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Iran won the team title in freestyle with 4 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze 
 
and the first day of Greco was also too good to be true  4 out 5 in the final and 1 in the bronze medal match. but I know we had most of our best guys in the first group. the 2nd group (next 5 weights) won't be this good.
 
what a terrible day for Russia. not a single wrestler in the semifinal   Russian wrestlers weren't good at all in this tournament, winning only 1 gold in men's freestyle. some people say that's because they were out of competition for a while. but that's not really correct. they had LOTS of international or national wrestling competitions to keep their guys in shape and motivated.
 
I wonder if this is a sign that they also won't perform good at the Worlds in Belgrade ? 
 
 and we still don't know if they can win the Olympic quota or not. and i assume we won't know that in time of the World Championship.

We will skip the morning session tomorrow but should be there in the stadium in the evening and then for entire week! Let the championships begin!!! 😉

That´s quite surprising information, did not expect so big interest in Slovakia about athletics, but the fact it is basically two jumps and three steps from our borders have something to do it with that I guess
 

Curling’s back!  
 
The Baden Masters from  live this weekend.
 
https://youtube.com/@WCTWorldCurlingTour
 
 

so,  Emmanouela Katzouraki,  Danka Bartekova,  Dania Jo Vizzi and  Austen Jewell Smith are qualified to the Final
 
meanwhile  Francisca Chadid Crovetto,  Martina Bartolomei,  Sena Can and  Samantha Simonton are qualified to the shoot-off for the last 2 places in the Final

won the team title ahead of  and  

We're about 11 months away from Paris 2024, decided to do some team qualification predictions.
 
After the qualification period ends I'll come back to this post to see how many I've got right (or wrong )
 
World Championships
Women-  Duda/Ana Patricia
Men-  Partain/Benesh
 
Olympic Rankings
Women-  Mel/Brandie,  Klineman/Harward (Yes, I have them passing TKN ),  Hughes/Cheng,  Barbora/Carol,  Huberli/Brunner,  Heidrich/Verge Depre,  Samoilova/Graudina,  Ludwig/Lippmann,  Xue/Xia,  Muller/Tillmann,  Clancy/Mariafe,  Menegatti/Gottardi,  Stam/Schoon,  Lahti/Ahtianen,  Klinger/Klinger,  Hermanova/Stochlova,  Gruszczynska/Wachowicz
Men-  Mol/Sorum,  Ahman/Hellvig,  Bryl/Losiak,  Ehlers/Wickler,  Evandro/Arthur,  George/Andre,  Carambula/Ranghieri,  Brouwer/Meeuwsen,  Cherif/Ahmed,  Kantor/Zydbek,  de Groot/Immers??,  Nicolai/Cottafava,  Berntsen/Mol,  Crabb/Brunner,  Hodges/Schubert,  Herrera/Gavira,  Perusic/Schweiner
 
Host Nation
Women-  Placette/Richard
Men-  Remi/Lyneel
 
NORCECA Qualifier
Women-  Bansley/Bukovec
Men-  Diaz/Ayalo
 
South American Qualifier
Women-  Gallay/Pereyra
Men-  Grimalt/Grimalt
 
Asian/Oceanic Qualifier
Women-  Ishii/Mizoe
Men-  McHugh/Burnett
 
African Qualifier
Women-  Vanessa/Sinaportar
Men-  Williams/Goldschmidt
 
European Qualifier
Men-  Seidl/Pristauz
Women-  Alvarez/Moreno
 
For Europe, was extremely difficult to chose qualifiers. Left out Nolvak/Tiisaar, Pauliekne/Raupelyte, and Waller/Ermacora among others. 

mixed Team 10m Air Rifle
 
Gold:  China 1 (Huang Yuting & Sheng Lihao)
Silver:  Iran 1 (Shermineh Chehel Amirani & Amir Nekounam)
Bronze:  France 1 (Oceanne Muller & Romain Aufrere)
 
Full Results
https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=18315

I see that Tužinský is this cycle really trying very hard to do everything possible and impossible to miss the Olympics
 
Podiums and medals Every non-qualifying race, among dead lasts every qualifying race. No idea what´s the problem with this guy, definitely not the nervousness, he already have enough experiences (Olympics as well) behind his belt for that ... I can already picture how he will at the end even lose the eventual direct place through the ranking (he was even leading it few weeks ago) given the tendency...
 
anyway...

