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Medi Harris well placed here for a medal...

The women's 100m backstroke final is under way.

Mike Henson
´óÏó´«Ã½ Sport at Sandwell Aquatics Centre

That was a medal ceremony to melt the most jaded of cynic.

South African 200m breaststroke champion Tatjana Schoenmaker invites compatriot and bronze medal-winner Kaylene Corbett up onto the top step so they can sing the national anthem together.

Sing/sob the national anthem, because the pair of them were welling up like an Icelandic geyser.

Coming up now is the women’s 100m backstroke final.

Nineteen-year-old Medi Harris of Wales, who reached the World Championship final this year, is in lane three. England’s Lauren Cox is in lane six, while Katie Shanahan of Scotland is in lane one.

Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown of Australia starts in lane five.

It's double bronze for New Zealand in the rugby sevens.

First the women beat Canada 19-12 then the men blew Australia away to win 26-12.

Both were unable to replicate the gold medals they won on the Gold Coast four years ago.

Instead we will have new champions as Australia take on Fiji in the women's gold medal match next then Fiji will face South Africa in the men's match.

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Rebecca Adlington
Double Olympic gold-medal winning swimmer on ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV

I don’t think people at home understand how rare of a swimmer Adam Peaty is. Adam is phenomenal and what he’s done for the sport is huge.

And now that he’s a dad I think that’s extra motivation for him. He constantly wants to make history and break those barriers. He's constantly hungry for more.

Gareth Griffiths
´óÏó´«Ã½ Sport Wales in Birmingham

It's lively here at the NEC with the Wales women table tennis team on the brink of qualifying for the gold medal final as they lead in the semi-final against Malaysia.

Anna Hursey and Chloe Thomas Whu Zhang lost the opening doubles 3-0 before Charlotte Carey levelled the match with a tense 3-2 singles with a win over Alice Chang.

Hursey, 16, defeated Karen Lyne 3-1 to give Wales a 2-1 match advantage.

Chloe Thomas Whu Zhang faces Alice Chang now knowing victory in this singles match will put Wales in the final.

A Malaysia win will take the match into a deciding game.

Half-time at the NEC and the gap in this game is starting to become slightly wider than perhaps anticipated. Wales have managed to stretch an 11 goal lead.

Scotland coach Tamsin Greenway isn't sure about what she's seeing and has made a couple of changes already but so far they don't seem to be having the desired effect.

Scotland are shooting at just 65.2% and that is pretty low, that is what they'll be looking to address heading into the second half.

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Scotland's John Archibald picked up a silver medal after his electric performance in the men's 15km scratch race and was beaming with pride when talking to ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sport:

"The break, the guys in there made it happen. Corbin [Strong] and Will [Roberts], it takes three guys to make it work.

"Really, I have to thank Mark Stewart who sacrificed his race to help me win and it’s always an honour racing with Mark. Four years ago the boot was on the other foot but I'm delighted to come away with something today.

"To be honest, if I had to predict what race I’d have got a medal in, I was hoping the Individual Pursuit would be the one. When it didn’t go to plan yesterday, I thought that was my chance gone - so I’m delighted with how that’s gone today."

Three more finals to go including the men's 100m breaststroke final in which Adam Peaty goes for his first medal of these Commonwealth Games.

The Olympic champion and world record holder is looking to secure a hat-trick of Commonwealth titles in this event. He's in the pool at 20:51.

Anna Toman's second quarter-goal is enough to keep England's perfect record in Pool A, after their opening 6-0 win against Ghana.

England scored once from 20 shots on goal, compared with just two shots on goal from Canada.

They face India on Tuesday afternoon.

Tatjana Schoenmaker is looking strong but England’s Molly Renshaw is pushing into a good position.

And we're off in this final.

Finals all the way for the rest of this evening and next up is the women's 200m breaststroke final.

England’s Molly Renshaw goes in this one as she looks to secure her first medal of these Games.

Renshaw won bronze in 2014 and silver in 2018 but Olympic and Commonwealth champion Tatjana Schoenmaker of South Africa is favourite.

Canada's Ruslan Gaziev wins this second semi final with compatriot Joshua Edwards second. Scotland's Duncan Scott is third quickest while Matt Richards is fourth and Jack MacMillan sixth.

Tom Dean, Scott and Jacob Whittle are all through to the final.

It's been pretty close so far but some better shooting from Wales puts them ahead - they have scored 12 of their 14 attempts where Scotland have only managed seven of their 12.

Both these sides feature heavy representation from the domestic Superleague in the UK.

Wales' side is made up largely of players from Celtic Dragons and Scotland of players from Strathclyde Sirens. The Scotland team is also coached by Tamsin Greenway, a very familiar face to England netball fans - she has 67 England caps and won bronze at the Commonwealths in 2010.

No time to rest for Scotland’s Duncan Scott, who is in this second semi-final.

Northern Ireland’s Jack McMillan and Wales' Matt Richards are also looking to secure their place in the final.

Kyle Chalmers finishes fastest in this first semi final with an outstanding time of 47.36 - a new Games record. Tom Dean pushed hard but had to settle for second.

Jacob Whittle was fourth and Lewis Burras sixth.

Marc Woods
Former British Paralympic Swimmer on ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV

She obviously used the fly as a warm-up! From the get go this was won by Emma McKeon. She came up straight from the dive in the lead and looked to hold everybody away from her.