Commonwealth Games: Nile Wilson and Alice Kinsella win gold for England
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Nile Wilson secured the horizontal bar title to win his third gold of the 2018 Commonwealth Games as England team-mate Alice Kinsella won the women's beam.
James Hall took silver behind Wilson while Kelly Simm won beam bronze.
Latalia Bevan ensured Wales did not leave the gymnastics arena empty-handed with silver on the floor.
Wilson also won parallel bars silver with Scotland's Frank Baines clinching bronze, while Courtney Tulloch and Dominick Cunningham won vault medals.
England's Tulloch won silver ahead of team-mate Cunningham in bronze.
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'We absolutely smashed it'
A third gold marked 22-year-old Wilson's fifth medal of the Games, having won all-around and men's team gold as well as rings silver behind Tulloch, also 22.
"I was struggling the last couple of days," said Wilson. "I am very, very exhausted right now. It has been amazing and a massive stepping stone for the future. It's been one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.
"I'm just happy to get through the last two days and do amazing gymnastics once again. It's been an amazing week for Team England. We absolutely smashed it."
Gold was 17-year-old Kinsella's third medal of the Games on Australia's Gold Coast following women's team silver and all-around bronze.
She scored 13.700 to take top spot on the beam with Simm, 22, only missing out on silver by 0.033 points - edged out by the final competitor, Australia's Georgia-Rose Brown.
"I'm still quite speechless. I don't really know what to say," said Kinsella. "I went out quite confident because I came second in qualifications. I thought if I go clean a medal was possible. But when I got the gold I didn't know what to do."
England finished the artistic gymnastics competition top of the medal table with 16, including six golds.
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And yet here you are... clicking into the story & taking time to comment.
Hardly apathetic.
Well done to all the home nations athletics!
Well done to all the gymnasts. Even more so to Tesni Evans!
I assume you do serve some positive purpose on this planet? Escapes me what that might be right now. Hopefully it doesn't involve motivating anyone.
Anyway - well done Alice, Kelly and all the rest of the England/UK teams.
Well at least now all the medals can be won by a woman.
Surely if you are born male, no matter how much surgery and HRT you have, you still have an unfair advantage when competing in a woman's strength event like weight lifting?
Fine performances by both gymnasts.
Don't get the hatred of Claire Balding, knows her stuff, and always does her research.
The Olympics and Commonwealth games are traditionally about the very best male and female athletes representing their countries to find the best in the world. Life and nature is competitive, whether we like it or not.
The PC world is starting to really blur lines. It's almost "anything goes" now.
I see that undervaluing certain medals of the very best.
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People who don't care don't post. Move on.
Overall: 10th Rio, 8th London, 6th Beijing, 4th Athens, 4th Sydney.
Although 10th and 8th aren't as good as 4th overall it's still excellent for a country of 24 Million. In Sydney and Athens only China, Russia and the US could beat us.
That's because BBC is all about controlling people. It is ok to have an opinion as long as it does not interfere with their regime.
How can you have a multi million $ event which claims to be a showpiece and not have disciplines like rowing, canoeing, judo which require skill and athletic ability
Bowls doesn't make up for it. Not quite