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or we can have just a single "best National Team" category without splitting men and women (where to include also mixed teams)...

not in my vote (coming soon...I really have to think about some categories...there are too many events, athletes, moments to choose from)... p.s. I also have the same question of @Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo where do mixed teams/pairs go?

Olympics: Rogerio Sampaio in Barcelona 1992 World Championships: Joao Derly, Tiago Camilo and Luciano Correa in 2007 (in Rio de Janeiro) the Masters (this tournament is held only since 2010): today's is just the second Gold in history among the men, the previous one was won by Rafael Silva (+100kg) in 2012 (in Almaty)

by the way, it's gonna be quite a difficult choice in some categories...

yeah... I think there are a couple of global events that might be off the radar of most people, even some of the usually well educated Totallympics users, especially when many minds are still offuscated by the recent football world cup...

The Masters ( Jerusalem) Day #2 Medallists men's -73kg Gold: Daniel Cargnin Silver: Shakhram Akhadov Bronze: Murodjon Yuldoshev & Artur Margelidon men's -81kg Gold: Tato Grigalashvili Silver: Saeid Mollaei Bronze: Matthias Casse & Alpha Oumar Djalo women's -63kg Gold: Miku Takaichi Silver: Laura Fazliu Bronze: Angelika Szymanska & Gili Sharir women's -70kg Gold: Michaela Polleres Silver: Marie Eve Gahie Bronze: Lara Cvjetko & Saki Niizoe

The Masters ( Jerusalem) Day #2 Medal Matches men's -73kg Gold MM: vs Bronze MMs: vs & vs men's -81kg Gold MM: vs Bronze MMs: vs & vs women's -63kg Gold MM: vs Bronze MMs: vs & vs women's -70kg Gold MM: vs Bronze MMs: vs & vs Final Block starting in about 10 minutes!

yeah, I saw the updates on this situation yesterday... as I said to a friend, now the Mets have made a big switch in my personal list...from a half-nice team to just behind the Empire of Evil among the teams I like to...

(5) & (4) among the men + & (5) among the women are the only Nations exceeding the 3 quota places in the 5 weight classes so far, all the remaining Countries have no more than 3 men and 3 women currently in qualifying position (I'm only counting the top 10 ranked lifters for the global World spots, not the Continental quota places yet). looking at the world champs results, I guess that would eventually give up the -59Kg and the -71kg among the women.

Women's Rankings after 2022 World Champs, Part II 76*/81kg 1 LIANG Xiaomei, 270kg ( WANG Zhouyu, 266kg) 2 SALAZAR ARCE Tamara Yajaira, 262kg *3 AHMED Sara Samir Elsayed Mohamed, 261kg 4 DEKHA Iryna, 260kg ( DAJOMES BARRERA Neisi Patricia, 258kg) ( MARUSHCHAK Alina, 256kg) 5 MEDINA ROCA Ayamey Damiana, 253kg 6 NASCIMENTO AMARO Laura, 247kg *7 ROGERS Martha Ann, 247kg *8 KIM Suhyeon, 245kg 9 CHIRINOS LEON Dayana Aracelis, 244kg 10 MEJIA PEGUERO Yudelina, 243kg _______________________________________________ *11 ESCOBAR AGUIRRE Hellen Andrea, 242kg *( PAREDES ARREAGA Bella Nancy, 238kg) *( JIMENEZ QUINONEZ Kelin Juliana, 237kg) 12 GYURJYAN Liana, 237kg *( ECHEVERRIA MEZA Mailyng Guadalupe, 236kg) 13 NGARLEM Kristel, 231kg 14 NARIN Dilara, 230kg ( LAYLOR Maya Celeste, 230kg) *( BEDWARD Shania Sophia, 229kg) *( HAKOBYAN Tatev, 227kg) 15 HOSSEINI Seyedehelham, 226kg 87*/+87kg 1 LI Wenwen, 311kg 2 CAMPBELL Emily Jade, 287kg 3 CHAIDEE Duangaksorn, 286kg 4 ROBLES Sarah Elizabeth, 282kg 5 SON Younghee, 280kg 6 ABBAS Halima Abdelazim Sedky, 275kg 7 AYOVI CABEZAS Lisseth Betzaida, 275kg ( PARK Hyejeong, 274kg) 8 AKMAL Nurul, 260kg *9 KOANDA Solfrid Eila Amena, 260kg 10 SANTANA PEGUERO Crismery Dominga, 257kg _______________________________________________ 11 KOVALCHUK Lyubov, 256kg 12 PEREZ REVERON Naryury Alexandra, 255kg *13 CIKAMATANA Eileen Floanna Maria, 249kg

