Two of the most experienced members of the Australian Commonwealth Games team will fly the flag at the opening ceremony in Birmingham tomorrow morning.
As the sun was setting in the churchyard of the medieval St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston, Australian men's hockey co-captain Eddie Ockenden and squash veteran Rachael Grinham soaked in their appointment as flag-bearers for the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony.
"I probably thought the last one, Gold Coast, was going to be my last , but here I am again, and I really wasn't expecting this at all," Grinham said."You feel a little bit uncomfortable, to be honest," Ockenden said.They are the second duo to carry the flag, after cycling twins Sal and Remo Sansonetti did it in 1978."I was rooming with Mark Knowles at the last one and when he was named Ockenden said.
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