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You mean the fer, coldzero, taco, and fallen SK Gaming??? That's amazing!

 

Yeah, I've met them a couple of time and sometimes talk to them on Twitter (they follow me :thumbup:). Fallen is really one of the nicest people I've ever met. 

I'm not sure if you know who Steel is (currently plays for Liquid, the Brazilian Steel) but he is really nice aswell. 

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:USA Trek to Tokyo 2020 United States :USA

February 26th  

 

 

 

Basketball (Men)

:USA USA 83 - 75 Puerto Rico :PUR 

For more information on this game and how it ties to qualification visit the "Basketball" section in this post below. 

 

 

 

 

Basketball (Men) 

Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics

In order to qualify must be one of the top 2 Americas teams at 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup

2019 FIBA World Cup

In order to qualify must be one of top 7 teams at 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualification (Americas)

 

2019 FIBA World Cup Qualification (Americas)

:USA USA 83 - 75 Puerto Rico :PUR  

This win gives us enough points to be in a very good spot to qualify for the second round of the World Cup Qualification. Puerto Rico is the next best ranked team in our group currently ranked 4th in the Americas Region (USA ranked 1st). A bigger point difference would have been preferred but nonetheless a win is a win!

 


Group Results:

 

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EDIT: We have qualified to the second round of the 2019 FIBA World Cup Qualification (Americas)  :d

 

 

 

 

 

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:USA  Week in Summer #1 - United States  :USA

March 11th - March 18th 

 

 

Archery

 The Archery season just ended last week so not much has been going on. The 2018 Archery World Cup starts back up on April 23rd in Shanghai, China. 

 

Badminton

 

Yonex All England Open

       Women's Singles       

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Beiwen Zhang got a eliminated 1st round in the tournament which is not terrible as she went against the #2 ranked player in the World Tour while Beiwen is only ranked #5

 

XIX Giraldilla Tournament

Women's Singles

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With this tournament win Crystal jumped up 15 places in the World Ranking now being rank 187 in the world for Women's Singles.

 

 

Basketball

 

Men's

We got news this week that our National Team will be playing Australia in a Melbourne Exhibition Game on Aug 22nd and 24th. This will be a practice as Australia is currently ranked 10th in the world (USA 1st)

 

Women's

We have got the information on the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Group D dates.

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Diving

 

Women's

 

2018 Diving World Series #2 Fugi

 

Synchronized 10m Platform

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Can't tell if this is a bad result or best we can do result as this is Katrina and Tarrin first Syncro 10m at the 2018 Diving World Series.

 

 

 

 

NOTES: Finding/Keeping up with information for Cycling and Boxing is tough and I'm still trying to find a good way to display it and such. I'm also still working on the spreadsheet with all the summer sports on them I still have a few left (school work was extreme past week) but That's why there was only a select number of sports posted nonetheless I wanted to get this post out. As weeks progress more and more detailed information I will be able to put down for the events/athletes

 

 

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:USA  Week in Summer #2 - United States  :USA

March 18th - March 25th 

 

 

Archery

Versus MX 2018 (Brady Ellison)

On March 22nd through March 25th Brady Ellison (Three-time Olympic Medalist) competed at Versus MX Shoot in Guadalajara, Mexico. He shot both Compound and Recurve (but for the sake of Olympics being Recurve we will only talk about that). Brady shot 686 out of 720 points to seed first in the overall men's recurve ranking round. Brady ended up placing 1st in the Recurve event! :thumbup:

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Badminton

This week there was no competition this week with high ranking USA athletes as Orleans Masters 2018 is next week so I bet many USA athletes will be attending that event. 

 

 

Basketball

There is not much news on Basketball as most of their games they play have some sort of direct correlation to the Tokyo Olympics. Here is the information for the Pan American games which I don't think are connected to the Olympic Qualifying in anyway. 

Men's

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Women's

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Cycling

Road - UCI World Tour

 

Volta a Catalunya

Our current best Road Cycler Tejay Van Garderen competed at this event and placed 17th placing him at 162nd place in the World Tour Ranking. Tejay currently is in 78th place in the World Ranking.

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We had our second best Cycler competeing at this event aswell, Brent Bookwalter came in 37th place and now is ranked 177th in the UCI World Tour. Brent is currently 120th in the World Ranking.

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Canoe

Not much information has come out recently about USA Canoe as we get closer to the 2018 Canoe Slalom World Cup I should have more information. 

