phelps

Women's Junior Individual Trap Gold: Kiara Sioux-Lin Dean Silver: Han Ting Bronze: Breanna Maree Dowse Collins

it's yesterday's decision...Russia and Belarus now have been banned also by IJF at least until January 2023... https://www.ijf.org/news/show/ijf-decision-regarding-participation-of-russian-and-belorussian-athletes

what a disaster of a championship for Italy... basically, we're down to a single competitive crew, the men's quadruple sculls...

wow! Leo Fioravanti looks hot this week!

7 hours and 10 minutes (Communist Party Congress in Havana in 1986) by the way, the world record is held by Venezuela's former President Hugo Chavez, 9 hours and 30 minutes (National Assembly, 2012...after coming back from cancer treatment )

In the same day of the retirement of 3 among the greatest defensemen in the history of the NHL (Zdeno Chara, P.K. Subban and Keith Yandle...see apprpriate thread), Nathan McKinnon signed a new mega-deal with Colorado... 100.8 million US dollars is the supposed (not officially confirmed yet) amount of money he will get in the next 8 years with the Avalanche (12.6 annual value). This is the 4th most expensive deal ever signed by an NHL player/franchise (meanwhile the annual value is the highest in the history of the league). https://www.nhl.com/news/nathan-mackinnon-signs-eight-year-contract-with-colorado-avalanche/c-335655376

and a third great veteran defenseman, "Iron Man" Keith Yandle, also called it a career officially (even if he already said he wouldn't return at the end of last season)... https://www.nhl.com/news/keith-yandle-retires-from-hockey/c-335652050 wow! 3 big names lost in 24 hours...not the best day in history for the NHL... p.s @hckošice will "Big Zee" be the next President of the Slovak Republic, now that he's free from hockey duties?

jokes aside, however, I could list way more than a top 5 or a top 10... as many of you know, I like so many sports (even among the non-Olympic disciplines) that it would be a lot easier to make a list of those I don't enjoy at 100%... by the way, this time I voted for Swimming, Fencing, Judo, Slalom Canoeing and Shooting, but I feel I did a true injustice to at least another 5/10 sports I always follow with passion and attention...

"urban" for sure...I live in Milan, which, for the Italian standard, is a large city... "youthful"...well, my beard and my hair are starting to show some shades of grey and my soul has always been like a 80-year old man (not to mention my knees, my stomach, my lungs and my heart)... so, no...I don't feel "youthful" at all...

nice, I like it... as our friend @heywoodu said, the news section is "very present", but after years of practice avoiding spoilers here and there, it's not a problem to me (unless you start publishing last minute feeds)...

happy to hear that.

in Italy, advertising are allowed max at 12% every hour for the public TV (RAI) and 18% every hour for the private commercial networks (pay-tv included). there must be at least a 20-minute interval between one series of advertisings and another and kids programs can't be interrupted at all if they're 30 mins or less long. In the sport events ads can only be shown in the technical intervals, live action can't be interrupted. between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. no alchool, cigarettes and weapons ads are allowed (actually, I think weapons ads are not allowed at all...I've never seen any on our tv stations). then there are also a few more "minor" limitations, most people are not even aware of... p.s. commercial networks never respect the 18% per hour limit, especially Berlusconi's Mediaset channels, but usually nobody does anything against that, just a few euros insignificant fines once every while...

nowadays I'm so disillusioned and disappointed...that I'm following only Padel and Breakdance...

