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the dream is still alive! game #30, beat by 7 wickets set a target of 241/all out in 49.3 overs, which is not particularly impressive and in fact, could easily complete the chase with a score of 242/3 in just 45.2 overs game details https://www.cricketworldcup.com/match/102770 gameday #6 is now complete, this is the standing https://www.cricketworldcup.com/standings Tomorrow, gameday #7 begins with game #31, when faces at 9.30 a.m. CET in Kolkata

have quite a good number of medal chances, even for gold - Rowing (M2-, LM2X and maybe more) - Shooting (men's AP Jason Solari, women's Rifle events Nina Christen, Audrey Gogniat, men's 3-position Rifle Christoph Duerr...just to name those already qualified, but they will add more for sure) - Beach Volley (women) - Sailing (women's ILCA 6 Maud Jayet, men's 49er Schneiter/Planta) - Swimming (men's 200m back Roman Mityukov, men's 100m fly Noè Ponti, men's 200m IM Jeremy Desplanches) - Road Cycling (both ITT, Marlene Reusser and Stefan Kung, maybe even the women's Road Race) - MTB (both races, basically any rider they choose) - Freestyle BMX (women, Nikita Ducarroz) - BMX racing (women, Zoè Classens...and maybe more; men, the full team) - Judo (men's -73kg, Nils Stump...and maybe more) - Slalom Canoeing (Martin Dougoud has some chances also in the M K1) - Athletics (men's LJ, Simon Ehammer) - Fencing (men and women's Epee) - Equestrian Sports (Show Jumping, team and individual competitions) and I'm sure I forgot something

bare minimum target: 41 medals realistic target: 40-45 medals best case scenario: no idea, but well in excess of 50 medals (I think we're way beyond the 100 theoretical chances, some of them really remote and unlikey to happen, of course) personal thought: nothing of what written above will happen, like every other aspect in this Country, also our sport is going to die and therefore we're gonna have the worst Games ever

I think have a lot more chances than that...Sailing (2, maybe even 3 good chances), Swimming (Sjostrom mainly), Shooting (men's AR and Skeet), Judo (Marcus Nyman), the men's Handball team and maybe more

probably they have to cope with the fact that we have the World Champs in February and then their Summer season is over (and it will be time to focus on the Olympics rather having trials too close to the big event) or maybe it's just like here in Italy, as we're having the first official "trials" (which are not true trials, as usual, but events where to achieve the OQT) at the end of November and then a second "trials week" in April they might have a second wave of trials, too (later in 2024)

this week for me it's mainly about the grand finale of the MLB World Series and NPB Japan Series (Baseball) then, the Cricket World Cup continues and in the weekend the Judo European Champs are on stage I don't know if I have time for anything else

team quite disappointing this weekend...they were better 7 days ago

2023 Japan Series Game #1, Hanshin Tigers b. Orix Buffaloes 8-0 in Osaka game details https://npb.jp/bis/eng/2023/games/s2023102801856.html Game #2, Orix Buffaloes b. Hanshin Tigers 8-0 in Osaka game details https://npb.jp/bis/eng/2023/games/s2023102901857.html Series tied 1-1, now the teams switch to Nishinomiya for games 3, 4 and 5 starting next Tuesday, October 31st (first pitch @ 6 p.m. local time, 10 a.m. CET)

game #29, thrashed by 100 runs had a poor offensive inning (for their standard), scoring only 229/9 in 50 overs therefore it looked that could have a chance to upset the Host Nation, but their batsmen proved completely spent and the Indian bowlers instead were on fire (especially Shami and Bumrah) so, only scored 129/all out in just 34.5 overs in the 2nd inning and the match was quickly done and dusted for this is the 5th loss in 6 matches, which puts them in the last place of the standings...really humiliating situation for the reigning champions game details https://www.cricketworldcup.com/match/102769 Tomorrow, game #30 is a clash between and at 9.30 a.m. CET in Pune

