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I don't know what they want? I mean, Lille has hosted the final Eight of a men's Basketball European Championship, not the regional champs of breakdancing...the venue is more than suitable for that kind of events (and in fact IHF has never said anything against the Handball tournament Finals being hosted there). so, FIBA...please, stop whining like a baby!

Men's Team Race (NOT an Olympic event) Final Results Robert ANTONIOLI & Matteo EYDALLIN 1:56:28.7 William BON MARDION & Xavier GACHET 1:57:20.6 Davide MAGNINI & Nadir MAGUET 2:00:21.0 Full Final Result HERE

Women's Team Race (NOT an Olympic event) Final Results Axelle GACHET-MOLLARET & Emily HARROP 2:12:48.9 Alba DE SILVESTRO & Giulia MURADA 2:15:53.4 Celia PESSEY-PERILLAT & Candice BONNEL 2:17:48.8 Full Final Result HERE

we didn't stand a chance also without that, don't worry... today's not the day for us (call Goggia and Curtoni for further explainations)...

yeah, nothing against Ghiotto's style of racing (actually, I prefer people like him if compared to those calculators going negative split)... yesterday he was great, but still, he faded a bit too much (like in the pre-Olympic medal over 10k era). I don' think he could have won it going before Roest, but he would have made the last 2 laps more interesting (like Roest vs Van Der Poel in Beijing). in any case, 2 exciting races (women's too). no comment on team sprint...

Men’s 5000m Final Results: Gold- Patrick Roest Silver- Davide Ghiotto Bronze- Bart Swings Full Results Here

in the end, it's a nice silver for Ghiotto... pity for the usual weak finish...it could have been the right time to write history... now the hype for the 10k is growing, I hope in a Ghiotto vs Roest head-to-head duel in the last pairing... p.s. hoping that the Canadians won't spoil the party after having basically a training ride tonight.

already gone! Roest sub 6.09 Ghiotto once again faded in the last 4 laps in a 5k race...

6.11 for Ghiotto not sure it's gonna be enough for Gold, but I hope at least it's going to earn him a medal (it would be his first at the world champs, if I remember well).

right now, Speedskating Worlds and Ambrì Piotta vs HC Lugano (Swiss Hockey League) earlier Today, Biathlon World Cup / Cross-Country Skiing Worlds / Snowboard & Freestyle Worlds later Tonight, Athletics, Indoor Europeans (catch-up)

and Eitrem is sick! he's not even starting tonight that's so sad for the show, even if it makes it easier for and quite slow results so far in the 5000m

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's 3000m Day 1 March 2nd 2023 Ivanie Blondin Valerie Maltais Isabelle Weidemann Any Chinese Athlete Martina Sablikova X Ayano Sato Nadezhda Morozova Joy Beune Antoinette Rijpma-De Jong Irene Schouten X Ragne Wiklund X Magdalena Czyszczon Any Other Athlete Men's 5000m Day 1 March 2nd 2023 Bart Swings Graeme Fish Davide Ghiotto Andrea Giovannini Ryosuke Tsuchiya Any Japanese Athlete Sander Eitrem X Sigurd Henriksen Any Other Norwgian Athlete Jorrit Bergsma X Marcel Bosker Patrick Roest X Any American Athlete Any Other Athlete Women's Team Sprint Day 1 March 2nd 2023 Canada China X Germany Japan Kazakhstan Netherlands Poland X United States X Any Other Nation Men's Team Sprint Day 1 March 2nd 2023 Canada X China Germany Kazakhstan Netherlands X Norway X Poland United States Any Other Nation Women's Team Pursuit Day 2 March 3rd 2023 Canada X China Germany Japan X Netherlands X Poland Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Men's Team Pursuit Day 2 March 3rd 2023 Canada Denmark Italy Japan Netherlands X Norway X South Korea United States X Any Other Nation Men's 500m Day 2 March 3rd 2023 Laurent Dubreuil Christopher Fiola David Bosa Takuya Morimoto Wataru Morishige X Yuma Murakami X Dal Dal N'tab Hein Otterspeer Merijin Scheperkamp Any Polish Athlete Jun-ho Kim Jordan Stolz X Any Other Athlete Women's 500m Day 2 March 3rd 2023 Vanessa Herzog X Any Canadian Athlete Any Chinese Athlete Kurumi Inagawa Konami Soga Miho Takagi Yekaterina Aydova Michelle de Jong Femke Kok Jutta Leerdam Min-sun Kim X Kimi Goetz Erin Jackson X Any Other Athlete Men's 1000m Day 3 March 4th 2023 Laurent Dubreuil Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu Zhongyan Ning Marten Liiv David Bosa Ryota Kojima Kazuya Yamada Masaya Yamada Thomas Krol Kjeld Nuis X Hein Otterspeer X Haavard Holmefjord Lorentzen Damian Zurek Jordan Stolz X Any Other Athlete Women's 1000m Day 3 March 4th 2023 Vanessa Herzog Ivanie Blondin Qishi Li Ellia Smeding Miho Takagi X Yekaterina Aydova Michelle de Jong Jutta Leerdam X Antoinette Rijpma-De Jong Karolina Bosiek Min-sun Kim Brittany Bowe Kimi Goetz X Erin Jackson Any Other Athlete Men's Mass Start Day 3 March 4th 2023 Gabriel Odor Bart Swings X Connor Howe Hayden Mayeur Any Danish Athlete Felix Maly Felix Rijhnen Andrea Giovannini X Peter Michael Jorrit Bergsma Harm Visser Jae Won Chung X Seung-hoon Lee Livio Wenger Ethan Cepuran Any Other Athlete Women's Mass Start Day 3 March 4th 2023 Sandrine Tas Ivanie Blondin X Valerie Maltais Binyu Yang Michelle Uhrig Laura Peveri Momoka Horkawa X Sumire Kikuchi Marijke Groenewoud X Irene Schouten Any Polish Athlete Ji-woo Park Any Swiss Athlete Mia Kilburg Any Other Athlete Men's 1500m Day 4 March 5th 2023 Bart Swings Connor Howe Tyson Langelaar Zhongyan Ning Taiyo Nonomura Kazuya Yamada Masaya Yamada Thomas Krol X Kjeld Nuis X Patrick Roest Allan Dahl Johansson Sander Eitrem Any Other Norwegian Athlete Jordan Stolz X Any Other Athlete Women's 1500m Day 4 March 5th 2023 Ivanie Blondin Beatrice Lamarche Mei Han Qishi Li Ayano Sato Miho Takagi X Yekaterina Aydova Nadezhda Morozova Marijke Groenewoud X Jutta Leerdam Antoinette Rijpma-De Jong X Ragne Wiklund Brittany Bowe Kimi Goetz Any Other Nation Men's 10000m Day 4 March 5th 2023 Bart Swings Ted-Jan Bloemen X Graeme Fish Davide Ghiotto X Seitaro Ichinohe Ryosuke Tsuchiya Jorrit Bergsma Patrick Roest X Sander Eitrem Sigurd Henriksen Casey Dawson Any Other Athlete Women's 5000m Day 4 March 5th 2023 Ivanie Blondin Isabelle Weidemann Martina Sablikova X Ayano Sato Miho Takagi Nadezhda Morozova Ragne Wiklund X Marijke Groenewoud Sanne in 't Hof X Irene Schouten Ragne Wiklund Magdalena Czyszczon Any Other Athlete [/hide]

Start Lists for Tomorrow are out... Women's 3000m https://live.isuresults.eu/events/2023_NED_0002/competition/1/start-list Men's 5000m https://live.isuresults.eu/events/2023_NED_0002/competition/2/start-list not a good draw for Ghiotto...Eitrem doesn't fit him well in the same pairing. and guess what? Roest goes after his 2 main rivals, knowing therefore their clockings... for what it matters, Tomorrow there will be also the Team Sprint races. here the Start Lists: Women's Team Sprint https://live.isuresults.eu/events/2023_NED_0002/competition/3/start-list Men's Team Sprint https://live.isuresults.eu/events/2023_NED_0002/competition/4/start-list

Youth Classes Results Under-18 Class women's Vertical Race Gold: Cidan Yuzhen Silver: Laia Selles Sanchez Bronze: Alba Fernandez Campos men's Vertical Race Gold: Erik Canovi Silver: Griffin Briley Bronze: Silvano Wolf Under-20 Class women's Vertical Race Gold: Thibe Deseyn Silver: Louise Trincaz Bronze: Noemi Junod men's Vertical Race Gold: Oriol Olm Rouppert Silver: Loïc Dubois Bronze: Julian Tritscher Full Results (All Classes) http://ismf-ski.org/intranet/uploaded/PDF_output/2023/WCH-VR-Youth-result.pdf

