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unfortunately not... actually, funding for sports here in Italy is always less in some sports we've been lucky to find some good officials who really care about success rather than filling their pockets with money and powerful roles only Stefano Mei becoming NF president, in particular, changed many, many things in our athletics add this to a new generation of coaches who have been humble enough to go abroad (especially in the USA) to learn new training methods and open to use them instead of the old, surpassed methods of the past this is also what happened in swimming (another sport which wasn't on our radar before the end of the last Century, until the poor Alberto Castagnetti could start a new era for our swimmers -finding generational talents like Fioravanti, Rosolino and Pellegrini all together did help a lot, too) Sailing, Judo and Taekwondo are also among the NF working really well, having the advantage of a major increase of youngsters practicing the sport, which helps a lot to find new talents (it's hilarious that Judo and Wrestling are managed by the same federation, but Wrestling is and I fear will be for quite a long time irrelevant -despite a good tradition- because of lack of boys and girls enjoying the sport) other sports named above, actually already have a great tradition in Italy...in Track cycling for instance we're not even close to what we used to have until the late Sixties the main reason is the lack of infrastructure...hopefully now we're gonna have 1 (maybe in the next future 2) indoor velodromes with 250m track, which might help us to stay competitive in the next future (when a talent like Ganna won't be here anymore to make our team look stronger than it actually is) and however, the improvement in some disciplines doesn't mean that we're not experiencing a lot of troubles in sports where we used to get more than what we currently have to be satisfied with (men's Road Cycling, Rowing and Boxing, for instance) more in general, we've been lucky to find a good new generation of youngsters in the recent past and now we're enjoying them, but after Covid-19 period, we've lost a lot of boys and girls practicing any sport and we're not expecting a bright future in many disciplines which are so successful right now...we're already starting to see that trend in some sports, where we still have some promising talents, but a lot less than the recent years in terms of quantity p.s. not going to mention -not the right thread- that some of this year's medals here in Rome are also possible because of the absence of and , who have always been dominant in this sport (especially in some events) if they were here, we surely wouldn't have such an impressive medal table as it is right now

team in Paris women's K1: Stefanie Horn women's C1: Marta Bertoncelli men's K1: Giovanni De Gennaro men's C1: Raffaello Ivaldi

ask European Athletics

yes, she was already having trouble at the beginning of the last lap and quickly got worse...when she came to the last water jump she didn't have anything left in the tank anymore... it looks it was quite hot in Rome Today

so, it's game over! the last Olympic Qualification event has ended and if we want to see it as an Olympic preview, well, I'm really scared of the Chinese team...they could even make a clean sweep in Paris hope the French Range doesn't suit their style as much as Munich's

men's 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Ole Martin Halvorsen Silver: Istvan Peni Bronze: Jon-Hermann Hegg Final Ranking and Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19944

women's 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Seonaid McIntosh Silver: Han Jiayu Bronze: Sift Kaur Samra Final Ranking and Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19943

well, you can make all the irony, but she actually needed (and asked for) some cold water on her body to get her temperature down, as she was suffering for a heat stroke (also her teammate beside her was immediately calling for that)

it's because the actual shot put and discus throw qualifiers have been rescheduled once the original session (that should have been held yesterday in the small but scenographic stadium "delle Statue" used from Today for the warmup) was cancelled (too late) from the final program so, we have some unusual situations like the quali and final of the men's Discus in the same day and the shot put qualifiers inserted where some space was available

De Gennaro is on fire! he won the Europeans, he won (and was robbed) last week and now another (this time undisputed) win Today this is one of the most unpredictable sports in the world, but man, his superiority this season is something big, really big gotta say he's the favourite for the Olympic Gold...let's see if he messes it up once again like in Tokyo (when he won the semifinal and then threw a medal away in the final)

mixed Team 10m Air Pistol Gold: Turkiye 1 (Sevval Ilayda Tarhan & Yusuf Dikec) Silver: China 1 (Jiang Ranxin & Xie Yu) Bronze: South Korea 2 (Oh Ye Jin & Lee Woon Ho) Final Ranking and Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19939

women's 10m Air Pistol Gold: Zorana Arunovic Silver: Jiang Ranxin Bronze: Li Xue Final Ranking and Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19935

men's 10m Air Pistol Gold: Sarabjot Singh Silver: Bu Shuaihang Bronze: Robin Walter Final Ranking and Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19936

men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Gold: Li Yuehong Silver: Christian Reitz Bronze: Clement Bessaguet Final Ranking and Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19925

