smashes crosscourt, the obvious | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
reply is a straight block. He has to go. It's matches and the moment. -- | :25:54. | :26:02. | |
he has to go for straight smashes. That is a nice winner from Kashyap | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
Parupalli and he has the advantage of the players change ends in this | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
deciding game, a 3-point advantage, to be precise. What has Rajiv Ouseph | :26:11. | :26:12. | |
got left? Has he got the stamina? Well, I'm afraid I did not really | :26:13. | :27:04. | |
catch what the Indian coach was saying to his man. They have got 42 | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
languages to choose from! Well, will the 3-point cushion be | :27:12. | :27:19. | |
sufficient? It is going wide. It is. If ever | :27:20. | :27:59. | |
this four points after the change of ends, that you always talk about, | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
you need to get a 3-1 advantage at least, in the first four points | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
after the mid-game interval, if ever that was relevant, it is right now. | :28:09. | :28:29. | |
That is out. Oh, dear. Well, it is called good. It is the sideline in | :28:30. | :28:41. | |
question. That was clearly wide. Good defence. That is in. Amazing. | :28:42. | :29:56. | |
You could see that Kashyap was going on the attack. Rajiv Ouseph, getting | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
ready, and he got it, got a good counterattacking opportunity but did | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
not get through. What a good defence it was from Kashyap, here. | :30:07. | :30:24. | |
Good left, my goodness me, off a tight swingeing net shot, that was | :30:25. | :30:35. | |
wonderful live from Kashyap. This one, the shuttle was upside down, he | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
had to let the shuttle come out of the spin, and the tumble before he | :30:41. | :30:43. | |
could play the lift and to get such... Oh my goodness, DGC that? | :30:44. | :30:52. | |
Yes, a good shot. -- did you see that? Excellent left. And a tight | :30:53. | :31:00. | |
spinning net shot this time from Kashyap. | :31:01. | :31:07. | |
Nothing Rusev can do about that. Good play by Kashyap. -- nothing | :31:08. | :31:16. | |
Ouseph can do about that. A 5-point cushion now. | :31:17. | :31:31. | |
That is wide. Yes, and the body language of tragic to surf, | :31:32. | :31:41. | |
silver-medallist from four years ago -- of Rajiv Ouseph. The | :31:42. | :31:51. | |
disappointment. And now it is a tall, tall order. For the England | :31:52. | :31:56. | |
number one to come back from this sort of a deficit in the deciding | :31:57. | :31:58. | |
game. has got the surplus, physically and | :31:59. | :32:26. | |
mentally, and he is really having a nice follow-up here this late in the | :32:27. | :32:32. | |
match, that is very well done. It certainly is, and he is on a run of | :32:33. | :32:39. | |
six straight points. At 11-10, I thought it was to anyone pleural, | :32:40. | :32:47. | |
50-50. It was, it definitely was -- I thought it was anyone's. | :32:48. | :32:54. | |
You see, I think interesting. Obviously grasping at | :32:55. | :33:26. | |
straws here, in terms of Ouseph, but the shot before that | :33:27. | :33:32. | |
straws here, in terms of Ouseph, but much, much faster attacking player. | :33:33. | :33:34. | |
All of the clears they have played have been very high and very | :33:35. | :33:41. | |
defensive. That change of pace did the damage. | :33:42. | :34:12. | |
from the umpire. Yes, indeed. That is good umpiring. Both you and I | :34:13. | :34:13. | |
We could not hear what Ouseph was thought that was wide. | :34:14. | :34:25. | |
We could not hear what Ouseph was saying. Looking at it again I am not | :34:26. | :34:31. | |
quite as convinced as I was when I watched it the first time. | :34:32. | :34:38. | |
quite as convinced as I was when I goodness. That is tied. Well, well, | :34:39. | :34:45. | |
well. I think that is probably 1-1 on the bad line calls. | :34:46. | :34:57. | |
That is a good smash. And two tantalising points required by the | :34:58. | :35:08. | |
number two seed to book his place in tomorrow's final. It has been 32 | :35:09. | :35:18. | |
years since India took a gold medal in the men's singles here at the | :35:19. | :35:24. | |
Commonwealth Games. But only two points needed for the chance to | :35:25. | :35:25. | |
repeat that. Yes, it is time for a serious come | :35:26. | :35:50. | |
back here. 12-19 down in the third game. Yes, well played. And the | :35:51. | :36:00. | |
nearer the finishing line players get, the more nervous they may | :36:01. | :36:07. | |
become. So desperate to win those last couple of points, perhaps, you | :36:08. | :36:12. | |
get a little bit tentative in your play. And that could present an | :36:13. | :36:18. | |
opportunity to Ouseph. There was hesitation there from | :36:19. | :37:07. | |
Kashyap, was he going to leave it? I think he was right to play it, | :37:08. | :37:16. | |
wasn't he? I think so too. Oh, that is brilliant. What a defensive shot | :37:17. | :37:23. | |
from Kashyap. Match point opportunities. | :37:24. | :37:40. | |
Yes, I think it turned out that Kashyap was the stronger physical | :37:41. | :37:50. | |
player of the two. I know it is very premature to say it, still five | :37:51. | :37:57. | |
match points to go, but as the game progressed, I felt that Kashyap was | :37:58. | :38:02. | |
right, he was physically stronger than his opponent. Good defence | :38:03. | :38:10. | |
again. Kashyap, the is not moving at all, | :38:11. | :39:17. | |
he is standing still, he is absolutely standing still -- he is | :39:18. | :39:24. | |
not moving at all. Oh. Look at that, it is over, that is amazing! And | :39:25. | :39:33. | |
that is going out. Oh, it is called good! It is called good! And Kashyap | :39:34. | :39:39. | |
has only just realised that that shot has been called in! He thought | :39:40. | :39:47. | |
he had secured the victory. He cannot believe it. But your point, | :39:48. | :39:56. | |
he was at walking pace earlier in that rally, and the fatigue has | :39:57. | :40:05. | |
suddenly hit Kashyap. Completely. Suddenly hit the wall. My goodness | :40:06. | :40:18. | |
me. Well, I have to say, looking at that again, I think I have sympathy | :40:19. | :40:25. | |
for Kashyap. Let's see if we can have it in slow motion. | :40:26. | :40:32. | |
Oh, my goodness, no, that is out, I thought that was out. My goodness | :40:33. | :40:43. | |
me. Well, we are not in the best position to see. The line judge | :40:44. | :40:51. | |
certainly is. Well, it is all happening here. What a rally. Two | :40:52. | :41:00. | |
match points have come and gone. That rally, 71 shots. Only 71! | :41:01. | :41:07. | |
CHUCKLING Yes, that is amazing, what a match | :41:08. | :41:17. | |
it has been. Yes. Still four match point opportunities for this man. | :41:18. | :41:28. | |
Oh my goodness, I thought he was going to attack that. Me to. -- me | :41:29. | :41:35. | |
too. Oh, would you believe it! The net | :41:36. | :41:50. | |
shot from Ouseph sat on the top of the tape and then decided to go | :41:51. | :41:52. | |
over! Oh my goodness. Extraordinary. Brilliant. Four match points have | :41:53. | :42:24. | |
been brilliantly saved. And only another two opportunities for | :42:25. | :42:25. | |
Kashyap. This time, he converts! Heartache | :42:26. | :42:47. | |
for Rajiv Ouseph, and the bronze-medallist from four years ago | :42:48. | :42:53. | |
beats the silver-medallist from four years ago, reverses the result from | :42:54. | :43:04. | |
Delhi. 18-20 one, 21-17, 21-18 in the third and deciding game. One | :43:05. | :43:14. | |
hour 23 minutes of absolutely pulsate in, wonderful badminton. And | :43:15. | :43:21. | |
after 32 years, India will have the opportunity for gold, once more. | :43:22. | :43:29. | |
As you can see, we have been brave enough to venture outside here, and | :43:30. | :43:36. | |
we have a lovely rendition of amazing Grace from some splendid | :43:37. | :43:40. | |
bagpipers there on the main stage. Just to give you a little flavour of | :43:41. | :43:44. | |
what is going on outside, the rain is coming down a little bit here but | :43:45. | :43:48. | |
it has not dampened enthusiasm of any of the locals. Having a great | :43:49. | :43:53. | |
time. Let's stay with the badminton, to the women's singles, and | :43:54. | :43:56. | |
certainly high hopes amongst the locals for Glasgow native Kirsty | :43:57. | :44:01. | |
Gilmour. She is hoping to become the first Scottish woman to ever reach | :44:02. | :44:05. | |
the singles finals at the Commonwealth Games. | :44:06. | :44:12. | |
We join the action at the start of the second. | :44:13. | :44:22. | |
COMMENTATOR: Morton, I don't know if you've got to hear everything that | :44:23. | :44:30. | |
the Scottish coaches were saying, but I would have thought the best | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
thing to say is you are playing quite brilliantly, keep this going. | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
I love the way you said everything. Because personally I think that was | :44:41. | :44:46. | |
over coaching, that was far too much. The girl here has had a | :44:47. | :44:51. | |
brilliant first game. She has done so many right things. You have to | :44:52. | :44:54. | |
keep it simple and just keep it on track and keep it going. I think it | :44:55. | :44:58. | |
was Great net exchange. She is certainly | :44:59. | :45:30. | |
still determined, as you can see Great net exchange. She is certainly | :45:31. | :45:42. | |
her reaction after the rally. That was a good kill as well. Well | :45:43. | :45:49. | |
played. I thought she had a look towards the umpire? We all do! | :45:50. | :45:52. | |
"Please don't say any thing! " She has overdone it. Please have a | :45:53. | :46:14. | |
look at when she is lunging on the net on the forehand side, we get the | :46:15. | :46:16. | |
rally one more time. Lovely, well you have talked about | :46:17. | :46:46. | |
that crosscourt shot from around the head position, as we say it, when | :46:47. | :46:51. | |
you hit down the backhand side but you play with a normal overhead | :46:52. | :46:55. | |
action but it is one of her favourites. Instead of | :46:56. | :46:56. | |
action but it is one of her favourites. Instead going for the | :46:57. | :46:58. | |
power play comic using a good angle. Yes, she plays a very nice | :46:59. | :47:05. | |
reverse sides, there. -- power play, using. It gives our lot of | :47:06. | :47:09. | |
options when she is playing the shop. -- it gives her. | :47:10. | :47:20. | |
Perhaps just losing concentration. Kirsty Gilmour has been using the | :47:21. | :47:32. | |
backhand serve an awful lot. That is presumably, because she does not | :47:33. | :47:38. | |
want to give away the lift and the opportunity for her opponent to play | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
an attacking shot right at the start of the rally. It could be but it | :47:43. | :47:45. | |
could also be the chance to play some variation in her serve, Soho | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
opponent does not settle into a certain kind of rhythm. -- so her | :47:51. | :47:57. | |
opponent. There was the crosscourt shot, again. I think Tee Jing Yi is | :47:58. | :48:06. | |
beginning to look for it now. Perhaps she needs more variation. | :48:07. | :48:12. | |
Verratti 's again. I am still looking for the pumping clear, down | :48:13. | :48:16. | |
the forehand side, in that situation. If you have a very good | :48:17. | :48:19. | |
attacking punch clear from around the head position, and having the | :48:20. | :48:23. | |
crosscourt smash and the Cross reverse slice, then you have good | :48:24. | :48:25. | |
options to play with. That was in. Yes, a misjudgement | :48:26. | :48:48. | |
from Kirsty Gilmour. position, from Tee Jing Yi, not what | :48:49. | :49:28. | |
it was when we saw them play earlier in the tournament in the mixed team | :49:29. | :49:34. | |
competition. Look, she's almost having the left hand on the floor as | :49:35. | :49:40. | |
well. Is that for balance yes. It should be in the legs and not in the | :49:41. | :49:48. | |
hand on the floor. Well, she raises her hand in apology to Kirsty | :49:49. | :49:54. | |
Gilmour. The shuttle, hitting the top of the tape. Just going over. | :49:55. | :50:03. | |
She is not happy with that. But there is nothing you can do. You | :50:04. | :50:10. | |
just have to forget and get on with it. Face it, and that is it. The | :50:11. | :50:16. | |
thing is, when you play, you have to worry about the things you can do | :50:17. | :50:19. | |
something about not the things you can't do anything about. | :50:20. | :50:49. | |
Well, Kirsty Gilmour desperately needs to up her game, here. I think | :50:50. | :51:03. | |
I am going to throw in the mental aspect of this. What I think is that | :51:04. | :51:07. | |
every time we have seen her play, and she has had the option, when | :51:08. | :51:12. | |
they do the toss of the coin, where to stand, or whether she wants to | :51:13. | :51:16. | |
serve, she has always chosen that side, where she played the first | :51:17. | :51:20. | |
game, here, because she loves to play against the drift. Now we are | :51:21. | :51:26. | |
seeing that she is playing quite a lot of shots out on the baseline, | :51:27. | :51:32. | |
playing with the drift. This is definitely not her favourite side. | :51:33. | :51:36. | |
The shuttle flying a little bit faster, coming towards us. That is | :51:37. | :51:43. | |
what we mean by drift. Slight air currents in the arena. That is the | :51:44. | :51:47. | |
case in any large arena. This is a big point and both players | :51:48. | :52:24. | |
sense it. Yes, the psychological effect of that is very important. | :52:25. | :53:33. | |
Well played. We said a moment ago that Kirsty Gilmour needed to our | :53:34. | :53:40. | |
per game and she has certainly upped their intensity and speed of | :53:41. | :53:46. | |
movement. -- to up her game. Good follow-up. The slice down the line | :53:47. | :53:53. | |
and then the follow-up. Imagine if she had that punch clear down the | :53:54. | :53:54. | |
line as well. Well... Looking to take the shuttle | :53:55. | :54:20. | |
to the side rather than in front of her. Totally the wrong timing. Here, | :54:21. | :54:26. | |
we can see. That was not a good shot selection. | :54:27. | :54:33. | |
The Malaysians coach, there. He does not give much away, as usual. | :54:34. | :54:42. | |
It is called good. Kirsty Gilmour does not like the call. Once again, | :54:43. | :54:53. | |
she can do nothing about it. No, the umpire is only allowed to overall if | :54:54. | :54:58. | |
they see a clear error has been made. -- overrule. Goodness me, who | :54:59. | :55:07. | |
would want to be a line judge? Definitely not me. | :55:08. | :55:24. | |
That is going long and that proves your point, that Kirsty Gilmour is | :55:25. | :55:30. | |
struggling to control the shuttle from the far side of the court, | :55:31. | :55:34. | |
playing with the drift. And a 4-point advantage is with the | :55:35. | :55:46. | |
Malaysians. -- Malaysian. Short and sweet, | :55:47. | :56:17. | |
Get some peace back in your rallies again, OK? | :56:18. | :56:34. | |
Kirsty Gilmour, to get some peace back in her rally, it is an | :56:35. | :56:41. | |
indication. Is that what you understood? When you are patient, | :56:42. | :56:43. | |
and you play and you work your understood? When you are patient, | :56:44. | :56:47. | |
rallies, it is a sign of confidence, and I think peace and confidence are | :56:48. | :56:53. | |
one and the same. That is what Chris was saying. It is a language thing. | :56:54. | :57:02. | |
Going back to the point you made about Kirsty Gilmour choosing ends, | :57:03. | :57:09. | |
and choosing her favourite end to start, you know, I suppose it is | :57:10. | :57:14. | |
very much an individual thing with players, but personally, I liked to | :57:15. | :57:20. | |
finish on the best end. She is not doing that. Exactly. But I have been | :57:21. | :57:29. | |
thinking quite a lot about it, and it must be so important to her | :57:30. | :57:36. | |
confidence and her general play, that she is giving herself the best | :57:37. | :57:39. | |
opportunity to win the first game, and having it under her belt is | :57:40. | :57:44. | |
possibly meaning much more to her than having a good side | :57:45. | :57:46. | |
possibly meaning much more to her than having a good at the end. | :57:47. | :57:55. | |
Well played. Fantastic reaction from the fans. CHEERING | :57:56. | :58:34. | |
I don't think she was expecting the previous one to come back, but she | :58:35. | :58:39. | |
was ready and alert, nonetheless. mistakes on the backhand low serve. | :58:40. | :59:39. | |
Another one goes along. I think in this little bit of a | :59:40. | :59:49. | |
desperate situation, 15-9 down, she should be more shots downwards and | :59:50. | :00:04. | |
try to score some winners. Unbelievable. What a net shot, it | :00:05. | :00:13. | |
seemed to take an age. Absolutely dictating the pace of | :00:14. | :00:53. | |
that rally, Gilmour. It is in. | :00:54. | :01:31. | |
What an incredible shot. A tight spending net shot. | :01:32. | :01:40. | |
It is interesting, we talked quite a lot about the fact that Jing Yi Tee | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
maybe tired, but she is having an excellent response to this, making | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
the maybe tired, but she is having an | :01:51. | :01:51. | |
excellent response to racquet talk. She is going tighter to the net, | :01:52. | :02:08. | |
tighter to the line. Really solid shots. | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
Do you not think there ought to be more attacking drop shot from | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
Gilmour down the forehand side? Obviously that is a long-term knee | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
injury and with tired lakes, as you pointed out, launching is a problem. | :02:28. | :02:37. | |
-- tired legs. Yes, I agree. Try to exploit it. | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
Just three points away from a third and deciding game. | :02:47. | :02:58. | |
I think Jing Yi Tee, not only is she winning, but she is winning | :02:59. | :03:10. | |
comfortably. Gilmour is not trying to tire her out. Look at that one | :03:11. | :03:20. | |
again. Nice. The net call this time, for | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
Gilmour. This second game seems to be a very | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
good game for Jing Yi Tee, regards the physical aspect and how it all | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
went. Just look at that delightful | :03:38. | :04:43. | |
She just has to focus, one point at a time, Gilmour. Four straight | :04:44. | :05:22. | |
points, and now just four points the deficit. | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
Incredible. Six straight points, and the nerves of the Malaysian are | :05:29. | :06:13. | |
jangling. Yes, but somehow a statistic is | :06:14. | :06:29. | |
telling me that the Malaysian will get it. | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
Unbelievable. Well played! The arena erupts into applause. Why on earth | :06:37. | :07:01. | |
was Gilmour not doing this sort of rally earlier in this second game? | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
was Gilmour not doing this sort of She is doing now | :07:07. | :07:07. | |
was Gilmour not doing this sort of should have done a long | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
was Gilmour not doing this sort of Attack. When she was 8-15 down, I | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
said, there is only one Attack. When she was 8-15 down, I | :07:17. | :07:26. | |
Just one point of a deficit now. She is back level! This is | :07:27. | :07:45. | |
absolutely extraordinary! A run She is back level! This is | :07:46. | :08:03. | |
eight straight points. What great player, | :08:04. | :08:12. | |
eight straight points. What great And now it is so important for her | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
not to mentally relax, having come back from such a deficit. The | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
