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Commonwealth Games 2022: Kookaburras vs England result, Australia wins after goal furore

Commonwealth Games 2022: Kookaburras vs England result, Australia wins after goal furore

The Kookaburras are through to the final at the Commonwealth Games after surviving a nail-biting thriller against England.

Controversy exploded in a rollercoaster fourth quarter as the Aussies pulled off an incredible comeback win.

Australia was down 2-0 and it looked like an enormous upset was on the cards, before the Kookaburras launched a brave fightback to win 3-2 and keep their perfect record of never missing a Commonwealth Games final, and never surrendering the Commonwealth crown they have worn since the sport was introduced to the Games.

In the end it was the Aussies desperately trying to hold on in the final minutes as England couldn’t find a way to break the Aussie defense despite a barrage of penalty corners.

The Kookaburras got their crucial third goal in controversial circumstances with England calling for a review leading up to the moment where Daniel Beale tapped on the winning goal.

Australia was looking to re-start play quickly after the referee pulled England up for touching the ball with their feet.

England challenged that Australia did not let the ball be stationary before resuming play.

Replays showed it was questionable that the ball had been stationary at any point.

Former Hockeyroos star Georgie Parker said the goal should have been technically disallowed, despite saying the goal should stand because the quick re-start was “in the spirit of the game”.

She said if she was the official video review she would have taken the goal off Australia.

“This is very much a ‘letter of the law’ thing,” she said on Channel 7.

“You are meant to stop the ball before you take the free hit.”

She went on to say: “It basically stopped for me. I would hate if this (review) went through.

“It didn’t stop, but I would hate it if they disallowed it for that. Teams are doing that fifty per cent of the time, including England.

“I will be so disappointed, but look, I mean, technically, that is the rule, you are supposed to stop it or make an effort to stop it.

“I would be so disappointed. For the sake of what is in the spirit, I think England are clutching at straws, but technically (it should be disallowed).

“Every team does that, and you want to be playing a fast-paced game of hockey, that is why that rule was brought in.

“Technically, maybe that was the wrong decision.”

The goal stood, despite England players continuing to protest with the on-field referee.

The drama only increased from there as the Kookaburras were also hard done by when they reviewed a call that awarded England a penalty corner for the ball jumping up and almost-touching the leg of an Aussie defender. Despite the ball clearly not touching the Aussie, the call was not overruled by the official review.

There was also another call that went against Australia with Jeremy Hayward getting struck in the torso off an England penalty corner with the referee awarding England another penalty corner despite the Aussie appearing to be inside the 5m distance from when the shot was taken.

Aussie commentators Georgie Parker and Alister Nicholson on Channel 7 both judged that Heywood had got inside the 5m mark after bolting from the goal mouth at the start of the penalty corner.

England had a flurry of penalty corners in the final minutes, but simply could not find a way past the Aussie defense and keeper Andrew Charter.

England even had a penalty corner with 25 seconds to play with the game coming down to the final second of the match before the siren finally sounded.

The key difference was the quality in the final third with Australia scoring one goal from its three penalty corners, while England was unable to score once from its 14 penalty corners.

England scored after just four minutes when Charter made a rare mistake when trying to save a fairly straightforward shot from wide of the goals.

England made it 2-0 when they capitalized on Australia being given a yellow card.

Blake Govers scored from a penalty corner just four minutes before half time to give Australia hope.

Jacob Anderson then leveled it up at 2-2 with a sweet backhand shot on the run that beat the keeper just moments before the end of the third quarter. England had been holding on for the entire quarter with two players off the field as a result of yellow cards.

In the end, all that matters is that the Kookaburras are through to the end.

Earlier, India defeated South Africa in the other semi-final.

The gold medal game is scheduled for 9.30pm on Monday (AEST).

It comes after the Hockeyroos on Saturday morning won their semi-final in a blockbuster against India to set up a gold medal showdown with England at 12am on Monday morning.

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Commonwealth Games 2022: Jemima Montag wins 10km walk, grandmother’s bracelet

Commonwealth Games 2022: Jemima Montag wins 10km walk, grandmother's bracelet

Aussie hero Jemima Montag wasn’t alone out there as she powered to an incredible back-to-back Commonwealth Games gold medal in the 10km walk.