80 lanes from 10m and 50m, 60 lanes from 25m https://www.fftir.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CNTS-EN.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwid9K2S5sKGAxVth_0HHdzOC14QFnoECA8QBQ&usg=AOvVaw1xotDs8B-6qaLAj9dW8v4j

right now, I have 27 teams X2 X2 X2 X2 X2 X2 X2 X2 X2 it might still change if some Nations switch shooters between different disciplines

very, very low, he needs that at least 1 Universality Place isn't awarded (and in Shooting it's very unlikely to happen)

women's 25m Pistol Gold: Camille Jedrzejewski Silver: Doreen Vennekamp Bronze: Kim Ye Ji Final Ranking and Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19919

Karate 1 Premier League ( Casablanca) Medallists Recap Women's Individual Kata Gold: Maho Ono Silver: Mirisa Ohuchi Bronze: Grace Lau Mo Sheung & Kiri Mishima Men's Individual Kata Gold: Kakeru Nishiyama vs Ryuji Moto Silver: Eiji Otsuki vs Sakichi Abe Bronze: Enes Ozdemir & Kazumasa Moto Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold: Yorgelis Salazar Silver: Moldir Zhangbyrbay Bronze: Aika Okazaki & Sara Tsutsumi Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold: Valentina Toro Meneses Silver: Istri Agung Sanistyarani Cok Bronze: Ku Tsui-Ping & Viola Lallo Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold: Gong Li Silver: Yuki Kujuro Bronze: Reem Khamis & Oleksandra Sholokhova Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold: Elena Quirici Silver: Hadir Hendy Bronze: Thalya Sombe & Elina Sieliemienieva Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold: Nancy Garcia Silver: Sofya Berultseva Bronze: Lucija Lesjak & Meltem Akyol Hocaoglu Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold: Hiromu Hashimoto Silver: Abdullah Shaaban Bronze: Abdel Alì Jina & Kaisar Alpysbay Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold: Abdel Rahman Almasatfa Silver: Yugo Kozaki Bronze: Yanis Tas & Muhammed Oezdemir Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold: Abdalla Abdelaziz Silver: Enzo Berthon Bronze: Nurkanat Azhikanov & Quentin Mahauden Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold: Andrii Toroshanko Silver: Daniyar Yuldashev Bronze: Konstantinos Mastrogiannis & Junya Eto Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold: Ryzvan Talibov Silver: Taha Tarek Mahmoud Bronze: Amir Zouaoui & Mehdi Filali

mixed Team 10m Air Rifle Gold: China 1 (Huang Yuting & Shen Lihao) Silver: Norway 1 (Jeanette Hegg Duestad & Jon-Hermann Hegg) Bronze: China 2 (Han Jiayu & Du Linshu) Final Ranking and Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19912

women's 10m Air Rifle Gold: Huang Yuting Silver: Ban Hyo Jin Bronze: Han Jiayu Final Ranking and Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19911

still waiting for the final anti-doping adjustments

Teddy Riner did actually take part in the African Open in Marrakech last weekend of course, he easily won the gold medal in the men's +100kg class and earned 100 more points in the OQR now, he's in starting list also in the next weekend in Madrid, which means that in case of a victory (quite obvious, I guess) he would overtake Tatsuro Saito in the OQR, redefining the Olympic quarterfinals design (he would go vs Rakhimov, leaving Saito the hot seat represented by (RUS) Inal Tasoev in the quarterfinals, given that the winner of both those pools would likely face each other in the semifinals)

NON-Olympic Events Recap (Part II) women's Individual 300m Prone Rifle Gold: Charlotte Jakobsen Silver: Anzela Voronova Bronze: Karina Kotkas Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=3229&resultkey=3b3b303b333030525052573b303b493b493b313b303b30 women's Team 300m Prone Rifle Gold: Switzerland Silver: Estonia Bronze: Poland Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=3229&resultkey=3b3b303b333030525052573b303b493b543b313b303b30 men's Individual 300m Prone Rifle Gold: Rajmond Debevec Silver: Alexander Schmirl Bronze: Peter Sidi Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=3229&resultkey=3b3b303b3330305250524d3b313b493b493b313b303b30 men's Team 300m Prone Rifle Gold: Switzerland Silver: Austria Bronze: Sweden Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=3229&resultkey=3b3b303b3330305250524d3b313b493b543b313b303b30 mixed Team 300m Prone Rifle - Duet Event (ESC Challenge) Gold: Sweden (Elin Ahlin & Karl Olsson) Silver: (Karolina Romanczyk & Daniel Romanczyk) Bronze: Denmark (Charlotte Jakobsen & Carsten Brandt) Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19775 women's Individual 300m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Agathe Cecilie Camille Girard Silver: Karolina Romanczyk Bronze: Katrine Lund Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=3229&resultkey=3b3b303b333030523350573b303b493b493b313b303b30 women's Team 300m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Norway Silver: Switzerland Bronze: Poland Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=3229&resultkey=3b3b303b333030523350573b303b493b543b313b303b30 men's Individual 300m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Peter Sidi Silver: Bernhard Pickl Bronze: Gilles Vincent Dufaux Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=3229&resultkey=3b3b303b3330305233504d3b313b493b493b313b303b30 men's Team 300m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Switzerland Silver: Austria Bronze: Finland Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=3229&resultkey=3b3b303b3330305233504d3b313b493b543b313b303b30 mixed Team 300m 3-Position Rifle - Duet Event (ESC Challenge) Gold: Sweden (Elin Ahlin & Karl Olsson) Silver: Switzerland (Silvia Guignard Schnyder & Pascal Bachmann) Bronze: Austria (Jasmin Kitzbichler & Bernhard Pickl) Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19779 women's Team 300m 3-Position Rifle - Trio Event (ESC Challenge) Gold: Norway (Jenny Vatne, Oda Flikkerud & Katrine Lund) Silver: Switzerland (Anja Senti, Sarina Hitz & Silvia Guignard Schnyder) Bronze: Estonia (Anzela Voronova, Katrin Smirnova & Liudmila Kortshagina) Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19773 men's Team 300m 3-Position Rifle - Trio Event (ESC Challenge) Gold: Switzerland (Pascal Bachmann, Simon Maag & Gilles Vincent Dufaux) Silver: Austria (Patrick Diem, Tobias Mair & Bernhard Pickl) Bronze: Poland (Daniel Romanczyk, Rafal Lukaszyk & Andrzej Burda) Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19772