anguish on the face of Jing Yi Tee. That is going wide. And now Kirsty | :08:21. | :08:39. | |
Gilmour of Scotland is on the verge of victory! Match point opportunity. | :08:40. | :09:00. | |
My goodness. But she has got it! Kirsty Gilmour, on a run of ten | :09:01. | :09:14. | |
straight points, is through to the final of the Commonwealth Games! | :09:15. | :09:24. | |
Scotland's have only taken one previous medal in women's singles | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
badminton and that was a bronze, they are guaranteed at least a | :09:32. | :09:40. | |
silver here in Glasgow! She hugs her coach, Scottish team-mates give her | :09:41. | :09:51. | |
a standing ovation, and for the record, 21-13, 21-19. And that is | :09:52. | :10:01. | |
one of the most extraordinary comebacks I have ever witnessed! A | :10:02. | :10:11. | |
real lesson to all players. Never, ever give up. You keep fighting. | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
There is always a chance to come back. You live in -19 down in the | :10:19. | :11:02. | |
second game -- your 11-19 down. We will follow Kirsty's progress, | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
second game -- your 11-19 down. We will follow Kirsty's here on BBC | :11:05. | :11:05. | |
Three. First, a quick news update. We've got factory boys and butchers' | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
apprentices and office clerks Don't stop moving! | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
If you go back you'll die! Back to Glasgow | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
after a quick update on Three. Human body parts have been | :11:22. | :11:39. | |
discovered at a recycling plant Police believe the victim was | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
a man in his thirties. It's not known how long | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
the remains had been there. The Australian PM called it | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
a very sad story. An Aussie couple have abandoned a | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
baby with his Thai surrogate mother. They did it after finding | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
out he had Down's Syndrome. Suspected terrorists were tortured | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
by America after the 9/11 terror The admission comes ahead of a CIA | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
report into the treatment From Chelsea, to New York FC | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
and now possibly Manchester City. Frank Lampard's set to go to | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
the Premier League side on loan. The American club's season | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
doesn't start until March. Simon Cowell says he hasn't ruled | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
out working with Tulisa again. The former N-Dubz singer was found | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
guilty of hitting More from us later, | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
right now back to Manish Yeah, I am looking for | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
a Prince Charming. I don't think I'm ugly, but I don't | :12:29. | :12:39. | |
think I'm, like, really pretty. I say, "You've got something | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
on your bum." "Really?" And I say, sport. Follow the action as it | :12:44. | :13:28. | |
unfolds. Share every moment with up to 17 streams on your mobile, | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
desktop, or connected TV. Keep up-to-date with mental alerts. Join | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
the conversation. Be part of the Commonwealth Games across the BBC. | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
Welcome to our continuous coverage of the Commonwealth Games. Our next | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
stop is the national hockey centre. We had down to the last four in the | :13:57. | :14:05. | |
men's event. England have their work cut out against Australia. | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
England in their white and red colours, attacking the goal to our | :14:13. | :14:22. | |
left. Australia, in green and gold, hitting from left to right. This for | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
a place in the final, we are underway. Immediately sent forward | :14:28. | :14:36. | |
by England. Courtesy of Ian Lewis. Highball, it has fallen kindly for | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
Australia, looking for a ball across, penalty corner. | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
Adam Dixon with a little bit of skill. | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
Australia ready to pounce. And it finds the back! What a start for | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
Australia. Tristan white puts them at 1-0 in front. The England keeper | :15:07. | :15:15. | |
looks a little sorry for himself. That was not in the game plan. A | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
soft goal for England to concede, early on in the game. Waite Fox has | :15:21. | :15:31. | |
let it go. It has fallen kindly for Australia. Scored by Simon orchard. | :15:32. | :15:42. | |
That is a mistake. An fox trying to get out of a difficult situation and | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
he gets mugged. Again, Orchard gets the ball on top of the D. | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
counterattacking all the way to the D. | :15:57. | :16:13. | |
Pinna makes the save. Australia still have possession and they are | :16:14. | :16:24. | |
pressuring that goal all the time. Another shot, this one goes behind. | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
Look at that speculative attack by the Aussies. Weir tangling with the | :16:32. | :16:44. | |
Australians. The Australians have poached it again. Attacking | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
England's goal, first shot saved, good save by George Pinner. England | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
with a shooting opportunity, it is gloved away. Orchard for Australia. | :16:57. | :17:11. | |
George Pinner had to react. A flying stick as well as a spinning ball. | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
Into the corner. Plenty of time and space for Australia, they will be | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
looking for an England foot on the ball. | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
looking for an England foot on the of relief for England. Well | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
trapped, a little bit of space opening up for England. Catlin's | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
cross. Just off the foot of the Australian goalkeeper. | :17:43. | :17:51. | |
A chance for a shot on goal and saved by George Pinner. Australia | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
fancy another chance. saved by George Pinner. Australia | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
by Mitton. But George Pinner is equal to him this time. Sharp | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
passing from England here, right to the edge of the D. Chance for an | :18:11. | :18:19. | |
England shot on goal. A little barge on Harry Martin but you have to keep | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
playing. Australia are tough and you have to be tougher in that area. | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
Tristan White, the scorer of Australia's first goal. | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
I am afraid that is too easy. A little change of sites. It does come | :18:41. | :18:50. | |
to Ciriello and it is saved. Ashley Jackson on the left for England. | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
Leading scorer in the tournament with seven, can he add to his tally? | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
And England have a goal! They are back in the match! Condon's goal. | :19:03. | :19:16. | |
Lovely run by Ashley Jackson. Condon, it looks like it went back | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
to Phil Roper eventually. That little ball inside to Jackson. Great | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
pressure by England and they get their reward. Ockenden. We think | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
Harry Martin has been awarded the goal. Meanwhile Australia almost | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
scoring another one. Here is the attempt for Australia. That was | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
close. Brogdon gets a chance. Lovely aerial there. It comes down to | :19:53. | :20:04. | |
Brockton. Into the D at speed. A penalty corner. Here it comes, | :20:05. | :20:13. | |
Ciriello's shot. Another penalty corner. Dan Fox got out to that one. | :20:14. | :20:28. | |
Ciriello, goal, 3-1 Australia. England are checking it, I think | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
they want to use their referral. Everybody wants everything checked. | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
It is a good finish. But the question is... It is definitely | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
stopped outside the circle, was there anything going on? It did not | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
look like it. There is nothing blocking that bought all the target | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
of the ball in there. That is the worst news as far as England is | :20:53. | :21:02. | |
concerned. Dan Fox has got an orange top on and they are allowed to do | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
that which means they have an extra outfield player. I guess that means | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
they have two extra outfield players. | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
Desperate measures employed for England in the dying minutes of this | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
match. Chance of a shot. England still looking for that elusive | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
penalty corner. Nothing coming their way. We are into the last minute and | :21:30. | :21:40. | |
a half of this semifinal. This has bounced kindly for Australia, open | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
goal and he scores! Australia finish it off. Eddie Ockenden with the | :21:45. | :21:56. | |
simplest of finishes. That is the danger. If you can get behind that | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
defence into the D. Harry Wear, a vain dive to stop Ockenden putting | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
that ball in the net. This match is all but over. And Australia have | :22:09. | :22:18. | |
demolished England by four goals to one. They will have to regroup and | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
return on Sunday and battle it out for the Commonwealth bronze medal. | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
Disappointment for the England men's hockey team. Andy Halliday | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
took to social media to vent a bit of frustration. He said, desperately | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
disappointed. Short-term though, recover, regroup and debrief. | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
Because don't forget, they have to play for the bronze medal. Who will | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
they take on for that? New Zealand or India? These two teams took the | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
bronze and silver in Delhi four years ago. | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
COMMENTATOR: That is good work, into the shooting circle and what a start | :23:03. | :23:15. | |
for New Zealand. Courtesy of Simon child. New Zealand's penalty corner, | :23:16. | :23:25. | |
already leading by a goal. A chance to get further ahead. Good running | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
and good defence. New Zealand 2-0 India. Penalty stroke. Dean cousins | :23:34. | :23:44. | |
had no option. He tried to play that with his stick. It was a great | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
strike, very powerful. Penalty stroke for India. To be taken by the | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
captain, Singh. Singh wins. Singh gets one back for India. He | :23:56. | :24:12. | |
takes his time and waits to see which way the goalkeeper is going. | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
Manchester decided to commit one way. And Singh went the other. Two | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
minutes of the first half to play. Bursting out of the box that New | :24:23. | :24:36. | |
Zealand created for him and he sets up for a save from Manchester. | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Wonderful attacking play, led from the back. New Zealand with a chance | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
to break. Hilton all the way forward. That is disappointing. | :24:50. | :25:00. | |
Simon child missing the target but a lovely break by Hilton. | :25:01. | :25:10. | |
Last 20 seconds of the half. New Zealand still in front. Two early | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
goals, standing them in good stead going into half-time. | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
India are not quite finished yet but they might just get beaten by the | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
hooter. They will now. There it is, the half ends with three goals | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
scored. Two for New Zealand and one form India. | :25:39. | :25:48. | |
The half-time score at the Glasgow National Hockey Centre, New Zealand | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
2-1 India. New Zealand looking pretty strong | :25:55. | :26:08. | |
here. Six yellow shirts back to defend. | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
Child over the top this time. Good positioning, he gets himself set | :26:16. | :26:26. | |
that he is still under me that ball, a bit too high. India pressing. It | :26:27. | :26:36. | |
is all square. Great opportunity for a goal. Look at that bit of skill. | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
Look at that. Superb touch, no chance for Manchester. The ball is | :26:45. | :26:55. | |
driven in. Sunil Has got acceleration. | :26:56. | :27:33. | |
India looking for another way through. | :27:34. | :27:49. | |
Strong work again. Another chance for a shot on goal. It has hit the | :27:50. | :28:00. | |
roof of the net. Great ball in here. It popped off cousin's stick. Superb | :28:01. | :28:10. | |
Sunil down the right. Always a put it in the roof of the net. | :28:11. | :28:25. | |
Sunil down the right. Always a frightening prospect for the New | :28:26. | :28:27. | |
Zealand defence, when he arrives at speed. Great control. What a run by | :28:28. | :28:37. | |
Sunil. What pace down the right-hand side. He managed to get round the | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
back of Bradshaw. Finding his way to the front of the goalkeeper. But by | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
then, Manchester had closed down the space and there was very little he | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
could do there. We are into the final quarter of an hour. There was | :28:52. | :29:00. | |
a stick on it but it was behind for India's possession. Lovely ball | :29:01. | :29:01. | |
across. It was Hugo Inglis. New Zealand with ten minutes to try | :29:02. | :29:20. | |
to make a dent in New Zealand... India's lead. | :29:21. | :29:29. | |
to make a dent in New Zealand... Childs. Picked out Hugo Inglis. | :29:30. | :29:40. | |
Alex Shaw was diving and got a touch on it but ended up flying into the | :29:41. | :29:49. | |
keeper. Great trap, chance of a town and a shot, swing and a miss in the | :29:50. | :29:55. | |
end. He pointed where you wanted the ball | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
before it was delivered, picked at that ball beautifully. | :30:00. | :30:08. | |
New Zealand have an extra outfield player on, they have nothing to | :30:09. | :30:13. | |
lose, five minutes to get a goal and force a penalty shoot out. | :30:14. | :30:21. | |
Drilled force a penalty shoot out. | :30:22. | :30:24. | |
in the possession, minutes to go. | :30:25. | :30:34. | |
A great take out of the air, it popped off the stick, making it | :30:35. | :30:51. | |
dangerous. Kangujam, staying in the corner for | :30:52. | :31:05. | |
a few seconds. It is out of play. Although playing without a | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
goalkeeper is a good boy, not many teams practice it. When you get to | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
this situation it is hard to know how to play. -- a good ploy. | :31:15. | :31:39. | |
This might be the last chance for New Zealand. It is held up by India. | :31:40. | :31:55. | |
Less than 30 seconds. ITime running out now. | :31:56. | :32:04. | |
One end of the pitch to the other. Five seconds. They will not be | :32:05. | :32:15. | |
enough time. India are guaranteed a medal. They will face Australia in | :32:16. | :32:21. | |
the final. New Zealand will need to do battle for bronze against | :32:22. | :32:27. | |
England. What a fightback from India. From two town they struck | :32:28. | :32:33. | |
back -- down. They take the win. I don't know about you but I get the | :32:34. | :33:11. | |
feeling they were quite pumped up by that win. While we have been in | :33:12. | :33:18. | |
Glasgow over the last ten days, one of the buzzwords you hear at any | :33:19. | :33:28. | |
major sporting event is, legacy. If you had three miles out of Glasgow | :33:29. | :33:34. | |
to a place called Drumchapel, the hard graft has been going on from | :33:35. | :33:40. | |
well before the Games began. This is a story about a table tennis club | :33:41. | :33:47. | |
that started off with modest means yet has supplied members of the | :33:48. | :33:54. | |
national team. Drumchapel in Glasgow it used to be | :33:55. | :33:57. | |
one of the toughest housing estates in Britain. The area has improved in | :33:58. | :34:06. | |
recent years and the work in the local sports centre has had a | :34:07. | :34:11. | |
massive influence on young people. There can be issues with your | :34:12. | :34:16. | |
family, school, so we are here to back you up. If you want to play | :34:17. | :34:22. | |
table tennis, we will support you. Most kids are OK if you can get them | :34:23. | :34:27. | |
into doing something. The active, get them when they are younger, then | :34:28. | :34:31. | |
by the time they might have gotten into trouble, they are already | :34:32. | :34:36. | |
involved in something. This is a means to a better life. If they get | :34:37. | :34:41. | |
there, I have done the best I can for them. | :34:42. | :34:50. | |
I started when I was 11. I was at college and not doing particularly | :34:51. | :34:55. | |
well. I started coming here and my confidence has been boosted | :34:56. | :34:58. | |
amazingly. It is all thanks to the club. | :34:59. | :35:04. | |
We started with just one table. Now they are all over the place. People | :35:05. | :35:10. | |
ask, how does Terry find all the Scottish champions? It is because we | :35:11. | :35:19. | |
want it. And I wanted for them. The success of the club is | :35:20. | :35:23. | |
undeniable. It is not just helped thousands of youngsters but numerous | :35:24. | :35:29. | |
international players. It has brought me to where I am | :35:30. | :35:36. | |
today. You find that a lot of people who have been in this club, it gets | :35:37. | :35:46. | |
kids off the street. It allows them to open up more and be more | :35:47. | :35:50. | |
sociable. You never see someone sitting in the corner of themselves. | :35:51. | :35:55. | |
They come out of their shells. It is great to see, especially if they | :35:56. | :36:01. | |
come from a troubled background. This level is not all about winning. | :36:02. | :36:11. | |
You will get there, some will not, but from Drumchapel, to being a big | :36:12. | :36:17. | |
part of the Commonwealth, I am proud of what we have done as a community. | :36:18. | :36:23. | |
What sort of things would you be doing if you are not here? | :36:24. | :36:29. | |
