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yeah! another Bronze medal for thanks to Riccardo Villa in the men's All-Around. he saved the day by the smallest of margin, finishing ahead of Tomuharu Tsunogai by just 0.001 Gold went to Qin Guohuan and Silver to Angel Barajas. later in the afternoon, the girls will contest their All Around competition.

oh, c'mon! it's playoffs time all around the world of Hockey and then, lots of baseball (MLB, but also NPB, KBO and more)... not to be forgotten, some Cycling classics, Fencing World Cup and Youth Worlds, Judo Worlds (in a month, more or less) and Grand Slams, Shooting here and there, Swimming trials all around the world... why not, some Soccer, too... and I'm sure I'm leaving a lot of things out of the door...

p.s. I'm still asking myself what's the need to almost kill him like that, as if he was a real threat to anybody on and off the field. it's a really sick Nation, made of sick people.

he did it on purpose because I have him in my fantasy baseball team

@hckošice https://blackngoldhockey.com/2023/03/former-bruin-zdeno-chara-set-to-run-the-2023-boston-marathon/

now it's almost over... and the medallists are safe. the top 3 won't change anymore. guess what? get an amazing 4th place. and could climb up to 5th at best, but it's not granted.

actually, it's not over yet. there's another subdivision (with and maybe to be watched carefully). however did throw away a great result in the last rotation with 2 falls at the Balance Beam that cost us a 10.3 and a 10.8 scores. without those falls, we would be in the lead with big margin right now...

2 wins on the road in 3 matches in the great night of game #7's, yesterday... now all the major European leagues are aligned to the semifinal stage, almost all of them starting between Tomorrow and Saturday.

DEL Playoffs Quarterfinals Recap (Best-of-7 Series) EHC Red Bull Munich (1) - Pinguins Bremerhaven (8) 4-2 (1-3; 2-3; 7-1; 3-1; 4-0; 2-1) ERC Ingolstadt (2) - Düsseldorfer EG (7) 4-1 (5-4 2OT; 3-1; 1-2 OT; 2-1; 7-6 OT) Adler Mannheim (3) - Kölner Haie (6) 4-2 (0-4; 2-1; 2-3 2OT; 7-3; 4-3; 3-2) Straubing Tigers (4) - Grizzlys Wolfsburg (5) 3-4 (5-3; 1-3; 1-2; 3-1; 5-0; 3-4 OT; 1-3)

SHL Playoffs Quarterfinals Recap (Best-of-7 Series) Växjö Lakers HC (1) - Luleå HF (10) 4-3 (2-0; 0-1; 7-2; 3-2 OT; 0-1; 1-2; 2-1) Skellefteå AIK (2) - Rögle BK (9) 4-2 (2-3; 2-0; 5-0; 2-5; 3-2 OT; 5-1) Färjestad BK (3) - Frölunda HC (6) 3-4 (3-2; 2-3; 3-1; 0-5; 1-2; 4-2; 1-3) Örebro HK (4) - Timrå IK (5) 4-3 (4-1; 4-3; 3-4 2OT; 4-2; 2-3 OT; 3-4; 3-2)

Antonino Pizzolato from Bronze to Gold in men's -81kg Weighlifting in Tokyo! naaa...it's too early, but sooner or later it should really happen! and this would mean from 10th to 7th in the final medal table

Mixed Team Skeet Gold: Germany 1 (Nadine Messerschmidt & Sven Korte) Silver: Cyprus 2 (Anastasia Eleftheriou & Petros Englezoudis) Bronze: Chile (Francisca Crovetto Chadid & Hector Andres Flores Barahona) Final Ranking and Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=17726

what? you mean Trentino, hopefully... Taranto is in Puglia, deep South of Italy and should host the next Mediterranean Games...

no, it's not a sponsor... it's truly the name of the team, or, better, the name of the company that runs the team's activity.

not many surprises in the and leagues so far... only the no.3 seed after RS lost in the quarterfinals despite the home ice advantage. meanwhile tonight is a quite important one around Europe: in fact, we have 3 quarterfinals game #7's. in the Straubing Tigers host the Wolfsburg Grizzlys at 7.30 p.m. CET, in good 2 series will go to a decider: no.3 seed Färjestad BK host no.6 seed Frölunda HC and no.4 seed Örebro HK host no.5 seed Timrå IK, both games scheduled to start at 7 p.m. CET.

