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Day #2 Women's -52kg Gold: Uta Abe Silver: Chelsie Giles Bronze: Distria Krasniqi & Amandine Buchard Men's -66kg Gold: Hifumi Abe Silver: Joshiro Maruyama Bronze: An Baul & Denis Vieru

Day #2 Today's medal matches are: Women's -52kg Bronze Medal match #1: Gefen Primo vs Distria Krasniqi Bronze Medal match #2: Khorloodoi Bishrelt vs Amandine Bouchard Gold Medal match: Uta Abe vs Chelsie Giles Men's -66kg Bronze Medal match #1: Elios Manzi vs An Baul Bronze Medal match #2: Vazha Margvelashvili vs Denis Vieru Gold Medal match: Hifumi Abe vs Joshiro Maruyama

I don't think so... Tsunoda is a great player, Scutto is the future...and a couple of big names (Tonaki included) had a bad day, which made the bottom half of the draw look "easy" for people who normally don't make the podium in the global events. But the overall level wasn't cheap at all. p.s. the fact that some medals weren't easily predictable is only a plus for the sport, it shows that also the stars of the game can lose against mid-ranking players if they are not at 100% (or don't take them too seriously).

Gameday #5 completed with 6 away wins in 6 matches played. and with 2 more teams officially earning a spot in the knockout stage with 1 game still to be played: Grizzlys Wolfsburg (Group B) and Mountfield HK (Group G). After this week's results, we have 7 groups out of 8 done and dusted and 15 teams out of 16 already qualified to the round of last 16. the only group/teams still to be decided are group E Red Bull Salzburg, Ilves Tampere and Stavanger Oilers that are going to fight for the last spot in the knockout stage in the final gameday of this preliminary group stage.

Group Stage Day 5, Part 2 Wednesday 05.10.2022 - Results Group B 18:00 TPS Turku (FIN) - Grizzlys Wolfsburg (GER) 1-4 19:15 Olimpija Ljubljana (SLO) - EV Zug (SUI) 1-3 Standing : 1.EV Zug 14(Q), 2.Wolfsburg 10 (Q), 3.TPS 6, 4.Olimpija 0 Group C 18:00 Red Bull Munich (GER) - Tappara Tampere (FIN) 3-4 (OT) 20:00 Slovan Bratislava (SVK) - Rapperswil-Jona (SUI) 4-6 Standing : 1.Red Bull Munich 12 (Q), 2.Tappara 12 (Q), 3.Rapperswil-Jona 6, 4.Slovan 0 Group E 20:20 Red Bull Salzburg (AUT) - Fribourg-Gotteròn (SUI) 0-1 Standing : 1.Fribourg 12 (Q), 2.Red Bull Salzburg 7, 3.Ilves 6, 4.Stavanger 5 Group G 19:30 Eisbären Berlin (GER) - Mountfield HK (CZE) 3-7 Standing : 1.Frölunda 12 (Q), 2.Mountfield 12 (Q), 3.Eisbären 6, 4.Grenoble 0

Japan dominating the field...what's new? and if the men's "minor" medals have somehow gone to those who were predictable before the championship (maybe in another order, but that's it), among the women we have at least 2 big surprises and a youngster who's already anticipating her bright future on the podium, meanwhile a couple of the most expected "names" are missing. let's see what happens tomorrow, when Japan are still the big favourites in both the women's -52kg and the men's -66kg classes.

Day #1 Women's -48kg Gold: Natsumi Tsunoda Silver: Katharina Menz Bronze: Assunta Scutto & Abiba Abuzhakynova Men's -60kg Gold: Naohisa Takato Silver: Ariunbold Enkhtaivan Bronze: Yeldos Smetov & Yang Yung Wei

ps my prediction contest is already a disaster after the morning session of day #1...