The 24-year-old inspired the country all over again as she covered the distance in an incredible time of 42 minutes.

She says she had her own special kind of inspiration hanging on her wrist the entire walk.

An emotional Montag opened up about the special connection she has to her late grandmother through a piece of jewelery that once belonged to the Holocaust survivor after crossing the finish line.

Australian Associated Press reports the bracelet was cut into three pieces two years before Judith’s death with one piece each given to Jemimia and her two sisters.

Montag’s grandmother survived the trauma and terror of Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau during World War 2.

Judith missed Montag’s special moment on Sunday morning and her competition at last year’s Tokyo Olympics, however, she was there to see Montag win gold on the Gold Coast four years ago.

She said she draws inspiration from reading about her brave grandmother and even tracked down and translated old letters she had from when she was just 12 years old in the Nazi work camp.

“In some of her love letters and journal entries she wrote about just trying to make it through the next hour, the next day, just hoping to meet her dad at the gate with a piece of bread,” Montag said.

“What I take from that is in a race, it’s one kilometer at a time, it’s one step at a time, not thinking about the finish line.

“You just had to have such a careful balance of taking risks and being a little cheeky when it was possible.

“Stealing scraps of food, running from one line to the other if it meant not being put to the gas chamber, and then sticking by the rules, when it was the right thing to do so.”

She said she regularly thinks about some of her grandma’s shattering experiences when looking for that little bit more courage and fight when she is out on the track.

“They marched through snow and cold for days on end in little sandals, and hardly any clothing,” she said.

“She and her sister took their waist bands and tied their wrists together and they said ‘we’re getting through this together or not at all.’

“So just visualizing her walking on ice, not knowing when her next meal would be or if she’d survive.

“This (race walking) is fun and this is something I choose to do and yes, it’s hard, but someone just two generations ago had that level of strength and I know it’s with me now.”

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Commonwealth Games schedule today, Day 9: Watch live stream and coverage of Australia v New Zealand in the T20 cricket as our Diamonds win v England in the netball

Commonwealth Games schedule today, Day 9: Watch live stream and coverage of Australia v New Zealand in the T20 cricket as our Diamonds win v England in the netball

England have closed the gap at the top of the Commonwealth Games medal tallyand are on the verge of taking the lead after a rare day without Australian gold.

Australia remain atop the medal tally with 50 gold medals, but England have moved within three golds after winning five golds on Friday, including two at the diving.

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The Aussies added eight medals on Friday, with decathletes Daniel Golubovic and Cedric Dubler taking silver and bronze behind Grenada’s Lindon Victor.

There was also a silver for diver Brittany O’Brien in the women’s 1m springboard, an another five bronze medals.

Australia are on track for a big weekend with both the men’s and women’s hockey teams, the women’s T20 cricket side and netball outfit among those staring down medals.

On Saturday, we’ve got a massive night of Aussie action in the athletics, boxing, netball, and beach volleyball. There’s also T20 cricket, hockey, diving and a whole lot more.

Follow all of the live action from the Day 9 of the Commonwealth Games in the live blog below.

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Oliver Hoare wins remarkable 1,500m gold for Australia at Commonwealth Games

An Australian male 1,500 metres athlete crosses the line in first place as a Kenyan opponent stumbles.

Australian Oliver Hoare has stormed home to claim a remarkable victory in the men’s 1500 meters final at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.

Hoare was fourth at the top of the final straight but powered home to win in three minutes and 30.12 seconds, lunging across the line to edge out 2019 world champion Timothy Cheruiyot from Kenya by 0.09.

Reigning world champion Jake Wightman from Scotland was third, with the first seven runners across the line all breaking the Games record.

It was a remarkable turnaround for Hoare, who only two weeks ago failed to earn a place in the final at the world championships.

Hoare’s triumph provided Australia with a triumphant end to a mixed session at Alexander Stadium.