5th event, 5th gold medal for   
 
but guys! we have some great news for the rest of the world...event no.6 won't finish with a Chinese gold medal!   
 
mixed team air pistol GMM, in fact, will feature  and  (but don't worry,  are still in the BMM, most likely they won't come home empty handed even in this event )

Yeah. Nice to see that has the second spot @hckošice :-) 
 
Spots this time go to and

meanwhile, in the women's Skeet, the preliminary stage is coming to a conclusion
 
so far,  Emmanouela Katzouraki,  Danka Bartekova,  Dania Jo Vizzi are sure to make the Final
 
 Austen Jewell Smith and  Vanesa Hockova still have to shoot their last series and with a clean sheet, they would also make the Final
 
with 24/25 they would enter a big shoot-off, which  Francisca Chadid Crovetto,  Martina Bartolomei,  Sena Can and  Samantha Simonton are already qualified to

We're about 11 months away from Paris 2024, decided to do some team qualification predictions.
 
After the qualification period ends I'll come back to this post to see how many I've got right (or wrong )
 
World Championships
Women-  Duda/Ana Patricia
Men-  Partain/Benesh
 
Olympic Rankings
Women-  Mel/Brandie,  Klineman/Harward (Yes, I have them passing TKN ),  Hughes/Cheng,  Barbora/Carol,  Huberli/Brunner,  Heidrich/Verge Depre,  Samoilova/Graudina,  Ludwig/Lippmann,  Xue/Xia,  Muller/Tillmann,  Clancy/Mariafe,  Menegatti/Gottardi,  Stam/Schoon,  Lahti/Ahtianen,  Klinger/Klinger,  Hermanova/Stochlova,  Gruszczynska/Wachowicz
Men-  Mol/Sorum,  Ahman/Hellvig,  Bryl/Losiak,  Ehlers/Wickler,  Evandro/Arthur,  George/Andre,  Carambula/Ranghieri,  Brouwer/Meeuwsen,  Cherif/Ahmed,  Kantor/Zydbek,  de Groot/Immers??,  Nicolai/Cottafava,  Berntsen/Mol,  Crabb/Brunner,  Hodges/Schubert,  Herrera/Gavira,  Perusic/Schweiner
 
Host Nation
Women-  Placette/Richard
Men-  Remi/Lyneel
 
NORCECA Qualifier
Women-  Bansley/Bukovec
Men-  Diaz/Ayalo
 
South American Qualifier
Women-  Gallay/Pereyra
Men-  Grimalt/Grimalt
 
Asian/Oceanic Qualifier
Women-  Ishii/Mizoe
Men-  McHugh/Burnett
 
African Qualifier
Women-  Vanessa/Sinaportar
Men-  Williams/Goldschmidt
 
European Qualifier
Men-  Seidl/Pristauz
Women-  Alvarez/Moreno
 
For Europe, was extremely difficult to chose qualifiers. Left out Nolvak/Tiisaar, Pauliekne/Raupelyte, and Waller/Ermacora among others. 

Well, that’s certainly not an ideal situation after such fantastic world championships for  

Link: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1139938/world-aquatics-australia-expulsion

Boccia World Ranking Lists updated as of August 17th, 2023

Aurora Russo won the gold medal in the women's -59kg class!  
 
she completed the double with the European title she won just a month ago in Tirana
 
on her route to the gold medal she won clearly very tough matches vs , so it's not that she didn't face people from the usual women's wrestling powerhouses
 
maybe it's time we've found a truly promising wrestler who might have a quick and winning transition from junior to senior ranks 

https://fb.watch/mrsLoulQzl/?mibextid=CDWPTG
 
Neymar is the latest addition to Saudi Pro League , he was Messi's Substitute in Hilal 

Wow,  out due to pistol malfunction...
 
Quotas for      

I think we got 6 athletes and 5 NOCs fighting for the 4 quotas in women's 10m air pistol.
 
2x         

I think that phelps is doing some reversed jinx 

You are repeating yourself 
yes we know Italy will have probably only two athletes in Paris in total across all sports 
 
is there ever going to be a result which makes you happy 🙄

men's Individual 10m Air Pistol
 
Gold:  Zhang Bowen
Silver:  Damir Mikec
Bronze:  Kiril Kirov
 
Olympic Quota Places (to the NOCs, NOT to the shooters):  
 
Full Results
https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=18300

Now, I really hope Tomas Nydrle will earn the quota. World Champion, one time world cup winner, European Games silver medalist and has never been to the Olympic Games. Finished 1st below the line not only once. Btw, in skeet, it was Radek Prokop for Paris. ..... Tomas deserves qualify for the Olympics so much. But if he does not win the quota, I guess Jakub Tomeček will be sent as he earned the quota and wants to make it to the Olympic final as he finished 7th in Tokyo. Good luck buys. Tomas is on the good path, shooting down all 50 but so as other 9 shooters....
 
Anyways, very interesting how skeet competition is devided into 3 days. Never seen this.... 

so, end of day #1
 
quick summary: 4 competitions, 4 gold medals for
 
that's all, folks!

women's Individual 10m Air Pistol
 
Gold:  Jiang Ranxin
Silver:  Anna Korakaki
Bronze:  Li Xue
 
Olympic Quota Places (to the NOCs, NOT to the shooters): 
 
Full Results
https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=18303