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Athletics, men's 800m...maybe Rudisha was really the best specialist ever to run the distance, but I don't trust anymore any Kenian/Ethiopian success in the last 40 years at least, therefore my pick is "el caballo" Alberto Juantorena, a man that could really make any race exciting a lot more than the current top specialists. Judo, men's Lightweight...my pick is Shoei Ono, despite this class has seen many very good representatives. But he's the only man to repeat himself on the Olympic mat, and that's a lot in this sport. Judo, women's Lightweight...this is a difficult choice, as many of these Olympic champions didn't prove themselves durable, consistent at the top of the ranking of this weight class. My pick here is Isabel Fernandez, maybe the only one to be an exception to what I wrote before. Artistic Gymnastics, men's Rings... Yuri Chechi...the true Lord of the Rings, who else? Rhythmic Gymnastics, Individual All-Round...rankings written well before the actual competition is held, unfair winners...is that worth any attention? I pass on this event.

I'm surprised by the very slow start by most of the Swiss teams...I know they don't have such kind of interest for the CHL, but still... and yesterday I also saw the match between Slovan and RBM... not a bad game overall...the Slovaks tried to play at the same level of RBM, but the Germans right now are too strong, too deep as a squad and their superiority came out clearly in the end...

ah, OK...sorry for the misunderstanding... I hope this sort of "disinterest" would eventually get to an end, sooner or later...and all of your athletes can have their chances to travel the world back as in the past...

Group Stage Day 2, Part 2 Sunday 04.09.2022 - Schedule* Group A 16:00 Sparta Prague (CZE) - Luleå Hockey (SWE) 18:00 Jukurit Mikkeli (FIN) - Aalborg Pirates (DEN) Group B 18:00 TPS Turku (FIN) - EV Zug (SUI) 19:00 Grizzlys Wolfsburg (GER) - Olimpija Ljubljana (SLO) Group F 15:05 Färjestad Karlstad (SWE) - Straubing Tigers (GER) 20:20 Comarch Cracovia (POL) - Villach SV (AUT) Group H 15:05 Skellefteå AIK (SWE) - Ocelàři Třinec (CZE) 16:30 Belfast Giants (GBR) - HC Davos (SUI) *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.

Group Stage Day 2, Part 1 Saturday 03.09.2022 - Results Group C 16:00 Slovan Bratislava (SVK) - Red Bull Munich (GER) 1-4 18:00 Rapperswil-Jona (SUI) - Tappara Tampere (FIN) 1-3 Standing : 1.Red Bull Munich 6, 2.Tappara 6, 3.Rapperswil-Jona 0, 4.Slovan 0 Group D 18:00 GKS Katowice (HUN) - ZSC Lions Zürich (SUI) 2-1 (OT) 18:00 Fehèrvàr AV19 (HUN) - Rögle BK Ångelholm (SWE) 1-2 Standing : 1.Rögle BK 6, 2.Zürich 4, 3.Katowice 2, 4.Fehèrvàr 0 Group E 15:00 Fribourg-Gotteròn (SUI) - Stavanger Oilers (NOR) 0-1 20:20 Red Bull Salzburg (AUT) - Ilves Tampere (FIN) 2-3 (OT) Standing : 1.Stavanger 4, 2.Red Bull Salzburg 3, 3.Fribourg 3, 4.Ilves 2 Group G 15:05 Frölunda Indians (SWE) - Eisbären Berlin (GER) 7-1 18:30 Grenoble (FRA) - Mountfield HK (CZE) 3-4 Standing : 1.Frölunda 6, 2.Eisbären 3, 3.Mountfield 3, 4.Grenoble 0

they would find another way to waste their talent...

well, in Serie A events it's still possible... K1PL events nowadays have become very much "elite" tournaments with 32 athletes (max) each...and I don't know if they will ever get back to the old glory days... by the way, despite the "moments of glory" of the Tokyo Olympics, Karate here in Italy has gone backwards in terms of media coverage, as our main pay-tv doesn't broadcast anymore even the gold medal matches of the K1PL events and we don't even have any access to the WKF streams, as they're blocked because we have a national tv that bought the tv rights (but they don't use them)...

Friday and Saturday (next week) there will be the senior Skeet individual events with 2 Olympic quota places up for grabs in both the men and women's competitions...

