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final update...

final update...

wow! our girls won against Romania... very, very important result for them (even if we will likely have to wait quite a long time before we know all the minor placings and therefore we can make a complete analysis of today's event...and in any case, in this weapon we still have 2 more events left after this weekend)...

men's Team Foil Situation after today's event (1 tournament left)... 1. 436 (52) Mathematically Qualified through World Ranking 2. 340 (32) Mathematically Qualified through World Ranking 3. 280 (32) Mathematically Qualified through World Ranking 4. 252 (30) Currently Qualified through World Ranking 5. 250 (32) Currently Qualified, Asian Continental spot 6. 244 (28) Mathematically Qualified, European Continental spot 7. 215 (19) Out of the Games 8. 209 (23) Out of the Games 9. 203 (20) Mathematically Qualified, African Continental spot 10. 203 (23) Out of the Games 11. 175 (20) Out of the Games 12. 158 (21) Out of the Games 13. 154 (19) Out of the Games 14. 141 (8) Currently Qualified, Panamerican Continental spot 15. 140 (8) Out of the Games Note: in parentheses the number of points currently to be discarded after the last tournament... so, in the men's Foil we have 3 World Ranking (USA, FRA and ITA) and 2 Continental places (Russia in Europe and Egypt in Africa) already locked... also the Panamerican Continental spot is basically (even if not mathematically yet) booked by Canada... it only remains to be seen if Russia can finbally make it to the Top 4, leaving one between Hong Kong or South Korea home or if one of the 2 Asian teams can keep their top 4 place, thus helping the other Continental mate to qualify... in case Russia make it to the top 4, in fact, only 1 between HKG or KOR would be able to use the Asian Continental spot and a new race for the European teams would start, even if we have to say that more than a race, it would be a gift to Germany, as they are well ahead of all the other European teams at the moment out of the Games (and only GBR, with a highly unlikely combination of results, would still have a very remote chance to overtake GER)... tbh, 4 years ago the race for the Olympic spots was a lot closer and more exciting in all weapons (except maybe for the usual suspect, the women's foil)...

yeah, my mistake...fixed...

women's Team Foil Situation after today's event (1 tournament left, in Kazan, RUS in about 40 days)... 1. 436 (52) Mathematically Qualified through World Ranking 2. 340 (40) Mathematically Qualified through World Ranking 3. 300 (32) Mathematically Qualified through World Ranking 4. 282 (30) Mathematically Qualified through World Ranking 5. 253 (23) Mathematically Qualified, Asian Continental spot 6. 219 (22) Mathematically Qualified, Panamerican Continental spot 7. 201 (22) (Momentarily Out of the Games, can still hope for Egypt dropping out of the Top 16 of the WR) 8. 199 (25) Currently Qualified, European Continental spot 9. 198 (24) (Momentarily Out of the Games, can still hope for Egypt dropping out of the Top 16 of the WR and to overtake South Korea) 10. 191 (25) (still in contention for the European spot) 11. 184 (23) (still in contention for the European spot) 12. 153 (20) Out of the Games 13. 151 (19) Out of the Games 14. 136 (8) Out of the Games 15. 104 (0) Currently Qualified, African Continental spot (must stay in the Top 16 of the WR to save their place at the Games) 16. 99 (0) Out of the Games 17. 98 (8) Out of the Games 18. 94 (0) Out of the Games 19. 90 (0) Out of the Games Note: in parentheses the number of points currently to be discarded after the last tournament... so, we already have 6 of the 8 spots decided... the only competitions left are those for the European Continental place (Hungary have a slim margin -8 points and the same potential discard- over Poland, with Germany further 7 points below -and tbh, their chances are really, really minimal) and the fight of the Egyptian girls to keep their place within the best 16 in the world, so to confirm their African Continental place (provided EGY will score 8 points once again in the final tournament, Brazil most likely will overtake them, meanwhile TPE have to score at least 22 points -12th place- which is highly unlikely...it remains to be seen if SGP, who need 19 points -15th place, not impossible for them- will show up at the final tournament, meanwhile Romania need 25 points -9th place, possible, but really improbable- to kill the Egyptian dream...obviously, if EGY make it to the top 16 in the final tournament and score 18+ points, they are surely qualified to the Olympics)...

