Commonwealth Games 2026 LIVE: ‘Gut-wrenching’: Hoare wins protest, makes mile final after being tripped; Swimmers chase 11 golds on last day in pool

Cruise control for Australia’s women’s and men’s 4x100m medley relay teams.

Both win their heats and book spots in tonight’s finals.

Australia have already won 28 golds to England’s four in the pool. Ludicrous dominance. South Africa and Scotland also have four apiece.

Dolphins need one more to go past the 28 gold they won in 2018 on the Gold Coast.

The Australian Federal Police advising the Australian Commonwealth Games teams on security analysed mile runner Ollie Hoare’s Strava data after he ran into a police incident with a man armed with a weapon while on a training run with teammate Ky Robinson.

Hoare and Robinson returned from the training run and mentioned they witnessed a police incident with a man carrying a knife.

The stabbing death of a man in Glasgow in the same east end that was reported in the media at the weekend had the team connect the two incidents. It was established later they were two separate incidents.

Those Aussie basketball boys really were in, out, no mucking about after their 21-14 win against Scotland, but I managed to snag a quick chat with Jarred Bairstow ahead of their gold medal match later today.

“Awesome, it’s always good to be in the gold medal match; it’s where you want to be, and one more to go,” Bairstow said.

They’ll play the winner of the match between England and New Zealand that’s about to get underway.

Olli Hoare’s protest has already been heard and he has been reinstated for the final by the track referee.

Broadcaster Channel Seven said it was not yet clear if Hoare would be added as an additional, 13th, runner in the mile final or if someone had been disqualified.

More to come.

Ollie Hoare is filthy about being clipped and falling, with the reigning Commonwealth champion saying it was “gut-wrenching” and hard to accept regardless of the outcome of a protest.

As the reigning champion, he was finding no comfort in the prospect of a protest, saying he wanted to succeed or fail on his own terms, not on a protest.

“You guys saw the race. You probably can see it better than I can,” he said.

There’s nothing quite like playing the home nation - Australia’s men’s basketball team had a loud and rowdy crowd to contend with for their semi-final this morning.

But the Aussies were too strong and defeated Scotland 21-14 to book themselves a spot in the gold medal match later today.

They’ll play the winner of the match between England and New Zealand up next.

More boxes ticked for the Aussie lads in the men’s 200m freestyle heats with Sam Short the second-fastest overall in 1:45.90.

Harrison Turner (1:46.08) and Kai Taylor (1:47.23) also through to the final. Short didn’t stop for media.

The UK swimmers will be tough to beat. Matt Richards is my tip.

As forecast by Michael Gleeson a few minutes ago, Australia will lodge a protest after reigning mile champion Olli Hoare was tripped from behind during the first heat today.

Hoare finished ninth, outside the direct qualifying spots for the final but he looks a good chance of winning the protest and, frankly, he was lucky to avoid injury.

Fellow Aussie Cam Myers is taking no risks in his heat as he is out in front and trying to stay ahead of the field.

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I find myself at the SEC Centre this morning, which is where we have an Australian team in every basketball and wheelchair basketball semi-final - talk about dominance!

If you’re tuning into 3x3 basketball for the first time, the main thing you need to know is that shots inside the circle are worth one point and outside the circle are two points.

2022 gold medallist Olli Hoare has been clipped and fallen to the ground in the men’s one mile heat.

He sprawled to the ground. He recovered to get within reach of the lead pack but he wasn’t in the top six at the finish, taking ninth place.

Scotland’s Josh Kerr, who holds the world record, won the heat in 3:58.57.

Expect a protest from Australia.