 

 

As more and more Qualification's for the Olympics start coming out it will be easier for me to know what to put on these posts. I've been working hard on getting more and more information on everything but it takes time. I think this format is pretty good the yellow stands out well for each sport so it's easy to differentiate the sports. For the events which have a bunch of competitors (cycling, boxing, etc) I'm just gonna focus on the best ranked atheltes or else it would take me forever. 

 

 

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:USA  Week in Winter #2 - United States  :USA

March 11th - March 25th 

 

(WIP)

Since I missed the previous week, I am covering both in this post.

 

Alpine Skiing

Going back to last week, we had the finals of the Alpine Skiing World Cup in Are, Sweden. In this, and the overall, the US fared very well on the women's side, but not as well on the men's side.

Ladies' Downhill:

 

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Men's Downhill:

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Ladies' Super G:

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Men's Super G:

No competitors

 

Team Event:

No competitors

 

Ladies' Slalom:

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Men's Slalom:

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These results mean that Mikaela Shiffrin wins the Overall and Slalom Crystal Globes!

 

Biathlon

March 15th-18th there was a Biathlon WC Event in Oslo:

 

Women Sprint:

 

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Men Sprint:

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Women Relay:

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Men Pursuit:

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Women Pursuit:

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Men Relay:

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This was a great result for our women, especially Susan Dunklee! A podium finish for her, just her 7th career, and coming off one at the World Championships last year. 

 

This race was also significant for the US as it marked the end of the 2 top biathletes for the US, Lowell Bailey and Tim Burke. They both have had great careers and have come close to giving the US their first biathlon medal. I loved watching these gentlemen, and their absence will surely be felt. 

 

There was a Biathlon World Cup event in Tyumen, Russia that was the following week and concluded the season. This race was boycotted by the United States because of continued suspicion of Russian doping allegations.

Bobsleigh

The Bobsleigh World Cup will resume 7-9 December in Sigulda, Latvia.

 

Cross-Country Skiing

 

 

Curling

 

Figure Skating

 

 

Freestyle Skiing

 

 

Ice Hockey

 

Luge

The Luge World Cup will resume in November.

 

Nordic Combined

 

 

Short Track Speed Skating

 

Skeleton

The Skeleton World Cup will resume 7-9 December in Sigulda, Latvia.

 

Ski Jumping

 

 

Snowboarding

 

Speed Skating

 

 

 

 

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:USA  Week in Summer #3 - United States  :USA

March 25th - April 1st 

 

 

Archery

No competitions took place this week so I'll give a rundown of World Rankings

 

Brady Ellison - 5th

Zach Garret - 17th

Jake Kaminski 29th

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Mackenzie Brown - 9th

Khatuna Lorig - 43rd

La Nola Shepherd - 116th

 

 

 

 

Badminton

2018 New Orleans Masters took place this weekend and we had our best ranked Mixed Doubles team compete in the event. Sadly we lost first round to a 351st ranked team and we are 120th! 

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Basketball

No news on Basketball this week

 

 

Cycling

Road - UCI World Tour

 

Women's

Tour of Flanders

Meghan Guarnier: Meghan was able to place in 10th in this race which gave her some great points to put her into 31st ranked in the Women's World Tour

Coryn Rivera: Coryn placed 34th in the race gaining 3 points putting her in 23rd rank

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2018 Women's World Tour Rankings

 

 

 

 

Canoe

No news on Canoe this week 

 

Note: More and More qualification systems are being released everyday so I've been organizing my spreadsheet for that. I have a  bunch of sports on my spreadsheet just their world cups and sutff haven't been started yet

 

 

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:USA  Week in Summer #4 - United States  :USA

April 1st - April 8th 

 

 

Archery

The 2018 Archery World Cup starts next week in Shanghai, but this week we saw some of our top Archers compete at the USAT #1 AAE Arizona Cup 

 

Men's Recurve

In the Qualification Round we saw Brady Ellison top the charts with a score of 670 which is expected as he is the best American Recurve Archer! 2nd in the Qualification Round was Matthew Nofel who got a score of 654. In third was Jack Williams with a score of 651!

The final four archers were Brady Ellison, Matthew Nofel, Adam Heidt, and Jack Williams. Brady Ellison ended up winning 1st place and Matthew Nofel got 2nd, which is great for an 18 year old! Gotta watch out for him. and 3rd place went to Jack Williams. 

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Women's Recurve

The Qualification Round for the Women went as expected Mackenzie Brown got rank 1 with a score of 635, Khatuna Lorig got rank 2nd with a score of 634 and LaNola Pritchard got rank 3rd with a score of 629. 

