Andrew Dickens: Maybe we were too quick to write off the Comm games

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jul 28, 2026 · 1m · transcript

It took a while for the Commonwealth Games to get going, but yesterday they did.

Lewis Clareburt took gold in the 200 metres butterfly with an insane burst over the last 50 metres, in a race even he called stupid.

It was a good feeling for the nation, because no disrespect to the earlier medallists, it’s gold that gets the nation going.

It’s been a funny old Comm Games thus far.

It’s a scaled down replacement event after Victoria lost their bottle and cancelled their scheduled games.

And it’s been plagued by no shows from high-performance athletes who thought it beneath their participation…