Women's Rankings after 2022 World Champs 45*/49kg 1 JIANG Huihua, 206kg 2 MIRABAI Chanu Saikhom, 200kg ( HOU Zhihui, 198kg) 3 CAMBEI Mihaela-Valentina, 194kg 4 REICHARDT Hayley Marie, 194kg 5 STERCKX Nina, 193kg ( DE LA CRUZ Jourdan Elizabeth, 191kg) 6 ROSA FIGUEIREDO Nathasha, 187kg 7 HERNANDEZ VIEYRA Yesica Yadira, 184kg 8 PHAM Dinh Thi, 182kg 9 ECHANDIA ZARATE Katherin Oriana, 182kg *10 SUKCHAROEN Thanyathon, 182kg ________________________________________ 11 IMPERIO Giulia, 181kg *( PRAMONGKHOL Siriwimon, 180kg) 12 INAN Lovely, 178kg ( DE LA HERRAN MARTINEZ Andrea, 176kg) 13 CANTIKA Aisah Windy, 176kg 14 TAKAHASHI Ibuki, 174kg 55*/59kg 1 ALVAREZ CAICEDO Yenny Fernanda, 234kg 2 KUO Hsing-Chun, 232kg 3 CHARRON Maude G., 231kg 4 LUO Shifang, 230kg ( LUO Xiaomin, 229kg) 5 KONOTOP Kamila, 223kg 6 WILKINS Taylor Nicole, 217kg ( USUGA CORREA Concepcion, 217kg) 7 TCHAKOUNTE Dora Meiriama, 216kg 8 GOMEZ VALDIVIA Janeth, 214kgkg 9 SEO Jeongmi, 212kg 10 VENEGAS VALERA Anyelin Maria, 211kg ________________________________________ 11 ANDOH Mikiko, 210kg ( GUILLEN VAZQUEZ Daphne, 209kg) *12 DIAZ Hidilyn, 207kg 13 ANDERSSON Ine Drablos, 206kg 64*/71kg 1 TOMA Loredana-Elena, 256kg 2 ZENG Tiantian, 253kg 3 PALACIOS DAJOMES Angie Paola, 252kg ( LIAO Guifang, 250kg) 4 REEVES Olivia Lynn, 245kg 5 SANCHEZ PERINAN Mari Leivis, 244kg ( NYE Katherine Elizabeth, 242kg) 6 FEGUE Marie Josephe, 241kg 7 MISERENDINO Giulia, 233kg *( PEI Xinyi, 233kg) 8 MACROHON Kristel, 232kg 9 DA COSTA Schott Amanda, 228kg *10 WAMALUN Rattanawan, 227kg _______________________________________ 11 PEINADO MEJIAS Laura Yenireet, 225kg *( LLAMOSA MOSQUERA Nathalia, 224kg) ( SARNO Vanessa, 224kg) 12 DAVIES Sarah, 223kg 13 ISHII Miku, 222kg *14 DURAN AYON Ana Lilia, 221kg

