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those are not locked gold medals at all...

no, I already posted the correct link to the medallists from day #1, good 2 days ago... wikipedia has them correct... day #1 only has the medallists also on worltaekwondo Europe's website, day #2 has the link to the full draw with results, too... https://worldtaekwondoeurope.org/files/Draw_lots_and_reslut_D2.pdf

no, there are a lot of big names you'll see on the Olympic podium... but of course they're not in good shape yet...and this is the first serious event in 16 months, so upsets and unexpected results are on the agenda...

I'm sorry... good luck...hope it gets well as soon as possible...

I hope everything is OK now...

only the medallists... https://worldtaekwondoeurope.org/files/P14_MEDALLIST_BY_WEIGHT_CATEGORY_1_1.pdf by the way, OA have their usual live written updates through the whole day of competition...most results can be taken out from that page...

Michele Pasinato dies at the age of 52 after unsuccessful fight against cancer he was one of the Golden Generation guys of the Italian male Volleyball, multiple European Champion, 1998 World Champion and member of the unlucky Barcelona 1992 Olympic team... currently, he was a youth coach of the Padua club team, the same where his career started as a player... https://www.italy24news.com/sport/13001.html RIP

of course we can reach different satellites...especially here in the North of Italy, I can see only a few channels from the Middle East...meanwhile in the South of Italy it's very different, they can see almost everything from 26 East and 7 west (BEIN included...there are a lot of Italian subscribers -normally thanks to Moroccan resellers)... however, sometimes I explore different positions going east (42° with the Turkish channels, said Azeri and Turkmen channels, sometimes when they're active at 52° the Uzbekistan Sport channel, the Afghan RTA and RTA Sports for some Cricket...unfortunately, the Kirgyz Sport channel and a few others interesting channel from that area would require a bigger dish than mine )... however, personally, I'm OK with my Sky italia + the Czech/Slovak TV Subscription and the whole German and British FTA channels lineup (nowadays I'm more and more relying on the OTT services for the US Sports and YT/World federations services for the disciplines with less room on the traditional tv channels, since I finally got a full gigabit fiber internet connection )...

it's not to embarass IOC (not to risk any future denial of economic help nor any possible, even if improbable sanction), not Japan for sure (they surely would expose Japan if only they had a chance)...

according to our Orange Hair "friend", it will become "pandemic" and all the Countries would eventually give up and force the cancellation of the Games...

I'm surprised you found that out only recently... here in Italy, Turkmenistan Sport (and CBC Sport Azerbaijan) have been for years the main source to find Serie A (and the Azeri also Spanish La Liga and Champions League) for free instead of paying the bunch of money Sky Italia has always asked for their Italian football coverage (right now, we're living a kind of South American soap opera because the online provider dazn has stripped sky Italia the TV and internet rights of the next 3 serie A seasons...they're announcing to go in front of trial courts one day after the other to try and revert this situation ...it's absolutely crazy how many pages have been written on that in the last couple of months)... p.s. and we don't even need too big dishes to find those 2 channels on satellite... I can regularly watch them from Northern Italy with a 120cm dish (and most likely also a smaller one would make it in any case)... it's easier than getting the British channels (BBC and ITV)...

it's a different consideration of what sport means in each Country... here, it's just the last thing to think about...and no government wants to spend any money on that (they just give a miserable contribution only because they are morally forced to do it, but especially parties like the 5 Star Movement and/or any lefty group would even close our NOC down, if they could )... our politicians are always ready to appear on tv and newspapers with our sport champions, but they are also always ready to hit them from behind when needed, especially when it comes to funding... it's not a coincidence that during this pandemic period the only truly locked down activity is amateur sport (and also some pro sports have been basically stopped for almost a year, like all the fighting sports)... we could make a challenge...come here in Italy and try to find an open gym and/or swimming pool...if you can... this is how they think about the future of our youngsters and of our sport movement in general...

probably they already know that SkiMo will become an Olympic discipline very soon (2026) and they're trying to be among the participants in the first ever SkiMo Olympic event...

this time... but in the past we used to have tougher standards also in athletics (and we also used to have a stronger and deeper team in athletics, but that's another story... )... p.s I don't agree at all, too...and if I were an athlete, I'd go even in front of a trial court to make this discrimination end... but I'm only a lazy TV spectator...

I don't know what's the situation in other Countries, but I can tell you that Italy have more demanding standards than IOC in those sports that could lead our team to be too big... in Swimming and Athletics it's always possible to qualify so many athletes that our Olympic trip would eventually be too expensive because of too many participants (we always have to deal with 300 to 400 athletes...and this costs a lot to our poor NOC), that's why we always want to be sure that our guys don't get a free holiday but can at least go through the preliminaries and make at least the semis... if we would allow all those who beat the "easy" FINA rather than WA standards, we would almost surely have a 500 to 600 people team, which is not sustainable by our NOC in terms of pure money... in the end, it's always about money...