Day #1 quite a few upsets this morning in the early rounds... Today's medal matches are: Women's -48kg Bronze Medal match #1: Assunta Scutto vs Julia Figueroa Bronze Medal match #2: Mary Dee Vargas Ley vs Abiba Abuzhakynova Gold Medal match: Natsumi Tsunoda vs Katharina Menz Men's -60kg Bronze Medal match #1: Yeldos Smetov vs Dilshodbek Baratov Bronze Medal match #2: Yam Wolczak vs Yang Yung Wei Gold Medal match: Naohisa Takato vs Ariunbold Enkhtaivan

io invece penso che non abbiamo affatto l'organico migliore, ma siamo un one-man team. dipendiamo in tutto e per tutto da Egonu, in attacco non c'è alternativa, visto che non possiamo giocare troppo in velocità coi centrali dato che la ricezione è scarsa, i martelli di banda o non sanno ricevere (Pietrini) o sono delle "mozzarelle" in attacco (Bosetti e Sylla...non mettono giù un pallone che sia uno di pura potenza) e la difesa è da sempre il nostro tallone d'Achille. detto questo, egonu è così forte che può davvero vincere il mondiale da sola, specie dopo aver visto quanto incostanti (se non inconsistenti) siano le altre rivali. passando oltre, prima mattinata del mondiale di Judo persino oltre le aspettative, ma finita con tanti, troppi rimpianti. tra le ragazze dei -48kg, Scutto per ora ha fatto il suo, ma niente impresa contro la Giapponese Tsunoda...e quindi si giocherà il bronzo. Milani, invece, stava andando alla grande, poi una decisione incomprensibile (almeno a me...vorrei tanto chiedere un parere "a freddo" a più di un arbitro internazionale) le è costata la squalifica contro la tedesca Menz, che non le è certo superiore e poi è arrivata addirittura in finale per l'oro al maschile, invece, grande prestazione di Pantano nei -60kg...molto al di là delle previsioni...peccato però che abbia perso al golden score un match che avrebbe dovuto vincere ai regolamentari contro il Mongolo Enkhtaivan e, peggio ancora, abbia tirato nel cesso un match già vinto contro l'Israeliano Woznak nel repechage round...chiude settimo, ma sarebbe potuta andare molto meglio (e non avrebbe rubato nulla se fosse arrivato fino alla finalissima). non vorrei fosse l'inizio di una settimana piena di illusioni e rimpianti.

there is nothing nuclear on that train... it's just the nuclear brigade of the Russian army and some tanks travelling in Central Russia (which is still quite far away from Ukraine) and moving from an unknown location to another, where their nuclear depots are. they still have to bring the weapons out...and they won't be on that train in any case.

Men's Junior Team Skeet Gold: United States Silver: Finland Bronze: India

it's October, which means that all the most important Baseball Pro Leagues around the world are coming close to the Regular Season end and they're ready to start their respective playoffs campaign... this year, the first of the 3 main Pro Leagues around the world to close their RS was the Japanese NPB. the season has been highlighted by Munetaka Murakami (Yakult Swallows) chasing the HR record of that league, with the target set at 60 HRs overall (record held by the Dutch Vlad Balentien) and at 55 for what concerns the best Japanese hitter ever (record held by the legendary Sadaru Oh). Murakami was on pace to destroy all the records entering September, but once he matched Oh's record for a Jpanese player at 55 HRs, he went into an unbelievable slump and he couldn't hit anymore for good 20 days, until the last make-up game of the whole RS (last Monday). luckily, in the last at-bat of that last game of the RS, he could finally hit at least his 56th HR of the season to become the solitary leader of the Japanese all-time HR hitters. unfortunately, the long slump in September cost him the overall record. Hopefully it will happen next year (unless he chooses to travel to the USA to play in the MLB). for what concerns the league, instead, Murakami's Tokyo Yakult Swallows (the reigning Japan Series champions) dominated once again the Central League standings. and the Osaka ORIX Buffaloes also repeated themselves in the Pacific League, even if in this case it was only a cruel tie-breaker to separate them from the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks. this is the full final ranking of the 2022 NPB Regular Season (both Central and Pacific League): https://npb.jp/bis/eng/2022/standings/ Next Saturday, October 8th, the playoffs are going to start with the first round of the Climax Series: in the Central League, the Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars will host the Hanshin Tigers, with the winner of the series going to play on the Yakult Swallow's home field in the CL final series. at the same time, in the Pacific League, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks will host the Saitama Seibu Lions, with the winner of this series going to play the PL final series in Osaka against the ORIX Buffaloes. Both first round series are best-of-3 matchups and all the games are played on the home field of the team with the best RS ranking between the 2 contestants.

