WATCH Canada's best athletes compete in the opening weekend of the 2022 Commonwealth Games. 👏 🇨🇦

Jul 29

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CBC Sports is the exclusive Canadian home for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

CBC Gem, cbcsports.ca, and the CBC Sports app are streaming six channels of multi-sport content each day.

Artistic Gymnastics

The gymnastics competition is painting its way to our screens this weekend — and for Team Canada, this sport is a BIG deal.

The country is currently ranked No. 1 in Commonwealth Games history for most all-time medals in gymnastics, including most gold medals at a whopping 57!

Among those Canadian women who took gold in either artistic or rhythmic last time around were Ellie Black, Sophie Crane and Shallon Olsen.

This year, however, 2018 Youth Olympic Games team member Emma Spence and three-time medallist at the 2022 Cairo World Cup Laurie Denommée are the ones to look out for.

Emma Spence @Emma_spence13

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Watch the competition here:

Women’s team final and individual qualification on Saturday July 30 on CBC Sports channel 4 at 9 a.m. ET.
Women’s all-around final on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. ET on CBC Sports channel 2.

Rugby Sevens

Thirteen women will represent Team Canada in this year’s Commonwealth Rugby Sevens at Coventry Stadium!

This is the second time women are competing in the sport at the Commonwealth Games, the first time being at Gold Coast 2018. And it is the first time in history that these Games will feature more medal events for women than men.

So. Cool.

Rugby Canada @RugbyCanada

Canada’s Senior Women’s and Men’s 7s teams have touched down in Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games, competing from July 29-31! 🇨🇦

Players on Canada’s women’s team originate from all over the country, including Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta, with some returning to sevens from the traditional format for this competition.

They include Pamphinette Buisa and Renee Gonzalez, who also represent Canada’s Senior Women’s 15s, a team that just beat Italy 34-24 in its first international home game (in British Columbia) in seven years!

So, with that sort of talent — there are sure to be sparks on the field in the U.K.

Watch the matches as listed below:

Women’s group matches starting at 9 a.m. ET on Saturday July 30 on CBC Sports channel 5.
Women’s playoff for fifth and seventh place on Sunday July 31 at 6 p.m. ET on CBC Sports channel 2.
Women’s bronze on Sunday July 31 at 7 p.m. ET on CBC Sports channel 2.
Women’s gold on Sunday July 31 at 7:30 p.m. ET on CBC Sports channel 2.

Marathon

The women’s marathon is here!

On Saturday, competitors will run a distance of 42.2km in Central London, in a route made up of two sections. One is an 18km loop that will have to be completed twice and the other is a 6.2km path that goes into the city centre, finishing off in Victoria Square.

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But who will find themselves at the finish line first?

One big favourite is reigning champion Helalia Johannes. The Namibian long-distance runner will be back to defend her title while she attempts to shatter her personal best of 2:19:52.

Another top competitor is Kenya’s Maurine Chepkemoi, who has a season-best of 2:21:10. Those numbers aren’t far off of Johannes’ record, so expect a close one!

The event starts at 10:30 a.m. ET on CBC Sports channel 2.

Swimming

Swimming has started at the Commonwealth Games too!

And even though Canadian world champion swimmer, Summer McIntosh, withdrew from the women’s 200-metre butterfly, there are still many elite athletes to see in the distance.

Alys Thomas is one of them.

The Welsh professional swimmer is the defending champion of the 200m butterfly and she will be one to watch to claim the prize, yet again!

Alys Thomas @alys_thomas

Persistence... —— Left: 9year old me, first county medal 200fly. Right: 27year old me, first major international medal 200fly. 18 years apart, some things take time.

In 2018, she set the Commonwealth Games record for Team Wales (helping them claim their first gold medal) with a time of 2:05.45 at the women's 200m butterfly final.

Who will fly to the top this year? Watch here to find out:

Saturday at 10:30 a.m. ET - swimming heats on CBC Sports channel 1.
Saturday at 7 p.m. ET - swimming finals on CBC Sports channel 1.
Sunday at 7 p.m. ET - swimming finals on CBC Sports channel 1.

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