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1 minute ago, orangeman said:

"I don't understand why Canada isn't trying here!"

 

Me, too, cycling announcers.  Me too.  

Gotta get that fourth...

Though realistically, I don't think she had it in her to reach the lead group

Easy gold for England in the mixed relay. Wales holds on for the upset silver medal over Australia

Third leg of the mixed relay and it's with right behind

England with a 16 second lead the other three are essentially equal.

Second leg of the mixed relay and it's with one second behind

England with a 27 second lead

After the first leg of the mixed relay triathlon it's . England already has a 20 second lead.

Fiji is in both sevens finals so two medals for them. I'm very impressed with the jump in quality of their women's team. It wasn't that long ago that there were articles where the Fijian general public claimed rugby was a "man's sport" glad the higher ups didn't think so.

Canada Day 2 Review

Day 2 saw Canada win seven medals (2 gold, 1 silver, 4 bronze) for a solid day. Here's how we did for each sport.

3x3 Basketball

The women's team went 1-1 with a victory against the British Virgin Islands, but a loss to New Zealand. It looks like New Zealand's team is a lot better than expected. While not required, beating England tomorrow will be very helpful if we want to have a chance at medalling. Both our wheelchair teams have booked a spot to the semifinals.

Athletics

The marathons were today, but we only competed in the men's T54 marathon where Cassidy finished fourth, we'll see him again on the track in the T54 1500m.

Badminton

Our mixed team won our matches against Maldives and Scotland to finish top of the group. We will now play England in the quarterfinals. Not sure how I feel about this, but if we are to win a medal we would have to defeat England at some point whether here or in the third place match.

Beach Volleyball

Pavan/Melissa won their match against the Ghanaian duo. They will face off against Kenya's team on Monday.

Cycling

We won a silver in the women's sprint. This was one of our gold medal chances going into the game, but New Zealand's Andrews seems to be having the meet of her life. The individual pursuit were outclassed and none of the men's keirin riders were able to reach the semis which was a bit disappointing.

Field Hockey

Canada's men lost to Wales 5-1. Not a good performance by them, even if this is a rebuilding type of squad.

Gymnastics

Despite fielding a weaker team, Canada was still able to win bronze in the women's artistic team event. We were also able to qualify athletes into all of the individual events with Denommee ranked second on the vault and Lee and Spence finishing second and third on the floor.

Lawn Bowls

Horrible day for our lawn bowls team as they went a combined 0-5 against the competition. They have all been eliminated from contention and will not reach the quarterfinals.

Rugby Sevens

Canada was able to reach the elimination rounds thanks to winning their final group game. Sadly, they both lost their next match. The men lost to South Africa and will now play for 5th place. The women's lost to Fiji, but will get a chance to win bronze. They just have to defeat New Zealand, a not so easy task.

Squash

A great day as all four of our players won their round of 32 match. The next round will be very tough. On the men's side Baillargeon will face the number 3 seed from India while Sachvie will face the number 5 seed from Malaysia. Bunyan will face off against Kennedy from England while Naughton will face off against Azman from Malaysia

Swimming

Great day at the pool as Canada won four medals, two gold in the men's S13 50m freestyle and the women's 100m butterfly. Additionally, our 4x100m freestyle relays won a bronze medal each. In the women's 100m backstroke semis both Masse and Harvey were able to qualify to the finals in 1st and 6th respectively.

Table Tennis

Both teams qualified to the quarterfinals. Sadly, the women lost to Australia later in the day. The men will go up against Singapore tomorrow.

Weightlifting

Opening day of weightlifting saw three of our athletes compete and end up with 1 bronze and 2 fourth place finished. Not a bad day, even though the fourth place finishes hurt. Our better athletes have yet to compete.

Canada beats Australia in the women's 100m fly

3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

 bomb out of women’s 55kg weightlifting.  left to get a result for the home nations…

Canada's chance for fourth place has increased greatly

After two rotations it's in the women's artistic team.

Australia cut 0.5 points into England's lead and are now behind 0.6 points. Canada leads Wales by 0.05 points.

Gold for Canada in Men's S13 50m Free

After one rotation it's in the women's artistic team. is over a point behind Wales.

Note: I'm pretty sure South Africa won't be a factor unless two nations really mess up here.

