8 CAN’T MOMENTS YOU MISS
BEACH VOLLEYBALL Women’s pool match: Mariafe Artacho del Solar/Taliqua Clancy (AUS) v Mariota Angelopoulou/Manolina Konstantinou (CYP), 3.03pm Australian beach volleyball is hoping to unveil the sport’s new glamour pairing with Taliqua Clancy (pictured) and Mariafe Artacho del Solar stepping out to compete at Coolangatta this afternoon. Have swept all before them in the past six months and are viewed as a definite medal threat.
BASKETBALL Men’s pool match Australia v Canada, Cairns, 5.30pm
The disrupted Boomers play a young Canadian side but should have enough firepower to get their Games campaign under way with a win. With no Mitch Creek, the Boomers will be without their best player from the recent Asia Cup and World Cup qualifiers but NBL grand final MVP Chris Goulding is set to continue his stunning form.
GYMNASTICS Women’s team final, 7.23pm
Australia have won four of the eight Commonwealth Games women’s team gold medals, including at the last home Games in Melbourne in 2006, and they are again chances but they will need to step up to beat morefancied Canadian and English rivals.
NETBALL Australia v Barbados, Gold Coast Convention Centre, 8.30pm
The Diamonds will be backing up from their opening clash with Northern Ireland and Barbados are expected to provide some tougher opposition. Australia will continue to chop and change their starting line-up as they settle on the best combination for the medal rounds that lie ahead.
CYCLING Men’s 4km individual pursuit, 8.32pm
Australia will field a former world champion in Jordan Kerby who won the rainbow jersey in 2017 and will be hoping to use a vocal home crowd to urge him on. But his toughest competition might come from compatriot Sam Welsford, who had the better of their duel at this year’s national championships.
CYCLING Women’s sprint, 8.52pm
Stephanie Morton has assumed the role of Australia’s queen of the track now that Anna Meares has retired but that process began in Glasgow four years ago when she upstaged her superstar teammate to win the women’s sprint. Now she’s going into the Gold Coast Games as defending sprint champion and ready to deliver on expectations.
BASKETBALL Women’s pool match, Australia v Mozambique, Townsville, 9pm
It is a battle between the red-hot gold medal favourite and the lowest-ranked side in the competition when the Opals take on the minnows from Mozambique. Australia will be led by star centre Liz Cambage, who dons the green-and-gold for the first time since the Rio Olympics.
CYCLING Men’s keirin, 9.16pm
He’s the reigning sprint world champion and Matthew Glaetzer won their keirin in Glasgow in 2014 so he knows how to get the job done. His toughest competition will come from the New Zealanders, who are multiple world champions on the track.