No idea. It keeps me young. I am not young, | :36:30. | :36:41. | |
but I feel young. Just look at them. Great story. If you feel inspired to | :36:42. | :36:47. | |
take up any of the sports, including table tennis, just go to our | :36:48. | :36:54. | |
website. You can get details of local clubs you can join. Staying | :36:55. | :37:04. | |
with the table tennis, because it has been a really busy day for the | :37:05. | :37:18. | |
young rich food. -- Liam Pitchford. His opponent, the number one seed | :37:19. | :37:25. | |
from Singapore. This was a bit of an epic. It is all square going into | :37:26. | :37:30. | |
the final, decisive game. Brilliant running backhand that did | :37:31. | :38:30. | |
the damage from Gao Ning. Great recovery. | :38:31. | :39:15. | |
Whatever happens, this must go down as the match of the Men's Singles | :39:16. | :39:26. | |
event. Every point so closely contested. | :39:27. | :39:53. | |
counted the most, Gao Ning. Is he going to draw away from Pitchford | :39:54. | :40:01. | |
here? It has been a sparkling performance from the man in the | :40:02. | :40:03. | |
yellow shirt. Just when you think top seeds can | :40:04. | :40:29. | |
accelerate away, pegged back by the valiant Pitchford. | :40:30. | :40:46. | |
Every point now greeted by a roar from either end of the table. | :40:47. | :42:02. | |
You sense a small laps in focus from Gao Ning as Pitchford bounces back. | :42:03. | :42:39. | |
Hold on, says Gao Ning, I am not ready. | :42:40. | :43:15. | |
A roar from the Singaporean supporters around the campus. The | :43:16. | :43:27. | |
top seed accelerate away again. This is the final and deciding game. | :43:28. | :43:37. | |
The Princess of Paddington and she is up in a few matches time. But | :43:38. | :44:07. | |
here, Gao Ning has match point. He has quite simply played brilliantly | :44:08. | :44:08. | |
at the back end of this game. It is Gao Ning, the top seed, who | :44:09. | :44:29. | |
has earned his place in the final of the Men's Singles with a quite early | :44:30. | :44:36. | |
and victory -- quite brilliant victory over Liam Pitchford. | :44:37. | :44:57. | |
Let's join the squash now. Our commentators are at the Scotstoun | :44:58. | :45:06. | |
sports campus. A little pat on the back there, a | :45:07. | :46:09. | |
couple of errors. Playing a little staccato at the | :46:10. | :46:53. | |
moment. Trying to find their rhythm a little bit. | :46:54. | :47:56. | |
Pallikal had a real thump against the wall, just checking she is all | :47:57. | :48:03. | |
right, she carried on. When you are in the middle of the rally like | :48:04. | :48:07. | |
that, if you go down, your instant reaction is to get straight back up | :48:08. | :48:09. | |
and stay in the rally. Toogood. Brilliant play from the | :48:10. | :49:05. | |
Indian pair. At the moment, they are the more attacking pair out of the | :49:06. | :49:13. | |
two. You can see why the lower tier, the 13 inches, is so important, it | :49:14. | :49:17. | |
really gives you the opportunity to attack the ball like that. It seems | :49:18. | :49:26. | |
the major differences on the left court with Chinappa and Duncalf. | :49:27. | :49:32. | |
Chinappa seems to have the advantage at the moment. | :49:33. | :49:41. | |
APPLAUSE Reactions are particularly important | :49:42. | :50:15. | |
in doubles. A lot of it is reaction or play. When it comes to you that | :50:16. | :50:24. | |
quick, all you can do is get sure racket out and hit | :50:25. | :50:26. | |
quick, all you can do is get sure not have time to think about it. | :50:27. | :50:35. | |
The Indians are now looking to have three points in this opening game. | :50:36. | :51:00. | |
Pallikal would have demanded a stroke. Massaro in front of her | :51:01. | :51:14. | |
carried on and almost paid the price. In doubles, you know you | :51:15. | :51:17. | |
can't as often get that stroke. Well played. Pallikal with a good | :51:18. | :51:55. | |
finish there. And again, attacking play from the Indians. It is what | :51:56. | :51:58. | |
doubles is all about. And awkward turn for Duncalf. | :51:59. | :52:29. | |
Positioning on the court very important. Yes, sometimes when the | :52:30. | :52:33. | |
ball comes around the corner, it is hard to know when to dive. A break | :52:34. | :52:46. | |
for the English. Duncalf responding, recognising this is very difficult. | :52:47. | :52:52. | |
-- the crowd responding now, recognising that this is very | :52:53. | :52:53. | |
difficult. Just a little high for Duncalf. | :52:54. | :53:50. | |
Pallikal with the finish. Four gain points for India. -- gamer points. | :53:51. | :54:05. | |
Pallikal has been the feature player and she finishes it. First game to | :54:06. | :54:18. | |
India. The number five seeds, 11-6. Very impressive indeed. It is | :54:19. | :54:21. | |
interesting, we were talking earlier about how players, pairings, play in | :54:22. | :54:29. | |
certain ways. You can see the English pair, they are very | :54:30. | :54:33. | |
traditional, they are almost playing singles on the doubles court. There | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
is no variety or real shot play, so they are not really attacking the | :54:39. | :54:42. | |
other pair. On the other hand, the Indian pair are looking to attack | :54:43. | :54:49. | |
and go in short. Lets see if we can pick up some of this. Whenever she | :54:50. | :55:00. | |
crosses, don't linger. Put pressure on them. You are putting the | :55:01. | :55:07. | |
pressure on them. Keep playing like that. Maintain the pressure. Push, | :55:08. | :55:25. | |
push, push. Really good. A terrific time out there. You were saying, | :55:26. | :55:31. | |
aggression beyond the attack? I think that is what doubles is all | :55:32. | :55:36. | |
about. For people watching at home, if you go on to play doubles, don't | :55:37. | :55:41. | |
play singles. You have to attack every single opportunity. You must | :55:42. | :55:47. | |
attack and be aggressive, as the Indian coach was saying. Get the | :55:48. | :55:52. | |
ball down the sides, push them back. If you get the chance, take it, | :55:53. | :55:57. | |
don't look at it, take it! And that is what they are doing. If the | :55:58. | :56:01. | |
English pair want to get back into this, they have to try to swap this | :56:02. | :56:05. | |
role around, they have to start attacking and look for the play and | :56:06. | :56:14. | |
create opportunities. It was a comprehensive first game in the end. | :56:15. | :56:23. | |
How will Massaro and Duncalf counter this? Will they take a few more | :56:24. | :56:28. | |
risks? They cannot afford not to. Otherwise they will lose, 2-0. Here | :56:29. | :56:41. | |
we go with game number two. In this gold medal match in the women's | :56:42. | :56:47. | |
doubles. Pallikal and Chinappa for India. Up number one seeds. Laura | :56:48. | :56:56. | |
Massaro and Jenny Duncalf from England. Pallikal and Chinappa to | :56:57. | :57:05. | |
begin game number two. Magnificent rally. They are looking | :57:06. | :57:50. | |
for a let. Interesting, Duncalf looking for | :57:51. | :58:23. | |
that little trickle toast, she was going towards the middle. And | :58:24. | :58:29. | |
Chinappa change to mind and played the drop. Great attacking play. -- | :58:30. | :58:35. | |
Chinappa changed her mind. She says it is up. | :58:36. | :58:48. | |
The referee's decision is a let. There was a hint of a double hit and | :58:49. | :58:54. | |
she was convinced it was not. APPLAUSE | :58:55. | :59:09. | |
This is the start the English wanted and the crowd starting to get | :59:10. | :59:16. | |
involved. Duncalf will play this one on the right court. | :59:17. | :59:22. | |
APPLAUSE things suddenly looked as if they | :59:23. | :59:29. | |
might be changing. Super from the English. Doing just | :59:30. | :59:55. | |
what you wanted. It is what they have got to do, they have got to | :59:56. | :59:59. | |
attack. The last three points, they have attacked the ball when the | :00:00. | :00:02. | |
opportunity has come and now they are leading. | :00:03. | :00:18. | |
If she had turned and hit it, it could have been dangerous. | :00:19. | :00:34. | |
She made very few mistakes. Chinappa with one fair. -- there. | :00:35. | :01:26. | |
What play from Duncalf. Not too sure who | :01:27. | :01:39. | |
was going to take that but Duncalf, good decision. | :01:40. | :01:55. | |
Not put off there, Chinappa, wonderful it'll finish in the front | :01:56. | :02:06. | |
court. So cool. -- wonderful little finish. | :02:07. | :02:32. | |
Down it was. Just if you mistakes coming now from the Indian duo. That | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
one from Pallikal. It is 7-2. A little bit of | :02:39. | :02:55. | |
barracking but we are where we should be. | :02:56. | :03:16. | |
It will be fascinating to see how the Indians counter this, if they | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
are able to. They need to hold their nerve. | :03:23. | :04:12. | |
pair. -- it was good play from the Indian pair. Always tough to come | :04:13. | :04:21. | |
back from such a big deficit but they have not been deterred. | :04:22. | :04:34. | |
Massaro not getting out of the way. Obviously, doubles rarely play on | :04:35. | :04:43. | |
the squad circuit. Only the Commonwealth Games and a lead up | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
tournament, so the standard has got better and better as each match has | :04:49. | :04:49. | |
evolved through the stages. No. Their run of points comes to an | :04:50. | :05:28. | |
end. A bit of pressure now for the English girls. Started well and they | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
were being more attacking but the attacking shots are going down at | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
the moment. Four points now on the spin for the Indian pair. | :05:38. | :05:54. | |
Conversation between Massaro and Duncalf. It is interesting to note | :05:55. | :06:03. | |
that they quite often switch which side of the court they are playing | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
on, trying to mix things up. That is a gorgeous shot from | :06:06. | :06:31. | |
Chinappa. She has been on this left court for this whole time, Massaro | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
mostly on the right court but not all of the time. Jemma there was an | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
opportunity for Jenny to go for that drop shot but she chose to drive and | :06:41. | :06:41. | |
she should have dropped. So good. From 7-2 down, India now | :06:42. | :07:22. | |
ahead in this second game. Great finish again from Pallikal. It takes | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
nerves to be a champion. All the girls know that on court but right | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
now, it is that young lady. She is doing the job. | :07:33. | :07:44. | |
Yes. So clever. They have lost their way a little bit in the start of | :07:45. | :07:56. | |
this game but they have come back to the correct tactics and they are | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
just mixing it up dutifully. -- beautifully. Two points from the | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
gold medal. She was racing forward. Can you | :08:08. | :08:53. | |
imagine the pressure they feel under right now? | :08:54. | :09:04. | |
And lumping together between Massaro and Pallikal. | :09:05. | :09:18. | |
No let! Duncalf asking for it but not given. And here are three gold | :09:19. | :09:27. | |
medal points. Not quite. Can the English possibly | :09:28. | :09:46. | |
rescue this right at the death? Wonderful! Two real heroines of | :09:47. | :10:27. | |
India. Pallikal and Chinappa, they were just brilliant. 7-2 down in the | :10:28. | :10:37. | |
second game. They have ended up with the gold medal. India's first ever | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
squash gold medal. Absolutely wonderful. At the start of the | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
tournament, they were looking so strong in the doubles, they looked | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
like they had really been practising the doubles. It was their greatest | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
chance of a medal here at the Commonwealth Games. And they have | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
just proved it. CHEERING Quite often it is not necessarily | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
the singles players, the best singles players that come through in | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
the doubles. It is those that have been practising and learning the | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
tactics of the game and that is just shown by the Indian players. They | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
use the space and the cord beautifully. -- and the court | :11:24. | :11:36. | |
beautifully. Beaming smiles. Pallikal on the left turn down a | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
Bollywood movie role because she wanted to play squash. She will now | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
be as big a star as some of those Bollywood stars. I am guessing she | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
is happy she made that decision. She would not be sitting here right now | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
if she had not. What a proud moment for both of them and for India. Just | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
superb. You have to feel for these two, silver-medallists four years | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
ago in Delhi and silver-medallists again. It is a tough one. They have | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
been there before. But they played singles on a doubles court and you | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
just cannot do that against players that play the doubles game really | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
well. They did not use the space, they did not attack enough or move | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
them around. For a tiny period in that second game, they were | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
attacking more and it made the difference but then they stopped | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
again and that is the result. They used the centre of the court so | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
well. Hitting short down the centre. The Indian pair pulled both Massaro | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
and Duncalf out to the wings and that left the middle part of the | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
court to use and they cannot get to the ball when they are so far wide. | :12:50. | :13:07. | |
space better and you look back and think they were things you could | :13:08. | :13:19. | |
definitely do that were different, but in the heat of the moment, that | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
is doubles and it goes very quickly. It is hard to explain | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
is doubles and it goes very quickly. watching. A silver in Delhi and a | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
silver here, exactly the same competition. Is it a fantastic | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
achievement or really annoying? I will go for the first one. We do not | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
pay doubles that often will go for the first one. We do not | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
Indian girls were always a danger coming in and they showed why today. | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
They had a bit more in their arsenal today and credit to them, they were | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
positive and they turned it around in the second game very well. Are | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
they turning into doubles specialists whereas you guys are | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
singles specialists? They are not too bad on the single squad either | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
but definitely very dangerous on the doubles court. You have had an | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
amazing 18 doubles court. You have had an | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
if we could have won the doubles court. You have had an | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
today, it would have been the icing on the cake. India were brilliant | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
today, they played well and I am proud of our partnership. In some | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
ways, having another single four years later, we are older than them, | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
we are 30 and 31. years later, we are older than them, | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
these youngsters, it is something we can be proud of. Well done to both | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
of you and we look forward to seeing you on the podium. | :14:43. | :14:52. | |
Staying over at Scotstoun sports campus but switching sports to table | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
tennis, where there is a bronze medal match going on | :15:01. | :15:14. | |
tennis, where there is a bronze Drinkhall and Sibley, | :15:15. | :16:12. | |
Back to level. To the delight of Kelly Sibley. There is Paul | :16:13. | :16:53. | |
Drinkhall, husband of Jo. Luo, the youngest player at the | :16:54. | :17:14. | |
table, on the left of your picture, she qualified for the youth Olympic | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
games which starts on August 17. She is wrestling with the heavy back | :17:18. | :17:41. | |
spin from Joanna Drinkhall. And of course she releases that style of | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
opponent from where she is from -- she rarely sees. A fantastic | :17:47. | :18:02. | |
combination when Sibley is firing on all cylinders. The English duo art | :18:03. | :18:17. | |
of two -- are tough to defeat. They make a good team as do the Drinkhall | :18:18. | :18:29. | |
husband and wife, as we saw earlier, winning a medal in the mixed. | :18:30. | :18:40. | |
Remember, the Canadians were leading 3-1, there has been a shift in | :18:41. | :18:49. | |
momentum. Zhang, trying to claw it back to level. | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
Again, good acceleration from Zhang, she is definitely the captain | :18:59. | :19:09. | |
of the team. Picking those high balls off really well. | :19:10. | :20:05. | |
the 17-year-old, who is just conceding a few unforced errors. | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
First blood to the English team. A race to three games, best of five. | :20:15. | :20:36. | |
Drinkhall and Sibley in good shape, 11 - six. The combination of the | :20:37. | :20:49. | |
extreme top from Sibley, tough to get a read on what is coming next. | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
Nicky Jarvis, coach of the woman. He has a rich sporting heritage running | :20:58. | :21:09. | |
through his family, he is the father of Matt Jarvis, the 28 old West Ham | :21:10. | :21:21. | |
player. Of course, Matt Jarvis had an England cap in 2011. There is a | :21:22. | :21:36. | |
real buzz around the English table tennis players right now after what | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
they did in the mixed event. There is the Canadian team, Terry Alton in | :21:43. | :21:54. | |
the middle. Zhang, and Luo, looking very pensive. The 17-year-old to | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
serve, from the far end of the table. | :22:02. | :22:09. | |
A well blended point from the Canadians. Dealing well with the | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
extreme changes in spin from the English pair. | :22:18. | :22:33. | |
Remember, in the first game, the Canadians raced into a 3-1 lead, | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
then lost their way. two and a half hours on court over | :22:40. | :23:28. | |
the duration of their four Mac matches played to get here. | :23:29. | :24:13. | |
A little lacking commitment last shot. | :24:14. | :25:01. | |
They are a real cagey duo, these two, with a wealth of medal | :25:02. | :25:19. | |
