2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games
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.......................gold.....silver.....bronze.....total
England......38........36........33.........107
Australia..........35.......32........40.........107
Canada........22.......7...........22........51
I wonder if that works in the Commonwealth Games.
Did the limeys create the Commonwealth Games so they could possibly win something?
On the world stage the Brits suck bad. They are just not good athletes.
Just look at their soccer team.
Apparently the Brit men are real good at the gymnastics thingy... You know, throw a beach ball in the air and wave a stick with a ribbon it.
Impressive in it's own sad little way, I suppose
That escalated quickly... Canada has surpassed Scotland by 20 medals and now looks to finish in 3rd place.
We created the Commonwealth Games to show that white Anglo-Saxons are the superior race, and the medals table proves that.
I think you're getting confused between men's artistic gymnastics and women's rhythm gymnastics.
Do try to keep up, old chap.
Scotland: population 5.3 million.
Canada: population 35.4 million.
And yet it's only in the last couple of days that you have managed to overtake little Scotland in the medals table and it's embarrasing that you are gloating over it.
Your population is 6.7 times that of Scotland yet you only have 65 medals compared to Scotland's 43.
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The 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games ends on Sunday and England are starting to pull further ahead of Australia at the top of the medals table.
England's latest gold, our first today, has come in the synchronised 3m springboard.
Laugher has already won gold in the 1m springboard and a silver in the men's 3m springboard
England's Jack Laugher, 19, and Chris Mears, 21, finished ahead of 26-year-old Australians Grant Nel and Matthew Mitcham.
England's Nick Robinson-Baker, 27, and Freddie Woodward, 19, claimed the bronze.
Laugher had already won gold in the 1m springboard and a silver in the men's 3m springboard.
It will be the first time since 1986 that England have finished top of the Commonwealth Games table, and 1986 was the last time the Commonwealth Games were held in Scotland before this year. It seems that English athletes love doing well in Scotland, for some reason.
It couldn't go better for the English - finishing top of the medals table in Scotland and getting one over the Aussies, their greatest sporting rivals.
LATEST STANDINGS
............................GOLD.....SILVER.....BRONZE.....TOTAL
ENGLAND............45..............41..............40..............126
AUSTRALIA..........36.............37..............41...............114
CANADA...............27.............13..............25...............65
SCOTLAND..........14.............13..............16...............43
INDIA.....................13.............20..............14...............47
NEW ZEALAND....13.............11..............15...............39
Wow... that is one of the most racist ignorant comment I've seen in here.
Here's a reminder of how the Ingrish got wiped in their own Olympics.
Olympic Medal Count - 2012 London Summer Olympics - ESPN
I believe Blackie said at one time that he did not recognize the USA's declaration of independence and still sees the States as a "colony". Just imagine if we were playing in those games and how easily we would dominate every sport there. I wonder what he would be saying.
I believe Blackie said at one time that he did not recognize the USA's declaration of independence and still sees the States as a "colony". Just imagine if we were playing in those games and how easily we would dominate every sport there. I wonder what he would be saying.
A typical example of American Exceptionist thinking, when was the last time you dominated anything but BS? Dominatrix USA,,
I believe Blackie said at one time that he did not recognize the USA's declaration of independence and still sees the States as a "colony". Just imagine if we were playing in those games and how easily we would dominate every sport there. I wonder what he would be saying.
Well join the Commonwealth and then see how you fare. You can say the USA will dominate the Commonwealth Games all you like, but you just can't prove it.
I believe Blackie said at one time that he did not recognize the USA's declaration of independence and still sees the States as a "colony". Just imagine if we were playing in those games and how easily we would dominate every sport there. I wonder what he would be saying.
You can have your "independence" all you like, but you can't take away from the fact that you stole land from the British that should be returned. In fact, if the Yanks were to return all the land which makes up their country back to the people they stole it from, the US would only end up consisting of something like Louisiana and Alaska, which they bought rather than stole. Poor Hawaii was once an independent state with its own monarchy before the Yanks took it. Just give it back.
Let's do a deal: You give the 13 original states back to those British families from whose ancestors you stole them from and then you'll hear no more of it.
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ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS
Artistic gymnastics' star-in-the- making Claudia Fragapane has become the first Englishwoman to win four gold medals in the Commonwealth Games since the very first Games back in 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario, when they were known as the British Empire Games.
