Birmingham 2022 begins this week and these are the events to mark in your diary. | By Tom Decent tomdecent
A common criticism of the Commonwealth Games is that gold medals don’t mean as much because not every athlete competes.
So, what are the key events to watch? The ones where the cream of the crop will be involved? Here’s 10 of the best. All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time.Netball has been part of the Commonwealth Games since 1998 and the decider will showcase the best of the sport, given few nations outside the Commonwealth are competitive at the elite level.
Australia’s women won the first gold medal on offer for rugby sevens at the Rio Olympics in 2016, but fell to New Zealand at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and bombed out in the quarter-finals of the Tokyo Olympics. Since then, Australia have surged back to the top of the world rankings and will go mighty close to another gold. There will, however, be stiff competition from New Zealand and Canada.
South Africa’s world record holder Wayde van Niekerk and reigning Olympic champion Steven Gardiner from the Bahamas will be there. Throw in England’s Matthew Hudson-Smith, Grenada’s Kirani James and Christopher Taylor from Jamaica, and this is a race not to be missed.Rhett WymanNothing gets the hairs standing up on the back of the neck like a 100m final on the track. While there won’t be Americans at Birmingham, there are scores of world-class sprinters hungry for gold.
For Australia, Emma McKeon is the reigning Olympic champion, Mollie O’Callaghan recently won gold at the world championships in Budapest, while Shayna Jack is back in the pool after her drugs ban. It’s a battle between Australia’s queen of the pool, a future queen of the pool and a swimmer aiming to make up for lost time. It should be a beauty.6. Men’s 100m butterfly final
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