Commonwealth Games 2026 features netball and athletics in Glasgow
The Guardian Sport • 1 min read • Latest: Jul 30, 2026, 9:00 AM
Last updated Jul 30, 2026
On July 30, 2026, Glasgow hosts various events at the Commonwealth Games, including athletics, weightlifting, and netball. Seventeen gold medals are available today, with athletes competing across multiple disciplines. One notable story involves Ngake, who had a difficult experience at the 2012 Olympics but has returned to elite sport after a decade away and switched her allegiance to Britain. Updates will continue as events progress throughout the day.
- •Seventeen gold medals are on offer at the Commonwealth Games today.
- •Events include weightlifting, track cycling, athletics, netball, and bowls.
- •Ngake's journey from fleeing the Olympics to returning to sport garners attention.
- •Live updates will be provided as competitions unfold.
- 9:00 AMThe Guardian Sport — Commonwealth Games 2026: track cycling, athletics and weightlifting on day seven – live
"Updates from Thursday’s live action in Glasgow Medal table | Day six in pictures | Mail Taha We go again, with 17 golds on the table today. We’ve got medal events in weightlifting, track cycling and athletics, and we’ll dip our toes in some netball and bowls, too. But we’ll struggle to find a story as extraordinary as this one: Fourteen years ago, Ngake fled the London 2012 Olympic village after finishing sixth in her competition and ended up sleeping rough for a month. The reason? She was competing for Cameroon, where homosexuality is illegal, and someone in the team had found out that she was a lesbian. And so began a journey that led to Ngake giving up elite sport for more than a decade, deciding to come back in 2023, and then transferring allegiances to Britain a year later. Continue reading...
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