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2021/2022 Fencing World Cup Men's Individual Epee ( Paris) Gold: Nelson Lopez Pourtier Silver: Ruslan Kurbanov Bronze: Alexandre Bardenet & Mate Tamas Koch Semifinals Lopez Pourtier b. Koch 15-14 Curatoli b. Bardenet 15-13 Final Lopez Pourtier b. Kurbanov 15-11 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/111

men's Team 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Czech Republic Silver: Norway Bronze: United States Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=16042 women's Team 25m Pistol Gold: Germany Silver: Thailand Bronze: Brazil Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=16040 women's Team 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Norway Silver: United States Bronze: Switzerland Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=16045

women's Individual 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Jeanette Hegg Duestad Silver: Anna Janssen Bronze: Sagen Maddalena Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=16038

my picks... Swimming, men's 200m Fly...who else? I think this is one of the most obvious picks so far... it's the winningest athlete in the history of sport, Michael Phelps... Swimming, women's 200m Backstroke...one of the classiest swimmers of all time, capable of winning gold medals as baby girl and as a true woman... Krisztina Egerszegi... Rowing, men's Single Sculls...this is one of the event with the richest history of the Olympics, more than 100 years of glory with many great champions... not an easy choice, but imho nobody has yet equalled the true GOAT, Perrti Karppinen... Canoeing, men's 1000m...in a discipline heavily marked by the Scandinavians, I feel I have to go with the only man winning 3 gold medals, Gert Fredriksson... Sailing, men's Skiff (49er)...looking at the results all this sailor have reached outside the single Olympic event, it's a close battle between Outteridge and Burling, but I feel I have to pick Peter Burling, the man with most wins other than the Olympics (considering also other classes)...

game over...and I fear our dear friend @hckošice isn't that happy right now... my bad, pal...

men's Individual 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Jiri Privratsky Silver: Simon Claussen Bronze: Jon-Hermann Hegg Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=16026 women's Individual 25m Pistol Gold: Camille Jedrzejewski Silver: Doreen Vennekamp Bronze: Sylvia Steiner Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=16028

right now...Slovak Tipsport Extraliga, Slovan Bratislava vs Hc Kosice, game #5 more in general, earlier this week and in the upcoming weekend...a lot of Hockey, of course (European Leagues & NHL), some MLB and KBO Baseball, the Shooting World Cup stage in Rio de Janeiro and the Italian Swimming Champs...

men's Team 10m Air Pistol (5 teams at the start) Gold: Germany Silver: Iran Bronze: Brazil Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=16009 women's Team 10m Air Pistol (4 teams at the start) Gold: Iran Silver: Thailand Bronze: Germany Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=16012

2022 Italian Spring Nationals best of Day #5 last day of the Championships with 4 more World Champs passes earned by the Italian swimmers... today's champions: women's 50m Breastroke: 1.Benedetta Pilato, 29.85 (World Champs qualifying time; 29.58 in prelims) men's 50m Breastroke: 1.Niccolò Martinenghi, 26.49 (World Champs qualifying time; Peaty went 26.91 at the British Nationals); 2.Simone Cerasuolo, 26.85 (= Cadet* NR and World Champs qualifying time) women's 400m Freestyle: 1.Simona Quadarella, 4.08.95 men's 400m IM: 1.Alberto Razzetti, 4.13.83 women's 200m Backstroke: 1.Margherita Panziera, 2.08.63 men's 1500m Freestyle: 1.Gregorio Paltrinieri, 14.44.39 (World Champs qualifying time) women's 50m Fly: 1.Silvia Di Pietro, 26.08 *in the Italian Swimming classes, Cadets are just older than Juniors (so, 19 & 20 years old athletes among the males and 17 & 18 years old athletes among the females)...

men's Team 10m Air Rifle Gold: United States Silver: Czech Republic Bronze: Norway Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=16005 women's Team 10m Air Rifle Gold: Germany Silver: Norway Bronze: Iran Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=16008

Mixed Team 10m Air Pistol Gold: Germany 1 (Sandra Reitz & Christian Reitz) Silver: Thailand (Tanyaporn Prucksakorn & Noppadon Sutiviruch) Bronze: Iran 1 (Golnoush Sebghatollahi & Javad Foroughi) and France (Camille Jedrzejewski & Florian Fouquet) Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=16003

Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle Gold: Czech Republic 2 (Lucie Brazdova & Jiri Privratsky) Silver: Norway 1 (Jeanette Hegg Duestad & Jon-Hermann Hegg) Bronze: Hungary 2 (Gitta Bajos & Istvan Peni) and United States 1 (Alison Marie Weisz & William Shaner) Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=16001

win2day ICE Hockey League EC Red Bull Salzburg won their 7th title in the Austrian Open League on Monday night, when they defeated the Hungarian side Hydro Fehèrvàr AV19 by a score of 3-1 in game #4 of the finals and by sweeping 4-0 the entire series. Not only, they went undefeated through the whole playoffs run. It's only the second time in the League's history that a team achieves the socalled "perfect postseason". Thanks also to his unbelievable .950 save percentage (only 16 goals given up in 12 games, 2 of them going to OT), Salzburg's Finnish netminder Atte Tolvanen was named Playoffs MVP. LEAGUE SUMMARY Regular Season Final Standings https://www.ice.hockey/en/schedule-results/standings Playoffs Brackets Recap https://www.ice.hockey/en/schedule-results/playoffs Final Series Game #1: Salzburg - Fehèrvàr 2-1 OT2 (1-1; 0-0; 0-0; 0-0; 1-0) Game Highlights https://www.puls24.at/video/sport-icehl-ice-hockey-league/highlights-ice-finale-ec-red-bull-salzburg-vs-hydro-fehervar-av19-spiel-1/v-cj0ruajo91q9 Game #2: Fehèrvàr - Salzburg 3-5 (1-1; 1-2; 1-2) Game Highlights https://www.puls24.at/video/sport-icehl-ice-hockey-league/highlights-ice-finale-hydro-fehervar-av19-vs-ec-red-bull-salzburg-spiel-2/v-cj2ymq9v99ax Game #3: Salzburg - Fehèrvàr 2-1 (0-0; 1-1; 1-0) Game Highlights https://www.puls24.at/video/sport-icehl-ice-hockey-league/highlights-ice-finale-ec-red-bull-salzburg-vs-hydro-fehervar-av19-spiel-3/v-cj4s1c7m3ea9 Game #4: Fehèrvàr - Salzburg 1-3 (1-1; 0-1; 0-1) Game Highlights https://www.puls24.at/video/sport-icehl-ice-hockey-league/highlights-ice-finale-hydro-fehervar-av19-vs-ec-red-bull-salzburg-spiel-4/v-cj4qm1968xfl

Italy won 1-0 in Switzerland and now they have their own destiny in their hands... unless they suicide themselves (like the men) in the last couple of matches against weaker teams, a place in the next world cup has been booked tonight...

in the Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle competition, we already know the medal matches (they will be contested tomorrow)... Czech Republic 2 and Norway 1 will fight for Gold, meanwhile the Bronze medal matches will feature Hungary 1 and Iran 2 on one side and USA 1 and Czech Republic 1 on the other...

men's Individual 10m Air Pistol Gold: Juraj Tuzinsky Silver: Robin Walter Bronze: Christian Reitz Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=15985 women's Individual 10m Air Pistol Gold: Zorana Arunovic Silver: Anna Korakaki Bronze: Camille Jedrzejewski Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=15988

2022 Italian Spring Nationals best of Day #4 basically, an off day...no truly remarkable clockings nor individual qualfying times for the upcoming World Champs were registered today in Riccione... the most exciting thing was an electric blackout that caused a 30-min break in the middle of the final session... however, here are today's champions: men's 100 Fly: 1.Piero Codia, 51.65 women's 100m Backstroke: 1.Margherita Panziera, 1.00.25 men's 200m Backstroke: 1.Matteo Restivo, 1.57.56 women's 200m Fly: 1.Ilaria Cusinato, 2.10.36 men's 200m Breastroke: 1.Luca Pizzini, 2.10.98 women's 50m Freestyle: 1.Silvia Di Pietro, 25.10 (24.97 in prelims) men's 200m Freestyle: 1.Marco De Tullio, 1.46.26; 2.Gabriele Detti, 1.47.50; 3.Stefano Di Cola, 1.47.55; 4.Stefano Ballo, 1.47.75 (all together, it's a qualfying standard for the World Champs for the men's 4*200m Free Relay) B-Final: 1.Lorenzo Galossi, 1.48.26 (new Junior NR) p.s. based on the results of all the 100m races of the single disciplines, also both the women and the men's 4*100m Mixed Relays and the 4*100m Mixed Medley Relay are officially qualified to the World Champs...

