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2021/2022 Fencing World Cup Women's Individual Epee ( Katowice) Gold: Choi In Jeong Silver: Alberta Santuccio Bronze: Marie-Florence Candassamy & Anna Kun Semifinals Choi b. Candassamy 15-12 Santuccio b. Kun 15-10 Final Choi b. Santuccio 15-10 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/97

Day #4 in Gaziantep Today's Medallists Recap Women's Individual Kata Gold: Sandra Sanchez Jaime Silver: Dilara Bozan Bronze #1: Terryana D'Onofrio Bronze #2: Jasmin Juettner Men's Individual Kata Gold: Alì Sofuoglu Silver: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila Bronze #1: Yuki Ujihara Bronze #2: Mattia Busato Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu Silver: Erminia Perfetto Bronze #1: Niswa Ahmed Bronze #2: Jelena Pehar Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold: Anzhelika Terliuga Silver: Ivet Goranova Bronze #1: Madina Sadigova Bronze #2: Amy Connelly Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold: Ingrida Suchankova Silver: Anna Miggou Bronze #1: Anita Serogina Bronze #2: Laura Sivert Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold: Eda Eltemur Silver: Miroslava Kopunova Bronze #1: Vasiliki Panetsidou Bronze #2: Alizèe Agier Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold: Ivana Perovic Silver: Aicha Zakia Boussebaa Bronze #1: Kyriaki Kydonaki Bronze #2: Nancy Garcia Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold: Eray Samdan Silver: Angelo Crescenzo Bronze #1: Ronen Gehtbarg Bronze #2: Christos-Stefanos Xenos Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold: Burak Uygur Silver: Dionysios Xenos Bronze #1: Joaquim Mendes Bronze #2: Steven Dacosta Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold: Erman Eltemur Silver: Brandon Brian Wilkins Bronze #1: Luigi Busà Bronze #2: Elhami Shabani Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold: Daniel Gyorgy Silver: Enes Garibovic Bronze #1: Petar Spasenovski Bronze #2: Walid Deghali Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold: Andjelo Kvesic Silver: Luca Costa Bronze #1: Ryzvan Talibov Bronze #2: Gogita Arkania Women's Team Kumite Gold: Croatia Silver: Slovakia Bronze #1: Spain Bronze #2: France

Day #3 in Gaziantep last day of qualification rounds... and the Italian disaster is complete! both our Kumite teams (the men are the reigning world champions! ) went out in the early rounds and won't take part into any medal match... what a shame! by the way, also today we've seen a lot of surprising results, with many of the favourite teams flopping badly... top of the pop, Slovakia is qualified to the gold medal match of the women's team Kumite... @hckošice women's team Kumite Gold Medal match: Croatia vs Slovakia (around 19.05 local time, 18.05 CET) Bronze Medal match #1: Spain vs Sweden Bronze Medal match #2: France vs Austria men's team Kumite Gold Medal match: France vs Azerbaijan Bronze Medal match #1: Belgium vs Ukraine Bronze Medal match #2: Greece vs Portugal All the Individual medal matches and the women's Team Kumite medal matches are scheduled for Tomorrow, the Team Kata events and the men's Team Kumite finals are scheduled for Sunday morning... here's the full schedule: https://www.wkf.net/imagenes/campeonatos/continental-championshipsprogramme-2022-ekf-senior-championships-001.pdf Every medal match will be broadcasted for free on Youtube in all those Countries where no National TV network has bought the TV rights (as far as I know, Turkey, Italy, Spain and Croatia are the only plces where no YT stream is available).

Day #2 in Gaziantep and despite some more predictable results, we have the biggest surprise of them all, Steven Dacosta not making the gold medal match in the men's -67kg class... here are Today's events Gold Medal match (I remember that the Medal sessions for yesterday and today's events are scheduled for Saturday at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. CET): Women's Team Kata: Spain vs Italy Men's Team Kata: Turkey vs Spain Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu vs Erminia Perfetto Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg: Anzhelika Terliuga vs Ivet Goranova Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg: Angelo Crescenzo vs Eray Samdan Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg: Burak Uygur vs Dionysios Xenos for Italy, finally, a decent day, with 3 gold medal matches earned by our guys (one useless, but still)...

he's really devilish! by the way, great game by the Slovaks so far...really entertaining match overall...

Geraghty-Moats times are way gone... nowadays it's Norway dominating from the hill and on the skis (with the Italian Sieff being the best of the rest among the good jumpers and the Slovenian Volavsek being the best of the rest among the skiing specialists...and all the Japanese team growing very quickly)... early starters have no chance anymore already... I'm pretty sure in 4 years time we're gonna have an interesting event, possibly even more than the men's... the true scandal are those mixed team events in skicross and slalom snowboarding (and the dual moguls, which is basically a double chance for the same skiers)...

