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Italian "Caporetto" in the men's Trap (nobody in the top 50 )... I don't think Italian Trap shooting has never gone that bad in its more than centenary history... and also Jessica Rossi is outside the top 30 in the women's division... no need to say that there's no chance to earn a qualification spot among the men and we have to rely on 2 inexperienced youngsters like Iezzi and Grassia among the women to steal the second quota place... it doesn't look good at all for our shooting...

Men's Individual Trap Recap after Day #1 of qualification rounds (50 targets out of 125) =1. Aaron Heading, Alessandro De Souza Ferreira, Rashid Hamad S.A. Al-Athba, Yang Kun-Pi, Derrick scott Mein =6. 9 Shooters @ 49 = 2x =15. 15 Shooters @ 48 Full Ranking: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=3073&resultkey=3b3b303b54524d3b313b513b493b313b303b30

Women's Individual Trap Recap after Day #1 of qualification rounds (50 targets out of 125) 1. Kathrin Murche, 49 =2. 4 Shooters @ 48 = Wang Xiaojing, Carole Cormenier, Giulia Grassia, Augusta Rose Campos-Martyn =6. 8 Shooters @ 47 = 2x =14. 7 Shooters @ 46 Full Ranking: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=3073&resultkey=3b3b303b5452573b303b513b493b313b303b30

questa settimana il focus sportivo italico era principalmente rivolto ai mondiali di canottaggio e a quelli di ciclismo su strada. e non si può certo dire che sia andata bene, anzi... i canottieri hanno toccato il fondo, con la peggior prestazione iridata da anni: solo 2 medaglie (senza ori) e, quel che è peggio, solo 2 finali A e 4 "qualificazioni olimpiche virtuali" se la rassegna di quest'anno fosse stata decisiva per l'assegnazione delle carte olimpiche. non eravamo messi così male dagli anni Settanta del secolo scorso. in particolare, paghiamo l'ossessione per l'Otto al maschile (barca in cui non abbiamo tradizione nè personale adatto) e l'incredibile impalpabilità del movimento femminile, che da anni viene dato sulla rampa di lancio per poi fallire miseramente anno dopo anno. questa volta non si sono salvate nemmeno le campionesse olimpiche del doppio pesi leggeri (unica barca femminile in cui abbiamo fatto qualcosa di buono in passato), Valentina Rodini e Federica Cesarini, neanche in grado di agguantare la finale per le medaglie. altrettanto, i ciclisti hanno pagato la scarsa forma di Ganna a cronometro e tattiche senza senso nelle gare in linea (dove, almeno al femminile, potevamo fare molto di più...il bronzo di Silvia Persico è magra consolazione, visto il finale di corsa). unica vera soddisfazione è il livello raggiunto da Vittoria Guazzini, pronta a diventare un crack sia in pista che su strada (specie a cronometro, dove forse in un prossimo futuro diventerà la vera rivale di Reusser e delle olandesi). riporto per dovere di cronaca, ma senza dargli il peso che non ha, il fatto che a cronometro sia la nuova campionessa iridata under-23. tra gli altri eventi da segnalare, l'ennesima figuraccia del super-pompatissimo surf italico (che di azzurro in realtà ha ben poco, visto che c'è un solo nativo italiano in squadra). se si eccettua la discreta prestazione di Leonardo Fioravanti (spentosi proprio sul più bello), gli altri hanno rimediato solo umiliazioni. di conseguenza, va da sè che non siamo mai stati in corsa neanche per sbaglio per le carte olimpiche distribuite dagli ISA World Games di quest'anno. dopo tutto questo letame, addolciamo la pillola con il tennis (inatteso, gran successo di Sonego a Metz) e, soprattutto, con il trionfo clamoroso con una rimonta spettacolare negli ultimi 2 giri di Guido Migliozzi nell'Open Di Francia di Golf. Impresa che lo avvicina ai primi 100 posti del World Golf Ranking e lo consolida come il vero numero 1 attuale del Golf azzurro, con Chicco Molinari e gli altri rappresentanti della sua generazione ormai sul viale del tramonto e gli altri ragazzi della stessa generazione (o di quella immediatamente precedente) troppo incostanti e/o francamente non al livello di Migliozzi. prossima settimana, fondamentale su tutto il mondiale di Tiro a Volo (domani e martedì le gare di Trap, più avanti quelle di Skeet...4 carte olimpiche -sempre con massimo una per Paese per ogni evento- disponibili per ogni gara). e a seguire, l'avventura iridata delle ragazze del Volley, che proseguirà con i gironi preliminari e il successivo main round.

Final Medal Table (Olympic events only) 4 / 1 / 3 3 / 0 / 0 1 / 7 / 1 1 / 1 / 0 1 / 0 / 2 1 / 0 / 0 1 / 0 / 0 1 / 0 / 0 1 / 0 / 0 0 / 2 / 0 0 / 1 / 4 0 / 1 / 1 0 / 1 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1

Kirra Pinkerton gets it! USA win the women's Olympic quota...

Pinkerton takes the lead with 4.30 mins left...

France trying to steal the extra women's quota with 15 mins to go in the final, as Ado's leading the pack and AUS is currently 3rd and PER 4th...

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/norwegian-svindal-diagnosed-with-testicular-cancer-2022-09-24/ Good luck to Aksel...

