Word spread across the Gold Coast on Friday that a bus driver had an absolute shocker when transporting a team of athletes.

And more details were confirmed on Saturday by The Gold Coast Bulletin, which revealed the women’s beach volleyball team from Grenada were taken to the Anna Meares Velodrome – the venue for the track cycling – instead of the Coolangatta beach volleyball venue.

This was no small error, either.

The track cycling is taking place in the Brisbane suburb of Chandler, more than 100km away from Coolangatta.

A police escort cleared the way for the Grenada team to get to the event at full speed, but they were still late.

To add insult to injury, they lost in straight sets to Scotland, with players afterwards blaming the defeat on the transport drama.

CEO of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation Mark Peters said the incident was “not acceptable”.

“This is the worst thing you want as an organising committee,” he said.

Grenada were on time for their match against Australia on Saturday, but lost easily.

Official flees country

After being charged with the sexual assault of an athlete at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, a Mauritius team official has fled the country.

Police confirmed the news on Saturday and added they were unsure whether the 52-year-old in question would return to Australia to face court.

But while the official, who was granted bail, has “made an undertaking to appear” in court, a high-ranking police figure said Australia probably wouldn’t seek extradition if he failed to appear in Southport Magistrates Court on April 17.

“It’s not the type of offence that we would prevent people travelling on or take any measure to do that,” Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said.

Deputy Commissioner Gollschewski added that there were “normal bail restrictions put on that in terms of contact with people involved in the investigation and where he can go.”

The official allegedly touched a 26-year-old athlete in an inappropriate manner during a photo shoot.

A busy man

There was plenty of talk before the Games that Chris Hemsworth would make an appearance in the opening ceremony.

That was not the case but he was watching on the Gold Coast on Saturday, spotted taking in both gymnastics and swimming with his daughter, India Rose.

Some eagle-eyed athletes even managed a selfie with the Thor star.

That’s unusual …

Squash Australia clearly aren’t happy with host broadcaster of the Games, the Seven Network.

They took the highly unusual step of posting to Facebook urging all fans to contact the network “to request more squash coverage”.

“CHANNEL 7 own all rights. There is little mainstream coverage as they feel the public do not want it,” they added.

Squash Australia did not answer calls from The New Daily on Saturday.

The tweet

🇦🇺 Francois Etoundi, weightlifter or high jumper? #TeamAUS #GC2018 pic.twitter.com/QmT1VtHFTX

— Michael Willson (@MichaelCWillson) April 7, 2018

The Aussie battled through the pain of a torn bicep to win a weightlifting bronze medal on Saturday.

Low blow

New Zealand boxer David Nyika claimed he was nursing bite marks after beating Yakita Aska of Antigua and Barbuda in a controversial boxing clash.

“I copped a couple of bite marks … he bit me in the end,” Nyika said.

Nyika is taking it a lot better than we would.

“That’s the sport we’re in. Fair play to him. It’s kill or be killed,” he added.

The photo

Sunday’s action

Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers is a short-priced favourite to win the men’s 100m freestyle final at 7.43pm AEST, with compatriot Cameron McEvoy his biggest challenger.

Chalmers could win two golds in the night with the 4x200m freestyle relay to close out the evening’s swimming action at 10.01pm.

Other key swimming hopes on Sunday are Cate Campbell in the women’s 50m butterfly final (9.36pm), Emily Seebohm in the women’s 200m backstroke decider (7.37pm) and Mitch Larkin in the men’s 50m backstroke event (9.31pm).

It is a massive night in the cycling, too, as Aussie Matthew Glaetzer aims to bounce back from his heartbreak in the men’s 1000m time trial at 6.47pm.

Elsewhere, the athletics gets underway with a few medal events through the day, and they will also be dished out in the artistic gymnastics, table tennis and weightlifting.

Other highlights include our netballers taking on South Africa (8.32pm), the Kookaburras meeting Scotland (9.30pm) and the Opals battling Canada from 6.30pm.

The Games Guide will be published on each day of the 2018 Commonwealth Games.