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Now this feels like a proper ending to the season. Lots of fans, atmosphere, looks like a big deal. Slovenia doesn't disappoint. 

One of the few good things done by the IOC in the last 10-15 years... Now we are inevitably waiting for their bad decisions to even the scale.

First do or die for  . Another WC without them would be a nightmare. 

First do or die for  . Another WC without them would be a nightmare. 

Call me mad, but it feels very strange to have made it all the way through a major championships without hearing how the results were going to lead to a slashing of funding for  sport.  

What a BS event  Either run a proper 400 m or don't run it at all. Indoor athletics has been going downhill, but you can't expect anything else with Coe at the top.

Great end of the season for Italia  Two wins and a Globe today.

Great end of the season for Italia  Two wins and a Globe today.

Great end of the season for Italia  Two wins and a Globe today.

Lol, there is going to be two finals in the 400 m  Which genius thought this to be a good idea..

There will be a change for next year with 18 teams in two groups and introduction of WCH - B and C Divisions
 
Two pools of nine teams Pool winners progressing directly to the semi-finals Second and third placed teams from each pool will play crossover qualification games for the remaining semi-final spots

Very nice to see many of the snowboarders showing support for Malena today and competing with painted lines on their faces, a trademark of Malena. I'm still so angry of this whole incident.

Malena Zamfirova was hit by a drunk tourist today (not with a car), while she was preparing for the next World Cup in Czechia.  It happened in the so called "safe zone" near the lift, where there were a lot of people and this drunk just uncontrollably ran her. She had many fractures and had to be flown by helicopter. Tomorrow she is moving to Austria with a special transport, where on Friday she is having a surgery. I am fuming  

Malena Zamfirova was hit by a drunk tourist today (not with a car), while she was preparing for the next World Cup in Czechia.  It happened in the so called "safe zone" near the lift, where there were a lot of people and this drunk just uncontrollably ran her. She had many fractures and had to be flown by helicopter. Tomorrow she is moving to Austria with a special transport, where on Friday she is having a surgery. I am fuming  

Malena Zamfirova was hit by a drunk tourist today (not with a car), while she was preparing for the next World Cup in Czechia.  It happened in the so called "safe zone" near the lift, where there were a lot of people and this drunk just uncontrollably ran her. She had many fractures and had to be flown by helicopter. Tomorrow she is moving to Austria with a special transport, where on Friday she is having a surgery. I am fuming  

Malena Zamfirova was hit by a drunk tourist today (not with a car), while she was preparing for the next World Cup in Czechia.  It happened in the so called "safe zone" near the lift, where there were a lot of people and this drunk just uncontrollably ran her. She had many fractures and had to be flown by helicopter. Tomorrow she is moving to Austria with a special transport, where on Friday she is having a surgery. I am fuming  

Malena Zamfirova was hit by a drunk tourist today (not with a car), while she was preparing for the next World Cup in Czechia.  It happened in the so called "safe zone" near the lift, where there were a lot of people and this drunk just uncontrollably ran her. She had many fractures and had to be flown by helicopter. Tomorrow she is moving to Austria with a special transport, where on Friday she is having a surgery. I am fuming  

Seems a bit stupid to cancel them. If you can't go, then the tournament continues without you, just like it would in other cases. Realistically how many teams won't be able to go to Italy or Greece? 

Apparently not included in the official World Boxing calendar, but yesterday finished the 77th edition of the traditional "Strandja" Tournament, the oldest Boxing tournament in Europe.
 
