Triathlon Commonwealth Games

It was yet another almighty showdown between England's Alex Yee and New Zealand's Hayden Wilde that brought the Sutton Park crowd to its feet in Birmingham.

We got 16 seconds on the bike and that was super exciting, and the plan was to have Alex burn his matches catching up and then go for it the last kilometre. The second climb proved decisive, and by the top Yee was breathing down his rival’s neck, sitting on his shoulder then passing as the blue carpet neared. I was like a dog with a bone up there on the bike, I’ve never not had someone to chase, I just had to keep the watts up and go for it, put everything on the line.” Twenty seconds back the chasers were now on foot too, the first climb into the park seeing Reid drop off the front as Wilde and Riddle pushed on. “The swim was solid but then I see Hayden up the road and just wanted to stay calm. I’ve run on this course hundreds of times so the loop felt familiar, and I’m just proud to pull it together for England. This race is honest and hard and I didn’t want to blow up my legs on the bike.

Kiwi Hayden Wilde has been praised for an act of sportsmanship during the dying stages of his triathlon event at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

I don't know too much about it." I do not want to take that medal away from him – he absolutely deserves it," Wilde said. But it sounds like we can try to do something.

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I knew I was probably going to suffer on the run because of that, but I didn’t think I’d suffer as much as I did! By T2, the gap was double again, Duffy and Taylor-Brown heading onto to the two-lap 5km run with a minute in hand. “It’s so nice to race with her, we’re always looking out for each other on the race course. With a massive smile of relief, Duffy crossed the line in 55:25, proudly brandishing the Bermudan flag. By the end of lap two the gap was 16 seconds and growing. But conscious of run legs, she soon held back to work as a five with Duffy, Taylor-Brown, Coldwell and Canada’s Emy Legault.

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“There's such a fine line - I definitely knew I had my bike inside the rack and I was using it as a balance plate – when you come off the bike, your legs are a bit jelly. A beautiful mind crunching all the player stats. If quality local sport journalism is important to you, become a Stuff supporter today. You need journalists close enough to smell the liniment. “I don't want to take anything off Alex, he deserved that medal. I didn't really know.

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