To the surprise of many the final four archers were Mackenzie Brown, Khatuna Lorig, Casey Kaufhold, and Ana Umer. Mackenzie Brown got 1st, Kahtuna Lorig got 2nd, and 14 year old Casey Kaufhold got 3rd!

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Badminton

No major Badminton events took place this week

 

 

 

Basketball

 

 

Men's

The 2018-20 Men's National Team Roster was Announced on Friday! 

Harrison Barnes (Dallas Mavericks)

Bradley Beal (Washington Wizards)

Devin Booker (Phoenix Suns)

Jimmy Butler (Minnesota Timberwolves)

Mike Conley Jr. (Memphis Grizzlies)

DeMarcus Cousins (New Orleans Pelicans)

Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors)

Anthony Davis (New Orleans Pelicans)

DeMar DeRozan (Toronto Raptors)

Andre Drummond (Detroit Pistons)

Kevin Durant (Golden State Warriors)

Paul George (Oklahoma City Thunder)

Eric Gordon (Huston Rockets)

Draymond Green (Golden State Warriors)

Blake Griffin (Detroit Pistons)

James Harden (Houston Rockets)

Tobias Harris (Los Angeles Clippers)

Gordon Hayward (Boston Celtics)

Kyrie Irving (Boston Celtics)

LeBron James (Clevland Cavaliers)

DeAndre Jordan (Los Angeles Clippers)

Kawai Leonard (San Antonio Spurs)

Damian Lillard (Portland Trail Blazers)

Kevin Love (Cleveland Cavaliers)

Kyle Lowry (Toronto Raptors)

CJ McCollum (Portland Trailblazers)

Khris Middleton (Milwaukee Bucks)

Victor Oladipo (Toronto Rapids)

Chris Paul (Houston Rockets)

Isaiah Thomas (Los Angeles Lakers)

Klay Thompson (Golden State Warriors)

Myles Turner (Indiana Packers)

Kemba Walker (Charlotte Hornets)

John Wall (Washington Wizards)

Russel Westbrook (Oklahoma City Thunder) 

The Roster is 35 players, 17 of which are Olympic Gold Medalists and 29 are past members of the USA Men's National Team pool. These 35 players are expected to attend the July 25-27 USA Men's National Team minicamp in Las Vegas. It's expected that the official 12-member 2019 USA World Cup and 2020 U.S. Olympic teams, should the USA qualify compete in China and Tokyo will be compromised of 12 of these 35 players. The next Men's game is on June 28th vs Mexico

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Cycling

No top Americans competed/No Major events

 

 

 

 

Canoe

Still figuring all this Canoe stuff out!

 

 

 

Diving

No events this week the 2018 FINA Diving World Series picks back up in 2 weeks!

 

 

 

Field Hockey

The 2018 Women's Field Hockey World Cup takes place in 2 weeks here is their group, the USA Women are currently ranked 7th so if rankings are correct on finishes we will place 2nd in the group stage. 

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Water Polo

Men's

The 2018 Men's Water Polo World League took place this week and USA went 4-0 in their group beating Japan, New Zealand, China, and Saudi-Arabia! With this great finish we qualify to the Super Final on June 18-23. We also beat the top team from Group A (Australia) and beat them 9-6 to secure 1st place overall in the World League! 

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Women's

The 2018 Women's Water Polo World League also took place this week and the Women's team went 1-1 in their group qualifying them for the Quarterfinals. 

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We then saw the Women's dominated the competition and end up winning this stage of the World League, they are now qualified for the Super Final! 

 

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NOTE: Much more indepth this week (I can still add more though) I'm currently on Spring Break this week but I will be in Las Vegas until Thursday. Expect next weeks post to have lots of more information as I will be able to do much more sports! 

 

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:USA  Week in Summer #5 - United States  :USA

April 8th - April 15th 

 

 

Archery

No Archery news this week were just waiting for the 2018 Archery World Cup to start on April 23rd!

 

 

 

 

Badminton

No major Badminton events took place this week

 

 

Baseball

No Baseball news or events this week

 

 

 

Basketball

 

Women's

The USA Women's National Team is set to face China in Exhibition Game on April 26th in Seattle! Prior to the April 26th game the USA team will train on the 24th and 25th in preparation for the 2018 FIBA World Cup which will be in Sept. 22-30 in Spain. Here is the 2018-20 USA Basketball Women's National Team 

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Cycling

Road - UCI World Tour

 

Men's

Amstel Gold Race

We just had one major finish this race with Lawson Craddock finishing in 9th place earning 100 points moving him to 666th place in the World Ranking and 96th in the UCI World Tour Ranking! 

