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Colbert qualifies fastest from her swimming heat. 4:42.64, nicely done. Some of these heats seem a bit pointless tbh

Table Tennis team, perhaps expected, loses 3-0 to Singapore in the first game

Robinson 3:52.21 only fast enough for a reserve spot. Turley makes the final

The Team Pursuit team can only manage third... 4:19.841. They will face for bronze

3:49.61 and third for Turley in his heat... should be enough

Men's Triples Lawn Bowls Team beat 13-12 in a game that goes to the final end. get the first Games record with a great performance in the Cycling

Para Lawn Bowls team takes a 23-12 loss to Scotland in their first game

Unwin third in her race with 11.386. She qualifies for the semifinal (it was guaranteed anyway)

Perfect start for the sevens team who beat 57-0 in what is honestly a mismatch.

Hiccup at the start of the Badminton vs ... the umpire got the opening bit wrong and the scoreboard malfunctioned early on

I think just one. Bizarrely, they are showing a match between and on BBC, rather than any home nations. Which means I can step out for a drink

Honestly there is quite an impressive broadcasting coverage by the BBC. Out of all of these sports, only Table Tennis doesn't have a dedicated stream.

Looking forward to it! Day 1 08:30 Para Lawn Bowls Men's Pairs B6-B8 Round 1 - vs 08:30 Lawn Bowls Men's Triples Sectional Play - vs 09:00 Badminton Mixed Team Group Stage - vs 09:30 Table Tennis Women's Team Group Stage - vs 09:44 Rugby Sevens Women's Pool Stage - vs 10:02 Cycling Para Track Women's Tandem B Sprint Qualifying - Sophie Unwin 10:14 Cycling Track Women's 4000m Team Pursuit - Qualifying 10:35 Swimming Men's 400m Freestyle Heat 2 - Luke Thomas Turley 10:41 Swimming Men's 400m Freestyle Heat 3 - Toby Robinson 10:47 Swimming Women's 400m Individual Medley Heat 1 - Freya Colbert 10:47 Cycling Para Track Women's Tandem B Sprint Semifinals begin - Sophie Unwin 10:55 Cycling Track Men's 4000m Team Pursuit - Qualifying 11:01 Triathlon Men's Individual (Sprint Distance) Final - Alex Yee, Daniel Dixon and Samuel Dickinson (MC: 12:26) 11:05 Swimming Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 2 - Tamryn van Selm 11:13 Swimming Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 4 - Freya Anderson 11:17 Para Swimming Women's 100m Freestyle S9 Heat 1 - Alice Tai 11:30 Lawn Bowls Men's Triples Sectional Play - vs 11:30 Lawn Bowls Women's Singles Sectional Play - Siti Zalina Ahmad vs Amy Pharaoh 11:30 Para Lawn Bowls Women's Pairs B6-B8 Round 1 - vs 11:31 Swimming Men's 50m Butterfly Heat 5 - Benjamin Proud and Adam Barrett 11:33 Swimming Men's 50m Butterfly Heat 6 - Jacob Thomas Taylor Peters 11:34 Rugby Sevens Men's Pool Stage - vs 11:42 Cycling Track Women's Team Sprint - Qualifying 11:44 Swimming Women's 50m Breaststroke Heat 4 - Imogen Louise Clark and Sarah Vasey 11:56 Swimming Men's 100m Backstroke Heat 4 - Luke Greenbank, Brodie Paul Williams and James David McFadzen 12:00 Netball Pool Stage - vs 12:00 Table Tennis Men's Team Group Stage - vs 12:10 Swimming Women's 100m Butterfly Heat 4 - Holly Hibbott 12:16 Swimming Men's 200m Breaststroke Heat 1 - James Wilby 12:16 Cycling Track Men's Team Sprint - Qualifying 12:20 Swimming Men's 200m Breaststroke Heat 2 - Greg Butler 12:36 Swimming Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay - Heat 2 13:45 Boxing Women's Middleweight Round of 16 - Ornella Sathoud vs Kerry Davis 14:00 Boxing Men's Middleweight Round of 32 - Lewis Richardson vs Haaris Khan 14:31 Triathlon Women's Individual (Sprint Distance) Final - Georgia Taylor-Brown, Sophie Coldwell, and Sian Rainsley (MC: 15:55) 15:00 Para Lawn Bowls Men's Paris B6-B8 Round 1 - vs 15:00 Lawn Bowls Women's Fours Sectional Play - vs 16:00 Table Tennis Women's Team Group Stage - vs 16:02 Cycling Para Track Women's Tandem B Sprint Finals begin - Sophie Unwin (MC: 17:35) 16:10 Cycling Para Track Men's Tandem B 1000m Time Trial Final - Stephen Bate (MC: 16:56) 16:20 3x3 Wheelchair Basketball Men's Pool Round - vs 16:41 Cycling Track Women's 4000m Team Pursuit - Finals (MC 17:06) 16:45 3x3 Wheelchair Basketball Women's Pool Round - vs 17:20 Cycling Track Men's 4000m Team Pursuit - Finals (MC 17:45) 17:30 Artistic Gymnastics Men's Team Final and Individual Qualification Subdivision 3 - James Hall, Jake Jarman, Giarnni Regini-Moran, Joe Fraser, and Courtney Tulloch (MC: 21:00) 17:55 Cycling Track Women's Team Sprint - Finals (MC 18:12) 18:00 Lawn Bowls Men's Pairs Sectional Play - vs 18:00 Lawn Bowls Women's Fours Sectional Play - vs 18:00 Para Lawn Bowls Women's Pairs B6-B8 Round 1 - vs 18:03 Cycling Track Men's Team Sprint - Finals (MC 18:22) 18:30 Table Tennis Men's Team Group Stage - vs 18:36 Rugby Sevens Women's Pool Stage - vs 18:45 Boxing Men's Welterweight Round of 32 - Joseph Tyers vs Sanjeewa Bandara Rajakaruna Rajakar 19:00 Badminton Mixed Team Group Stage - vs 19:00 Hockey Men's Pool Stage - vs 19:07 Swimming Men's 400m Freestyle Final - Luke Thomas Turley and Toby Robinson (MC 19:33) 19:15 Swimming Women's 400m Individual Medley Final - Freya Colbert (MC 19:40) 19:25 Swimming Women's 200m Freestyle Final - Tamryn van Selm and Freya Anderson (MC 20:01) 19:42 Rugby Sevens Men's Pool Stage - vs 19:54 Para Swimming Women's 100m Freestyle S9 Final - Alice Tai (MC 20:36) 20:08 Swimming Men's 50m Butterfly Swimming Semifinals begin - Benjamin Proud, Adam Barrett, and Jacob Thomas Taylor Peters 20:19 Swimming Women's 50m Breaststroke Semifinals begin - Imogen Louise Clark and Sarah Vasey 20:44 Swimming Men's 100m Backstroke Semifinals begin - Luke Greenbank, Brodie Paul Williams and James David McFadzen 20:56 Swimming Women's 100m Butterfly Semifinals begin - Holly Hibbott 21:07 Swimming Men's 200m Breaststroke Final - James Wilby and Greg Butler (MC 21:24) 21:15 Swimming Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay - Final (MC 21:31)

