COMMONWEALTH GAMES UPDATE

By The Newsroom
Published 7th Oct 2010, 12:11 BST
THE Leader will be keeping you up to date with our local athletes in Delhi for the Commonwealth Games.

Sean Downey has helped Northern Ireland to their first Commonwealth Games medal this morning.

Along with Martyn Irvine, David McCann and Philip Lavery men's cycling pursuit team defeated India in Thursday's bronze ride-off.

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It's NI's first cycling medal in the Games since 1990 since Alistair Irvine's.

The Northern Ireland quartet caught the Indians to win the race before halfway.

Yesterday Madeline Perry was beaten in an epic battle with Kasey Brown in the quarter finals of the women's individual squash competition at the Commonwealth Games.

Perry, from Banbridge, looked as though she was steaming through to the semi-final of the competition when she eased to victory in the first two sets 11-5, 11-6.