I wouldn't let her family dictate anything, but at the same time in cases like this the keywords should be "compromise, reasonable concessions, eye of reguard"... surely, looking at Lara's results, she shouldn't be treated like "many others", because it's clear that she's not like "many others" (actually, we don't even have "many others", I fear)... for sure, there's no way that a serious and responsible federation is going to lose a talent like that (according to all those who have seen her skiing) because of a stupid "pride issue"/megalomaniac mom & dad...

2022 Junior World Championships start Tomorrow in El Salvador with the Opening Ceremony (races from Saturday)... https://isasurf.org/event/2022-el-salvador-isa-world-juniors-surfing-championship/

It looks that 15 years young Lara Colturi (Super-G Olympic Champion Daniela Ceccarelli's daughter), considered the most talented girl in Italy (at least) among the youth classes in SG and above all, GS, will represent Albania from next season... https://www.oasport.it/2022/05/sci-alpino-lara-colturi-sceglie-di-gareggiare-per-lalbania-litalia-perde-un-talento-straordinario/?refresh_ce I wonder how Italy can afford to lose their upcoming alpine skiing star even before she starts to compete at the highest level? Just ahead of the Home Olympics? Going to Albania??? (I mean, I could understand if she goes to Austria, Switzerland or another skiing powerhouse in search of a better and more competitive team, but c'mon, man! Albania???!!!) I knew there's something wrong in our Wintersports Federation, but that's really scary (and humiliating)...

add 1 from Italy!

2022 Karate European Championships ( Gaziantep) May, 25th through May, 29th Day #1 was maybe one of the most surprising session of Karate I saw in the last few years... Nothing new happened in Kata, as expected, but, man! no one of the Kumite events went according to plan/expectation... For Italy, it was basically a disaster, with no gold medal match reached by our guys (even the great Luigi Busà, at his first competition after the Olympic title, couldn't do better than earning a miserable -for his standard- bronze medal match, losing to the most improbable, unknown Englishman Brian Wilkins in the semifinal match)... we all expected him and the eternal Rafael Aghayev to make us the gift of another chapter of their neverending rivalry (it would have been the highlight of the Championship, of course), but both of them couldn't reach the expected showdown... on the other hand, Slovakia @hckošice Croatia @dcro @prso1000 @ all Croatian friends and Hungary @Vektor @ all Hungarian friends seem to have earned the status of powehouses in this sport together with usual suspect and host Nation, Turkey (it's just for this tournament, don't start dreaming too much, guys! ), reaching 2 gold medal matches each in Kumite events... here's a quick recap of the already determined Gold Medal matches (Saturday, May 28th @ 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. CET): Women's Individual Kata: Sandra Sanchez Jaime vs Dilara Bozan Men's Individual Kata: Alì Sofuoglu vs Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg: Ingrida Suchankova vs Anna Miggou Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg: Miroslava Kopunova vs Eda Eltemur Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg: Ivana Perovic vs Aicha Zakia Boussebaa Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg: Erman Eltemur vs Brandon Brian Wilkins Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg: Enes Garibovic vs Daniel Gyorgy Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg: Andjelo Kvesic vs Luca Costa

Italy needs all the active players from this list (and we would have needed also the already retired players, when they were on top of their game)... https://www.italiansrus.com/resources/hockey_list.htm however, what we really need is: a) money...a lot of money, b) infrastrucures, c) kids that really want to play (and why not? succeed in a hockey career), d) most important to start with, interest by our media (to make money and bring up kids, which would lead to building more infrastrucures and so on...we do really need a virtuous circle that's impossible right now and with all our current political and sports leaders)...

I feel like I wasted the afternoon... even worse...it's like I wasted 2 full weeks... maybe it's even like I wasted another year of my life... probably I just wasted my whole life! I'd better watch breakdance and padel next time...

