Fencing FIE World Cup 2019 - 2020

[phelps 7,675]

@heywoodu

hey, man! a rare Dutch success in Fencing!

[heywoodu 15,141]

 

 

And this is a World Cup and in fencing that's actually the highest level?  

[phelps 7,675]

disaster! disaster! disaster by the Italian Epee girls...

 

after the unexpected win in Cuba a few weeks ago, they immediately threw everything away with a round of 16 loss against Hong Kong in Barcelona earlier this morning...

[phelps 7,675]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

 

And this is a World Cup and in fencing that's actually the highest level?  

 

yes, sir...

[Vektor 3,326]

1 minute ago, phelps said:

disaster! disaster! disaster by the Italian Epee girls...

 

after the unexpected win in Cuba a few weeks ago, they immediately threw everything away with a round of 16 loss against Hong Kong in Barcelona earlier this morning...

 

Canada must be really happy about this. They will have a pretty great chance to qualify if the US beats Hong Kong. 

[Vektor 3,326]

Meanwhile Ukraine couldn't even reach the Top16, so this can be the end for them. 

[phelps 7,675]

12 minutes ago, Vektor said:

 

Canada must be really happy about this. They will have a pretty great chance to qualify if the US beats Hong Kong. 

 

yeah, but they are basically qualified in any case...there's no way the US girls get thrown out of the top 4...

 

meanwhile this early loss by ITA could make the final event really interesting...we are really lucky that UKR are not even in the top 16 and EST just lost to HUN and they're also out of the top 8...

but now France have a great chance to get back in the fight (and EGY grabbing top 16 points today can put them directly in contention with JPN for the 16th place, which would mean qualification for them and no repechage for the best not yet qualified team -possibly a European team, if KOR eventually make into the top 4 replacing ITA)...

Edited February 9, 2020 by phelps

[Vektor 3,326]

In men's epee we will have to root for Japan against Russia in the QF because I just can't see us beating France for the second consecutive WC event, that just sounds too good to be true. 

[phelps 7,675]

talking of the women's Team Epee, however, with today's early scores included, China, Poland, Russia and USA are already mathematically qualified to the Olympic Games...

 

and even in the worst case scenario, also Italy can't be catched anymore by any other European Nation (only Korea winning today and Russia ending up 6th or worse could deny us the official qualification already at the end of today's event because of KOR keeping a really outside chance to push RUS out of the top 4 and therefore make ITA not the best Euro Team outside the top 4)...

[Benolympique 2,398]

il y a 12 minutes, phelps a dit :

talking of the women's Team Epee, however, with today's early scores included, China, Poland, Russia and USA are already mathematically qualified to the Olympic Games...

 

and even in the worst case scenario, also Italy can't be catched anymore by any other European Nation (only Korea winning today and Russia ending up 6th or worse could deny us the official qualification already at the end of today's event because of KOR keeping a really outside chance to push RUS out of the top 4 and therefore make ITA not the best Euro Team outside the top 4)...

And France ?