experience between them. Just a blur of red down one end, a bit like a | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
Catherine wheel at a fireworks party, Sibley, full of energy and | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
desperate for another medal to add to her telly. | :25:34. | :25:49. | |
Zhang, with the second of the two conflab. They are in a good place, a | :25:50. | :26:22. | |
game to the good. It sat up and you need to dictate these heavily spun | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
oncoming balls. Great play at the back end of this | :26:29. | :27:37. | |
came from the Canadians. I watched Zhang in some singles matches, | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
came from the Canadians. I watched Zhang in some singles she defeated | :27:43. | :27:51. | |
the 15th seed from New Zealand. So, the English team have called a | :27:52. | :27:59. | |
time-out. That will be Nicky Jarvis, whilst they are in the | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
ascendancy, deciding on a great time to do it. He does not want to let | :28:04. | :28:12. | |
this situation slide. Some examples of the extreme different shots | :28:13. | :28:19. | |
between the English duo. Look at the heavy spin from Drinkhall, and its | :28:20. | :28:29. | |
effect. Another chop from her, and then the heavy loop from Sibley. It | :28:30. | :28:38. | |
is very tough, as opponents, to play against both those extremes. | :28:39. | :28:47. | |
Still game point. The quest for bronze. Good return from Zhang, it | :28:48. | :29:04. | |
cut through the table very fast. Very much the captain of the team, | :29:05. | :29:07. | |
Zhang. Two points clear, remember, to win | :29:08. | :29:15. | |
the game, from 10-10. the served to go so she can make the | :29:16. | :29:59. | |
first strike attack. A great return from Anqi Luo and they lost the | :30:00. | :30:09. | |
point none the same. They are two thirds of the way to the B for | :30:10. | :30:27. | |
bronze. Mickey Jarvis, delighted. If you did not see our earlier | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
coverage, Joanna Drinkhall, won the mixed doubles and her partner took | :30:34. | :30:40. | |
the bronze in the mixed doubles with Danny Wead. And Tin-Tin Ho and Liam | :30:41. | :30:46. | |
Pitchford took the silver to cap it all. A clean medal sweep for the | :30:47. | :30:53. | |
English in mixed doubles earlier today. Remarkable. History was made | :30:54. | :31:04. | |
today. Sibley bouncing around with bundles of energy. This is the last | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
day of the table tennis event. Tin-Tin Ho, the adventures, there | :31:11. | :31:17. | |
she is with a mouthful! Just refuelling. She has worked very, | :31:18. | :31:22. | |
very hard. 15 years old, what a future she has. | :31:23. | :31:40. | |
The idea was right from Kelly Sibley, she had to go after it. | :31:41. | :31:47. | |
There is Paul Drinkhall in the back of the picture. In his red and white | :31:48. | :31:49. | |
tracksuit. Suddenly, the body language looks a | :31:50. | :32:40. | |
little deflated from the Canadians as they head towards a time-out | :32:41. | :32:52. | |
called. Their coach is the mother of Anqi Luo on the right of the picture | :32:53. | :32:54. | |
as well as the team coach. Let's look at what they are up | :32:55. | :33:08. | |
against a day. The heavy knife slice from Joe Drinkhall and then the flat | :33:09. | :33:17. | |
or topspin loops from Sibley. Two extremes, very tough to play | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
against. You can see the error there will stop drawn from the English | :33:22. | :33:30. | |
team. To her frustration. She is one for stamping her feet on the floor, | :33:31. | :33:32. | |
is Zhang. Great play from Zhang. That was a | :33:33. | :33:55. | |
well constructed point, plenty of spin on those balls from Zhang. | :33:56. | :34:35. | |
Wow, now that is one way to kill the point. CHUCKLES | :34:36. | :34:45. | |
Menacing finish. A heavy, heavy slice but it landed right in the | :34:46. | :34:48. | |
belly of the table and sat up and got what it deserved. She almost had | :34:49. | :34:51. | |
a late lunch! Canadians ramping up the power now. | :34:52. | :35:02. | |
Rushing the English pair. Very cagey punt from both sides of | :35:03. | :35:30. | |
the net. But the women in red coming good in the end. Great accuracy. | :35:31. | :35:51. | |
these points are cushy knows it is the last chance saloon. The English | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
are just compounding the pressure. Fabulous return from Kelly Sibley. | :35:58. | :36:06. | |
Onto it in a heartbeat. Confidence allowing the English duo | :36:07. | :36:54. | |
to play with a little bit more freedom. A little bit more pop to | :36:55. | :37:01. | |
everything they do now. freedom. A little bit more pop to | :37:02. | :37:07. | |
enough topspin on that one though. Keeping the energy up in | :37:08. | :37:53. | |
camp as the Canadians are reducing the deficit here, scrapping well. | :37:54. | :38:01. | |
The youngsters showing a lot of tenacity here. | :38:02. | :38:05. | |
the deficit here, scrapping well. The youngsters showing And a little | :38:06. | :38:08. | |
bit of luck with the edge ball, just finding the paint on the end nine. | :38:09. | :38:12. | |
-- line. That, they cannot afford, and | :38:13. | :38:30. | |
certainly not at this stage. They have had a real stranglehold over | :38:31. | :38:35. | |
this game from the off but the Canadians doing well to wrestle the | :38:36. | :38:36. | |
advantage they way. Kelly Sibley had a chance but she | :38:37. | :38:51. | |
hesitated. Just prodded it back only for the Canadians to take advantage. | :38:52. | :38:58. | |
Game point to Canada. They are still in it, the Canadians. | :38:59. | :39:17. | |
They have won the third game out here, 11-8. | :39:18. | :39:41. | |
The coach and mother to Anqi Luo, giving wise words. | :39:42. | :40:11. | |
Here is how the Canadians sadly in this last game, are dealing with | :40:12. | :40:17. | |
Joanna Drinkhall's slice. That was not a great example because it was | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
so short but there is another, right through the middle of the table, it | :40:23. | :40:26. | |
has got to be deeper than that. Zhang getting on the front foot | :40:27. | :40:29. | |
quite a lot in that last game. Fabulous start down the parallel. | :40:30. | :41:00. | |
Watch how she gets hold of this, her body weight just leaning through it. | :41:01. | :41:12. | |
Generally, the Canadians are asking a lot more questions than the | :41:13. | :41:18. | |
English women now. It is a much more even contest. | :41:19. | :41:51. | |
game, the Canadians racing away to a three - one lead. At this stage, it | :41:52. | :41:55. | |
is about here year where they lost their momentum. They have to keep up | :41:56. | :41:56. | |
that good work and build. Brilliant combo from the win in red. | :41:57. | :42:28. | |
-- the women in red. Watch how much chop Drinkhall gets on that. And | :42:29. | :42:34. | |
then the follow up from the killer. Killer Kelly. | :42:35. | :42:46. | |
She was moaning that error. Drinkhall. Chuntering to herself. | :42:47. | :42:53. | |
They cannot believe they missed it. Brilliant put away from Kelly | :42:54. | :43:33. | |
Sibley. A response to drink all's heavy, knife slice, they have to hit | :43:34. | :43:40. | |
with loop and it just sits up high after the bounce, much to the | :43:41. | :43:42. | |
delight of the blond haired Kelly Sibley. | :43:43. | :44:20. | |
feint edge ball. Alan Hopkins, well aware that it just kissed the edge | :44:21. | :44:37. | |
of the table. Sibley, just tying up Zhang, who is always a very animated | :44:38. | :44:43. | |
when she was a point. In contrast, the coach is not. | :44:44. | :45:08. | |
A packed house at Scotstoun for this women's doubles bronze medal match. | :45:09. | :45:24. | |
The goal match up next after this -- gold. The final will be between the | :45:25. | :45:43. | |
top two seeds, Singapore versus Australia. | :45:44. | :46:15. | |
Brilliantly put together point! constructed. Real extreme shots from | :46:16. | :46:35. | |
the English duo, heavy top two finish. | :46:36. | :46:47. | |
Nicky Jarvis, incessantly chewing gum. Ala Alex Ferguson. | :46:48. | :47:08. | |
By Drinkhall's high standards, she has made a few unforced errors in | :47:09. | :47:31. | |
this game. Great play, Luo. Just trying to keep their energy levels | :47:32. | :47:33. | |
up. Critical moments in the match. | :47:34. | :47:58. | |
Mixed Doubles event earlier, Tense, cagey | :47:59. | :48:24. | |
the moment. It Tense, cagey | :48:25. | :48:33. | |
your strengths against your opponents weaknesses. Consistency | :48:34. | :48:39. | |
has to be there. Again, the telling slice, cut from | :48:40. | :49:06. | |
Drinkhall, yielding the error from Zhang. Bronze medal point for the | :49:07. | :49:50. | |
Ever so feint edge there, just completely falling away. That is | :49:51. | :50:01. | |
cruel. Game point to the Canadians. We said at the outset of this | :50:02. | :50:22. | |
tournament that matches like this are decided by the smallest | :50:23. | :50:26. | |
increments. A millimetre here or there. And edge ball, like on the | :50:27. | :50:36. | |
penultimate point. A laps in concentration. Tied now at 12-12. | :50:37. | :51:03. | |
Second game point for the Canadians. Sibley's serve. Well | :51:04. | :51:17. | |
played, Canada. That was a terrific game from them. They fended off a | :51:18. | :51:25. | |
match point. We now go the distance on table one. 2-2. The vital fifth | :51:26. | :51:33. | |
game will be played in a couple of minutes. | :51:34. | :51:51. | |
Brilliantly played game point from the Canadians. Luo, just sticking | :51:52. | :52:03. | |
the knife in. Suddenly, all the momentum they build early in the | :52:04. | :52:13. | |
match, 11-6, 12-10 out, it has now dissipated and we have parity. | :52:14. | :53:02. | |
They are having to ill from a fresh start -- build. Off to a flyer. | :53:03. | :53:19. | |
Sibley, pacing around anxiously. She can feel this lead just sleeping | :53:20. | :54:31. | |
like sand through her fingertips. -- seeping. Greeted with a roar. They | :54:32. | :54:37. | |
both understand the significance of these individual points. As he does, | :54:38. | :54:45. | |
as well. Absolutely transfixed by the action on table one down below | :54:46. | :54:47. | |
him. Shaking her head in disbelief, | :54:48. | :55:38. | |
Joanna Drinkhall. Unusually for her, normally so solid all-round. She is | :55:39. | :55:43. | |
just making a a few unforced errors today. | :55:44. | :55:50. | |
That ball just deviated from left to right on our picture, from | :55:51. | :56:03. | |
Drinkhall. She had so much cut on it. You feel for her, actually. That | :56:04. | :56:21. | |
was a tough, tough shot. Brilliant point from the Canadians. Redeeming | :56:22. | :56:27. | |
themselves after the penultimate point. Zhang, so compact in her | :56:28. | :56:42. | |
take-back. Just one point between them, in favour of the Canadians, in | :56:43. | :56:45. | |
this vital fifth game. This is what it is all about, the | :56:46. | :57:46. | |
bronze medal match of the women's doubles. | :57:47. | :58:20. | |
Requiring another good serve to draw level. Fantastic play from Zhang, | :58:21. | :58:34. | |
ever alert, she has been right on top of the table to great effect. | :58:35. | :58:39. | |
Look how quickly she pounces. That was never coming back. | :58:40. | :58:55. | |
Another example of the inexperience against the heavy slice. Luo, where | :58:56. | :59:06. | |
she is from, she does not see a lot of this, and it is for -- for. | :59:07. | :59:33. | |
Tonight really good points from Drinkhall. | :59:34. | :00:15. | |
Tonight really good points from vital game. That is three points, | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
indicating how tense she is right now. As the bronze medal seems to be | :00:19. | :00:33. | |
so close. The pressure paralyse is -- paralyses some people. It brings | :00:34. | :00:45. | |
out the best in him. Having saved a match point, the Canadians, in the | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
fourth game, they now have a match point of their own. | :00:49. | :00:58. | |
Looking good there. Just solid. So they now have a second match point. | :00:59. | :01:46. | |
Remember, they saved one in the fourth game. | :01:47. | :01:58. | |
CHEERING The Canadians are the bronze | :01:59. | :02:10. | |
medallists in the women's doubles event. Delight and disappointment, | :02:11. | :02:23. | |
the twin emotions out here. What a day for these two, they played so | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
well to turn it around and they are just elated. Fantastic work from | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
them. They saved a match point and they took it on their own, the | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
second match point. 3-2, the Canadians go through. I am looking | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
at you shaking your head, that says it all? It is disappointing to be so | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
close. We had the lead, we were 2-0 up and they improved their game | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
after that. We failed to pick it back up again. That's it, to be | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
honest. Three difficult matches, how much did fatigue play a part? Not | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
really, you can yourself up, and they upped their game. -- you can | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
gee yourself up. How disappointing is it to miss out on this medal? It | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
would have been nice to go out with two. Iron devastated but it is one | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
of those things, I guess. -- I am. Can you sum up the Games? It has | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
been a positive gains that space Games. It has been really good. -- | :03:42. | :03:52. | |
it has been a positive Games. You think you have no chance in a | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
match... It was so close. Congratulations on a fantastic | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
Games. Bad luck for team England as far as the table tennis there is | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
concerned. We will be back in a couple of minutes but right now it | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
is time for the news update in 60 seconds. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
And it's about time that I did something about that. | :04:17. | :04:28. | |
is time for the news update in 60 seconds. | :04:29. | :04:47. | |
Back to Glasgow after a quick update. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Body parts of a man have been found at a recycling plant near Bristol. | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
Police have named him as 34-year-old Matthew Symonds from Swindon. | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
His death's being treated as "unexplained". | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
A second athlete has failed a drugs test at Glasgow 2014. | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
The runner tested positive for a banned substance | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
It's after a couple abandoned their baby | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
with his Thai surrogate mother after finding out he had Down's Syndrome. | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
Thousands have been raised to help Gammy. | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
Israel's carried out fresh strikes on Gaza, while Palestinian militants | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
Egypt's urged both side to adopt a ceasefire plan it's put forward. | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
We had teacakes and Scottie dogs for the opening. | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
Tomorrow's closing ceremony will reflect a typical night out | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
Organisers say it'll include a mass smooch. | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
No word on if The Proclaimers will be there though. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Live action now as we're back to Manish in Glasgow. | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
I leave the ashram, travel halfway across the world to find my father, | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
Oh, well. As Vashrati says, gotta keep smiling! | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
We don't tend to use the bathroom together here. | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
All right, well, I'll catch you later. | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
This ashram of yours, it might be a cult. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
I take it back, he's definitely Cuckoo's son. | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
us, the continuous live coverage on BBC Three, the 20th Commonwealth | :06:09. | :06:39. | |
Games, Day ten of the competition, the penultimate day. It is such a | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
shame that the sun has disappeared, it is starting to rain. That has | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
been the story of the day so far. I suppose we have found sanctuary here | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
at Pacific Quay. As I mentioned earlier it has not dampened any of | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
the fuse Yaz as far as the locals are concerned, we are still taking | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
in plenty of drama. -- as far as the locals. Plenty of home interest with | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
the badminton, the mixed doubles bronze match. Imogen Bankier and | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
Ross Blair of Scotland, taking on Lai Pei Jing and pence in jam. It is | :07:19. | :07:29. | |
happening right now. Commentary from Frost and Mercer. | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
COMMENTATOR: I cannot help but wonder whether the fact that the | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
Malaysians have three times been taken to three games, of course the | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
semifinal they ended up losing. But they have still had to play three | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
games three times whereas the Scottish pair only once have they | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
been taken the full distance and I wonder whether the accumulation of | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
tiredness on the Malaysians may take its toll. | :08:02. | :08:14. | |
In addition of course, Lei has been playing in two events and has been | :08:15. | :08:29. | |
losing in the women's doubles. In that regard it is stacked against | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
the Malaysians, isn't it? That was just long. Andy Berman is making | :08:36. | :08:46. | |
notes. While we have a moment we should | :08:47. | :09:33. | |
mention the gold medal match is an All-England affair. Chris Langridge | :09:34. | :09:58. | |
and Heather Olver. Once again it is a lovely change of pace from Imogen | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
Bankier. That section of the court is where they are doing the damage. | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
It gives the Malaysians nothing to feed off. They have to generate | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
their own pace. And in doing so, lifting it long. A really tight | :10:14. | :10:32. | |
first half of the first game, lifting it long. A really tight | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
been more than a single point between the pairs. That was clever. | :10:37. | :11:26. | |
It is very important and significant that the Scots won it. | :11:27. | :11:55. | |
The normal reason that the umpire calls the players is to suggest that | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
they are taking too much time between the rallies. Again, that was | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
