BBC Two: Day 7: 18:00 - 19:00 Commonwealth Games

Hello again. It has been a bit like Scottish Family Fortunes because

earlier we had Lizzy Sharp, the daughter of Cameron Sharp, in action

in the 800m. A Liz McColgan will attempt to do what her mother did

all those years ago, and we also have James Heatley, the 17-year-old

grandson of Sir Peter Heatley, a three-time gold medallist in diving

for Scotland, taking part and hoping to make a splash in the Commonwealth

pool this evening. We will see him shortly. Let me remind you what is

coming on all around the venues, not just here in Glasgow but across in

Edinburgh. In table tennis, we have the mixed doubles and women's

singles going on. First round stages at Scotstoun. It has been 100 mph

stuff all day. We have an all Celtic final match going on between

Scotland and Northern Ireland, in their last pool game and the -- in

the netball. And wrestling, badminton, squash and bowls online

on our website. You can also hear all the chat from all the events.

But it is time now to head across to Edinburgh and the Royal Commonwealth

pool. History is made there today because this is the first time that

any venue anywhere in the Commonwealth has staged events in

three separate games. It was in use in Edinburgh's gains in 1970 and

1976. It has had a face-lift since then and is known as the commie

Games. We have had the women's synchronised swimming event today

and now the men's one metre springboard. It is not an Olympic

event. Across there in Edinburgh we have Leon Taylor and Helen Skelton

waiting to do is grab it for us. We do not see it very often. How

interesting and dramatic can it be? We don't see it very often but I'm

certain that this crowd is ecstatic because Hazel mentioned James

Heatley. He has a huge Commonwealth. His grandfather has been at 17

consecutive Commonwealth Games. He is 90. We were talking to him

earlier. He is so happy that this is happening here. You have worked

alongside him as well. I have. In 1998 he was the manager for the

World Championship team that I was apart. So good to see him and he is

so proud of his grandson who has made it through to this final this

evening. We will see him in action shortly but we already have a silver

medal in the driving force Team England. I do not know whether to

celebrate or commiserate because we thought they begin to get gold. I

listened to the commentary back and I had given them the gold. Two and

eight half somersaults, one and a half twists, and I thought it was

good enough, but when I watched the replay, I thought, oh, I'm not sure.

This final dive from the Team England girls was very solid but the

execution of a little bit off. They did a fantastic job. It must be

frustratingly because they won a silver medal at the Common of games.

Everybody said, oh, you have just missed out on gold. It is not

negative because the people who beat them of the best in the class. And

nowhere to hide today. Apart from the Chinese, the ones competing here

are the best in the world. To finish anywhere near the podium was a big

task. They should be delighted. Let's look ahead to the men's one

metre spring board. Everybody from the Home Nations made it through to

the final. Jack Law tops the leaderboard. He won the

preliminaries. Chris, his team-mate and synchronised partner, make it

through in third. And then Woodward and James Heatley intent. In this

final, everyone starts from scratch so what happened this morning is

irrelevant. It's like shuffling the pack. Six dives, 12 diapers. If the

platform is nerve-wracking, this is entertaining. -- divers. Everything

is impressive. It is the nature of the event. You are one metre from

the Springboard. It is incredible what they need to do. I will let you

get to your commentary box because we are about to go into the men's

one metre springboard final. Three into spiders in there, one Scottish

diver -- three English divers in there.

COMMENTATOR: A man who starts with big dive. 3.4 straight off.

An inward two and a half somersaults with pike. Just about got here in

time. That was Kody. His first dive for the final. A big dive to start

with. 3.4 degrees of difficulty. A better job than he did this morning

in the preliminaries. That was really tough. Doing his best to

complete the dive a bit better. A better effort than this morning. He

might get sixes, 6.5. Yes, 6.4. Better than this morning. He has

gone up about ten marks from this morning. The man we are seeing

standing on the one metre Springboard is a man we did not know

was going to make it through at all. He dropped a dive.

Inward two and a half somersaults. The first of three Canadians we will

see. Very fortunate to make it through. He had something to prove.