The Masters ( Jerusalem) Day #1 Medallists men's -60kg Gold: Lee Ha Rim Silver: Ryuju Nagayama Bronze: Balabay Aghayev & Yang Yung Wei men's -66kg Gold: Baruch Shmailov Silver: Daikii Bouba Bronze: Denis Vieru & Walide Khyar women's -48kg Gold: Shirine Boukli Silver: Wakana Koga Bronze: Assunta Scutto & Catarina Costa women's -52kg Gold: Distria Krasniqi Silver: Chelsie Giles Bronze: Odette Giuffrida & Reka Pupp women's -57kg Gold: Christa Deguchi Silver: Sarah Leonie Cysique Bronze: Tsukasa Yoshida & Huh Mimi

The Masters ( Jerusalem) Day #1 Medal Matches men's -60kg Gold MM: vs Bronze MMs: vs & vs men's -66kg Gold MM: vs Bronze MMs: vs & vs women's -48kg Gold MM: vs Bronze MMs: vs & vs women's -52kg Gold MM: vs Bronze MMs: vs ( already won Bronze automatically because of both women in the repechage round got DSQ) women's -57kg Gold MM: vs Bronze MMs: vs & vs Final Block starting right now!

in Italy, the record (of course) is still the 2006 Final on our public TV the viewers were 23,935,000 (meanwhile on our main pay-tv, Sky Italia, which were simulcasting the match, the viewers were 1,170,000). the rating was 84.1% on the public TV channel (Rai 1) and 6% on the Sky Italian TV channel(s). so, the total numbers for that magical night are 25,645,000 spectators and 90.1% rating (and this not counting the many thousends in front of the giant screens all around the city squares).

the exact opposite of Italy... here all the people only want sport events being shown on terrestrial/satellite traditional TV channels... and actually, public places can't stream anything by law*, they have to subscribe to dedicated TV channels to show football matches and/or F1, MotoGP races *to be precise, they can't stream mainstream events which they charge any amount of additional money for watching... during regular opening without any extra charge for watching a specific event they can put whatever (legally available, of course) they want on their tv screens (if they have any).

despite Baiul and Kim probably did skate the 2 best programs ever, here there's only one Queen, one Legend... and her name is Katarina Witt

Men's Rankings after 2022 World Champs, Part II 96*/102kg *1 PAREDES MONTANO Lesman, 397kg 2 ELBAKH Fares Ibrahim E. H., 391kg 3 DEHDAR Reza, 390kg 4 GASPARYAN Samvel, 389kg 5 RASULBEKOV Bekdoolot, 388kg 6 CHKHEIDZE Irakli, 387kg 7 ANTROPOV Artyom, 385kg *( ADILETULY Nurgissa, 383kg) 8 RUIZ I. VELASCO Marcos, 381kg *9 MORENO TORRES Jhor Esneider, 380kg 10 KITTS Wesley Brian, 379kg _______________________________________ *11 IMADOUCHENE Romain Jordan Sebastien, 378kg 12 MARINOV Vasil Kaloyanov, 377kg 109*/+109kg 1 TALAKHADZE Lasha, 466kg 2 MINASYAN Gor, 462kg 3 LALAYAN Varazdat, 461kg 4 DAVOUDI Ali, 449kg 5 ASAAD Man, 445kg 6 ELSAYED Abdelrahman Mohamed A. A., 433kg ( SHARIFI Ayat, 432kg) ( MARTIROSYAN Simon, 425kg) 7 BIDANI Walid, 420kg 8 JO Seongbin, 418kg ( HWANG Wooman, 416kg) 9 KUCERA Kamil, 411kg 10 CHINEN Kosuke, 404kg _____________________________________________ ( MURAKAMI Eishiro, 400kg) 11 SEIM Mart, 397kg *12 NURUDINOV Ruslan, 397kg 13 LITI David Andrew, 396kg