The gymnast, 16, won gold in an amazing performance on the floor last night. She had already won the vault gold, the all-around gold and the team gold earlier in the week, as well as coming fifth in Friday's beam event.
Swimmer Joyce Cooper was the previous Englishwoman to win four golds in 1930.
"I'm speechless I'm the most-decorated English woman at the Games in 84 years. It's incredible," said Fragapane.
Fragapane, whose Italian father wears Italy football shirts when he watches her compete, joins Cooper and the men's pair of fencer Bill Hoskyns (1958 ) and shooter Mick Gault (1998 ) as the only English competitors to win four golds at a single Commonwealth Games.
Gault equalled the all-time all-comers medal record at Glasgow 2014 when he secured his 18th with bronze in the 10m air pistol competition.
The all-comers' record of six golds at a single Games is held by four athletes, including Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe in Manchester in 2002, while eight competitors have won five golds.
Meanwhile, Leeds' Nile Wilson celebrated Yorkshire Day by winning gold in the high bars as well as taking silver in the parallel bars behind Scotland's Dan Purvis, with three-time gold medallist Max Whitlock securing bronze in the latter.
Wilson's high bars gold was decided on a tie-break after he was given the same score as team-mate Kristian Thomas, who had earlier picked up silver in the vault.
Wilson was awarded the title because of his higher execution score after both he and Thomas scored 14.966, with Canada's Kevin Lytwyn taking bronze with 14.866.
Wilson has now won four medals in total at this Games - two golds, one silver and one bronze.
Glasgow 2014: Claudia Fragapane wins historic fourth gold
1 August 2014
BBC Sport
Fragapane's Italian-born dad wears Italy football shirts when she competes. Her amazing performance on the floor last night (above) saw her claim her fourth gold
Claudia Fragapane became the first Englishwoman to win four golds at a single Commonwealth Games for 84 years with victory on the floor on Friday.
The gymnast, 16, won gold in an amazing performance on the floor last night. She had already won the vault gold, the all-around gold and the team gold earlier in the week, as well as coming fifth in Friday's beam event.
Swimmer Joyce Cooper was the previous Englishwoman to win four golds in 1930.
"I'm speechless I'm the most-decorated English woman at the Games in 84 years. It's incredible," said Fragapane.
At the 1930 Games in Canada, England's Joyce Cooper won gold in the 100 yard backstroke, 100 yard freestyle, 440 yard freestyle relay and the 440 yard freestyle
Fragapane joins Cooper and the men's pair of fencer Bill Hoskyns (1958 ) and shooter Mick Gault (1998 ) as the only English competitors to win four golds at a single Commonwealth Games.
Gault equalled the all-time all-comers medal record at Glasgow 2014 when he secured his 18th with bronze in the 10m air pistol competition.
The all-comers' record of six golds at a single Games is held by four athletes, including Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe in Manchester in 2002, while eight competitors have won five golds.
Standing just 4ft 5in tall, Fragapane has belied her diminutive size to become one of the stars of the Games and her final appearance did not disappoint as her score of 14.541 on the floor saw off the challenge of Australia's Lauren Mitchell (13.833), while Canada's Ellie Black (13.666) won bronze.
Meanwhile, England's Nile Wilson won gold in the high bars as well as taking silver in the parallel bars behind Scotland's Dan Purvis, with three-time gold medallist Max Whitlock securing bronze in the latter.
Wilson's high bars gold was decided on a tie-break after he was given the same score as team-mate Kristian Thomas, who had earlier picked up silver in the vault.
Wilson was awarded the title because of his higher execution score after both he and Thomas scored 14.966, with Canada's Kevin Lytwyn taking bronze with 14.866.
It meant the 18-year-old won his first individual gold medal of the Commonwealth Games after claiming team gold, parallel bars silver and all-around bronze.
"To finish like that was the icing on the cake - to finish with a gold medal is just unbelievable. I was just happy with how I performed - the scores were great," said Wilson.
In the men's vault, Canada's Scott Morgan won gold with a total of 14.733, with a disappointed-looking Thomas second with a score of 14.499 and Singapore's Wah Toon Hoe taking bronze with 14.195.
Thomas said: "I'm a bit disappointed with the first vault, but it's a Commonwealth medal so I am delighted."
Wales' Georgina Hockenhull took bronze on the women's beam behind Canada's Elsabeth Black.
