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they will never reach the level of the legendary Meneghetti family, 7 brothers (all with "Soviet communist" names like Igor, Ivan, Sascha and so on ) and a few more cousins all playing at the same time for the USG Zoldo in the Italian Hockey league in the early Nineties

good luck! I wish you all the success you deserve!

they'll take the basic stream with no commentary from the official streaming website. and our wonderful public TV will only offer the above mentioned disciplines. if I think that in Baku and Minsk we had 2/3 dedicated TV channels on Sky Italia covering basically all the action... and some people still ask me why I'm such an hater of that bunch of idiots who should be fired even before applying for the job. I'm so disgusted that I won't follow a single second of these Games. there are so many more things to do in my life than trying to catch up with those who don't won't to be followed properly! Fuck the European Games, fuck RAI, fuck everything!

not yet

you're right...I didn't take into consideration the Egyptian woman. however, I still think she won't be the real favourite of the Olympic competition even if choose to opt out of this weight class (and I'm not so sure that will be their final decision).

Medal Table 3 / 3 / 4 2 / 2 / 3 1 / 0 / 0 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1

Men's Individual Foil Gold: Filippo Macchi Silver: Enzo Lefort Bronze: Guillaume Bianchi & Rafael Savin Semifinals Macchi b. Bianchi 15-13 Lefort b. Savin 15-10 Final Macchi b. Lefort 15-14 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/B20EBB5B87A94CBEA132FD9A385E9710

Women's Individual Sabre Gold: Manon Brunet-Apithy Silver: Sara Balzer Bronze: Martina Criscio & Theodora Gkountoura Semifinals Brunet-Apithy b. Gkountoura 15-14 Balzer b. Criscio 15-10 Final Brunet-Apithy b. Balzer 15-10 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/B02EC5813CE74488853406EB8C2F2F93

it was too good to be continued...day 2 to be quickly forgotten...

Men's Individual Sabre Gold: Sandro Bazadze Silver: Andras Szatmari Bronze: Sebastien Patrice & Enver Yildirim Semifinals Bazadze b. Yildirim 15-7 Szatmari b. Patrice 15-14 Final Bazadze b. Szatmari 15-11 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/3E17B35066BA4575B9B9C8648A9F822A

Women's Individual Epee Gold: Alexandra Louis Marie Silver: Mara Navarria Bronze: Auriane Mallo-Breton & Nelli Differt Semifinals Navarria b. Differt 15-10 Louis Marie b. Mallo-Breton 15-13 Final Louis Marie b. Navarria 15-8 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/111A2982CCE3419D98304246165BE8FC

women's tournament won 17-5 vs so, basically we already know that are qualified to the Olympic Games (even if it's not mathematical yet).

good luck!

yes, you can. and basically we have just a couple of events left this year (the World Champs in September and the 2nd Grand Prix in Doha in December) and 2 next year (Continental Champs and the World Cup, with the 2023 Worlds and the 2024 World Cup being mandatory events in terms of participation to become eligible for the Olympic Games).

yay! I'm still a teenager, after all

in the men's -102kg class, we have 2 new entries in the top 10 of the OQR. () Yauheni Tsikhantsou won the competition with a Total of 390kg and now he's in the 7th spot of the OQR. Wesley Brian Kitts was 2nd with a Total of 388kg and now he's the 9th ranked in the OQR. Chen Po-Jen (3rd last night with a Total of 381kg, 5kg less than his best score) and Liu Huanhua are now out of the top 10 of the OQR after last night's event.

some good results and moves on the OQR for both men and women last night in Havana. the women's -81kg class was won by Solfrid Eila Amena Koanda with a rock solid 266kg Total. she was already in qualifying position in the +87kg class after her gold medal at the world championships in Bogotà last Autumn, but now she breaks in straight into 2nd place of the -81kg class OQR. Tamara Yajaira Salazar Arce ended up in 2nd place, improving her score up to 265kg, but still she loses 1 place in the OQR: she's now 3rd behind Liang and Koanda. last night, Neisi Patricia Dajomes Barrera ended up in 3rd place with a good Total of 260kg, which would be a comfortable qualifying score, if only she wasn't the 2nd woman from her Country in the qualification ranking. finally, also the 4th ranked from last night, Yudelina Mejia Peguero, breaks into a qualifying position in the OQR with a good 252kg Total. Martha Ann Rogers was 5th and improved her Total by 1kg, going up to 248, but in the end she loses 2 places in the OQR. however, she's still in the top 10 (meanwhile and now are out of the top 10 after last night's event).

perfectly in line... are a bunch of losers, is a very strong team with very good players

you can write Italy off we're gonna face in the play-off match and we're gonna go home with no place in the top 8 nor in the OQT. as usual...

just an ordinary day at the office, I'd say...

Men's Individual Epee Gold: Davide Di Veroli Silver: Federico Vismara Bronze: Mateusz Antkiewicz & Marco Brinkmann Semifinals Di Veroli b. Brinkmann 15-12 Vismara b. Antkiewicz 15-7 Final Di Veroli b. Vismara 15-14 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/B3E851BC0F1342C4A9FD3E372EC91E44

Women's Individual Foil Gold: Martina Batini Silver: Martina Favaretto Bronze: Alice Volpi & Francesca Palumbo Semifinals Batini b. Palumbo 15-12 Favaretto b. Volpi 15-9 Final Batini b. Favaretto (Favaretto Withdraw because of Injury) Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/BF0E7ACF0FFD4200A486C5A5DF6AD9AD

Mader's tragedy recalls to me Fabio Casartelli's in a scary way.

I have the (bad) feeling that we're gonna hit the lowest ever point in terms of media coverage of a global sport event...

talking of Kumite, obviously... Kata is not even a sport, it's just the essence of the martial art, but to me it has nothing to do with a sport competition.