Welcome to our live updates of the morning session of day two from New Delhi.
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7:37pm: NZ synchronised swimmers Kirstin and Caitlin Anderson have found themselves in hot water at the Delhi Commonwealth Games, saying the competition pool is like a
"spa".
The Winton sisters have asked coach Luciana Garcia to lobby for the temperature to be lowered in time for competition tomorrow, fearing they will otherwise have no energy left late in their routines.
When they first arrived in Delhi the pool was frigid even for a pair of Southlanders "it like froze our eyeballs", Caitlin Anderson, 17, told NZPA.
"We told them that the pool was too cold, so they've heated it up - it got warmer, but (yesterday) it was so hot it was like swimming in a spa. Otherwise the pool facility is really good."
It is worst for Kirstin Anderson, 21, as she must practice her solo routine as well as the duet with her younger sister.
Yesterday she had to jump into the main swimming pool to cool down.
"The last two days I was complaining it was too hot, and today it was terrible I just get so hot, and my face gets bright red and I find it hard to breathe - you justyou lose your energy."
The duet made it through the session, but said it was "much more difficult".
"They say it's only two degrees warmer than the swimmers, but it does not feel two degrees difference. It would be a bother if we had to compete in that," Kirstin Anderson said.
7:30pm: Anyone watching the netball yesterday would have noticed the empty stadium. Games organisers say it's "one area which causes us concern". So now organisers are considering giving away free tickets to children in an effort to fill venues.
Local organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi says "steps are being taken in that direction."
The competition program for the Commonwealth Games began yesterday and many venues were nearly empty. Kalmadi says the problem has been fixed by putting ticket booths at every venue.
7:02pm: A reminder for those wanting to know what's happening in Delhi tonight. Here's the full schedule of events for NZ on day two.
6:58pm: New Zealand wrestler Sam Belkin has come up short, succumbing 2-0 to Australian Hassene Fkiri in a Greco Roman match which turned into a war of attrition.
The result could easily have been 1-1 - Belkin believed the umpire got it wrong when they ruled he stepped off the mat first in a key moment midway through the second round - but the bulky 22-year-old said he only had himself to blame.
"It was a close match, he was a bit stronger than me but I should have pushed him a bit harder in the first round. I laid off a bit," he told NZPA.
"I was expecting that I would win that one. New Zealand and Australia are quite even when you get up to the top level. I should have won, but these things happen."
Under wrestling's rules, Belkin could get a chance to fight for bronze later today but only if Fkiri beats his semifinal opponent.
The freestyle competition involving the rest of the six-strong New Zealand team starts from Thursday although Christchurch's Stephen Hill planned to also contest the 84kg Greco Roman class tomorrow.
6:52pm: India has won its first gold! Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang broke a Commonwealth Games record in the 10 meter air rifle pairs event to secure the win.
The pair recorded 1193 points at the Karni Singh shooting range.
The England pair of James Huckle and Kenny Parr was a distant second with 1174 points, while Bangladesh's Abdullah Hel Baki and Mohammad Asif Hossain Khan took the bronze at 1173.
6:30pm:The NZ mens hockey team has beaten Trinidad and Tobago in their opening match at the Games this afternoon.
Three of New Zealand's goals in the 7-1 win came from penalty corners as the power of defenders Andy Hayward (2) and Hayden Shaw proved too much for Trinidad and Tobago to handle.
New Zealand, ranked 7th in the world and third in the Commonwealth compared to Trinidad and Tobago's rankings of 27th and 10th, also scored four neatly constructed field goals through Blair Hilton - who bagged two, one either side of halftime - Hugo Inglis and Nick Haig, who returned from a knee injury.
New Zealand's remaining group B matches are against Canada, England and South Africa.
5:47pm: It's a full schedule of events for NZ on day two of the Games. Find out what's on and when with our Kiwis in action guide to day two.
5:40pm: For those following the hockey, the NZ mens team are about to open their campaign against Trinidad and Tobago. The last time the sides met NZ won 12-0. We will keep you up-to-date with the score in that one.
5:32pm: Former NZ Commonwealth Games and Olympic swimmer Dean Kent says the Kiwis will be delighted with their performances in the pool today. NZ will have eight lining up in tonight's semi finals.
Speaking on Sky Sport, Kent says Snyders and Palmer are two huge meal hopes.
The swimming finals are live on Sky Sport 4 (channel 131) from 11.25pm tonight.
5:24pm: More news from the pool, where Hayley Palmer was strong in winning her heat of the women's 100m freestyle in 55.09s today, topped only by Australian Alicia Coutts, who recorded 55.06sec in an earlier heat.
Palmer last night opted out of a swim-off for a place in the 50m butterfly final after qualifying eighth-equal to save herself for today's race.
New Zealanders Natasha Hind and Penelope Marshall will join her in the semifinals tonight, with Hind 10th fastest into the second round and Marshall 11th.
4:58pm: More swimming results, Moss Burmester and Daniel Bell have both qualified for the semi finals of the 50m butterfly this afternoon (morning Delhi time).
Burmester bounced back after missing the final in his favoured 200m butterfly yesterday.
Melissa Ingram has qualified fifth fastest for the 100m backstroke semifinals while fellow Kiwi Emily Thomas qualified 10th fastest.
4.37pm: It's a big night tonight for NZ's medal chances with the men's 4000m pursuit final (10.15pm), and before that the womens and men's time trials.
Also later tonight the Silver Ferns take on the Cook Islands at 10.20pm.
4.25pm: We are underway on day two of the New Delhi Commonweath Games and Glen Synders has NZ off to a fast start in the pool, qualifying second fastest for the semi finals in the men's 100m breaststroke with a time of 60.30 seconds.
- with NZPA, TRN
