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I've seen ballots way bigger than that here in Italy (especially in the local election, where there are also the names of the candidates and not only the symbols of the parties, like in the National elections)...

yes, that's already official... the composition of the 3 groups might change if Japan or any other lower ranked team is capable of winning the auction to host the tournaments...

no, because they can't have all the big teams...the tournaments will be built with the serpentine system, that's official... but sure, Japan is likely to host a tournament if they make an auction like they did for Tokyo 2020... we'll see...

you're right, but I bet a high prize that the hosts will be Poland, Italy and Brazil... the only threat to that is Japan stripping Italy's tournament...however, after yesterday's triumph (also in terms of tv ratings), it's unlikely it happens...

According to the World Ranking updated to this morning, and given that Russia are still banned, this should be the lineup of the 3 world qualification tournaments: Group A Poland Argentina Slovenia Turkiye Canada Egypt Belgium China Group B Italy Japan Iran Netherlands Ukraine Tunisia Czech Republic Qatar Group C (by far the most complicated) Brazil USA Serbia Cuba Germany Mexico Bulgaria Finland

in Italy a photo like this would be a crime (and not a small one) here you just can't use a smartphone/photocamera in the voting room, especially in the actual voting cabin...

and this Summer we won all the youth competitions, U-18 and U-22 Europeans, waiting to complete the triple with the U-20 event that will be held in Italy in October... there's a bright future ahead of our Volley National team...

gotta play some lottery games!

guys, I'm spent! it was really emotional...totally unexpected... now we absolutely need to stay focused and get a revenge over France...

so, the first stint of 4 games is over... the CHL will be back in October with the last 2 games for each team. however, we already have 2 groups (C & D) completely done and dusted and 6 teams in total ( Red Bull Munich, EV Zug, Luleå Hockey, Tappara Tampere, Rögle BK Ångelholm and ZSC Lions Zürich) already qualified to the knockout stage. that's all for now, folks! see you in 3 weeks time...

Group Stage Day 4, Part 2 Sunday 10.09.2022 - Results Group A 18:00 Aalborg Pirates (DEN) - Jukurit Mikkeli (FIN) 0-3 18:35 Luleå Hockey (SWE) - Sparta Prague (CZE) 5-2 Standing : 1.Luleå 12 (Q), 2.Jukurit 6, 3.Sparta 3, 4.Aalborg 3 Group E 15:00 Ilves Tampere (FIN) - Red Bull Salzburg (AUT) 1-2 (OT) 18:00 Stavanger Oilers (NOR) - Fribourg-Gotteròn (SUI) 0-3 Standing : 1.Fribourg 9, 2.Red Bull Salzburg 7, 3.Stavanger 5, 4.Ilves 3 Group F 14:35 Straubing Tigers (GER)- Färjestad Karlstad (SWE) 5-2 18:00 Villach SV (AUT) - Comarch Cracovia (POL) 6-2 Standing : 1.Färjestad 9, 2.Straubing 9, 3.Villach 3, 4.Cracovia 3 Group H 16:30 HC Davos (SUI) - Skellefteå AIK (SWE) 2-5 17:00 Belfast Giants (GBR) - Ocelàři Třinec (CZE) 3-2 (OT) Standing : 1.HC Davos 9, 2.Skellefteå 8, 3.Třinec 5, 4.Belfast 2

I'd say "average" championship for us...we still missed out on 2 of the possible 4 Olympic quota places and we didn't get any medal in 2 senior individual competitions out of 4...

Men's Team Skeet Gold: Italy Silver: Greece Bronze: France

Women's Team Skeet Gold: Great Britain Silver: Germany Bronze: Slovakia

so, yes...we can (in some cases, aka local elections) but I agree, the national political elections are only about the parties (they put the people they want in their list, which is still public, everybody knows who's gonna get the place if a party gets the majority of votes in a local section)...

yes, but only in the local elections... there we can choose our favourite party as a group but also a name from a different party if we particularly like the person but not his group in general... normally, all combinations are possible...