Day #3 Results Men's Junior Team Sabre Gold: Egypt Silver: Russia Bronze: France Full Ranking: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/A2F07E9A9DC14BF3997D7340FFA9FE98 Women's Junior Team Sabre Gold: South Korea Silver: United States Bronze: Romania Full Ranking: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/6A765F3D5BBD4EAC865C96070CEFC731

the most beautiful story of the whole Tokyo Games... and you don't even need to wait until the Summer to enjoy... https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/stories/news/detail/swimming-japan-olympic-trials-day-2/ https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2021/04/04/rikako-ikee-leukemia-olympics-swimming-japan/ https://swimswam.com/leukemia-survivor-rikako-ikee-qualifies-for-the-tokyo-olympic-games/ https://swimswam.com/rikakoikees-olympic-qualifying-100fly-race-emotional-interview-video/

Those are GMT times, but CET nowadays is GMT+2...

are you sure you're reading the correct program? as far as I know, the start time for all Monday and Tuesday sessions is 10 a.m. while on Wednesday the C & B Finals will start at 9 a.m. and the big finals at 9.40 a.m. (plus, some repechage heats on Tuesday will be held in the afternoon)... ah, OK I just read the news about weather forecast... they cancelled all of Tuesday's sessions, so the only event that has 4 competition rounds (M1X) will feature heats and repechage on Monday and semis and finals on Wednesday (however, it's at 8.30 a.m. the semis and at 10.50 a.m. the final...not as crazy early as you posted )...

Day #2 Results Men's Cadet Individual Sabre Gold: Marco Sovar Silver: Park Jun Seong Bronze: Arseniy Shelekhov & Colby Harley Full Ranking: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/A206DC07279D47D081262C9E202027FA Women's Cadet Individual Sabre Gold: Magda Skarbonkiewicz Silver: Yulia Salabai Bronze: Zarifa Huseynova & Zoe Kim Full Ranking: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/9D0E79E94E054A39993D31FDFB1F251D

Day #1 Results Men's Junior Individual Sabre Gold: Kirill Tyulyukov Silver: Bobirjon Rasulov Bronze: Adham Moataz & Szymon Hryciuk Full Ranking: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/9D1044D1A17041BC83D3CB94887D6514 Women's Junior Individual Sabre Gold: Jeon Ha Young Silver: Nisanur Erbil Bronze: Valeriia Prochenko & Dariya Drozd Full Ranking: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/32F44DA1FCED4C249C960E1D46731E9C

Italian Spring Nationals, (Final) Day #4 Champions Men's 1500m Free: Gregorio Paltrinieri*, 14.40.38 Women's 1500m Free: Simona Quadarella*, 15.57.03 (2nd: Martina Caramignoli*, 15.59.13) Men's 50m Back: Lorenzo Mora, 25.30 Women's 50 Breast: Benedetta Pilato*, 29.91 (29.62 in the morning Heats) Men's 50m Fly: Piero Codia, 23.47 Women's 50m Fly: Silvia Di Pietro, 26.38 Men's 200m IM: Alberto Razzetti, 1.57.13 (new NR and OQT) Women's 200m IM: Sara Franceschi*, 2.11.57 *already qualified to the Olympic Games via previous events/NF decision

if you get your Eurosport Player (or Discovery+ app, depending on what happens in your Country), you're going to have every single event of the Games available ondemand not only during the Games, but also for quite a while after the end of Tokyo 2020* (so, you'll also have the chance to catch up with those events you don't watch in those 16 days because of time restrictions/personal priorities)... *if I remember correctly, Pyeongchang 2018's events were still available on Eurosport Player until about a month after the end of those Games...

tv and online coverage is on the Eurosport TV channels and online Player... results should be available on this page as soon as the competition starts... https://www.ewfed.com/ewf-senior-weightlifting-championships-oqc-03-11-april-2021-moscow-rus.html keep an eye also on the EWfed Facebook page... https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanWeightlifting

Italian Spring Nationals, Day #3 Champions Men's 100m Back: Simone Sabbioni, 53.91 Women's 100m Breast: Martina Carraro, 1.05.86 (new NR and OQT, =2nd: Benedetta Pilato* and Arianna Castiglioni, 1.06.00) Men's 100m Fly: Piero Codia, 52.06 Women's 200 Free: Federica Pellegrini*, 1.56.69 Men's 200m Free: Stefano Ballo, 1.46.76 (=2nd: Stefano Di Cola and Filippo Megli, 1.47.45; =4th: Matteo Ciampi and Marco De Tullio, 1.47.83) Women's 100m Fly: Elena Di Liddo, 57.85 Men's 50m Breast: Niccolò Martinenghi*, 26.39 (new NR, 3rd clocking in the world all time, NR already improved in the morning Heats with 26.47) Women's 50m Back: Silvia Scalia, 28.17 *already qualified to the Olympic Games via previous events/NF decision