 

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Women's

Amstel Gold Race

Alexis Ryan one of our current best Road cycler competed in this event and placed 5th giving her 85 points and moving her up 3 spots to 10th place in the Women's World Tour Rankings, and to 29th place in the World Rankings! Here is an update on where our USA Women stand in the Road World Rankings.

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Canoe

No news this week I hate the USA Canoe website so difficult to find information! 

 

 

 

 

Diving

Still waiting for the 3rd stage of the FINA Diving World Series to start back up in Montreal on April 27-29! 

 

 

 

 

 

Field Hockey

Women's

The Women's team completed their final match of their test series against 15 ranked Chile with a 1-1 tie. The Women's team will travel to Tucuman, Argentina from June 10-17 for a five-game test series against the host country as their final preparation before the Women's Hockey World Cup in London in July!

 

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Water Polo

No news this week

 

 

 

NOTE: Back from vacation, in the next two weeks there will be much more events I think because of the commonwealth games there was a pause in lots of the events! 

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:USA  Week in Summer #6 - United States  :USA

April 15th - April 29th

 

 

Archery

2018 Archery World Cup - Stage 1 (Shanghai)

Men's Recurve

Qualification Round

The Qualification Round went great for Brady Ellison placing 3rd behind him was his teammates Jack Williams (54th), Matthew Requa (68th) and Thomas Standwood (87th).

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Bracket Round - Matthew Requa

At the top of the Bracket Matthew Requa (68) got placed against Oibek Saidiyev (45) and ended up winning which was a great upset for him! The next round he got placed against Zurab Mestvirishvili (93) and ended up winning that match 6-2! Moving onto the 3rd round Matthew got paired up against Mateusz Ogrodowczyk (61) and upset him in a close match with a final score of 6-5. On the 4th Round Matthew got placed against Taylor Worth (4) and ended up loosing 4-6 overall it was a good finish for Matthew as he was ranked 68 after qualification round.

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Bracket Round - Brady Ellison

Brady Ellison got a first and second round bye as he was ranked 3rd after qualification round. In the 3rd round he faced against Faith Bozlar (78) and won that match 6-2. On the 4th round Brady won against Denis Gankin (19) 6-5 in a very close match. Moving onto the Quarter Finals Brady played against Mauro Nespoli (22) and won again 6-5. In the Semi finals Brady was against Lee Woo Seok (2) and won 6-5! Moving onto the finals Brady Ellison played against Kim Woojin (1) and endded up loosing 6-2 overall it was a very good showing from Brady and he ended up getting the silver medal! 

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Bracket Round - Jack Williams

Jack started out his bracket stage run going against Yuriy Havelko (59) and won that match. Sadly, Jack lost the 2nd round match against Steve Wijler (11) 5-6.

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Bracket Round - Thomas Stanwood

Thomas lost his first round match up against Kuraya Tomoaki (26) of Japan

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Men's Recurve Team

We ended up with a 8th after the qualification round which let us get a 1st round bye in the bracket stage. After our Bye round we got matched up against Italy (9) beating them 5-4! After that we had the hardest match as we played #1 ranked Korea loosing 0-6

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Women's Recurve

Qualification Round

We didn't have the best of Qualification Round for the Women but we can only go up from here! Our highest ranked was Khatuna Lorig with 43rd! 

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Bracket Round - Mackenzie Brown

Our currently highest ranked archer Mackenzie Brown had to face Celmence Tellier (64) first round and ended up winning 7-1. In the 2nd round Mackenzie got beat by Kawanaka Kaori 0-6. This was not the best of Mackenzie's performances so hopefully the stage of World Cup she can improve!

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Bracket Round - Khatuna Lorig

Khatuna Lorig also had an underwhelming performance as she got knocked out 1st round by Luiza Saidiyeva (70) 3-7.

 

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Bracket Round - La Nola Shepherd

La Nola also didn't do well as she got beat 1st round by Alexandra Longova (42)

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Bracket Round - Erin Mickelberry

Lastly, Erin Mickelberry got upset by Alicia Marin (50) 1-7!

 

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Women's Recurve Team

Somehow our Women's Team actually put on a good show so something good came out of them! We got ranked 19th which is not the best but ended up beating Russia and Georgia! 

 

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Mixed Recurve Team

Our Mixed Recurve Team also performed quite well we ended the qualification round ranked 11th and 1st round beat Thailand (22) 5-4. In the 2nd round we also beat China (6) 6-2! 3rd round we did a great upset against India (3)! Sadly though we lost the Semifinal to Turkey and the bronze medal match against Indonesia! Either way we proved our Mixed Team can compete quite well! 