He failed his second dive. He has started his campaign here very

strongly indeed. This is a 3.1 degrees of difficulty. That should

put him up there in the mid-60s. For the time being, a nice solid start

for round one. 65.1 for the Canadian.

Well, his grandad represented Scotland and Great Britain at the

Commonwealth Games and the Olympics in 1948. Three called medals at the

Commonwealth Games. On the ten metre board, here is John James, 17.

-- here is young James. He has taken on the final. His degree of

difficulty is a little bit lower than some of the other athletes in

the field. 6.2 degrees of difficulty. A relatively simple

dive. I think that will get him 7.5s. His coach will be happy with

that. James Heatley used every inch of that board to good effect. He did

what he had to do. Not a great start this morning from this Canadian.

It looks like he has woken up. Maybe he had a nap this afternoon.

Beautiful timing on the diving board. Great entry into the water.

He might squeeze a couple of eights from the judges. Nice and solid. A

big cheer. For this young man, for those who did not know much about

him this morning, they have pretty much adopted him. He was born in

Leeds. I said it this morning but diving is

difficult the taller you are. That should get some eights. Good

work. I think he's happy. Big smile.

He has got his control with him this evening. This morning he was all

over the place on some of his dives. Lots of power as demonstrated here.

He comes out incredibly early that the stop the dive from

over-rotating. That could see him with one of the highest scoring two

and a half pikes. A contender. I said he was the first Malaysian, but

he's the only immolation. The immolation -- he is the only

Malaysian. Very neat and tidy. I was watching

his dive in training. He's only 17 so he still has his whole career

ahead of him. With that degree of difficulty, it

will put him further up the leaderboard and he used to being.

Great. I was not sure which way that was going to go. At the ills. It is

tricky, three and a half somersaults. Great balance on the

end of the diving board. Superb elevation and he nails that entry.

Hardly any splash. A big score. That should put him close to the league,

if not in the lead. Yes, he has nailed it and taken first place. We

have seen people raised their game this evening.

Well done, Freddie. He was very consistent this morning. Debut at

the Commonwealth Games. He is mixing with the big boys.

He's the third English diver. He is in this final and will be looking to

equal his performance this morning, which was really consistent, close

to his personal best if not a personal best this morning.

He puts pressure on Mitchum and Jack Law still to come. This was

effortless. Just tipping over slightly, a little over rotation, as

he goes into the water. But I really like that style. One judge thought

it was an one foot and eight, one foot and 8.5, but they do not

count. It is the three marks that count

multiplied by the degree of difficulty.

Just some slight rotation as he went into the water. That was a very good

swing of his arms. He gets that rotation moving. You can see,

savouring that, it will be sevens... He will not be leading. He

is happy, smile and a wave. Jack Laugher was imperious this morning,

and tonight he needs to do that for real. His opening is 3.0.

This morning he got 66 on this one. Yes, he means business. Slightly

overcooked. But really attacking that take-off. He was looking

formidable this morning. He is the man to beat this evening. And he has

got five more to do to keep himself in the running. He will be in the

top three, which is where he needs to be. Looking back, thinking, that

was just a little bit over. Don't give too much away, don't give any

indication you are not happy. He used to be a very big Linkin Park

fan. In the lead after one. Riley McCormick at the bottom of the

pile. So, round number two. He comes down a peg or two, Cody

Yano. The back somersault with the top. -- tuck.

He has raised his game since this morning, that is another big one

from Cody Yano. Opening up the second round. He started backwards.

He is a very strong athlete. Just over 60 points, that will keep him

in the middle of the pack. He has already improved on this morning by

12 points. Considerably better than this morning.

He failed this morning. Francois Imbeau-Dulac. Three and a half

somersault with tuck. He tried this this morning. He had an absolutely

terrible hurdle step, that approach, when he jumps from one foot. I was

holding my breath for him. What an absolute shame because he is landing

on the back of the diving board. He only just completes that. His toes

almost touching the water and if they did before he completed the

dive, that would have been a failure. Luckily, he has managed to

salvage that. Considerably better. But not a lot.