yeah, really fast...

Women's Junior Team Skeet Gold: China Silver: United States Bronze: Slovakia

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Men's -60kg Day 1 Ocotber 6th 2022 Karamat Huseynov Jorre Verstraeten X Yang Yung Wei X Romain Valadier Picard Lukhumi Chkhvimiani X Naohisa Takato X Magzhan Shamshadin Ariunbold Enkhtaivan Sumiyabazar Enkhtaivan Tornike Tsjakadoea Lee Harim Francisco Garrigos Artem Lesiuk Any Other Athlete Women's -48kg Day 1 Ocotber 6th 2022 Shirine Boukli Shira Rishony Francesca Milani Assunta Scutto X Funa Tonaki X Natsumi Tsunoda X Baasankhuu Bavuudorj X Narantsetseg Ganbaatar Catarina Costa Milica Nikolic Julia Figueroa Laura Martinez Abelenda Any Other Athlete Men's -66kg Day 2 Ocotber 7th 2022 Yashar Najafov Orkhan Safarov Willian Lima Vazha Margvelashvili Tal Flicker Baruch Shmailov Hifumi Abe X Denis Vieru Kherlen Ganbold Baskhuu Yondonperenlei An Baul X Alberto Gaitero Martin Bogdan Iadov Sardor Nurillaev X Any Other Athlete X Women's -52kg Day 2 Ocotber 7th 2022 Larissa Pimenta Amandine Buchard X Mascha Ballhaus Chelsie Giles Reka Pupp Gefen Primo Odette Giuffrida Uta Abe X Distria Krasniqi X Khorloodoi Bishrelt Fabienne Kocher Diyora Keldiyorova X Any Other Athlete Men's -73kg Day 3 Ocotber 8th 2022 Hidayat Heydarov X Rustam Orujov Magdiel Estrada Lasha Shavdatuashvili X Tohar Butbul Giovanni Esposito Manuel Lombardo X Soichi Hashimoto X Tsogtbaatar Tsend-Ochir Alexandru Raicu Salvador Cases Roca Murodjon Yuldoshev Any Other Athlete Women's -57kg Day 3 Ocotber 8th 2022 Mina Libeer Rafaela Silva X Christa Deguchi X Jessica Klimkait X Sarah Leonie Cysique X Eteri Liparteliani Pauline Starke Timna Nelson Levy Haruka Funakubo Enkhriilen Lkhagvatogoo Ichinkhorloo Munkhtsedev Kaja Kajzer Any Other Athlete Men's -81kg Day 4 Ocotber 9th 2022 Shamil Borchashvili Saeid Mollaei X Matthias Casse X Sami Chouchi Guilherme Schimidt Francois Gauthier Drapeau Alpha Oumar Djalo Tato Grigalashvili X Attila Ungvari Sotaro Fujiwara Takanori Nagase X Frank de Wit Lee Joonhwan Vedat Albayrak Sharofiddin Boltaboev Any Other Athlete Women's -63kg Day 4 Ocotber 9th 2022 Katharina Haecker Ketleyn Quadros X Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard X Lucy Renshall Szofi Ozbas Gili Sharir Megumi Horikawa X Gankhaich Bold X Geeke van den Berg Sanne Vermeer Angelika Szymanska Andreja Leski Anriquelis Barrios Any Other Athlete Men's -90kg Day 5 Ocotber 10th 2022 Mammadali Mehdiyev Rafael Maicedo Ivan Felipe Silva Morales Lasha Bekauri X Luka Maisuradze X Eduard Trippel Krisztian Toth Any Japanese Athlete Erlan Sherov Jesper Smink Noel van t End Komronshokh Ustopiriyon Mihael Zgank Davlat Bobonov X Any Other Athlete X Women's -70kg Day 5 Ocotber 10th 2022 Michaela Polleres Maria Portela Laura Cvjetko Barbara Matic Marie Eve Gahie Margaux Pinot X Miriam Butkereit Kelly Petersen Pollard Saki Niizoe X Sanne van Dijke Ai Tsunoda Roustant X Elvismar Rodriguez Any Other Athlete X Men's -100kg Day 6 Ocotber 11th 2022 Zelym Kotsoiev Toma Nikiforov Rafael Buzacarini Shady Elnahas Varlam Liparteliani X Ilia Sulamanidze Peter Paltchik Kentaro Iida X Simeon Catharina Michael Korrel Jorge Fonseca Nikoloz Sherazadishvili X Daniel Eich Any Other Athlete X Women's -78kg Day 6 Ocotber 11th 2022 Mayra Aguiar X Madeleine Malonga X Alina Boehm Anna-Maria Wagner Emma Reid Natalie Powell Inbar Lanir Alice Bellandi X Shori Hamada X Natascha Ausma Guusje Steenhuis Beata Pacut-Kloczko Any South Korean Athlete Any Other Athlete Men's +100kg Day 7 Ocotber 12th 2022 Ushangi Kokauri Rafael Silva X Andy Granda Martti Puumalainen Guram Tushishvili X Richard Sipocz Tsetsentsengel Odkhuu Roy Meyer X Jur Spijkers Vladut Simionescu Kim Minjong Temur Rakhimov Yakiv Khammo Alisher Yusupov Any Other Athlete X Women's +78kg Day 7 Ocotber 12th 2022 Beatriz Souza Xu Shiyan Idalys Ortiz Romane Dicko X Julia Tolofua X Raz Hershko Wakaba Tomita X Adiyasuren Amarsaikhan Marit Kamps Rochele Nunes Kim Hayun Nihel Cheikh Rouhou Any Other Athlete X [/hide]

