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revolutionary results in the last events of the tournament! so, the USA are the new absolute powerhouse in Fencing... more and more Countries are getting close to the top (if not getting there)... and the dark times are coming for Italy, who had basically a disastrous competition in almost all the individual events (especially among the juniors) and they just saved the face with a couple of team gold medals (which are not so important as the individual ones in the youth classes)...

Men's Youth Team Epee Gold: Egypt Silver: United States Bronze: France Semifinals Egypt b. France 45-35 USA b. Switzerland 43-37 Bronze Medal Match France b. Switzerland 45-39 Gold Medal Match Egypt b. USA 45-40 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/230

Women's Youth Team Epee Gold: Israel Silver: Poland Bronze: United States Semifinals Israel b. Sweden 45-38 Poland b. USA 39-34 Bronze Medal Match USA b. Sweden 45-43 Gold Medal Match Israel b. Poland 45-42 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/229

maybe we'll see something at the World Champs/European Champs of some classes... and we always have the great show of the Sail Grand Prix with the America's Cup boats...

that 3.41 by Martens just killed me... but the 400m free are stuck on 3.43/3.44 since too much time, so it's quite logical to see them movin' on and set new standards of global excellence... I think that by Paris 2024 the medals could be close (if not below) the current WR set by Biedermann in 2009 with the rubbish...ops, I meant rubber suits...

I don't agree...by doing that, you only favour the powerhouses and cut all the small teams' chances to get any medal... we already have the world cup series and the world and continental champs to show the world how Japan are way better than the rest of the world... the Olympic Games are so attractive also because they are a battle of Nations, it would be very boring to watch almost always a JPN vs JPN gold medal match and you would lose at least 90% of viewers very quickly (keeping only the die hard fans and throwing the sport out of the Games, because the public interest for Judo outside the Olympics is very low, unfortunately)...

unfortunately, we only have micro-highlights, no full races nor extended summaries... https://www.trofeoprincesasofia.org/en/default/races/race-video

Earlier Today, the 2022 Italian Spring Nationals started in Riccione... here some of the most interesting results... Women's 800m Free: 1.Simona Quadarella, 8.24.23 (World Champs qualifying time) Men's 400m Free: 1.Marco De Tullio, 3.44.47 (World Champs qualifying time); 2.Lorenzo Galossi, 3.45.93 (Junior European Record, born in May 2006); 3.Gabriele Detti, 3.46.12 Women's 100m Breaststroke: 1.Benedetta Pilato, 1.05.70 (World Champs qualifying time), 2.Arianna Castiglioni, 1.06.17 (World Champs qualifying time); 3.Lisa Angiolini, 1.06.82 Men's 200m Fly: 1.Giacomo Carini, 1.55.53; 2.Alberto Razzetti (Short Course World Champion), 1.55.79; 3.Federico Burdisso (Olympic Bronze Medallist), 1.56.16 Men's 50m Free: 1.Luca Dotto (32 years old, World Silver Medallist back in 2011), 21.86; 2.Lorenzo Deplano, 21.87 no remarkable clockings in the men's 50m Backstroke nor in the women's 400m IM...

the new Olympic Classes mede their season's debut in Palma de Mallorca, where the Princesa Sofia Trophy (the 1st stage of the 2022 World Cup) just ended a few hours ago... 51st Trofeo Princesa Sofia ( Palma De Mallorca) 2022 Sailing World Cup, Stage #1 Medallists Recap Mixed Nacra 17 Gold: Tita / Banti Silver: Kurtbay / Keskinen Bronze: Gimson / Burnett Mixed 470 Gold: Xammar / Brugman Silver: Ferrari / Caruso Bronze: Peponnet / Retornaz Women's 49er FX Gold: Van Aanholt / Duetz Silver: Soffietti-Grael / Kunze Bronze: Germani / Bertuzzi Men's 49er Gold: Fischer / Pequin Silver: Barrows / Henken Bronze: Staniul / Sztorch Women's ILCA 6 Gold: Sarah Douglas Silver: Hanna Snellgrove Bronze: Vasileia Karachaliou Men's ILCA 7 Gold: Michael Beckett Silver: Matt Wearn Bronze: Philipp Buhl Women's iQFoil (Windsurfing) Gold: Helene Noesmoen Silver: Pilar Lamadrid Trueba Bronze: Maja Dziarnowska Men's iQFoil (Windsurfing) Gold: Andrew Brown Silver: Nicolò Renna Bronze: Luuc Van Opzeeland Women's Kite Gold: Daniela Moroz Silver: Lauriane Nolot Bronze: Ellie Aldridge Men's Kite Gold: Theo De Ramecourt Silver: Benoit Gomez Bronze: Connor Bainbridge Recap by World Sailing

yes, she's the younger sister of the poor Filippo... she's 23 years young and her first appearance with our NT was at the European Champs in Varese last year, when she was 14th in the single sculls...