NON-Olympic Events Recap (Part I) women's Individual 50m Prone Rifle Gold: Sara Karasova Silver: (BLR) Darya Chuprys Bronze: Jenny Stene Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=3229&resultkey=3b3b303b525052573b303b493b493b313b303b30 women's Team 50m Prone Rifle Gold: Czechia Silver: Norway Bronze: Switzerland Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=3229&resultkey=3b3b303b525052573b303b493b543b313b303b30 men's Individual 50m Prone Rifle Gold: Patrik Jany Silver: Jon Thor Sigurdsson Bronze: Jesper Johansson Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=3229&resultkey=3b3b303b5250524d3b313b493b493b313b303b30 men's Team 50m Prone Rifle Gold: Slovakia Silver: Czechia Bronze: Norway Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=3229&resultkey=3b3b303b5250524d3b313b493b543b313b303b30 mixed Team 50m Prone Rifle - Duet Event (ESC Challenge) Gold: Slovakia 1 (Daniela Demjen Peskova & Ondrej Holko) Silver: Czechia 2 (Veronika Blazickova & Petr Nymbursky) Bronze: Slovakia 2 (Miroslava Kiselova & Stefan Sulek) Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19837 women's Team 25m Pistol - Trio Event (ESC Challenge) Gold: Germany (Josefin Eder, Doreen Vennekamp & Monika Karsch) Silver: Hungary (Veronika Major, Miriam Jako & Renata Sike) Bronze: Bulgaria (Antoaneta Kostadinova, Miroslava Mincheva, Lidia Nencheva) Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19813 men's Team 25m Rapid Fire Pistol - Trio Event (ESC Challenge) Gold: Germany (Oliver Geis, Florian Peter & Christian Reitz) Silver: Ukraine (Volodymyr Pasternak, Maksym Horodynets & Denys Kushnirov) Bronze: Czechia (Matej Rampula, Anrtonin Tupy & Tomas Tehan) Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19816 mixed Team 25m Rapid Fire Pistol - Duet Event (ESC Challenge) Gold: Ukraine 2 (Yulia Korostylova & Maksym Horosynets) Silver: Ukraine 1 (Anastasiia Nemets & Volodymyr Pasternak) Bronze: Bulgaria (Lidia Nencheva & Stoyan Pushkov) Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19825 women's Team 50m 3-Position Rifle - Trio Event (ESC Challenge) Gold: Switzerland (Emely Jaeggi, Nina Christen & Chiara Leone) Silver: Norway (Mari Bardseng Lovseth, Jenny Stene & Jeanette Hegg Duestad) Bronze: Poland (Julia Ewa Piotrowska, Aleksandra Anna Pietruk & Natalia Kochanska) Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19812 men's Team 50m 3-Position Rifle - Trio Event (ESC Challenge) Gold: Czechia (Petr Nymbursky, Filip Nepejchal & Jiri Privratsky) Silver: Slovakia (Stefan Sulek, Ondrej Holko & Patrik Jany) Bronze: Serbia (Milenko Sebic, Milutin Stefanovic & Marko Ivanovic) Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19826 mixed Senior & Junior Individual 25m Standard Pistol Open Event Gold: Kevin Chapon Silver: Veronika Major Bronze: Ruslan Lunev Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=3229&resultkey=3b3b303b5354504f3b323b493b493b313b303b30