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naaa, it's all in the hands of the judges...much more than the longer individual distances for instance, Today the judges were quite strict and many teams ended up being penalized but with the judges in the "Olympic format" (less strict, so not to have many DQ not to make damage to the image of WA), who normally allow race walkers to actually run the distance, will kill the competition

NOCs

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yeah, I messed it up a little but you know, English is not my first language, especially on a Sunday morning

this series is gonna end up early, I fear

it's also the "Marchand effect" when you know that you start 7/8 secs behind the eventual winner, you immediately try another option most races of this kind tend to decrease the average 1st tier participants (and would have more 2nd/3rd tier swimmers, if only the OQT wasn't that insane)

1 pair per Nation + the 5 best "2nd pair" from 5 Nations in total, max 22 pairs

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Chinese Nationals, Day #2 men's 400m IM 1.Huang Zhiwei, 4.16.33 2.Chen Nuo, 4.21.86 women's 100m Fly 1.Zhang Yufei, 56.36 2.Yu Yiting, 56.82 men's 100m Breastroke 1.Qin Haiyang, 58.24 2.Sun Jiajun, 58.73 3.Dong Zhihao, 59.67 4.Yan Zibei, 59.70 men's 200m Freestyle Semis Pan Zhanle, 1.45.70 Ji Xinjie, 1.46.57 Zhang Zhanshuo, 1.46.78 Niu Guangsheng, 1.46.95 women's 200m Freestyle Semis Liu Yaxin, 1.56.81 Li Bingjie, 1.57.10 followed by the remaining finalists, all at 1.57.X women's 100m Breaststroke Semis Tang Qianting, 1.04.68 Yang Chang, 1.06.23 men's 100m Backstroke Semis Xu Jiayu, 52.70

Karate 1 Premier League ( Cairo) Finals Lineup (Part II) Men's Individual Kata Gold Medal Match: Kakeru Nishiyama vs Alì Sofuoglu Bronze Medal Match #1: Ryuji Moto vs Ariel Torres Gutierrez Bronze Medal Match #2: Sakichi Abe vs Aoi Funada Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold Medal Match: Valentina Toro Meneses vs Maria Stoli Bronze Medal Match #1: Veronica Brunori vs Kseniya Dronchanka Bronze Medal Match #2: Viola Lallo vs Mia Bitsch Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold Medal Match: Eda Eltemur vs Tsubasa Kama Bronze Medal Match #1: Georgia Zefanya Ceyco vs Maria Isabel Nieto Mejias Bronze Medal Match #2: Silvia Semeraro vs Sudenur Aksoy Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold Medal Match: Maria Torres Garcia vs Johanna Kneer Bronze Medal Match #1: Clio Ferracuti vs Titta Keinanen Bronze Medal Match #2: Niamh Junner vs Sofya Berultseva Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold Medal Match: Said Oubaya vs Abdel Rahman Almasatfa Bronze Medal Match #1: Vinicius Figueira vs Didar Amirali Bronze Medal Match #2: Georgios Baliotis vs Afeef Ghaith Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold Medal Match: Sanad Sufyani vs Taha Tarek Mahmoud Bronze Medal Match #1: Rob Timmermans vs :Osman Osmanli Bronze Medal Match #2: hazem Mohamed vs Hocine Daikhi

Final Medal Table 4 / 2 / 6 2 / 5 / 6 2 / 1 / 3 2 / 0 / 1 1 / 1 / 3 1 / 1 / 2 1 / 1 / 2 1 / 1 / 0 1 / 0 / 1 1 / 0 / 1 1 / 0 / 1 1 / 0 / 0 () 0 / 3 / 0 0 / 2 / 0 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1

Men's Cadet & Junior Team Sabre Gold: United States Silver: Romania Bronze: Italy Semifinals USA b. Egypt 45-37 Romania b. Italy 45-39 Bronze Medal match Italy b. Egypt 45-35 Gold Medal match USA b. Romania 45-28 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2024/234?tab=results

Women's Cadet & Junior Team Sabre Gold: France Silver: Italy Bronze: Hungary Semifinals Italy b. Uzbekistan 45-43 France b. Hungary 45-44 Bronze Medal match Hungary b. Uzbekistan 45-44 Gold Medal match France b. Italy 45-36 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2024/233

women's Individual Foil ( Tbilisi) Gold: Alice Volpi Silver: Arianna Errigo Bronze: Anna Cristino & Martina Favaretto Semifinals Volpi b. Cristino 15-11 Errigo b. Favaretto 15-8 Final Volpi b. Errigo 15-9 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2024/127?tab=results