unfortunately, it's not only 50/100m, it's the whole freestyle sector that's miles behind the world's excellence (Quadarella is just an exception to this "rule")... for what concerns the sprinters, however, there are a few historical, technical and cultural issues to prevent Italy being a good Nation in those disciplines... I don't know why? but we've always refused the idea of building up poweful swimmers, we normally care a lot about the technical skills and about the amount of kilometers swam by our athletes, but somehow we're always behind the rest of the world when it comes to develop strencht and power... especially among the girls and especially the very young girls, there's always the scare to ask them to put on muscles, we normally refuse to send them in the gym lifting weights until they're at least 16/17 years old, as if it was a risk for their health* (many doctors refuse to give permission to the youngsters to lift the necessary amount of weights...and if you don't build muscles, there's no chance to be competitive in the sprint events -if you notice, Italian swimmers are usually also always poor at the start and in the turns, 2 more aspects of the game where power is really important)... therefore, we have quite a good tradition over the middle and long distances, rather than the shorter ones...and if that's true among the men, imagine how bigger an issue it is among the women... *actually, many gorls refuse also by themselves to push beyond certain limits because they don't want to sacrify their femininity (here in Italy, women with strong muscles = no beautiful females for most people and for the average media...we still live in the myth of the most famous models rather than the TV starlettes, the athletes are rarely seen as role models)...

here we go with the Rio De Janeiro stage for the Rifle and Pistol specialists... unfortunately, there are a lot of absent people among the top shooters... men's Individual 10m Air Rifle Gold: Petar Gorsa Silver: Sergey Richter Bronze: Miran Maricic Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=15973 women's Individual 10m Air Rifle Gold: Anna Janssen Silver: Oceanne Muller Bronze: Laura Georgeta Ilie Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=15976

2022 Italian Spring Nationals best of Day #3 men's 800m Freestyle: 1.Gregorio Paltrinieri, 7.46.01 (missed the World Champs qualifying time by 0.01); 2.Gabriele Detti, 7.48.07, (...); 4.Lorenzo Galossi, 7.49.76 (new Junior NR) women's 200m IM: 1.Sara Franceschi, 2.11.94 men's 200m IM: 1.Alberto Razzetti, 1.58.70 women's 100m Freestyle: 1 ex-aequo.Silvia Di Pietro & Chiara Tarantino, 54.91 men's 100m Freestyle: 1.Alessandro Miressi, 47.88 (World Champs qualifying time), 2.Lorenzo Zazzeri, 48.45; 3.Manuel Frigo, 48.50; 4.Leonardo Deplano, 48.68 (all together, World Champs qualifying time for the 4*100m Free Relay) women's 1500m Freestyle: 1.Simona Quadarella, 15.59.32 (World Champs qualifying time): 2.Martina Caramignoli, 16.08.03