too between the rallies. Again, that was | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
flat from Chan. A useful 2-point advantage at the mid-game interval | :12:19. | :12:27. | |
for Blair and Imogen Bankier. These are the Malaysian coaches. | :12:28. | :12:57. | |
UMPIRE: 20 seconds, 20 seconds. Andy Berman, coaching the Scottish | :12:58. | :13:52. | |
couple. Well, that was a real chance with the crosscourt. Yes, it's a | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
pity because I thought earlier with the crosscourt. Yes, it's a | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
the rally that Imogen Bankier had got back that spark that we saw | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
earlier, especially during the mixed team competition. This morning in | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
her semifinal she did get a little flat, a little frustrated with | :14:15. | :14:15. | |
herself. Malaysians have had a two point | :14:16. | :15:45. | |
advantage. On five of the last six points. He | :15:46. | :15:54. | |
has missed at! I think it might develop into a | :15:55. | :16:44. | |
battle between the to match winning at the front of the court, once | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
again. Whoever can control the front court area, the net... | :16:50. | :17:04. | |
Four straight points for the Scots. It is OK for length, but it was | :17:05. | :18:22. | |
wide. Keir Starmer. He is all right, I | :18:23. | :18:45. | |
think. He just lost his balance. I do not think he has twisted his | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
ankle. He looks to be OK. He looks to be walking OK. I think he just | :18:51. | :18:51. | |
lost his balance. That is going to go wide as well. | :18:52. | :20:02. | |
Good placement of the attacking smashes from the back of the court | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
from Robert Blair, but look at Imogen Bankier's movement of the | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
shuttle. It is absolutely superb. She's always adjusting her position, | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
really hunting to look for the shuttlecocks, and the way she is | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
taking the pace out is just brilliant. | :20:22. | :20:43. | |
Seven of the last eight points have been one won by the Scots. | :20:44. | :21:08. | |
It is going wide. And he knows it. He has realised it. | :21:09. | :21:34. | |
Immediately looks down towards the line. Just trying to get his spatial | :21:35. | :21:48. | |
awareness. Good return. It takes them into three game points. | :21:49. | :22:05. | |
The first game is won by Robert Blair and Imogen Bankier, 21-17. | :22:06. | :22:28. | |
The first game is won by Robert 12-15 down, they looked in trouble. | :22:29. | :22:40. | |
When you get them off-balance... Step in to take away from it. They | :22:41. | :22:50. | |
are trying to turn it. Well I hope you can pick up some of | :22:51. | :23:06. | |
what the coaches are saying. It is difficult to here with all these | :23:07. | :23:07. | |
announcements. From the hand gestures, it looks as | :23:08. | :23:29. | |
if the Malaysian coach wants Lai Pei Jing to hunt for the push down | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
around the head side. Especially after she has blocked it at the net. | :23:38. | :24:25. | |
Looking for that push down her back and decide is what the coach, the | :24:26. | :24:36. | |
Malaysian coach, was telling her to look out for, and she missed it on | :24:37. | :24:37. | |
the first point of the second game. Well played by Lai Pei Jing. | :24:38. | :25:05. | |
Backhand side to that, around the head position. It is about time she | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
was alert to it. She has served very well throughout | :25:08. | :25:18. | |
the tournament, Lai Pei Jing. Good work, especially by Imogen | :25:19. | :25:38. | |
Bankier. I think just a little block would | :25:39. | :26:13. | |
have sufficed, rather than trying to put a bit of pace on it. | :26:14. | :27:20. | |
The Malaysians need to rethink the game plan of blocking the initial | :27:21. | :27:45. | |
one from Chan Peng Soon. Both the Scottish players are looking to come | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
forward. We have seen it from Imogen Bankier already, but that time it | :27:50. | :27:50. | |
was Robert Blair. Has missed it. Serious faces on the Malaysian | :27:51. | :28:01. | |
bench. Real hesitation on the defence there | :28:02. | :28:54. | |
from Chan Peng Soon. Was he expecting his partner to take it? He | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
is talking to her and saying, you have got to move your base further | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
across towards the centre of the court. | :29:03. | :29:45. | |
awfully careful here. They cannot let the Scottish combination get too | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
far in front, because with the home support, they will find it difficult | :29:50. | :29:50. | |
to come back. It had a think about it, didn't it? | :29:51. | :30:04. | |
Coming down on the Malaysian side. Well, I wonder if the Malaysians | :30:05. | :30:31. | |
have been instructed to play the return of serve deep into the back | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
boxes. That is a couple we have seen now and it has worked both times. | :30:36. | :30:47. | |
Lovely interception by Imogen Bankier. They have a large lead at | :30:48. | :31:36. | |
the interval. Six points. .. Smashing is not very hard... The | :31:37. | :31:47. | |
forehand side... Just comes into the short... Waiting for it... | :31:48. | :32:00. | |
UMPIRE: 20 seconds, 20 seconds. .. So much better, dominating from the | :32:01. | :32:08. | |
A tired looking Chan, there. The word go... | :32:09. | :32:46. | |
A tired looking Chan, there. The instruction from the coaches was, to | :32:47. | :32:50. | |
the Scottish player, dominate from the start of the resumption, Imogen | :32:51. | :32:58. | |
Bankier is to go forward to the net and advising Blair about varying the | :32:59. | :33:03. | |
shots and angle when hitting down. Out! And the lead is up to nine | :33:04. | :33:20. | |
points. CHEERING | :33:21. | :34:31. | |
Well, that is exactly what the coaches were asking for, | :34:32. | :34:34. | |
concentrating on the angle of the smash. An acute angle rather than | :34:35. | :34:41. | |
full power, using his height, leaping in the air. | :34:42. | :34:59. | |
CHEERING Well, this is devastating now. | :35:00. | :35:36. | |
Could not get out of the way, Imogen Bankier. | :35:37. | :35:55. | |
That was a good serve. GROANS FROM CROWD | :35:56. | :36:04. | |
Again, fatal hesitation. And confusion. But they are still nine | :36:05. | :36:13. | |
points in front and that should be enough. | :36:14. | :36:22. | |
APPLAUSE Well, another error from Lai Pei | :36:23. | :37:17. | |
Jing. CHEERING Yes, the service errors are coming | :37:18. | :37:26. | |
rather rapidly. These are 11 bronze medal points for Blair and Bankier. | :37:27. | :37:42. | |
That was a pity. My word, that was close. It was a | :37:43. | :38:41. | |
wonderful shot from Chan Peng Soon. The Malaysians have been on the | :38:42. | :38:42. | |
attack. CHEERING | :38:43. | :39:09. | |
Yes! Into the open space. APPLAUSE Imogen Bankier, who decided to leave | :39:10. | :39:47. | |
the Great Britain set up and move back to Scotland. She will feel now | :39:48. | :39:54. | |
that that decision has been fully vindicated. 21-17, 21-11. Scotland | :39:55. | :40:07. | |
have a second medal from the badminton competition because | :40:08. | :40:12. | |
remember Kirsty Gilmour goes for goal to in the women's singles | :40:13. | :40:21. | |
tomorrow. -- gold. Heartbreak for Chan and Lai, they played so well in | :40:22. | :40:26. | |
this magnificent match. Putting out the second Singaporean partnership. | :40:27. | :40:35. | |
21-19 in their quarterfinal, and that took an awful lot out of them. | :40:36. | :40:44. | |
Well, what character, to come through that match by Blair and | :40:45. | :40:50. | |
Bankier. The emotion at the end, really revealing, just how much that | :40:51. | :41:04. | |
meant to them. Well, as they pose for the photographers, the counters | :41:05. | :41:13. | |
of Wessex -- Countess. Giving them a standing ovation along with the | :41:14. | :41:16. | |
other dignitaries here at the Emirates arena. STUDIO: Many | :41:17. | :41:30. | |
congratulations to Imogen Bankier and Robert Blair, picking a bronze. | :41:31. | :41:37. | |
Adding to the hall at Scotland's best ever Commonwealth Games | :41:38. | :41:44. | |
showing. Very well done to them. -- haul. That an ultimate day of the | :41:45. | :41:50. | |
Commonwealth Games and even before the games had started, Day ten was | :41:51. | :41:55. | |
always seen as a potentially historic day over at the SECC | :41:56. | :41:58. | |
because everyone was waiting with baited breath to see who would take | :41:59. | :42:03. | |
the crown, the first female Commonwealth boxing champion because | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
of course boxing, women's boxing is making its debut at the games. | :42:08. | :42:12. | |
Potentially up for the title was Nicola Adams who made all of the | :42:13. | :42:16. | |
headlines at London 2012 two years ago, and she was taking on Michaela | :42:17. | :42:21. | |
Walsh from Northern Ireland. Lucy O'Connor and Rob McIntosh were at | :42:22. | :42:22. | |
ringside. BELL | :42:23. | :42:34. | |
COMMENTATOR: Here we go, the first four, two minute rounds. It is being | :42:35. | :42:42. | |
contested between England and Northern Ireland. The boxer wearing | :42:43. | :42:48. | |
blue, straight left hand to end the opening combination, Nicola Adams, | :42:49. | :42:53. | |
the reigning Olympic champion. Her opponent is 20-year-old Michaela | :42:54. | :42:55. | |
Walsh, also with an orthodox stance. opponent is 20-year-old Michaela | :42:56. | :42:59. | |
The three-time Irish national champion. Taking those titles in | :43:00. | :43:06. | |
2011, 13 and 14. A huge moment for her. Such an iconic figure in the | :43:07. | :43:15. | |
realm of Olympic boxing. Michaela Walsh confidently claimed the centre | :43:16. | :43:19. | |
of the ring at the start of the bout, snapping out her jabbed | :43:20. | :43:21. | |
effectively but Nicola Adams bout, snapping out her jabbed | :43:22. | :43:24. | |
caught her a few times on the counter. -- jab. Nicola is capable | :43:25. | :43:31. | |
of taking a half step back and catching her as she dives in with | :43:32. | :43:32. | |
her head. It is the fourth catching her as she dives in with | :43:33. | :43:41. | |
for both of these women during the course of this flyweight | :43:42. | :43:42. | |
competition. Both boxers are content course of this flyweight | :43:43. | :43:55. | |
centre of the ring. Plenty of feints being thrown, they are looking for | :43:56. | :43:59. | |
something to trigger a counter from. Both boxers are using that as a | :44:00. | :44:05. | |
rangefinder, textbook exchange. That was a clean shot again, the final | :44:06. | :44:10. | |
left hand was landed by Adams. Walsh is on the retreat, on the back foot, | :44:11. | :44:15. | |
she is skimming the ropes. At the perimeter of the boxing ring. Good | :44:16. | :44:20. | |
she is skimming the ropes. At the use of the jabs by both boxers, both | :44:21. | :44:24. | |
trying to find their range, they are happy to counter, good combinations | :44:25. | :44:30. | |
are being thrown and landed by both. Over the top, twice successful. The | :44:31. | :44:36. | |
final combination attempt by Michaela Walsh. The end of the first | :44:37. | :44:46. | |
round, a competitive affair, but the more eye-catching work coming from | :44:47. | :44:53. | |
the boxer in blue. The rear hand landed quite cleanly from Nicola | :44:54. | :44:54. | |
Adams. She is finishing landed quite cleanly from Nicola | :44:55. | :44:59. | |
combinations and did so with the rear | :45:00. | :45:05. | |
combinations and did so with the Adams, although they did exchange, | :45:06. | :45:08. | |
she comes off the better in those combinations, although she got a | :45:09. | :45:14. | |
cheeky left hook thereby Walsh. The ten point system is in use here at | :45:15. | :45:16. | |
this tournament. Five judges are at ten point system is in use here at | :45:17. | :45:22. | |
the ringside. The winning boxer of the round must get ten. The losing | :45:23. | :45:28. | |
boxer must get anywhere from six up to nine. The judges were selected | :45:29. | :45:32. | |
randomly prior to the opening bell without their knowledge, and it is | :45:33. | :45:37. | |
those scores that will be determined to decide the outcome of the | :45:38. | :45:39. | |
contest. A beautiful corkscrew left hand from | :45:40. | :45:50. | |
Nicola Adams, who has started this second round in much brisker fashion | :45:51. | :45:57. | |
than the first. Left-hand to the body was successful, and Michaela | :45:58. | :45:59. | |
Walsh is looking to find her range, but being deterred from throwing | :46:00. | :46:08. | |
punches. Better rhythm by Nicola Adams, finding her way into this | :46:09. | :46:16. | |
fight. Lovely rear hand landed there. Walsh | :46:17. | :46:29. | |
got her legs in a bit of a tangle, but is now beyond harm's way as she | :46:30. | :46:34. | |
took a straight shot from Adams. The referee is allowing the boxes to | :46:35. | :46:46. | |
work away, Nicola Adams trying to do so, whilst content to hold on. The | :46:47. | :46:52. | |
referee finally intervenes and she is giving a talking to by the | :46:53. | :46:55. | |
referee about holding. Excessive holding will result in point to | :46:56. | :47:02. | |
addiction -- point deduction. In these closing seconds, the boxes | :47:03. | :47:17. | |
are again exchanging jabs in the centre of the ring, but Nicola Adams | :47:18. | :47:21. | |
Baggies is a straight left. Good left-hand to the body from Adams. On | :47:22. | :47:34. | |
the jab once again... BELL RINGS. Michaela Walsh nods as she returns | :47:35. | :47:38. | |
to her corner, but I suspect she will be on the losing end of that | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
one. Nicola Adams had a brisk start of that round and had the better of | :47:43. | :47:49. | |
the exchanges that interviewed. Positive end to that round from | :47:50. | :47:53. | |
Michaela Walsh. She caught Nicola Adams with some nice clean shots | :47:54. | :48:02. | |
just on the bell. Nicola Adams just edged the more eye-catching | :48:03. | :48:07. | |
exchanges. We can bring you the scores after the conclusion of the | :48:08. | :48:10. | |
opening round, but I'm sure if we receive them here, it will include | :48:11. | :48:13. | |
the totals from the first round as well. Again, just a bit of a problem | :48:14. | :48:20. | |
bringing you the scores, but from my point of view, it is this boxer, | :48:21. | :48:25. | |
Nicola Adams, who has taken the opening two rounds, but there are | :48:26. | :48:28. | |
three judges seated at the ringside whose scores count. They all have | :48:29. | :48:33. | |
different vantage points around the ring. The women's 51 kilograms | :48:34. | :48:41. | |
flyweight final. Nicola Adams is representing England and has won so | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
many medals in competitions around the world, Olympic champion, | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
European champion in 2011. A rather untidy tumble to the canvas for both | :48:52. | :48:57. | |
boxes. Numerous national titles from the boxer from Leeds, 31 years old | :48:58. | :49:03. | |
now. And Michaela Walsh is an athlete at the opposite end of the | :49:04. | :49:08. | |
experience spectrum, just 22 years old. She has had success at Youth | :49:09. | :49:19. | |
League -- level. Walsh is not making it easy for Adams in this round. She | :49:20. | :49:23. | |
is causing Nicola Adams to miss and has caught a few times on the | :49:24. | :49:27. | |
counter. A good performance in this round by Michaela Walsh. | :49:28. | :49:32. | |
In the second half of this round, both boxers at close quarters. More | :49:33. | :49:48. | |
success as Walsh takes another right hand over the top, then a left hand. | :49:49. | :49:56. | |
Nicola Adams temporarily switches to Southport while she uses her legs to | :49:57. | :49:58. | |
good effect. -- southpaw. Nicola Adams is generally having the | :49:59. | :50:15. | |
first and last word in any exchange. She stepped in and scores a long | :50:16. | :50:17. | |
left just above the belt line. Flailing shots with the boxers | :50:18. | :50:32. | |
exchanging Mrs to enter third round. Again, it was Nicola Adams he | :50:33. | :50:40. | |
caught the eye with the cleaner worked during the course of the | :50:41. | :50:46. | |
third round. Michaela Walsh did have her moments as well. Dave Galloway | :50:47. | :50:52. | |
is issuing the instructions to Nicola Adams in that corner. He was | :50:53. | :50:57. | |
the coach of the year 2012. Michaela Walsh leading there. One of the only | :50:58. | :51:06. | |
clean shots in that band, not a great deal, lots of clenching, not a | :51:07. | :51:14. | |
lot of work on the inside. Both these boxers are counter boxers, | :51:15. | :51:17. | |
waiting for the other to find the gaps. A sense of urgency will be | :51:18. | :51:26. | |
greater in the red corner as the boxers right in anticipation of the | :51:27. | :51:30. | |
bell for the fourth and final round. Into the fourth round we go, | :51:31. | :51:35. | |
the 51 kilograms flyweight final. A rousing reception for these boxers | :51:36. | :51:41. | |
as they begin this final session in pursuit of the gold medal. Nicola | :51:42. | :51:45. | |
Adams is wearing blue. Hot on her toes, on the back foot, Michaela | :51:46. | :51:48. | |
Walsh is hammering away with shots to the body, and the fighters were | :51:49. | :51:55. | |
at close quarters. 30 seconds gone in this opening round, and it is | :51:56. | :51:59. | |
Michaela Walsh on the front foot. Nicola Adams is confident in the | :52:00. | :52:01. | |
knowledge that she is comfortably ahead, happy to keep it beyond | :52:02. | :52:09. | |
range. And away from the aggressive intent of Michaela Walsh. Walsh, | :52:10. | :52:18. | |
commanding centre ring, right hand attempted by Adams, went over the | :52:19. | :52:23. | |
shoulder of Walsh. Adams is currently operating out of the | :52:24. | :52:26. | |
orthodox stance, stepping in with a jab, effective. A furious exchange | :52:27. | :52:34. | |
at close quarters. Adams tied up her opponent and marches her back to the | :52:35. | :52:38. | |
red corner. Gives a couple of left-hands. The referee gives Adams | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
a talking to. We are in the final minute of the final round. She has | :52:43. | :52:46. | |
got to up the tempo if she's going to make an impression on the judges. | :52:47. | :52:51. | |
She has got to make it clear in this round. Probably just stand in the | :52:52. | :52:54. | |
centre and counter will not do it. Adams is making it difficult for her | :52:55. | :53:01. | |
to do so. We are in the final 30 seconds. Walsh is back onto the | :53:02. | :53:12. | |
front foot. " As, the boxes -- close quarters, the boxers are trading | :53:13. | :53:16. | |
blows. Nicola Adams will need one shot to bring about a finish. Not a | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
common occurrence in women's Olympic boxing. Boxers are in a clinch. Both | :53:21. | :53:34. | |
boxers raise their arms immediately. Wonderful accomplishment from | :53:35. | :53:37. | |
Michaela Walsh, but I expect it is Nicola Adams, despite the warm | :53:38. | :53:43. | |
embrace Michaela Walsh is receiving from her corner. I suspect it is for | :53:44. | :53:47. | |
a job well done for even making it to this final, but from my vantage | :53:48. | :53:51. | |
point, it is Nicola Adams who has secured Commonwealth gold here this | :53:52. | :53:54. | |
afternoon. Rather untidy final round. Aust remained patient. That | :53:55. | :53:59. | |
was the pick of her punches for the entire contest, straight right | :54:00. | :54:02. | |
hand, landing flush on entire contest, straight right | :54:03. | :54:06. | |
Michaela Walsh said it would be a dream come true to meet Nicola | :54:07. | :54:09. | |
Adams, they are the champion, in the ring today. She certainly was not | :54:10. | :54:13. | |
starstruck. She started confidently and gave Adams a run for her money. | :54:14. | :54:19. | |