His aspirations of the middle, that may well have done for him. Now,

James Heatley. One and a half somersaults, one and a half twists.

Yes, he has raised his game. That was a little bit low. One and a half

somersaults. Here go, wrapping up into the twist. Just a fraction over

in the rotation. He will be pleased with that. He is holding his own.

His father was concerned that he might not get through with that

earlier start. He is holding his own. He starts with a very low

tariff. This is the big boys. Roger merger, Riley McCormick, the back to

one half somersaults. With the tuck. Letting them get away from him,

earlier he was not awake but he is now firing on all cylinders. The

mistake that he makes on this one is he remains in that tuck shaped just

a fraction too long. His feet going into the water, the splash moving

away from the diving board, he will only get 5.5 on that one, I would

think. Which would be costly. He did want to be on the leaderboard. Yes,

one by one, we are kicking off with the divers that can push for those

medal positions. This man has got better and better

as the competition has gone on during the luminaries. Notaro. He

must be spot on. Yona Knight-Wisdom. -- preliminaries. What a powerhouse.

And he needs that the currency is incredibly tall. But look at how

much elevation he gets on that. Up towards the ceiling. Beautiful

elevation, great entry into the water. Bright yellow, we will not

miss them. Good, solid stuff. There are some

big performances left to come. Ooi Tze Liang from Malaysia. He was over

rotating. I thought that was going to happen injury mid-takeoff.

Spinning very quickly. There we go. Over he does. The tidal wave coming

back towards the diving board. The first surf's up moment of this

competition. This will not do his chances any good whatsoever. Already

one third of the competition is done. We will be losing people. I

have been impressed with this young man, Liam Stone. The youngest of his

competitors as well. -- of these. Another good dive from him.

Excellent work. He will not be moving up the leaderboard. He is

looking for six consistent dives. Only 17 years old. Grabbing his

hands as he enters the water. Hardly any splash. Good work! The ones with

the Lions through them do not add up for the double. -- lines. Australia,

the early leader. Grant Nel. What can he do to back this up?

The other Australian, Matthew Mitcham, is still left to come. That

is a great second round five from the current leader. This is his most

challenging. From a technical point of view. This is the one that he

struggles within training. He will get sevens on this one, I think you

will. I think we can see him putting pressure on for the medals. Top of

the leaderboard. Still for divers left to go. He got 51 on that this

morning. 63 tonight. Sevens across the board. He is in contention.

Freddie Woodward. What a shame from Freddie Woodward. He perhaps showed

an experience. He made that stomping side, this is a very tough dive. He

has really gone for it. Almost in that forward roll into the water.

Which is a shame, he will not get more than five for that. He will be

slipping down the leaderboard. That was almost so good. Once but second

away from being very good. Just that last inclination. When he entered

the water. Chris Mears. There could be a couple of English men standing

on the podium later and he could be one of them. 3.0 on the difficulty.

Fantastic! Second round. Backing up his first round. This was the

reverse, before jumping up and away and spinning backwards. Two and a

half times. It is amazing what they can fit in with such a short space

of time. Chris Mears, on the money. And pressure on the others. Pressure

on his team-mate, Jack Laugher. We did mention Grant Nel. Can Matthew

Mitcham achieve something similar? He is adrift. Going for the reverse

two and have that we have seen. But in that pike position. 3.2

difficulty. Not as good as Chris Mears but that degree of difficulty

might make it similar. Over rotating. Just a little bit, as he

goes into the water, it will only be sevens. But the degree of difficulty

will match him with Chris Mears. He is happy with that. He always lets

you know exactly how he is feeling. Matthew Mitcham, moves up into third

place. He is the man they must catch. Certainly on the evidence of

this morning, Jack Laugher. Two and a half twists. 3.0 410 macro. Not as

good as this morning. Again, that was a technical masterclass, up and

away. One and a half somersaults. Just attacking too much. He is

drifting over. He will get more seven and a halfs. He just needs to

calm down. Stop trying to hard to win it. -- too hard. He will have a

word with his coach. And England one, two, after Roger merger. There

are still four of them left to go. Chris Mears has a lead over Jack

Laugher and Grant Nel. And Matthew Mitcham is very close. Cody Yano.