Denver Pioneers 'stick with it,' rally in third period to win school's ninth NCAA men's hockey crown Denver scored five straight third-period goals to capture the NCAA Division I men's hockey championship with a 5-1 victory over Minnesota State at TD Garden on Saturday night. It's the ninth title in program history for the Pioneers, tying Michigan's NCAA record for the most ever. Denver had eliminated the Wolverines in the semifinals of the Frozen Four to advance to the title game against the Mavericks. "It certainly was a goal to get to nine," said Denver coach David Carle. "The ultimate goal is to be the first one to 10, I will tell you. Winning Thursday against Michigan was a huge step in that direction, and obviously tonight is an even bigger step." Senior forward Ryan Barrow and sophomore defenseman Mike Benning scored 2 minutes, 47 seconds apart in the third period to erase Minnesota State's 1-0 lead, finally breaking through against a stingy Mavericks defense in front of Hobey Baker Award-winning goalie Dryden McKay. "I kinda blacked out. I just saw my teammates coming towards me and I had to [celebrate]," Benning said of his game-winning goal. "I thought I owed it to my teammates after taking that penalty." Denver goalie Magnus Chrona, a San Jose Sharks prospect, made 24 saves in the victory. "Did our guy have to make some saves? Absolutely. We utilized our goaltender to the extreme," said Carle. "Sometimes it takes all 60 minutes, and we utilized the last 20 to our fullest advantage." In the first period, Minnesota State struck first on the power play, with Benning in the box for tripping Andy Carroll. Junior forward Brendan Furry launched a shot from the left wing that Chrona kicked to the slot. The puck went through the legs of a Pioneers penalty killer to Mavericks winger Lucas Sowder, who made a quick pass to junior forward Sam Morton. With his momentum taking him backward as he shot the puck, Morton's one-timer found the back of the net with 6:01 remaining in the first period. The Mavericks would kill off a Denver power play and outshot them 8-3 in the opening frame. Minnesota State held an 18-8 advantage after two periods. "We just said, 'Stick with it.' We didn't get here by shying award from challenges," Carle said. "It took everybody to do what we did in the third period there." Denver finally broke through against McKay and the Minnesota State defense with 15:14 left in regulation. Freshman Jack Devine took a shot on right wing that McKay stopped with his pad, but senior winger Ryan Barrow was standing on his doorstep to deposit the puck into the net for the 1-1 tie. Morton took a tripping penalty 40 seconds later, putting Denver on the power play. Just seven seconds after that power play ended, Benning blasted a one-timer on a pass from defenseman Shai Buium for the 2-1 lead, as Minnesota State watched its advantage suddenly evaporate. "Once we gave up the first one, I thought we started leaking oil a little bit. Couldn't stop the bleeding. We started chasing the game," said Minnesota State coach Mike Hastings. Denver nearly made it 3-1, but the referees waived off a goal for incidental contact with McKay. But the Pioneers would put the game away with 6:26 left in the third period as freshman center Massimo Rizzo converted a 2-on-1 pass from freshman winger Carter Mazur. Forward Brett Stapley and Wright added empty-net goals for the 5-1 final score. Minnesota State made the Frozen Four for the first time last year, losing to St. Cloud State in the semifinals. This year, they ousted rival Minnesota with a 5-1 win in the semifinals Thursday before falling to Denver in the national title game. The loss likely marks the end of a remarkable college career for McKay. The 24-year-old set NCAA records with 37 wins and 34 shutouts this season for the Mavericks, becoming just the third goaltender to win the Hobey Baker and the first since former NHL goalie Ryan Miller in 2001. Interestingly, McKay did not win the Mike Richter Award as the nation's top goaltender, which went to Buffalo Sabres prospect Devon Levi of Northeastern. McKay went undrafted by NHL teams and is a free agent. He has one more season of eligibility left at Minnesota State but has indicated he doesn't intend to return for another NCAA campaign. "I gave up a bad rebound on the first [goal] and they capitalized," said McKay. "It would have been nice to make a few more saves for the guys. It just didn't happen." The Pioneers had last made the championship game in 2017, which was the last time they won the title. Carle took over from Jim Montgomery after that championship. At 32 years old, Carle becomes the fourth-youngest head coach to win a men's hockey national championship. Match Highlights

very controversial situation...I hope finally someone can make a step back and allow this thing to be fixed without penalizing the athlete... however, this time she officially entered the Princesa Sofia representing Greece...

Boxing, men's Heavyweights...since the only man with a better reputation of Teofilo Stevenson in the entire history of Boxing is not on the list, the choice is quite obvious...the great Cuban is my pick... Athletics, women's 400m HS...technically McLaughlin's effort in Tokyo is unmatched, but here my pick goes to Nawal El Moutawakel because of what her success means for the whole North African and Arabic world...it goes well beyond the gold medal itself (which already is the biggest honour an athlete can get)... Athletics, women's Triple Jump...here's a no brainer... Yulimar Rojas is just on another planet... Cycling, men's BMX Racing... Maris Strombergs is my pick since he's the only man capable of winning 2 gold medals in different Games so far... Cycling, women's BMX Racing...for the same reason of the men's pick, here I go with Mariana Pajon...

2022 Italian Spring Nationals best of Day #2 women's 50m Backstroke: 1.Silvia Scalia, 27.66 (new NR and World Champs qualifying time) men's 100m Backstroke: 1.Thomas Ceccon, 52.99 (World Champs qualifying time) women's 200m Breaststroke: 1.Francesca Fangio, 2.23.60 (after being on pace for a 2.22 for 180m at least) men's 100m Breastroke: 1.Niccolò Martinenghi, 58.57 (0.01 faster than Peaty at the British champs and World Champs qualifying time) no remarkable times in the remaining races of the day (women's 100m fly, 200m free and men's 50m fly)

it's the 200m Freestyle... and frankly, it's just a decent clocking over the distance, nothing special... and also Christou has done quite well in both the 50m and 200m backstroke so far...