Men's Cadet Individual Epee Gold: Samuel A. Imrek Silver: Alon Sarid Bronze: Fabio Mastromarino & Maksym Perchuk Semifinals Imrek b. Perchuk 15-14 Sarid b. Mastromarino 15-11 Final Imrek b. Sarid 15-9 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/236

Women's Cadet Individual Epee Gold: Aleyna Erturk Silver: Anna Maksymenko Bronze: Chen Hailin & Mizuki Homma Semifinals Erturk b. Chen 15-14 Maksymenko b. Homma 15-12 Final Erturk b. Maksymenko 15-11 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/235

Oh, boy! that was quite a surprising day in Dubai... and once again, very disappointing performance by the Italians in the individual events...

Men's Junior Individual Epee Gold: Zsombor Keszthelyi Silver: Mohamed Yasseen Bronze: Lino Heurlin Vazquez & James Jeal Semifinals Keszthelyi b. Heurlin Vazquez 15-13 Yasseen b. Jeal 15-12 Final Keszthelyi b. Yasseen 14-12 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/224

Women's Junior Individual Epee Gold: Hadley Husisian Silver: Nicole Feygin Bronze: Aleyna Erturk & Ketki Ketkar Semifinals Husisian b. Ketkar 12-11 Feygin b. Erturk 15-5 Final Husisian b. Feygin 15-10 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/223

actually, the Light Welterweights had that exact 63.5kg limit from 1952 through 2000, only in 2004 they started to change weight classes in order to have less events contested and the half kilo class was cancelled (going up to 64 first, then going down to 63 in 2020)...

Men's Youth Team Foil Gold: Italy Silver: France Bronze: Hungary Semifinals France b. Hungary 45-42 Italy b. Poland 45-30 Bronze Medal Match Hungary b. Poland 45-41 Gold Medal Match Italy b. France 45-28 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/232

Women's Youth Team Foil Gold: United States Silver: Italy Bronze: Japan Semifinals USA b. Japan 45-27 Italy b. Ukraine 45-24 Bronze Medal Match Japan b. Ukraine 45-42 Gold Medal Match USA b. Italy 45-33 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/231

Italy without Arianna Fontana (who announced she's going to skate until 2026, if she can stay healthy, of course) and Pietro Sighel... not sure what to expect from the remaining skaters on the team...

so, also this stage is over... not the most memorable in history, since very few of the best shooters in the world did show up... I hope it's gonna be better in Rio next week, when the Rifle and Pistol specialists will make their second appearance of the season...

Mixed Team Skeet Gold: Italy 2 (Simona Scocchetti & Domenico Simeone) Silver: United States 1 (Austen Jewell Smith & Dustan Taylor) Bronze: France 1 (Lucie Anastassiou & Eric Delaunay) and United States 3 (Caitlin Connor & Hayden Steward) Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=15956

Men's Cadet Individual Foil Gold: Cheng Tit Nam Silver: Ruben Lindner Bronze: Matteo Iacomoni & Andrew Chen Semifinals Cheng b. Chen 15-13 Lindner b. Iacomoni 15-7 Final Cheng b. Lindner 15-6 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/238

Women's Cadet Individual Foil Gold: Jessica Guo Silver: Carolina Stutchbury Bronze: Caterina Molinari & Rino Nagase Semifinals Guo b. Molinari 15-11 Stutchbury b. Nagase 15-10 Final Guo b. Stutchbury 15-7 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/237

I just can't stop asking myself what's the aim of having those senseless not olympic team competitions with basically nobody at the start, despite many athletes being on site for the individual (and the mixed, when they are in the Olympic program) events...

women's Team Skeet Gold: United States Silver: Italy Bronze: NOT awarded (only 2 teams at the start ) Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=15952 men's Team Skeet Gold: Italy Silver: Puerto Rico Bronze: Peru Full Results page: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=15954