Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games for hosts England here, fighting back from a significant deficit to beat New

13 seconds further back including his penalty.Australia's Matthew Hauser took third place in 50:50.New

stoked" for Yee, and insisted "the rivalry is only just starting, but the friendship is getting bigger".New

Zealand have reportedly launched an appeal against the decision that will not impact Yee's gold medal

Australia and Barbados were the big winners on an historic first day of the Commonwealth Games T20 cricket competition in Birmingham.

New Zealand face South Africa in the first match of Group B tomorrow.Hosts England meet Sri Lanka later

Hosts England began the defence of their Commonwealth Games netball title with a thumping 74-22 win over Trinidad and Tobago here.

Elsewhere in Pool B, world champions New Zealand beat Northern Ireland 79-20 in another large win.In

Australia and New Zealand set new standards at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games in the women's

A new Commonwealth record was set by Australians Georgia Baker, Sophie Edwards, Chloe Moran and Maeve

Plouffe in the women's 4000m team pursuit final, beating New Zealand to gold by five seconds in a new

Campbell Stewart replicated their neighbours in the men's event, beating England in their final with a new

Games record of 3:47.575.Australia were able to beat Wales for the bronze medal.A second New Zealand

best of 42.040 to defeat England for gold.New Zealand completed the podium by beating Canada in the

A champion and two silver medallists from last year’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, and two current world record-holders, are among the women who will raise the standard of weightlifting at Birmingham 2022 to "an all-time high".

38-year-old Dika Toua, is hoping to be on the Commonwealth Games podium for a fourth time.The Papua New

Games in 2000, was a gold medallist at Glasgow 2014, and recently won her 13th continental title.New Zealand

3x3 basketball, the shortened version of the standard game with five-a-side, is appearing at the Commonwealth Games for the first time in Birmingham, together with wheelchair basketball 3x3, after being added to the list of Olympic sports in the run-up to Tokyo 2020.

ambitions in Birmingham as 3x3 basketball makes its debut ©Getty ImagesAustralia - who recently beat New

Zealand in the final of the 3x3 Asia Cup - will provide the biggest challenge to England in the men's

Australia will be the team to beat in the men’s hockey competition as they aim to secure a seventh successive title at the Commonwealth Games here.

Australia have been drawn in Pool A along with South Africa, Pakistan, Scotland and New Zealand - who

in four of the past six additions and coach Katrina Powell has high hopes for her side as they face New

Zealand in the group stage."

[Our goal] is to play in that big game [against New Zealand], to get the gold medal game experience,"

after previously pulling out of the competition due to COVID-19 concerns ©Getty ImagesAustralia and New

England’s multiple world record breaker Adam Peaty will compete in his first international race since the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, eight years after he marked his arrival on the international stage at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

and 100m butterfly individual bronzes in Budapest.Eleven-time Paralympic champion Sophie Pascoe of New

Zealand is set to compete at her third Commonwealth Games having become the youngest New Zealander to

England's Commonwealth Games netball title defence begins tomorrow at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham.

around.Australia have a point to prove, having also lost in the 2019 Netball World Cup final versus New

Zealand, but will have to wait until the knockout rounds to enact revenge on either of those sides.The

Diamonds are in Group A, whereas England and New Zealand occupy Group B along with Trinidad and Tobago

semi-finals.Since netball joined the programme as a full medal sport at Kuala Lumpur 1998, powerhouses Australia, New

Zealand and England have reached the final four on every occasion.At Birmingham 2022, the semi-finals

Dame Flora Duffy is set to seek a second Commonwealth Games women's triathlon title at Birmingham 2022 to go with her Tokyo 2020 Olympics and 2021 World Triathlon Championships Series wins.

two World Triathlon Championships Series events this year.Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist Hayden Wilde of New

Zealand has also won twice on this year's Series.At the event in Leeds in June, Wilde apologised after

South Africa’s cricketers have been dealt another huge blow on the eve of the Commonwealth Games after head coach Hilton Moreeng confirmed that star all-rounder Marizanne Kapp will remain in South Africa after her brother-in-law suffered serious injuries in an accident.

captain Suné Luus and fast bowler Shabnim Ismail are both set to return for their opening match against New

Zealand after missing the final match of the T20 series against England.This is the first time that

New Zealand will be aiming to maintain their stranglehold on the rugby sevens competitions at the Commonwealth

the men's team that claimed silver at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have been selected for Birmingham 2022.New

Zealand have been drawn in a group with Sri Lanka, England and Samoa."

Back-to-back Olympic champions Fiji are also expected to threaten New Zealand’s hopes of defending the

gold at Tokyo 2020, Fiji will carry high hopes for rugby sevens into Birmingham 2022 ©Getty ImagesNew Zealand

Australia will be seeking to make amends for their defeat to New Zealand in the final four years ago.They

It was a slog, and there were times when I thought I might not make it.

rearranged.There was one occasion, however, when the no-show was entirely my fault.My apologies again to New

Zealand's Nigel Avery, who agreed to speak with me on a Wednesday morning New Zealand time.This was

Birmingham 2022 chief executive Ian Reid has revealed that fewer than three per cent of the athletes and officials that have arrived in the English city for the Commonwealth Games have tested positive for COVID-19.

landed in Birmingham for the Games that are set to open tonight.Australia, England, Northern Ireland, New

Zealand, Pakistan, India and Malaysia are among the nations that have been hit by positive COVID-19

held on August 7.Two Malaysian officials are also reportedly in COVID-19 enforced quarantine, while New

Zealand revealed earlier this week that an athlete was isolating after testing positive.Athletes have

Bangladesh returned home from the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games with a pair of silver medals, which for them represented a good result.

South Asian Games champion, will be among those to watch.Gymnast Ali Kader Haque has travelled from New

Zealand, meanwhile, where he is based.The Queen's Baton Relay visited Bangladesh in January ©Birmingham