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‘Embarrassing’ penalty shootout farce gifts Hockeyroos controversial win over India at Commonwealth Games 2022

'Embarrassing' penalty shootout farce gifts Hockeyroos controversial win over India at Commonwealth Games 2022

A controversial penalty shootout blunder has helped Australia sink India to advance into the women’s hockey gold medal match at the Commonwealth Games.

After scores were locked 1-1 at fulltime in Friday night’s semi-final, the Hockeyroos triumphed 3-0 in the shootout.

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After Rebecca Greiner scored in the 10th minute, the Hockeyroos held sway until a late India leveler with just 11 minutes remaining in the semi-final.

And so, the match went to a nail-biting penalty shootout, which began in a blaze of controversy.

Australia’s Ambrosia Malone took the first shot and missed.

But in a baffling clanger, Malone was gifted a second attempt because the eight second countdown clock on the scoreboard hadn’t been activated.

“When they called the retake, I was thanking the universe for a second chance,” Malone said.

“I knew all of India would hate me if I put it in.

India’s coach is left fuming as the umpire explains the decision. Credit: Seven
Replays showed the shot clock hadn’t been turned on when Australia’s Ambrosia Malone took her shot. Credit: Seven

“But I was just trying to think about my team and that final and I said to myself ‘if I get a second chance at this, I’m not missing it’.

“I felt for India at the time. But all our other girls got our shootouts in so it’s not like that one shootout was the be all and end all.”

Malone converted her second attempt and her teammates Kaitlin Nobbs and Amy Lawton also scored, before the Hockeyroos’ penalty expert goalkeeper Jocelyn Bartram, who was brought on for the shootout, refused to let the rattled Indian players score.

Channel 7 commentator Alister Nicholson slammed the farcical passage of play that gave Australia the extra shootout goal and all the momentum.

“The clock may not have started, but it was perfectly obvious that Rosie Malone was not scoring,” Nicholson said in commentary.

“That is embarrassing. “That would be a national outrage if that happened to Australia.”

Malone scores on her second attempt. Credit: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images

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Former Hockeyroos star Georgie Parker felt for the miffed Indians.

“It’s the most incredible way to win; most heartbreaking way to lose,” she said in commentary for Channel 7.

Well after the result was in the books, Nicholson and Parker were still trying to process what had just taken place.

“Your heart is still racing, having witnessed what took place,” Nicholson said after the match.

“We’d only just got over the first semi-final that went to a shootout.

“That decision to award a retake; that’s going to take a lot for India to digest. I know Australia was very clean in the aftermath of that, but there’s a psychological difference.

“I mean, how on earth could you not start the clock? That is absolute amateur hour.”

Parker agreed, but said India needed to put it behind them, and they failed to do so.

Amy Lawton celebrates the thrilling win. Credit: Alex Davidson/Getty Images

“Absolutely,” Parked agreed.

“But it happens, and India had to regroup and regather, and they didn’t.”

Elsewhere, England also secured their spot in the final with a 2-0 shootout triumph against New Zealand after a scoreless stalemate, setting up a mouth-watering final between the two leading countries on the gold medal tally.

Sunday’s final will be the third time Australia have met England in the gold medal match – the Hockeyroos have won both and have four Commonwealth titles in the six completed editions of the Games.

In Friday’s semi-final, the Australian exacted a semblance of belated revenge on the Indians for knocking them out of last year’s Tokyo Olympics at the quarter-final stage.

The Australians suffered an early blow when defending Karri Somerville was forced off seven minutes in when copping a nasty ricochet on her right cheekbone.

But just three minutes later, the Hockeyroos struck when a Mariah Williams darted along the left flank and launched a slick cross which was neatly deflected in by Greiner at the far post.

India almost squared scores nine minutes into the second quarter when Sangita Kumari found space inside the attacking circle and shot, but Australian goalkeeper Aleisha Power instinctively blocked the attempt with a reflex left-footed save.

The Australians continued to press for a second goal in the third term but went unrewarded despite a period of sustained attack punctuated by four consecutive penalty corners.

The scores remained 1-0 at the last change with Australia chalking up 22 attacking circle entries to just seven from India.

Early in the final quarter, Stephanie Kershaw sliced ​​through India’s midfield and launched, only for her shot to be saved.