Group Stage Day 5, Part 2 Wednesday 05.10.2022 - Schedule* Group B 18:00 TPS Turku (FIN) - Grizzlys Wolfsburg (GER) 19:15 Olimpija Ljubljana (SLO) - EV Zug (SUI) Group C 18:00 Red Bull Munich (GER) - Tappara Tampere (FIN) 20:00 Slovan Bratislava (SVK) - Rapperswil-Jona (SUI) Group E 20:20 Red Bull Salzburg (AUT) - Fribourg-Gotteròn (SUI) Group G 19:30 Eisbären Berlin (GER) - Mountfield HK (CZE) *All times CET Watch live Check here for details of live TV broadcasts: https://www.championshockeyleague.com/en/fans/where-to-watch All games are also live on the CHL website for free, subject to geo-blocking restrictions in certain countries due to TV rights.

so, after the first part of the 5th Gameday of this year's CHL, more teams have officially booked their ticket to the knockout stage: Jukurit (Group A), Fribourg (Group E, without even playing), Färjestad and Straubing (GRoup F), Frölunda (Group G), Davos and Skellefteå (Group H) join the already qualified teams. This also means that we still have something to play for only in 3 groups out of 8, meanwhile in the remaining 5 it's all already decided with 1 (sometimes 2) games still to be played by all teams.

