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Australia are through to the gold medal match of the women’s 3 x 3 wheelchair basketball, upsetting England 8-6 in the semi-final. The crowd is heaving — and sweating — here at Smithfield. They will play Canada in the final on Tuesday.The women’s 10km scratch race is back underway after being stopped due to another crash at the velodrome, this time involving cyclists from India and New Zealand.
We will hear from the 24-year-old following the medal ceremony in what has been a remarkable 48 hours for her.Glaetzer defies fatigue, handlebars to win goldAustralian cyclists Matthew Glaetzer and Thomas Cornish finished one-two in the men’s 1000m time trial despite being forced to change to less aerodynamic sprint handlebars after AusCycling found the previous bars were not suitable for the stresses of the event.
Both cyclists completed stunning times to finish ahead of top-ranked cyclist Nicholas Paul from Trinidad and Tobago who finished third.Glaetzer defended his Commonwealth Games title from four years ago finishing in 59.505 to beat Cornish’s 1.00.036. “It felt terrible with two laps to go, but I knew I had one last ride and I’ve been there before [and] come back from disappointment,” Glaetzer told Channel Seven.“My goal was to go to some 59 seconds here but when we lost the bars, it’s like well, I’ll just have to go sub one minute on sprint bars and that turned out to get the job done.”
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