sember turns 28 today and won her heat and the crowd joined in a rendition of happy birthday for her. there will be three athletes from team england in the final of the women s long jump after they qualified this morning. there has been more diving dominance forjack laugher bust up last night, he made it three successive wins in the one metre platform and today he made it a hat trick of golds in the three metres synchronised event with his new partner anthony harding. but right now, the focus is all on the lawn bowls and that is because today the commonwealth games will crown a new oldest gold medallist. spare a thought for rosemary lenton, the pensioner from thought for rosemary lenton, the pensionerfrom dumfries, she is only held the honour for two days and today she will be overtaken by a 75 year old. we don t know yet. it will be scotland s george miller or gordon llewelyn from wales. they are battling out in the mixed para pairs. who will be successful in the septuagenarian stake
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and now day eight of the commonwealth games in birmingham. england s jack laugher and ant harding have won gold in the in the three metre syncronised diving. it s laugher s second gold of the games after he won the individual 1m springboard yesterday. our sports correspondent, laura scott, is watching the athletics at alexander stadium. laura. yes, the highlights at the moment at the commonwealth games come from jack laugher and laura muir. lorimer made it through to the final of the 1500 metres. she isjust a fortnight on from winning world championship bronze in the event and today she did nothing more than she had to. she knew she had to finish in the top five and she came fifth but she says she is feeling good ahead of sunday s final where she will be by four as athletes from the home nations. also the 800 metres. cindy
welcome to sportsday, i m jane dougall live from birmingham as we bring you another day of medals for the home nations. the law won a second diving gold forjack, along with his england partner, ant harding. a shock gold in the gymnastics, england s17 year old marfa ekimova has got the rhythm. golden oldies scotland s lawn bowls para pair win gold. and george miller is the oldest commonwealth medallist. and away from the games. have you missed it? the premier league gets back under way tonight. can anybody eclipse manchester city?