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Badminton

Pan Am Badminton Championship

 

Men's Doubles

Great to see Ryan and Phillip Chew competing again and they did great! They made it to the finals but ended up loosing to team Canada.

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Basketball

 

Women's

The USA Women's National Team beat China 83-46 in a Seattle Exhibition match!

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NOTE: Had 5 tests last week so last Sunday I was studying so I didn't have time for this, currently I've got a massive stomach ache so I tried to do this quickly so sorry there are not many sports on here this week but wanted to get this up nontheless to make sure you guys know I didn't quit doing these! See you next Sunday! 

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Good Showing from the archers, too bad Ellison couldn’t pull off the win. The Mix Team result is quite good as well.

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    • Stage #5, Final ( Neom Bay)   Men's 10km   Gold:  Florian Wellbrock Silver:  Sacha Velly Bronze:  Marc-Antoine Olivier   Full Results https://www.worldaquatics.com/competitions/4735/world-aquatics-open-water-swimming-world-cup-2024/results?event=4e476ea1-3578-4eb3-b919-b5ecc3d3add1     Women's 10km   Gold:  Moesha Johnson Silver:  Lea Boy Bronze:  Ginevra Taddeucci   Full Results https://www.worldaquatics.com/competitions/4735/world-aquatics-open-water-swimming-world-cup-2024/results?event=2ca80334-ffba-40b0-9444-fcdc08e8d88f
    • 2 things...   first, for what concerns the cooperation between inline skating and speedskating federations...sorry to disppoint some of you, but there's a great cooperation between them   the point is that many "summer" skaters just don't want to try the ice because they have too much to give up for that   you name places like Collalbo or Baselga, but for the "summer skating" guys from centeral and southern regions it's not an option, it's not that they make it for a living with those disciplines, they have to focus on their studies and build a post-competitive sport career and they just can't place themselves into a hole in the mountains when they maybe are studying in some prestigious universities in the big cities   as I already posted more than once, the idea of covering one of those tracks in the mountains was something idiotic, a political concession impossible to be sustained   the one and only chance to build a true legacy and an efficient, attractive national training center was to build a permanent indoor oval in Milan, beside the Forum   that would have given all the "summer skaters" a true opportunity to try the ice experience and at the same time find the most useful, attractive, prestigious places to continue their studies and try and manage them together with their sports career   any other place wouldn't stand a chance   second...don't give Salvini any credit he doesn't deserve...actually, I think he doesn't even know that in Cortina there's a sliding sports track    it's not thanks to him that the Cortina track's building finally went underway 
    • c'mon, guys! relax! sciallatevi un po'!    you're making me sick...it's just the season start and this is a sport where only the world championship (and Olympic, in the specific years) medals count   don't get mad for a couple of races held thousend miles away from home after the team had already passed their first climax (the internal selection)...there are still 2 full seasons before the Olympics
    • Super Round Results   21/11    b.   2-0  b.   9-1   22/11    b.   8-2  b.   9-6   nothing is decided yet, all teams still have a thoretical chance to make the Gold Medal match   Tomorrow, the last day of the Super Round sees  facing the  at Noon local time (4 a.m. CET) and  facing  at 7 p.m. local time (11 a.m. CET)   the medal games are scheduled for Sunday, BMM at Noon local, GMM at 7 p.m. local
    • very poor performance by the US bullpen both Yesterday and Today    not very impressed by this US team for the entire tournament, also in the Mexican first group (Panama deserved to qualify more than them, but they were lucky with the draw and won the decisive direct matchup)   Venezuela confirmed themselves as a very strong team at bat, but with too many troubles on the mound   Today against Japan they had to make a pitching change already in the 1st inning and basically they had to go for a bullpen game, but it didn't come out like the Dodgers'   Japan always on top of their game, even when the pitching staff doesn't perform at best...frankly, they look more and more unbeatable when no MLB superstar is involved (like in this case), but also when it comes down to the top of the pops it's not that they look worse (see 2023 WBC)  there's a serious risk that their domination becomes even too easy, the gap between them and the rest of the world is widening year after year   Taiwan might look like a surprise, but after the 2023 fail, I was sure they were going to rebound and establish themselves among the top teams in the WBSC tournaments, as they are very good in each and every aspect of the game (batting, pitching...maybe a bit less on defense, but you can't have it all)
    • More information has been released on the first edition of the World Athletics Ultimate Championships in 2026, including the events. Mixed 4x100m relay will make its global debut.    https://x.com/worldathletics/status/1859915183071662442?s=46&t=_XjleMNZelg_AVmJy7FfWA
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