phelps

which is what happened with Schubert in the men's event (and in part with Pilz among the women) he's good but not very consistent in boulder, so it might happen that he has an average overall result one day (in the semis) and an amazing result on another given day (the final) and this basically kills the flow of the competition

it was the reverse order of the result of the semifinal round (and it was the same also for the women), that's the rule it was just a case* that in the women's event the climax was built slowly because the lead specialists also proved to be the best combined specialists *actually, it happened because the values are way more established than in the men's division in the men's event, instead, things were so balanced that in the final they went in a quite different way compared to the semis

together with that farce named Kitesurf, imho that's the event that should go immediately to make room for a (partially, at least) match-race based event (6-man F50 Sail-GP boats would be perfect) sorry for the historical loss, but also having the mixed version instead of men and women by themselves has already killed history

yes it's properly the Olympic Classes World Championship (and it's held in this form once every 4 years, in the pre-Olympic season)

as expected, our crew in the mixed 470 just gave up after last night's protests drama now we're completely out of contention...no medals, no medal race and, above all, no OQP, which was the minimum target I fear we're gonna come out of this championship with all of our bones broken, shattered if we're lucky, we're gonna get no more than 5 OQPs (mixed Nacra 17, Wind- and Kitesurfing M + W), missing out on at least 2 or 3 OQPs we really expected to gain here

as a proverb says: today's only raining down your back! we're in the bright sunny 35°C range today in the planes in the north of Italy p.s. starting at 8 p.m., the game's likely over before we have a true night sky...I guess it would have been better to start at 9/9.15 p.m. by the way, it's always a nice and prestigious landscape when you play at the Arena Scaligera in Verona, even if it's not an Opera

yes, as for the document you already posted later

however, also the mixed Dinghy (470) preliminary races have been completed and now the crews have been divided into Gold (33 boats) and Silver fleet mixed Dinghy (470), 8 Olympic Quota Places available, 5 races completed, 5 more to go before the Medal race 1. (2. ) 3. 4. 5. 6. (7. ) 8. (9. ) 10. ... 14. in total, there are only 16 Nations represented in the Gold Fleet #8 looks comfortably in the lead so far, meanwhile there's small group (2nd to 6th) following the leaders with some margin ahead and behind of them from 7th place on, it's a real mess, with many boats within very few points one from each other (and many ties, too) it looks that a place in the medal race (and then for the OQPs) will be up for grabs until the last leg of the last race, making this class very exciting to follow

how to kill 3 years of work... a stupid mistake (and also very controversial, it looks) before the start in the 5th race cost our crew the disqualification (POR protest winning over ITA protest for the same infraction) and now they're down in 15th place, out of everything instead of being in 2nd place fighting for the medals only consolation, the ranking is still very closed and there are 6 more races of the gold fleet to recover

Jacob Kiplimo also out (harmstring injury) https://www.the-sportsnation.com/2023/08/11/jacob-kiplimo-out-of-world-athletics-championship/

I also see that a lot of races have been stopped/posticipated right now because of very light wind (and in fact in the Nacra 17, Tita/Banti almost threw away their big lead over Gimson/Burnet because they had to race in unfavourable conditions...and also compromised their ranking earlier today, meanwhile made an unbelievable comeback up until the 3rd place ) in the mixed dinghy (470), instead, the light wind helped to a double race victory that moved them in 2nd place overall (after starting with a 14th and a 15th place in the first 2 races ), behind only a crew why do we have these 2 boats doing well only with opposite wind speed?

yes, it should be 55 each fleet (like it is in the preliminaries) however, I'm a bit surprised they used only 2 fleet with so many sailors, normally they use at least 3 with so many participants

there are 110 competitors divided into yellow and blue fleet all of them will sail 5 preliminary races, then the top half of the standings will go in the gold fleet and the bottom half will go in the silver fleet once again, there will be 5 gold/silver fleet races, then the top 10 will go in the final medal race, where the medallists will be decided the best 16 Nations in the final ranking will get an Olympic Quota Place

it's not all over yet, as the problem is building the track for the 2024/2025 Winter in order to have the test event in that period actually, if the timeline was the Olympic Winter (with the test event just a couple of months before the Games), there wouldn't be any problem so, it's just a question of finding the right deal with IOC and the sliding sports federation... I still think that the track will be in place come November/December 2025

I didn't make any count, but it should be correct

3 classes have already finished their preliminary races and from tomorrow they will be divided into gold/silver/bronze fleet, with only those on the gold fleet competing for the medals and the Olympic Quota Places the situation so far... men's Skiff (49er), 10 OQP available, 9 races completed, 6 to go before the medal race 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. everything still very open, even if and look to be the clear favourite for gold and silver and the top 7 have built quite some margin over the rest of the fleet for the medal race and the OQPs women's Skiff (49er FX), 10 OQP available, 9 races completed, 6 to go before the medal race 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. already with the gold medal in their hands, and look to have a slight advantage over the rest of the field for the "minor" medals and then we have a fleet divided into more small groups with a hole in between them (5th to 9th, 10th to 13th, 14th to 17th) but all of them still fighting for the last OQPs those from the 20th place on, look to be already out of contention for all the targets mixed Multihull (Nacra 17), 9 OQP available, 9 races completed, 6 to go before the medal race 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. (8. ) 9. 10. are back to their usual dominant form (they've won all the races but 1 -when they were 2nd- so far) and are likely to win another world title look strong and have a small margin over in the fight for silver and bronze and are also still in contention for the medals and all the top 5 look safe for the OQP the remaining 4 OQPs should go to those currently placed up to the 10th place, with only still having a remote chance to make the medal race, but it's a big if, as they are already 11 points behind and have the 3rd Italian crew (2020 world champions Bissaro/Frascari) in between the next eligible crew are already 31 points off the current 10th place

it might become even worse... in 2016 had the no.1 and no.2 in the world ranking in women's epee (Fiamingo and Navarria), but since we missed out on the team qualification, only 1 of the 2 girls could participate to those Games (Fiamingo, who won the silver medal)

I see that disaster coming in 3, 2, 1... frankly, I don't understand and I will never understand the criteria the Italian team use to select the members of their team in the equestrian sports

I only watched the last 20 kms or so, but I don't think that it was Milesi's fault for not chasing properly the Frenchman apart for the fact that he was also cooked in the last couple of laps (at least, that's what he said), imho it was the Portuguese and above all the Briton that didn't race a single meter in front of the chasing group, it was always Milesi and Svrcek (and a solo attempt by the German, who was also quite out of shape in the final kms and in fact he was caught quickly when he tried to escape) if Svrcek was so strong in the final lap, why he didn't try to escape by himself? imho, Milesi was even too honest trying to keep the small group going together with the Slovak, he shouldn't have gone a single meter in front given what the guys from POR and GBR did

the big winner of the championship, then for some kind of consolation in the speed discipline, but we're now totally out of the places that really matter in the "true" sport climbing events

that's even worse, then he's double, triple stupid just a big cheater (with no brain), no mercy for that kind of people

ps please, don't tell me that in the top 4 would be a big surprise if we look at how's the situation of all the teams we have to face en route to reach that target (basically, to avoid the in QTFs first and then or in the actual QTFs) oh, f*ck! I wrote it! just jinxed our (slim) hope!

Galossi DNS over 400m free after yesterday's epic fail over 200m

Bottazzo 30.0 once again in prelims and way worse in the decisive race not a winning attitude by our newest breastroke specialist

in this case it wouldn't change anything, as he's got caught thanks an out-of-competition test