Lizzi Jordan and Sylvia Misztal get a brilliant start and manage to sneak the inside line on the first lap, can they hold it to the end?

Ok, we're back to race two of the women's tandem.

Lizzi Jordan and her pilot Sylvia Misztal have a 1-0 lead over English team-mates Sophie Unwin and Anna Whitworth-Hay.

James Ball and Matt Rotherham make a strong start and dip inside Neil Fachie and Aaron Pope's time after the first of four laps.

This is fast, very fast....

Kane Perris of Australia finishes 1.7secs behind the time of Scotland's Neil Fachie who is guaranteed at least a silver medal.

James Ball and Matt Rotherham will try to usurp them both and claim the first track gold medal for Wales.

Here's Kane Perris of Australia, another medal contender... it's the penultimate tandem to go with only James Ball of Wales to come afterwards.

Parris is behind Fachie at the mid-point.

Gareth Bailey
BBC Sport Wales at Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome

The Welsh support has just increased inside here with two-time Olympic silver medallist track cyclist Becky North (neé James) and her husband former British and Irish Lions and Wales centre George arriving with their son to support Wales.

The Nigerian tandem slot into third overall in 1min 14secs and that means Neil Fachie is guaranteed a medal for Scotland.

Nigeria will get their restart now. It's the right thing to do. They get away well this time...

If they don't beat Neil Fachie's time then it is a seventh Commonwealth Games medal for the Scotland legend.

It's 1:00.162... just outside the Commonwealth Games record, and that might well be a medal for Neil Fachie and Aaron Pope, his new pilot.

Fachie is punching the air and lapping up the adulation of the home crowd.

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They are flying at the mid-way mark...

Neil Fachie and pilot Aaron Pope get a massive roar as they set off on their 1,000 lung-buster.

It's a great start...

The Kenyans finish 16 seconds down on the Malaysian time, but they are on the board in their first Commonwealth final.

Wholesome stuff.

It looks as though Nigeria will get their chance too shortly... but it will be after Neil Fachie...

Hold your horses. Neil Fachie has to wait. The Kenyans have been allowed a second go at this, which seems fair.

The Glasgow crowd are giving them a huge cheer.

Richard Winton
BBC Sport Scotland at Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome

If Neil Fachie wore all his Commonwealth Games gold medal at the same time, he'd walk with a stoop. The 42-year-old Scot has five of them - plus a silver - and effectively came out of retirement to compete at these Games.

Can he finish his career with one more gold?

Third time's a charm.

Malaysia's Mohd Wahab gets a good start and mercifully we have a time set to beat.

It's 1:05:863.

Neil Fachie will go next trying to beat it.

My goodness, the Nigerian tandem of Oyindamola Tijani (in an incredible green and white skin suit) I might add, has also slipped the chain right at the start.

They barely got out of the blocks. It's another DNF. That feels incredibly harsh. They were barely two seconds in. It's a mechanical error, but we have a tight schedule to keep to.

Very dramatic start to this four-lap, 1,000m race...

Gareth Bailey
BBC Sport Wales at Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome

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The battle of the ages continues in the men's tandem B 1000m time trial this afternoon.

For Wales it's James Ball, for Scotland their hopes lie with Neil Fachie who came out of retirement to compete in front of a home crowd alongside his pilot Aaron Pope.

Fachie won gold at the last Commonwealth goals in this event with Ball in silver, while the results were reversed in the men's tandem B sprint.

Ball who is piloted by Matt Rotherham earned Wales' first gold at the last Games.

Fachie beat Ball to Paralympic gold at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Games in 2021.

His pilot that day? Matt Rotherham.

Narrative.

Gareth Bailey
BBC Sport Wales at Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome

Before every race there’s a video played to ask people to be quiet as the riders start.

Sir Chris Hoy has told us all to 'shush' multiple times today already.

I mean fair enough, it is his velodrome.

The action is coming thick and fast.

1,000 metres. A minute or so of maximum pain, and Neil Fachie of Scotland and Wales’ James Ball are among the six qualifiers for one of the most gruelling events.

Kennedy Ogada of Kenya is the first to try and set a time, Fachie will go fourth with Ball the final rider to go.

It's a nightmare for Kenya as their chain has slipped off and it looks like it will be a DNF.

Scary stuff, there's no brakes on these bikes, remember...