Malaysia just defeated India in women's team table tennis 3-2

2 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

It’s been a good tournament for smaller programs.  tying  and  beating .

Samoa beating England isn't that surprising, they are one of the best in the world too.

Wales moved ahead of Malaysia now

with gold

Now for India to show how much better she is

Now we'll have to hope both Nigeria and PNG fail their final lift...

David Beckham almost raced a perfect race in the keirin repechage, if only it was just a bit longer

What a dumb way to get relegated in men's keirin "going too slow before the bike leaves"

Canada tied for fourth in women's -49kg weightlifting after the snatch

Well it looks like Singapore picked up its doubles win over England, victory is very likely for them.

4 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

 V  Match in badminton mixed team event has started. Singapore are the favourites . I'm expecting a 5-0 victory for Singapore. 

I'd classify England as the favourite, but Singapore is only one (small) upset away from winning. England has such an interesting team, relatively week singles, but strong doubles. It's hard to see them win any of their matches by more than 3-2 against the top nations here.

1 minute ago, orangeman said:

It's nice to get the first fourth out of the way.  Now we can just sit back and enjoy the rest.  

Just as long as it's not in women's individual sprint.

We had three athletes in the quarters and now we are down to one.

Canada will finish fourth in -61kg weightlifting. Hopefully that's not a sign of things to come, we have a few athletes that are on the cusp of medals in this sport.

Canada Day 1 Review

Day 1 saw Canada win four medals (1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze) for a relatively modest start. Here's how we did for each sport.

3x3 Basketball

The men went 1-1 today defeating Kenya 15-12 and losing to Scotland 21-20. Not a very good day if our hope is for them to win a medal. We'll likely have to play a quarterfinal match which could be dangerous. The men's wheelchair team lost to Australia 13-11 which makes the match against Northern Ireland an elimination match. Given what happened in other matches a medal in this event is very possible assuming we can win tomorrow.

Badminton

Our mixed team won against Uganda 5-0, none of our players lost a set which was expected. We next play Maldives and Scotland tomorrow.

Boxing

Only one of our athletes competed today. Sanford (light welterweight) won his match via RSC against Niue. He will face off against Lesotho in the round of 16.

Cycling

We won a silver medal in the women's team sprint. I was hoping for gold, but as I said before winning track cycling medals at the Commonwealth Games is very difficult. Sadly, our men's sprint team finished fourth. Both pursuit teams failed to reach the medal round which is a shame, even if I didn't think the could win medals.

Field Hockey

The women won their match against Wales 4-0, that places us in a great position to reach the 5th place match. We get a break tomorrow and will face England in two days.

Gymnastics

Canada managed a silver medal in the men's artistic team event, though it was a bit intense for a while. We will also have representation in the individual finals with the exception of the horizontal bar. Felix Dolci is ranked third in the rings and vault so there will be chances for medals in the coming days.

Lawn Bowls

Our teams went 2-5 today with the women's singles and fours losing both of their matches, the men's triple going 1-1 and the men's pair winning their only match. Not looking good for the women to make the quarterfinals. We'll see where the men stand tomorrow .

Rugby Sevens

Both teams went 1-1 today which places them in a great position to advance to the cup knock-out stage. Tomorrow the men face Zambia while the women face Sri Lanka. Should be easy victories, though they will be keeping an eye on the other match (Fiji/Wales and Australia/England respectively) and hope an upset does not occur.

Squash

Both men won their round of 64 match. Baillargeon will face Wales' Creed while Sachvie will go up against New Zealand's Chileshe, both will be tough matches to win.

Swimming

We won two medals (McIntosh in women's 400mIM and the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay) which was par for the course. Acevedo and Angus sadly missed the 100m back and 50m breast final by finishing 9th, but Liendo is in the 50m fly final and we have three swimmers in the 100m fly.

Table Tennis

The women's team won both of their matches against Uganda and Vanuatu and will face Wales to determine top spot in the group. The men's team started off well with a victory over Mauritius, but lost to Australia 3-2. They must now defeat Malaysia if they want to advance to the next round which will be difficult.

Triathlon

Mislawchuk sadly had to drop out of the men's race due to a series of unfortunate events. The performance of our team shows Canada will be competitive for the mixed relay. They likely won't compete for gold or silver, but they are in the mix to potentially win bronze in a few days time.