And against the flow in the 49th minute, India equalized when Vandana Katariya deflected into the net from close-range – the first goal the Australians conceded in the Games.

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Watch as Australia’s Donna Lobban and Scottish husband Greg embrace after unique Commonwealth Games squash clash

Watch as Australia's Donna Lobban and Scottish husband Greg embrace after unique Commonwealth Games squash clash

Marital harmony will doubtless prevail once more in the Lobban household. eventually.

But for one night only, it was Australian Donna Lobban who earned the bragging rights over Scottish husband Greg at the Commonwealth Games in squash’s ultimate game of (un)happy families – not that she was out to rub a unique victory in his face.

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“We’re not signing divorce papers after that – I think we’re still alright,” smiled the victorious Donna after she and her cousin Cameron Pilley defeated Greg Lobban and Lisa Aitken in a tense, tetchy, hugely entertaining mixed doubles quarter-final at Birmingham University.

She even forgave him for accidentally smacking her on the back of the leg with his racquet, during the physical close-quarters battle won by Australia’s reigning champions 9-11 11-8 11-8.

It was the only light-hearted moment in a compelling, intense contest, with Greg giving Donna an apologetic hug as Pilley pointed towards Greg gravely: “Oh, you’re in trouble now…”

Greg had to apologize to his wife midway through the match after an accidental strike. Credit: james ross/AAP

Naturally, on a day when Games historians desperately tried to recall when a husband and wife had ever gone head-to-head in sporting combat for different countries at a major championship, Donna ended up with the utmost sympathy for hubby.

“Usually you’d be just going ‘yeeeees!’ after a win like that but my heart kind of sunk. I was happy but gutted we were the ones who put them out of the tournament. Didn’t feel good,” she said.

After his defeat, Greg enjoyed a long embrace with Donna in the center of the court and told her: “I’m proud of you – now go on and win it.”

Greg’s kind words in this post-match hug may have just saved his marriage. Credit: james ross/AAP

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The match turned on a couple of controversial ‘no let’ calls from the referee late on which Greg had the odd wee cross word with the official.

Ironically, Donna felt she’d been the victim of a huge wrong call earlier in the day when she and Rachael Grinham were knocked out of the women’s doubles quarters.

On the final sudden-death point, a heartless ‘no let’ call granted victory to their Malaysian opponents Rachel Arnold and Aifa Azman which prompted Lobban, quite uncharacteristically, to hurl her racquet in fury flush against the backcourt glass.

Later, she protested they’d been “robbed” and had to cool herself down, regroup and get ready for a redemptive match six hours later.

Greg, who’d been watching in the morning, had helped her get back in the right frame of mind.

“I’m her husband – I support her every day, today’s no different – and I’ll be supporting her tomorrow in the semis,” he said.

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‘Embarrassing’ penalty shootout farce helps Aussies

‘Embarrassing’ penalty shootout farce helps Aussies

Donna said: “People were watching anything to talk about so we weren’t giving them too much.

“Er, I did whack me in the thigh but I’ll take that!

“Might have to put up with him being in a terrible mood for a while – but if I’d have lost, it would have been him putting up with me being in a terrible mood!”

She’d also made a bet with Greg before the match that if he lost, he’d have to make dinner for the next month.

Already she’s regretting it.

“I don’t know if I want him to cook actually – pretty grim,” Donna said.

“I should have made the bet that if I win, I’d get to shave off his mullet and his mustache! I don’t know why I didn’t think of that… too late now.”

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Commonwealth Games: Hockeyroos win dramatic and controversial penalty shootout to book final spot

Commonwealth Games: Hockeyroos win dramatic and controversial penalty shootout to book final spot

The Hockeyroos will play for Commonwealth Games gold after scraping past India in a dramatic and controversial penalty shootout in the semifinal.

After being locked at 1-1 at the end of regulation time, Australia booked their spot in the final with a 3-0 win on strokes.

The penalty shootout was not without controversy through, with Australian Rosie Malone able to redo an unsuccessful first stroke after the clock did not start, which she would score.

With their quarter-final loss at last year’s Olympics firmly in their mind, Rebecca Greiner scored the only goal for Australia in the first quarter.

