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men's Team Epee, semifinals vs and vs women's Team Sabre, semifinals vs and vs

I wasn't whining at all...I was just explaining why we lost Today (and last year in Milan) against weaker teams however, Today it was a truly shameful loss...it needs to be said

well, they could make other moves to get things more balanced...we're just 4 years away

in the USA swimming rates way better than athletics, actually

they have a brand new state-of-the-art slalom canoeing venue already hosting international events in the next future and the dream team of college softball (with thousends of fans ready to show up at the games)...I think it's enough to earn the honors

Day #5 Finals women's 100m Fly Roos Vanotterdijk, 57.47 Georgia Damasioti, 57.74 Sara Junevik, 58.06 men's 200m Freestyle David Popovici, 1.43.13 Danas Rapsys, 1.45.65 Antonio Djakovic, 1.46.32 women's 200m Breaststroke Kristyna Horska, 2.23.60 Clara Rybak-Andersen, 2.25.20 Lisa Mamie, 2.26.10 men's 50m Backstroke Apostolos Christou, 24.39 Ksawery Masiuk, 24.63 Evangelos Makrygiannis, 24.74 women's 1500m Freestyle Vivien Jackl, 16.06.37 Celine Rieder, 16.15.98 Fleur Lewis, 16.17.53 mixed 4*100m Freestyle Relay 3.25.69 3.26.53 3.27.01

Trofeo Settecolli ( Rome) Day #1 men's 100m Backstroke Thomas Ceccon, 52.34 (meet record) Michele Lamberti, 53.35 women's 50m Backstroke Lauren Cox, 28.01 Maaike De Waard, 28.04 Louise Hansson, 28.05 men's 400m Freestyle Guilherme Costa, 3.45.33 Lucas Henveaux, 3.45.81 women's 200m Freestyle Siobhan Haughey, 1.55.35 Marie-Sophie Harvey, 1.56.38 Freya Colbert, 1.56.58 men's 100m Breaststroke Nicolò Martinenghi, 58.90 Caspar Corbeau, 59.23 Ludovico Blu Art Viberti, 59.27 Adam Peaty, 59.51 Arno Kamminga, 59.53 women's 100m Breaststroke Benedetta Pilato, 1.05.44 (new National Record) Angharad Evans, 1.05.91 Martina Carraro, 1.06.43 (last race of her career, emotional moment) Tess Schouten, 1.06.65 men's 100m Fly Nyls Korstanje, 50.90 Edoardo Valsecchi, 52.01 women's 100m Fly Sarah Sjostrom, 24.73 (meet record) Rikako Ikee, 25.63 Viola Scotto Di Carlo, 25.89 men's 50m Freestyle Ben Proud, 21.62 Lorenzo Deplano, 21.76 ________ Thomas Fannon, 21.94 (in the B final) women's 1500m Freestyle Simona Quadarella, 15.48.27 (meet record) Isabel Marie Gose, 15.50.56 __________ Ginevra Taddeucci, 16.08.65 (OQT, which means that have a 2nd quota place in the women's 10km Open Water in Paris)

men's Team Foil Gold: France Silver: Hungary Bronze: Italy Semifinals France b. Poland 45-29 Hungary b. Italy 44-43 Bronze Medal Match Italy b. Poland 45-25 Gold Medal Match France b. Hungary 45-30 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingworldwide.com/en/4581-2023/results/

women's Team Epee Gold: Italy Silver: Hungary Bronze: France Semifinals Italy b. France 32-31 Hungary b. Poland 45-37 Bronze Medal Match France b. Poland 33-32 Gold Medal Match Italy b. Hungary 38-31 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingworldwide.com/en/4577-2023/results/

1. 5 medals (1 in each shotgun shooting event), 2 of them being gold (the women have definitely more chances than the men/mixed I guess, especially Diana Bacosi in the Skeet) 2. by margin, then it's a close call between many teams like and possibly also and (not counting completely out the , also because of their shotgun specialists) 3. Vincent Hancock in the shotgun disciplines and Anna Korakaki in the pistol disciplines

first 2 were good...the 3rd...well, try again and you'll be luckier

Quarterfinals b. 3-0 (25-21, 25-20, 25-23) b. 3-0 (25-21, 25-21, 25-22) b. 3-0 (25-21, 25-21, 25-23) vs running right now, won the 1st set by a score of 25-20

last year the problem was the health of Marini (who pulled out a true miracle when he won the individual title with a disintegrated shoulder) and Garozzo being not reliable anymore (probably he was already experiencing the problems that forced him to stop his career earlier this year) Today...well, I think Marini was just having a bad day, maybe he was mentally spent after the individual gold medal (I hope he's not another guy like Vezzali, who often used to have downs in the team competition after winning the individual gold) anywhere else, Bianchi is Bianchi (so, not the biggest talent in the world) and Foconi, who should be the experienced man, the "insurance", just entered the bout when he wasn't supposed to and had a rough start (but still managed to limit the damage, in the end) I wouldn't take this competition for what it's not...it's obvious that all the qualified guys (not only the Italians, of course) are already focused on the Olympics

our girls mainly focus on the road races through the season, they only train specifically on the track and peak just for the world champs their results in Winter/Spring don't mean anything compared to what they can do when it truly matters

what a shame!

I fear that there will be a draw also in the team events this time around (1-2 vs 7-8 and 3-4 vs 5-6), so not to have mathematical pairings known months before the actual competition

men's Team Foil, semifinals vs and vs

hope it's not a big issue for all of them (but Thibus)

only 11 teams at the start of the men's Foil and 14 in the women's Epee...quite disappointing and frustrating (especially the epee poor participation)

women's Team Epee, semifinals vs and vs

Gambaro is a sports tourist...our NOC should have the "huevos" to reject those 237th tier reallocations we're big and strong enough not to pursuit participation numbers, but medals

Day #4 Finals men's 100m Fly Kristof Milàk, 50.82 Hubert Kos, 50.96 Jakub Majerski, 50.98 women's 50m Backstroke Danielle Hill, 27.73 Theodora Drakou, 27.87 Adela Piskorska, 28.00 men's 200m Breststroke Lyubomir Epitropov, 2.09.45 Erik Persson, 2.09.45 Jan Kalusowski, 2.10.20 women's 200m Freestyle Barbora seemanova, 1.55.37 Minna Abraham, 1.57.22 Nicole Maier, 1.57.36 men's 4*100m Freestyle Relay 3.12.90 3.13.25 3.13.73

men's Individual Epee Gold: Luigi Midelton Silver: Gergely Siklosi Bronze: Tibor Andrasfi & Ian Hauri Semifinals Midelton b. Hauri 15-7 Siklosi b. Andrasfi 15-8 Final Midelton b. Siklosi 15-13 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingworldwide.com/en/4573-2023/results/

women's Individual Sabre Gold: Celia Perez Cuenca Silver: Liza Pusztai Bronze: Araceli Navarro & Zuzanna Cieslar Semifinals Perez Cuenca b. Cieslar 15-14 Pusztai b. Navarro 15-11 Final Perez Cuenca b. Pusztai 15-13 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingworldwide.com/en/4576-2023/results/

I expect both Team Pursuit crews to medal, meanwhile I'm not sure at all of what the omnium and madison guys can do (actually, we don't even know for sure who's gonna compete in those events, even if I presume that Viviani in men's Omnium should be a safe bet)