settimana in chiaroscuro per l'Italia... se è vero che Sofia Raffaeli ha vinto (con molta più fatica del previsto) il titolo mondiale all-round di Ginnastica Ritmica e conquistato il pass individuale per Parigi 2024, bisogna notare d'altro canto come sia Milena Baldassarri nell'individuale e, soprattutto, le pompatissime Farfalle abbiano miseramente fallito su tutti i fronti, niente medaglie "che contano" (le gare olimpiche) nè qualificazione olimpica (l'obiettivo minimo, molto "minimo"). Vedremo se sapranno rifarsi al prossimo giro e, soprattutto, se si riscatteranno a Parigi. nell'Equitazione, altro disastro azzurro al mondiale di concorso completo, con la squadra che sprofonda e non ottiene una più che possibile qualificazione e gli individualisti che galleggiano dal 30. posto in poi. L'unica buona notizia è la qualificazione di ben 5 squadre europee, fatto che dovrebbe rendere più agevole il cammino dei nostri nelle prossime occasioni. nel Tiro a Segno (armi da fuoco), tanto per cambiare, un flop dietro l'altro, oltretutto con scelte assolutamente incomprensibili come quella di relegare il nostro miglior carabinista, Danilo Dennis Sollazzo, alle sole gare juniores, di fatto demansionandolo e demotivandolo pesantemente (tant'è che non è andato a medaglia nemmeno tra i ragazzini). In tutto l'europeo si salva solo Maria Varricchio, sorprendente quarta nella Pistola 25m donne, risultato per lei eccellente, ma che non basta a qualificarla per Parigi 2024 (in palio c'erano solo 2 carte olimpiche). Non del tutto negativa la gara di Massimo Spinella nella Pistola Automatica maschile, ottavo alla fine della competizione, ma pur sempre lontano da una improbabile carta olimpica. Tutti gli altri, da fustigare selvaggiamente senza pietà (tecnici compresi). Non faccio commenti sui mondiali di Lotta, altrimenti potrei davvero offendere qualcuno. Prendo soltanto nota che l'Italia non esiste più in questo sport, dove schieriamo solo pochi naturalizzati discreti e nulla più (ormai anche Chamizo non vince più e si avvia al declino), i "nativi" sono solo un branco di incapaci. al di là delle gare valide per la qualificazione olimpica, da segnalare anche il bronzo europeo (ma in una gara open, con velisti da tutto il mondo) di Giacomo Ferrari e Bianca Caruso nella nuova classe olimpica di Vela, il 470 misto...risultato questo di buon auspicio per quando si farà sul serio. da ultimo, questa settimana è la volta dei mondiali di Canottaggio, che quest'anno solo solo un punto di passaggio in vista della rassegna del 2023 (decisiva per le sorti olimpiche), ma comunque non da sottovalutare. Per i nostri colori, le uniche barche olimpiche competitive dovrebbero essere i 2 doppi pesi leggeri e il quattro di coppia senior, visto che i tecnici continuano a insistere con la fissazione dell'Otto, depauperando così il Due senza e il Quattro senza. E purtroppo non si vedono neppure particolari miglioramenti al femminile, atavico punto dolente del canottaggio azzurro. Sperando vivamente di essere smentito dai fatti.

vs postponed to tomorrow (rain)

2022 Mixed 470 European Championships ( Cesme) Sweden secure Gold after Match Race with Spain Gold: Anton Dahlberg & Lovisa Karlsson Silver: Jordi Xammar Hernandez & Nora Brugman Cabot Bronze: Giacomo Ferrari & Bianca Caruso Full Ranking: https://2022europeans.470.org/en/default/races/race-resultsall

just had 15 pens removed (to McEwen)... their total score now is 80.90. now they are back in contention even for gold tomorrow.

Olympic quota places almost decided after Cross-Country... if nothing really weird happens (or if there are no issues with the horse inspection), are way ahead of the rest of the field. maybe could still steal the 7th place if SUI has troubles with the horses (they have only 3 riders left, can't afford a medical stop) or JPN have a total meltdown in show jumping (but they have 14 point-margin over SWE...that's a lot). vs for gold, vs for bronze. Individually, Michael Jung has a good lead (5 pts) over the chasers. the fight for silver and bronze is going to be quite exciting, with 10 people in just 4 points span. Italy have been once again a total disaster, a bunch of losers (and I'd really like to know who decided to keep Bordone in the team despite being at high risk after the recent injury)...

that's an average value for a close game under FIBA rules... Germany vs Spain's last minute was surely longer than 6 actual mins (I normally don't take notice of that)...

I don't know if the Swedish TV (SVT) have a personalized direction, but I turned my tv on 3 minutes ago and they already showed Monica Spencer at the water complex and Kitajima at the Slide... hope that the international feed doesn't have a typical italian football-only director...

Well, he doesn't have any result since Tokyo (where he was surely tested and he was negative), so I guess this isn't so important for him.

If I think we had them in the bag...

This time it wasn't even close... Salkazanov dominated the semifinal against Chamizo from start to finish... Frank couldn't even score a single point...I think it's the first time in his career...

no idea, we only know that the ban period goes from late June 2022 to late December 2023

sorry, but you're wrong once again...he wasn't caught doped...he only missed 3 (or more) tests because most likely he's basically retired from high level swimming... it's quite different...