Last couple of events of the championships... Women's Team Skeet Gold Medal Match: Great Britain vs Germany Bronze Medal Match: Italy vs Slovakia Men's Team Skeet Gold Medal Match: Italy vs Greece Bronze Medal Match: Cyprus vs France

here in Italy there are normally hundreds of "parties", but we always have a single "origami-style" sheet (or should I write "piece of sh*t? ) with all the symbols and names where you have to put your signature on the one you want to vote for, so nobody can't even imagine who you're going to choose...

here we go...an Italian idiot caught with Meldonium in his blood... in 2022! https://taketonews.com/athletics-ahmed-abdelwahed-positive-for-doping-he-had-been-silver-at-the-european-championships-in-munich-in-the-3000-steeplechase/

Group Stage Day 4, Part 2 Sunday 10.09.2022 - Schedule* Group A 18:00 Aalborg Pirates (DEN) - Jukurit Mikkeli (FIN) 18:35 Luleå Hockey (SWE) - Sparta Prague (CZE) Group E 15:00 Ilves Tampere (FIN) - Red Bull Salzburg (AUT) 18:00 Stavanger Oilers (NOR) - Fribourg-Gotteròn (SUI) Group F 14:35 Straubing Tigers (GER)- Färjestad Karlstad (SWE) 18:00 Villach SV (AUT) - Comarch Cracovia (POL) Group H 16:30 HC Davos (SUI) - Skellefteå AIK (SWE) 17:00 Belfast Giants (GBR) - Ocelàři Třinec (CZE) *All times CET Watch live Check here for details of live TV broadcasts: https://www.championshockeyleague.com/en/fans/where-to-watch All games are also live on the CHL website for free, subject to geo-blocking restrictions in certain countries due to TV rights.

so, after only 4 games played, Groups C & D are already done and dusted... and also Group B already has a qualified team... Red Bull Munich, Tappara Tampere, Rögle BK Ångelholm, EV Zug and ZSC Lions Zürich are the first 5 teams qualified to the knockout stage.

Group Stage Day 4, Part 1 Saturday 10.09.2022 - Results Group B 18:00 Olimpija Ljubljana (SLO) - Grizzlys Wolfsburg (GER) 0-4 19:45 EV Zug (SUI) - TPS Turku (FIN) 6-1 Standing : 1.EV Zug 11 (Q), 2.Wolfsburg 7, 3.TPS 6, 4.Olimpija 0 Group C 17:00 Red Bull Munich (GER) - Slovan Bratislava (SVK) 5-1 18:00 Tappara Tampere (FIN) - Rapperswil-Jona (SUI) 2-3 (OT) Standing : 1.Red Bull Munich 11 (Q), 2.Tappara 10 (Q), 3.Rapperswil-Jona 3, 4.Slovan 0 Group D 14:30 ZSC Lions Zürich (SUI) - Fehèrvàr AV19 (HUN) 5-1 14:35 Rögle BK Ångelholm (SWE) - GKS Katowice (HUN) 5-1 Standing : 1.Rögle BK 12 (Q), 2.Zürich 10 (Q), 3.Katowice 2, 4.Fehèrvàr 0 Group G 16:00 Mountfield HK (CZE) - Frölunda Indians (SWE) 5-3 17:00 Eisbären Berlin (GER) - Grenoble (FRA) 5-2 Standing : 1.Frölunda 9, 2.Mountfield 9, 3.Eisbären 6, 4.Grenoble 0

our politicians are too stupid to look at what happens abroad...they're only interested on putting their dirty hands on public institutions and money...

no, it's basically impossible but we might have a change of attitude towards the European Institutions (even if I don't think that also...it's improbable that a couple of parties with no absolute majority can do anything -because that's it, FdI and Lega together won't reach even 35%...and they're the only 2 parties that would like to get Italy less "Europeist" among all the relevant groups)

Mixed Team Skeet Gold: Great Britain 1 (Amber Hill & Ben Llewellin) Silver: Italy 2 (Diana Bacosi & Tammaro Cassandro) Bronze: Czech Republic 2 (Barbora Sumova & Jakub Tomecek) and Sweden (Victoria Larsson & Stefan Nilsson)