HOW ENGLAND DOMINATED THE GYMNASTICS AT GLASGOW 2014
FINAL GLASGOW 2014 GYMNASTICS MEDALS TABLE, MEN AND WOMEN, ARTISTIC AND RHYTHM
......................GOLD.....SILVER.....BRONZE.....TOTAL
England.........9..................5.................5.................19
Canada..........8..................3..................4................15
Scotland........2..................2..................1.................5
Wales.............1...................5..................4.................10
Australia........0...................4..................0.................4
Malaysia........0...................1..................2.................3
Cyprus..........0...................0...................1.................1
India...............0...................0...................1.................1
NZ...................0...................0...................1.................1
Singapore....0....................0...................1.................1
Total for Great Britain: 12 golds; 12 silvers; 10 bronzes
(All nine of England's golds came in the artistic gymnastics, well ahead of their nearest rivals Canada, who only won three golds in the artistic gymnastics)
The best: England's 4ft 5in Claudia Fragapane has won four of the five finals she has competed in at Glasgow 2014 - team; all-around, vault; floor
England's Nile Wilson won five gold medals at the 2014 European Championships in Sofia in May and has now won four medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games - two golds (horizontal bar, team), one silver (parallel bars) and one bronze (all-around).
Scottish gymnast Dan Purvis is based in England and trains at Southport YMCA
BBC Sport - Glasgow 2014: Claudia Fragapane wins historic fourth gold
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Kiribati has won its first EVER medal of any colour, not just in the Commonwealth Games but of any such multi-sport event.
The medal, a gold, was won by David Katoatau in weightlifting's 105kg Group A at the Clyde Auditorium.
Katoatau, 30, lifted 148kg in the snatch and 200kg in the clean and jerk.
New Zealand's Stanislav Chalaev clinched silver, while England's Ben Watson claimed an unexpected bronze.
"I came here hoping to finish in the top five so to get bronze is the best day of my life," said 24-year-old Watson, who is from Oxford.
Katoatau smiled as the national anthem of Kiribati Teirake Kaini Kiribati (Stand up, Kiribati) was played at the Clyde Auditorium before the enthusiastic crowd burst into a round of applause.
The tiny Pacific island republic of Kiribati (pronounced "Kiribass") gained its independence from Britain on 12th July 1979. Its English-speaking and Gilbertese-speaking inhabitants number just over 100,000 and the country occupies land area of just 313 sq miles (just slightly larger than Andorra), making it one of the world's smallest countries. However, its 32 atolls and one raised coral island, Banaba, are scattered over an area of 1.3 million square miles, around the same size as Peru, and straddle the Equator.
Glasgow 2014: David Katoatau claims first ever Kiribati medal
By Neil Johnston
BBC Sport at the Clyde Auditorium
30 July 2014
Katoatau won Kiribati its first ever medal at its fifth Commonwealth Games
The tiny Pacific island nation of Kiribati is celebrating a first Commonwealth Games medal after David Katoatau won gold in weightlifting's 105kg Group A.
Katoatau, 30, lifted 148kg in the snatch and 200kg in the clean and jerk.
New Zealand's Stanislav Chalaev clinched silver, while England's Ben Watson claimed an unexpected bronze.
"I came here hoping to finish in the top five so to get bronze is the best day of my life," said 24-year-old Watson, who is from Oxford.
Katoatau smiled as the national anthem of Kiribati was played at the Clyde Auditorium before the enthusiastic crowd burst into a round of applause.
Kiribati - which won independence from the United Kingdom in 1979 - is a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean with a population of just over 100,000.
Some facts and figures about Kiribati
Where: A group of coral islands in the Central Pacific Ocean
Population: 103,500
Languages: English, Gilbertese
Size: 313 sq miles
Independence: From Britain, 12th July 1979
Capital: South Tarawa
Main exports: Seaweed, shark fins and coconuts
Read more about Kiribati on the BBC News website.
"I am so proud to have earned Kiribati a first medal at a major event," said Katoatau, who finished 17th out of 21 in the same category at the 2012 Olympics.
Watson, who is from the St Birinus Club in Didcot, led after the snatch after successfully lifting 157kg.
But despite being cheered on by an enthusiastic crowd, he could not compete with Katoatau or Chalaev in the clean and jerk - where the weight is lifted in two movements.
"I can't be disappointed because I didn't really expect a medal," added Watson.
Maryam Usman claimed gold for Nigeria in the other weighlifting event of the day, the women's +75kg weightlifting category.
The 23-year-old's overall score of 280kg beat reigning champion Ele Opeloge of Samoa into second place, with New Zealand's Tracey Lambrechs taking the bronze.
