WHAT’S in a name? There was a confusion in the women’s mountain biking where Last came first. Annie Last of England that was, who took gold on the trails. Who knew at the time that Bob Dylan’s song ‘The Times are a changing’ actually contained a coded reference to mountain biking?

HELLO Hello. More schoolboy guffaws surround Vanuata 800m runner Valentine Hello, who made a brief appearance in the heats yesterday. She finished in a time of 2.18.26secs , fully 12 seconds back on her nearest rival. She said hello. And we said goodbye. But not before she came through the mixed zone. She said ‘Hello ... is it me you're looking for?'

SOME more Burger (sound) bites. You may recall yesterday’s item about single South African netballer Sigrid Burger and how she was eagerly awaiting the arrival of the nation’s Rugby Sevens players. Well, there was an update today when she said she was also open to offers from Australia. By that I mean she was fluttering her eyelashes at Australian National league netball teams. “Well, you know, they just have to offer,” she said.

PLASTIC drinking straws have been added to the list of contraband items at the Carrara Stadium although there is no truth to the suggestion that is in connection with someone threatening to blow the stadium down. I wonder what was the final straw.

LIES, damned lies and statistics. Usain Bolt tells the assorted world's press in the Gold Coast that he always took the Commonwealth Games 'very seriously'. His career at the Commonwealths amounted to one solitary relay leg in Glasgow.