Gold Coast 2018

The Commonwealth Games triathlon is a truly world class event. Gold Coast local Ashleigh Gentle is the world number two taking on the world number one, in the first medal event of the games.

Susan Pettitt is the only member of the Australian Diamonds team who lost the 2006 Commonwealth Games netball final to New Zealand. After years out of the team, Gold Coast 2018 is her chance for redemption.

Boxer Caitlin Parker has more to fight for than most people. Her parents have worked seven days a week for years to support her career. She wants to repay them with Commonwealth Games gold, then Olympic glory.

New Hockeyroos captain Emily Smith is all smiles as she rides to training with hockey star Anna Flanagan ahead of the Comm Games. Then the girls share their bizarre hockey dreams and things get a little weird.

Champion wrestler Carissa Holland was horrifically bullied as a child. She still wears tights to cover the scars. Then one day while running a gym class, in walked her childhood bully. This is what happened next.

Anneliese Rubie just won the 400m national title inside the near-empty stadium that will host next month's Commonwealth Games athletics. She can't wait till it's full, so she can really show the world what she's got.

Kerryn McCann famously won the Melbourne Comm Games marathon before dying tragically two years later of breast cancer. Our best marathoner Lisa Weightman reflects on the incredible person she was, and her own Gold Coast dreams.