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busy week in the European Hockey... after the first CHL stint, now it's time for the beginning of almost all the main European domestic leagues... Finnish Liiga is underway since Tuesday, yesterday the Swiss NLA started. Tonight it was time for the Czech Extraliga and the German DEL to open their campaign, meanwhile tomorrow it's time for the Slovak Extraliga and the Austrian ICE League (with 3 Italian teams). Saturday the Swedish SHL will begin, too. All this, waiting for the NHL to start their show. I'm ready for the full immersion... p.s. @hckošice I saw that the AMC channels replaced the KHL (gone for obvious reasons) with the Swiss NLA I'm almost in tears (of joy, of course)...

and here we go...another idiot... Santo Condorelli 18-month ban for whereabouts failures... https://swimswam.com/tokyo-medalist-santo-condorelli-given-18-month-fina-ban-for-whereabouts-failures/

I want better picture quality! = 50/60 fps and a better working app for android TV, but that's another issue...

by the way, just got my padel local club subscription...

3x3 is just fun to play, its popularity as a sport to watch doesn't really exist... basketball is another thing, people around the world want to watch Steph, Giannis, Luka, KD...some of them (and I don't understand how they can stand him) even LeFlop...ops, I mean LeBron...

no, in all the ISSF events (shotgun, rifle, pistol) only 1 quota per competition can be earned by a single Country

at least Raffaeli won it all today...

WTF? Germany in the top 3? Italy not 1st & 2nd? what a sh*tty day for our sports!

Men's 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Petr Nymbursky Silver: Jon-Hermann Hegg Bronze: Jiri Privratsky Olympic Quota Places (to the NOCs, NOT to the athletes): Petr Nymbursky & Jon-Hermann Hegg

Men's Rapid Fire Pistol Gold: Clement Bessaguet Silver: Oliver Geis Bronze: Pavlo Korostylov Olympic Quota Places (to the NOCs, NOT to the athletes): Clement Bessaguet & Oliver Geis

if Luka Magic doesn't pull out a true miracle, I'm close to abandon basketball and going to play padel for the rest of my life...

don't even try and watch the last minute of a close NBA game, then... normally, it takes 25/30 mins to be completed (in the NBA both teams have 7 timeouts each in the second half -and they usually keep at least 4 or 5 for the decisive moments- and they are about double time long compared to the FIBA habits)... however, despite that, basketball can be really exciting and make you jump from the couch...but sometimes it can also be so cruel and make you cry and get mad because your team loses a match that they already had in the bag (any reference to this afternoon's game is purely intentional )... p.s. tbh, I saw also some hockey games where the last minute of play took more than 10 mins of real time (and no fights were included)...

Women's 25m Pistol Gold: Doreen Vennekamp Silver: Klaudia Bres Bronze: Renata Sike Olympic Quota Places (to the NOCs, NOT to the athletes): Doreen Vennekamp & Klaudia Bres

Sike out, Poland and Germany get Olympic quota places

Fuck! Varricchio out...no quota place for her... and it was the easiest event to get it (and it's so important for us to have a woman getting a quota place and being somehow competitive)...

Women's 25m Pistol Ranking Match #1 Doreen Vennekamp, 17 (Q) Maria Varricchio, 13 + 4 (Q) Joana Castelao, 13 + 2 Antoaneta Kostadinova, 11 Ranking Match #2 Klaudia Bres, 13 (Q) Renata Sike, 12 (Q) Anna Korakaki, 11 Camille Jedrzejewski, 10

Athletics, men's Javelin Throw...this is a no brainer, Jan Zelezny is "the" javelin made person. Boxing, men's Flyweights...another easy choice... Robeisy Ramirez was certainly the strongest and the most entertaining fighter in this and the immediate heavier class (where he won the Olympic Gold in 2016). Boxing, men's Featherweights... Vasyl Lomachenko...a flash in the dark...his 2008 Olympic Tournament was one of the most dominant performances I've ever seen. Wrestling, Freestyle, men's Bantamweights...most likely he isn't the strongest Olympic Champion ever, but surely he's been one of my first truly favourite freestyle wrestlers...my pick is Alì Reza Dabir. Wrestling, Greco-Roman, men's Bantamweights...the GOAT, the one and only Hamid Sourian. @MHSN is Dabir the correct "western version" of his family name or is it Dabiri, like I've read many times in websites and TV graphics?

yeah, but they not always play according to their characteristics...more than once, I saw them messin'it up at the first trouble (like they did against Italy in Tokyo last year, for instance)... yesterday they were really focused and inspired (considering they're also missing some very strong players)... I was a bit disappointed by Greece, though... after they played so well in Milan in the group stages, they just went a level below in Berlin (they already struggled more than expected in the round of 16)...

yeah, the double elimination format is really...out of date, let's say...

Women's 25m Pistol Ranking Match #1 Joana Castelao Antoaneta Kostadinova Doreen Vennekamp Maria Varricchio Ranking Match #2 Camille Jedrzejewski Klaudia Bres Renata Sike Anna Korakaki

Women's 25m Pistol Qualification Results 1. Doreen Vennekamp, 592 2. Anna Korakaki, 588 3. Antoaneta Kostadinova, 587 4. Camille Jedrzejewski, 587 5. Maria Varricchio, 583 6. Renata Sike, 583 7. Joana Castelao, 582 8. Klaudia Bres, 581 (18X) _____________________________ 9. Olena Kostevych, 581 (17X) 10. Agate Rasmane, 581 (16X) Full Ranking https://results.sius.com/DownloadFile.aspx?Championship=ccfe0537-bb77-4754-8bed-4b6e8e0d2464&FileName=25m/SPW/3_QUAL/Q000000IA1309220800.1.SPW.0.001.pdf

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waiting for today's (the afternoon one, of course)... by the way, Germany was really impressive...and not only last night... they have a plan, they execute well and yesterday they also had an unreal shooting percentage from the arch... Spain isn't convincing at all so far, but somehow they always manage to escape any trouble... winning culture, I guess...it's the 11th consecutive time they make the top 4 at the Europeans (and 9 of the last 10 times they also got a medal, they were 4th only in 2005)... fun fact, last time they missed out on the semifinals was in 1997, when Eurobasket was played in...Spain! (finals in Barcelona, Jugoslavija winning gold against Italy, coached at the time by Ettore Messina)...

this week is mainly dedicated to the Wrestling World Championships (I'm following basically only the Turkish public TV TRT Spor Yildiz for the semi/finals and the UWW website for the preliminary rounds). Then, Eurobasket 2022 (skysport Italy) and MLB & NFL here and there (my main sources are MLB.tv and NFL Gamepass respectively). Tonight it's Wrestling and Basketball

Men's Rapid Fire Pistol Standings after Day #1 (qualification round, 300 shots out of 600) https://results.sius.com/DownloadFile.aspx?Championship=ccfe0537-bb77-4754-8bed-4b6e8e0d2464&FileName=25m/RFPM/3_QUAL/Q100010IA1309221100.1.RFPM.0.001.pdf Women's 25m Pistol Standings after Day #1 (qualifications round, 300 shots out of 600) https://results.sius.com/DownloadFile.aspx?Championship=ccfe0537-bb77-4754-8bed-4b6e8e0d2464&FileName=25m/SPW/3_QUAL/Q000010IA1309220800.1.SPW.0.001.pdf