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unfortunately now I have to leave back later after I watch the rest of the session (delayed)

Volpi beat Kiefer 15-13 and secures the full set of medals for the Host Nation

and it's a sweep!!! triplete! gold, silver and bronze for

despite being the no.3 seed, have a much more difficult route to the medal round than (no.4 seed), who basically have a clean pathway to the semifinals we have to go vs our bete noir in the quarterfinals and, in case, in the semis same in the men's Sabre, vs in a theoretical QTF and then (or but it's unlikely) waiting for the winner in the semis

12 months and 2 siblings later, Arianna Errigo is back in the gold medal match in the women's Foil she won against martina Favaretto by a score of 15-10

will be dangerous in the team event, I fear have to check the draw, but I really hope it's not on our route in the early rounds once again

Cuomo just wasted the chance of his life...he lost against Kurbanov, despite the man from was struggling with cramps and visibly limping on one leg on the other hand, Di Veroli found the way to turn things around in a very complicated assault against Francisco Limardo

men's Individual Epee, Semifinals Davide Di Veroli vs Romain Cannone Tamas Mate Koch vs Ruslan Kurbanov

the only good swimmer left is Ceccon, we're lucky if we can get the same 3 silver, 2 bronze total we got in Tokyo our only chance is repeating in Athletics (not impossible, considered that we have 1 more race walking event favourable to us and Iapichino seems to be ready to become the next big thing in women's LJ...Jacobs and the men's 4*100m of course don't have a chance to repeat themselves) and sweeping the Fencing and Shotgun Shooting events (which gave us something like 0 gold medals in Tokyo) and we also have more chances, but really...20 gold medals is crazy

well, that's not a crazy preview like the 20 gold medals for I mean, they didn't consider a Dutch gold in the women's road race (cycling), MTB (VDP among the men and/or Pieterse among the women), no other Track Cycling medal, no "gambles" on fight sports (and in Judo you have some chances), only 2 gold medals in Sailing (when you have at least 3 big contenders)...

no way we can get all those gold medals (not that I don't hope to see a miracle Games for but really, where do 20 gold medals come out from? only if everything goes much more than well, with everybody overperforming...actually, having the day of their life all together)

just let me know their pusher! he/she must have very good material!

women's Individual Foil, Semifinals Arianna Errigo vs Martina Favaretto Alice Volpi vs Lee Kiefer

Errigo just mindblowing...better than ever! if only she had the right mindset throughout her career...

here we go! 3 girls in the medal round!

by the way, we're good 25 mins behind schedule...luckily, today no ceremony with all those "mr. President"

no miracle by medal safe for

updated... men's Individual Epee, Quarterfinals Davide Di Veroli vs Francisco Limardo Niko Vuorinen vs Romain Cannone Gergely Siklosi vs Mate Tamas Koch Ruslan Kurbanov vs Valerio Cuomo

yes! also Cuomo in the quarterfinals!

men's Individual Epee, Quarterfinals Davide Di Veroli vs Kazuyasu Minobe / Francisco Limardo Niko Vuorinen vs Romain Cannone / Vadim Anokhin Gergely Siklosi vs Mate Tamas Koch / Flavio Giannotte Ruslan Kurbanov vs Koki Kano / Valerio Cuomo

well, she got some good results as a cadet/junior maybe she's one of those girls who needed some time to switch from the youth to the senior level

I just lost 10 years of life! what a moron, Di Veroli is! a lucky moron, at least...

women's Individual Foil, Quarterfinals Arianna Errigo vs Marina Calugareanu Martina Favaretto vs Sera Azuma Alice Volpi vs Martina Batini Anne Sauer vs Lee Kiefer

and here we go! Martina Batini is also through to the quarterfinals maximum result still possible, 4 girls in the top 8 (and 1 safe in the medal ranking -but also 1 mathematically out of the medals because of the Volpi vs Batini matchup)

actually, I'm impressed with Errigo's very, very good physical & mental shape so far she was really outstanding in last year's gold medal match revenge against Thibus