Men's Rankings after 2022 World Champs 55*/61kg 1 LI Fabin, 312kg 2 IRAWAN Eko Yuli, 300kg ( HE Yueji, 296kg) 3 MASSIDDA Sergio, 293kg ( SAPUTRA Ricko, 293kg) 4 CHOMCHUEN Teerapat, 292kg 5 SERNA MENDOZA Jhon Jairo, 289kg 6 MISHVELIDZE Shota, 285kg 7 NGUYEN Tran Anh Tuan, 281kg 8 CENIZA John Febuar, 280kg 9 CALDERON LICOURT Arley Lazaro, 280kg 10 MARINOV Gabriel, 279kg ______________________________________________ ( BERDELIDZE Goderdzi, 277kg) 11 ALSALEEM Seraj Abdulrahim M., 276kg 12 MORRIS Hampton Miller, 275kg 13 LUGO RODRIGUEZ Wilkeinner Nahun, 274kg 14 HARDAL Ferdi, 273kg 15 GUEMEZ CEL Victor Badur, 271kg 67*/73kg 1 ABDULLAH Rahmat Erwin, 352kg ( JUNIANSYAH Rizki, 347kg) 2 CHURKIN Alexey, 343kg 3 ANDREEV Bozhidar Dimitrov, 338kg 4 MIYAMOTO Masanori, 337kg 5 JEERAM Suttipong, 333kg 6 YUAN Chengfei, 331kg 7 OZBEK Muhammed Furkan, 331kg ( WEI Yinting, 330kg) 8 ASANIDZE Kakhi, 327kg 9 LANG Max Richard, 326kg ( KONNAI Mitsunori, 325kg) *10 MOSQUERA VALENCIA Francisco Antonio, 325kg _______________________________________________ *( CHEN Lijun, 324kg) *( WICHUMA Weeraphon, 323kg) *( GENC Fehmi Yusuf, 322kg) 11 CARDENAS ESTRADA Jorge Adan, 321kg 12 SUHAREVS Ritvars, 319kg *13 REYES VIDAL Jair Abimelet, 316kg 81*/89kg 1 VALLENILLA SANCHEZ Keydomar Giovanni, 385kg 2 RODALLEGAS CARVAJAL Brayan Santiago, 381kg 3 LIU Huanhua, 381kg 4 ROSTAMI Kianoush, 380kg *( LI Dayin, 372kg) 5 DAMRON Nathan Charles, 370kg *6 REJEPOV Rejepbay, 366kg 7 SAEZ VERA Olfides, 362kg 8 MUELLER Nico, 361kg 9 DAVITADZE Revaz, 358kg *10 KIM Woo Jae, 357kg ______________________________________________ 11 MOLDODOSOV Emil, 354kg ( BEGUE GONZALEZ Ariolvis, 352kg) 12 MEZINSKIS Armands, 352kg 13 KARAPETYAN Andranik, 352kg

well, unfortunately Italy wasn't there also 4 years ago... the big difference is the season in which they played. In 2018, as always, the World Cup was played at the beginning of the Summer (when the schools normally close their activity). This year, instead, they played just before Christmas, with all the school and working activities running full time. moreover, 4 years ago there were more matches in our prime time in the group stage phase.

The complete table, match by match: QATAR 2022.pdf

in Italy, the World Cup Final yesterday afternoon recorded 12,948,000 viewers (up 1.25 million from 4 years ago*) for a rating of 68.6% (up 2 pts from 2018*). the 64 matches did average 3,998,000 viewers and a 24.45% rating, both numbers significantly lower than 4 years ago* (4.45 million viewers and 27.8% rating in 2018). *4 years ago the whole World Cup was broadcasted by the Mediaset TV channels, a private commercial network (owned by the infamous mr.Berlusconi), meanwhile this year all the matches were aired by our public TV channels, RAI.

first Argentina winning the world cup, then this one... basically, a perfect day

my very special exercise from Today...

