Other great Canadian highlights included Erica Wiebe’s repeat gold in wrestling, Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes’ gold in the inaugural beach volleyball event, Alysha Newman’s gold and Games record in the pole vault, the men’s basketball “buzzer beater” semi-final win, and many more. In CWG 2010, New Delhi, India won the maximum medals, when massive 600-plus strong members competed to bag 101 medals.
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Sri Lanka was placed 31 with one silver and five bronze medals.
Usain Bolt dee-jayed and Yohan Blake pranced around the ground dressed like Borobi, the mascot, as the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast came to an end in a spectacular but long-drawn closing ceremony on Sunday. “The mixed doubles was a close tie for Satwik and Ashwini, which we could have got another medal”.
Mary Kom said, “This is the first time I will be India’s flag-bearer in an event like this”. We got that wrong.
“It was just pure relief, it’s so special to have won on home soil”, Hosking said.
Beattie took to Twitter on Monday to address concerns, saying the decision was originally driven by the fact there were “restrictions on being able to keep the athletes waiting in comfort”.
Prince George high-jumper Alyx Treasure had her first taste of competition at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
“Definitely, athletics is on the upward swing in the country”, he said.
“I tend to think the Commonwealth Games are, sadly, undervalued and chronically underfunded considering their important role in athlete preparation for the Olympic Games”, she says.
Most of India’s medals came from the shooting range (16) with gold medals for Jitu Rai, Manu Bhaker, Anish Bhanwala, Sanjeev Rajput, Heena Sidhu, Tejaswini Sawant, Shreyasi Singh.
According to him, myself and my coaching crew believe in possibility of getting better results from raw talents and we put heads together from the onset to realise that objective.
The show continued with a performance by Ricki-Lee and The Koi Boys before Anthony Callea took the stage to perform “You Should be Dancing” accompanied by the athletes.
“Now did we get it wrong?”
Amas Daniel won bronze coming from 4-0 down to equal it at 4-4 against South Africa’s Terry Van Rensburg, winning bronze in men’s freestyle 65kg.
The quartet of Patience Okon-George, Glory Nathaniel, Praise Idamadudu and Yinka Ajayi won silver in the women’s 4x400m relay.
“I got to carry that flag around, and thankfully my mum and my sister were in the stadium”.
Seye Ogunlewe finished fourth while Enoch Adegoke finished sixth among eight finalists.
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The last two games were totally one-sided as the veteran Malaysian star handed out a masterclass in placement and deception. England achieved 45 Golds, 45 Silver and 46 Bronze medals.
