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so...quick recap... Men Kanoa Igarashi and Lucca Mesinas are already in the Final (guaranteed top 4) Alan Cleland, Miguel Tudela, Kauli Vaast and Gonzalo Gutierrez are in the last Repechage Heat (top 2 advance to the Final, 3rd is ranked 5th, 4th is ranked 6th...Vaast and Gutierrez still fighting for the European Quota, all the surfers except for Igarashi are still fighting for the reallocated quota, as Africa missed out on theirs). Women Sally Fitzgibbons, Tatiana Weston-Webb, Johanne Defay and Vahinè Fierro are in the Main Round #7 (top 2 advance to the Final, 3rd & 4th to the Repechage Round #12, all are guaranteed top 6) Erin Brooks and Sophie McCulloch are in the Repechage Round #12 (guaranteed top 6, waiting for the 3rd & 4th ranked in the Main Round #7, top 2 of the heat advance to the Final)

nothing new... here in Italy, we're used to Berlusconi offering a bus full of bitches to his players (now he owns Monza FC) if they won vs Inter, Milan and Juventus

Gutierrez and Morais are through from rep. #7, Fioravanti is out

I must confess...I've been asked not to participate because the gold medals would have been already booked in all the main categories. but the organizers want to have some suspance, so I've been offered a lot of money and benefits to stay home.

rep. #7 already started... not a good score for Leo in the first wave...

and and are in the same heat, so at least 1 of them will go home after rep. #7

only 5 Europeans left in men's Rep. #7: (Fioravanti, likely ineligible for OQ), Morais, Gutierrez, Groen, Vaast

yes, the Team events at the EU Games will be ranked, meanwhile the Individual ones have been replaced with a new competition in Plovdiv the week before.

Final Medal Table 3 / 1 / 0 3 / 0 / 3 2 / 1 / 3 2 / 0 / 0 () 1 / 1 / 4 1 / 1 / 2 1 / 0 / 2 1 / 0 / 1 1 / 0 / 0 1 / 0 / 0 0 / 3 / 0 0 / 1 / 3 0 / 1 / 3 0 / 1 / 1 0 / 1 / 1 0 / 1 / 1 0 / 1 / 1 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 0 / 2 0 / 0 / 1 () 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1

Today's Results women's -53kg Gold: Nahid Kiyani Silver: Zuo Ju Bronze: Shahd Samy Elhosseiny & () Tatiana Minina men's +87kg Gold: Cheick Sallah Cissè Silver: Carlos Sansores Bronze: Emre Kutalmis Atesli & Pasko Bozic

Mattia Furlani (born 2005), after the windy 8.44 in Savona last week; Today just won the men's Long Jump in Hengelo with 8.24m (new "regular" PB, -0.7 wind read, if I've seen well).

no blasphemy intended, but the pre-game show was last night's best moment...

Women's Team Foil Provisional OQR (after 2 events) 104 104 98 72 66 60 58 50 50 50 44 44 43 39 29 27 18 18 16 16 16 16 8 8 8 8

Women's Team Foil ( Tbilisi) Gold: United States Silver: Italy Bronze: Japan Semifinals Italy b. Japan 45-38 USA b. France 45-34 Bronze Medal Match Japan b. France 45-40 Gold Medal Match USA b. Italy 45-41 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2023/824

thanks! yeah, I agree...this is good for Takeshi's Castle show or something like that, not for the Olympic Games

women's Team Foil in Tbilisi GMM: vs BMM: vs 5th Place match: vs 7th Place match: vs

didn't expect that!

today's Semifinals (Final Block starts @ 4 p.m. CET) women's -53kg Semifinals Zuo Ju vs Shahd Samy Elhosseiny Nahid Kiyani vs () Tatiana Minina men's +87kg Semifinals Emre Kutalmis Atesli vs Carlos Sansores Pasko Bozic vs Cheick Sallah Cissè

the second round was won by by a score of 4-3 (at the beginning they didn't put the final gam-jeong on the scoreboard and the Gambian team had to request a video challege, which was successful and changed the outcome of that round). then, won the 3rd round 3-0 (or 3-1, if they really counted the final gam-jeong with no more time on the clock). in any case, won the match 2 rounds to 1 (that 2-2 is clearly a mistake).

finally a Gold medal for still, to many bad performances by many of our girls...at least, Favaretto saved the day.

Women's Individual Foil ( Tbilisi) Gold: Martina Favaretto Silver: Anne Sauer Bronze: Eleanor Harvey & Ysaora Thibus Semifinals Sauer b. Harvey 15-12 Favaretto b. Thibus 15-11 Final Favaretto b. Sauer 15-4 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2023/127

yesterday was definitely another day...quite disappointing performance by the team today

women's World Cup Final Gold: Elena Micheli Silver: Ilke Ozyuksel Bronze: Marie Oteiza Elena Micheli wins the only Olympic Quota Place available Today

Today's Results women's -62kg Gold: () Liliia Khuzina Silver: Caroline Santos Bronze: Aaliyah Powell & Feruza Sadikova men's -74kg Gold: Marko Golubic Silver: Stefan Takov Bronze: Leon Sejranovic & () Kadyrbekch Daurov

/ Andy Diaz 17.75m in the men's Triple Jump, which is a new NR for , despite he can't start any international event for us yet (but since he already got the full Italian citizenship, his jumps are good to be included in the Italian Record history books)