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Commonwealth Games 2022: New Zealand athlete Imogen Ayris won pole vault bronze on fractured foot

Commonwealth Games 2022: New Zealand athlete Imogen Ayris won pole vault bronze on fractured foot

New Zealand’s latest pole-vaulting star Imogen Ayris has revealed she not only competed in the final of her event at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games with a broken hand, but also with a broken foot.

Ayris told the NZ Herald following her bronze medal vault of 4.45m that she discovered a broken bone in her hand earlier this year, caused by an old gymnastics injury. Now Ayris says she found out following the final that her foot was also in a sorry state.

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Arriving at a celebratory lunch for Kiwi athletes at New Zealand House in Edgbaston on Thursday wearing a moon boot, Ayris told 1News that she had to block out the pain as she fought for her medal.

“(The pain) was there but it wasn’t what I was thinking about, it wasn’t what I was worried about,” she said.

“I’m quite good at ignoring pain. I’ve jumped with some pretty wacky injuries in the past so it didn’t affect me at all. It was there but it wasn’t.”

Ayris said she wasn’t even sure how the break occurred and had purposely downplayed her pain leading up the event.

“It’s been a little niggly for a while – when I got off a plane in America (before last month’s world championships in Oregon) for a session I felt it a bit but I just thought that it was from the travel.

“I kept training on it, it kind of went away, and then it came back a bit. We were strapping it up for training sessions, didn’t modify any training, and then after competition we got it scanned to figure out what was really going on and it was fractured.

“I had probably downplayed it in the past two weeks building up to this but I didn’t want to make it a thing if it wasn’t a thing.”

The break has forced the rising star to cancel a planned athletics campaign in Europe and instead return to New Zealand to rehabilitate the injury.

“I’m going to go home, put my feet up and let this bone heal,” she said.

This article originally appeared on the NZ Herald and was reproduced with permission

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Daniel Golubovic, Cedric Dubler, Decathlon results

Daniel Golubovic, Cedric Dubler, Decathlon results

Australia has had a double-medal finish in the men’s decathlon for the first time in a century in an extraordinary end to the event on Saturday morning (AEST).

Daniel Golubovic and Cedric Dubler fell agonizingly short as they desperately tried to steal the gold medal from Grenada’s Victor Lindon in the final 1500m run.

Dubler, a national hero from his viral act of mateship during at the Tokyo Olympics, went into the final night session with a lead of 39 points with only the javelin and 1500m to go.

However, he was brought undone by a fifth place finish in the javelin and simply had too many points to try and catch up in the 1500m.

Golubovic put together a colossal effort in the final event, crossing the finish line first to take the silver medal with a final score of 8197 points.

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Daniel Golubovic congratulates an exhausted Lindon Victor at the finish line. Photo by Ben Stansall / AFP.
Daniel Golubovic congratulates an exhausted Lindon Victor at the finish line. Photo by Ben Stansall / AFP.Source: AFP
Cedric Dubler and Daniel Golubović.Source: AFP

Lindon was more than 100m behind Golubovic as the Aussie crossed the line.

With the Grenadian looking dead on his feet with 25m to run, it suddenly appeared that Golubovic was about to take the gold. He needed to win by more than 23 seconds.

However, Lindon fell over the line with two seconds to spare. Dubler, who took the bronze medal, Golubovic and Lindon were all left waiting to see the exact results show up on the big screen before they could learn who had won the gold medal.

It eventually showed up on the screen that Lindon had done enough to fall over the line with a final score of 8233. Dubler finished with 8030.

Golubovic was smiling through the heartbreak at the end of the race.

Lindon Victor and Kurt Felix of Team Grenada, Harry Kendall of Team England, Alec Diamond, Daniel Golubovic and Cedric Dubler of Team Australia and Karo Iga of Team Papua New Guinea celebrate at the end of their ten events. Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images.Source: Getty Images

“Thank you, I had to dig for that,” Golubovic said afterwards.

“It is cold out here and there is nothing in the works. Two decathlons in 12 days – I don’t recommend it.