Men's Junior Team Trap Gold: Great Britain Silver: Czech Republic Bronze: Turkey

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

Karate 1 Premier League Stage #4 ( Baku) Finalists Recap Women's Individual Kata Gold Medal Match: Hikaru Ono vs Grace Lau Mo Sheung Bronze Medal Match #1: Natsuki Shimizu vs Dilara Bozan Bronze Medal Match #2: Kiyou Shimizu vs Sakura Kokumai Men's Individual Kata Gold Medal Match: Kakeru Nishiyama vs Kazumasa Moto Bronze Medal Match #1: Ariel Torres Gutierrez vs Ryusei Ikeda Bronze Medal Match #2: Alì Sofuoglu vs Enes Ozdemir Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold Medal Match: Sara Bahmanyar vs Yorgelis Salazar Bronze Medal Match #1: Erminia Perfetto vs Seden Bugur Bronze Medal Match #2: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu vs Bettina Plank Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold Medal Match: Anzhelika Terliuga vs Ahlam Youssef Bronze Medal Match #1: Umay Uygur vs Shiori Nakamura Bronze Medal Match #2: Tuba Yakan vs Taravat Khaksar Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold Medal Match: Anita Serogina vs Anna-Johanna Nilsson Bronze Medal Match #1: Fatima-Zahra Chajai vs Rozita Alipour Bronze Medal Match #2: Alessandra Mangiacapra vs Mihaela Malauta Miruna Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold Medal Match: Silvia Semeraro vs Irina Zaretska Bronze Medal Match #1: Halyna Melnyk vs Assel Kanay Bronze Medal Match #2: Elena Quirici vs Nisrine Brouk Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold Medal Match: Ayaka Saito vs Anastasiya Stepashko Bronze Medal Match #1: Sofya Berultseva vs Kyriaki Kydonaki Bronze Medal Match #2: Ayumi Uekusa vs Yuzuki Sawae Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold Medal Match: Karime Aboeitta vs Aminagha Guliyev Bronze Medal Match #1: Kaisar Alpysbay vs Omar Shaqrah Bronze Medal Match #2: Eray Samdan vs Christos-Stefanos Xenos Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold Medal Match: Steven Dacosta vs Dionysios Xenos Bronze Medal Match #1: Didar Amirali vs Anass Alami Bronze Medal Match #2: Tural Aghalarzade vs Hiroki Nakano Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold Medal Match: Bahman Askari vs Nurkanat Azhikanov Bronze Medal Match #1: Andrii Zaplitnyi vs Tiago Duarte Bronze Medal Match #2: Quentin Mahauden vs Abdalla Abdelaziz Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold Medal Match: Youssef Badawy vs Rikito Shimada Bronze Medal Match #1: Zabiollah Poorshab vs Mohamed Ramadan Bronze Medal Match #2: Andrii Toroshanko vs Turgut Hasanov Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold Medal Match: Asiman Gurbanli vs Taha Mahmoud Bronze Medal Match #1: Ryzvan Talibov vs Fatih Sen Bronze Medal Match #2: Gogita Arkania vs Mourad Hajizadeh

Day #2 in Paris Women's -67kg Gold: Ruth Gbagbi Silver: Nam Min-Seo Bronze: Leslie Soltero & Sarah Chaari Men's -68kg Gold: Javier Perez Polo Silver: Zaid Kareem Bronze: Bradly Sinden & Theo Lucien Men's -80kg Gold: Simone Alessio Silver: Andre Ordemann Bronze: Firas Katousi & Carl Alan Nickolas Today's action recap by World taekwondo http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/competition/view.html?nid=139347&mcd=D26&sc=ne Today's Semifinals and Finals session (hoping that it won't disappear too soon like yesterday)

Group Stage Day 2, Part 1 Saturday 03.09.2022 - Schedule* Group C 16:00 Slovan Bratislava (SVK) - Red Bull Munich (GER) 18:00 Rapperswil-Jona (SUI) - Tappara Tampere (FIN) Group D 18:00 GKS Katowice (HUN) - ZSC Lions Zürich (SUI) 18:00 Fehèrvàr AV19 (HUN) - Rögle BK Ångelholm (SWE) Group E 15:00 Fribourg-Gotteròn (SUI) - Stavanger Oilers (NOR) 20:20 Red Bull Salzburg (AUT) - Ilves Tampere (FIN) Group G 15:05 Frölunda Indians (SWE) - Eisbären Berlin (GER) 18:30 Grenoble (FRA) - 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.

Group Stage Day 1, Part 2 Friday 02.09.2022 - Results Group A 18:05 Jukurit Mikkeli (FIN) - Luleå Hockey (SWE) 2-5 19:30 Sparta Prague (CZE) - Aalborg Pirates (DEN) 2-3 Standing : 1.Luleå 3, 2.Aalborg 3, 3.Sparta 0, 4.Jukurit 0 Group B 18:00 TPS Turku (FIN) - Olimpija Ljubljana (SLO) 3-2 20:15 Grizzlys Wolfsburg (GER) - EV Zug (SUI) 2-5 Standing : 1.EV Zug 3, 2.TPS 3, 3.Olimpija 0, 4.Wolfsburg 0 Group F 20:15 Comarch Cracovia (POL) - Straubing Tigers (GER) 0-4 20:35 Färjestad Karlstad (SWE) - Villach SV (AUT) 7-0 Standing : 1.Färjestad 3, 2.Straubing 3, 3.Cracovia 0, 4.Villach 0 Group H 17:00 Ocelàři Třinec (CZE) - Belfast Giants (GBR) 4-0 17:35 Skellefteå AIK (SWE) - HC Davos (SUI) 2-3 Standing : 1.Třinec 3, 2.HC Davos 3, 3.Skellefteå 0, 4.Belfast 0

naaaa...they're a lot less worse than those I mentioned above...

