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It`s our historical medal tally (the last time we had less than 10 medals was in 2012: then there were 40 events, and now there are 42 (probably more 2 mixed events): https://www.federnuoto.it/home/nuoto/news-nuoto/42465-europei-italnuoto,-iscrizioni-e-le-parole-di-butini-e-dei-capitani.html

So far, these championships are a very poor for us. 4 medals, 3 of which were in relays... Maybe 10 will be at the end, but we recently had 22 medals and in 2021: 35 It`s looking at our worst performance in 10-15 years, since the introduction of mixed stafett, etc. Individually: 1 medal is a terrible result and tomorrow we won't even have anyone in the final... We'll probably get another medal in the relay – again mixed... I'm not very interested in the European Short Course Swimming Champ., but it's good places to write that we are in a course to our worst performance in over a min. 10 years.

But what quotas will they use to take places? From relocation, from additional quotas? The worst thing will be when they take from others to give to those from AIN. In Paris 2024, the AIN team was very small and without for their top stars. It will probably be similar here. It's important that they don't take away the allocated quotas, for example, in biathlon or cross-country skiing. I still don't understand why Italy can't use its host quotas, for example, in the men's, to select an additional 6th skier? We have our 5 places from last season's World Cup ranking, but where is the host quota?

I would have more expected Vittozzi to win this morning, but it's nice that Wierer also won something in her last season of career The individual race is probably her only real chance for individual gold on home games in Cortina. Vitozzi also did well today: 10 place and 7 fastest time in the run. Biathlon and short track are the only two disciplines that are good for us at the start of this difficult winter season for us.

It's unfortunate that, as we that host, we can't even choose one quota if we need 1; we have to qualify as usual. In 2006, we had about 17 people in the cross- country and now they won't even let us choose up to 12. The miss of a 6th quota will be a real problem for us, because there will basically be no reserve for the relay- Mocellini is only a sprinter. Unless we're looking to use a reserve for the relay instead of the classic sprinter Mocellini, but as the host country, we shouldn't have such dilemmas... We should be able to choose our quota in each discipline, because we have to qualify normally and don't take places from the host country's pool.

He probably must have offended someone important because in Russia such things are usually kept quiet about famous people, athletes, etc., who have good contacts with the authorities - and most of them have the support of the sport federations etc.

In doubles women If China finishes the next races, I understand that Germany loses its 2nd team? In men`s doubles Georgia didn`t finish the last competition and probably nothing new country will join, so we can expect 5 countries with 2 teams: Ger, Aut, Ita, USA, Lat. Currently Slovakia has 2 teams, but they will probably lose them to Georgia in the next starts.

Is there a chance that Italy will get a 6 men's spot thanks to relocation? This spot would be very useful for the relay race: as of today, we have probably: Carollo, Barp, Graz, Pellegrino and probably 1 sprinter in the classic: Mocellini. We're missing a 5 man for relay competition on ev. reserve places, like de Fabiani. Sunday's performance by the Italian men's team was a big positive surprise – there's some hope, as they're young guys. The women's team is currently performing much worse, especially young Gismondi, who was supposed to make significant progress this season- for my she is a big disappointing for now. However, the best we can hope for in the women's team is a top-8 finish in the team sprint and relay – medals are out of reach. The men's team sprint and relay have a small chance of a medal, assuming Pellegrino good form and Italy secures a spot among the top teams before the final change in relay.

Ho già scritto della forum generale: avremmo dovuto dare tutti i soldi alla squadra Colturi e chiedere a 2-3 giovani donne italiane di unirsi a loro, e sciogliere la squadra femminile di slalom perché non faceva progressi da molti anni. Da quello che ho letto, Oberhofer si è infortunata e Fischnaler non ha informazioni che facciano pensare che ci sia qualcosa che non va in lui? Non capisco cosa stia succedendo con la squadra femminile di fondo. I Campionati del Mondo dell'anno scorso sono stati discreti e Gismondi è arrivata seconda nella prova di una settimana fa nel scating, battendo diverse forti atlete tedesche. La sua prestazione odierna e quella di Comarella possono essere spiegate solo da una sci pessimi o da una malattia.

We're in the middle of the home Olympics season in Italy, so by now we should be seeing the final results, which are terrible. They should especially prevent Colturi from escaping to Albania, as this is the only real chance for a slalom medal for us for many, many years. In any normal country, the head of such a federation should have resigned long ago and faced criminal charges for wasting public funds for the kind of shit we're seeing now. Personally, I think that our slalom team is simply unnecessary in its current form - they should have spent all the money on the private Colturi team and asked 2-3 talented young Italians to join them, e.g. Collomb, Sola, maybe D`Antonio, etc. The result would have been much better than what we see now, which is only one skier in 30 in 23rd place.

Hanno rovinato tutto con una sconfitta interna contro l'Islanda. Ora, al massimo, sono riusciti a pareggiare conti, ma la sconfitta contro l'Islanda ci peserà per il resto delle qualificazioni, che saranno molto difficili: Lituania, Serbia e Turchia. Nuove generazioni etc. ma se i giovani italiani non giocano per club italiani, il successi giovanile non servirà a nulla, così come non servirà a nulla nel calcio. E nel basket, anche con una rosa di alto livello piena di stelle dell'NBA e dell'Eurolega, hai solo uno o due mesi d'estate per prepararli bene per tornei importanti. Queste finestre di qualificazione sono sostanzialmente inutili per le grandi squadre, dato che hanno squadre B/C in campo: l'obiettivo solo è avanzare in qualche modo.

Now I see that Canada won the medal table in 2010 in Vancouver, that`s why your home games were great. This effect was continued in 2014 and 2018. This is crucial. Italy will likely fail to host two home Winter Games in the 21st century and that's a scandal. I started looking at the results of the host Winter Games in the 21st century and each one won more medals at home than 4 years earlier. The only exception is Italy in 2006 compared to 2002. This time, it could be similar, as the 17 medals from 2022 will be difficult to beat with the string of injuries on our team.

That's probably why they resorted to doping on a larger scale before 2014? + a lot of naturalizations, etc. I didn't remember them doing so poorly in 2010. I don't remember much about those Olympics. https://web.archive.org/web/20100705132931/http://www.monocle.com/monocolumn/2010/03/01/russias-winter-games-of-discontent-2/

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Ad oggi, Fontana sembra molto più peggio di Confortola, che è anche lontano da una medaglia senza un DNF/DSQ da parte di qualcuno al vertice... Senza Fontana, almeno al livello di Confortola, sarà molto difficile vincere una medaglia nella staffetta femminile.