Laura Kenny, Alex Yee and James Wilby are among the many Tokyo medallists concentrating on the rostrum because the Commonwealth Video games will get below method in Birmingham on Friday.
With medals on provide throughout 4 sports activities on the opening day of motion, the PA Information Company picks out 5 potential residence nation highlights.
Swimming
James Wilby will hope so as to add to his Commonwealth Video games medal haul (Zac Goodwin/PA)
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James Wilby might be seeking to kickstart England’s gold rush within the pool as he defends his males’s 200 metres breaststroke title. Scotland’s Ross Murdoch, who completed runner-up to Wilby on the Gold Coast 4 years in the past, could produce other concepts. Birkenhead’s Freya Anderson is within the ladies’s 200m freestyle alongside Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus, whereas Wales’ Dan Jervis is within the males’s 400m freestyle.
Biking
Laura Kenny is concentrating on her second Commonwealth Video games gold medal (John Walton/PA)
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Dame Laura Kenny might be in motion when the observe biking will get below method on the Lee Valley Velodrome in London, racing alongside Josie Knight, Maddie Leech and Grace Lister within the ladies’s crew pursuit. And husband Jason might be teaching as Ryan Owens, Joe Truman and Hamish Turnbull chase gold within the males’s crew dash.
Gymnastics
Joe Fraser will compete in entrance of his residence metropolis followers (Mike Egerton/PA)
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Birmingham-born Joe Fraser, the previous world champion on parallel bars, will lead England’s bid to retain their males’s crew title on the NEC on a day that additionally doubles as particular person {qualifications}. Skilled duo Frank Baines and Hamish Carter will hope to steer Scotland into no less than the silver medal place, whereas Northern Eire’s Rhys McClenaghan makes an attempt to qualify on pommel.
Triathlon
Alex Yee grabbed a silver medal in Tokyo (Martin Rickett/PA)
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Alex Yee is a giant favorite to construct on his silver medal from the Tokyo Olympics as he stars within the males’s triathlon. The end result of the ladies’s occasion is way much less minimize and dried with Georgia Taylor-Brown, like Yee a double medallist in Japan, dealing with stiff competitors from former world champion Non Stanford, who’s representing Wales, and one other world champion in Bermuda’s Flora Duffy.
Netball
England’s netball stars are aiming to retain their Commonwealth Video games crown (Martin Rickett/PA)
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England’s bid to retain the netball title they gained so thrillingly on the Gold Coast kicks off with a Group B recreation in opposition to Trinidad and Tobago. That includes a sizeable contingent of gamers who have been current on the Gold Coast, Jess Thirlby’s facet are filled with confidence, however are positive to have to beat perennial favourites Australia and New Zealand as soon as once more.
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