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weird edition of the Youth Worlds, to say the least... competitions held in an anything but safe environment, media coverage cut down to the basic result lists, many powerhouses not participating at all (Japan, Iran and not only them), some other supposed "big houses" being there with small delegations (Italy among them, missing entire classes, especially in Kumite)... and, unique situation rather than rare, North African Countries totally dominating the field, with Egypt clearly on top of the overall medal table (7 Gold, 4 Silver and 8 Bronze medals for them)... hopefully, it will be better the next time...

and here we have the last couple of Medal sets decided... women's Cadet & Junior Team Kata Gold: Spain Silver: Egypt Bronze: Turkey & France men's Cadet & Junior Team Kata Gold: Egypt Silver: United States Bronze: France & Spain

so, apparently there are only 2 events left: the Gold Medal matches in the Cadet & Junior Team Kata competitions... hope to get the final results soon (the live scoring system seem to have stopped working right now...at least for me)...

Day #5 Medallists Individual Kumite women's U-21, -50kg Gold: Niswa Ahmed Silver: Chaimae Elhayti Bronze: Rabia Elik & Yuliia Palashevska women's U-21, -55kg Gold: Valentina Toro Meneses Silver: Gulsen Demirturk Bronze: Anna Sokk & Ahlam Youssef women's U-21, -61kg Gold: Gwendoline Philippe Silver: Alessandra Mangiacapra Bronze: Fatima-Zahra Chajai & Diana Shostak women's U-21, -68kg Gold: Feryal Abdelaziz Silver: Victoria Isaeva Bronze: Danielle Van Wyk & Skylar Lingl women's U-21, +68kg Gold: Lucija Lesjak Silver: Lora Ziller Bronze: Sunita Khalimova & Nomis Rodriguez Marique

this is really the weirdest thing I've ever seen... and frankly, I refuse to name it a "sport"...

according to my quick calculation, based on this rankings, these should be the Lists of selected Climbers: women 01 Lucka Rakovec 02 Zhang Yue Tong 03 Fanny Gibert 04 Kim Ja In 05 Julia Chanourdie 06 Mia Krampl 07 Kyra Condie 08 Song Yi Ling 09 Sa Sol 10 Ashima Shiraishi 11 Aries Susanti Rahayu 12 Ievgeniia Kazbekova 13 Laura Rogora 14 Alanna Yip 15 Elnaz Rekabi 16 Aleksandra Kalucka 17 Sandra Lettner 18 Iuliia Kaplina 19 Oceania McKenzie 20 Elena Krasovskaia* *Cut-off at Rank #31 men 01 Adam Ondra 02 Pan Yu Fei 03 Jan Hojer 04 William Bosi 05 Sascha Lehmann 06 Manuel Cornu 07 Nikolai Yarilovets 08 Chon Jong Won 09 Alberto Ginès Lopez 10 Bassa Mawem 11 Yannick Flohè 12 Alfian Muhammad 13 Alberto Ghisolfi 14 Anze Peharc 15 Nathaniel Coleman 16 Sean Bailey 17 Jernej Kruder 18 Aleksei Rubtsov 19 Zhong Qi Xin 20 Marcello Bombardi* *Cut-off at Rank #31

Finally, the Lead Nations Cup was won by Japan with 1695 points, finishing ahead of Slovenia with 988 points and South Korea with 758 points... Full Ranking is here: https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php?option=com_ifsc&view=dr&layout=calendar&Itemid=102#!type=nat_team_ranking&cup=19_wc&cat=1,2

Men's Lead World Cup Final Ranking 1st, Adam Ondra, 300.00 Pts 2nd, Alberto Ginès Lopez, 256.00 Pts 3rd, Sean McColl, 206.00 Pts 4th, Kai Harada, 195.00 Pts 5th, Stefano Ghisolfi, 190.00 Pts 6th, Hiroto Shimizu, 180.00 Pts =7th, Kokoro Fujii, 165.00 Pts =7th, Aleksander Megos, 165.00 Pts 9th, Sean Bailey, 158.00 Pts 10th, Sascha Lehmann, 152.00 Pts Full Ranking https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php?option=com_ifsc&view=dr&layout=calendar&Itemid=102#!type=ranking&cat=ICC_M&cup=19_WC

Women's Lead World Cup Final Ranking 1st, Seo Chae Hyun, 480.00 Pts 2nd, Janja Garnbret, 352.00 Pts 3rd, Natsuki Tanii, 243.00 Pts 4th, Lucka Rakovec, 226.00 Pts 5th, Akiyo Noguchi, 224.00 Pts 6th, Ai Mori, 220.00 Pts 7th, Zhang Yue Tong, 207.00 Pts 8th, Kim Ja In, 206.00 Pts 9th, Mia Krampl, 189.00 Pts 10th, Jessica Pilz, 176.00 Pts Full Ranking https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php?option=com_ifsc&view=dr&layout=calendar&Itemid=102#!type=ranking&cat=ICC_F&cup=19_WC

2019 Sport Climbing World Cup, Stage #12 (Inzai, JPN) Women's Lead Gold: Kim Ja In Silver: Janja Garnbret Bronze: Seo Chae Hyun Men's Lead Gold: Hiroto Shimizu Silver: Alberto Ginès Lopez Bronze: Stefano Ghisolfi

Stage #9, MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal (Peniche, POR) Gold: Caroline Marks Silver: Lakey Peterson Bronze: Carissa Moore & Tatiana Weston-Webb Full Ranking: https://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2019/wct/2925/meo-rip-curl-pro-portugal/results?resultsType=prizes

