Josh

Marini was outclasses 13-4 by Choi 
 
now  lead 40-39 before the last assault 

Women's sabre olympic ranking before the SFs and 5-8th placement matches.
 
1.   168 pts - World 1 (5-8th)
2.   166 pts - World 2 (Top4)
3.   161 pts - World 3 (Top4)
4.   161 pts - World 4 (Top4)
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5.   140 pts - Europe (Top4)
6.   136 pts - World 5
7.   124 pts - Asia (5-8th)
8.   116 pts 
9.   114 pts
10.   108 pts (5-8th)
11.   104 pts
12.   101 pts (5-8th)
13.   100 pts - Africa
14.   95 pts
15.   86 pts
16.   77 pts
17.   75 pts
...
23.   56 pts

Kinda sad that we didn't get a  v  final, would have been one for the ages. Men's foil turning into a table tennis event.

men's Team Foil
 
Bronze Medal Match:  vs  
 
Gold Medal Match:  vs 
 
   

in the gold medal match of men's team Foil (45-35 win over )
 
 almost completed an upset over the  (40-32 lead after 8 of 9 assaults)

women's Team Sabre
 
Bronze Medal Match:  vs  
 
Gold Medal Match:  vs
 

men's Team Foil, Semifinals
 
 vs
 vs  

women's Team Sabre
 
Gold:  Hungary
Silver:  France
Bronze:  South Korea
 
Semifinals
 
Hungary b. South Korea  45-39
France b. Ukraine  45-32
 
Bronze Medal Match
 
South Korea b. Ukraine  45-32
 
Gold Medal Match
 
Hungary b. France  45-38
 
Full Ranking & Results
https://www.fencingworldwide.com/en/2989-2022/results/

Summary of the current Olympic rankings, 4 World Cup events left to go, with the exception of women's foil, where there are 3 World Cup events left.
 
  Returning
Tokyo2020 teams
Gained quotas Lost quotas
M Epee
 
 

   
 
 
   
 
   
W Epee
   
 
 
 
 

 
 

M Foil
   
 
   
 

 
W Foil
   
 
   
 
 
M Sabre
   
 
   
 
 
 

W Sabre
   
 
   
 
 
 

 
6 teams
 
 
 
5 teams
 
 
 
4 teams
 
 
 
3 teams
 
 
 
2 teams
 
 
 
1 team
 
             

Men's foil Olympic ranking before the final 4 World Cup events
 
1.   228 pts - World 1
2.   200 pts - World 2
3.   180 pts - World 3
4.   168 pts - World 4
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5.   152 pts - Europe
6.   146 pts - Asia
7.   140 pts - Africa
8.   140 pts
9.   112 pts
10.   109 pts
11.   97 pts
12.   94 pts
13.   91 pts
14.   90 pts - America
15.   84 pts
16.   84 pts
17.   84 pts
 
 
Women's sabre Olympic ranking before the final 4 World Cup events
 
1.   196 pts - World 1
2.   193 pts - World 2
3.   174 pts - World 3
4.   172 pts - World 4
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5.   161 pts - Europe
6.   136 pts - World 5
7.   132 pts - Asia
8.   120 pts
9.   116 pts
10.   114 pts
11.   104 pts
12.   101 pts
13.   100 pts - Africa
14.   95 pts
15.   86 pts
16.   77 pts
17.   75 pts

Unbelievable, just unbelievable.
 
Anna Márton just comes in with an injury and completely turns the match around. World Champions again! And first World Champs gold for Anna Márton (she had to skip the previous season), who deserved this so, so, so much. The greatest female Hungarian sabre fencer ever now has her WCh title.
 
3 gold medals for Hungary, the most gold medals at the Worlds in the past 33 years. Truly goes above and beyond expectations. They put the bar incredibly high for Paris, hopefully they can deliver a similar performance there. 

final standings so far...
 
women's Team Sabre
 
3.
4.
5.
6.  
7.
8.  
 
men's Team Foil
 
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
 

according to Tommaso Marini, the referee was going to give  a black card at the end of this brawl, but he and his teammates stopped him, saying that there was just a misunderstanding between Cheung and the audience, since the man from  doesn't speak Italian (of course) but also his English is basically inexistent (that's not good, instead) 
 
personally, I think there was no misunderstanding...Cheung made the sign "shut up" to the audience after the winning hit...the consequential whistles and insults were more than deserved (no violent act was made and nothing was thrown by the audience, however...it was just a loud disagreement) and when the  coaches in response went against the Italians a black card would have been a correct punishment
 
but this championship had already gone mad with the Kharlan/Smirnova affair and therefore the disciplinary rules in fencing now don't count anything anymore: everybody feels like he/she's authorized to do whatever they want   

men's Team Foil
 
Gold:  Japan
Silver:  China
Bronze:  Hong Kong
 
Semifinals
 
Japan b. Hong Kong  45-35
China b. USA  45-35
 
Bronze Medal Match
 
Hong Kong b. USA  45-31
 
Gold Medal Match
 
Japan b. China  45-35
 
Full Ranking & Results
https://www.fencingworldwide.com/en/2984-2022/results/

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

Yeah, there were happy ! The girls will gain a lot of much needed experience during next the VNL next year before the home olympics
 
The french volleyball federation and the coach Emile Rousseaux  have done a great job with this team. 5 years ago, they wera ranked 50th in the world. We always had some good female volleyball players, but no one cared, there was no project whatsoever and zero investissment. Everything change with Paris being the host of the 2024 olympics.

has qualified their first athlete in athletics (women's 3000m steeplechase) via Luiza Gega at the Balkan Championships

https://info.ianseo.net/ live scoring

Event list and athlete quotas: https://www.paralympic.org/sites/default/files/2023-07/MiCo26_Medal events and athlete quotas_2.pdf
 
Curling gets a mixed doubles event, ice sledge hockey now has dedicated quotas from female athletes, and biathlon switches from middle distance to sprint pursuit. Alpine Combined will be held as part of alpine skiing, even though it has been axed from the Winter Olympics.

Sarah Sjöström Did her olympic debut 2008 and today after a successful Championship she announced she aims towards Los Angeles 2028

Another wrong offside call on the Spanish goal from the Korean referee team. VAR has to bail them out. 5-0 Spain and they take the group lead on goal difference over Japan.

takes the lead 2-1. You can forget about Australia making the SF with or without Sam Kerr IMO.

Well, Australia has to deal with Nigeria first. 1-1 at half-time

leads 2-0 after 30 mins.