so, out of 16 events, we have 26 Nations from 4 Continents (5, if we split North and South America) winning at least 1 medal and 10 of them winning at least 1 Gold medal only Continent out of the medal table is Oceania just for fun: men's Team Kumite had 46 entries, women's Team Kumite had 55...55!!! not even the 4*100m Relays at the Athletics World Champs had so many (in the years when there was a basically free entry, of course) the women's Individual events had a minimum of 54 up to 61 entries, the men's range went from 61 (only the +84kg) to 74 (4 out of 6 events went over 70) but Karate doesn't deserve the Olympic status, meanwhile Lacrosse and Flag Football and Breakdance do...sure!

Final Medal Table 4 / 1 / 1 2 / 2 / 4 2 / 2 / 1 2 / 0 / 3 1 / 2 / 3 1 / 1 / 1 1 / 0 / 0 1 / 0 / 0 1 / 0 / 0 1 / 0 / 0 0 / 2 / 5 0 / 1 / 1 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 0 / 2 0 / 0 / 2 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1

Team Events' Medallists Women's Team Kata Gold: Japan Silver: Italy Bronze #1: Spain Bronze #2: Egypt Men's Team Kata Gold: Japan Silver: Turkiye Bronze #1: Spain Bronze #2: Italy Women's Team Kumite Gold: Spain Silver: Japan Bronze #1: Kosovo Bronze #2: Croatia Men's Team Kumite Gold: Jordan Silver: Egypt Bronze #1: France Bronze #2: Italy

my prediction...the Games will be cancelled because we have only a bunch of idiots leading our government and our institutions...and because the IOC is led by the idiot most idiot of them all

Laura... unfortunately, she wasted her best boulder in the qualification round...if only she could repeat that kind of performance today, she would have got the OQP

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/former-nhler-adam-johnson-dies-after-freak-accident-during-game-in-england/

game #28, beat by 87 runs basically a no contest, the team scored only 229/all out in the 1st inning, but never gave the idea of being even close to complete their chase and in fact they stopped at 142/all out in 42+ overs in the 2nd stint after the very emotional Oceanian Derby, this match was good just to take a quick sleep in the mid of the afternoon (European time) game details https://www.cricketworldcup.com/match/102743 Tomorrow, game #29 features the Host Nation vs the reigning champions, vs at 9.30 a.m. CET in Lucknow under normal circumstances, this would be a not-to-be-missed matchup, but given situation, only the "name" of a great rivalry remains, which takes a lot of hype away from the game

the Individual events are over...and and all have won 2 Gold medals, meanwhile the remaining 4 titles went to and out of curiosity, if Karate was still an Olympic sport, and would have won an Olympic Gold, together with or , or , or and or

so, just 1 silver and 3 bronze medals (2 in Kumite) for and Tomorrow's team events won't change the general perspective of this championship for us: it's the worst performance since a very, very long time a true disappointment, especially by the most consolidated "names" among our Kumite specialists more in general, we had another match ended with high drama like in the first session of the day: the great Steven Dacosta saved himself the gold medal exactly like Abdelaziz earlier, thanks to the final hit by Dulovic coming a fraction of a second too late Tomorrow the World Championships end with the Team Events medal matches

Today's Medallists (Part II) Men's Individual Kata Gold: Alì Sofuoglu Silver: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila Bronze #1: Ariel Torres Gutierrez Bronze #2: Kakeru Nishiyama Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold: Christos-Stefanos Xenos Silver: Kaisar Alpysbay Bronze #1: Angelo Crescenzo Bronze #2: Eray Samdan Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold: Steven Dacosta Silver: Nenad Dulovic Bronze #1: Didar Amirali Bronze #2: Fahad Alkhathami Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold: Moldir Zhangbyrbay Silver: Erminia Perfetto Bronze #1: Reem Ahmed Salama Bronze #2: Yorgelis Salazar Camacho Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold: Tuba Yakan Silver: Ivet Goranova Bronze #1: Barbara Perez Bronze #2: Anzhelika Terliuga Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold: Gong Li Silver: Fatma Naz Bronze #1: Laura Sivert Bronze #2: Alì Noursin

