Andry84

One of the worst silver of Italian sport history

OH no, today all the Italians did some mistakes touching the gates but all the 3 Italians paddled very fast, both De Gennaro and Ivaldi with a clear run would have been in final and Beda very close, but this is men kayak with many paddlers in few seconds

Italy is trying to qualify the serious 4x400 relay and they decided to not ask Re, Chigbolu and Folorunso to run 3 races, I hope they will be right even if for sure this was the easiest chance to qualify 1 4x400 relay

Ivaldi didn' t an awful race,only a clear mistake in one of the last gate where he lost about 1 second and that 1 second was more than enough to not take the olympic ticket

Once again we didnt qualify in C-1....Thank you very much Colazingari, you allowed Ireland to get in the semi and in this way Italy is the first out the line and next year will be impossible beating Germany

It looks like Battistella is the world champion, they are on the podium just now, probably DSQ for the the Dutch guy

Yes, Ganna can be selected in time trial without racing road race, but only pursuit.

It seems the Olympc tickets have already assigned... Edit: There is the 2nd run

I think you are right, I didn't notice it worked in that way, I thought it was like tennis. This changes everything because a random win of a French, Turkish or German shooter in one of the last world cup next spring could change all the ranking, I really hope to not arrive next May knowing that the only way to be in Tokyo is winning last pass at European Championships.

The points count for 1 year, so the WCH points will stay in ranking until the end of qualification period, now there is the world cup final in which there is only Ger, FIN, Lux and UAE in contention for ranking.It's still possible, but very difficult for De Filippis losing that quota in particular for the way he is shooting.

De Filippis is a strong medal candidate, but in this moment there are probably 50 shooters who can win medals in men trap, and more than half of these shooters will stay at home next year

It is better for De Filippis and in particolar for Italy that nobody won the quota, he is by far the best italian in these months and he will easily qualify himself by world ranking.I hope Italy wont win next year pass, because he deserves going to Tokyo where he will be a gold metal contender, and if he doesnt qualify nominally and will win next year pass, i highly Doubt he will be chosen to represent Italy.

De Filippis in final, last chance for italy to Have 2 shooters in Tokyo, i dont read any restriction rule For next year european qualification .

Clouvel will easily qualify through world ranking.

I think PAK and KOR won the quotas

You are a little too much strict on the judgment of the Italian results in my modest opinion, you consider very good only gold medal, this year Ned in 4x was way better than any other. I agree with you with Lodo and Vicino making our 4- a gold medal contender, mostly if Bond will be back for NZ there will be only 1 bronze medal available in 2-, and that bronze medal could be achievable also with other 2 guys.Are you sure that in final regatta a Nation can qualify only one boat per Gender?

We don't have the depth in women to build a competitive 8, for the single there isn't the culture of this boat in Italy, also in the man when we compete in that boat is usually a discard of all the other boats, Martini did a miracle today qualifying the boat in Tokyo.

France has been a lot more negative of Italy. It's not that two 4th place can change the judgment from super positive, because with 4 medals in men boats it would have been super positive, to a disaster. We have qualified 9 boats, 4 in women, in Rio before repechage we qualified 1 women boat, the single scull after 16 years winning the only place behind 8 monsters(I underline 8 monster to say that in this boat no one is a lock medal). Now we can try to find a decent male double and try to qualify that boat, for the men 8 and 4 women I think there is no chance. There are 11 months to work on our 4 medal contenders boats and I hope and think that in Tokyo we'll win 3 medals, asking more I think is very, very, very difficult.

Quite good day for Italian crews, Lodo and Vecino next year will be for sure on the podium fighting for silver with NZ, I don't think Sinkovic Brothers are beatable, great silver medal for LM2x and good bronze for 4x even if I expected silver(the gold medal was already assigned before the race, too stron Ned this year). Great to see Italian girls qualifying 4x, until 3 days ago I didn't think it was possible. Pity for 4- men but was quite clear they weren't in their best shape. In Tokyo I expect 3 medals for Italy, hoping for the gold medal we are expecting for 20 years, but It won't be easy.

Yes I thought one of his k2 athlete was over k4, but in theory with Dostal's quota back is what they need to fill the k4.

I think Dostal' s quota in k1 is given back and France needed only 1 quota to qualify k4, but now there are France' s quotas in k1 200 and k2 1000 that have to be given back, so in my opinion also Czech Republic and probably Italy could qualify k4 men.

She is 14 years old, I think she is born in January

If Italy qualifies in 3 m synchronized diving and if Cagnotto and Dallape will be chosen, I think Tania will be our flegbearer, the other s great names are Paltrinieri,Clemente Russo, Ivan Zaytsev, if men volleyball will qualify, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Paola Egonu with Italian flag, Elisa Di Francisca. In my opinion is arrived the time to give shooting the deserved premium and give the flag to someone among Jessica Rossi, Chiara Cainero, Gabriele Rossetti or the great Johnny Pellielo, if he qualifies

It was the kneeling section that took out Zublasing from the podium....

For Roberto Botta' s match i have many doubts about some decisions, in the first round they gave 6 points to the Greek for 1 kick to the head that probably touched the helmet twice in hundreths of second, and in last 15 second there was a clear kick to the head that wasn't counted.... In the last 2 seconds it was a kick to the body that gave the victory to the Greek guys.