Women:
 
W48 kg -  Sabina Bobokulova def.  Hanna Okhota - 5:0
W51 kg -  Zlatislava Chukanova def.  Feruza Kazakova - W/O
W54 kg -  Elina Bazarova def.  Lauren Mackie - 5:0
W57 kg -  Nigina Uktamova def.  Michaela Walsh - 3:2
W60 kg -  Donjeta Sadiku def.  Rebeca de Lima Santos - 3:2
 
W65 kg -  Navbakhor Khamidova def.  Laura Yessenkeldi - 5:0
W70 kg -  Chantelle Reid def.  Viviane dos Santos Pereira - 5:0
W75 kg -  Aziza Zokirova def.  Emma Sue Greentree - 5:0
W80 kg -  Nadezhda Ryabets def.  Yaren Duztas - 5:0
W80+ kg -  Valeriya Axenova def.  Oltinoy Sotimboeva - 5:0
 
Men:
 
M50 kg -  Daniyal Sabit def.  Bilalhabashi Nazarov - 3:2
M55 kg -  Maksym Zymenko def.  Lorenzo Patricio - 3:2
M60 kg -  Radoslav Rosenov def.  Gabriel Oliveira - 5:0
M65 kg -  Elvin Aliiev def.  Yuri Falcao Reis - 4:1
M70 kg -  Lavant Brownlee def.  Farukh Tokhtassunov - 4:1
 
M75 kg -  Fazliddin Erkinboev def.  Rami Kiwan - 5:0
M80 kg -  Pavlo Illiusha def.  Javokhir Ummataliev - 3:2
M85 kg -  Akmaljon Isroilov def.  Matvii Razhba - 5:0
M90 kg -  Turabek Khabibullaev def.  Bogdan Tolmachov - 5:0
M90+ kg -  Damar Thomas def.  Ozodbek Aliev - 5:0
 
Final Standings:
 
1.  Uzbekistan - 7-4-6
2.  Kazakhstan - 4-2-3
3.  Ukraine - 3-3-4
4.  Bulgaria - 2-1-4
5.  England - 2-1-3
 
6.  USA - 1-1-5
7.  Kosovo - 1-0-0
8.  Brazil - 0-4-1
9.  Ireland - 0-1-3
10.  Australia - 0-1-1
10.  Azerbaijan - 0-1-1
 
12.  Turkey - 0-1-0
13.  Mongolia - 0-0-3
14.  Italy - 0-0-1
14.  Germany - 0-0-1
14.  Egypt - 0-0-1
14.  Romania - 0-0-1
14.  Armenia - 0-0-1
 
 

Seems a bit stupid to cancel them. If you can't go, then the tournament continues without you, just like it would in other cases. Realistically how many teams won't be able to go to Italy or Greece? 

Last night, I had the privilege to see my first live curling matches.  The USA National Championships were just 1.5 hours away from where I live (not bad in a country the size of ours, and even more surprising since I live in an area where it rarely snows).  I got to visit the 'page final' (i.e. first playoff round), the highlight of which for me was Team Shuster vs. Team Stopera.  Team Stopera ended up winning by 1 point, but Shuster will be able to play one final match this morning to see if they can make it to the finals this afternoon (the winner of which will qualify to Worlds).  None of the current Olympians were there, having declined their spot in the tournament.
 
Got some free swag  

 
These people would yell 'Peel! Peel! Peel' whever someone would peel a stone.

 
Got to see the measuring instrument in action.

 
And yes, Matt Hamilton and Colin Hufman had sleeveless jerseys on.

Don't know if someone else is collecting Euro coins, but since we joined the zone it's been fun looking at what you can get. 
 
It took only 2 months, but today i finally got my first Slovakian coin.  @hckošice  

Don't know if someone else is collecting Euro coins, but since we joined the zone it's been fun looking at what you can get. 
 
It took only 2 months, but today i finally got my first Slovakian coin.  @hckošice  

Interesting, for only 2 months i think i have seen some kind of coin from all of the big countries - Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, France, Portugal, Belgium, Finland, Ireland and yes the 2 euro from Croatia. But some of them were the smaller ones, 10, 5, 2 cents. 
 
Expectedly there aren't any from the smaller countries so far. Nothing from the Baltics, Cyprus, Slovenia, Malta, Andorra etc. But also a bit surprising i haven't seen any from Greece yet. 
 
Don't know from what part of Italy are you, but it's safe to say that when summer hits there will be a lot of Bulgarians visiting Rome, so i'm sure they'll bring some of our coins to spread around.