11-year-old in historic medal bid

GOLD COAST, Australia - Eleven-year-old Anna Hursey is set to make Commonwealth Games history this week when the pint-sized Welsh table tennis player hopes to punch above her weight and win a medal.

Hursey, who first picked up a bat at age 5, will become the youngest athlete to represent Wales at the Commonwealth Games and is thought to be the youngest athlete, of any nationality, ever to compete at the quadrennial event.

"She's taking it in her stride really," Welsh coach Stephen Jenkins told AFP.