Common Wealth Games

The Common Wealth Games 2018 are going great for New Zealand. The games are being held on the gold coast of Australia. We are currently coming 6th with a total of 31 medals, 10 gold, 12 silver and 9 bronze. Australia is in 1st place with 158 medals in total. There are 23 sports in the games these include wrestling, triathlon, weightlifting, table tennis, swimming, squash, shooting, rugby sevens, para lifting , netball. lawn bowls, hockey, gymnastics rhythmic, gymnastics artistic, diving, cycling track, cycling road, cycling mountain bike, boxing, beach volley ball, basketball, badminton and athletics. My personal favourite is netball.

New Zealand has been struggling with netball. They have had two loses and two wins, one loss against Malawi 57- 53 and another against England 45 - 54. The loss against Malawi came as a shook to bot teams particularly new Zealand. Some people where calling it a "wake up call". For a very long time it has been new Zealand vs Australia in the finals with England and Jamaica in the finals. The coach said the ferns lost focus as they were up by 7 at halftime then were down by eight in the third quarter. The ferns were rolling subs but this seemed to make the situation worse. Since then they have picked up their game and have gone on to make it into the semi finals on Saturday the 14th.