Mike Henson
BBC Sport on the Gold Coast

That pugnacious marsupial is flying high and proud as Jacob Birtwhistle zeros in on gold.

The Australian crowd are cheering Jacob Birtwhistle home. They know the Australian team has a hand and another four fingers on this gold medal.

Birtwhistle knows he can take his time through transition and does so.

Alistair Brownlee has cut the deficit again but he has 25 seconds to make up over this 1500m. Australia are going to win gold here...

England's Zoe Smith is competing in the women's weightlifting, alongside Northern Ireland's Emma McQuaid and Holly Knowles of Wales.

A reminder that you can watch the three home nations contenders begin with the snatch here.

Mike Henson
BBC Sport on the Gold Coast

The Kiwis in the grandstand have turned out in honour of curly topped anchorman Tayler Reid.

By the way Reid claimed he was verbally abused in Thursday’s individual event for not doing his turn on the front during the bike leg., external

Now, which plain-speaking rivals would do a thing like that?

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Catrin Heledd
Chwaraeon BBC Cymru

Welsh girl Tesni Evans is 2-0 up against top seed England’s Laura Massaro in the women’s singles quarterfinals.

With a break in play the game shapers get cleaning.

Do you think they’ll come and do my place once they’re finished?!?

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First lap of the cycle done on this final leg of the team triathlon. Alistair Brownlee is around 30 seconds behind Australia. Surely this is too much to do even for Ali Brownlee?

3.5km on the bike to go followed by 1500m on foot.

Right, it's time for Northern Ireland's Aidan Walsh in the men's -69kg last 16.

He's up against Pakistan's Gul Zaib for a place in the quarter-finals. As usual, three rounds of three minutes for these two men.

Luke Reddy
BBC Sport on the Gold Coast

Quick catch up with Sarah Jane-Perry after her 3-1 win to reach the women’s squash semi-finals.

She says her goal was a medal and now she’s one match away. The Liverpool supporter also said she’s committed to staying up for the Merseyside derby later today. Have a look below.

Australia's Matt Glaetzer, the men's sprint world champion, breaks the Commonwealth Games record again to qualify fastest for the 1/8 finals.

Scotland's Jack Carlin is second, with England's Ryan Owens fourth and Philip Hindes fifth.

We'll see the riders again at 05:23 BST with the quarter-finals set to begin at 06:13.

But sad news for Scotland's Callum Skinner, who was ill overnight and unable to compete in the qualifying this morning.

This is Australia's gold to lose but Alistair Brownlee has cut Australia's lead by six seconds in the swim. He's still 33 seconds behind though. Onto the bike Brownlee senior goes. He needs to go like Sir Chris Hoy here.

I fear Alistair Brownlee may have too much to do. Jess Learmonth continues to struggle at the end of her run and Brownlee starts this final leg 39 seconds behind Australia's Jacob Birtwhistle.

It will need something huge from Brownlee here for England to win gold.

And you can watch Zoe Smith in action here.

That one is getting under way any minute now.

Nick Hope
BBC Sport on the Gold Coast

Can Zoe Smith defend her Commonwealth crown?

Four years ago she delivered one of the moments of the Games by performing an impromptu backflip after winning gold at Glasgow 2014.

It looked like a true breakthrough moment for the then 19-year-old who had been one of the faces of the Games - but the last four years have been brutal on the English lifter.

A dislocated shoulder saw her miss Rio 2016 and a funding axe followed, so to be honest, I think a medal of any colour would be a massive success story for her today!

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Over in the squash Wales' Tesni Evans has taken the first game against England's Laura Massaro. Evans won a match between these two in December's world champs and is on course for a similar result here in the Commonwealths quarter-finals

Watch it here.

Nick Hope
BBC Sport on the Gold Coast

One thing I’ve loved about the Gold Coast Games so far is seeing just how passionate the fans are!

This group have come from Melbourne & Tasmania to take in a bit of weightlifting today and all have their replica Commonwealth medals to remember the day with!

Annie Emmerson
Former GB triathlete on BBC TV

Ashleigh Gentle is looking incredibly strong, she'll want to make up for missing out on the medals in the individual event.

We can't forget the huge effort Learmonth put in in that race. That pressure has probably left her pretty fatigued, I would say, so it's not a surprise to see her dropping off on this run.

She looks like she's really struggling now.

Now Australia's Ashleigh Gentle is pulling clear of Learmonth. The Englishwoman stumbles coming into transition between bike and run and may have caused herself some damage there.

Learmonth is struggling. Australia's Gentle is cruising in her running stride while Learmonth looks like she is running through treacle.

Alistair Brownlee has a massive job on to win gold in the final leg.

Scotland's Jack Carlin has broken it already. He goes to the top of the leader board in the men's sprint qualifying.

That's a fast ride in 9.650 seconds for the Scottish rider.

Meanwhile in the velodrome, the men are battling it out to decide the seedings for the knockout stages of the sprint later this morning.

Ryan Owens of England has set a Commonwealth Games record, but there are still plenty of riders to come. I expect we'll see a few more records go this morning.