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promising day for with very disappointing finish Parlati is an idiot, that's confirmed once again...one of the greatest waste of talent in the Italian sport system he just doesn't have the right attitude Pedrotti did what she could, she won 2 not so easy matches and then raised the white flag against 2 stronger fighters... 7th place is better than the early expectations Polling is the second big disappointment of the day... she started well, she beat strong women like Cvjetko and Karlsson, but then she lost badly against Gahiè actually, the bad thing isn't that she lost, but how she did it finally, the actual disaster came in the repechage match vs Taimazova...that was a really bad loss 7th place for her is definitely below the expectations Bellandi...this is a good case of study for some psychiatrists basically, she owns the French players (and not only them) but at the same time she just can't fight Wagner, nothing works against the German however, she had once again a great run despite not being at 100% of her shape (it was clear from the early fights that Today she wasn't as effective as in some other tournaments) a world silver medal is still a great achievement and I hope (I think) she'll have some surprise ready for Wagner in Paris

men's -90kg Gold: Goki Tajima Silver: Nemanja Majdov Bronze: Erlan Sherov & Tristani Mosakhlishvili Full Draw https://www.ijf.org/competition/2787/draw?id_weight=5

women's -78kg Gold: Anna-Maria Wagner Silver: Alice Bellandi Bronze: Madeleine Malonga & Emma Reid Full Draw https://www.ijf.org/competition/2787/draw?id_weight=13

women's -70kg Gold: Margaux Pinot Silver: Marie-Eve Gahie Bronze: Shiho Tanaka & (RUS) Madina Taimazova Full Draw https://www.ijf.org/competition/2787/draw?id_weight=12

I fear some geography has gone wrong by the way, here's the Conference Finals Schedule https://www.nhl.com/news/2024-nhl-conference-finals-schedule

lost outside hitter Elena Pietrini for at least the entire Summer 2024 (VNL, but also Olympics) official reason is still undisclosed, but it should be related to her well known back problems (she might need surgery)

there's no draw in volleyball it's only about the world ranking (serpentine system is used)

Elena Pietrini (Volleyball) official reason is still undisclosed, but most likely it's about her well known back problems (she might need surgery)

but a lot of podiums with 2 out of 3 athletes coming from the same Country

men's -81kg Gold: Tato Grigalashvili Silver: (RUS) Timur Arbuzov Bronze: Lee Joon Hwan & Somon Makhmadbekov Full Draw https://www.ijf.org/competition/2787/draw?id_weight=4

women's -63kg Gold: Joanne Van Lieshout Silver: Angelika Szymanska Bronze: Clarisse Agbegnenou & Laura Fazliu Full Draw https://www.ijf.org/competition/2787/draw?id_weight=11

and we're still without a single gold medal among the men, all those we won are in the female division

good luck!

I don't get why we shouldn't complain for what's gone wrong in this specific case, we might even enjoy the qualification of the 2 "Eights", but let's be honest, they're going to be "cosmetics" at the Games (especially the men, who will be a pain in the ass like in Rio, 7th out of 7 boats) meanwhile with a better management we might have both men's single and women's LW doubles capable of at least trying and get a medal in Paris and frankly, I don't like selling 2 modest placings instead of 2 medal candidate boats a "historical success" and why shouldn't we blame the coaching staff for the 2-year long disaster of the only boat that won Gold at the last Olympic Games? they insisted on the Olympic Champions well beyond logic when it was clear that they couldn't be anymore as good as they were becuse of the injuries and last year at the world champs wasted the best LW crew to qualify a chanceless senior double (I guess it wasn't even expected and that disrupted some of their plans) not to mention wasting as the last wheel of the wagon the men's single, choosing in the end Mumolo for what isn't his natural discipline instead of building a 3-year proper campaign with Di Mauro (7th in Tokyo with no experience among the seniors yet), who's still one of our biggest talents and he's now relegated to an anonymous seat on the men's Eight why shouldn't we complain about that? only because we will come home likely with no gold but with a 5th/6th and a dead last place in the 2 biggest boats? meh!?

