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Scotland’s Jack Carlin was left “disillusioned” with Commonwealth Video games silver after being “schooled” within the keirin last.
Carlin, a two-time Olympic medallist, completed 0.406 seconds behind Nicholas Paul of Trinidad and Tobago.
Within the ladies’s particular person pursuit, Carlin’s fellow Scot Neah Evans received bronze, as did Wales’ Emma Finucane within the ladies’s particular person dash.
“I am disillusioned just a little bit. I got here right here to win,” stated Carlin.
Carlin’s silver provides to a formidable assortment of eight medals at Olympics, world and European Championships – however none have been gold.
Previous to the Commonwealth Video games, he stated something lower than gold “would not lower it”, however he nonetheless has the person dash to return.
Talking to BBC Sport Scotland, Carlin added: “Nothing’s ever straightforward in a keirin and there is a lot that goes fallacious, you simply have to take a look at the semi-finals, certainly one of my shut mates [Joe Truman] went down.
“A few of it is a lottery, some luck, some ability. You want all three to tug it off and I might need had two, however not the final one. Nicholas was a deserving winner on that one – he completely schooled me.
“However tomorrow’s a brand new day. It is all to play for once more. So I am going to maintain the top down and wait and see.”
Within the semi-finals, England’s Truman was concerned in a heavy crash with Australia’s defending champion Matt Glaetzer.
Truman misplaced consciousness as he slid down the monitor, and after ultimately sitting up, was taken away in a wheelchair sporting an oxygen masks.
He was later taken to hospital with a suspected damaged collarbone.
Elsewhere, England’s Charlie Tanfield misplaced the bronze medal race within the males’s particular person pursuit.
His defeat by Australia’s Conor Leahy and subsequent fourth place end got here 4 years after he claimed the Commonwealth particular person pursuit title.
Evans ‘delighted with bronze’
Claiming her third Commonwealth medal, 31-year-old Evans beat Australia’s Sarah Roy to bronze by greater than three seconds.
She had gone faster in qualification on Saturday morning however such tempo was not wanted for a dominant efficiency within the medal race.
Evans – beforehand a vet earlier than turning into a full-time athlete in 2017 – received crew pursuit silver on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
“The gang was unreal,” she instructed BBC Sport. “We needed to change the techniques as a result of usually I’ve my break up shouted and it was like ‘I am not going to have the ability to hear you’.
“That simply exhibits you the way loud all of it is. After about midway it was simply get your head down and maintain going.
“I bought the brand new British file this morning and I did not fairly again it up – such is racing – [but] I am delighted.”
Finucane’s medal was her second of the Video games, having received crew dash bronze on Friday together with her Welsh team-mates.
She got here from behind over three legs to beat England’s Sophie Capewell to 3rd place.
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