Medal Table after 8 of 14 Olympic events 3 / 1 / 2 1 / 0 / 1 1 / 0 / 0 1 / 0 / 0 1 / 0 / 0 1 / 0 / 0 0 / 3 / 1 0 / 1 / 1 0 / 1 / 1 0 / 1 / 1 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 0 / 1

Men's Junior Team Trap Gold: India Silver: Italy Bronze: United States

Women's Junior Team Trap Gold: Italy Silver: Czech Republic Bronze: Australia

the quadruple scullers don't agree at all... by the way, I'm really disappointed with Italy only getting bronze in this race... basically, it's the most unsuccessful championship for Italy in many years...only 2 olympic boats in the A finals...luckily, they both won medals, but still, the M4X should have done better...

I don't know why? it's this current coaching stuff that's particularly obsessed...and yeah, ouyr strenght has always been in the 2 and 4-man boats (other than the lightweights)... p.s. but I still dream of a single sculler on top of the Olympic podium (actually, we won a lot of junior world gold medals in the single sculls, but we always moved them to double and/or quadruple sculls before they can even think of a career in the singles)...

https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/fina-removes-25k-open-water-event-from-2023-world-championships/#:~:text=FINA Removes 25K Open Water Event from 2023 World Championships,-Photo Courtesy%3A Andrea&text=FINA has removed the 25K,detailing the decision on Thursday. the 25kms has more competitive athletes and Nations than all that fuckin' sh*t they just put on the Olympic program... it's a wonderful event (like the race walking 50kms)... it's just this tendency to kill all the competitions that take more than 2 minutes...it's insane (as if those youth and urban sh*t could really bring new audience to the Games/Championships)...

funding (or, better, federation's politics to show they're winning medals and therefore they deserve more consideration/funding) is one reason, but we also have a problem to find big men and women to be really competitive in the senior boats. we still have a lot of guys practicing the sport (but also a high rate of early retirements, compared to other sports, because rowing is truly an amateur discipline, there's no chance to make even reasonable money with it, even if you win the Olympic gold), but our population is basically average sized, so we have a lot of good rowers in the lightweight classes, but we lack people in the senior ranks (and often we use lightweights also in the senior boats). moreover, the current coaches are obsessed with the Eights and are destroying the pairs and fours to put our best rowers on the main boat (but normally they don't have the same approach and results when they go on the Eight, there's no chemistry among those used to be good in the shorter boats when they are together on the longer one), wasting chances to shine in the other events.

Mixed Junior Team Trap Gold: Italy 2 (Marika Patera & Gianmarco Barletta) Silver: Italy 1 (Sofia Littame & Emanuele Iezzi) Bronze: Finland (Sara Silja Patricia Nummela & Juho Johannes Maekelae) and Spain 2 (Paula Morcillo & Juan Antonio Garcia)

Athletics, women's 100m HS...my pick is Yordanka Donkova. Swimming, women's 200 IM...I chose Yana Klockova because of her longevity at the top of the discipline and because she's the only girl to repeat herself at the Olympics. Shooting, men's 3-Position Rifle...the most obvious pick of the day... Niccolò Campriani, as this was the blue riband event of the best rifle specialist ever. Shooting, women's 3-Position Rifle...not a big fan of any of the women in this list, however I opted for Du Li. Taekwondo, women's Featherweights...double Olympic champion...even if I'm definitely not a fan of her, Jade Jones is the only option for me in this poll.

meanwhile the team standings (men + women, combined) so far: =1. France, 5180 (max) =1. United States, 5180 (max) =1. Portugal, 5180 (max) 4. Australia, 4780 5. Japan, 4730 6. Canada, 4175 7. Brazil, 4110 full ranking: https://isa.surfscores.com/USA/2022/isawsg/#

to complete the field... Repechage Rd #7: Sophie McCulloch, Leilani McGonagle, Nadia Erostarbe, Chelsea Tuach (Heat #1) Tessa Thyssen, India Robinson, Rachel Presti, Vahinè Fierro (Heat #2)

it was just a question of when, not if... troubles for the NHL opening games in Prague https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/czech-government-tells-nhl-that-russian-players-are-unwelcome-at-2022-global-series-in-prague/

women's left in round #5: Daniella Rosas, Teresa Bonvalot, Sally Fitzgibbons, Yolanda Hopkins (Heat #1) Pauline Ado, Gabriela Bryan, Kirra Pinkerton, Sanoa Dempfle-Olin (Heat #2) still in competition in the repechage rounds: (Rd #6, Heat #2) (Rd #6, Heat #3) (Rd #6, Heat #4) from Heat #1 already advanced to RD #7 Sophie McCulloch and India Robinson (both )

men left in round #6: Kanoa Igarashi, Jackson Baker, Nat Young (Heat #1) Guilherme Fonseca, Lucca Mesinas, Kolohe Andino (Heat #2) still in the competition in the repechage rounds: Shun Murakami, I Ketut Agus, Miguel Pupo (Rd #9, Heat #1) Samuel Pupo, Rio Waida, Joshua Burke (Rd #9, Heat #2)

just jinxed him badly...

Men's Junior Individual Trap Gold: Gianmarco Barletta Silver: Emanuele Iezzi Bronze: Juho Johannes Maekelae