Today's Gold Medal matches (session starts @ 4 p.m. CET, live on Discovery+/Eurosport when not exclusively on another National TV) are: women's -63kg: Joanne Van Lieshout vs Angelika Szymanska @Adriano @rybak @Jinzha @CCB @heywoodu @all Polish and Dutch friends men's -81kg: (RUS) Timur Arbuzov vs Tato Grigalashivili

very satisfied with Savita russo's outing Today she did what she had to do, dominating Corrao and not giving an easy time to the (physically) stronger and more and more experienced Horikawa, who had to fight until 1 minute into the Golden Score to win the bout unfortunately, I don't think it's enough to get into the Continental Repechage ranking but the mistake it's not hers, it's our coaching crew that left her out of the Grand Prix/Grands Slam tournaments in the past few months, just to bring Favorini to the competitions where she always failed to deliver (and Today in fact she got another embarassing elimination in the first fight against a girl from ) this is a bitterly wasted chance having said that, the draw sometimes can be a true crime, when some of the best fighters are not at the top of the multi-year rankings for some reason in the -63kg in fact, we had a pool (so, a quarterfinal bracket) with all this women: Agbegnenou, Beauchemin-Pinard, Horikawa, Timo and the recently crowned European Champion Zachova all together therefore, we can't be surprised if we have one of the most improbable lineup ever in the medal matches in the men's -81kg, instead, no big surprise among the medal candidates and shame for Antonio Esposito's mistake that cost him the win vs Gochilaidze, who then went on until the semis (where he lost a wonderful match vs -RUS- Arbuzov) and will fight in a few minutes for the Bronze medal

Fencing, women's Individual Foil it happened in 2012, it was July, 28th this year the women's Individual Foil is also scheduled for Sunday, July, 28th July, 28th is my Birthday and I just can't ask for a better present therefore, it's a done deal, I guess

yeah, until they have to play , that's a lock

women's -57kg Gold: Huh Mimi Silver: Christa Deguchi Bronze: Momo Tamaoki & Jessica Klimkait Full Draw https://www.ijf.org/competition/2787/draw?id_weight=10

men's -73kg Gold: Hidayat Heydarov Silver: Tatsuki Ishihara Bronze: Ankhzaya Lavjargal & Nils Stump Full Draw https://www.ijf.org/competition/2787/draw?id_weight=3

men's -66kg Gold: Ryoma Tanaka Silver: Takeshi Takeoka Bronze: Luukas Saha & Vazha Margvelashvili Full Draw https://www.ijf.org/competition/2787/draw?id_weight=2

men's Team Trap (Trio ESC Challenge) Gold: Czechia (Jan Palacky, Jiri Liptak & Pavel Vanek) Silver: Great Britain (Matthew John Coward-Holley, Aaron Heading & Nathan Hales) Bronze: Turkiye (Tolga N Tuncer, Yavuz Ilnam & Oguzhan Tuzun) Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19711

women's Team Trap (Trio ESC Challenge) Gold: Ukraine (Nadiia Bulhakova, Olena Okhotska & Yuliia Danilova) Silver: Turkiye (Rumeysa Pelin Kaya, Safiye Temizdemir & Nisa Nur Aydemir) Bronze: Slovakia (Nikola Molnarova, Jana Spotakova & Zuzana Rehak-Stefecekova) Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=19710

wow! a medal for

I'm more optimist (and demanding) Lombardo and Bellandi are the main favourites in their respective class in Paris, especially Lombardo not coming home with Gold would be an extreme disappointment (even if Lavrentiev is a fierce opponent) then, Parlati is surely a medal candidate among the men, but I also think that Pirelli and Piras can make the podium, too, if they get a good draw among the women, Scutto, Giuffrida, Polling and Tavano are all medal candidates, someone more than some others however, I expect at least 6 medals with 2 golds in Paris