the top 3 of the women's K1 standings are out of the final ( Jess Fox included!) but the Australian still manages to win the World Cup in any case, since the best ranked among the finalists ( Mallory Franklin) can't reach anymore in any case...

not only...we lack size big time, we basically don't have any true big man in the middle of the paint...we have to play with people like Melli as the top center (when he used to be a "3" in the NBA and a small "4" with Olimpia Milano this year... p.s. Mannion is a high class guard, when he remembers to be...

if the problem of the new venue is that fuckin' bridge shortening the course, just throw it down!!! p.s. by the way, I'm asking myself why the organizations run by French and/or German presidents are always the worst in the world? (remembering the damage that Rene Roch did to fencing during his infamous tenure...and watching FIL-Luge and IOC's current top managers, for instance)

time for another Grand Prix tournament... and in Paris we had some big upsets in day #1... in the women's -49kg, Panipak Wongpattanakit won the gold medal. OQR no.1, Adriana Cerezo, lost against Ela Aydin in the quarterfinals (the German girl won then the bronze medal). Silver went to Merve Dincel, the second bronze went to Kang Bo Ra in the women's -57kg the Chinese girls dominated the field, thanks to Zhongshi Luo (Gold) and Lijun Zhou (bronze). Silver went to Skylar Park, the other bronze medal was won by Nada Laaraj. the men's -58kg, with the Olympic Champion Vito Dell'Aquila still out injured, was won by the local hero Cyrian Ravet, who's becoming more and more dangerous in 2024 perspective. Mohamed Jendoubi earned the Silver medal, meanwhile Adrian Vicente Yunta and Bailey Lewis got the bronze medals. OQR no.1 and world champion (in the -54kg) Jang Jun was surprisingly eliminated by Ravet in the quarterfinals. Day #1 Semifinals and Finals session:

very proud performance by Croatia, but Giannis (and his teammates) were just too strong in the end... Italy trying to make their own life complicated against Estonia... but we all know it's gonna be a very difficult championship for us, especially after Gallinari's injury...

no, not at all...they've gone way too far with that...

Junior Mixed Team Trap Gold: Italy 2 (Sofia Littame & Riccardo Mirabile) Silver: Czech Republic 2 (Zina Hrdlickova & Ondrej Stastny) Bronze: Italy 1 (Giorgia Lenticchia & Emanuele Iezzi) and Great Britain 2 (Madeleine Louise Purser & Thomas William Betts)

Group Stage Day 1, Part 2 Friday 02.09.2022 - Schedule* Group A 18:05 Jukurit Mikkeli (FIN) - Luleå Hockey (SWE) 19:30 Sparta Prague (CZE) - Aalborg Pirates (DEN) Group B 18:00 TPS Turku (FIN) - Olimpija Ljubljana (SLO) 20:15 Grizzlys Wolfsburg (GER) - EV Zug (SUI) Group F 20:15 Comarch Cracovia (POL) - Straubing Tigers (GER) 20:35 Färjestad Karlstad (SWE) - Villach SV (AUT) Group H 17:00 Ocelàři Třinec (CZE) - Belfast Giants (GBR) 17:35 Skellefteå AIK (SWE) - HC Davos (SUI) *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.

Group Stage Day 1, Part 1 Thursday 01.09.2022 - Results Group C 19:30 Slovan Bratislava (SVK) - Tappara Tampere (FIN) 2-5 20:00 Rapperswil-Jona (SUI) - Red Bull Munich (GER) 1-4 Standing : 1.Tappara 3, 2.Red Bull Munich 3, 3.Slovan 0, 4.Rapperswil-Jona 0 Group D 18:05 GKS Katowice (HUN) - Rögle BK Ångelholm (SWE) 4-5 19:00 Fehèrvàr AV19 (HUN) - ZSC Lions Zürich (SUI) 1-7 Standing : 1.Zürich 3, 2.Rögle BK 3, 3.Katowice 0, 4.Fehèrvàr 0 Group E 20:00 Fribourg-Gotteròn (SUI) - Ilves Tampere (FIN) 3-2 20:20 Red Bull Salzburg (AUT) - Stavanger Oilers (NOR) 3-2 (OT) Standing : 1.Fribourg 3, 2.Red Bull Salzburg 2, 3.Stavanger 1, 4.Ilves 0 Group G 19:05 Frölunda Indians (SWE) - Mountfield HK (CZE) 4-2 20:15 Grenoble (FRA) - Eisbären Berlin (GER) 2-8 Standing : 1.Eisbären 3, 2.Frölunda 3, 3.Mountfield 0, 4.Grenoble 0

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