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Three Russians who live in the USA will be allowed to compete in the US National Championships

https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-fencing-us/fencing-three-russian-fencers-to-compete-at-u-s-summer-nationals-idUSL1N38M3BQ

Last grass events before Wimbledon (which included many tactical withdrawals in the process):

Eastbourne 500

Madison Keys def. Darya Kasatkina 6-2 7-6(13)

Bad Homburg 250

Katerina Siniakova def. Lucia Bronzetti 6-2 7-6(5)

10 qualify for the final. Some high-profile names like Kauzer & Aigner missed out

43 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Well, it was one of the nine sports shortlisted for potential inclusion by LA28, so it’s very much in the conversation.

 

I mostly meant my post as a joke though.

Kickboxing missed their window 30 years ago with the Van Damme hype and the K-1 breakout in the late 90s/early 00s. IOC is like 20 years behind the curve if they want to make it happen as Olympic sport. The juice ain't worth the squeeze anymore. One might argue the sport recruits poor boxers at this stage in most areas and it' quite clearly a pariah sport compared to where it was 30 years ago.

Nika Kriznar wins the LH competition by almost 30 points! Nika Prevc and Selina Freitag on the podium.

Tamara Mesikova in 30th place but I don't think many people expected her to make the 2nd round

@GrassmarketNo, he was apparently taking pictures of infrastructure buildings of "safety & military" importance and passed them over to Russian intelligence. There were more arrests made of people involved with this ring.

Sosnowiec lies within the most industrial region in Poland so there's plenty of objects he could have focused on in bordering cities & the region itself.

20-year old ice hockey player Maxim Sergeev has been arrested by our counterintelligence agency (ABW) as alleged member of a Russian spying ring

He played 23 games for Zagłębie Sosnowiec last season.

https://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114883,29925154,rosyjski-szpieg-zatrzymany-w-polsce-media-to-hokeista-i-ligowego.html

Milena Todorova is also pregnant

The whole lottery is still fishy as hell. The whole fear of tanking is a mirage, some teams are perenially bad and it doesn't have anything to do with trying to acquire #1 draft pick. That's the downside of having no relegation system, you can suck for decades and you still play against all the top teams. Moreover NHL is not NBA, two or three players won't make you a contender overnight.

Not a single run without penalties in either M or W events? That looks weird unless many teams entered some back-ups?

Zoinks. Wozniacki suggests she's coming back

1-2 in men's ski jumping. Daniel Tschofenig wins ahead of Jan Hoerl. Gregor Deschwanden with bronze medal.

Fatih Arda Ipcioglu in 11th place

A quick look at the #1 draft lottery in NHL suggests it always goes to a big market or historically successful franchise amid a slump. Columbus in 2002 got their #1 via a trade, other than that it's always the big markets. In the last 15 years the #1 pick went to New York area or Edmonton Oilers like 90% of the time And of course Maple Leafs won the Auston Matthews lottery. Columbus? Anaheim? The Coyotes mess? Neah, they are the Grizzlies or Timberwolves of NBA. They will never win a lottery when a hyped prospect comes around. Timberwolves only "won" the lottery in one of the most anonymous NBA drafts in recent memory

Nastja Kolar and Alexandra Riley banned for life for match fixing between 2015-2020. Both were ITF regulars.

https://www.itia.tennis/news/sanctions/kolar-and-riley-banned-from-tennis/

So, the biggest prospect goes to a huge market aka the third biggest city in USA instead of Anaheim or Columbus? Is the NHL lottery as fixed as "Ewing to New York" back in the day?

Daniel Tschofenig leads after the 1st round which isn't a surprise given his training jumps.

Hektor Kapustik will finish 37th and he managed to beat the entire 4-man contingent

wins in women's foil. It's as predictable as winning in table tennis?

Four Olympic quota bouts today and lost all four of them. So much for any domestic help from the judges. They must be helping some other nations

Perijoc looked better in my eye, much faster than Drabik who is almost 35 years old tbh.

18 minutes ago, ChandlerMne said:

Cakiroglu won Rok but bout was terrible. 

No single clean shot from both of them.

Yeah, the bout was chaotic at best. Cakiroglu landed one good combo in the third round which was enough to look better

Cakiroglu takes the women's 50 kg QF over Rok. takes the Iberian derby over

Surmeneli wins the 66 kg QF. I have no idea what was Rygielska doing there in the final round?

Here are the quota matches today (for Paris, not Tokyo ):

5 hours ago, dullard said:

Isn't she required to have competed in BJK Cup or have an exemption from ITF?

Yeah, that is required but I believe she will be called up for the November finals so that would take care of it.

15 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Damn, the whole Mongol Invasion story was made up!    You'll be telling me next that no town in Holland was ever saved from flooding by a brave boy covering up a crack in the dijk!

Yeah, the story about the trumpeter is a medieval myth but the Mongol Invasion was real I presume most adults in Poland have heard the Kraków Trumpet Call hundreds if not thousands of times in their lives. It's played every hour from the tower of the St. Mary's church so any tourist who's been to Kraków must have heard it numerous times as well