Andry84

No, with this track and this line up it' s not a big surprise as it' s not a big surprise Pfeiffer making mistakes in standing shooting because it's his weakness...

It' s impossible to talk with you, you are Always wrong, i don't know if you are a Young boyor simply you don' t follow sports during the year but only during Olympics and you think that the 1st, 2nd, 3rd in ranking of the worldcups have to win medals. Medal in giant slalom wasn' t sure, but if you look the result of the 13 giant slalom , i think Italy has around 15 podiums, in men biathlon, if Fourcade and Boe make mistakes, there are probably 20 athletes that can achieve a podium, Windisch and Hofer are among these 20:Windisch disappointments in individual?t' s his worst format, ok i have understood, you don' t follow sports during the yar, you watch only the final results of races.In speed skatinh Italy, on paper, was just behind the podium in 5000, 10000 (probably not Tumolero, but Ghiotto) and team pursuit, it' s not a surprise winning 1 bronze.

I think USA and Great Britain should go in semifinal...

Yes, Moioli is very talented but she starts only in 1 race, she can't win more than 1 medal, and we are speaking about boardercross when you can fall also without your fault (look at Visintin in men, he was the biggest threaten for Vaultier and didn' t see him without a medal in such a long and difficult course).I was speaking about snowboard half-pipe, slopestyle and big air, fore sure in boardercross and alpine men we have a strong team.

Italy is not overperforming at all in alpine skiing and also in the other disciplines, Italy is in the 5th place if you consider the top 10 placements, the problem of Italy is the lack of a serial winner like Fourcade, Dahlmeier, Klaebo, Kuzmina, Frenzel, Wust and many others who can start to win 3,4,5 medals; but we have a lot of medal contenders, many very good athletes in many disciplines considering that we don't exist in snowboard and ski freestyle (probably Klotz is the only decent athlete).

Not a very surprising medal, Italy in mixed is the 4th relay on paper, and when you are the 4th is likely you win a medal.

Why disaster? Did you really think that with Giovannini not in his best shape Italy was a medal contender? It wasn' t a disaster, they did a good race, very close to the semifinal, but the medal are for Netherland, Korea and Norway, and also with the best Giovannini wouldn' t have benn easy to drop 1 and a half second.Remember always that in Italy speed skating has few dozens of athletes, they are doing something special....Fabris was a destiny gift, now we are trying to build up a very good team.

I agree , but probably in none of the races (mass start, team pursuit, 5000 and 10000) italian were really favourite (also before today) for the podiums, 5th or 6th places were more likely than a medal; perhaps in mass start Giovannini, but after today i would be surprised of a podium.

Please don't learn from the italian "journalists" always saying only 5th, only 8th and so on....The medal chances were very low from the beginning and after the time of Pedersen and Bloemen the chances went to zero, Tumolero did a very good race 1 second behind 4th place.

Bruno Rossetti Olympic bronze medallist in Barcellona 1992 and twice world champion in skeet died this night.He is the father of Gabriele Rossetti, the reigning olympic and world skeet champion.

France was the first in the list before Switzerland and i think already declined the quota.

Togooooooo confirmed the quota....

Germany just declined 2 spots. Italy started now officially confirming the spots in ski jumping and nordic combined, not yet in other sports.

Are you sure that Italy will go with 22 alpine skiers or 4 women in ski jumping, but also 4 male jumpers are not sure (in Sochi we rejected some quotas in ski jumping).

Not a lucky year for Italy : Elena Curtoni, Marsaglia, Gasslitter, Pichler, Elena Fanchini, Pirovano all with serious injuries.

Nagler/Mallaier fying to South Korea, Oberstolz/Gruber will stay at home.

Phelps was 5th in Sydney 2000 in 200 fly......

Italy won 2 silver medals because in those tournament were better than the others and in general only France is for sure a better team, the other teams like Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Korea and Switzerland are not better than Italy and sometimes you can win and sometimes you can lose, but it can' t be always a shame when an italian fencer lose for 1 ot 2 points.The only weapon where Italy is not very strong in this moment is women epee, in all the others Italy is one of the best.Also in women sabre Italy never had a strong team like this one.

Vincent Anstett 22 Max Hartung 4 The result of the last bout I hope it' s a mistake of the graphic

Probably i' m wrong because i'm not a big expert but in my opinion Chamizo won the match with a good margin, i think he had a 4 points throw instead of 2 points and in the 2 points action of Asgarov the azeri wrestler had 1 foot out of the mat.

He has a very bad draw, he can lose in 1st round and not go to repechage, but he can also win the tournament.

Arai should not be DSQ but Tallent run the last 10 km, it's impossible he finished this race.

In which percentage the greatest favourites win gold medal?Spain has 8 medals and in 7 of these they were among the best 5 in that discipline, only Walz is a surprise, and when you are one of the best you can win gold.

Non è un incubo , è lo sport: il tiro a segno è fatto così, ci sono state fior di tiratrici dello stesso livello di Petra che non sono neanche andate in finale e nel canottaggio si sapeva che nel doppio il massimo era il quarto posto e nel 4 senza p.l. sarebbe stata durissima con 2 barche fuori portata e la Francia che nelle ultime stagioni è sempre arrivata davanti.