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Still no draws, why are they doing it so slowly...

Wow, great story All the best to them then and one day in the World Cup. It would be a lot of fun having Brazil in a winter sport.

I may have missed it, but was is your obsession with Brazils biathlon team?

Actually i think Thiem said that he won't go a couple of weeks ago.

By the way those countries aren't banned as of now, but could be in the future. April 20 is the date when things could be more clear, because that is the date FIBA has given all federations to state their position, based on this letter that i passed by. It is to Turkey and i'm sure the other countries received more or less the same letter.

I think FIBAs initial idea was to weaken ECA with the loss of the Eurocup and strengthen the Champions league with the teams that came from the Eurocup. And then when the Champions league became much stronger and the conditions better they would take a swing against the Euroleague with much better offering than it is now. But many of those second tier teams from the Eurocup didn't want to switch for some reason and FIBA has to make another attack to split things up. I'm all for FIBA controling basketball and don't have this private corporation catering only for itself, but they are swinging a bit chaotic. Instead of banning the national teams, they should have banned the players from the teams that stay with ECA from national teams. That way those players lose their chance of competing in Olympics and Worlds. Plus bann those players from transfering to clubs associated with FIBA. And finally and most important FIBA should give all they have to their relationship with the NBA, because if they reach an agreement that the NBA teams don't transfer players from the ECA teams, now that is a real gamechanger. Let's see with those factors if the rich european clubs can take FIBA so lightly.

Gasparotto lol, now with double win in the Amstel Gold. By the way, why no Sagan today?

Awful performance, only 1 quota...

All it takes to take out Jordi Bertomeus ClownLeagues out of european basketball. There is enough time till Eurobasket, so i think FIBA is just trying to see if the countries will rethink their participation in ECA/ULEB next season before it starts.

Still got some moves.

Really impressed by Vladimir Dubov, not a single point against him in all 4 matches, overall score 42:0 Maybe the competition wasn't as strong, but if he repeats such a form in Rio i think we can get a medal.

We shall see!

Yes, a little correction, we have 5 wrestlers now in Serbia in GR and 4 are in Mongolia. And both teams are divided by some strong wrestlers and some newcomers. Now in Serbia we have Kostadinov (59), Stas (66), Iliyan Georgiev (75), Nikolay Bayrqkov (85) and Lyubomir Dimitrov (130) While in Mongolia we have send Angelov (59), Nikolay Vicev (66), Hristo Marinov (85) and Miloslav Metodiev (130) For me Angelov and Marinov are better in 59 and 85 and i think Stas and Dimitrov are better in 66 and 130, so like i said both teams have some strong contenders and some who are with smaller chances. Maybe our federation wants to give a chance to more wrestlers to see how will they perform before the final qualifying tournament if we haven't got the quotas. Plus i just found out that our medalist from the European Games last year Daniel Aleksandrov is injured, so maybe that is the reason he isn't in Mongolia. He will compete in 75 in the final tournament.

Ivo Angelov is in Mongolia. Our GR team was divided into 2 groups of 4 for both competitions and the team for Mongolia is already there, as to cope with the time difference.

2 out of 6 for today is less than i would have wanted to be honest. Stas and Duduva were never favourites, so their loses aren't unexpected, but i was really disappointed in Novachkov. After last years Worlds and the way he was blatanly robbed of a medal i was sure he would be one of our qualifiers. Let's hope he brings his A-game for next week. And finally Kostadinov did awesome, but unfortunately he had to face the only russian today, who was a machine....

Novachkov

They are sunday.

And of course when they schedule 2 bulgarian matches on mat C it goes off... As if they intentionally are blocking me from watching them.

Yeah, just like all mats were working, then mat A went black and now mat B for some time. Only mat C is going for me, and all bulgarian matches are on the other two.

At least there is streaming unlike boxing. https://unitedworldwrestling.org/event/european-og-qualifying-tournament

Awful today. Of course with two matches against the turks, two loses, big surprise. In the third the armenian got knocked-down by Simeon Chamov but they still awarded him the victory.....

Well here the rights for the Olympics have always been shared between our national broadcaster (BNT) and a private tv network. And for a long time that was Eurosport and it was a perfect combination. BNT aired mainly our athletes and of course many different things when possible and Eurosport covered the big events and their tradional sports. And here almost everyone has a cable package that has Eurosport, so even being paid wasn't a problem for watching the Olympics. But for Sochi and now Rio the private rights went to another provider and to watch the Olympics you had to switch your whole package to them and not only that but subscribe to their highest package, because thats where the sports channels were placed. So more or less you are left with the national broadcaster and just like in Slovakia, watching it there is a little torture. So i'm very happy that the rights go back to Eurosport (Discovery) and i fully expect them to sell a part (the umpopular sports with our athletes ) to BNT and things to go like before.

Boyanka Kostova decimating the competition even with an easy going, but sadly it is for the wrong country once again, but whatever...

Schedule for tomorrow! http://www.bgboxing.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/samsun/C58D0412.pdf

Great day for us, 4 wins and only 1 loss. Especially happy for Petar Belberovs win in the super-heavyweights against the russian boxer, because i was almost sure of judges shenanigans.