It will be close. Nicola Adams, the world number one, Michaela Walsh, | :54:20. | :54:24. | |
the 14th ranked boxer in the world at 51 kilograms, awaiting the | :54:25. | :54:27. | |
official announcement at this Commonwealth Games gold medal fight. | :54:28. | :54:33. | |
We get into the ring with our judges' scorecard. We have a split | :54:34. | :54:39. | |
decision. In favour of the winner, she is now gold-medallist and | :54:40. | :54:42. | |
Commonwealth women's flyweight champion. In the blue corner, | :54:43. | :54:55. | |
representing England, Nicola Adams! Unconfined joy expressed by Nicola | :54:56. | :54:56. | |
Adams. The boxer from Unconfined joy expressed by Nicola | :54:57. | :55:05. | |
completed a historic double at the Hydro. She has just become the | :55:06. | :55:11. | |
Commonwealth Games champion here at the first-ever Commonwealth Games | :55:12. | :55:15. | |
boxing tournament in Glasgow. The familiar celebration at knowledge on | :55:16. | :55:21. | |
all sides of the arena here on the banks of the River Clyde. Nicola | :55:22. | :55:22. | |
Adams, the banks of the River Clyde. Nicola | :55:23. | :55:27. | |
Commonwealth Games gold, and this is what it means to her. This, a boxer | :55:28. | :55:34. | |
who loves occupying top spot on the podium. Heartbreak for Michaela | :55:35. | :55:39. | |
Walsh. She can't believe it, but how well she has acquitted herself | :55:40. | :55:41. | |
throughout the course of this Commonwealth Games boxing | :55:42. | :55:45. | |
tournament, just 20 years old. She comes away | :55:46. | :55:46. | |
tournament, just 20 years old. She silver medal. She had the | :55:47. | :55:53. | |
of competing in the first-ever fight of Commonwealth Games boxing | :55:54. | :55:54. | |
history. She made it through to the first-ever final, | :55:55. | :55:59. | |
but ultimately, she was vanquished and had pointed. She comes away with | :56:00. | :56:02. | |
a proud Commonwealth and had pointed. She comes away with | :56:03. | :56:07. | |
But it is Nicola and had pointed. She comes away with | :56:08. | :56:12. | |
continue to bolster her reputation on the international stage. She is | :56:13. | :56:22. | |
now posing. Here is Nicola Adams with a gold medal around her neck, | :56:23. | :56:26. | |
which looks cool, doesn't it? Very cool. It makes all the hard work in | :56:27. | :56:30. | |
the gym with it, want to get this round your neck. We spoke about the | :56:31. | :56:36. | |
fight itself. What you think has happened to women's boxing in | :56:37. | :56:38. | |
general since you weren't in London? I forget has excelled. The | :56:39. | :56:44. | |
competition has improved and the girls are getting more talented all | :56:45. | :56:48. | |
the time, and I think it is definitely increasing the number of | :56:49. | :56:53. | |
participants as well. What you feel you're responsible it is as well? | :56:54. | :56:59. | |
Will you go on to Rio? Definitely! I would love to do that. I would like | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
to inspire the next generation, which I have already started doing. | :57:05. | :57:08. | |
It is nice to see a lot more boys and girls getting involved in | :57:09. | :57:12. | |
boxing. I love the sport so much, it makes me feel really happy. I am | :57:13. | :57:15. | |
sure you are going to take a break, but have you got anything coming up? | :57:16. | :57:24. | |
Yes, I am going to take some resting rest and relax, then back in the gym | :57:25. | :57:29. | |
again. Congratulations. And in the ring, imminently... Just like two | :57:30. | :57:38. | |
years ago at the London Olympics, when I had the privilege of being | :57:39. | :57:42. | |
there, Nicola Adams picked up her gold medal. This time, not Olympic | :57:43. | :57:48. | |
gold, but Commonwealth gold. She made history earlier today as the | :57:49. | :57:55. | |
Commonwealth Games' first ever Commonwealth boxing champion. That | :57:56. | :57:58. | |
infectious smile is back for everyone to see and enjoy. | :57:59. | :58:08. | |
I think it is fair to say that it is only split opinion between the two | :58:09. | :58:14. | |
fighters soon afterwards, after the fight. Nicola Adams ablated this | :58:15. | :58:27. | |
picture on her Instagram page. As far as her opponent, Michaela Walsh, | :58:28. | :58:32. | |
goes, she tweeted, today I beat the Olympic champion, I was cheated, | :58:33. | :58:35. | |
coming back with Commonwealth silver, I am very proud. In my | :58:36. | :58:40. | |
heart, I know it was gold. Congratulations to Nicola Adams on a | :58:41. | :58:43. | |
great fight. I hope we get a rematch in the future. It would be | :58:44. | :58:47. | |
intriguing, as and when that rematch will happen. We are going to head to | :58:48. | :58:53. | |
Edinburgh now on BBC Three. First we have the final of the women's 3m | :58:54. | :58:57. | |
springboard, but the highlight later, as far as the men's event | :58:58. | :59:01. | |
goes, it is the 10m platform, featuring this man. | :59:02. | :59:13. | |
It is a good one. It cannot do any more than that. The crowd on their | :59:14. | :59:19. | |
feet. Tom Daley has done absolutely everything he can. Tom Daley could | :59:20. | :59:25. | |
not have done any more. It is out of his hands now. | :59:26. | :59:35. | |
2013 was a rough year for me, riddled with injury. 2014 has come | :59:36. | :59:42. | |
with a lot of changes. I have moved to London and I have got a new coach | :59:43. | :59:45. | |
and I am doing lots of new exercises in the gym and I have changed a lot | :59:46. | :59:51. | |
of technique in the pool. Recently I have just got a personal best in | :59:52. | :59:54. | |
Mexico and came away with a silver medal. I am gradually making the | :59:55. | :59:59. | |
step between being good to try to get into the excellent category. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
You mentioned your personal best. What has been the difference to get | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
that extra special score? To break a personal best is something you | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
always strive for. The small things make a big difference. If I don't .1 | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
of my toes or go slightly over from vertigo on certain things, the | :00:23. | :00:23. | |
smallest mistake can cost you. Tom Daley goes into the water. Get | :00:24. | :00:44. | |
in! What was special about the Commonwealth golds? The Commonwealth | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Games has always been a massive event on the diving calendar. I came | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
away with two gold medals from Delhi and I was over the moon. I could not | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
wait for another four years to pass until I could have a chance to do | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
the next one. It is not so good. He lost it all on the take-off, | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
actually, running out of room. Maybe the flash has put him off. Tell us | :01:11. | :01:19. | |
about the Deavin dive, the twister. Everybody has got a dive that they | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
are a bit scared of, and for me, it has always been about twister. But I | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
have been working a lot to get to the stage where I can do it as well | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
as I can. I am quite optimistic about the Commonwealth Games and | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
that I will be able to nail that dive. Am I right that you have been | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
seeing a therapist or a psychologist? A crucial part of | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
being at the top of your game is that you have to mentally be in the | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
position to think that you can win and also be in the position where | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
you do not have any worries about the sport you are doing. To get | :01:54. | :02:06. | |
another Commonwealth gold medal, it only happens once every four years. | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
It is not like an event where you can try again next year to see if | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
you could win. All those years of training, four years, and then you | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
get six ties to try to make it count, and if you mess up one of | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
those dives, you are out. Still a lot of work to be done, but I think | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
by the time the Commonwealth Games happens, hopefully I will be in good | :02:31. | :02:31. | |
shape. banish his demon dive at half past | :02:32. | :02:48. | |
seven for the next 10-metre platform final. Before that it is the three | :02:49. | :02:58. | |
metre springboard. COMMENTATOR: Thank you very much indeed, as we | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
introduced the judges for the women's three metre springboard. | :03:03. | :03:03. | |
Here they are. Boys, the former Canadian diver and | :03:04. | :03:28. | |
now a judge. And now the fate of these 12 divers is in their hands. | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
We will have five rounds of dives, there will be similar ones. The | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
first diver will be doing an inward two and a half somersaults, | :03:44. | :03:44. | |
first diver will be doing an inward two and performed in a slightly | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
different way by Grace Reid and then by Anabelle Smith. | :03:47. | :03:56. | |
More than half, pretty much, the divers will be going for in | :03:57. | :04:14. | |
technical terms, 400 and -- 405 B. They will start in reverse order. | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
The best from this morning will go last. Going for a notable double | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
here. The advantage of diving last is that the judges tend to expect | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
the best dives to come in the last bit of the round because you are the | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
winner of the preliminary, so the higher marks can be awarded to the | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
divers at the back end of the field but it does not always go that way. | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
Sometimes it does. Here we go. The competition is underway. The whistle | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
has been blown and we now have our first diver on the board. Well, she | :04:52. | :05:03. | |
would have been looking for a stronger start than that, | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
would have been looking for a short of vertical. The | :05:08. | :05:08. | |
would have been looking for a OK. She squeezes into the pike | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
shape. She lets go a bit too early so the dive is marginally short of | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
vertical. Let's see what she gets. She will be looking for sevens. | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
Seven and above is very good but six and a half and below is not so good. | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
She will probably be not challenging for the upper echelons of this | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
event. Rebecca Gallantree is much further down. But that was the | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
morning, that can be parked and we will start again. That was nice from | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
morning, that can be parked and we Rebecca, allowing the dive to | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
rollover as she goes into the water. She has two shift her weight | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
forward in order to complete the dive and that affects the entry. | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
forward in order to complete the rolls over from vertical, so she | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
will only score 6.5s, rather than eights. Six and a half, not quite | :06:13. | :06:23. | |
the seven or above that she wanted. That takes her into second for the | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
time being. Now, greeted by a raw, Grace. Grace Reid on the board. She | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
is doing a slightly different version of the inward two and a half | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
somersaults, this one is with tuck. It is worth consequently 2.7 rather | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
than 3.0. Well, that is a beautiful It is worth consequently 2.7 rather | :06:45. | :06:58. | |
grace. Opting for a slightly easier dive, this is in the tuck position, | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
grabbing her shins and squeezing tight, straight up and down. A lower | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
grabbing her shins and squeezing degree of difficulty, so that sees | :07:08. | :07:08. | |
her at the bottom of the leaderboard so far. However, another consistent | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
dive from grace. The degree of difficulty is nowhere near as high | :07:18. | :07:18. | |
as it needs to difficulty is nowhere near as high | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
medals. She may do what she is capable of doing at this stage and | :07:27. | :07:27. | |
she is doing very well. It puts in capable of doing at this stage and | :07:28. | :07:36. | |
the mix. Pamela Ware, 21 years of age, from Canada. She was taught | :07:37. | :07:45. | |
diving by her dad, it was an ice cream better. Fabulous entry into | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
the water. -- bet. The take-off was good, she could do with a tighter | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
pike shape. A bit of an arch as she goes in but that is an improvement | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
on her preliminary effort and it sees their top of the leaderboard so | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
far with only four divers going so far. Bronze medallists at the World | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
Championship in Barcelona in 2013. She has the pedigree to make their | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
way through. Further down the standings than we thought she would | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
be this morning but it can easily be reversed and it has been in quite a | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
few competitions this week. Off to a shaky start this morning, Anabelle | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
Smith. She would like to rectify that, starting all over again with | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
an inward two and a half somersaults with pike. We have already seen this | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
several times now. That is a little bit better than this morning. On the | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
take-off she was backing away from the diving board a bit too much | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
which can affect the rotation. But she manages to get after it, driving | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
her hips up and over, tucking her chin slightly as she moves past | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
vertical into the water. Difficulty 3.0, that should get her over 60 | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
points. 63 to be precise. Easily calculated. It will all count | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
towards the total. Multiplied by the degree of difficulty to give you 63. | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
That is her opening dive, Justin behind Pamela Ware in terms of the | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
standings. It is early days yet. Lots of big dives still to come. | :09:29. | :09:37. | |
Sabri From Malaysia. Once again, inward two and a half. I was very | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
impressed with this 15-year-old, she has some dives which she struggles | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
with later, but this was a corking opener, and in the preliminaries, | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
she allows it to go over as she enters the water so it will not be | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
quite as impressive as it was earlier but she will still be one to | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
watch. Only 15. She is right alongside Anabelle Smith. Seen by | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
the judges as precisely the same dive in terms of quality. Alicia | :10:10. | :10:18. | |
Blagg goes for something different. The degree of difficulty is the same | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
but this is a forward two and a half somersaults with one twist. The | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
second of the English divers that we will see in the final. --, what a | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
dive from Alicia, opening up the final. I was with her coach Aidan | :10:34. | :10:44. | |
Hinchcliffe and she says she is feeling under the weather but you | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
would not be able to tell because it may be something she has eaten, she | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
may be struggling with their energy so this will affect competition but | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
look at that to start off with. Whatever she has done this afternoon | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
has helped her, feeling restored and refreshed. Nice job by Alicia Blagg. | :11:06. | :11:16. | |
Li from Malaysia. But next. And we are back to the inward two and a | :11:17. | :11:26. | |
half. -- Yan Yee. Alicia Blagg was the first to go over 70 in this | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
round. Very, very nice, well executed. From Yan Yee. We are | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
getting to compare and contrast, inward two and a half in the pike | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
position, this will get over 65, finishing higher, keeping the | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
splashdown compared to her team mate. This is the slightly more | :11:49. | :11:59. | |
experienced and older Yan Yee, have strapping on her tricep. That is not | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
unusual. She goes into second place. Behind Alicia Blagg. Starling will | :12:05. | :12:14. | |
have a big smile. Her smile has disappeared as she gets her game | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
face on and she gets ready to start the inward two and a half | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
somersaults. The best placed of the English this morning but the points | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
are of course not carried forward. Inward two and a half somersaults. | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
That is very good from Hannah. This morning she just probably like a lot | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
of the girls was a bit tired. Water in her ears as she comes up. This is | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
a really strong attack on the take-off, squeezing into the pike | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
shape. Straight up and down. A bit low on the water for more than | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
seven, but we shall see. We will find out now. Three sevens. Joint | :12:52. | :13:00. | |
fourth in a group of 63s coming together. Three more to go, the | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
three best divers from this morning are up next. The Chinese diver who | :13:07. | :13:17. | |
went to Sydney in the year 2009, Esther Qin. She will also be doing | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
