Fabinter

Sono un "giurassico" di 63 anni, ho scritto a "Sindo" più di una volta e anche parte di questo messaggio gli è stato inviato a per complimenti, auguri ed opinioni su quanto sto proponendo; non ho mai smesso di usare "Totallympics" come impareggiabile fonte di notizie; sono felice che il sito abbia aperto a Matteo possibilità con "Olympic Channel". Vi confermo che sono solo un fiancheggiatore curioso e preferisco non lasciarmi coinvolgere in lunghe - non inutili per altro, parlare non è mai inutile - discussioni che non mi fanno bene: con il passare degli anni mi accorgo che sono diventato sempre più permaloso e patriota - e il patriottismo viene acuito dal risiedere ormai in Brasile -. 1) Temo che non potremo - mia Moglie brasiliana ed io - assistere alla nostra sesta (dopo Barcellona,Atlanta,Atene,Torino e Rio) Olimpiade dal vivo e non posso fruire di "DiscoveryPlus", come ho fatto nel 2021: esiste un metodo - forse con un VPN ma qual'è il migliore ? - per potermi abbonare ed usufruirne come se fossi in Italia ? In Brasile le trasmissioni sono migliorate ma non sono certo come DiscoveryPlus o come l'EBU del 2008, che trasmetteva ogni singola competizione (ho letto spesso i "post" di "Phelps", collegato con tutte le manifestazioni sportive "urbi et orbi"). 2) pensate che possa interessare agli utenti di Totallympics poter iniziare - con lettere a "Change.org", ai vari Comitati Olimpici, alle Federazioni internazionali, ai giornali, magari coinvolgendo atleti ed allenatori - una campagna volta al tentativo di ripristinare una più equa partecipazione del numero di atleti ? Sono un buon conoscitore della geografia, delle letterature e della classificazione delle lingue del mondo; sono stato membro fino a pochi anni fa dell' "ATFS - Association of Track & Field Statisticians" (ho visto dal vivo 7 mondiali di atletica) e, anche per "colpa" di questi miei interessi culturali, davvero non sopporto gl'illogici criteri di selezione olimpica: nessun dato regge a serie analisi, non esiste logica basata su cifre inoppugnabili (mi riferisco sì all'atletica, ai suoi "minimi" e ai ranking assurdamente innestati su uno sport misurabile ma anche alle restrizioni che colpiscono tutte le discipline sportive); sbaglio o su Totalympics" v'è acquiescenza da parte di molti utenti per i "crudeli" metodi di selezione e traspare non solo rassegnazione ma quasi compiacimento nel constatare che le Olimpiadi sono iper-selettive ? Non sono ingenuo e conosco gli interessi in gioco e, tuttavia, continuo a chiedermi: "cui prodest?", anche da un punto di vista economico. Domande incalzanti a Bach, alle teste coronate e alle cariatidi del CIO potrebbero forse inchiodarli a dare almeno spiegazioni ? Pensate che possa esserci desiderio di iniziare una tale battaglia insieme alla maggior parte degli utenti del sito oppure ho ragione nel giudicare che, tutto sommato, ai molti "Totallympians" le odierne regole vanno benissimo ed è anzi molto divertente - per i più giovani un po' come in un "videogame" - assistere alle progressive eliminazioni di enormi quantità di atleti di assoluto livello (badate che non parlo dell'Afghana vista con i miei occhi ... camminare i 100 m in 18 secondi a Parigi 2003 oppure d'inette judoka saudite ma di atleti forti e spesso in lotta con condizioni di vita ed allenamento difficili - com'è possibile che Eloy Benítez di PUR con 10.04 sui 100 o la costaricana Vargas nei 100 H o le canoiste austriache per pochi millesimi nel 2016 stiano fuori -) ? Ci sarebbero mille metodi efficaci per evitare che ... un sessantatreenne come me "pretenda" di partecipare ... ! Ovviamente di cifre ed argomenti incontrovertibili ne ho a iosa e forse ne potremmo parlare dopo le Olimpiadi. Spero che godrete appieno di Parigi 2024, che fiocchino emozioni e vi sia una pioggia di medaglie italiane e mi permetto di augurarVi di continuare a provare - fino alla mia età e molto oltre - la medesima fibrillazione dell'attesa (come tutti i bimbi di Lodi - "quorum ego" ... un tempo - alla vigilia di Santa Lucia: nella mia Lodi i doni ai bimbi li porta Santa Lucia) di un evento straordinario e commovente ! Un caro saluto. Fabio Majocchi

