Women's 19-14 win over  was their first win of the season. They went over 30 matches without a win !! Mind you, to be fair, they only just managed to sneak out the win and were helped by the fact that South Africa had a player sent off.   The Hong Kong Sevens weekend is always mad and you can rely on seeing some weird and wonderful sights as you travel on the MTR. Highlights this year included a couple of life sized Labubus - they must have been sweating up a storm in those things.     

women's Team Sabre ( Athens)   Gold:  France Silver:  South Korea Bronze:  Japan   Full Rankings & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/C06F57A6F00044A48082A630EEB62FA8

I know that, but I just wanted to show the pathology of Orban's power system that he did something like that for a public money.

Bellandi now has the Big Grand Slam in judo:     - Olympic gold (2024), - World Championship gold (2025), - European Championship gold (2026).     She is also the world leader in her weight class, of course.

Scutto's crisis is especially worry– 4 consecutive losses in first rounds this year are difficult to understand, especially considering she's our World Championship gold medalist last years and our main medal olympiscs hope with Bellandi in women.   The men's team is celary weaker without Lombardo and Parlati, so it was difficult to expect success here– fortunately, Pirelli had a his day of life today

Final Medal Table   4 / 2 / 1 2 / 4 / 6 2 / 1 / 4 2 / 0 / 2 1 / 1 / 1 1 / 1 / 0 1 / 0 / 0 1 / 0 / 0 0 / 1 / 3 0 / 1 / 1 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 0 / 2 0 / 0 / 2 0 / 0 / 2 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1  

just on the edge...    saved their ass on the very last day thanks to the one and only European, World and Olympic Champion, Alice Bellandi, and to the surprising Gennaro Pirelli, who had the day of his life and finally won a global title   still, it can't be denied the epic fail of the first 3 days, when quite a few athletes heavily underperformed (especially the 2 most expected youngsters, Valerio Accogli and Leonardo Valeriani)

Day #4   women's -78kg   Gold:  Alice Bellandi Silver:  Emma Reid Bronze:  Kaila Issoufi &  Metka Lobnik   men's -100kg   Gold:  Gennaro Pirelli Silver: Simeon Catharina Bronze:  Ilia Sulamanidze &  Arman Adamian   women's +78kg   Gold:  Raz Hershko Silver:  Lea Fontaine Bronze:  Asya Tavano &  Romane Dicko   men's +100kg   Gold:  Guram Tushishvili Silver:  Lukas Krpalek Bronze:  Valerii Endovitskii &  Ibrahim Tataroglu     Full Draws and Results https://www.ijf.org/competition/3163/draw

2026 SVNS World Championship #1/3  - Hong Kong   Results (April 17-19, 2026)   ** Position and points in the general table in ().   Men's: 1. South Africa  (Oosthuizen - Z Davids - Visser - Jobb - Leyds - van Wyk - S Davids - Nortje - Soyizwapi - Nell - Brown - Don) (1st - 20p) 2. Argentina  (2nd - 18p) 3. Spain  (3rd - 16p) 4. New Zealand  (4th - 14p) 5. Fiji  (5th - 12p) 6. Australia  (6th - 10p) 7. Kenya  (7th - 8p) 8. France  (8th - 6p) 9. Uruguay  (9th - 4p) 10. Great Britain  (10th - 3p) 11. Germany  (11th - 2p) 12. United States  (12th - 1p)   Women's: 1. New Zealand  (Nuku - Miller - Waaka - Pouri-Lane - Teneti - Paul - Kolose - Davis - Watherston - Sorensen-McGee - Vahaakolo - Saili) (1st - 20p) 2. Australia  (2nd - 18p) 3. France  (3rd - 16p) 4. Canada  (4th - 14p) 5. United States  (5th - 12p) 6. Japan  (6th - 10p) 7. Fiji  (7th - 8p) 8. Spain  (8th - 6p) 9. Brazil  (9th - 4p) 10. Great Britain  (10th - 3p) 11. Argentina  (11th - 2p) 12. South Africa  (12th - 1p)   Results   NEXT: 2026 SVNS World Championship #2 in Valladolid  (May 29-31, 2026)

Could easily replace Football at the Olympics, since it’s not even the most major event for it