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Italy loses to France's reserves. If we lose to France B, what can be said about France A? Even with Michieletto's return, I don't see any chance of a World Cup medal this season. After the unexpected gold at the 2022 World Cup, we are not making any progress and the likes of France and Poland are crushing us. By the way, we lost our 4th official match in a row to France since 2023 and this is another team sport where we are worse than them. And we only have volleyball, because in football or basketball we are at the bottom. In 4 major team sports: football, basketball, handball and volleyball, where we are behind France. Only in women's volleyball we are better... It is a shame that we cannot at least have a better team in men's volleyball.

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Non sapevo che la Stanley Cup si sarebbe giocata ancora a giugno

Nell'anno post-olimpico presto meno attenzione a sport come la scherma, il judo, ecc. Mi concentro di più sugli sport di squadra e sul tennis. Solo dopo le Olimpiadi invernali tornerò a interessarmi di più agli sport estivi. A proposito, cosa ne pensi di Brignone? Ha la possibilità di tornare nel 2026 e competere per qualcosa a Cortina?

Volevo dire a un allenatore straniero, ma nella situazione attuale il tempo a disposizione è così limitato che probabilmente dovrebbe essere un allenatore italiano. Gattuso sarà bene? Non ne ho idea... Sarà sicuramente più un motivatore che un tattico, darà più importanza alla mentalità, ecc. Forse è meglio, perché non insegnerai nuove tattiche a questa squadra in 3-4 giorni di ritiro a settembre o marzo. Vedremo, ma purtroppo il materiale umano di questa squadra è molto debole: scarse capacite tecniche + mancanza di motivazione e voglia di lottare. Spero che Gattuso migliori almeno questo secondo aspetto.

Considerando anche le competizioni per club, il basket sembra essere calato un po di piu. Certamente queste due discipline hanno subito un declino molto forte nel XXI secolo. Per molti anni, abbiamo contato regolarmente solo nella pallavolo e nella pallanuoto (ma anche la pallanuoto femminile è molto più debole rispetto a 20 anni fa). Il resto sono imprese isolate (Euro 2020 nel calcio, o la qualificazione del basket a Tokyo 2020).

Ma deve essere sempre qualcuno italiano? Quando si dimetteranno Gravina e tutta la FIGC

Cantaluppi's sudden departure just before the Paris Olympics was also strange - either she received more in Israel or she knew that her terrible training methods would soon be exposed (Rafaelli supposedly had to kneel in front of her and take off clothes if she did something wrong). In your opinion, does Rafaelli still have a chance at an Olympic medal in 2028? The bronze in Paris was OK, but it also left me a little dissatisfied.

But is this any wonder? In Italy, there are also constant scandals in this sport. Apparently, if you don't use methods from the former USSR or China, you lose and that's why new scandals about the mistreatment of young athletes break out (I mean this sector with Sofia Raffaelli. The second one with d`Amato sisters and Manila Esposito works better, but on the other hand there is a terrible problem with injuries of the top gymnasts).

Una decisione del tutto comprensibile per me. Il rischio di un altro disastro è enorme e Ranieri non vuole essere il capro espiatorio. La colpa è principalmente di Gravina, che dovrebbe dimettersi.

Paradoxically, Ukrainian gymnastics is now showing better results than before 2022, for example in rhythmic gymnastics. So, the federation is probably not that bad when you write before, as it`s able to provide good conditions for athletes in times of war? How do you explain that?

I repeat once: fo me the national team is not a club that you can change whenever you want... That is why, for example, the attacks on Louis Figo once, because he moved from Barcelona to Real Madrid - very brutal attacks, were less justified than someone changing his passport to a country with which he has zero ties.

They can make such decisions, but they have to expect that they will be criticized for it. Colturi still lives in Italy, trains most days of the year in our centers, has an entire Italian team around him but competes in the colors of a country with which he has no ties on the past. For me, however, national colors are not a sports club, that you can change them. And just to be clear, I don`t mean people who, for example, have a mother from one country and a father from another, like Braathen in men's skiing.

Just relax man, ok? Would you be happy if, for example, Janica Kostelic took Italian citizenship 20 years ago and started skiing for us? Exactly... Point of view always depends on the point of sitting...

In Italy, the case of Lara Colturi was recently widely discussed and it will probably come back if she wins a medal in Cortina and our Brignone does not return on time. I do not support this myself and I am sorry that someone chooses another country for personal and economic reasons, with which they had no previous ties. Colturi is now 19 years old and some people also ask not to attack her because she is very young and it is her mother's fault.

I think that he isn`t such a well-known figure as Olga Kharlan, Klitschko, or formerly Shevchenko to cause a big scandal. Secondly, these are still isolated cases for now, similar to the situation of athletes from Russia in other countries, e.g. Kasatkina in tennis.

It probably won't be received too well in Ukraine, especially since their gymnastics is going through a great period and they probably have good conditions for training. However, it's not a well-known sport and person to cause a big scandal.

Ok, but surely not everyone supports Nathanjahu? There were huge protests, right?

Malagò ha raggiunto il limite dei 3 mandati ed è per questo probabilmente ritorno Carraro- 85 anni, che ne ha già svolti 3 al CONI negli anni '80. Ha senso... C'era la possibilità che Malagò rimanesse ancora per qualche anno, ma il governo non ha voluto prolungargli il mandato, il che dimostra le sue cattive intenzioni. Non sono un tifoso accanito di Malagò, ma se non c'è nessuno migliore, allora il cambiamento non ha senso, perché qualcuno l'ha inventato. Sarà grottesco al ritorno di Carraro A proposito, forse dovrebbero anche stabilire un limite mandati al Parlamento, in modo che i parassiti non se ne stiano lì seduti per decenni a non fare nulla, e lasciarli andare lontano da chi sta facendo un ottimo lavoro al CONI.

Anche se era super 40 anni fa, la sua età attuale e il numero di scandali nella sua vita lo squalificano. Se non c'è nessuno migliore, che resti Malagò, che ha avuto grandi successi negli ultimi 10 anni. Per me, è una farsa che qualcuno più giovane e con molti successi se ne vada per sostituire un nonno over 80... Invece di intromettersi negli affari del CONI, governo dovrebbe concentrarsi sul calcio, perché lì da anni c'è un vero dramma... Gravina e la FIGC dovranno apportare subito dei cambiamenti radicali.

It's hard to criticize Sinner after such an effort, but it should have ended in the 4th set. And the facts are that Sinner has a mental block in the game with Alcaraz and if that doesn't change, it will be hard for him to win much more Grand Slams in his career. Sinner can't just count on Alcaraz being eliminated earlier. It's not a big rivalry for now, but Alcaraz's monologue: 5 recent wins in a row, including 2 in Paris. And what's worse, it won't be easier for Sinner on other surfaces and today's big defeat could break him mentally for many months

I think the last independent president in Poland was Aleksander Kwasniewski, if I remember good? And that was in the early 21st century?

The two main parties in Poland: PO and PiS, which have dominated the political scene for 20 years, are so at odds with each other and bothing cohabitation between them isn`t possible. This conflict is`t results from the personal history of their leaders and is impossible to resolve now and on the future, until these two leaders leave politics due to old age. The only option is one of them to govern alone (prime minister and president from one of this parties) or a completely independent president to be elected from outside these two political camps, which has never happened since 2005.

Becouse in Italy, Germany etc there is a parlamentary system when prime minister govern. In Poland there is a mixed system and the actually polarization is so great that a president from another camp will block everything so that the government falls due to this, the country will be paralyzed for 2 years. Such a system would be good in a country and at a time when there is a responsible political class that can reach an agreement on key issues.