Another round of tickets gave 2 biathlon tickets. That's more or less the second half of my trip settled with the men's relay and men's mass start added. Still considering a bit more for my time in Milano, but now I got enough of an idea to actually start checking out hotels and travel arrangements.
I would prefer the 12 teams tournament in both genders, and give the almost 80/90 quotas to a lot of sports. For example, 32 could go to 4 more teams in each gender in basket 3x3. Then, the 12 team qualification i will do it like this:
Host quota
gold medal of the previous olympic (-1 reduction to the confederation of the gold medal team)
3 to europe
1 oceania
2 south america
1 north america and caribe
1 africa
1 asia
1 playoff africa-asia
1 playoff of loser of africa-asia, 4th europe, 3th southamerica and 2nd north and caribe
and for the women probably the same changing south and north america quotas
Pity that UWW channel's subscription is so expensive - at least for me -.
I wonder whether there are some free channels whereas to watch these European Wrestling Championships maybe even thru my VPN (perhaps some Turkish or Iranian or Japanese tv channels could be feasible ?). Thanks for your help.
16 women's teams, because 12 is a shitty number for a tournament - both because the forced continental representation will lead to it being a relatively weak tournament and because you can not make a decent tournament with 12 teams, you'll be forced to have the super awful 'best third placed teams' nonsense.
0 men's teams
Instead of a total of 28, we go to a total of 16 teams. We gain 12 x whatever number of players are in a men's team for sports where the Olympics are important, we have a women's tournament with a decent format and we get rid of having junior championships at the Olympics, win-win-win
women's Cadet Individual Sabre
Gold: Amalia Covaliu
Silver: Pan Qimiao
Bronze: Zhang Xuanyi & Jang Eun Chae
Semifinals
Covaliu b. Zhang 15-12
Pan b. Jang 15-8
Gold Medal Match
Covaliu b. Pan 15-14
Full Results & Rankings
https://fie.org/competitions/2025/239?tab=results