what a match!!! in game #27, just edged out by 5 runs in an amazing record-breaking clash of Titans went out red hot and led by Travis Head's "century", they scored a crazy 388/all out in 49.2 overs in the 1st inning it looked that their lead was quite comfortable, but didn't think so and in the 2nd inning started a furious chase, which remained short of only 5 runs, as they went 383/9 in 50 overs remarkable "century" also for the New Zealander Rachin Ravindra this match improves the numbers of the early clash between and and with 771 total runs establish the new record for a ODI CWC match game details https://www.cricketworldcup.com/match/102768

high drama in the men's -75kg Kumite Gold Medal match, as local hero Gabor Harspataki was 3-2 down with a few seconds left when he looked to have pulled out a miracle and found a 3-point projection that would have given him the Gold Medal but unfortunately for him, the final action came just outside the time limit, when the clock already had all 0s on and therefore Abdelaziz saved himself and won the gold medal among the women, 3rd world title for Zaretska, but tbh it was quite a robbery, given what happened in the last 15 seconds of the match, when Quirici was denied at least 2 good yuko (the scored was tied 4-4 at that moment) that would have put her ahead with very few seconds left on the clock, before Zaretska scored the final point

Today's Medallists (Part I) Women's Individual Kata Gold: Hikaru Ono Silver: Grace Lau Mo Sheung Bronze #1: Paola Garcia Lozano Bronze #2: Terryana D'Onofrio Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold: Iryna Zaretska Silver: Elena Quirici Bronze #1: Alizèe Agier Bronze #2: Georgia Zefanya Ceyco Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold: Ayaka Saito Silver: Maria Torres Garcia Bronze #1: Clio Ferracuti Bronze #2: Shaaban Okila Menna Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold: Mamduh Abdelaziz Abdalla Silver: Karoly Gabor Harspataki Bronze #1: Ernest Sharafutdinov Bronze #2: Andrii Zaplitnyi Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold: Youssef Badawy Silver: Mahdi Khodabakhshi Bronze #1: Valerii Chobotar Bronze #2: Mohammad Aljafari Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold: Mehdi Filali Silver: Tarek Mahmud Taha Bronze #1: Djorde Tesanovic Bronze #2: Sajad Ganjzadeh

never...

after Tonight game #1 of the MLB World Series goes on stage, Tomorrow (11.30 a.m. CET) it's time also for the NPB to start their finals, the Japan Series 2023 after dominating their respective league in the Regular Season and in the Climax Series (the LCS, to use the same name of the MLB), this year's showdown is the highly anticipated Kansai Derby, where the reigning champions, Osaka Orix Buffaloes face the Hanshin Tigers from Nishinomiya like all the major leagues' final series, it's a best-of-7 series with the classic 2-3-2 format

almost, but not quite! saved their ass vs earlier Today in a match that was apparently locked for them, but suddenly became a real thriller in the last 10 overs of the 2nd inning, when the South Africans got short of wickets and the Asians went so close as nobody thought to an amazing "remuntada" game #26, edged out by just 1 wicket scored 270/all out in 46.4 overs in the 1st inning, then was comfortably on their way to easily complete the chase, but when the last pure hitter, Aiden Markram, went out in the 41st over, a dripping began for them, as the last batsmen couldn't hit a boundary helped also by a few "wide" and by a controversial "umpire call", finally could finish their job thanks to most unexpected hero with a bat in his hands, Keshav Maharaj, who found the last runs to complete the chase and take the victory home the final score is 271/9 in 47.2 overs game details https://www.cricketworldcup.com/match/102742 Tomorrow, games #27 and #28 are on stage: first, the great Oceanian Derby, the highly anticipated clash between and at 7 a.m. CET in Dharamsala; then, faces at 10.30 a.m. CET in Kolkata