What a relief! Robert Paxton manages to stop the rot, finally moving off 17 with a double in end 23. He's two points from the semi-finals.

Paxo is starting to take a bit of a stuffing.

England's Robert Paxton has lost another end as New Zealand's Shannon McIlroy continues to hold all of the momentum.

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News of a handful of Cameroon athletes going missing from the athletes’ village is big here today, as is the presence in the region of a certain Usain Bolt.

The Gold Coast Bulletin says he is "looking forward to spending time on the Gold Coast’s famous beaches” and that he "is also expected to party at the city’s nightclubs".

Sounds like a tough life for him eh?

England's Evie Richards is still leading with almost 7km on the clock, but has team-mate Annie Last on her back wheel for company.

The pair are 45 seconds ahead of Scotland's Isla Short in third place.

Here's for you stat fans: England have never won a Commonwealth medal in women’s mountain biking...

Mcwatt Dunmeinn: Watching the mountain biking from my sofa is genuinely absolutely exhausting.

In the heptathlon 100m hurdles heat England's Katie Stainton had a nasty fall after hitting one of the hurdles.

She left the track in tears but was consoled by her team-mate Johnson-Thompson.

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Kumar Neeraj of India leads England's Sam Gowin who is just ahead of Kumar's team-mate Anish in third.

Gowin's compatriot Kristian Callaghan, who won bronze in Glasgow four years ago, sits in seventh after stage one of qualification, with the top six making it through to the finals on Friday.

Stage two begins tonight at 23:30 BST.

It was a solid if unspectacular fourth place in the 100m hurdles for England's Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the favourite for the heptathlon title...

England's Robert Paxton has been stuck on 17 for three ends now. Shannon McIlroy fights back - he is the world outdoor singles champion after all - with a double and two singles to ramp up the pressure on Paxton.

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The Gold Coast Bulletin is feeling chipper.

Under its ‘Yellow Brick Road’ headline, if states Australia’s successful swimmers have a similar success trajectory as the Gold Coast.

A report released today predicts added to what has already been ploughed in, the Games will deliver a total of around £18bn in investment over the next 10 years.

Remember, the Gold Coast got its name in the 1950s when Brisbane’s rich came to holiday here. National journalists nicknamed it the Gold Coast, which at the time was seen as an insult.

Eventually the nickname was adopted as the official title. Hopefully, with all this money set to flow in, they won’t confuse us all by naming it something else again.

Jack Laugher has a healthy nine-point lead at the top of the diving standings after round two. English brothers Ross and Jack Haslam are in seventh and eighth which has them looking good for qualification.

What's going on at the Nerang Mountain Bike Trails then? It's the women's cross-country race.

This is a breathless, bumpy event that requires riders to marry bravery, endurance and technical skill on a man-made circuit. The first rider to cross the line wins.

There's an England one-two as the leaders cross the line after the first of six laps. Evie Richards leads ahead of favourite Annie Last.

South Africa have held off the challenge of Uganda to finish fifth in the netball.

Uganda pushed the Proteas all the way for three-quarters of the match, but ran out of steam in the final period, losing it 14-7.

However, the She Cranes will be pleased with their sixth-place finish, which is one higher than their current INF world ranking, in their debut Commonwealth Games appearance.

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Two-time world javelin silver medallist on the Gold Coast

Plenty of people are saying the Indian jumper Arpinder Singh is a contender and we can see why.

He is making it loook very easy out there.

England's Nathan Douglas is going very nicely and is in third place.

That withdrawal from Nathan Fox leaves Nathan Douglas as the only British athlete in this triple jump competition. The Englishman starts with a useful 16.27m which puts him into first place in his pool.

16.60m or the top 12 is needed to qualify.

Shannon McIlroy drives down the rink with the ferocity that his namesake Rory does down the fairway.

The New Zealander needed to knock down the middle too, otherwise it would have left England's Robert Paxton with an opportunity to wrap up this quarter-final in the next end.

Paxton restores his six-point lead in end 18, remaining on course to progress.

In that diving event, Laugher starts with a 76.50 and that puts him in first place after the first round of dives. Each diver has six dives each in this qualification and the top 12 progress to the final.

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BBC Sport on the Gold Coast

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Hot, hot, HOT over at the diving today where fans are applying multiple layers of their factor 50 sunscreen and even donning the infamous ‘umbrella’ hats to add even more protection.

The men’s 3m preliminaries are underway and it features the majority of the field from yesterday’s 1m event including England’s winner Jack Laugher and Scottish bronze medallist James Heatly.

Also keep an eye out for Aidan Heslop who is the first Welsh Commonwealth diver for 20 years and more used to leaping from 27m - in cliff diving competitions - than springing and spinning his way to success from 3m.

The next event to begin at the athletics stadium is the men's triple jump qualification and there's already bad news for England. Three-time British champion Nathan Fox has pulled out of the event due to an "acute injury".

Here's what he has had to say on Twitter...

Attention heads 12k away from Surfers Paradise to the picturesque Nerang Mountain Bike Trails for the cross-country cycling today.

England's Annie Last will be hoping to improve on her fourth place at Glasgow 2014 and make it on to the podium.

The rider has overcome serious illness and injury in recent times, and won a silver medal in the World Championships last year.

Home favourite Rebecca McConnell will be one of Last's biggest challengers for a medal, while Canada's Emily Batty is another athlete to look for.

Evie Richards of England and Scottish rider Isla Short will also be on the start line.

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