Commonwealth Games

Sheddie · administrator

RE: Commonwealth Games

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

UltimateSlabbaFan wrote:

mkkreuk wrote: RE: the voting, if GB were to get only 10-20 medals that would be a disaster!! Last time they got more than 160 including 50+ golds (although there was home advantage)!!!! Wow, I forgot that we won that many !!! I'm definately hoping for 100+ medals. How many did we win in kuala lumpur in 1998?

2002 Commonwealth Games:

England 165 Medals (54 Gold, 51 Silver, 60 Bronze)
Wales 31 Medals (6 Gold, 13 Silver, 12 Bronze)
Scotland 30 Medals (6 Gold, 8 Silver, 16 Bronze)
Northern Ireland 5 Medals (2 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze)

1998 Commonwealth Games:

England 136 Medals (36 Gold, 47 Silver, 53 Bronze)
Wales 15 Medals (3 Gold, 4 Silver, 8 Bronze)
Scotland 12 Medals (3 Gold, 2 Silver, 7 Bronze)
Northern Ireland 5 Medals (2 Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze)

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

UltimateSlabbaFan wrote:

Bad news, Paula Radcliffe has withdrawn from the team with a foot injury. That's 1 less gold medal now Is anyone else planning to turn night into day for a week and watch it ?

Of course I'm going to watch the commonwealths! (the athletics at least!)

Bad news about paula - hopefully she can recover soon and is back at her best for the rest of 2006!

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

I`ll be watching too.

Re Daniel Caines - Last I heard he was injured again, is that still the case?

Sheddie · administrator

Daniel Caines has sadly suffered a stress injury in his leg and he will miss the world indoors.

Great that I'll have some people to chat about the Games to in the middle of the night

-- Edited by UltimateSlabbaFan at 22:46, 2006-03-07

Sheddie · administrator

BBC schedule for the commonwealths:

Opening ceremony:

15th March: 9-12 am GMT

After that, action is from midnight to 12.00 GMT with medals being mainly won in the morning. BBC will cover all the action and on the website and on interactive there will be 5 video streams of events.

Sheddie · administrator

Steve Cram's preview: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/commonwealth_games/4766760.stm

Marlon Devonish's preview:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/commonwealth_games/4732484.stm

Swimming update: The Thorpedo has withdrawn which is good news for British record holder Simon Burnett who will be in with a chance in the 100m and 200m and 400m

Sheddie · administrator

We have great chances of medals in squash as we've received a favourable draw. Mot of the Australian threats are in the opposite half to the Brits.

We have 4 men in the top 8, including the world no 2 and 4 women in the top 8 including the 4th seed.

Sheddie · administrator

Beth Tweddle is out of the gymnastics after twisting an ankle

Sheddie · administrator

Is anyone else watching the first action in the Commonwealth Games ?

Great start for the Brits in swimming:

200m freestyle heats:

Caitlin McClatchey qualified winning her heat. She broke the Scottish record and was extremely impressive showing her 400m strength in the latter stages to get past the Australian girl and dip under 2 minutes.

Joanna Jackson also looked good in finishing 2nd in her heat.

Mel Marshall had a tough heat with the Aussie favourite Libby Lenton also in it but Mel came extremely close to an upset and qualified in 2nd place. Lenton started off very fast, possibly too fast but Marshall got closer and closer and possibly could have taken 1st place but slowed down in the last 15m.

Final is at 8.00am tomorrow morning, great chances of at least 1 medal.

In rugby sevens, Scotland thrashed Niue Island, while Wales are getting a heavy beating from New Zealand 14-0 down at present

Sheddie · administrator

Wales got thrashed.

Sheddie · administrator

50m backstroke heats - swimming:

Britain's Matt Clay won his heat, Clay is one of the top 5 fastest on paper here and a big hope for a medal. He broke the British record in his heat

Sheddie · administrator

England's Liam Tancock confirmed his status as the favourite for this race by smashing the commonwealth record just set by Matt Clay a few heats earlier. Tancock clocked 25.26 which is extremely fast and also he slowed down considerably after about 40m otherwise he might have had a shot at the world record.

Sheddie · administrator

women's 50m butterfly heats:

heat 3: Terri Dunning came 4th - should just make it into the semis

heat 4: Rosalind Brett came 2nd behind the race favourite - an outside shot at a medal - an Aussie 1-2-3 is still most likely in this event

heat 5: Scotland's stephanie hill came 6th - just made the semis

Sheddie · administrator

mens 400m:

heat 1:

David Davies won - very impressive and comfortable. Davies is the 1500m big favourite but feels that the 400m is important for his speed in the early stages of the 1500m. With Thorpe and Hackett having gone out this race is very open and Davies could get a medal.

heat 2: Rob Renwick came 2nd

heat 3: David Carry, the favourite for the gold medal came 2nd, Alaistar Hunter came 4th just missing the final.

The Brits have all been extremely impressive so far especially the Scots who all seem extremely well prepared.

womens 200m individual medlay:

heat 1: Scotland's Hannah Miley in her first major championships was very impressive in finishing 2nd, she hasmade the final.

heat 2: Terri Dunning came 2nd in her 2nd race of the morning, led after 50m but a slower backstroke leg allowed the Australian to overtake her. Wales' Julie Gould came 3rd. Both Dunning and Gould have made the final.