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still, I haven't heard yet of all the people involved in the NOP being sentenced to jail (I mean, from Salazar to the Nike's CEO to all the athletes that trained in Eugene and surroundings)...

let's start the day with some good news... both 2022 World Champions in today's weight classes (women's -57kg: Rafaela Silva; men's -73kg: Tsogbaatar Tsend-Ochir) are already out of the tournament sure that it won't hit anybody's prediction contest...

Day #2 women's -52kg Gold: Uta Abe Silver: Diyora Keldiyorova Bronze: Amandine Buchard & Odette Giuffrida men's -66kg Gold: Hifumi Abe Silver: Joshiro Maruyama Bronze: Walide Khyar & Baskhuu Yondonperenlei

she's been great, but also very lucky in her bout vs Krasniqi. still, I think she's just missed a chance for a silver that most likely she won't have anymore... on the other side, mr. Nutsubidze just killed the men's final with a stupid (if not even biased) decision to give Maruyama a 3rd shido in the golden score when both players were starting to increase the pace and actually trying to do something after they did nothing in regulation. as a neutral fan, I'm really, really disappointed. as someone who knows quite a bit about judo, I'm disgusted.

by the way, Miyamoto improved 7 kg from last year's World Champs...and Wichuma came up up from the -67kg class and added 20kg to his total in a few months... tell me if are trustable or not (given also the results from the past couple of days)?

ehm...I fear you just inverted Snatch and C&J partial results...

what a wasted chance for Giuffrida! she lost by triple shido against Pupp in the quarterfinals...she could have easily gone through to the final and win her 1st world medal after many European's and a double Olympic bronze. but she just couldn't manage the distructive "do nothing and let the opponent kill by herself with multiple shido" tactic by the Hungarian, a true specialist in this non-judo game and the right punishment for such a wasted opportunity, it's a BMM vs the worst opponent she could find with her style of play, the Olympic Champion in the -48kg class from Kosovo, Distria Krasniqi, which means that she will come home with nothing more than a miserable (given the chance) 5th place. in the men's section, no major upset Today... so, we have the most anticipated match of the entire World Championship, a new chapter of the Abe vs Maruyama neverending story. definitely, a not-to-be-missed matchup. and take a good seat...it coud go long, very long (or maybe not, who knows? I just can't wait for it ).

Day #2, Medal Matches women's -52kg Gold Medal match: Uta Abe vs Diyora Keldiyorova Bronze Medal match #1: Reka Pupp vs Amandine Buchard Bronze Medal match #2: Distria Krasniqi vs Odette Giuffrida men's -66kg Gold Medal match: Hifumi Abe vs Joshiro Maruyama Bronze Medal match #1: Vazha Margvelashvili vs Baskhuu Yondonperenlei Bronze Medal match #2: Walide Khyar vs An Baul

before Tokyo they did publish the team and individual Olympic Ranking in a separate mini-site within the main fie.org, but they started only halfway through the OQP. hopefully this time they will start earlier, but so far I can't see anything dedicated to the OQ pathway. in any case, there was a facebook page updating all the rankings weekly and we also used to make our calculations by ourselves. we won't miss a thing, don't worry

by the way, in the early rounds of the women's -52kg, we've seen a rare double disqualification. Kelly Deguchi and Ben Liu were both DQed after more than 8 mins of Golden Score which left Diyora Keldiyorova without opponent in the round of 16, gifting her of a direct quali through the top 8.

last time it was on the Olympic Channel (free)

Men's Individual Epee ( Cali) Gold: Jiri Beran Silver: Davide Di Veroli Bronze: Yulen Pereira & Federico Vismara Semifinals Di Veroli b. Vismara 15-12 Beran b. Pereira 15-5 Final Beran b. Di Veroli 9-8 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/1475447991304C62B5CA513981B4031B

Women's Individual Epee ( Cali) Gold: Vivian Kong Man Wai Silver: Marie-Florence Candassamy Bronze: Nathalie Moellhausen & Rossella Fiamingo Semifinals Candassamy b. Moellhausen 15-13 Kong b. Fiamingo 9-8 Final Kong b. Candassamy 15-8 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/0D8BFAFF01F648DDBD3EAA14250FC543

Men's Team Foil ( Acapulco) Gold: United States Silver: Italy Bronze: France Semifinals Italy b. France 45-40 USA b. Japan 45-28 Bronze Medal Match France b. Japan 45-43 Gold Medal Match USA b. Italy 45-41 Full Ranking & Results https://engarde-service.com/competition/federacionmexicanadeesgrima/wc_fm_acapulco_2023/wc_fmt_acapulco_2023/clasfinal.htm

no, I'm not going to pay anything... however, "regular" tournament prelims are still free on the IJF's website, finals are always on tv or on the Discovery+ app... therefore they won't get a cent from me.

https://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/news/group-named-for-mens-worlds-2022-23-nmt https://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/team-canada/men/national/2022-23/world-championship/stats/team-rosters?teamid=268

no, now the streams are on JudoTV (directly connected with their website). you have to be registered to the ijf website to have access to their live coverage (ondemand service is behind the paywall, you have to buy a not so cheap subscription). for you (in the Netherlands, I mean) it should work the Eurosport player/Discovery+ app, where you have one of the 2 mats for the preliminaries (live and ondemand, no commentary) and the final block (with Spanish, German and maybe French commentary, but I haven't checked by myself, as in Italy we have the coverage of the final block on our tv -sky Italia).

don't worry, it's only the 1st round... I think in the end it will be between and maybe for the European quota (as and will be surely in the top 4 overall).

naaa...it's only our obsessed friend with the orange hair...

men's Team Foil in Acapulco Quarterfinals vs vs vs vs

the Olympic Ranking is exactly the same of this event, as it was the 1st one of the OQP.

2nd bronze medal in a row for our young talent Assunta Scutto if only she was able to manage the Japanese fighters... and wow! just wow! for the men's competition... the craziest and most unpredictable end for an unpredictable day (no comment on my results in the prediction contest )

Day #1 women's -48kg Gold: Natsumi Tsunoda Silver: Shirine Boukli Bronze: Wakana Koga & Assunta Scutto men's -60kg Gold: Francisco Garrigos Silver: Dilshodbek Baratov Bronze: Giorgi Sardalashvili & Lee Harim

Women's Team Foil ( Plovdiv) Gold: France Silver: Italy Bronze: United States Semifinals Italy b. Canada 45-40 France b. USA 45-38 Bronze Medal Match USA b. Canada 45-36 Gold Medal Match France b. Italy 45-41 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2023/201?tab=results

not many upsets among the girls (maybe just Boukli beating Koga), but a whole set of crazy results among the men...