Tks for reply; of course I know that Globo (Sportv) and CazéTV are going to broadcast many hours of Olympic games but you know I am ... greedy of complete coverage as eveyone of us and I'd like to be able to choose all I want to ...that's why I wonder if there is a VPN which is better and apter than others, in order to exploit the possible Discovery+ subscription. Thanks again.

I am now residing in Brazil and I wonder and ask (all of you way much younger and knowledgeable than me) whether Discovery+ can be used in Brazil thru a VPN (they indeed confirmed I could not use my subscription over here) and which VPN could possibly be the best option; as an alternate choice, do you know if there are other providers here in Brazil able to supply a similar complete coverage (every ring,tatami,piste,heat,preliminary ...) of Paris 2024 (in 2021 Discovery+ was wonderful even for the long-lasting access to the replies!). Thanks a lot for helping this old ... "jurassic" out.

Dear Mohsen, since many years I am a follower of this site, but - due to my "jurassic" age, I'm 62 - I have posted very few messages and only when my rage against some fellows - you can imagine who - was high (I have sometimes complained with Sindo about the lack of good manners of some guys)! Anyway I have never given-up to read some topics and the ones which are really interesting and coming from a real expert, are yours, both dedicated to wrestling and weightlifting, so my congratulations from the deepest of my heart; I am a statistician of track & field and I had the luck to personally attend four summer olympic games plus some world athletics championships; but I lately became increasingly interested in sports like - besides an ancient love for amateur boxing - wrestling,judo and taekwondo;in order to learn more, I have developed draws/brackets sheets on "excel" for the continental championships/games and olympic and world; I am slow in compiling those sheets, but I try to be accurate at the utmost with names, homonymous and translitterations (contrary to the federations sites, which are sadly replete with many stupid mistakes - until five profiles for the same athlete ! -), to be 100% precise (heritage since when I used to be an ATFS member ...); combined with my love for languages and names, that helped me to start to like the wrestling videos (at Rio 2016 Olympics I managed to attend live some wrestling matches too; I must say that my specific ignorance has been often mitigated by the general knowledge of the sports, which allows me to at least appreciate the skills of the best). I am trying to follow the wrestling olympic qualifications and I wonder why the continental and qualifications championships do not coincide/match ? Would not have been easier for the athletes to wrestle once at all for the continental title and olympic qualification at the same time? I understand that some athletes are already qualified thru the world, still I am surprised to see this waste of time and energies (so much precious in a demanding discipline) ! Do you have an explanation ? Thanks again and I renew my compliments for your expertise. Fabio Majocchi

It seems to me that another girl with the bib number 638 has been rejected and disallowed to run; judging from the colours of her singlet, she might be from Nepal ... poor girl ... any news about the reason ? Anyway great victory of Maslova; I never thought she could beat the naturalized Ethiopians and Kenyans.

Here you should find the (perhaps ...) complete results ... Groeten uit Fabio ! http://www.africathle.com/2018/08/01/african-championships-asaba-nigeria-1-5082018/

I completely agree with my Friend INTERISTA (and evidently fan of the Olympic boxe): hopefully both Olympic boxe and Inter will come back ... "a riveder le stelle" (Dante, what a genious ...!)

Multumesc !

Caro Gianlu, grazie ! I have tried to browse thru the UEG and FIG and YouTube, but nothing ! Grazie, in ogni caso ...