2021/2022 Fencing World Cup Men's Individual Sabre ( Padua) Gold: Aron Szilagyi Silver: Gu Bon Gil Bronze: Bolade Apithy & Elliott Bibi Semifinals Szilagyi b. Bibi 15-9 Gu b. Apithy 15-14 Final Szilagyi b. Gu 15-14 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/162

2021/2022 Fencing World Cup Women's Individual Sabre ( Padua) Gold: Anna Bashta Silver: Risa Takashima Bronze: Misaki Emura & Caroline Queroli Semifinals Bashta b. Emura 15-9 Takashima b. Queroli 15-12 Final Bashta b. Takashima 15-11 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/676

I guess someone has put his hands on the other's wife/girlfriend... as we say in Italy: "probabilmente è solo una questione di corna"..."most likely, it's just a matter of horn" (=betrayal) p.s. normally, in Italy those kind of questions end up with someone bleeding, if not worse...it's a really serious issue...

hey, man! with that score, we would have won the gold medal...easily! joking, of course... yeah, that was definitely a missed call that they will have to explain to their supervisors, but the refereeing was poor in general, I don't agree at all with those who say that it was favourable to Italy..at all... it was the opposite, in case...

who? those people in black & white who called a phantom penalty that opened the door to Ehlers to score the first goal, which should also have been denied because of the clearly illegal (under IIHF rules) move by Bau in front of Bernard? or the same people who called a penalty that basically sealed the deal for Denmark with just over 2 mins to be played when the usual suspect (Mathias Bau, always him!) made a dive that would have made Klaus Di Biasi proud when he was on top of that sport?

Karate 1 Premier League Stage #3 ( Rabat) Medallists Recap Women's Individual Kata Gold: Hikaru Ono Silver: Grace Lau Mo Sheung Bronze #1: Natsuki Shimizu Bronze #2: Maho Ono Men's Individual Kata Gold: Kazumasa Moto Silver: Gakuji Tozaki Bronze #1: Sakichi Abe Bronze #2: Kakeru Nishiyama Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold: Reem Ahmed Salama Silver: Gema Morales Ozuna Bronze #1: Yorgelis Salazar Bronze #2: Asia Agus Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold: Anzhelika Terliuga Silver: Ahlam Youssef Bronze #1: Maya Schaerer Bronze #2: Sonia Pereira Villalobos Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold: Dahab Ali Silver: Aurora Graziosi Bronze #1: Fatima-Zahra Chajai Bronze #2: Lynn Snel Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold: Elena Quirici Silver: Nisrine Brouk Bronze #1: Kyriaki Kydonaki Bronze #2: Feryal Abdelaziz Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold: Ayumi Uekusa Silver: Shaaban Okila Menna Bronze #1: Martina Sachova Bronze #2: Habiba Helmy Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold: Alì Abdel Jina Silver: Mohamed Salah Mohamed Bronze #1: Aminagha Guliyev Bronze #2: Abdullah Shaaban Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold: Dionysios Xenos Silver: Ahmed Aiman Lofty Bronze #1: Gianluca De Vivo Bronze #2: Yves Martial Tadissi Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold: Abdalla Abdelaziz Silver: Alì Elsawy Bronze #1: Daniele De Vivo Bronze #2: Ahmed El Sharaby Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold: Youssef Badawy Silver: Mohammad Aljafari Bronze #1: Thameur Slimani Bronze #2: Nabil Ech-Chaabi Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold: Taha Tarek Mahmoud Silver: Babacar Seck Sakho Bronze #1: Hazem Mohamed Bronze #2: Luca Costa

I fear they have to update their infosystem... I'm pretty sure we already have that anti-record... I remember very well that famous match against Sweden in Prague 1992, when we got the most unlikey 0-0 tie and the shots card was something like 60-1...

well, it's been beautiful until it lasted... still, the only game that matters is the one against France...

2021/2022 Fencing World Cup Men's Individual Foil ( Incheon) Gold: Tommaso Marini Silver: Ryan Choi Chun Yin Bronze: Alessio Foconi & Maximilien Chastenet Semifinals Choi b. Foconi 15-14 Marini b. Chastenet 15-13 Final Marini b. Choi 15-14 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/145

2021/2022 Fencing World Cup Women's Individual Foil ( Incheon) Gold: Lee Kiefer Silver: Eleanor Harvey Bronze: Alice Volpi & Anne Sauer Semifinals Kiefer b. Sauer 15-5 Harvey b. Volpi 15-13 Final Kiefer b. Harvey 15-11 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/457

well, at least this time it wasn't humiliating as the last time we played Switzerland (9-0, 3 years ago)... we did even score a couple of goals... p.s. Slovakia losing to Germany...what's new?

Stage #3 of the Karate 1 Premier League is underway in Rabat and it's sad to be said, but in my whole life (since I've been following Karate) I've never seen a poor participation in a K1PL event like this week (average level is even way below Serie A standard)... never, even before Karate was thought to become an Olympic sport... however, see you tomorrow for our usual medallists' recap...