at the age of 84, we mourn the loss of  Jair Da Costa, more known as simply Jair (aka "the black arrow"), football star in the Sixties, mainly with FC Internazionale Milano, where he played 10 years, winning 4 national titles, 2 Champions Cups and 2 Intercontinental Cups

Team Event    defeated ,  and  one after another and they're qualified to the gold medal match    the other semifinal is running right now between  and     already qualified to the bronze medal matches are  (lost to  in the semis) and  (lost to  in the quarterfinals and won the repechage against , who lost earlier in the quarters against )   the last repechage match is between  and  (running right now)

you're overestimating  my pal...   however, I guess any outcome different from  and  being promoted would be a huge, huge surprise

Olympic triathlon champion Alex Yee makes his regular marathon debut with a stunning 2:11, damn.

GB basically with the complete roster they have some years now and especially with Liam Kirk in is maybe the top fav, however Jukka Jalonen´s ugly but super efficient anti-hockey catenaccio will surely put Italy especially with Clara in the net and their new americano-italiano reinforcements armada especially in the defense among the main favs for promotion   If I have to bet a penny I would go with 1. GB, 2. ITA for the promotion   Poland changed completely their roster, plenty of old guards retired after last year worlds which was the epic end of their long long years journey, and Poles will have to rely on newer interantionally not tested generation, gonna be a tough tough test to beat Italy and/or GB   Romania with new and naturalized reinforcements should maybe repeat last year suprising journey and stay again in this division.   Ukraine with lot of passion and motivation will battle again every cm of the ice but I am afraid their match against Japan will be the decider whom will drop back to I B next year, It may be a quite open game with Japan having perhaps better roster of the two...

Monday April 28th, 2025 - Round-Robin Day 2 Schedule (GMT +12)   13:00  Iceland vs Bulgaria 16:30  Chinese Taipei vs Thailand 20:00  New Zealand vs Georgia

Sunday April 27th, 2025 - Round-Robin Day 1 Results (GMT +12)   13:00  Thailand  3 - 5  Bulgaria 16:30  Georgia  4 - 0  Iceland 20:00  New Zealand  3 - 1  Chinese Taipei   Provisional Standing After Day 1:   1.    3 ------------------ 2.   3 3.   3 4.   0 5.   0 ------------------ 6.   0

Probably the British team

TV direction missed the decisive moment in the men's marathon and when they, too late, were showing that, they also missed the decisive move in the women's marathon