Tag: Gold Coast 2018
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Team Scotland Arrive Home After Commonwealth Games
Scottish athletes return to Glasgow from the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Among them was swimmer Duncan Scott who won a record six medals at one Games.
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Aimee Willmott applies her own science to beat Miley to Commonwealth gold
Few swimmers have a greater understanding of how to tease the best performance out of themselves than Aimee Willmott, who has written an academic paper on the subject. Willmott’s dissertation, published in the European Journal of Sport Science, considers the effect clothing worn between a warm-up and competition can have on performance. She concludes that…
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BBC presenter falls in swimming pool during live interview
The sports presenter Mike Bushell made a splash as he fell in a swimming pool during a live interview on BBC Breakfast. Bushell was preparing to chat to the England Commonwealth Games swimmers Sarah Vasey, Adam Peaty, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, Ben Proud and James Guy, who were sitting on the edge of a small pool on Australia’s Gold Coast.…
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Ian Thorpe, Giaan Rooney ferried around Commonwealth Games ‘in stolen car’
Swimming stars Ian Thorpe and Giaan Rooney were forced to walk the remainder of their journey to the Commonwealth Games aquatic centre to report on the swimming after the car they were in was seized by police. The pair were riding in the hire car when Gold Coast police pulled it over because it had…
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Roomates – 2018 Commonwealth Games
How well do our #OurTeamGC know their roomates? Find out all the goss.
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Adam Peaty’s Interview Ahead Of Upcoming Commonwealth Games | Commonwealth Games 2018
Footage of an interview with Team England swimmer (and Olympic gold-medallist) Adam Peaty ahead of the Commonwealth Games. Also includes cutaways. https://youtu.be/k0JkWLCmstY
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The rise of swimmer Jocelyn Ulyett
Swimmer Jocelyn Ulyett arrived at Loughborough University as an ‘average’ swimmer… now she has the potential to claim a medal at the Commonwealth Games.