phelps

40+ days ago...

il mio consiglio è di provare ad abbonarti a Discovery+ direttamente sotto vpn italiana (o comunque di un Paese europeo in cui possiede i diitti integrali), magari usando una carta di credito pure italiana (sempre che ti sia possibile...al limite puoi tentare con una virtuale emessa da una di quelle banche online che ora vanno per la maggiore) per la scelta della vpn, ti direi che una tra nord vpn o express vpn dovrebbero funzionare (mi parlano bene anche di windscribe, versione premium a pagamento), ma non ho alcuna certezza (vivendo a Milano, per D+ non ho bisogno di smanettare...almeno per quello!) sulla questione delle qualificazioni olimpiche, credo che neanche un miliardo di firme su una petizione smuoverebbe il CIO dalle sue pratiche "oscure" (temo volutamente "oscure") se non riescono a rispettare nemmeno la natura stessa di uno sport, figuriamoci quanto inclini siano ad avere criteri di qualificazione (o per qualunque altra cosa) equi e trasparenti

toh! ma guarda! non vorrei sembrare noioso e arrogante...ma che avevo scritto già tempo fa? troverà una scusa... ed eccoci alla farsa, episodio #2 (per il terzo, vediamo se tra 4 anni sarà ancora un tennista top)

yeah, very important to avoid Italian commentators in Football and a few other sports

basically all the Exhibition center's halls look the same

some channels will start already tomorrow (that one dedicated to Football, of course), at least here in Italy (I'm talking of the various platforms outside Discovery+/Max, however...but I think it will be the same on the main app and all around Europe)

yes p.s. in the usual global races, the scores to be scratched are 4: 2 in the first 10 races (qualifiers) and 2 in the last 10 races (final races) I don't know what they're going to do at the Olympics, given that because of the limited number of athletes make all the races "finals", there's no need to split them in gold, silver, bronze fleet after 10

yes, to all questions (there are 2 scores to be discarded in the 20 preliminary races)

if the starters are fine, injuries won't play any role and let's be clear...for our girls, it's now or never...this generation has dominated the youth tournaments and now must put the icing on the cake, it's time for our Volleyball to win the first Olympic Gold medal and the guys, who are way more in trouble than the girls after Anzani's loss, also have to fill that damn void I'm confident that at least 1 gold will come...and the magic double is also not impossible Tonight I'm on the positive side Tomorrow is another day

actually, Crouser has more serious problems...he's dealing with blood clots, his training regime is not the same as it was 2+ years ago and you can clearly see it when you look at him, his belly has gone too far and his speed in the circle has gone down too I'll be really surprised if he hits the 23m mark and wins the gold medal

oh, no...if I come to SVK after retirement, I get my fee at 100%, no taxes to be paid (it's the last European Nation to allow such favourable regime after Portugal decided to scew European -especially the many Italians- retired people going there to enjoy the last stint of their life with no State robbery and good life tenure) come to Italy...and you'll discover the next level in terms of absurd taxation

18 gold medals? where do I have to put my signature?

perchè da un lato è un insieme di prove che testano tutte le caratteristiche (dalla velocità pura a quella resistente all'endurance alle situazioni tatticamente incasinate), dall'altro perchè la miglior candidata a disputarlo è lei (imho Paternoster non ha il fondo nè le "palle" per giocarsi tutto nella corsa a punti finale...piuttosto avrei spinto la Barbieri a prepararlo come si deve -ho ancora negli occhi la magia che fece agli europei di Monaco)... io piuttosto avrei voluto che si togliesse dalla testa la corsa su strada tanto lì si sa già che Longo Borghini è punta unica e la corsa si deciderà tra lei, Kopecky, le Olandesi (non Wiebes) e forse Niewiadoma...sarei sorpresissimo se non fossero queste e solo queste a giocarsela alla fine

Official Seedings for the Olympic Singles Tournaments Men 1. Jannik Sinner 2. Novak Djokovic 3. Carlos Alcaraz 4. Alexander Zverev 5. Daniil Medvedev 6. Alex de Miñaur 7. Hubert Hurkacz 8. Casper Ruud 9. Taylor Fritz 10. Stefanos Tsitsipas 11. Tommy Paul 12. Ugo Humbert 13. Holger Rune 14. Lorenzo Musetti 15. Sebastián Báez 16. Felix Auger-Aliassime Women 1. Iga Swiatek 2. Coco Gauff 3. Elena Rybakina 4. Jasmine Paolini 5. Jessica Pegula 6. Qinwen Zheng 7. Maria Sakkari 8. Danielle Collins 9. Barbora Krejcikova 10. Jelena Ostapenko 11. Emma Navarro 12. Marketa Vondrousova 13. Marta Kostyuk 14. Donna Vekic 15. Beatriz Haddad-Maia 16. Diane Shnaider

Yukiko Ueno earns Women's Softball World Cup MVP honours the next women's Softball World Cup will be held from 2025 (Continental Qualifiers) through 2027 (the Finals), locations still TBD

2024 women's Softball World Cup Final Standings Gold: Japan Silver: United States Bronze: Canada 4. Netherlands 5. China 6. Puertorico 7. Australia 8. Italy

Japan outscore USA in final to become Women's Softball World Champions Day #6 (Saturday, July 20th) Gold Medal Match b. 6-1

Callum Pilgrim walks off dramatic game with grand slam, Canada beats Netherlands to claim Women's Softball World Cup bronze medal Day #6 (Saturday, July 20th) Bronze Medal Match b. 11-7 (after 11 innings)

do you really believe that? I mean, their no.4 (Norwood) yesterday went 44.1 (and they also have someone named Rai Benjamin available) unless the US guys do something stupid in the changeovers, I don't think they're under threat by any mean

3 more gold medals included the most unexpected one in the boys' Javelin Throw, maybe the discipline which we have the worst tradition in

well, the whole job wasn't done in a day...most of those predictions were done quite a few days (if not weeks) ago, when the final entries were not established also Gracenote and all the other sites that do this job have this kind of mistakes in particular, OA's Wrestling and Boxing predictions are just beyond imagination, a joke...

wow! what a meet! I guess the track was shorter than 400m or either we're going to watch the most drug addicted Olympics ever (Seoul 1988 where are you? ) or maybe both

I saw the games of the Italian team until the 1/8 finals... then I stopped not to end up by a psychiatrist

good day at the office for only slightly underachieving performance, the bronze medal by Inzoli in the boys' Long Jump (he has a PB way better than the gold medal winning effort ) but he's only 15 (turning 16 next month), he'll have more chances...