Showing posts with label Glasgow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Glasgow. Show all posts
Sunday, 2 August 2026
Saturday, 1 August 2026
Thursday, 30 July 2026
Tuesday, 28 July 2026
AMY HUNT WON THE THIRD WOMEN'S 100M SEMIFINAL
Amy Hunt 🏴 won the third women’s 100m semifinal in 11.02s under heavy rain to qualify for the Commonwealth Games final! 🌧️
Zoe Hobbs 🇳🇿 also secured automatic qualification with 11.04s, while Jonielle Smith 🇯🇲 advanced as the fastest non-automatic qualifier in 11.07s.
- Jumpers World
Monday, 27 July 2026
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
MADELEINE MCCANN'S BROTHER SEAN, 21, COMPLETING FOR SCOTLAND IN COMMONWEALTH GAMES
The Games, which take place in Glasgow from this Thursday until 2 August 2026, will mark Sean McCann's Commonwealth debut for Scotland
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| (Image: Getty Images for Commonwealth Sport) |
Madeleine McCann’s brother will take part in the Commonwealth Games after being selected to swim for Scotland. Sean McCann is getting ready to step out onto the global stage this week when the Games begin in Glasgow.
Madeleine was three when she went missing from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in southern Portugal on May 3 2007, shortly before her birthday. Sean and his twin sister Amelie were just two when their older sister disappeared.
According to Scottish Swimming, Sean will compete in the freestyle disciplines as he looks to qualify for Team GB and swim at the LA Olympics in 2028. The 21-year-old began competing aged eight and previously raced for Scotland at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad and Tobago in 2023 in the 400m and 1500m freestyle.
Speaking about his competitive journey a few years ago on the Joe Humphries Memorial Trust website, he revealed: “I started competitive sport when I was eight, joining Charnwood triathlon club. It was here that I discovered my passion for swimming and I joined Loughborough Town swimming club to increase the number of swim sessions I did per week.
"At the age of 10, I was selected to swim at City of Leicester and I have since gone on to win multiple county titles as well as becoming regional and National champion in my age group. In order to have achieved this, I have had to remain extremely dedicated, getting up at 4am multiple mornings each week to train, since the age of 11.
"I train nine times a week in the pool, as well as three gym sessions, totalling over 20 hours of training per week. I’m aiming to compete at the 2026 Commonwealth Games and also the 2028 Olympics in LA.”
It is not known if his parents Kate and Gerry McCann will be in attendance at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre during the 11-day event, which begins on Thursday, July 23.
Mr and Mrs McCann criticised a true-crime drama about their daughter’s disappearance back in May, saying the programme was made without their consultation or consent.
Kate and Gerry said they 'had no involvement whatsoever' in the making of Channel 5’s 'Under Suspicion: Kate McCann', which depicts Madeleine’s mother being treated as a suspect during the investigation into her disappearance in May 2007.
In a statement released on the day the show aired, Kate and Gerry raised concerns over the 'negative impact' such programmes have on their family as they continue to grieve Madeleine’s disappearance 19 years on.
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| Kate McCann, the mother of the missing British girl Madeleine, carries her son Sean after piking him up from the local nursery at the Ocean Club holiday resort on May 22, 2007 in Praia da Luz, Portugal. (Image: Getty Images) |
“Thank you to everyone who has offered support & kindness this month,” they wrote on the Find Madeleine Campaign website. “May is never the easiest. We usually start to feel a bit ‘lighter’ at this stage of the month.
“We are disappointed however, knowing that a Channel 5 ‘docu-drama’ will air tonight. We have not given, or been asked for, our consent and have had no involvement whatsoever in its making.
“We fail to see how it will help. Programmes like this, always have a negative impact on our family.”
The Metropolitan Police’s probe into the 2007 disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine has been active since 2011. German authorities identified Christian Brueckner as the prime suspect in Madeleine’s case back in 2022.
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| Gerry (L) and Kate McCann (R) leave their home in Rothley, Leicestershire in central England with daughter Amelie and son Sean, 12 September 2007. (Image: Getty Images) |
However, Brueckner has never been charged over Madeleine’s disappearance and has previously denied any involvement. Speaking in December, dad Gerry, from Glasgow, said the hope of finding her after all this time is 'slim', but not 'extinguished'.
“Madeleine’s been missing for 18 years, and the bottom line is, we still don’t know what’s happened to her,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Gerry added: “I don’t even mean ‘convincing’ evidence – there is no evidence to say she’s dead.
“Now we fully understand she may be dead, it may even be probable, but we don’t know that. I’d love to find her alive, but we need to find out what happened and bring whoever’s responsible to justice, and other children and people are at risk while that perpetrator is free.”
- Connor O'Neill
Thursday, 14 May 2026
'DISGUSTING' - HEARTS BOSS DEREK MCINNES FUMES OVER CELTIC WINNER
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| Kelechi Iheanacho scores a 99th-minute penalty to seal a 3-2 for Celtic over Motherwell |
Hearts boss Derek McInnes described the decision to award William Hill Premiership title rivals Celtic a stoppage-time penalty in their win at Motherwell as "disgusting".
While leaders Hearts were beating Falkirk 3-0 at Tynecastle, Celtic were awarded a contentious spot-kick deep in time added on at Fir Park, which Kelechi Iheanacho converted to snatch his side a 3-2 win.
