GLASGOW, Scotland (AFP) — Kemar Bailey-Cole did his best Usain Bolt imitation on Monday night at the Commonwealth Games.It wasn’t quite to the standard of his Jamaican teammate and training partner — world record holder and double Olympic sprint champion Bolt — but close enough for the 40,000-plus enraptured spectators at Hampden Park.

And a British sprinter — Englishman Adam Gemili — took the silver to add to the occasion.
Bailey-Cole won the 100 metres in a time of 10 seconds flat, well outside Bolt’s world record of 9.58 set in Berlin nearly five years ago. Gemili finished second in 10.10, with Nickel Ashmeade of Jamaica taking the bronze.

“It feels very good to have the spotlight on me once,” Bailey-Cole said. Bolt, meanwhile, is in the area. He tweeted a few pictures of himself training in Glasgow earlier in the day and is expected to race for the first time in 4×100-metre relay qualifying on Friday ahead of Saturday’s final. He couldn’t race in Glasgow in his individual 100 and 200-metre sprints in which he holds the world records because a left foot injury has kept him idle most of this season.

Blessing Okagbare of Nigeria won the women’s 100, Sultana Frizell of Canada took gold in the women’s hammer throw and O’Dayne Richards won the men’s shot put. On the second-last night of swimming, Olympic 200-metre butterfly champion Chad le Clos added the 100 to his earlier 200 at Glasgow, while countryman Cameron van der Burgh won the 50 breaststroke. Sisters Cate and Bronte Campbell and Emma McKeon were 1-2-3 for Australia in the women’s 100 freestyle.

World squash champion Nicol David of Malaysia, the gold medalist from New Delhi in 2010, successfully defended her women’s singles title with a 12-10, 11-2, 11-5 win over Laura Massaro of England in just 44 minutes.

There was a brief stoppage in play in the third game when Massaro was hit in the face by David’s racket during a rally. Nick Matthew won the men’s singles gold when he beat fellow Englishman James Willstrop 11-9, 8-11, 11-5, 6-11, 11-5.

India won its fourth shooting gold medal of the Commonwealth Games when Jitu Rai took the 50-metre pistol event. Rai, ranked fourth in the world, broke the games record in the event. He finished ahead of countryman Gurpal Singh, with Daniel Repacholi of Australia earning the bronze. “The more calm I was, the better it would be for me, and in the end there was no tension or pressure at all,” Rai said.— AFP.

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