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EXPLAINED: Aussie comeback queens bizarre ride to glasgow medal - The Real Truth

Eliza Ault-Connell has won a medal after her successful protest enraged England's chef de mission. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Eliza Ault-Connell can laugh now about the "bingle" that set off a sequence of events that led to her claiming one of the most unusual medals of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Ault-Connell was caught up in a dramatic crash in the first running of the women's 1500m T54 final when she was cut off by Canadian rival Nandini Sharma, who was disqualified and stripped of her silver medal.

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