2018 Commonwealth Games thread

[yebocan]

Great stuff from Simbine and Bruintjies in the 100m final, wow!

Yahoo! at the rate our athletes are developing,...we may just be seeing the start of a gold age on the track! Well done boys!

 

[SA-UK]

Awesome result, but where's all the sub-10 guys? Simbine time 10.03

Yip was thinking the same, although v pleased we doing so well in Athletics.

A few years ago 10.05 would't barely have made it to the finals....!

 

[schumi]

SILVER! @bradtandy02 picks up the silver medal in the 50m freestyle in 21.81, behind Ben Proud of England in 21.35 #TeamMzanzi

https://twitter.com/TeamSA18/status/983642783264092161

 

[APoc184]

And Caster makes it medal #20 for TeamSA with Gold in the 1500m

And made it look so easy. Sitting back until the last 200m before turning on the afterburners!

New Games Record as well. 4:00.72 (edit. Official time adjusted down to 4:00.71)

 

[schumi]

Athletics: Bronze!!! @Sunette_Viljoen takes third place in the women's javelin final with a best heave of 62.08m. She has now earned medals at four successive editions of the Commonwealth Games #TeamMzansi #GC2018Athletics

https://twitter.com/TeamSA18/status/984011130166226949

 

[APoc184]

Another two!

Gold (Luvo Manyonga) and Bronze (Ruswahl Samaai) in the Men's Long Jump.

 

[Sinbad]

# Country Gold medals Silver medals Bronze medals Total
1 Australia 55 42 45 142
2 England 25 30 21 76
3 India 12 4 8 24
4 RSA 10 6 9 25
5 New Zealand 9 10 8 27


4th in the medal table so far... Not bad going... but sheesh, Aus is dominant


/updated

 

[Agent_Smith]

# Country Gold medals Silver medals Bronze medals Total
1 Australia 55 42 45 142
2 England 25 30 21 76
3 India 12 4 8 24
4 New Zealand 9 10 8 27
5 RSA 9 6 8 23

5th in the medal table so far... Not bad going... but sheesh, Aus is dominant


/edit - probably not including the medals in the post above this!

Did anyone check their athletes for sandpaper? Could provide that extra grip out of the starting blocks...

 

[schumi]

Athletics: Gold and silver!!! @jonbravo23 wins gold in 11.02 and @HLangenhoven takes silver in 11.27 in the T12 men's 100m final. Another sprint double for #TeamMzansi #GC2018

https://twitter.com/TeamSA18/status/984377156175265792

Athletics: Bronze!!! @Wenda400mh takes third place in the women's 400m hurdles final in 54.96. Great run! #TeamMzansi #GC2018Athletics

https://twitter.com/TeamSA18/status/984365005746376704

BRONZE! @TeamSA18 Alan Hatherly picks up bronze in the men's cross-country mountain biking. Fought all the way to the finish #TeamMzansi

https://twitter.com/TeamSA18/status/984292317556228097

 

[APoc184]

Naaice!

I saw Wenda's race. She was doing great with 110m remaining and then started fading but dug in deep to just hold on for bronze.

 

[schumi]

Athletics: SILVER!!! Awesome team effort by @KINGBRUINTJIES Emile Erasmus @_ambitious_jay @AkaniSimbine taking second place in the men's 4x100m relay final in a national record of 38.24. Brilliant! #TeamMzansi #GC2018

https://twitter.com/TeamSA18/status/985020660740182017

BRONZE! @TeamSA18 Clint Hendricks takes third in sprint to the line in men's cycling road race! Great effort from the 26yo #TeamMzansi

https://twitter.com/TeamSA18/status/985044771537174528

 

[Agent_Smith]

Just saw the replay of the 4 x 100m relay. Simbine is seriously quick (as if it wasn't already proved in the individual 100m). The way he hauled in the English runner was crazy! A better third leg and we'd have walked the gold.

It's so amazing to see us competing on this stage now. When the commentators consider you a powerhouse of athletics, you know you're onto something good.

We just need more backing now from sponsors and government and we can surely take it to the Americans and the Jamaicans.

 

[SA-UK]

Just saw the replay of the 4 x 100m relay.

link?

We just need more backing now from sponsors and government and we can surely take it to the Americans and the Jamaicans.

Ahmen

 

[Agent_Smith]

link?

Ah, was just on the Supersport site hey. Not sure if I can post a link from there on here.

Trying this...

[video]https://www.supersport.com/commonwealth/commonwealth-games/video/966014[/video]

EDIT: Ok, so it doesn't embed the vid, but here you go...

 

[SA-UK]

[video]https://www.supersport.com/commonwealth/commonwealth-games/video/966014[/video]

farkin 'ell,look at Simbine...he makes the rest of them look like they walking down the final stretch! takes over 3 or 4 contestants?
surely one of the best endings i've seen in a sprint race. :wtf:

 

[Agent_Smith]

Ugh, Blitzboks! Threw away a 14 - 0 halftime lead against England in the bronze medal match eventually going down 21-14.

 

[SA-UK]

bliksem blitzboks! lost to England so no medal at all....


and i see we dropped to 6th place in medals table behind NZ and Canada :erm: