Australian swimmers throw down gauntlet for Paris after Games pool dominance
Over the past six days of swimming at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre, 52 Commonwealth Games gold medals have been on offer. As the meet concluded on Wednesday, Australia won the last race of the evening – the women’s 4x100m medley relay – to collect the nation’s 25th gold. The Dolphins won as many gold medals in Birmingham as England, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and Northern Ireland combined – just one gold shy of claiming fully half of the available titles.
