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women's tournament won 17-5 vs so, basically we already know that are qualified to the Olympic Games (even if it's not mathematical yet).

good luck!

yes, you can. and basically we have just a couple of events left this year (the World Champs in September and the 2nd Grand Prix in Doha in December) and 2 next year (Continental Champs and the World Cup, with the 2023 Worlds and the 2024 World Cup being mandatory events in terms of participation to become eligible for the Olympic Games).

yay! I'm still a teenager, after all

in the men's -102kg class, we have 2 new entries in the top 10 of the OQR. () Yauheni Tsikhantsou won the competition with a Total of 390kg and now he's in the 7th spot of the OQR. Wesley Brian Kitts was 2nd with a Total of 388kg and now he's the 9th ranked in the OQR. Chen Po-Jen (3rd last night with a Total of 381kg, 5kg less than his best score) and Liu Huanhua are now out of the top 10 of the OQR after last night's event.

some good results and moves on the OQR for both men and women last night in Havana. the women's -81kg class was won by Solfrid Eila Amena Koanda with a rock solid 266kg Total. she was already in qualifying position in the +87kg class after her gold medal at the world championships in Bogotà last Autumn, but now she breaks in straight into 2nd place of the -81kg class OQR. Tamara Yajaira Salazar Arce ended up in 2nd place, improving her score up to 265kg, but still she loses 1 place in the OQR: she's now 3rd behind Liang and Koanda. last night, Neisi Patricia Dajomes Barrera ended up in 3rd place with a good Total of 260kg, which would be a comfortable qualifying score, if only she wasn't the 2nd woman from her Country in the qualification ranking. finally, also the 4th ranked from last night, Yudelina Mejia Peguero, breaks into a qualifying position in the OQR with a good 252kg Total. Martha Ann Rogers was 5th and improved her Total by 1kg, going up to 248, but in the end she loses 2 places in the OQR. however, she's still in the top 10 (meanwhile and now are out of the top 10 after last night's event).

perfectly in line... are a bunch of losers, is a very strong team with very good players

you can write Italy off we're gonna face in the play-off match and we're gonna go home with no place in the top 8 nor in the OQT. as usual...

just an ordinary day at the office, I'd say...

Men's Individual Epee Gold: Davide Di Veroli Silver: Federico Vismara Bronze: Mateusz Antkiewicz & Marco Brinkmann Semifinals Di Veroli b. Brinkmann 15-12 Vismara b. Antkiewicz 15-7 Final Di Veroli b. Vismara 15-14 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/B3E851BC0F1342C4A9FD3E372EC91E44

Women's Individual Foil Gold: Martina Batini Silver: Martina Favaretto Bronze: Alice Volpi & Francesca Palumbo Semifinals Batini b. Palumbo 15-12 Favaretto b. Volpi 15-9 Final Batini b. Favaretto (Favaretto Withdraw because of Injury) Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/BF0E7ACF0FFD4200A486C5A5DF6AD9AD

Mader's tragedy recalls to me Fabio Casartelli's in a scary way.

I have the (bad) feeling that we're gonna hit the lowest ever point in terms of media coverage of a global sport event...

talking of Kumite, obviously... Kata is not even a sport, it's just the essence of the martial art, but to me it has nothing to do with a sport competition.

let's say that Light Contact Kickboxing is the least interesting of all the combat sports (it doesn't even have the characteristics that make Olympic Karate somehow exciting despite the lack of true hard hits)...

one more good result in last night's women's -76kg class (which is part of the Olympic -81kg class OQR). Katherine Elizabeth Vibert won the competition lifting a Total of 247 kg, which puts her in 9th place of said OQR, tied in weight lifted with her compatriot Martha Ann Rogers. Bella Nancy Paredes Arreaga finished second in the same event, lifting a Total of 245 kg, which puts her in 11th place in the OQR, but she's anyway the 2nd woman of her Country, good 17 kg behind Tamara Yajaira Salazar Arce, therefore her hopes to make the Olympic team are still very, very low.

meanwhile, in the men's -89kg class, veteran () Petr Asayonak won the competition and lifted a Total of 368 kg, which puts him straight in qualifying position in the OQR (9th place). star Antonino Pizzolato once again was registered as a DNS because of his back injury that already made him miss all the events held after last year's European Champs (when he won with at that time WR in both C&J and Total). because of this period without competing, he doesn't have any valid score yet in the OQR...and he only has a couple of events left in the calendar.