SHL Playoffs Finals (Best-of-7 Series) Game #1: Saturday, April 20th, 3.15 p.m. CET, Skellefteå vs Rögle 1-0 (0-0, 0-0, 1-0) Skellefteå lead Series 1-0 Game #2 is scheduled for Monday, April 22nd, 7.30 p.m. CET, Skellefteå vs Rögle

Metal Ligaen Playoffs Finals (Best-of-7 Series) Game #4, Friday, April 19th, 7.30 p.m. CET, Esbjerg Energy vs SønderjyskE 1-2 OT (1-1, 0-0, 0-0, 0-1) SønderjyskE lead Series 3-1 Game #5 is scheduled for Sunday, April 21st, 3 p.m. CET, SønderjyskE vs Esbjerg Energy

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/world/asia/chinese-swimmers-doping-olympics.html I always told you...WADA is totally biased (as it is CAS) some Nations (China and English speaking Countries leading the pack, sorry to say) can do whatever they want, but they will always come away untouched

() ICE Hockey League Playoffs Finals (Best-of-7 Series) Game #7, Friday, April 19th, 7.30 p.m. CET, KAC Klagenfurt vs Red Bull Salzburg 2-6 (0-2, 0-2, 2-2) Red Bull Salzburg win Series 4-3 and are ICE Hockey League Champions 2023/2024

DEL Playoffs Finals (Best-of-7 Series) Game #2, Friday, April 19th, 7.30 p.m. CET, Eisbären Berlin vs Pinguins Bremerhaven 5-3 (1-0, 3-3, 1-0) Series is tied 1-1 Game #3 is scheduled for Sunday, April 21st, 3 p.m. CET, Pinguins Bremerhaven vs Eisbären Berlin

once again, when a global event is held in it's almost impossible to have a comprehensive and up-to-date coverage this is all what we know from Day #1 of the new stage of the K1PL in Cairo Karate 1 Premier League ( Cairo) Finals Lineup Women's Individual Kata Gold Medal Match: Maho Ono vs Kiri Mishima Bronze Medal Match #1: Aya Hesham vs Saeko Azuma Bronze Medal Match #2: Grace Lau Mo Sheung vs Natsuki Shimizu Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold Medal Match: Moldir Zhangbyrbay vs Ganna Aly Bronze Medal Match #1: Cylia Ouikene vs Ema Sgardelli Bronze Medal Match #2: Sara Tsutsumi vs Sofia Cardenas Balcazar Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold Medal Match: Reem Khamis vs Anna-Johanna Nilsson Bronze Medal Match #1: Yuki Kujuro vs Sarara Shimada Bronze Medal Match #2: Alexandra Grande vs Nina Radjenovic Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold Medal Match: Hiromu Hashimoto vs Abdallah Hammad Bronze Medal Match #1: Kaisar Alpysbay vs Zyad Aly Bronze Medal Match #2: Christos-Stefanos Xenos vs Abdullah Shaaban Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold Medal Match: Omer Faruk Yurur vs Abdalla Abdelaziz Bronze Medal Match #1: Yusei Sakiyama vs Youssef Farag Bronze Medal Match #2: Hamza Turulja vs Enzo Berthon Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold Medal Match: Youssef Badawy vs Mohammad Aljafari Bronze Medal Match #1: Matteo Fiore vs Valerii Sonnykh Bronze Medal Match #2: Falleh Midoune vs Ivan Kvesic updated...

Uzbekistan!

Men's Cadet Individual Sabre Gold: Sardor Abdukarimbekov Silver: Alpamis Urakboev Bronze: Motoki Kawahara & Kim Do Yeon Semifinals Abdukarimbekov b. Kim 15-2 Urakboev b. Kawahara 15-14 Final Abdukarimbekov b. Urakboev 15-14 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2024/240?tab=results

Women's Cadet Individual Sabre Gold: Dorottya Csonka Silver: Francesca Romana Lentini Bronze: Vittoria Mocci & Nargiza Jaksybaeva Semifinals Csonka b. Mocci 15-10 Lentini b. Jaksybaeva 15-13 Final Csonka b. Lentini 15-10 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2024/239?tab=results p.s. Pan Qimiao, Yesterday's sensational winner among the Juniors at only 14 years of age, Today lost in the Quarterfinals against eventual Bronze medallist Vittoria Mocci by a score of 15-12

Elite Hockey League Playoffs Finals (Best-of-7 Series) Game #3, April 19th, 7 p.m. CET, Storhamar vs Vålerenga 4-1 (2-0, 1-0, 1-1) Storhamar lead Series 2-1 Game #4 is scheduled for Sunday, April 21st, 7.15 p.m. CET, Vålerenga vs Storhamar