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The ring at the Commonwealth Games was open tonight for Canada, and who better to lead the Maple Leaf team than Olympian 69kg Custio Clayton who unwrapped the gloves in Glasgow with a clear 3-0 win over Grenada boxer Jonathan Francois.
"I'm really happy, it has been emotional the last few days, so I am really happy about that and I knew that it would be really close so I gave it everything I could."
After a successful day Thursday with wins over both Papua New Guinea (3-0) and Guyana (3-1), the Canadian women’s tennis table team of Betty Guo (Edmonton, Alta.), Anqi Luo (Mississauga, Ont.) and Mo Zhang (Vancouver, B.C.), has advanced to the quarterfinals.
"I think it’s a maturity thing as well as an understanding of what it takes. I obviously haven’t figured it all out yet but every couple of months I’ve figured out something small and then there’s still something else to figure out. I think I’m on the right track.
On day two on the Judo mats in Glasgow, after four Canadians competing managed to make bronze medal finals, in the end it was Alix Renaud-Roy and Jonah Burt who came away with some hardware.