Stage #8, Roxy Pro France (Capbreton/Hossegor/Seignosse, Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, FRA) Gold: Carissa Moore Silver: Caroline Marks Bronze: Johanne Defay & Lakey Peterson Full Ranking: https://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2019/wct/2922/roxy-pro-france/results?resultsType=prizes

Stage #10, MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal (Peniche, POR) Gold: Italo Ferreira Silver: Jordy Smith Bronze: Kanoa Igarashi & Caio Ibelli Full Ranking: https://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2019/mct/2924/meo-rip-curl-pro-portugal/results?resultsType=prizes

Day #4 Medallists Individual Kumite men's U-21, -60kg Gold: Christos-Stefanos Xenos Silver: Meshari Alzuabi Bronze: Moamen Mohamed & Yerkinbek Baitureyev men's U-21, -67kg Gold: Abilmansur Batyrgali Silver: Omer Abdurrahim Ozer Bronze: Anass Alami & Abdalla Hesham Abdelgawad men's U-21, -75kg Gold: Yassine Sekouri Silver: Hamza Turulja Bronze: Abdalla Mamduh Abdelaziz & Kilian Cizo men's U-21, -84kg Gold: Thameur Slimani Silver: Raybak Abdesselem Bronze: Youssef Badaw & Samed Gok men's U-21, +84kg Gold: Taha Tarek Mahmoud Silver: Mehdi Filali Bronze: Mohammed El Bahry & Brandon Carr

Grand Slam (Abu Dhabi, UAE) Day #3 Recap South Korea, thanks to the 2 Gold Medals (Cho Gu Ham, men's -100kg & Han Mi Jin, women's +78kg) won in the 3rd and last day of action, topped the Medal Table at the end of the tournament with 3 Gold Medals... Today's remaining Gold Medal went to: Nikoloz Sherazadishvili (men's -90kg), Roy Meyer (men's +100kg) and Klara Apotekar (women's -78kg) Following the Koreans, in the final Medal Table the Netherlands and Slovenia ranked second and third respectively, both with 2 Gold and 1 Silver Medal, but the Dutch having won also 1 Bronze medal more than the rivals... Finally, 7 more Nations ( Ukraine, Kosovo, People's Republic of Korea, Kazakhstan, Italy, Turkey and Spain) won 1 Gold Medal each... Full Results, here: http://www.ippon.org/gs_uae2019.php

first race of the year...and here we go already with a serious looking injury... poor Bernadette...

Seoul Doosan Bears sweep the 2019 Korean Series bottom of the 9th inning: the Bears are 3-0 ahead in the series and 9-8 ahead in game #4... the 1st out has already been registered, but suddenly the Kiwoom Heroes manage to load the bases...1 more hit and the series is likely to go to game #5... but a badly "chopped" swing by Kim Gyu-Min does waste the second out for the Heroes, allowing the pitcher to easily catch the ball and complete the forced out at home base... then, on the following play, what looked an easy play for Doosan's third baseman became a capital mistake and allowed Kiwoom to at least tie the game, but that was the only run they managed to score...so, a 10th inning was required... and in the top of the 10th, the Bears immediately jumped all over the Heroes' pitcher and scored the 2 runs that gave them the victory in this match and the clean sweep in the entire series... before this decisive moments, the first 5 innings of the game have been an amazing slugfest, with the Heroes taking a large lead after only 2 fractions, but allowing the Bears a big 5-run comeback in the 5th, which proved to be the key moment of today's meet... then things settled down for quite a while, before the final fireworks... and finally, after a 5-hour battle, the Doosan Bears could start the party... game #4 final score: Doosan Bears, 11 beat Kiwoom Heroes, 9 2019 Korean Series Final Result: Doosan Bears, 4 beat Kiwoom Heroes, 0 game #4 boxscore https://mykbostats.com/games/7443-Doosan-vs-Kiwoom-20191026 game #4 highlights https://sports.news.naver.com/kbaseball/vod/index.nhn?category=kbo&tab=game&listType=game&date=20191026&gameId=77771026OBWO02019&teamCode=&playerId=&keyword=&id=601842&page=1 game #4 full match replay https://sports.news.naver.com/kbaseball/vod/index.nhn?category=kbo&tab=&listType=game&date=20191026&gameId=77771026OBWO02019&teamCode=&playerId=&keyword=&id=601873&page=3

and it's over! China fly to Tokyo, Belgium can only blame themselves...

said that, they scored...1-1

Belgian girls don't even have idea on how to make the Chinese goalie move before shooting...

drama! big drama in China... Belgium gave up 2 goals in the final 5 mins and now they have to go to the shootout to try and save their asses...

I can already say that next year we're going to have the worst Summer Olympics ever...sure... I'm so disappointed with Japan (and IOC)... I had so high expectations...they already demolished them all...awful outdoor venues, doubtful choice of some venues, overrun presence of non-sport events, crazy schedule... maybe it's time for me to leave the "Olympic sport" coverage once and forever...

you can always use a vpn... by the way, I saw a few unofficial videos of almost all the events still on youtube...maybe those are available worldwide... p.s. maybe NOS website could be an option, if they have an archive...

hoping that they're not geo-blocked in your Country (in Italy they are unavailable) women's all-around final men's all-around final apparatus finals, day 1 apparatus finals, day 2

all matches are live here: www.fih.live