“It’s been an incredible experience, coming down and moving back to Australia and back to Brisbane during COVID, it’s been a wild few years and it’s been a long process to get here. It feels so good to be on this stage right now.

He said he is looking forward to getting some sleep after completing two decathlon events in the space of two weeks, after also competing at the world championships in Oregon last month.

“Tired. Very tired,” he said when asked how he felt in an interview with Channel 7.

“It was a tough race, I knew it was going to be, I had to leave everything out on the line and we did just that, that was every possible thing I could leave out on the track, and it landed where it did, but I am so incredibly proud to have performed the way I did and backed it up two times in a row and to have it come down to the 1500 was a lot of fun.”

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Rose-gold Aussies revel in bronze as wrestler Jayden Lawrence fights for his sport’s survival in the Commonwealth Games

Rose-gold Aussies revel in bronze as wrestler Jayden Lawrence fights for his sport's survival in the Commonwealth Games

The Boomers made bronze fashionable at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, with their historic medal dubbed “rose gold” in the men’s basketball.

And at the Commonwealth Games, the rose gold glow is real.

By Australian standards, it has been a long wait for a wrestling medal of any color – 12 years.

Jayden Lawrence had been to two previous Games and missed a bronze medal in Glasgow 2014.

Two wrestlers, one wearing blue and one wearing red, compete on a yellow mat
Lawrence competed in the men’s freestyle wrestling 74kg at the Glasgow Games in 2014, but just missed the medals.(Getty Images: Richard Heathcote)

He earned another shot at bronze, this time against South Africa’s Edward Lessing, in the men’s freestyle 86kg, and he won a tight match 12-11.

“Unbelievable, honestly. I’m stoked,” he said.

“This is what Australian wrestling has been after those two previous we didn’t medal at all in the Games.

“But I guarantee you, we’re gonna get more this time around. I guarantee it.”

Lawrence suffered a torn lateral cruciate ligament in his last match, “so last two wrestles I was battling [on] one and a half legs,” he said.

The 27-year-old from Sydney collapsed on his back and put his hands over his face as he soaked in the moment at the end of the clash.

“I’ve given up a lot to do this sport, but it’s so worth it,” he said.

“We don’t get paid too much; I get nothing. But I’ll do it again.”

At this stage, wrestling is not on the program for the Victoria 2026 Games, and Lawrence hopes his success will force a re-think.

“Hopefully this brings us over the line and we get the wrestling back.”

Bronze for new diving duo

At the diving, Sam Fricker was buzzing after claiming bronze with Li Shixin in the men’s synchronized 3m springboard.

“I’m so excited, it was a dream to make the Commonwealth Games to walk away with a medal is just incredible,” Fricker said.

The 20-year-old Fricker and 34-year-old former Chinese world champion Li — who has been competing for Australia since 2019 — were competing together internationally for the first time.

Two male divers bounce off a springboard at an event
Li (right) came out of retirement to compete in Tokyo after becoming an Australian citizen.(Getty Images: PA Images/Tim Goode)

“This is the beginning. Sammy is young,” Li said.

“We have a long, long time. He’s Diving Australia’s future. I just help him get better.”

Li was recruited to Australia as a diving coach in 2014 – he earned citizenship in 2019, and came out of retirement to compete at last year’s Tokyo Olympics.

Fricker said he was honored to compete with his legendary teammate, and used some advice from one of the team veterans, Melissa Wu, to remain composed.

“You’ve just got to be in the moment,” he said.

“When you’re at breakfast, have breakfast, when you’re on the bus, enjoy the ride.

“When you have that one dive to do, that’s all you focus on, and that’s all you have control over. So whether we’re first or last, that’s what we try and do with that one moment.”

England’s Anthony Harding and Jack Laugher won gold, while the Australians finished just 2.25 points the Malaysian silver medalists Gabriel Daim and Muhammad Syafiq Bin Puteh.

Australia picked up a couple more diving medals at Sandwell Aquatics Centre, with Brittany O’Brien claiming silver in the 1m springboard, behind Canada’s Mia Vallee.

And Dom Bedgood and Cassiel Rousseau got bronze in the men’s 10-meter synchro, with gold going to England, and silver to Canada.

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