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p.s. speriamo che almeno Sollazzo domani vinca l'oro nella carabina (anche se la carta lui ce l'ha già).

Lunev è un grande veterano, non lo sminuirei...mi sorprende piuttosto il suo miglioramento nella pistola ad aria compressa, essendo sempre stato lui uno specialista di armi da fuoco (pistola automatica e, in misura minore, pistola libera). come detto, Monna ha peccato nei 3 tiri completamente sballati, errori che a questi livelli non si possono permettere neanche i cinesi.

expected rebound effect for vs the Host Nation of pool A as I wrote quite some time ago, we're too weak on the mound...we used the only 2/3 good pitchers we have yesterday vs and Today we paid the prize. the only decent performance came from Stephen Woods (should I write Giuffrè -his real Family Name, Woods is just the Family Name of the man who adopted his father, a true Sicilian guy- when he went to live in the States), who still gave away a 2-run HR on one of his last few pitches. Castellani, Biagini and Marciano just unwatchable, especially Biagini should be named a traitor tbh, this team is nothing special...I consider today's loss a truly wasted chance to build a great tournament for us. on the other side, great show in Tokyo, with starting strong against Darvish, but after some sleepy early innings, showed why they are the favourites to win it all. now are basically already on the plane coming back to Seoul, unless decide to commit suicide vs weaker teams like and .

Italy beat Hungary 9-8 in Today's top match of group A

cambia nulla...non è all'altezza di una gara olimpica. pesa molto di più la mancata carta nella gara maschile, con Monna e Maldini che l'hanno tirata nel cesso (specie Monna, suicidatosi con 3 8.x nell'arco del ranking match, che l'hanno tenuto fuori dalla finale). intanto, a Doha in CdM continua la crisi tecnica e morale del Trap maschile, con i nostri in difficoltà (eufemismo) già dopo i primi 75 piattelli. certo che se si continua a puntare su Pellielo (con tutto il rispetto per i suoi millemila trionfi del passato, sottolineo passato)...

however, let's see how many Countries allow them to actually enter their territory to participate to the competitions... hope Italy (where the world champs will be held in July) is not one of those.

just another compromised sports federation. just another sport with no more respectability and credibility. hope Italy would eventually boycott this decision and won't allow any Russian (nor Belarussian) member (athletes and officials) to enter our Country when it comes July (remember, the World Champs are scheduled to be held in Milan, ITA).

Men's 10m Air Pistol Gold: Damir Mikec Silver: Ruslan Lunev Bronze: Paolo Monna Olympic Quota (to the NOC, NOT to the Shooters): Damir Mikec and Ruslan Lunev Final Ranking and Results https://results.sius.com/ShootEvent.aspx?Championship=584bd709-6c3f-4dbd-865c-6cb8704f6c90&ShootEvent=APM

Women's 10m Air Pistol Gold: Anna Korakaki Silver: Camille Jedrzejewski Bronze: Elmira Karapetyan Olympic Quota (to the NOC, NOT to the Shooters): Camille Jedrzejewski and Christina Moschi Final Ranking and Results https://results.sius.com/ShootEvent.aspx?Championship=584bd709-6c3f-4dbd-865c-6cb8704f6c90&ShootEvent=APW

Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle Gold: Norway 1 (Jeanette Hegg Duestad & Jon-Hermann Hegg) Silver: Israel 1 (Olga Tashtchiev & Sergy Richter) Bronze: Italy 1 (Sofia Ceccarello & Danilo Dennis Sollazzo) & Norway 2 (Jenny Stene & Henrik Larsen) Final Ranking and Results https://results.sius.com/ShootEvent.aspx?Championship=584bd709-6c3f-4dbd-865c-6cb8704f6c90&ShootEvent=ARMT

the most disappointing bronze medal ever for Monna. but man! you just can't afford to start a final with an 8.x and shoot another couple of those sh*tty 8.x through the competition...

Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle Gold Medal match: Norway 1 (Jeanette Hegg Duestad & Jon-Hermann Hegg) vs Israel 1 (Olga Tashtchiev & Sergy Richter) Bronze Medal match #1: Germany 1 (Anna Janssen & David Koenders) vs Italy 1 (Sofia Ceccarello & Danilo Dennis Sollazzo) Bronze Medal match #2: Norway 2 (Jenny Stene & Henrik Larsen) vs Sweden 2 (Hannah Göransson & Erik Ola Björn Sahlin)

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once again, taking home some great results in the junior events... will they be able to translate them into good results at the senior level sooner or later?