And Liam Stone. Yona Knight-Wisdom in seventh place. McCormick moving

off the bottom place. The halfway stage. And Cody Yano, going for a

very low tariff. This is a game of tactics. Train to

get himself very high up the leaderboard before he speaks in with

this low difficulty. In the pike position. This is a very good job,

opening up wobbly the right time. His chin is causing that marginal

over rotation. So with that low degree of difficulty, that is not

going to help his cause amazingly. He's got some work to do. A very

challenging dive, two and a half somersaults in the back position.

Having to arch his back quite a lot to get rotation, and he's hanging on

to his kneecaps there, running out of room. The marks will reflect

that. 5.5 and two sixes will for him.

Another good job. Very impressed with this dive this morning and it

is one of his more difficult ones. A little bit low to the water so not

showing the judges how easy it is. Improved on his dive this morning by

three points. James Heatly is 55.50. That is much better. Good hurdle

step, toes right on the end, using the board effectively. Knows exactly

where he is. Could squeeze some eights out of the judges there. How

generous are the judges feeling? Moving down from the 10m board to

the three meter board. Superb. Good work. Very impressed

with this 19-year-old. Works very hard.

A little bit split in his tuck there. But big smiles. He's

absolutely loving this. The great thing is they are absolutely loving

him as well. That is really good. As I mentioned

on the previous dive, when he gets it right he is a force to be

reckoned with. This one is bang on the money. And eight in my opinion.

Maybe a little loose as he kicks out. That is good from the

immolation. Only one Malaysia in the final. They don't give much away

until the input their scores on the buttons. He gets 67.5.

He has done an excellent amount of cramming fair, to use your turn of

phrase. That is a lot of dive to get in. Squeezing the hands on to the

shins, very neat, very tidy. At had over rotated on the finish. That is

my only observation there. He won't get eights but 7.5, good man. Aren't

you wearing your splash had today? You are being Mr Simon Cowell of the

diving world. -- your Splash! Hacked.

Yes, that is more than good enough for the current leader position. He

looked a little bit shaky this morning. Almost written him off

after this morning's performance but obviously saving the best until this

evening at he should be. Another good dive. That will keep him very

much in the business end of the field. First man to get into the

200s in the line-up. Big competitors still to come.

That is a good comeback. He will have been really disappointed after

his second round dive. That is very, very good. Wonderful comeback. A

slight drop in the second round. Solid third round dive there from

Freddie. The man from Sheffield holding his own. Is that enough to

claw it back? He is off the bottom, anyway. There was a smile on his

face this morning, and is not going quite so well now.

That is just letting it go slightly. Take-off was good, two and

a half twists. All very well done. The judges could go as low as a. I'm

hoping he has managed to save that little bit. What will they give him?

OK, that's not as bad as it could've been. Know, 6.5 is OK but if you are

going to push the gold you will not want to drop below seven, seven .5.

Mitchum had an opportunity there and he has pretty much done exactly the

same mistake this time on an with two and a half hours before. Just

tucking his chin and over rotating. He will not get more than 7.5 for

that. Very neat, tidy, beautiful diving. Do they take marks off for

going sideways? When they see it, yes. It is difficult to see when the

judges are side on. There you go, the dive of the

competition so far, and absolutely magnificent Rovers two and a half

somersaults in the height position. -- the pike position. This is tough

and this is a chunky dive and Jack has absolutely nailed it. There you

go. This will improve the standings. 80 points.

Nailed it this morning, nailed it tonight.

He has a 13 point lead now, Jack Laugher, over the Australian. Chris

Mears is down to fourth but it is still very tight for the medal

position. And still only halfway, remember.

The Canadian who just snuck into the final is finding life a bit tuck the

word tough game tonight, in 12th place. -- finding life a bit tough

again tonight. Over he goes. Wow. He really

attacked the take-off. You have got to really give it some on the start.

Hips over to get the rotation. Look at that. Another surfboard moment.

Double surfboard. This is what happens when you are

doing the most dive is humanly possible -- the most complex guys

humanly possible from the springboard.

