Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 9 LIVE updates: Fourteen-year-old Aussie wins gold; Australia to play for cricket and netball gold; Browning sorry after relay disaster; Hoare stuns with 1500m win as Montag, Aussies bowls pair win gold

Well folks, that’s all for this morning’s action in Birmingham.

Our rolling coverage kicks off again from 4pm this afternoon with Australia in the hunt for a stack of gold medals. Plenty to look forward to in team sports over the coming days with netball, cricket, and beach volleyball on the horizon - and that’s just the start.

Until then, keep your eyes locked on our pages for all the latest out of the Commonwealth Games. Caden Helmers signing off once more, keep it real.

As sure as night follows day, the arrival of the Commonwealth Games every four years prompts its critics to belch forth the searing observation that it is not, in fact, the Olympics. The standard is just not as high, they cunningly point out, due to the lack of sporting giants like the USA and China.

Bravo to them, for they are correct, then, now and forever. Come the regional Victorian Games in 2026, they can be just as smug, safe in the knowledge that no Norwegian hurdlers or Iranian weightlifters will be robbing the host nation of gold medals that are rightfully ours to plunder.

It’s a base-level take based on the relevance of the Games to the consumer, not the athletes or the sports they represent.

Phil Lutton and Michael Gleeson break it down here.

Emma McKeon is an unlikely temptress.

She does not wear diamonds, like Elizabeth Taylor, or a vial of blood like Angelina Jolie. She wears Speedos, goggles and Eau de Chlorine, and has spent much of her life doing laps of suburban pools. Her hard work and personal sacrifice have made her one of the best swimmers in the world.

But McKeon competes for country with an appetite for soap opera from its swim team.

In case you missed it, we say this without a hint of hyperbole: Ollie Hoare won one of the greatest races in Australia’s running history and etched his name as a great of the sport.

It was a Commonwealth Games gold medal in a world class field. Forget the fact this was a Commonwealth Games medal, it was a world championship finals field with only Norway’s Olympic champion Jacob Ingebrigtsen missing.

There have been moments of joy, there have been tears of despair, and at the heart of it all is the city of Birmingham.

Our reporters on the ground in the West Midlands - Andrew Webster, Tom Decent, Phil Lutton, Rob Harris and Michael Gleeson - look back at the best and worst of the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Smiles, jokes, dazzling exhibition shots - and an Australian gold and silver medallist to savour at the end.

Yang Qian reckoned it had been an “exciting” Saturday, playing against her great friend Lei Li Na and earning a 12-10 16-14 7-11 11-9 victory which brought her the women’s singles classes 6-10 gold, to go with her Paralympic crown.

“I have a place to save all my medals and I’ll put this one in the same spot. It’s a special box,” Qian, who made her name in China as a table tennis star despite having had her arm amputated following an accident when she was eight, said in Birmingham.

Having competed in two Paralympic Games for China, she relocated to Melbourne five years ago and represented Australia in Tokyo 2020, where she won gold in the women’s singles class 10 event.

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