Men's Team Junior 10m Air Rifle Gold: Poland Silver: Norway Bronze: Serbia & Sweden Final Ranking and Results https://results.sius.com/ShootEvent.aspx?Championship=584bd709-6c3f-4dbd-865c-6cb8704f6c90&ShootEvent=ARTEAMMJ

Women's Team Junior 10m Air Rifle Gold: Poland Silver: Norway Bronze: Serbia & Hungary Final Ranking and Results https://results.sius.com/ShootEvent.aspx?Championship=584bd709-6c3f-4dbd-865c-6cb8704f6c90&ShootEvent=ARTEAMWJ

Men's Team Junior 10m Air Pistol Gold: Italy Silver: Norway Bronze: Bulgaria & Poland Final Ranking and Results https://results.sius.com/ShootEvent.aspx?Championship=584bd709-6c3f-4dbd-865c-6cb8704f6c90&ShootEvent=APTEAMMJ

Women's Team Junior 10m Air Pistol Gold: Czechia Silver: Italy Bronze: Georgia & Germany Final Ranking and Results https://results.sius.com/ShootEvent.aspx?Championship=584bd709-6c3f-4dbd-865c-6cb8704f6c90&ShootEvent=APTEAMWJ

dreams sometimes come true! wonderful start of the tournament for the Blue Team, with the great Mike Piazza managing to perfection and taking some brave and unexpected decisions about our pitching staff that helped to keep the Cuban hitters at bay for almost the entire match. on offense, still too many aggressive swings early in the count...we shouldn't have left Elias to pitch that long, wasting so many at bats. on the other hand, the great Iginio Velez is still turning over in his grave on how the Caribbean team played and also on how the game was managed by their coaches. they blew their pitchers out when they were still trailing/the game was still tied and called on the mound the same Garcia that yesterday blew their game vs in the 10th. don't they really have anybody better than him? and if the answer is "yes", why exposing him to the pressure of late innings once again instead of lettimng him pitch earlier, when any mistake wouldn't be so decisive on paper? not to mention the absolute disaster of their supposed MLB superstars (Moncada and Robert) with their bats in both yesterday and today's matches. moreover, why leaving a man like Gracial on the bench, using him just as a pich hitter when the game was already dead and gone? meh... however, the hype is getting higher and higher...can't wait for tomorrow's clash vs the Home team

and are clearly the best in this field... the other teams are basically all on the same level, it will be up to any given day's shape (and luck). women's basketball Europeans always end up with a few surprises...teams you wouldn't expect on the podium and teams you would expect doing well having epic fails. for it's about time to translate their amazing results in the youth classes in the past 5/6 years into something remarkable also at the senior level. not making at least the top 5 would be a huge disappointment (which could easily happen, our basketball girls are quite famous for flopping when it really matters).

so far, no news about Chamizo in the Italian media, which could be good news... I'm pretty sure that if he gets DQ for that, the news would quickly hit the headlines of the sport websites and not only those ones. let's wait and see...a bomb like that won't take a lot of time to explode. personally, if it happens, it would be the most painful sport disappointment since the Schwazer sh*t just before London 2012. most likely, it would be another (the last?) push to stop following any Olympic sport...

when it comes the WBC, the Dutch doing the Dutch... expect the unexpected from them...

yes, I have nothing against Baseball games going long when they're exciting, especially in the late innings. but it wasn't the case of yesterday's match...too many stints of boring non-action to appreciate it. vs game earlier this morning was just on another scale (and I don't mind that going on for almost 4 hours). p.s. the main feeling was the difference going from MLB Spring training (with pitch clock) to WBC (with the old rules)...it was really a tough hit to take. I didn't imagine I could get used to the "new flow of the game" so fast. in any case, I still think that the MLB rules need to be adjusted, giving the hitters a few more seconds to get ready in the batters' box and not using the pitch clock at all in the 9th (and extra) innings when a match is close enough (let's say 4-run difference or less).

horrific performance by Cuba and Chinese Taipei. Cuban hitters looked still completely asleep (Noon start doesn't help for sure). the Host team was just awful in every aspect of the game...pitchers that can't throw a strike in a bath tub and hitters swinging at mosquitos... very curious to watch the Italian team's debut Tomorrow...if the Cuban hitters don't wake up all of a sudden, I think we could even pull out a miracle against them, like the Oranjes did Today. p.s. pitch after pitch, I started to re-evaluate my opinion on the pitch clock...please, bring it to the International Baseball, too

Men's Junior 10m Air Pistol Gold: Matteo Mastrovalerio Silver: Luca Joldea Bronze: Gabriele Aldo Villani Final Ranking and Results https://results.sius.com/ShootEvent.aspx?Championship=584bd709-6c3f-4dbd-865c-6cb8704f6c90&ShootEvent=APMJ