Watch David Katoatau being interviewed in the BBC's Commonwealth Games Glasgow studio last night before he plays guitar and sings a song he calls "Kiribati Is My Country": BBC Sport - Glasgow 2014: Kiribati gold medallist David Katoatau sings
David Katoatau carried the flag for Kiribati at the opening ceremony
Ben Watson won the English title in February with a two-lift total of 335kg
Maryam Usman (centre) won bronze at +75kg in the 2011 World Championships in Paris
BBC Sport - Glasgow 2014: David Katoatau claims first ever Kiribati medal
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Both Scotland and England have sent more athletes to the games. Scotland has sent 310, England with 416, Canada sent 265.
But you still competed in 16 of the 17 sports.
When taking population into account (which is a more accurate way of looking at it than just looking at the number of medals), Kiribati is the most successful country at this Commonwealth Games so far, even though it has only won one medal.
It has won 9.9 golds per 100,000 people as of 6pm UK time yesterday, followed by Grenada with 9.52, New Zealand with 2.69 and Scotland in fourth with 2.45. England is in tenth place with Canada ranked just below.
When it comes to the overall strike rate for medals of any hue, Grenada now tops the list as its gold and bronze count equates to 19.05 medals per million of population.
Samoa (15.87) places second, and the Isle of Man (11.76) takes third, while Scotland (7.34) is in seventh position.
So both England and Scotland are officially more successful at this Games than Canada.
Kiribati tops per capita table for gold medals | Herald Scotland
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darkbeaver; said:
We'll add gridiron football to the games and I guarantee we'll kick everybody's butts in that.
Join Commonwealth? Pardon me while I laugh ....
We prove every 2 years how superior we are to you limeys in the Olympics.
The Commonwealth Games is just the brits way of excluding real competition.
Vancouver Olympics in 2010 medal table:
2010 Winter Olympics medal table - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2010 Winter Olympics medal table - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So you ALMOST won, but you didn't.
And that medals table is taking TWO sports into account - artistic gymnastics and rhythm gymnastics.
In the artistic gymnastics Canada finished second in the medals table but you still had three times less golds than England.
The USA's population is around five times that of Great Britain yet you won less that twice the number of gold medals than Great Britain. You do the maths.
The stats show that Great Britain performed better in the London 2012 Olympics than the USA did.
When looking at the number of gold medals per million people in the country's population, Great Britain with its 29 golds in total had 0.4600 golds per million people and finished in tenth place.
The USA's 46 golds in total, less than twice that of Great Britain despite having a population five times as large, equates to 0.1466 golds per million people and was in 28th place behind the likes of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.
Canada's paltry one gold medal at London 2012 puts its way down in 46th place with just 0.0292 golds per million people, behind the likes of Iran, Uzbekistan and Ethiopia (which won three golds in total).
So you can gloat all you like about the USA being "superior" to Great Britain in the Olympics, but you keep ignoring population size. The facts show that Great Britain was better than the USA at London 2012 winning more gold medals when adjusted for population size.
In fact, Great Britain was the only country with a population of over 30 million which finished in the Top 20 on that count.
2012 London Olympic Results by Population
The Winter Olympics is a second-rate affair mainly involving mainly only snowy countries which have a tradition of sliding down snowy tracks on tea trays. It doesn't rank as high as the proper Olympics and the Commonwealth Games which involve a far wider range of sports which don't just involve sliding around on snow and ice.
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It's the last day of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games and rampant England have added two more golds to their medals tally so far today to stay well on course to finish top of the Commonwealth Games medals table for the first time since Edinburgh 1986.
England's 57th gold of the Games came this morning courtesy of husband-and-wife team Chris and Gabby Adcock who sealed badminton mixed doubles gold with a comprehensive 2-0 win over compatriots Chris Langridge and Heather Olver, who took silver.
And the strains of Jerusalem then rang out for a 58th time when Lizzie Armitstead - who those with a good memory will remember won Great Britain's first medal (a silver) at London 2012 - claimed gold in the women's 98km road race through the mean streets of Glasgow, with England's Emma Pooley claiming silver.
Glasgow 2014: Chris & Gabby Adcock seal mixed doubles gold
BBC Sport
3 August 2014
England's Chris and Gabby Adcock celebrate a convincing win over fellow countrymen Chris Langridge and Heather Olver to win the Commonwealth title
Husband-and-wife team Chris and Gabby Adcock sealed Commonwealth mixed doubles gold with a comprehensive 2-0 win over compatriots Chris Langridge and Heather Olver in Glasgow.