the dive that you have seen a lot of, 63-67 marks so far. Can she | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
better that? I think she is a little short of vertical, she will be | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
around 60 points. The take-off is OK but she backs away from the diving | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
board a little bit too much which leaves her short of vertical as she | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
goes into the water. The judges were penalised bad. Esther Qin will be | :13:48. | :13:48. | |
further down the leaderboard. penalised bad. Esther Qin will be | :13:49. | :13:59. | |
61.5, 6.5 and sevens. For Esther Qin on that 3.0 dive. Now, onto the New | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
Zealand born, but now Australian, Madison Keeney. She is certainly one | :14:06. | :14:15. | |
to watch. She was on the one, and she is in the three. She is not | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
quite as expansive in the three in terms of what she can do. 3.0 for | :14:20. | :14:27. | |
the Australian. Just washing over as she goes into the water, two and a | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
half somersaults in the pike position. All of the girls will use | :14:31. | :14:41. | |
about two and a half. Madison jumps through the roof. She is so powerful | :14:42. | :14:51. | |
and only 18 years old. Faltering on the entry causes the marks to be | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
lower. 63, matching Starling, Smith, Sabri and now Madison Keeney on 63. | :15:00. | :15:15. | |
She has already got the 1m title under her belt. This is her in which | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
2.5 somersault!. Silver medal four years ago, a gold | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
medal last night in the 1m springboard, and here she is on her | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
favourite 3m. Top qualifier, ready to open up her campaign. Steady, | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
steadfast. She has done it better. We will see where her head is and | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
where she is at this evening. Sevens and a sevens and a 7.54 | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
Jennifer Abel. -- and a 7.5 for Jennifer Abel. | :16:00. | :16:25. | |
Round two women, Cheong Jun Hoong. She came in | :16:26. | :16:38. | |
in 12th place this morning. A bit of difficulty with this in training, so | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
not so good in the preliminaries, and she has missed a dead-end in the | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
final. Forward 3.5 in the tuck position, just holding on to that | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
shape a fraction too long and other rotating. -- other rotating. | :16:55. | :17:04. | |
6.5 is an OK return for Cheong Jun Hoong of Malaysia. | :17:05. | :17:18. | |
Rebecca Gallantree made her senior debut ten years ago for Great | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
Britain. Here she is for England with a reverse 2.5 somersault! With | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
bike. She has a tendency to pull the dive | :17:30. | :17:44. | |
over. A bit of a back arch and and other rotation, so she probably will | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
not get more than a seven, which is a shame, because the height on that | :17:49. | :17:57. | |
dive is excellent. She nearly took out the cameraman there! | :17:58. | :18:08. | |
Grace Reid. A smile when she got onto the board. Now it is studied | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
concentration. , High on consistency. Unfaltering | :18:17. | :18:41. | |
under the expectation of this home crowd in her home pool, home | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
country, and she certainly takes it on. She's doing a great job. | :18:47. | :19:04. | |
Pamela Ware is currently third, where she finished in Barcelona last | :19:05. | :19:16. | |
year. She has got a point to prove, coming out and attacking. She is not | :19:17. | :19:25. | |
holding back at all. It is a 3.1 degree of difficulty for a reason. | :19:26. | :19:40. | |
She will be looking for mid-60s. Her face says that they be she expected | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
more, either from the judges or herself. That is just her game | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
face. I know her well. She would be wonderful at poker. Anabelle Smith, | :19:52. | :20:00. | |
reverse first 2.5 somersaults with pike. | :20:01. | :20:09. | |
Leaving the board short and vertical there. She stands the board, she is | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
not on the end, so there is a miss coordination with the diving board. | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
The diving board is your friend and you need treated nicely on ago down | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
with it, and then it will fling you are in the air. If you stamp it, it | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
will flick you off, and that is what happened to Anabelle Smith. There | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
you go, technical talk. You campaign a lot of money for those channels! | :20:34. | :20:44. | |
Nur Dhabitah Sabri for Malaysia goes with the forward 3.5 somersaults | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
with pike, currently in fifth place. A good stylus, her favoured | :20:50. | :21:06. | |
movement, the forward. A bit of impact on the diving board, so | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
making it hard work, but she hangs on just about long enough to get it | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
in. This was good in the preliminaries, not quite as good in | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
the semifinal because of the fault on the take-off. The Malaysian might | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
start to slip away as she moves toward the weaker part of her | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
programme. She will not be leading year with 55.80. Not a great return | :21:30. | :21:42. | |
on that dive. Alicia Blagg is currently our leader. It would be | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
nice if she can back up her first round performance. 2.5 somersaults. | :21:46. | :21:54. | |
We know that she is capable of getting more than 60 on this dive. | :21:55. | :22:07. | |
At its soft inner body as she went into the water, arching through the | :22:08. | :22:17. | |
back. Swing in the arms, take-off looks OK. I mentioned earlier that | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
she is not very well. She looked slightly weak on her take-off there, | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
soft on her way out. It looked like hard work, so I am hoping she has | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
got enough energy for the next three dives. She is rubbing her eyes. It | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
is tough. She does not look at all well. In second place, for the time | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
being, after that. Yan Yee of Malaysia, currently | :22:44. | :22:57. | |
ranked second. This is her forward 3.5, with 3.1, in the pike position. | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
A high tariff dive a former. Very well executed. A classy effort. | :23:02. | :23:20. | |
Yan Yee, 21 years old, this is one of her hardest dives, by way of | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
degree of difficulty, at 3.1. She goes into the lead. Not quite 70, | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
were close to it. be going with the same dive. Hannah | :23:30. | :23:49. | |
Starling is just preparing herself for her forward 3.5 somersaults, | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
currently in fifth place. 70 but take into the lead. Very good. Not | :23:55. | :24:03. | |
sure if that will be good enough to get over 70 points. It is 3.1. She | :24:04. | :24:12. | |
goes up and away. A bit low and she ends up short, but ducks head and | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
ends up going over, say she might be penalised. 6.5, 6.5 and 6.5. The | :24:20. | :24:29. | |
marks with lines through them do not count. Third place now. Now the big | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
three from this morning. Esther Qin, the first, same dive once again. We | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
will see something different from Maddison Keeney after this. What a | :24:46. | :24:55. | |
beauty! An absolute beauty. Esther Qin, slightly further down after her | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
first-round dive, that we would expect. This will rocket her | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
straight up the leaderboard. 3.1. We have seen it before. If it gets over | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
70 points, she will leapfrog a few of her fellow competitors, and she | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
does. She has done just that. 69.75, and at the moment, it is | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
Malaysia in first place, Australia in second place, with Yan Yee in the | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
first place. Maddison Keeney of Australia. | :25:32. | :25:45. | |
She does so well. Her step was a bit of. She was leaning too far | :25:46. | :25:54. | |
forward, right on the corner of the board, but Lagat the heights she | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
gets. You must be able to see that, at home, it is incredible, | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
especially that she is on the corner of the board. It is not easy to do | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
anything from that, let alone a reverse 2.5 in the height position, | :26:10. | :26:21. | |
and she manages to get 7.5s on it! 67.5. At the moment she is in third | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
place, but that might change. It is likely to change with Jennifer Abel | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
up next, the 1m champion. She always keeps her game face on for the | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
evening, looking very good this morning. Back to .5 somersault! | :26:37. | :26:49. | |
Very nice indeed from Jennifer Abel. Will it be gold again tonight? So | :26:50. | :26:57. | |
far it looks as though she is very much in line for another gold medal. | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
Just allowing the dive to tip over slightly from vertical. She kept the | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
splashdown nicely. Not slightly from vertical. She kept the | :27:08. | :27:19. | |
lead, but close to it. It is very tight at the top. The leaderboard | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
looks like this. Cheong Jun Hoong of Malaysia is | :27:23. | :27:47. | |
currently ranked 11th, and She looks like she is a bit tired, | :27:48. | :28:21. | |
not quite got her competition head on. She is much better than this. | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
She only just qualified for this final. We lost to Mac ladies this | :28:28. | :28:35. | |
morning in the preliminaries. I would expect more from her. She is a | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
better driver than this. When she gets it right, she can really get it | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
right. We have seen her have some outstanding dives in earlier days. | :28:46. | :28:54. | |
That was not too bad. Rebecca Gallantree is joint ninth after the | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
second round. This one will be a forward 3.5 somersaults with pike | :28:59. | :29:07. | |
for the dive from Leeds. Terrific dive from Rebecca. Gold medal in the | :29:08. | :29:20. | |
3m Synchro. A good forward 3.5 in the pike position, punching a hole | :29:21. | :29:23. | |
in the water by grabbing hands as she goes in. You can see the spray | :29:24. | :29:25. | |
on the surface of the she goes in. You can see the spray | :29:26. | :29:28. | |
is worth mentioning, which is to disturb the surface of | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
is worth mentioning, which is to that they divert knows exactly where | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
the services. If there is no spray, all the dive can see is the bottom | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
of the pool. A little bit of spray gives you an exact idea of where the | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
surface is so that when you grab your hands before going in, you know | :29:45. | :29:46. | |
where it is. tariffs. That was a beautiful dive. | :29:47. | :30:04. | |
Forward two and a half with one twist. 3.0. | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
Forward two and a half with one the rotation into the one half with | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
one twist, then making it two and a half somersaults. The best dive of | :30:14. | :30:21. | |
her programme so far. 62, 63. Any ad Barnes? We are staying on 63. -- | :30:22. | :30:30. | |
advance. Nice and solid. 78 points already for her. It would be far too | :30:31. | :30:37. | |
much to expect with the degree of difficulty that she has got. A | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
middle of the pack finish, if she can achieve it. Pamela Ware. Oh, | :30:42. | :31:00. | |
faltering, she came out all guns blazing to put herself towards the | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
front of the field but this will show acts based see her dropping | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
down. Not getting enough rotation and ending up short of vertical as | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
she goes in. The judges do not see the slow motion replays, they input | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
their scores immediately as soon as the diver has hit the water. They | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
are required to put the scores in and they do not look at each | :31:24. | :31:29. | |
other's scores. They have dividers. They are separated from each other. | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
They are not allowed to peek over and copy other people 's homework. | :31:35. | :31:42. | |
Anabelle Smith with a back two and a half somersaults to perform. That is | :31:43. | :31:49. | |
better from Smith, right down at the bottom of the leaderboard after her | :31:50. | :31:52. | |
second round dive but she will now pick herself up with that one. | :31:53. | :31:58. | |
Backwards two and a half in the pike position. You can see the strain | :31:59. | :32:03. | |
going through the body, pulling the top half of the body onto the bottom | :32:04. | :32:09. | |
half to show the pike shape. Then exiting the dive to land on her head | :32:10. | :32:15. | |
pretty much vertically. Like she was doing this morning but not quite | :32:16. | :32:19. | |
where she needs to be, not quite on form. She is a bit away from her | :32:20. | :32:30. | |
favourite place. We are down in the slightly lower tariff dives. Sabri, | :32:31. | :32:39. | |
this is in the tuck position and not the pike. So it will be 2.8. That is | :32:40. | :32:49. | |
OK from Sabri, as I mentioned, her first two dives, high degree of | :32:50. | :32:52. | |
difficulty because they are in the pike position. She struggles with | :32:53. | :32:58. | |
this particular movement, she opts for the easier degree of difficulty, | :32:59. | :33:03. | |
the 2.8 in the tuck position. Spinning in the tuck position is | :33:04. | :33:06. | |
easier than spinning in the pike position. OK on that one. She is | :33:07. | :33:13. | |
quite pleased, I am not sure. A little inclination of the head, | :33:14. | :33:17. | |
looking back at her coach. Coaches are never satisfied, there is always | :33:18. | :33:24. | |
something wrong. Alicia Blagg. A decent start. Forward three and a | :33:25. | :33:36. | |
half. She has not been on top of their game but let's see what the | :33:37. | :33:39. | |
forward three and a half will bring for her. Lovely dive. She is not | :33:40. | :33:48. | |
feeling on top of her game, but that is roundabout the top of her game on | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
this dive, even though she lands in the corner of the board, she waits | :33:54. | :33:59. | |
and waits. That was a great dive from Alicia Blagg. If she gets over | :34:00. | :34:05. | |
70 points she will go to the top of the leaderboard once again. That is | :34:06. | :34:10. | |
where she was after round one, she will not be there after round three | :34:11. | :34:15. | |
but 71.3 will put her there temporarily. She is ahead of Rebecca | :34:16. | :34:18. | |
Gallantree. Here is the current leader. And Yan Lee from Malaysia. | :34:19. | :34:34. | |
Something different to come next. She needs 59 to retain that | :34:35. | :34:45. | |
position. Faltering. Over she goes. The take-off looked OK. Generating | :34:46. | :34:51. | |
enough spin, squeezing into the pike shape. She just reaches back a | :34:52. | :34:56. | |
little bit too aggressively, tipping over, so this will be maybe five, | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
five .5, from the judges, so that will see her less than 50 points. | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
Just one dive like that can scupper your chances of a medal. She is in | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
second place right now but there are still four more still to come and | :35:13. | :35:15. | |
she may find herself dropping down the order. Hannah Starling. Smiling | :35:16. | :35:23. | |
at the crowd, getting herself ready and looks at what she needs to do. | :35:24. | :35:31. | |
As a chat with herself. That was really nice, a marvellous dive. A | :35:32. | :35:35. | |
little bit of a skip on the take-off, moving herself towards the | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
middle of the pool, but she had one of her feet over the end of the | :35:40. | :35:43. | |
diving board which causes bad. She squares it up nicely. Getting | :35:44. | :35:49. | |
sevens. A nice third round dive. The 19-year-old from England. They are | :35:50. | :35:56. | |
in a position just behind the medals. We can see them faltering, | :35:57. | :36:03. | |
so she will not be in the top three at the end of the round. Not far | :36:04. | :36:13. | |
away. Esther Qin. The 20-year-old. She has had her fair share of injury | :36:14. | :36:18. | |
problems along the way. She suffered a whole year of ankle problems not | :36:19. | :36:25. | |
long ago. In 2009. We saw her at the University games last year. | :36:26. | :36:27. | |
Backwards two and a half somersaults. That is the dive of her | :36:28. | :36:34. | |
programme so far, we are looking for a vertical entry with no splash and | :36:35. | :36:38. | |
that is exactly what we got from Esther Qin on this dive. We could | :36:39. | :36:44. | |
see the first dive scoring above 8.5. Straight up and down. If the | :36:45. | :36:48. | |
judges are awake and in a good mood they may go higher, that is 8.5 all | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
the way for me. It is that the judges as well. They have the same | :36:54. | :37:00. | |
view of that as we did from the commentary box. 8.5s for Esther Qin. | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
The Chinese-born Australian. She goes into the lead by 14 points from | :37:07. | :37:13. | |
Alicia Blagg. The big movers and shakers are about to take to the | :37:14. | :37:19. | |
board. Here is Madison Keeney from Australia, she will want to do | :37:20. | :37:23. | |
something about that, the 18-year-old. She has had problems | :37:24. | :37:28. | |
with this dive. Did she hit the diving board? I was watching it on | :37:29. | :37:33. | |
the screen and I was not sure whether she hit it. Let's have a | :37:34. | :37:36. | |
look at the replay. I think she does. She hits her feet on the | :37:37. | :37:42. | |
diving board, so the judges were quite clearly penalised that. That | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