Men's Vertical Race (NOT an Olympic event) Final Results Remi BONNET 21:54.7 Maximilien DRION DU CHAPOIS 22:54.9 Gedeon POCHAT COTTILLOUX 23:05.2 Full Final Result HERE

Women's Vertical Race (NOT an Olympic event) Final Results Axelle GACHET-MOLLARET 26:22.9 Sarah DREIER 26:55.9 Alba DE SILVESTRO 27:22.2 Full Final Result HERE

no DQ in the end... with gold, silver and bronze in the men's SBX

and VAR is in action for a suspect contact between Noerl (2nd at the finish line) and Haemmerle (4th at the end). the only safe thing is that Dusek is the new world champion

once again, only a disappointing bronze for Omar Visintin (and thanks to Haemmerle's fall)

Eva Samkova, now Adamczykova is back! after her terrible injury from last year, just a few minutes ago she won (another) world title in Snowboardcross and she did it in the only way she's capable of: dominating from start to finish, leaving no space and no hope to anybody else. tbh, very anti-climatic final, with no race for gold, but also no race for silver ( Josie Baff easy second). the only real fight was the one for bronze, miles behind the first 2: and the last medal goes to Lindsay Jacobellis, still able to edge Petit Lenoir out on the final straight. no comment on the Italians...one wasn't capable of staying in the track, one couldn't even stay on her feet, Brutto after maternity leave, is the bad copy of herself, not taking any initiative to overtake anybody...starts last, ends up last (unless someone ahead of her crashes for some reason)... our SBX team's regression is shameful, especially if we think of the home Olympics coming shortly...

Wrestling, women's Flyweights...my pick is Yui Susaki, even if I used to be a great fan of Irini Merleni. Wrestling, women's Heavyweights...going with Wang Xu, whose career has been more consistent than the following Olympic Champions, who always found the way to be disappointing after winning the big one. Sailing, men's Windsurfing...this pick can only be Dorian Van Rijsselberghe. Sailing, women's Windsurfing...multiple world champion, multiple Olympic medallist (and it's a scandal she won only 1 gold), champion even in the good old PBA... I can feel it in the air...this pick can't be anything but Alessandra Sensini. Weightlifting, women's Flyweight...between doping cheaters and people getting medals after other doping cheaters have been disqualified later, I should pass this poll, but since we're doin'it for fun, I'm going to pick Hou Zhihui.

2023 Fencing European Junior (Under 20) Championships Final Medal Table 3 / 2 / 1 3 / 1 / 2 2 / 1 / 4 2 / 1 / 1 1 / 2 / 2 1 / 0 / 2 0 / 2 / 0 0 / 1 / 2 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 0 / 2 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1

2023 Fencing European Junior (Under 20) Championships women's Team Epee Gold: Poland Silver: France Bronze: Israel Semifinals France b. Israel 45-43 Poland b. Great Britain 43-39 Bronze Medal Match Israel b. Great Britain 45-41 Gold Medal Match Poland b. France 40-32 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2023/355?tab=results men's Team Foil Gold: France Silver: Poland Bronze: Hungary Semifinals Poland b. Italy 45-44 France b. Hungary 45-30 Bronze Medal Match Hungary b. Italy 45-41 Gold Medal Match France b. Poland 45-36 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2023/358?tab=results men's Team Sabre Gold: Romania Silver: Hungary Bronze: Spain Semifinals Romania b. Italy 45-42 Hungary b. Spain 45-39 Bronze Medal Match Spain b. Italy 45-39 Gold Medal Match Romania b. Hungary 45-31 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/116F61B0322742DFBFEF15ADAC08283D

first (and most important in Olympic perspective) race of the championships to be forgotten as soon as possible for the Italian team... no medals, not even a single finalist in the men's event...a (predictable, announced...but still) disaster for the ages

Youth Classes Results Under-18 Class women's Sprint Gold: Laia Selles Sanchez Silver: Eva Matejovicova Bronze: Melissa Bertolina men's Sprint Gold: Erik Canovi Silver: Mathieu Pharisa Bronze: Griffin Briley Under-20 Class women's Sprint Gold: Lamu Yuzhen Silver: Maria Ordoñez Cobacho Bronze: Thibe Deseyn men's Sprint Gold: Finn Hösch Silver: Jon Kistler Bronze: Jeremy Anselmet Full Results (All Classes) http://ismf-ski.org/intranet/uploaded/PDF_output/2023/WCH-SPRINT-Youth-result.pdf