e anche gli ultimi eventi sportivi internazionali non specificamente invernali dell'anno sono in archivio (manca giusto il Masters di Judo da martedì a giovedì prossimi)... nello specifico, da segnalare il bilancio finale dei mondiali di Nuoto in vasca corta, terminati oggi a Melbourne. come noto, l'Italia (e non solo) si presentava con una squadra ridotta nei numeri, ma non nella qualità dei selezionati. obiettivo dichiarato, migliorare Dubai 2021. ebbene, l'impresa è quasi riuscita, visto che alla fine sono arrivate 16 medaglie come 12 mesi fa, anche se con un oro in meno, colpa di alcune controprestazioni e di un campo partenti un po' più qualificato dell'anno scorso. nello specifico, primo tra i primi, il solito immenso super-Greg (Paltrinieri), che, sebbene non al meglio, riesce comunque a stroncare gli avversari e a conquistare 2 dei 5 ori azzurri. a ruota, segue Thomas Ceccon, che si allontana momentaneamente dai suoi 100 dorso (lasciando spazio a un eccellente Lorenzo Mora, argento sui 100 e bronzo sui 200 a "pancia in su") per contribuire alla grande alla staffetta 4*100m stile libero maschile e per prendersi un alloro inatteso quanto esaltante sui 100m misti. tra le imprese eccellenti, in generale, da annotare le staffette, sempre super competitive e tutte a medaglia, anche se la 4*50m stile libero maschile e la 4*100m mista sempre al maschile lasciano più rimpianti che altro sia per i pochissimi centesimi che ci hanno separato dall'oro sia per il fatto che i suddetti ori sono mancati per errori tattici e/o controprestazioni inaspettate e non tanto per la forza assoluta di chi ci ha battuto. al femminile, finalmente Sara Franceschi riesce a fare una gara degna nei 400m misti donne e si aggiudica l'unica medaglia individuale del gentil sesso, dove sono state purtroppo più le note negative che altro. ammalata Silvia di Pietro, la vera delusione è Benedetta Pilato, che pare regredita inspiegabilmente nei 50m e ferma nei 100m, persa tra i problemi scolastici e chissà cos'altro a livello fisico e tecnico. non sarà facile per lei rimettere insieme tutti i pezzi in tempi brevi...speriamo non si perda del tutto. tra le altre note non proprio positive, Matteo Ciampi nello stile libero "intermedio" (comunque prevedibile...troppo il divario con i vertici mondiali) e Alberto Razzetti (misti e farfalla), che non è riuscito a prendere neanche una medaglia a livello individuale, anche se più che un suo peggioramento, ha sofferto il ritorno di atleti più forti di lui, che 12 mesi fa non c'erano. detto dell'ottimo Mora, delude invece un altro dei campioni uscenti, Matteo Rivolta, che riesce a farsi squalificare in semifinale nei 50m farfalla, arriva solo quinto nei suoi 100m farfalla con un tempo deludente a dir poco e contribuisce meno del previsto alla staffetta 4*100m mista. da ricordare, per lui, solo la staffetta 4*50m mista, dove ha fatto la differenza. ultime righe per i ranisti, con il giovane Simone Cerasuolo che guadagna un'ottima finale sui 100m e una clamorosa medaglia sui 50m, mentre il "capitano" Martinenghi viene infilzato 2 volte dalla sua nemesi, l'americano Nick Fink, sia sui 50m che sui 100m, rendendo il superamento di Adam Peaty meno entusiasmante di quanto avrebbe potuto essere. per lui, 2 argenti individuali un po' amari...le aspettative erano altre. un'ultima nota di merito, infine, per la squadra di volley femminile di Conegliano, che oggi si è laureata campione del mondo di club, battendo la nuova squadra (turca) di Paola Egonu, ancora una volta uscita con le ossa rotte da una finale internazionale. alla prossima, quando commenterò il Masters di Judo come ultimo momento saliente del 2022...

Stage #2 ( Passo Paradiso) Men's Individual Race (NOT an Olympic Event) Gold: Remi Bonnet Silver: Davide Magnini Bronze: Thibault Anselmet