vs in the final then… if England win just what organisers wanted. Looking forward to it!

The BBC only showed afternoon sessions and diving finals with no studio analysis or interviews at all, just the world feed with the (very good) BBC commentary team

The BBC coverage was also very good after their complete "bare bones" coverage of the Budapest FINA Championships- a mix of studio but mostly interviews and live sport. I was a bit annoyed that they neglected the field events and they still talked over national anthem though Michael Johnson also raised this concern. But to be honest, for what it was, the championships seemed to get a fair bit of attention here. But sporty people don't seem to care about athletics... as well as football it's normally F1, UFC/Boxing, Darts, and maybe cricket...

Yeah, the song kind of changed meaning to 'England are gonna win it' After the WC 2018 and Euro 2020, where England (men) did well (but didn't win), columnists liked to say that despite not winning, football did come home after all, because England "captured the mood of the nation" and people "fell back in love with England" and so on. Retrospectives of Euro 96 will often have titles like 'the summer football came home'. The phrase is quite ubiquitous now, and the song is only ruined because David Baddiel is in it and he's a bit of an arse

I was briefly in Birmingham coming home from the football yesterday, I had a stop over there, enough time to get McDonald's and do little else. But there were quite a few signs and so on for the Games just in the station and outside it, some with the Games branding and some with Network Rail branding. A small part of history I suppose. The BBC promo set to "It's A Brum Ting" has been seen a lot on TV including during the World Athletics Championship, which is interesting - a very catchy tune although words like 'Ting' are much more a London dialect than a Birmingham one! Anyway, the Day 0 schedule: 19:00 Opening Ceremony

Well types of "football" have existed for ages such as Rugby, Gaelic football etc and medieval types of football that go back to China, but THIS type of football certainly came from England (and in fact came from Sheffield, the city where England won yesterday)

As for the game... 4-0 over and playing or hopefully in the final. Honestly people might be getting carried away. haven't been amazing in this tournament and all our great results are meaningless if we don't win the final. But what a positive performance at both ends of the pitch

People from outside England always misunderstand "It's coming home"... it is from a song called Three Lions was made for Euro 96 that was hosted in England (hence football literally came 'home') but the lyrics aren't about arrogance but about loyalty and hope despite many failures: "Thirty years of hurt never stopped me dreaming"

The usual comments I hear about the CG (not just on this site) are that it's - Pointless/Farcical/Irrelevant etc - True in a way but all sport is in a way. The organisation seems fine to me compared to other games like the European Games (another bugbear of this forum which I also quite like). The athletes, even world class ones like Peaty seem to take it seriously, for players in lesser known/non-Olympic sports it's good to get attention and it also is key to the development of athletes from and other nations as it often allows a medal chance - It's an attempt for the British to pretend their Empire still exists! - I don't actually like the Commonwealth cause I view it as a bit pointless but even if this was true every Games has its grim political undertones, and this is far from the worst. - It is biased against Third World nations - I hear this a lot as well and I just don't think there's much evidence for it tbh

I know people don't like the Commonwealth Games very much on this site and tbh justifiably so, but I must admit I'm really looking forward to this

Forgot to make a post after the game but went to 2-1 and what a match... best atmosphere I have experienced at a women's football and at that stadium on my 5th visit. Now we have a tough game against , I am confident but only quietly so in the knowledge that anything can go wrong...

Don't forget youthful diverse and gender equal