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couple of interesting results from Monaco's Mare Nostrum meet Kim Woo Min won the men's 400m Free in 3.42.42 Hwang Sung Woo won the men's 100m Free in 47.91 S.B. Haughey won the women's 200m Free in 1.54.53 Kristof Milàk won the men's 200m Fly in 1.53.94 Sarah Sjostrom went 23.91 in the women's 50m Free and 25.21 in the women's 50m Fly quarterfinals in general, it was a good session Full Results https://marenostrumswimtour.com/meeting-results/monaco-day-1-results-2024 Today's the final day of the whole circuit

the Cubans had a wind reading of +1.2 m/s, but I guess it was just 12 m/s Hibbert might be the favourite, but he won't win in Paris

yes, it's already official, they declined the 2022 Worlds OQP

just 4 words...worst Italian performance ever

Karate 1 Premier League ( Casablanca) Finals Lineup Women's Individual Kata Gold Medal Match: Maho Ono vs Mirisa Ohuchi Bronze Medal Match #1: Saeko Azuma vs Grace Lau Mo Sheung Bronze Medal Match #2: Nakaji Hisami vs Kiri Mishima Men's Individual Kata Gold Medal Match: Kakeru Nishiyama vs Ryuji Moto Bronze Medal Match #1: Eiji Otsuki vs Sakichi Abe Bronze Medal Match #2: Enes Ozdemir vs Kazumasa Moto Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold Medal Match: Moldir Zhangbyrbay vs Yorgelis Salazar Bronze Medal Match #1: Aika Okazaki vs Natalia Vargova Bronze Medal Match #2: Chloe Breuzard vs Sara Tsutsumi Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold Medal Match: Valentina Toro Meneses vs Istri Agung Sanistyarani Cok Bronze Medal Match #1: Viola Lallo vs Jennifer Warling Bronze Medal Match #2: Ku Tsui-Ping vs Rezzan Im Zumra Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold Medal Match: Yuki Kujuro vs Gong Li Bronze Medal Match #1: Maryam Ajaray vs Oleksandra Sholokhova Bronze Medal Match #2: Reem Khamis vs Carlota Fernandez Osorio Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold Medal Match: Hadir Hendy vs Elena Quirici Bronze Medal Match #1: Thalya Sombe vs Anita Makyan Bronze Medal Match #2: Tsubasa Kama vs Elina Sieliemienieva Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold Medal Match: Nancy Garcia vs Sofya Berultseva Bronze Medal Match #1: Niamh Junner vs Meltem Akyol Hocaoglu Bronze Medal Match #2: Lucija Lesjak vs Shaaban Okila Menna Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold Medal Match: Hiromu Hashimoto vs Abdullah Shaaban Bronze Medal Match #1: Ahmad Abu Hazeem vs Kaisar Alpysbay Bronze Medal Match #2: Abdel Alì Jina vs Amr Alaa Aboukora Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold Medal Match: Yugo Kozaki vs Abdel Rahman Almasatfa Bronze Medal Match #1: Anass Alami vs Muhammed Oezdemir Bronze Medal Match #2: Yanis Tas vs Haj Amar Youness Oualad Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold Medal Match: Enzo Berthon vs Abdalla Abdelaziz Bronze Medal Match #1: Nurkanat Azhikanov vs Mohamed-Amine Badjou Bronze Medal Match #2: Abdalla Hesham Abdelgawad vs Quentin Mahauden Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold Medal Match: Andrii Toroshanko vs Daniyar Yuldashev Bronze Medal Match #1: Youssef Badawy vs Junya Eto Bronze Medal Match #2: Konstantinos Mastrogiannis vs Mohammad Aljafari Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold Medal Match: Taha Tarek Mahmoud vs Ryzvan Talibov Bronze Medal Match #1: Ahmed Elmasry vs Mehdi Filali Bronze Medal Match #2: Amir Zouaoui vs Umut Eren Gundog

Yes, I read something about that a few weeks ago... they tried to strenghten the rule about withdrawals, but it looks they didn't get any result... frankly, they have to change format (and make clear that if a pair doesn't play a game at any stage, they're out of the whole tournament) I know TV networks would hate it, but going back to the good old double elimination table draw (no more group stages) would force the players to try and win every match

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1145713/seine-still-fails-water-tests-months?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=vr&utm_campaign=tsb moving Open Water Swimming and Triathlon elsewhere (Cote d'Azur, Marseille), no? plan B, C, D???

this week's recap for women's K1: Horn women's C1: men's C1: Ivaldi Ceccon and Colazingari men's K1: Ferrazzi De Gennaro...that was a clear robbery!!! he did pass the gate correctly! moral winner general thoughts... Ziga Hocevar

robbery incoming in 3, 2, 1...