Extraliga Playoffs Quarterfinals Recap (Best-of-7 Series) HC Dynamo Pardubice (1) - HC Olomouc (8) 4-0 (5-1; 2-0; 5-4 OT; 3-2) HC Vìtkovice Ridera (2) - HC Kometa Brno (7) 4-2 (3-2; 0-3; 4-1; 1-2; 1-0; 4-3 OT) HC Sparta Prague (3) - HC Oceláři Třinec (6) 2-4 (3-2; 2-3 OT; 4-2; 1-3; 0-3; 1-5) Mountfield HK (4) - Bílí Tygři Liberec (5) 4-1 (2-4; 3-2; 2-1 OT; 2-1; 6-4)

Liiga Playoffs Quarterfinals Recap (Best-of-7 Series) Tappara Tampere (1) - KooKoo Kouvola (10) 4-0 (4-0; 6-1; 2-1 OT; 3-0) Ilves Tampere (2) - Ässät Pori (8) 4-1 (5-1; 1-5; 4-1; 4-1; 3-2) Lukko Rauma (3) - HIFK Helsinki (6) 2-4 (1-4; 0-1 OT; 3-5; 2-1 OT; 2-1; 2-3 OT) Pelicans Lahti (4) - KalPa Kuopio (5) 4-3 (2-1; 0-3; 2-1; 2-3; 3-1; 1-5; 4-2)

yeah, it's a mess. I don't know what FIE will actually manage all that sh*t. for sure, if they let the Russians play, it will come out something unfair to some Nations.

I think Italy is too close to Alisher Usmanov (our former president Giorgio Scarso is his loyal "backup") to vote against any FIE decision in mass. Of course I expected Samele to put his signature on that document as he's Olga Kharlan's fiancèe, but actually I'm surprised to see Erica Cipressa on that list (unless she also has Ukranian connections I'm not aware of).

Men's Individual Skeet Gold: Erik Pittini Silver: Eetu Kallionen Bronze: Sven Korte Final Ranking and Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=17720

Women's Individual Skeet Gold: Danka Bartekova Silver: Gao Jinmei Bronze: Francisca Crovetto Chadid Final Ranking and Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=17721

already time for a new World Cup stage. this week, the shotgun specialists are in Larnaca.

yep! we're almost ready to go! on Thursday, we have the NPB season opener (Rakuten Eagles @ Nippon Ham Fighters at the new ES CON Field near Sapporo, 6.30 p.m. local time, 10.30 a.m. CET, 4.30 a.m. New York time) and a few hours later, it's MLB time! our TV (sky Italia) is showing...guess what? SF Giants @ NY Yankees at 7 p.m. CET and also (that's a big effort for them ) the first game of the Houston Astros at night (CET). personally, after they increased so much the subs fee (and they didn't show the WBC), I decided to give up for a while MLB.tv, waiting for the week following Mother's Day 50% discount (if they do it again, like in the past 2 seasons). ready to go with the free games only (+ sky Italia's) and wait until further up to Father's Day...they won't get the full price, that full price, from me anymore p.s. KBO and CPBL will start "only" next Saturday, April 1st (is it a joke? )

() ICE Hockey League Playoffs Quarterfinals Recap (Best-of-7 Series) HC Bolzano/Bozen Südtirol Alperia (1) - Steinbach Black Wings Linz (7) 4-3 (2-0; 1-2; 1-2; 5-1; 7-1; 1-2 OT; 3-2 OT) EC Red Bull Salzburg (2) - Hydro Fehervar AV19 (8) 4-0 (3-2; 2-1; 2-1 OT; 6-1) HC Tiwag Innsbruck - Die Haie (3) - spusu Vienna Capitals (6) 2-4 (4-6; 4-0; 2-5; 2-1 OT; 1-4; 1-5) EC iDM Wärmepumpen Villacher SV (4) - EC Klagenfurter AC (5) 1-4 (0-4; 4-0; 4-3; 3-1; 3-2 OT)

() ICE Hockey League Playoffs 1st Round Recap (Best-of-3 Series) Steinbach Black Wings Linz (7) - Moser Medical Graz 99ers (10) 2-1 (2-4; 6-2; 2-0) Hydro Fehervar AV19 (8) - Migross Supermercati Asiago Hockey (9) 2-0 (4-0; 5-4)