after a few days of DNSs and not so exciting scores, finally Yesterday there was some movement in the women's -71kg class at the Havana Grand Prix. Angie Paola Palacios Dajomes dominated the competition and lifted also a new Snatch World Record, 121 kg. she also recorded 261kg in the Total (huge PB), climbing from 3rd to 2nd in the OQR. moreover, () Siuzanna Valodzka was the runner up in the same event, lifting 242 kg in Total, which puts her straight in qualifying position (6th place) in the OQR. Olivia Lynn Reese also lifted a Total weight that would put her in qualifying position (241 kg), but she's still the 2nd women of her Country behind Katherine Elizabeth Nye (who has 248 kg as her best score) and therefore she won't get any ticket for France unless she can overtake her teammate.

Karate 1 Premier League ( Fukuoka) Medallists Women's Individual Kata Gold: Hikaru Ono Silver: Grace Lau Mo Sheung Bronze: Mirisa Ohuchi & Kiyou Shimizu Men's Individual Kata Gold: Kazumasa Moto Silver: Ryonosuke Kikuchi Bronze: Kkeru Nishiyama & Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold: Reem Ahmed Salama Silver: Nadia Gomez Morales Bronze: Yorgelis Salazar & Moldir Zhangbyrbay Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold: Anzhelika Terliuga Silver: Shiori Nakamura Bronze: Maya Schaerer & Gulmira Ussenova Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold: Sarara Shimada Silver: Reem Khamis Bronze: Yuki Kujuro & Anita Serogina Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold: Elena Quirici Silver: Tsubasa Kama Bronze: Laura Alikul & Iryna Zaretska Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold: Yuzuki Sawae Silver: Ayaka Saito Bronze: Sofya Berultseva & Maria Torres Garcia Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold: Hiromu Hashimoto Silver: Darkhan Timraliyev Bronze: Florian Haas & Sankar Hari Sankar Sureeya Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold: Abdel Rahman Almasatfa Silver: Afeef Ghaith Bronze: Dionysios Xenos & Didar Amirali Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold: Lorenzo Pietromarchi Silver: Omer Faruk Yurur Bronze: Daniele De Vivo & Quentin Mahauden Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold: Mohammad Aljafari Silver: Ivan Kvesic Bronze: Junya Eto & Valerii Chobotar Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold: Ryzvan Talibov Silver: Babacar Seck Sakho Bronze: Ahmed Elmasry & Abylay Toltay

by the way, back in topic... Italy will send the unbelievable amount of 329 athletes to Poland this is the full list (article in Italian, sorry): https://www.oasport.it/2023/06/giochi-europei-2023-tutti-i-convocati-dellitalia-spedizione-da-329-atleti/?refresh_ce

no, only the cycling races will be on D+/Eurosport (thanks to the agreement with GCN, which overcomes any other agreement for that sport). nothing at all also on our public broadcaster, rai, in the first 2 days (need to wait for the following days' schedule). on the other hand, Tomorrow we're going to have Berlusconi's funeral live on 16 (no joke, really, 16) different TV channels Italy, what a wonderful Country! Italy in 2023...better than ever!

yes, this is the correct result

Rome Grand Prix Day #2 Medallists women's -67kg Gold: Song Jie Silver: Sarah Chaari Bronze: Magda Wiet Henin & Aya Shehata women's +67kg Gold: Xu Lei Silver: Althea Laurin Bronze: Zhou Zeqi & Rebecca McGowan men's -58kg Gold: Adrian Vicente Yunta Silver: Mahdi Hajimousaei Bronze: Abolfazl Zandi & Jang Jun

we have to wait until next week, when the OTT weekly streams are out for the concerning 1st week. I hope so, otherwise in Italy nobody would broadcast a single second of the event.

Beatriz Piron breaks into qualifying position in the OQR in the women's -49kg class after the Havana Grand Prix. she lifted (in group B) 191kg (snatch: 86kg; C&J: 105kg), putting her in 8th place in the OQR. p.s. all the events of the Havana Grand Prix are available live and on-demand through the Olympic Channel (with local language commentary, at least the day #2 video).