Isn't there any live streaming site for these morning and afternoon women qualification of the European Arstistic Gymnastics ? Thanks.

Sottoscrivo tutto e, vista la mia età "giurassica", tendo a ricordare e rimpiangere mitiche domeniche degli anni '70 in cui vincevano tutti: Thoeni, Panatta, Moser e, se invece s'era in estate, Mennea, gli schermidori, gli Abbagnale e le Nazionali degli sport di squadra, per non parlare di Agostini e della Ferrari (che è invece l'unica ad averci deluso oggi) ! Bando alla nostalgia, grande Italia e speriamo nelle nostre squadre e nei giovani virgulti dell'atletica ...

Well, I don't have the time to carefully check but I remember some of your sarcastic opinions (against Schwazer, for instance, who is a close friend of mine); I'm really not sure that, within a discussion group, you must not prove your opinion, above all if it's against somebody; really not sure at all (maybe within a tiny group of close friends but not here).

Dear Dcro, if your message is aimed to me,it's not well aimed; don't be mislead by the "newbie" title, as I am a subscriber since 2014 and ever since I have been almost daily reading many of the comments of you frequent posters; so, implying that the tiny number of active posts must be connected to the lack of knowledge of human habits of a 57 years old person, is at least imprudent; if, instead, I'm not the target of your irony, then sorry and ... "hvala" for your time (hoping that the Bakar bay is still wonderful as in the seventies when I was spending my holidays between Rovinj, Zadar, Biograd na Moru and Filip Jakov !) and Dobra Vecer. Fabio Majocchi

Dear Pavlo, I have not jumped into any rushed conclusion ... it's more than three years that I "observe" many of those commentators and I disagree with your opinions about them: Heywoodu,OlympicsFan and Thiago are definitely smart,but they have the frequent flaw not to be able to prove their statements, besides not being balanced in their judgements and I do feel they adore (more than like) to provoke and this is not a site where everybody can provoke, insult or offend everybody else (otherwise we would subscribe to YouTube or other - unknown to me - sites). Dziękuję and ... ciao.

Dear OlympicFan, I fear that the one who should learn History is you, the REAL history (even of the thirties), trying to behave in a better fair-play mode and show some respect, if not for my "jurassic" age, at least for my (although scarce) world knowledge, as I have a Ph.D. in classical languages and Hispanic-American literature, I have been living many years in South-America and I can also read and speak your wonderful language, besides knowing very well your splendid Country; I hope you can help me in avoiding every time to cite the sentence of one of the most prestigious Italian sports writers - Gianni Brera - who once wrote something like: ..."it's true that the Germans are really the best in everything - athletics,football,philosophy,classical music,literature,organization - but perhaps their problem is that they claim that other peoples admit it ... bowing in front of them" ! Even your comments about athletics are often not inspiring for someone like me who have attended LIVE 7 World Championships and 4 Olympic Games and has been a subscriber of Leichtathletik for thirty-five years and member of ATFS... Anyway, be sure that I will answer in a placid way to every insult, but I will NEVER ignore any comment; wrong things must be fought-off, like the comment of ThiagoSimoes (who probably has not understood the meaning of "pontificatore"), who insults me ("cuzão", even if I don't have a big booty, is definitely an insult, as he might not remember that I studied Portuguese in my University, I have been living in Brazil for many years and I have a girlfriend of Minas Gerais - unfortunately not young and beautiful as the Heywoodu's one ... !-) Finally I would like to remind all my "pontificatori" that it's a good-natured "apelido" (epithet) and it's even a compliment (I call my girlfriend "pontificatrice"); once again, be sure that I will always reply WITHOUT OFFENDING, whenever I read some biased or offensive comment against me, my Country or some other Nation which does not deserve nasty words ! BUT I will definitely reply. P.S. Dear Heywoodu, I hope your Girlfriend brought you some "acerola" (great drink "laranja - your favorite colour ... - com acerola") and/or "açaí na tigela" !