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I bet on finishing 8th Marini doesn't look good at all, he might be injured in his throwing arm

what a shame! the saddest end of the championship we could ever think of Garozzo is totally boiled and it's also a brawl between the coaches! by the way, very unsportsmanlike behaviour by coaches and also very provocative behaviour by Cheung Ka Long on the last hit

Marini was outclasses 13-4 by Choi now lead 40-39 before the last assault

tbh, women's football is senseless as it is...they should play on a smaller pitch, with smaller goals and lighter ball then, it could develop into an interesting sport right now, it's just unwatchable (like women's basketball...until they adopt lower baskets and above all, a lot lighter ball)

no, the relays are way more important for our federation he's not a bottle of water in the desert like Pellegrini was among the women (in that case it was an obvious choice to protect her individual events because we had no team behind her, but among the men it's a different story)

we should have used Poggio instead of Martinenghi, not Miressi in the 4th leg...that's the capital mistake (since Martinenghi swum a very slow stint to save himself for the final) same with Ceccon...53.7 is unacceptable from him ps we will never know, but I don't think we were out of the medal race, if qualified (actually, I see only out of reach right now, maybe the but and any other team just can't go below 3.29 -and we can, also with this underperforming team)

yesterday he started saying he wanted to do the 1st leg of the mixed freestyle relay or nothing (and since he was still put in the 2nd leg, he swum 1 second slower than he did in the 4*100m free relay) this morning basically accused the coaches to have missed the right composition of the team, not using Miressi in the free leg (when it was his 53.7 in the backstroke leg to kill all of our chances to qualify, instead) not a good team work, really (and a bad attitude)

I'm ashamed of being a fan of those morons! however, someone must put Ceccon in his place...he might be by far the best Italian swimmer, but he can't afford to talk like he did yesterday and earlier Today (and he can't swim only the races he wants...he must develop at lest 3 individual Olympic events seriously in the interest of the entire team)

not a good start by our guys

I see really at risk...they have no talent and most times also a bad attitude (like yesterday vs ) and we have no very good yougsters to replace the core of this team, too I think and are safe, even if one of them should end up out of the top 4 (which is unlikely, after this championship) might benefit from the 3 European being in the top 4 and losing the top 16, but it's still too early to say

time for the men's foil quarters now

women's Team Sabre, Semifinals vs vs

Kharlan does it! b. 45-44 and also through to the semis

in semifinal of the women's team sabre (45-35 win vs ) are struggling badly vs ...40-39 before the last assault (where have Kharlan)

yeah and also because it can be played easily in small temporary venues, it's not a big issue for the organizers (if it needed a football sized stadium there would be no FINA to save it)

yes, it's the top 4 overall and then the best from every Continent (Asia and Oceania are to be considered a single entity, even if Oceania actually doesn't count anything in Fencing) p.s. to qualify as a continental quota, a team must be within the top 16 of the world ranking the tournaments counting for the Olympic qualification are the world championships (with major points), the continental championships (already contested...for Europe it was the EGs in Poland one month ago) and 5 selected world cup tournaments in most weapons there are 4 world cup tournaments left (the season should start in November, the OQP will end next April), women's Foil has only 3 events left, if I remember well the world cup points are 64 for a win, 52 for the second place, 40 for bronze, 36 for 4th place, 32/30/28/26 for places from 5th through 8th and 26 to 18 (down one by one) from 9th through 16th place, 8 for all the teams not making the top 16, 0 if you get black carded (DSQ) in a tournament and/or if you don't participate (and all the other European teams) have to hope than the 3 European "big names" make the top 4 of the ranking at the end of the OQP to earn the continental spot...it highly likely that's gonna happen, therefore good luck for the battle vs and (they're still the favourites to take the European quota imho, even if they missed out badly at the world champs -that's why they're so low in the standings)

however, Modern Pentathlon won't exist anymore after Paris changing one of the five disciplines means that we'll have a new sport...it should change also its name (Futuristic Pentathlon, for instance...or Loughable Pentathlon )

well, you need a dedicated big sized stadium (expensive, even if it normally have small stands) and it's always about the same 12 Nations qualifying in both men and women's tournaments (and not all of them are truly competitive at the highest level) in terms of competitivity it's more or less like Waterpolo...too little interest outside the usual 4/5 places p.s. I like FH and WP and I don't want them to be thrown out of the Olympic schedule, but I understand if someone shuold make it a case international federations should try and find the way to develop those sports in a lot more places

well, tbh Japan I'm sure would stop the NPB for 15 days should Baseball return to the Games and Korea does stop the KBO even for the Asian Games (at least they do it for the Home Games, not sure they do it this year)...in any case, I'm more than certain that they would stop the league for the Olympics the only problem is the MLBPA and the MLB team owners (Commish Manfred would agree to stop the league for 10/12 days, I know that for sure because it's been discussed many times with Riccardo Fraccari, former Italian and now WBSC President). p.s. men's Softball no, please...it's unwatchable

to me, they are both entertaining...in different ways, but still...

wow! what an epic afternoon! I didn't really expect this double...I'm so happy!

men's Team Epee Gold: Italy Silver: France Bronze: Venezuela Semifinals Italy b. Venezuela 35-23 France b. South Korea 45-28 Bronze Medal Match Venezuela b. South Korea 45-41 Gold Medal Match Italy b. France 45-32 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingworldwide.com/en/2986-2022/results/

women's Team Foil Gold: Italy Silver: France Bronze: Japan Semifinals Italy b. Japan 43-30 France b. USA 45-42 Bronze Medal Match Japan b. USA 45-34 Gold Medal Match Italy b. France 45-39 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingworldwide.com/en/2985-2022/results/

put a lot of money into swimming...not improving the Tokyo 2020 final score (0/3/2) is definitely a nightmerish result swimming only 2 PBs in the whole tournament this year, it's still a disaster despite all the medals...it means that all the team had a bad preparation hopefully, next year we'll be a little luckier in terms of our best swimmers being healthy all season long and our coaches learn something from this year's mistakes

and in fact they axed next year's race in Leeds because of the increasing cost UK Sport in spending review mode