England and New Zealand will meet for the second time in five days, with both sides looking to recover quickly from semi-final disappointment on Saturday. New Zealand edged the group match between the sides on Tuesday, setting them up for the seemingly kinder semi-final, but the Kiwis will be bruised after letting a two-goal lead slip against India.

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England were always up against it facing Australia, and although they pushed hard in the second half, the world champions ran out comfortable winners. "Some games you find are hard to pick yourself up for but I think there have been a lot tougher games to get myself up for than a bronze medal," said England captain Barry Middleton.

England's players will have to pick themselves up after a devastating semi-final loss by a single point to New Zealand on Saturday, as they look to win a third consecutive Commonwealth bronze medal.

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"It will be a tough ask but they'll come out fighting," said coach Anna Mayes of her England players. "We have to make sure that we don't come home empty handed. We will be going out all guns blazing.''

Jamaica were brushed aside by Australia in the second semi-final, but coach Minneth Reynolds said: "We'll bounce back and be ready for the bronze medal match because we are definitely here for a medal."

Home interest will centre on the first two of five finals at the Emirates Arena, with England assured of gold in the mixed doubles at 10:00 before Scotland's hopes rest with Kirsty Gilmour in the women's singles final at 11:00.

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Husband-and-wife pairing Chris and Gabby Adcock take on Chris Langridge and Heather Olver in the all-English clash. "The perfect situation would be to play them in the final," said Langridge before the semi-finals. "We are all team-mates so I'm sure they wish us well, unless we play each other."

Gilmour faces Canada's Michelle Li, looking to round off Scotland's best badminton performance at the Games since 1986 in style. "I've never played Michelle so I will be studying some notes on her and I'm sure she will be studying some notes on me," said the 20-year-old from Glasgow. "It will be anyone's game."

Intriguing. England's Emma Pooley is tired of being the break's dogsbody and puts in another kick to leave the rest of them behind and make them do at least some of the hard work themselves.

Gracie Elvin gets across the gap to make contact with her, but it does force the rest to get their heads down and chase with Katie Archibald of Scotland prominent.

They are back together at the front, but it is getting to cloak and dagger time as the leading group complete their fifth lap. Two laps and 28km to go.

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EdinburghSketcher:, external Enjoying seeing the beauty of Glasgow this morning as the elite of women's cycling zoom by.

The seven-strong leading group have opened up 40 seconds on the rest, partly due to Emma Pooley's churning pace on the front and partly because those teams represented in the break have gone missing in the peloton.

Gracie Elvin, the Australian national champion, is one of those happy to let Pooley to do all the work in the break, hoping that will wear her down and enable the rest to gang up on her team-mate Lizzie Armitstead.

BADMINTON: From 10:00 BST - England's Chris and Gabby Adcock take on compatriots Chris Langridge and Heather Olver in the mixed doubles final, followed by Scotland's Kirsty Gilmour against Canada's Michelle Li in the women's singles final. Watch the action here.

HOCKEY: From 10:00 BST - England v New Zealand, men's bronze-medal play-off. Watch the action here.

NETBALL: From 10:00 BST - England v Jamaica, bronze-medal play-off. Watch the action here.

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This is Emma Pooley's final international cycle race before switching to triathlons and marathons. She never planned to be a professional cyclist and only stumbled into the sport at Cambridge University when an injury prevented her running.

She told BBC Sport: "It was just a bit of fun initially and I had no plan to be a bike racer. When I did my first international race in Brittany in 2005, I sent an email at the time to a friend saying how much I was hating it and was grateful I wasn't a professional!"

Not bad for someone who forged a successful career, winning many top class women's races, world time trial title and Olympic and Commonwealth silver medals!

Chris Boardman
Olympic cycling champion and BBC Sport summariser

"Emma Pooley has split the field and established a significant gap already. The England riders who remain in the rear are not going to help chase them down, because the team's two strongest riders in Pooley and Lizzie Armitstead are up there with the leading group of seven.

"Scotland's Katie Archibald is driving across, and gives Australian Gracie Elvin a free ride, but the gap over the rest of the field is growing massively."

This might be England's move. Emma Pooley streaks away from the front of the peloton and fellow England rider Lizzie Armitstead is towing on her rear wheel.

They are joined by Ashleigh Pasio of South Africa, Tiffany Cromwell and Gracie Elvin of Australia, Linda Villmusen of New Zealand and Katie Archibald of Scotland.

