meanwhile the 2 next best Baseball Leagues in the World have also reached the Final Series
in , the 2024 Japan Series will feature the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks (back to business after the awful 2023 season), winner of the Pacific League, and the surprising Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars, winners of the Central League after an amazing series against the heavily favoured Tokyo Giants
the Japan Series (best-of-7 games, 2-3-2 format) will start next Saturday, October 26th in Yokohama @ 6.30 p.m. local time
in South Korea, instead, the 2024 Korean Series will see the KIA Tigers from Gwangju facing the Samsung Lions from Daegu
the series is a best-of-7 matchup, but with an unusual 2-2-3 format, with the best seeded teams (KIA in this case) hosting not only 4, but 5 of the potential 7 games
game #1 was scheduled for earlier, Today, but it was suspended after 5 innings due to heavy rain
it should resume Tomorrow @ 4 p.m. local time (before game #2 @ 6.30 p.m. local time), but the weather forecast is awful also for Tomorrow and there's a good chance that there won't be any ball played all day long
It`s all the more strange that Italy qualified two womens for Paris, even though this discipline has been in a great crisis in our country for many years - since we stopped naturalizing Chinese some 20 years ago.
2 medals is the historic success of Table Tennis.
Barbora Balážová Gold and Tatiana Kukuľková bronze in W Doubles.
Funny (or not so-funny) enough... both missed Paris 2024 by a few... Balážová ended first non-qualified and Kukuľková 4th under the line... Still can not believe we failed to qualify at least one female to the Games, despite our womens team was still in qualifying position one year before Paris as 2022 WCh quarterfinalists ...
All this Olympic qualification really sucked... especially for us
Next month, in the Challenger 100 in Montevideo , retired professional football player Diego Forlan will make his circuit debut in the doubles draw alongside argentinian Federico Coria
I expected Vonn to return in a speed event, but guess she wants to test herself first on a slower GS. Though at 40 i think she won't be doing many GSs and concentrate on the DH & SG. And hopefully she does that, because a full World Cup season should be out of her aim.
As for Hirscher, he must really be scared of Odermatt breaking his records
Awards time! Here's the World Athletics nominations for Track Runner of the year.
Nominees announced for Track Athlete of the Year 2024 | World Athletics
And for Field Event athlete of the year, although both of these choices are pretty bloody obvious. High demand for yellow and blue flowers, put it that way.
Nominees announced for Field Athlete of the Year 2024 | World Athletics