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The Diamonds's 2026 Commonwealth Games campaign may well go down in history for all the wrong reasons, remembered not only for a shock semi-final loss to Jamaica but the dress controversy that preceded it.
After the Diamonds' 99-38 demolition of Tonga, media coverage focused not on the lopsided result but on the ill-fitting dresses players tugged at throughout matches.
Players like Sophie Garbin may have insisted the outfits were fine, but as ABC journalist Britt Carter put it, "if a shooter has to pull it down more than 10 times in a quarter, how much of that energy could be re-directed?
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The Diamonds's 2026 Commonwealth Games campaign may well go down in history for all the wrong reasons, remembered not only for a shock semi-final loss to Jamaica but the dress controversy that preceded it.
After the Diamonds' 99-38 demolition of Tonga, media coverage focused not on the lopsided result but on the ill-fitting dresses players tugged at throughout matches.
Players like Sophie Garbin may have insisted the outfits were fine, but as ABC journalist Britt Carter put it, "if a shooter has to pull it down more than 10 times in a quarter, how much of that energy could be re-directed?