I would certainly be scared on that dive, especially with fat take-off.

His toes were over the end of the diving board. Not only does he have

to do to end a half, he has to do it in the pike position. He could have

slipped off the diving board, only just makes it. A future full is that

this man today. That is not a natural position for diving. Anyway,

he didn't hurt himself, so that is good work. He looks a bit like an

ironing board cover but other than that not too bad.

Another good dive from James. Not quite as good has his previous

though he did finish this a little bit higher.

Puts his feet up a little bit too high so his toes come back towards

the diving board. Good from the Scotsman. Is very rare occasion

where all judges are in accord. Six point phrase from every single one

of them. Mark that one of your card. A classy dive from Riley. He needed

that. He has certainly improved from this morning a great deal.

Rolling over touch that that is going to get eights. -- but that is

going to get eights. A great dive! He pretty much goes in

up to his ankles. That is technically called dunking the

diving board, if you want the technical description. It does put

you off the ordination wise. Look at that, all the water coming up with

him, up to his ankles, and then off he goes. Superb dive. He has gone

into the lead, ahead of Riley McCormick. It is getting better for

the Jamaican. Not so well for Ooi Tze Liang. No worries. Any criticism

was he cranks that too much. But he has managed to just about stay on

the horse for this one. Great elevation. Spinning around so

quickly. 7.5, probably. Definitely. Yes, 7.5. Can this man keep it

going? I have been so impressed by 103 so far. -- Liam Stone so far. To

do have somersaults and one twist, not far away from putting pressure

on the top three, if you can get this right. -- two and a half. He

has done a very good job. I was shifting out of my seat. That is a

very vague dive. His toes were over the end of the diving board. He

managed one twist, just about get sad around. He is actually dunking

the board into the water. There is so much potential with this kid. He

is a real talent. Already above his wildest dreams. I don't think that

will be a medal today that he will be up there with the big boys. Now,

Grant Nel. Second place. But this is tough, it is low tariff, inward one

and a half somersaults. But if he does get this absolutely spot-on, he

will progress. Yes, that was a nice dive but I am unsure as to way he

used such a simple dive. This will only get him about 55 points. If

those before and after ago with 70 or 80, he cannot keep up. So, very

interesting tactics. Any reason why? I am much. I am much what his

reasoning is. -- I am not sure. The Sheffield diver. Freddie Woodward.

That is not a bad effort from Freddie Woodward. He may be lost his

concentration a little bit. Squeezing binds, he spots that

water, he does get that around very well. He probably saved that from

five, it will be six and seven from the judges. That reverse two and a

half only get seven 57 in total. The main movers and shakers in position.

And then we get into the penultimate round. Chris Mears, back to and have

somersaults with tuck. Yes, that will have him sailing into the top

spot on the leaderboard. And Jack is still to come. That is very good. He

gets all of the spring that he needs. And he speaks into the water,

just washing over. He will get over 60 points. And that is enough. But

ages him in front of Yona Knight-Wisdom. Chris Mears goes into

the lead. But there are two very big medal chasers left to come. Matthew

Mitcham. He has done badly so far. He comes out to show you how it is

done! Very quickly coming out to the cheering of his team-mates and the

crowd. In the tuck position, finishing low to the water. That

will be a very solid 7.5. 3.0 ethically. That will keep them top

of the leaderboard until beating this band takes to the board. Jack

Laugher is up next. -- until the English man takes to the board. This

is huge. In terms of the tariff and the ambition to win the gold medal.

Inward to and have somersaults. Yes, there you go. -- two and a half.

These are the very big ones that make the difference. And this one,

three .4, he is not messing around, this will get over 80 points. He

makes easy work of this dive. And if he does nothing disastrous on the

next one, he will be top of the podium. That has seen him should

into the lead. He has got a lead of almost 13 points. 81.6. Everybody

else in the 60s and the 70s. Blocking things out with some music.