It is a strong group, strong enough to stay clear, and after a few nervous glances over their shoulder the non-English riders in the break are co-operating.

Their lead is up to 14 seconds.

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As well as Usain Bolt's success, England's headline-maker Tom Daley landed gold in diving's blue ribband event - the 10m platform.

The 20-year-old managed to nail down the so-called "demon dive" that has been a blemish on his scorecard elsewhere this season, finishing more than 80 points clear of Ooi Tze Liang of Malaysia in silver.

You can watch his routine on this website.

Here are a selection of your comments in reaction to Usain Bolt's celebrations as Jamaica won 4x100m Commonwealth gold on Saturday.

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Ian Westmorland:, external Fit that man a kilt. Is Bolt not a Scottish surname anyway? Look at the flag, I'm sure if we research his family tree we can claim him as Scottish!

Martin Johnson:, external Rounds off an unbelievable couple of weeks. City's been buzzing. Great Commonwealth Games, the people of Glasgow have done us proud!

Connor Colhoun:, external What a legend Usain Bolt! Was great to be at Hampden Park to watch him. Bolt is one of the best runners ever. Joining in with our great Scottish crowd and having a great end to the Glasgow 2014 games.

All together at the front with 48km to go as Hannah Barnes continues to do some sterling work on the front for England.

There have been 14 riders who have called it a day, rolling back to their team bases. Among them is Australian time-trial bronze medallist Katrin Garfoot.

Might that hurt her team, considering most of them have attempted unsuccessful and energy-sapping getaways, come the finish?

The leading group is a small one and the teams are scheming and plotting winning strategies now the chaff has been burned off.

England women's hockey player Ellie Watton:, external "We came so close, but every cloud has a SILVER lining! Thank you to everyone for the incredible support."

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Marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe:, external "That is my moment of the Games! Congratulations Jo Pavey! Guts, determination, intelligent racing and she can certainly say no regrets!"

Forty-year-old Pavey produced a battling display to win bronze for England in the women's 5,000m., external

Northern Ireland boxer Paddy Barnes,, external who defended his Commonwealth men's light flyweight title on Saturday: "I'm a sportsman I couldn't care about anything els. I'm Irish, doesn't matter if I'm Catholic or Protestant! I won that medal for everyone that supports me, Catholics and Protestants alike."

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Time for a bit of a recap of some of the excitement you might have missed last night.

Australia's women's hockey team have won three of the previous four Commonwealth titles, but were within 18 seconds of losing to England in last night's final when Jodie Kenny struck a late equaliser.

To penalties. England had beaten New Zealand in a semi-final shoot-out, but they couldn't repeat the trick, going down 3-1.

You can watch the drama on the BBC Sport website of course.

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England's 3,00m individual pursuit gold medallist Joanna Rowsell: "Track racing is very clinical, if you do a certain time you know you are going to win, but in road racing anything can happen, it's a tactical game. You need to be able to cover all bases. This is a very technical course, some girls will be fearing rain, some like Lizzie will want the rain. We have a strong team, but so do Australia."

Chris Boardman
Olympic cycling champion and BBC Sport summariser

"New Zealand's Linda Villumsen goes off the front but Emma Pooley decides to close the gap straight away on the next incline. A tactically clever move because it is going to hurt everybody else as well and they won't be able to counter attack. Just closing the gap has really strung out the group. Of the 19 or so riders some are unable to hold the wheel in front."

Lap three of seven is done and it is England's Emma Pooley who leads the bunch across the start/finish line with an hour and seven minutes of racing on the clock.

Fifty-five kilometres to go.

Hannah Barnes, Emma Pooley and Lizzie Armitstead head up a strong-looking group of eight riders or so who start to bridge the gap to Shara Gillow and Laura Trott.

If they can swallow up Trott and Gillow then England will have a crew of riders who could keep clear of the rest.

The peloton realise the danger and respond with Katie Archibald of Scotland putting the hammer down and urging on the riders around her to nip the possibility of a decisive break in the bud.

Injured Isle of Man cyclist Mark Cavendish, speaking to BBC Sport: "The best thing about the Isle of Man team is that we are underdogs. In the women's race we've got Anna Christian, she is young but she is good. Let's see how far she can get it.

"It's exciting to be here with people I grew up with. In the Isle of Man cycling is like the unofficial national sport. It's hilly, it's windy, every one likes football but in the Isle of Man you have the TT race and cycling. What else is there to do?"