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Panathinaikos wins! 
 
It was great to see a Greek team win after many years, and Sloukas with 24 points in 25 minutes, hopefully he can bring that level to the national team this summer because we will need him.

Final Medal Table
 
 11 / 6 / 1
 4 / 4 / 3
 2 / 5 / 3
 2 / 3 / 1
 2 / 0 / 1 
 1 / 2 / 2
 1 / 2 / 2
 1 / 1 / 2
 1 / 1 / 0
 1 / 0 / 3
 1 / 0 / 1
 1 / 0 / 0
 0 / 1 / 2
(RUS)  0 / 1 / 1
 0 / 1 / 0
 0 / 1 / 0
 0 / 0 / 2
 0 / 0 / 1
 0 / 0 / 1
 

Olympic Quota to  Germany, which means that there's only 1 quota place available via World Ranking and it goes to  Gabriele Rossetti

It is strange that Olympic qualifications are decided by qualifying rounds, not finals. Was the Bulgarian so good today and the rest made mistakes, or were her marks too high? I haven't watched it, so I don't know.

Ora c'è la conferma ufficiale
 
https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2024/05/Paris-2024_Olympic-Qualification-Ranking_FINAL_24052024.pdf

And this result really shows that Liliana should have the quota instead CypRus girl....

A quota for  

Czechs obviously. There no question about.
 
Plus, Since last year Whoever play against Switzerland will receive always support from Slovaks.

Love Italian routine!!!! Maybe not music (low artistry lovel) but performance and skills of athletes

achieved the third female quota through Olympic Ranking (Steinhauser, Seregni and Zane in top 30)!!!

Quinto pass olimpico nel triathlon, con Seregni, Steinhauser e Zane tra le prime 30 del ranking olimpico che portano a tre il numero delle qualificate nel settore femminile. Restano due, invece, i qualificati nel settore maschile.

Vela - Elena Berta e Bruno Festo selezionati nel 470 misto

Leave it be, for many in NED we are either completely unorganized or run by the "maFFia", we're lucky when they choose the first option.

Ora c'è la conferma ufficiale
 
https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2024/05/Paris-2024_Olympic-Qualification-Ranking_FINAL_24052024.pdf

because it's not up to them (as it wasn't up to any Italian TV when the 1st world qualifier was held here)
 
anything related to the organization of these events is completely in the hands of the IOC
 
if there's someone to blame (also for the scandalous results, should they happen), it's the 1976 Fencing Olympic Champion in charge of the circus named IOC 

"Acquired" is a bit exaggerated. Her grandfather is originally from Germany and also her mother lived in Germany for a few years and took German citizenship at this time before moving back to Russia. Darja than moved to Germany with 12 years to be trained by Yulia Raskina. 
 
 

well, maybe she was just adapting to her new team...
 
but you can be sure that Italy is always the best arranged team when travelling around the world, we do even have our cooks and we bring our essential kinds of food with us...
 
no team puts their athletes in better condition to perform than ours
 
obviously, we do everything "the Italian style", which means no anticipated/long term programs...we always adapt to the situation and find the best solution that fits that given day's condition
 
living in Italy for so long, now she should know how it works at our latitude... 
 
and surely it's way, way different than in the Netherlands (or any other Central/North European Country) 

I am totally shocked. If this is not a conflict of interests then... what could be named a conflict of interests???

Poland make an official protest.https://www.polsatsport.pl/wiadomosc/2024-05-24/skandal-polka-ograbiona-z-olimpijskiej-kwalifikacji-i-finalow-me/ (in Polish).

I’m oldfashioned, I read it in a newspaper

This worked perfectly. Olympic Quota for Korte and therefore also the Mixed-Quota for  

It's  drama like Chamizo. Fight was between Polish and Cyprus girl (Ryssian), you know who was advisor? Referee from Cyprus.. And many fans, referees and even FIG workers said that is robbery 

It certainly paid off, with Polling winning twice, including the decider, against us. Just saw an interview, where she said that when the draw made clear these two teams would meet, she had a premonition that she would have to fight twice. 

Yeah
 
If all goes well,  hopes to qualify 360-380
 
Our historical record (excluding Barcelona 92)

Cyprus just giving citizenship to all Russians these days it seems, at this rate they'll outnumber Greek Cypriots one day...