AHL & NHL playoffs Tennis, Roland Garros Football, Champions League final NCAA Baseball & Softball, start of the postseason MLB Baseball, regular season Motorsports Slalom Canoeing world cup (stage #1) Swimming, Mare Nostrum meets women's Handball, Champions League, Final 4 team sports around the world, domestic leagues oh, yes...I forgot the Stockholm DL meet not bad for an average early June weekend

Roma 2024 European Championships the Entry Lists are out! Nine world champions headline final entries for Roma 2024 The entry-lists are headed by nine individual gold medallists from the 2023 World Athletics Championships: Jakob Ingebrigtsen (1500/5000m), Karsten Warholm (400m hurdles), Gianmarco Tamberi (high jump), Armand Duplantis (pole vault), Miltiadis Tentoglou (long jump) and Daniel Stahl (discus) on the men’s side and Femke Bol (400m hurdles), Yaroslava Mahuchikh (high jump) and Katarina Johnson-Thompson (heptathlon) on the women’s side. In total, 34 individual champions from the Munich 2022 European Athletics Championships will be looking to add to their title hauls in Rome including Croatia's Sandra Elkasevic who is seeking a record seventh successive European title in the discus. At the time of writing, the entry-lists also feature six athletes who lead the 2024 world lists in their respective disciplines: world record-holders Duplantis (6.24m, pole vault) and Mykolas Alekna (74.35m, discus) along with Ingebrigtsen (3:29.74, 1500m) Brits Keely Hodgkinson (1:55.78, 800m) and Molly Caudery (4.86m, pole vault) and Germany’s Max Dehning (90.20m, javelin). The oldest athlete entered for Roma 2024 is 44-year-old French discus thrower Melina Robert-Michon, born 18 July 1979, who is contesting her seventh European Athletics Championships while the youngest entrant is 16-year-old Romanian 400m hurdles Alexandra Stefania Uta, born 6 October 2007,, the bronze medallist at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships. Robert-Michon, who won bronze in Zurich 2014, will be making a record eighth appearance at the European Athletics Championships having made her debut at these championships all the way back in Budapest 1998. A late addition to the decathlon entry list is the world record-holder and 2017 and 2022 world champion Kevin Mayer - also a three-time European indoor heptathlon champion - who does not have the entry standard but has received a wildcard for Roma 2024. "The French Athletics Federation requested a wild card for Kevin Mayer which the European Athletics Executive Board carefully considered,” explained European Athletics President Dobromir Karamarinov "We recognised that Kevin is a two-time world champion in the decathlon, most recently in 2022, and the current world record-holder. Given his exceptional achievements, there was considerable merit in granting this wild card. “European Athletics knows that it will add great interest for the public when they see a global star and world record-holder like Kevin competing at Roma 2024 and we are happy to welcome Kevin,” he added. Final Entries by season's best https://european-athletics.directus.app/assets/01729805-c304-4f60-9b54-d38c99a4d1df/ECH2024 - FE - Athletes List By Event and SB.pdf

Salvatore Maresca (Artistic Gymnastics, Rings specialist), rupture of the pretibial patellar tendon https://www.oasport.it/2024/05/ginnastica-artistica-salvatore-maresca-infortunato-in-allenamento-addio-alle-olimpiadi/

many insiders have Bichette on the go, sooner rather than later let's wait and see...

he was injured, but I don't know what kind of injury he sustained

yeah, in fact I wrote that I don't like to see that name in the list, but I knew she was going to be named Cuomo...no, to me the men's epee team was set in stone after last year's world title...only a big injury could have changed that even Torre ahead of Gallo in the men's sabre, despite this year's results, it's not a surprise to me (I'm really glad they didn't fall into the Berrè trap...and there was quite a risk)

yes

event by event has priority, if they can't fill the list with that, they go to the overall ranking

no surprise to me... Batini is definitely not good for the team events, Palumbo is way more skilled in that kind of exercise the only name I don't like in the whole list is Vecchi in the women's Sabre

Italy women's Foil Arianna Errigo Martina Favaretto Alice Volpi Francesca Palumbo (team/reserve) men's Foil Guillaume Bianchi Filippo Macchi Tommaso Marini Alessio Foconi (team/reserve) women's Epee Rossella Fiamingo Giulia Rizzi Alberta Santuccio Mara Navarria (team/reserve) men's Epee Davide Di Veroli Andrea Santarelli Federico Vismara Gabriele Cimini (team/reserve) women's Sabre Michela Battiston Martina Criscio Chiara Mormile Irene Vecchi (team/reserve) men's Sabre Luca Curatoli Luigi Samele Pietro Torre Michele Gallo Michele Gallo Pietro Torre (team/reserve)

what medal events? if she can't hit a cocumber! do you really think she has a chance to be part of a medal candidate couple? let's be serious she would be the classic sports tourist

a couple of interesting clockings from Yesterday in Barcelona: Popovici won the men's 200m Free in 1.44.74, Gorbenko swam a new meet record in the women's 200m IM in 2.08.55 Milàk also swam the men's 50m Free and ended up in 3rd place in 22.25 (the race went to Flo Manaudou in 21.89) Today's the second day of the Barcelona Mare Nostrum meet: Finals just started

Milàk wins the men's 100m Fly at the Mare Nostrum Meet in Barcelona in 50.95 more to come...

yes, he could add up to 190 points (he has only 4 tournaments -and one is only a 10-pt score- to be added to the world and continental champs in the 100% value stint), meanwhile Zgank has no chance to improve his score but given that his knee is not at 100% yet, I don't know if they're going to take the risk tbh, I'd give it a try (possibly not in Madrid, where most likely the starting field is gonna be very competitive), but I'm not a FIJLKAM man

men's Individual 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Gold: Maksym Horodynets Silver: Riccardo Mazzetti Bronze: Christian Reitz Olympic Quota Places (to the NOC, NOT to the Shooters): and Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19801

basically, it depends on how big the venue is