is a shame because she is so high, she just needed to move the dive | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
further back. She hits her feet. If it is deemed dangerous, Judge number | :37:53. | :37:59. | |
one thought no, I am giving you 1.5, but the rest of the judges giving | :38:00. | :38:04. | |
4.5s. Madison Keeney could be out of the medals and that would be a | :38:05. | :38:09. | |
shame. She does not always put it together at the right time. Forward | :38:10. | :38:19. | |
two and a half, one twist. Unfazed by the diver before hitting her feet | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
on the diving board, Jennifer is in the zone, focusing on what she can | :38:24. | :38:28. | |
do and what she needs to do. One dive at a time, that is how you win | :38:29. | :38:33. | |
the Commonwealth Games. Looking to be the eventual champion. Midway | :38:34. | :38:38. | |
through, just over, on the three metres. And now she is in the top | :38:39. | :38:46. | |
two with the Australian Esther Qin. That is | :38:47. | :38:49. | |
two with the Australian Esther Qin. Blagg has moved into | :38:50. | :38:56. | |
has found some form in round three. She and | :38:57. | :39:01. | |
has found some form in round three. in round three to | :39:02. | :39:08. | |
has found some form in round three. there. It looks like a long haul | :39:09. | :39:14. | |
back. For Madison Keeney and Smith if they are going to challenge the | :39:15. | :39:18. | |
medals. It is still mathematically possible because 1-11 are separated | :39:19. | :39:25. | |
35 points. It is quite a lot, but it is not a massive difference. Reverse | :39:26. | :39:32. | |
two and a half. This was a beauty in the preview, she got nines. I | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
thought she should have got nines, but they gave her a .5s. One judge | :39:37. | :39:43. | |
gave her nine. She has done a lot of competing over these | :39:44. | :39:44. | |
gave her nine. She has done a lot of competing over past days, this is | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
day four, she has been on pretty much every day, starting to show in | :39:49. | :39:53. | |
her facial expression, that she is kind of toughing it out. Do you | :39:54. | :40:00. | |
worry about having a cameraman in your face? Every diver when they | :40:01. | :40:04. | |
come out, has a cameraman in their face. I did not even notice it | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
because I was focused on what I was doing. Rebecca Gallantree. Inward | :40:10. | :40:15. | |
two and a half somersaults with tuck. This is down in the 2.7 | :40:16. | :40:20. | |
range. This has to be very good if she is to retain her sixth position. | :40:21. | :40:29. | |
All move further up. She is originally from Essex. She opted for | :40:30. | :40:35. | |
the easier inward. In the tuck position you get an easier degree of | :40:36. | :40:39. | |
difficulty, this worked for her in the preliminaries. The take-off is | :40:40. | :40:44. | |
good and the exit is OK but she lets it over rotate. She needed to exit | :40:45. | :40:50. | |
the dive sooner so to ensure a vertical entry. We are watching the | :40:51. | :40:57. | |
replay. Getting feedback from her coach, Amy Hinchcliffe. A good start | :40:58. | :41:00. | |
but she needed to line up around the sides. 50 for there. Her grandad did | :41:01. | :41:15. | |
exhibition diving. Her parents were not involved at all. Reverse two and | :41:16. | :41:21. | |
a half somersaults with tuck. That is lovely. Well done, Grace. I am | :41:22. | :41:28. | |
laughing because she has just raised her game so consistently, she knows | :41:29. | :41:35. | |
laughing because she has just raised that she is lacking in degree of | :41:36. | :41:40. | |
difficulty but she is matching many athletes dive for dive. Maybe she | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
will be close to 60 points with that. A couple of 7.5s discarded, | :41:45. | :41:55. | |
and a couple of sevens. A low tariff dive. A big dive in terms of | :41:56. | :42:04. | |
execution. And Pamela Ware, eighth place at the moment for the | :42:05. | :42:09. | |
Canadian. She may be able to bridge the gap here. Reverse two and a | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
half. That is certainly going to help. That was a fabulous dive, off | :42:14. | :42:19. | |
the back of a very average inward two and a half in the pike position. | :42:20. | :42:23. | |
This is the reverse two and a half, reaching back just to allow the dive | :42:24. | :42:30. | |
to tip over. It is very warm in this pool. I will start making up words | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
in a minute. You normally do that anyway! Grace Reid and Pamela Ware | :42:37. | :42:48. | |
are now close together, the Canadians. Forward three and a half | :42:49. | :43:00. | |
somersaults with pike. 3.1. Certainly is, she needed a really | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
good take-off, and in order to get the best take-off you need to land | :43:06. | :43:08. | |
right on the edge and she was a bit back from the end social has do | :43:09. | :43:18. | |
squeeze into the pike position and tuck her head down towards the | :43:19. | :43:23. | |
water. She does a reasonable job. She parks herself next to Reed, so | :43:24. | :43:35. | |
she is a long way shy. Nur Dhabitah Sabri looked good this morning. She | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
was leading at one stage but now she is at the other end of the pack this | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
time. Here comes her 2.8 degrees of difficulty dive. Reverse two and a | :43:46. | :43:54. | |
half somersaults. She has nailed it. Yes! Much better, reverse two | :43:55. | :44:00. | |
and a half in the tuck position. Only 2.8, it is 3.0 in the pike | :44:01. | :44:04. | |
position. The 15-year-old from Malaysia. Doing this dive to the | :44:05. | :44:11. | |
best of their ability. I have been watching this in training, it is | :44:12. | :44:15. | |
potentially a bogey dive for her, but that was very good. The top | :44:16. | :44:20. | |
three currently are separated by two points. Pamela Ware. Nur Dhabitah | :44:21. | :44:31. | |
Sabri, and Grace Reid. Alicia Blagg has got herself back into third | :44:32. | :44:35. | |
place. She has not been feeling well at all. It would be brilliant to see | :44:36. | :44:49. | |
her do a brilliant dive now in round for. Almost brilliant. Beautiful | :44:50. | :44:57. | |
take-off. This is from the diving board, squeezing into the pike | :44:58. | :45:03. | |
shape. Slight bend in her knees there. She reaches back a bit, | :45:04. | :45:08. | |
causing the dive to go over. She did all the hard work and faulted on the | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
entry. Good enough to put her in the lead now. She will be happy with | :45:14. | :45:15. | |
this competition. The European Championships are | :45:16. | :45:24. | |
coming soon, in a couple of weeks. Yan Yee of Malaysia. This reverse | :45:25. | :45:40. | |
2.5 is good. She could put some pressure on the likes of Jennifer | :45:41. | :45:43. | |
Abel and Esther Qin. Only one more round after this. | :45:44. | :45:49. | |
That is good from Yan Yee, reverse 2.5 in the pike position. She | :45:50. | :45:59. | |
faulted previously on this the third round dive. She could get sevens on | :46:00. | :46:01. | |
this. She is putting pressure on the other | :46:02. | :46:15. | |
athletes. Alicia Blagg is still in the first position, though, so as | :46:16. | :46:21. | |
things stand, with four left to come in this ground, Alicia Blagg cannot | :46:22. | :46:26. | |
finish any worse than fifth. Hannah Starling for England, | :46:27. | :46:39. | |
19-year-old from Leeds. She switched to diving just before her ninth | :46:40. | :46:43. | |
birthday. I'm sure she's very glad she did. | :46:44. | :46:48. | |
Very nice. She sneaks the dive in beautifully, a bit low in the water. | :46:49. | :46:56. | |
Her take-off is good, but she's not finishing the dive high enough to | :46:57. | :47:01. | |
get the drop. She does a nice job of fitting that in. Where will that put | :47:02. | :47:04. | |
her? She goes to first place, only by a | :47:05. | :47:18. | |
margin. One point between her and Alicia Blagg in second place. A | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
smile on her face. Here is our current leader, marginally in front | :47:25. | :47:33. | |
of Jennifer Abel, seeking to put a bit of distance between her and the | :47:34. | :47:39. | |
Canadian with her reverse 2.5. She was in the lead before, and now she | :47:40. | :47:44. | |
will be difficult to beat. The Australians are cheering, and so | :47:45. | :47:48. | |
they shared. Beautiful dive from Esther Qin, reverse 2.5 in the pike | :47:49. | :47:58. | |
position. Maybe a nine. If it is, she will be at 75, and she will be | :47:59. | :48:04. | |
difficult to catch. One dive to go for Esther Qin. 76.5 for Esther Qin. | :48:05. | :48:12. | |
That is a big margin for Esther Qin. 76.5 for Esther Qin. | :48:13. | :48:15. | |
That that she has opened upon the rest. | :48:16. | :48:19. | |
Maddison Keeney, I think her last dive has done further chances of a | :48:20. | :48:31. | |
medal. Forward 3.5, 3.1. You have got to give credit to this young | :48:32. | :48:35. | |
lady, she is only 18 and she is a super talent. She has got so much | :48:36. | :48:41. | |
potential. She lands just on the edge of the diving board, but look | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
how high are both she does. That will squeeze the gap. It is down to | :48:47. | :48:59. | |
the exciting last round. Esther Qin goes to 284. Maddison Keeney goes to | :49:00. | :49:10. | |
239. At the moment, Hannah Starling is in a medal position. Jennifer | :49:11. | :49:14. | |
Abel knows that she has to be at the top of her game now to catch Esther | :49:15. | :49:21. | |
Qin with her forward 3.5. She does need to be top of the game, and that | :49:22. | :49:25. | |
is not the top of the game. She will go into the silver medal position | :49:26. | :49:29. | |
with one round to go. This is 3.1. She would have needed eights to | :49:30. | :49:38. | |
catch Esther Qin. That is less than eights. She enters the water still | :49:39. | :49:42. | |
in a slight hike position, throwing up a bit of a splash. She will have | :49:43. | :49:49. | |
11 points to make up in the final round if she wants to get the gold | :49:50. | :49:56. | |
medal. She was silver-medallist four years ago, and that is where she is | :49:57. | :50:02. | |
heading now. Hannah Starling and Alicia Blagg battling it out for the | :50:03. | :50:05. | |
bronze medal at the Alicia Blagg battling it out for the | :50:06. | :50:09. | |
Yee in fifth Alicia Blagg is down, 2.7, on | :50:10. | :50:28. | |
difficulty. Hannah Starling has a 3.0. | :50:29. | :50:36. | |
Cheong Jun Hoong of Malaysia. Very much off a game this evening. What a | :50:37. | :50:45. | |
shame, because when she is diving well, she is a delight to watch. She | :50:46. | :50:50. | |
is finishing up here with a very average dive to go with an average | :50:51. | :50:56. | |
list of dives. What a shame, because she is a beautiful dive, and we have | :50:57. | :50:58. | |
not seen the best of her this evening. 5.5. Some people are making | :50:59. | :51:07. | |
a night of it. They have got the beer in and they are watching does | :51:08. | :51:14. | |
Rebecca Gallantree might finish full -- they are watching us. | :51:15. | :51:30. | |
Rebecca Gallantree might finish where she started in terms of the | :51:31. | :51:34. | |
Rebecca Gallantree might finish diving order, in 11th place, where | :51:35. | :51:35. | |
she is right now. Back to diving order, in 11th place, where | :51:36. | :51:37. | |
somersaults with pike A bit of a | :51:38. | :52:00. | |
the water. She would have felt the water hit her on her shins and | :52:01. | :52:03. | |
ankles as she went in, so she knows she will not be coming up to eight. | :52:04. | :52:11. | |
Sevens are coming our way. That is precisely what she gets. 63 for | :52:12. | :52:19. | |
Rebecca Gallantree. Grace Reid, last dive, the biggest cheer of the night | :52:20. | :52:23. | |
to her. She has performed impeccably all the way through. A low tariff | :52:24. | :52:28. | |
dive to finish with, but it is the quality of the diving which has been | :52:29. | :52:30. | |
so impressive from her. She has done so well. Her coach will | :52:31. | :53:00. | |
be thrilled, so will the crowd, so we'll her parents, who are both here | :53:01. | :53:09. | |
to watch. A great dive, and a wonderful Commonwealth Games, her | :53:10. | :53:14. | |
second, would you believe. She is not too far shy of 300. The | :53:15. | :53:20. | |
scoreboard currently shows her in first place. She will not finish | :53:21. | :53:25. | |
their, but for the time being, she is the head of the table. Pamela | :53:26. | :53:31. | |
Ware is in sixth place. Forward 2.5 somersaults. She finishes off with a | :53:32. | :53:42. | |
marvellous dive on a 3.0, the forward 2.5 with twist. We will see | :53:43. | :53:43. | |
this a lot. 67.50. She is the first of the | :53:44. | :54:05. | |
divers to go over 300, at 308. It will not be enough for a medal | :54:06. | :54:14. | |
today. Rather disappointing, Anabelle Smith, today. She has not | :54:15. | :54:19. | |
worked out in the preliminaries. A solid finish from Anabelle Smith. | :54:20. | :54:33. | |
She was in 10th place after the fourth round and she will be around | :54:34. | :54:36. | |
about that place now. That was a good dive, but lots of the girls are | :54:37. | :54:42. | |
finishing on their best dives, which makes sense. This is good from | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
Anabelle Smith. Probably identical scores coming her way, as we saw for | :54:48. | :54:52. | |
the Canadian Pamela Ware just before her. 67.50, say she does not quite | :54:53. | :54:57. | |
go over the Rubicon of the 300. Next up is Nur Dhabitah Sabri. We | :54:58. | :55:10. | |
have had a mixed bag from her today, very impressive part in the | :55:11. | :55:13. | |
morning, but not quite so this evening. Again, it is the forward | :55:14. | :55:24. | |
2.5 somersaults. 3.0 on the difficulty. | :55:25. | :55:29. | |
Faltering on her last dive, which is unfortunate, because she's doing a | :55:30. | :55:35. | |
sterling job for 15 years old. Lots to learn, great Commonwealth Games, | :55:36. | :55:42. | |
not so takeaway, but no medals. She will drop down the leaderboard, | :55:43. | :55:47. | |
probably behind Rebecca Gallantree and Grace Reid. At one stage she was | :55:48. | :55:56. | |
ahead of both of them. She has got 45 on that, not a great return. | :55:57. | :56:07. | |
There are six more to go. Alicia Blagg is still in fourth place, and | :56:08. | :56:11. | |
still in a position to challenge, but it is a low tariff dive on at | :56:12. | :56:13. | |
2.7. It is a dive that she feels | :56:14. | :56:25. | |
comfortable with, and in which 2.5 somersaults with Tucker. She has | :56:26. | :56:35. | |
given it her best shot. She has not been feeling very well. She got hit | :56:36. | :56:46. | |
by the water, throwing up bash, and she will not get above sevens on | :56:47. | :56:54. | |
this. She will not get a medal. I hope she feels better soon. She just | :56:55. | :56:58. | |
wants to get away from here and go straight to bed and recover, but | :56:59. | :57:03. | |
good luck to her. I know she is at the European Championships shortly, | :57:04. | :57:06. | |
so a couple of weeks to recover and get herself back to form. Yan Yee of | :57:07. | :57:15. | |
Malaysia, in fifth place, so still has a target of a top three finish. | :57:16. | :57:17. | |
One more time, the 3.0 forward 2.5. It is good. You can hear the | :57:18. | :57:31. | |
Malaysian contingent shouting and cheering. They like it. And she has | :57:32. | :57:36. | |
done a very good job that Omotoso right over the end of the diving | :57:37. | :57:42. | |
board. That will put her at the top of the leaderboard with that, but we | :57:43. | :57:45. | |
still have four divers to come. It will be right down to the wire. This | :57:46. | :57:50. | |
is good stuff, diving at its very best. We have no idea where the | :57:51. | :57:55. | |
medals are going yet, but she might have got one medal with that. | :57:56. | :58:05. | |
Hannah Starling is in third place. She has a high tariff dive. It is a | :58:06. | :58:17. | |
forward 2.5 somersaults, with one twist. | :58:18. | :58:27. | |
It is a tremendous dive from Hannah Starling! Will that be enough? She | :58:28. | :58:33. | |
has thrown down the gauntlet to the rest of | :58:34. | :58:33. | |
has thrown down the gauntlet to the them. Let's wait and see what | :58:34. | :58:39. | |
happens. I am really impressed. A beautiful dive, that is her dive off | :58:40. | :58:44. | |
the competition, and it will get over 65 points, and it might be | :58:45. | :58:50. | |
enough for a medal. I will put my rather damaged reputation online and | :58:51. | :58:52. | |
say it will be good enough for a medal. I am sure with that. It will | :58:53. | :59:00. | |
put pressure on everybody else. Esther Qin, the leader, Jennifer | :59:01. | :59:05. | |
Abel to come, and Maddison Keeney, still mathematically able to | :59:06. | :59:10. | |
overcome that. But at the moment, Hannah Starling is in the top | :59:11. | :59:16. | |
position. Interesting. 32 points is all Esther Qin needs to overtake | :59:17. | :59:22. | |
Hannah on her forward 2.5. We could be looking at the Commonwealth Games | :59:23. | :59:25. | |
champion right there. She had a bit of a lead, | :59:26. | :59:27. | |
champion right there. She had a bit of and Jennifer Abel is probably the | :59:28. | :59:30. | |
only one that can catch. Esther Qin has been rocking it this evening, | :59:31. | :59:34. | |
and that is a good dive to finish, but not out of Jennifer Abel's | :59:35. | :59:38. | |
reach. It is not as good as Hannah Starling's. It will get to the | :59:39. | :59:48. | |
mid-60s. Yes, 347.25 is the score to beat. Only Jennifer Abel can do | :59:49. | :59:55. | |
that. She will have to be spot-on on her last dive, which is a different | :59:56. | :00:01. | |
one from everyone else's that you have seen recently. Maddison Keeney | :00:02. | :00:06. | |
cannot catch Esther Qin, but she can catch Hannah Starling with a 77.7. | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
It is a good dive from the Australian. I do not think that will | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
be good enough for her to stand on the podium. She hit her seat on the | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
diving board in dramatic fashion, which means that Hannah Starling | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
will win at least the bronze, at least the bronze. That is good | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
diving from the Australian. She's a super talent, but I am absolutely | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
thrilled for Hannah Starling, who I can now confirm will stand on the | :00:38. | :00:47. | |
podium. Esther Qin has a medal, Hannah Starling has a medal, what | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
colour, we will discover in the next minute. | :00:52. | :01:04. | |
It will not be gold for Canada, it will be gold for Australia. I think | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
that will be good enough for Australia. She only needs 5.5 to | :01:11. | :01:20. | |
ensure the silver. I think it is good enough, a drop dive from the | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
one metre champion, silver-medallist four years ago. Gold for Australia, | :01:26. | :01:34. | |
Esther Qin, and another medal 14 England. There are the Australians | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
celebrating. Esther Qin taking the gold. Jennifer Abel with the silver | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
but Hannah Starling, who looked very good this morning, has improved his | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
standard. Good enough for third place. | :01:57. | :02:11. | |
step forward for the youngster from Leeds. | :02:12. | :02:27. | |
I am not sure what is wetter, the swimming pool or ask! That | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
I am not sure what is wetter, the the start of the drama because Dan | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
has got plenty more haven't | :02:36. | :02:36. |