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Final quotas from this Asian championships were awarded: 
 
50m AR 3P (Men) 
 
Jiaming Tian  & Konstantin Malinovskiy  
 
 
 
 
 
 

Do you think France might be completely cancelled? And if it was there would a really nice ocean between Belgium and Spain where you could hold Olympic surfing instead of having to go to Tahiti.

Iran won the team title in Greco for the 15th time in history but the 2nd day was a total disaster. Iran ended up with 3 more medals (1 G, 1 S and 1 B) but that gold medal was somehow a gift from the ref who fell for our guy's acting. 
 
winning half of the gold medals (5 out of 10) sounds good on paper but considering the fact that it was almost our A team (without 3 or 4 of our top guys) I'm not convinced at all. specially because this year we have to prepare two teams for the Worlds and the Asian Games. and in some weights we don't even have one solid wrestler 
 
I wonder how other Asian countries will do about this. sending the same team to the Worlds and to the AG (10 days later) ? 

SLOVENIA 
 
"SLOVENIJA"
"SLOVINSKO"

1st ROMANIA 12 2nd VIETNAM 11 3rd UKRAINE 10 4th NETHERLANDS 9 5th FRANCE 8 6th GREECE 7 7th VENEZUELA 6 8th SPAIN 5 9th HUNGARY 4 10th CROATIA 3 11th BULGARIA 2 12th CANADA 1 To so bili glasovi slovenske žirije, najlepša hvala za priložnost, da lahko vedno 
spoznam novo kvalitetno svetovno glasbo. Imejte prijetno nedeljo.
 
 
These were Slovenian votes, thank you very much for opportunity to meet
with new quality world music. Have a pleasant Sunday.

Wait, it is our time to vote, oh no, it´s the other ones

POLAND 
 
"POLSKA"
"POLSKO"

1st KAZAKHSTAN 12 2nd CANADA 11 3rd CROATIA 10 4th TUNISIA 9 5th VIETNAM 8 6th IRELAND 7 7th GERMANY 6 8th EGYPT 5 9th MALTA 4 10th PORTUGAL 3 11th ROMANIA 2 12th CHILE 1  

I sent my vote to Hipooo.

I'm very happy to say NO NATION IS DISQUALIFIED!

I sent my vote to Hipooo.

Vietnam will join 😀

Vietnam will join 😀

Vietnam will join 😀

Vietnam will join 😀

Vietnam will join 😀

Vietnam will join 😀

Vietnam will join 😀

Vietnam will join 😀

I think it should be really more place for individual starters. As IOC will not allow the 2 wave system there must be a compromise. 
 
i think one solution could be to allow 6 teams per weapon. And all 3 team fencers should participate in the individual. The freed up 6 places should be added to best ranked fencers without team. 
 
the arguments of the Swedish federation are valid. Fencing is too concentrated in too little countries in the Olympics and in long term could harm the sport. 
 
and if you are good enough you will qualify in 6 spots too 😂

Until the IOC can get its act together and bring back the missing 1000-1500 athletes (or start removing sports) it might be best for fencing to drop the team events. Honestly, events with less than 10 entrants should not be happening

In women's world cup qualifiers.
 
On Thursday, Belgium-Armenia 19-0, which has to be the biggest win ever in european world cup qualifiers. I think the previous record was 17-0, which had happened three times. Belgium was leading 11-0 at halftime and despite the score was ''just'' 13-0 at the 78th minute, it ended with six more goals for Belgium.
 
Italian women struggled against Switzerland, just like their male colleagues. They lost 1-2 at home and Switzerland now has the advantage, in the battle for first place in the group.

It's still not as bad as I thought. I mean, he mentioned in his defense that he has an adenoma, a tumor which produces cortisol, and he has never taken any forbidden substances. If he proves his point, and this is a big if, I can see his ban being reduced or even maybe nullified. I have no idea if there were similar cases before and how these were judged, but in my mind if it's proved that it was a tumor with no fault whatsoever of the lifter himself, then banning him would be pretty harsh.

Anyway, a different point is that, if he ever returns to weightlifting, I don't think he's going to represent Brazil again. He lives in the USA, he doesn't plan to come back to Brazil and the only reason he represented Brazil is because the government paid him lots of money. When he was provisionally suspended, the funding was cut and it would be hard for him to get it back until everything has been proved.

Sadly, I didn't have enough time to prepare new statistics for this edition, but today I will share something old and reliable.
 
As we await for the Grand Final (time TBD), here is a look at point scores needed for each nation to match its best ever (top of the line), worst ever (bottom of the line) and average performance (blue triangle). Vietnam has only one previous participation - they need 130 pts to match it.
 

 
And here are the same point scores needed, but presented in a table format...
 

Here is Youtube playlist with all the songs:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICNv5ge4lvdJgg2S6XyVn1C3_tKZt7n7

MALTA 
 
Fejn Tħobb Il-Qalb - Mike Spiteri
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Kemm darrejtni hazin
Biex inderri nehtieg li nkun hdejk
Kemm kien jiswili li qadt ftit attent
Int l-Ilma gieri ghajn ta ferh
 
Inhossok qribi kull hin
Nitkellem wahdi u ndur f’nofs ta’ lejl
Jekk mhux imhabba li ghandi ghalik
Ghada x-xemx mhux tiela turi s-sebh
 
Fejn thobb il-qalb, jimxu riglejja
Ghax lilek nara biss b’ghajnejja
Tkun f’mohhi lejl u nhar
M’hemmx hliefek nghid ghalija
Minn wiccek nilmah dija
Din qalbi tghix bl-imhabba ghalik

Ma rridekx tinsa weghdiet
Nerga ntennilek li lilek irrid
Int l-aqwa tama ghal isbah gejjien
Ersaq qrib ha tisma dawn il kliem

Fejn thobb il-qalb, jimxu riglejja
Ghax lilek nara biss b’ghajnejja
Tkun f’mohhi lejl u nhar
M’hemmx hliefek nghid ghalija
Minn wiccek nilmah dija
Din qalbi tghix bl-imhabba ghalik

Kont hlomt u qomt miblugh
L-imhadda mlejt bid-dmugh
Bin-niket bdejt nirtghod ghax rajtek sejra l-boghod
Fejn thobb il-qalb, jimxu riglejja

Ghax lilek nara biss b’ghajnejja
Tkun f’mohhi lejl u nhar
M’hemmx hliefek nghid ghalija
Minn wiccek nilmah dija
Din qalbi tghix bl-imhabba ghalik

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