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Ian Chadband

She's so proud: Hayley hails her boy as Kai fires

MUMMY'S BOY: Kai Taylor has joined mum Hayley Lewis in an exclusive Commonwealth Games club. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Mum was always the word for Kai Taylor - and now Hayley Lewis, the champion swimmer in whose illustrious shadow he's long lived, has been left joyously saluting her boy for joining the individual Commonwealth champions' club.

Taylor, the 22-year-old who'd already enjoyed a breakthrough week in Glasgow with his spectacular relay anchor leg that sealed the 4x200m relay triumph, pulled off one of the surprise triumphs of the meet as he stole the 200m crown from the unlikely position of lane one.

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