Jukurit vs Sparta cancelled - Game forfeited 3-0 in favor of Jukurit

Group Stage Day 5, Part 1 Tuesday 04.10.2022 - Results Group A 18:00 Aalborg Pirates (DEN) - Luleå Hockey (SWE) 1-3 18:00 Jukurit Mikkeli (FIN) - Sparta Prague (CZE) Cancelled, 3-0 by Rule Standing : 1.Luleå 15 (Q), 2.Jukurit 9 (Q), 3.Sparta 3, 4.Aalborg 3 Group D 18:00 GKS Katowice (HUN) - Fehèrvàr AV19 (HUN) 2-4 18:05 Rögle BK Ångelholm (SWE) - ZSC Lions Zürich (SUI) 3-2 (OT) Standing : 1.Rögle BK 14 (Q), 2.Zürich 11 (Q), 3.Fehèrvàr 3, 4.Katowice 2 Group E 18:00 Ilves Tampere (FIN) - Stavanger Oilers (NOR) 4-1 Standing : 1.Fribourg 9 (Q), 2.Red Bull Salzburg 7, 3.Ilves 6, 4.Stavanger 5 Group F 19:05 Färjestad Karlstad (SWE) - Comarch Cracovia (POL) 5-1 20:20 Villach SV (AUT) - Straubing Tigers (GER) 1-3 Standing : 1.Färjestad 12 (Q), 2.Straubing 12 (Q), 3.Villach 3, 4.Cracovia 3 Group G 20:35 Grenoble (FRA) - Frölunda Indians (SWE) 2-10 Standing : 1.Frölunda 12 (Q), 2.Mountfield 9, 3.Eisbären 6, 4.Grenoble 0 Group H 19:45 HC Davos (SUI) - Ocelàři Třinec (CZE) 4-0 20:00 Belfast Giants (GBR) - Skellefteå AIK (SWE) 2-4 Standing : 1.HC Davos 12 (Q), 2.Skellefteå 11 (Q), 3.Třinec 5, 4.Belfast 2

Italy's 2 more quota places in the Sprint/Keirin most likely won't be use, except 1 (in both races) for Miriam Vece, who's the only competitive girl we have... meanwhile we have an amazing generation of young sprinters among the boys (especially Mattia Predomo, who just destroyed the field in all the sprint disciplines at the junior worlds)... this year it's still too early, but I hope that by the next campaign thay can have some decent results among the senior ranks and even qualify for the Olympics...

Jukurit vs Sparta postponed due to technical defect on visiting team's flight

Junior Mixed Team Skeet Gold: Great Britain (Sophie Herrmann & Mitchell Brooker-Smith) Silver: China 2 (Wang Dan & Zhang Haolei) Bronze: Italy 2 (Damiana Paolacci & Andrea Galardini) and India 2 (Muffaddal Zahra Deesawala & Bhavtegh Singh Gill)

Group Stage Day 5, Part 1 Tuesday 04.10.2022 - Schedule* Group A 18:00 Aalborg Pirates (DEN) - Luleå Hockey (SWE) 18:00 Jukurit Mikkeli (FIN) - Sparta Prague (CZE) Postponed Group D 18:00 GKS Katowice (HUN) - Fehèrvàr AV19 (HUN) 18:05 Rögle BK Ångelholm (SWE) - ZSC Lions Zürich (SUI) Group E 18:00 Ilves Tampere (FIN) - Stavanger Oilers (NOR) Group F 19:05 Färjestad Karlstad (SWE) - Comarch Cracovia (POL) 20:20 Villach SV (AUT) - Straubing Tigers (GER) Group G 20:35 Grenoble (FRA) - Frölunda Indians (SWE) Group H 19:45 HC Davos (SUI) - Ocelàři Třinec (CZE) 20:00 Belfast Giants (GBR) - Skellefteå AIK (SWE) *All times CET Watch live Check here for details of live TV broadcasts: https://www.championshockeyleague.com/en/fans/where-to-watch All games are also live on the CHL website for free, subject to geo-blocking restrictions in certain countries due to TV rights.

nightmarish start of the skeet competitions for the Italian youngsters...nobody even qualified to the ranking match phase