McInnes' side lead Celtic by a solitary point in the table with a better goal difference and will face the Hoops in a final-day title decider in Glasgow on Saturday.
Hearts will be crowned Scottish champions for the first time in 66 years if they avoid defeat at Celtic Park, but McInnes was furious over the penalty decision.
He told Sky Sports: "Everybody was just interested in the (Celtic) score. So when you hear Celtic get a 96th-minute penalty (VAR decision), you just assume what’s happened is they get the penalty.
"And having seen it again, I think it’s disgusting, I don’t think it’s a penalty kick.
"But we’re up against it. We’re up against everybody and we’ll be ready for Saturday.
"I don’t think it’s a penalty kick. If I’m Motherwell, I’m really disappointed with that.
"I’ve seen it (the replay) before I came out to speak to you and I think it’s so poor that they’ve been given that penalty. And it looks as if they’ve been 'given’ it.
"I think they’ve been very fortunate, very fortunate on that side. And we have to realise we’re up against everything."
Two goals in five first-half minutes put Hearts in control against Falkirk, with Frankie Kent heading them into a 29th-minute lead and Cameron Devlin firing home from inside the penalty area.
Blair Spittal curled home Hearts’ third in the closing stages, soon after news of Motherwell’s late equaliser against Celtic had filtered through the stands.
Celtic boss Martin O'Neill admitted he feared his team's league hopes were "done for" before the dramatic plot twist.
"I think we knew we had to win both matches otherwise it was done for," he said.
"It's exciting to take it into the final game and I think the players have good belief that they can do it. And that's very, very important.
"We have to win the game. Hearts don't but at least we've taken it there. It's nice to take it into the final game which looked a long way off five or six weeks ago.
"I think we have got a chance, we're at home. The atmosphere will be fantastic."
When asked about the penalty decision, O'Neill said: "The lads have a little monitor. It's very small. I can't really see it. I need another pair of glasses to see it. The lads thought it was a handball, an elbow as well too."
- RTĒ
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
HOCKEY, DIVING AND CRICKET AMONG SPORTS REMOVED AXED FOR 2026 COMMONWEALTH GAMES
Hockey, rugby sevens and diving are among the big-name Commonwealth Games casualties, axed from the pared-back Glasgow program in 2026.
The Games, relocated to Scotland after Victoria's withdrawal as host, will feature just 10 events, which is nine less than the previous edition held in 2022 in Birmingham.
Other sports to be left out include cricket, badminton, beach volleyball, mountain biking, rhythmic gymnastics, squash and table tennis.
Athletics and swimming were the only sports guaranteed a spot on the program, which also includes track cycling, weightlifting, 3x3 basketball and lawns bowls -- all of which include a para equivalent.
Netball, artistic gymnastics, judo and boxing round out the chosen 10.
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| Multiple sports including Hockey have been dropped from the Commonwealth games. Photo by Elsa/Getty Images |
As a cost-saving measure, the 10 sports will be spread across just four venues -- Scotstoun Stadium, Tollcross International Swimming Centre, Emirates Arena and the Scottish Event Campus.
Athletes and support staff will stay in hotel accommodation rather than an athletes village.
The 2026 program will be officially released later on Wednesday.
The multi-sport event had been endangered since the government of Victoria pulled out as host last year, citing spiralling costs, which, it claimed, had blown the budget out to $6 billion.
Victoria paid $380 million in compensation to the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), of which $200 million will be directed to Scotland to cover its hosting costs.
That figure will be topped up by $4.5 million from Commonwealth Games Australia (CGA) to cover security, with neither the UK nor Scottish governments prepared to use public money -- though the former is said to be prepared to underwrite any additional security costs.
"This is a fantastic outcome for the Commonwealth sport movement," CGA president Ben Houston said last month.
"The Commonwealth Games are at the heart of Australia's performance pathway, often providing the launch pad for continued and ongoing success by Australian athletes.
"They are irreplaceable in terms of providing global competition and, in the absence of an Australian host, it was in the interests of Australian sport that we make an overseas Games a reality."
- AAP
Monday, 7 August 2023
LEITAO MAKES HISTORY WITH PORTUGAL'S FIRST GOLD
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| Reuters |
Iuri Leitao made history when he claimed Portugal's first ever world title in track cycling by winning the men's omnium event in Glasgow on Sunday.
The 25-year-old was dominant throughout the multi-discipline competition, winning the scratch race and tempo race before getting a runners-up placing in the elimination race.
With a comfortable cushion to take into the final points race, Leitao stayed out of trouble and held off the challenge of France's two-time omnium world champion Benjamin Thomas.
Saturday, 5 August 2023
TWISTS AND TURNS GALORE IN GLASGOW SHOWDOWN
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| Reuters |
Glasgow's usually busy streets were becalmed ahead of the weekend with cars banished from the city centre and only the occasional whirr of expensive bicycle wheels raising the volume.
It will be a far more manic scene on Sunday, however, when the men's road race of the UCI World Championships reaches what is likely to be a thrilling conclusion on a truly unique course.
The 271km layout, the longest ever in world championships history, begins in Edinburgh, crosses the Forth Bridge and for the first 120km is nothing out of the ordinary.
Tuesday, 9 November 2021
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