Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah added Commonwealth 100m gold to her collection in a time of 10.95 seconds.

The five-time Olympic champion was clean away and immediately up on England's Daryll Neita, who ran a personal best 10.90 in the semi-finals, before ending up with bronze.

From gymnastics to Paralympics, wheelchair basketball to 3x3 (basketball), cricket to athletics, lawn bowls to table tennis, rugby sevens to swimming, the narrative was (is) simple – DRAMA …in bucket loads!!!

In front of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, local superstars Joe Fraser claimed his third gold medal – as Alice Kinsella picked up her second (gold) at the Arena Birmingham.

Coventry-based boxing apparel company BOXRAW have kitted out the Anguilla team participating at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. In a game-changing donation, BOXRAW stepped in to provide top-quality training and competition kit for the Anguilla team after they were nearly forced to pull out of the Games due to a lack of kit.  

West Indies all-rounder Deandra Dottin, the scorer of the fastest hundred in women's T20 internationals, has retired from the international game, blaming a negative team environment.

Deandra, 31, is currently playing for Barbados at the Commonwealth Games. She has been part of the international set-up since 2008.

In celebration of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, one of Birmingham’s leading Greek restaurants, Kouzina Greek, treated guests to a taste of Cyprus as over the weekend of 30^th – 31^st July. With Cyprus being one of the 54 Commonwealth Countries, it was the perfect opportunity for Kouzina Greek to showcase their award-winning Greek Cypriot cuisine and hospitality to thousands of visitors descending to Birmingham to watch the games.

As a nation who has suffered heartbreak after heartbreak on the international stage, Sarina Wiegman's Lionesses’ 2-1 victor over Germany and the creation of the many sheroes, as a result, after saw Chloe Kelly, for one, write her name into folklore after scoring the winner in the UEFA Euro 2022 final, bringing to an end 56 years of hurt by finally winning a major tournament.