Emma Finucane came into the Commonwealth Games dreaming of singing the Welsh national anthem atop the podium. After four days of competition, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau might have rather got stuck in the 23-year-old’s head, after she won four golds at Glasgow 2026, the first sprinter to take such a haul in one Games. Together with two bronzes from 2022, Finucane is also now Wales’s most successful Commonwealth Games athlete.
The rider from Carmarthen even ended the week in Scotland as Wales’s flagbearer at the closing ceremony, something that was revealed live to her on Welsh-language channel S4C. “I honestly feel like I’m in a dream,” she said, “I never thought I’d be carrying the Welsh flag in front of the whole nation. Riding for Wales, representing Wales, has been one of the best weeks in my life, and I can’t. It would be an honour to do that…