The top seeds, who also helped England to team silver, needed only 15 minutes to take the opening game 21-9.
And the Adcocks then won the second 21-12 in 18 minutes to easily see off their fourth-seeded opponents.
It means they have gone through the whole tournament without losing a game.
It is the first time a married couple have won the Commonwealth mixed doubles title and ensures a medal of each colour at these Games for Gabby Adcock, who won bronze with Lauren Smith in the women's doubles.
Olver displayed some neat angles at the net in the second game as she and Langridge won three points in succession for the only time in the contest, but victory for the Adcocks - world ranked 15 places higher than their opponents at fifth - seemed inevitable, and improves on a quarter-final exit in Delhi four years ago.
BBC Sport - Glasgow 2014: Chris & Gabby Adcock seal mixed doubles gold
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Glasgow 2014: England's Lizzie Armitstead & Emma Pooley win gold and silver
BBC Sport
3 August 2014
England's Lizzie Armistead and Emma Pooley claimed gold and silver in the 98km women's road race at the Commonwealth Games.
Armitstead, 25, overhauled Pooley with 7km to go to win her first gold after silver medals at Delhi in 2010 and the London Olympics two years ago.
Pooley, 31, who now retires from cycling, cried as she crossed the line for her second silver of the Games.
South Africa's Ashleigh Pasio was third and Scotland's Katie Archibald seventh.
Armistead becomes the first English woman to win a road race title at the Commonwealths.
She summed up the achievement as "special, surreal", adding: "This is something I have always dreamed about; it means so much to me. I am always a runner-up."
In what proved an aggressive race from the start on a seven-lap route around the streets of Glasgow, Australia spearheaded numerous attacks and the field of 63 riders was soon whittled down.
Lizzie Armitstead's medal haul
Olympics: 2012, silver
Commonwealth Games: 2014, gold; 2010, silver
World Championships (track): 2009 & 2010, 1 gold, 3 silvers, 1 bronze
But England, with Dani King, Laura Trott and Hannah Barnes alongside Armitstead and Pooley, reeled in any breakaways as they sought to control the race.
The decisive break came with about 40km remaining and was led by Armitstead and Pooley, a five-strong group initially getting away before Archibald, who had won a bronze medal on the track, and Australia's Gracie Elvin managed to bridge the gap.
Pooley, who claimed silver in Wednesday's time trial, then launched a concerted solo effort in an attempt to break up the leading pack and prevent a bunch sprint, enabling Armitstead to seize the initiative as heavy rain began to fall.
"I am really happy," said Armitstead, who had won the national title on the same course in 2013. "That was the best cycling teamwork I have ever been a part of. It's such a shame Emma is retiring today - it was a fantastic job from her and all the girls and I am really proud of them."
Pooley, who will now focus on triathlons and marathons, added: "That was unexpected! We were working for Liz and I wanted to do everything for her. When she came past me and I was still clear [of the chasers], I thought I might as well keep going.
"It's been a long nine years, and it was nice to finish on a high."
More gold for England: For the 58th time at Glasgow 2014 "Jerusalem" rings out, this time for Lizzie Armitstead, with silver for England's Emma Pooley and bronze for South Africa's Ashleigh Pasio
MEDALS TABLE (TOP 5)
......................GOLD.....SILVER.....BRONZE.....TOTAL
England...........58..............57................55............170
Australia..........45..............42................45............132
Canada...........32..............16................35.............82
Scotland..........19..............15................19.............53
India.................14..............28................19.............61
BBC Sport - Glasgow 2014: Lizzie Armitstead & Emma Pooley win gold and silver
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Yes England sent over 100 more athletes too. Are we done here? No one cares about the commonwealth games and no it isn't comparable to the Winter Olympics.
Stop copying and pasting whole articles, you can link them and anyone who gives a damn will click and read them. Everyone just skips over your garbage for the most part anyways.
Stop copying and pasting whole articles, you can link them and anyone who gives a damn will click and read them. Everyone just skips over your garbage for the most part anyways.
You can't compete in the Commonwealth Games if you aren't a member of the vast, colourful, vibrant, diverse organisation that is the Commonwealth.
Unless you do just that, your dream of seeing if you can compete with in the Commonwealth Games will remain just that - a dream.