Taking a very big step towards the gold medal. Look at Yona

Knight-Wisdom! That would be a very big story, wouldn't it? You can

watch the conclusion of this on the Red Button. We will have two should

shortly. It is his second event of the day at the Commonwealth Pool,

earlier, we had the women and the ten metres synchronisation. We had

Australia and Oliver Dingley, who were leading until the final but

they were pepped by the Canadian jewel. So, mixed emotions. Let us

hear from them. Congratulations, silver medal, so

close. How are you feeling? We wanted to do our best but we did not

expect any medal today so silver, we are very pleased. It was a typist of

margins. Yes, we had not been training that well this week so we

are very pleased with the silver but it was very tight, nobody actually

was diving at their best. Your first two dives were absolutely electric.

Then coming the high, harder dives, how you feeling? Pretty nervous like

every other time but we were good, it always helps to start with a very

good dive so that did push us towards the end. There was a bit of

a delay at the start. Did that disrupt things? Make you nervous?

Yes, it was pretty tough. We did warm up for 40 minutes before but we

were all laughing down there, there are only five of us and be used to

things may be going wrong at some point but I think we handled it

witty well. Not just ours but everybody. It did not matter much

whenever we got going. Just trying to get back into it. You have more

chances again. What are you thinking? We're pretty confident, we

have one competition tomorrow, the individual dives, will do our best.

Will you enjoy it? We will enjoy the individual, this is my main event, I

want a medal. I am so happy with this and tomorrow will be some fun.

Congratulations, ladies. They number one of the diving at the time is

passing so quickly and were coming towards the end of the seventh day.

Still four days left to go before the closing ceremony on Sunday

evening. It is remind you of the same -- the main stories. Magic Max,

Max Whitlock dominated until the end to win the all-around title with his

team-mates taking bronze and Daniel Keating getting silver for Scotland,

their very first medal in the all-round for Scotland. We could see

Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow just missing out on the gold. But they

were very happy with silver. Greg Rutherford, the Olympic record

holder, is looking to injury behind him as he goes for gold in the long

jump this evening. And it would show you what is on offer at Hampden Park

shortly but there is so much happening all around these venues.

And there is a lot going on over at the boxing. It is fully coming down

to the wire. We have the light flyweight tomorrow -- tonight with

Paddy Barnes the favourites. His fight is coming up at around 7pm.

That will depend on how the others go. That is followed by Welterweight

and the women's middleweight. They all have medals at stake so the

intensity levels are climbing all the time. And also this evenly, you

will see the gymnastics because we could see Max Whitlock coming the

rest all-round and it is the women's event. Claudio Fraga Panny from

England, that is not, we can see some of the lower ranks getting on.

But Claudio from Bristol leaves the qualification going into this. She

is really a pocket dynamo and live coverage is on BBC Three at 8:15pm

and that will move to BBC One at 9:15pm. But the action is already

underway online right now. You can follow that if you so choose.

Whatever the zine at this evening. If we look at the timetable. We have

the Olympic champion, Greg Rutherford, he qualified with his

opening jump and he was the best of the lot. There is real rivalry

brewing with him and his team-mate, Chris Tomlinson. That final will be

worth watching. And we have the high jump also. And then the 3000 metres

steeplechase. The Kenyans are the fastest but Ailish McColgan will

hope to spoil that. She will be watched by her nervous coach and

mother. And then the women's heptathlon.

Ashton Eaton is there. And we have our fingers crossed for that javelin

final. Really longing to see Goldie Sayers win her first major medal.

And then the 400 biggest final, can anybody stop the Olympic champion?

We will see. And then Valerie Adams has won the last 55 -- is one of the

last 55 competitors in the shot put. And then the 800 metres

semifinals. Netball is one of the sports where it is a World

Championship and the Kiwis by the favourites for the third title in a

row and a woman, the superstars, they are on billboards and they are

role models for the children, and they are going for three in a row

and today they beat Jamaica in the netball to confirm that they will go

through to face England in the semifinal. If England get through

against Barbados tonight. That score was closer than you might think at

50-42. It really is going on around venues. That is just happening

across the way. We have crowned the men's all-round champions in

athletics and the decathlon. Tonight, it is the turn of the

women. And in track and field at Hampden, you will see this with Gary

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