I'm definitely not satisfied with the Italian results this weekend... first, epee specialists have been a disaster (in the individual events they weren't even close to the podium and the way the men's team threw the bronze medal away yesterday is more than shameful; moreover, today's team event for the girls doesn't promise anything good...we have to face Romania in the last 16 and if we can pull a miracle out of that bout, China are waiting for us...all this means that we're not going to score reasonable points and we're likely going to drop out of the virtual qualification spots)... then, when things went good (individual foil events and individual men's sabre GP), we're still talking of a bunch of silver/bronze medals...the tendency not to win a single competition continues (and it's clear that we have a big problem with Volpi, out in round of 64 once again...St.Maur proved to be only an exception to a very dangerous situation)... not to mention today's semifinal in the women's team event, with Volpi being a total disaster (replaced by Palumbo way too late) and Di Francisca throwing away a good lead in the last stint once again, this time against Thibus (who already destroyed her in the individual competition)... frankly, I expect a lot more from our fencers...

Russian men, too (Italy can't be thrown out of the top 4 and no other European team can catch them)...

as I wrote in the previous page (not 100 pages ago, just 1 ), there is no live score nor live streaming from Cuba... however, here you can find the draw for today's team event... https://it-it.facebook.com/USAFencing/photos/a.464903249947/10157989687719948/?type=3&theater

Men's Team Foil (Paris, FRA) Final Results Gold: United States Silver: Italy Bronze: France Semifinals: USA b. Hong Kong 45-27 Italy b. France 45-44 Bronze Medal Match: France b. Hong Kong 45-38 Gold Medal Match: USA b. Italy 45-36  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/208 Bronze & Gold Medal match Replays

Women's Team Foil (Katowice, POL) Final Results Gold: Russia Silver: France Bronze: Italy Semifinals: Russia b. USA 45-36 France b. Italy 42-41 Bronze Medal Match: Italy b. USA 45-18 Gold Medal Match: Russia b. France 45-42  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/824 Bronze & Gold Medal match Replays

even if we are still quite early in the day, thanks to the results registered so far, we already have the first teams mathematically qualified to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: men's Team Foil: and women's Team Foil: + + and

no, I think there's no chance for him to overtake Figueira in the overall OQR (however, qualification through the WR is not an option...Assadilov and one between Samdan or Crescenzo will get the spots in the -60kg class, as they are way ahead of Douglas in the standings)... he needs to make up more than 2000 points, which is still mathematically possible, but really unlikely (moreover, the -67kg class is normally less "deep" than the -60kg, which means that Vinicius is likely to get easier chances to score good points in the last few events left in the race to Tokyo 2020)...

Alpine Combined is not a race that should be in the schedule anymore...it doesn't make sense under a strict technical point of view, it's not more spectacular then any individual race, it favors the slalom specialists no matter what starting order is used... however, the real "unfair" aspect of the world cup race is only the unbalanced schedule...until they don't change the number of technical and speed races, it's never going to be fair... the question is only this one...they have to schedule the same number for each of the 4 true disciplines (and get rid of all the sh*t like combined races, parallel "things" -unless they develop the PSL as a real standalone discipline with fair rules for all the competitors and a fair race format). point. p.s. in any case, it's fun to watch how the Austrian and Swiss federations build the world cup schedule according to their interests...when Tomba was dominant, they basically made it impossible for him (and all the technical skiers) to win the overall world cup (he had to find a lucky season to get just 1 in his entire career)... then, when Hirscher became the lone star of Austrian skiing, they changed the distribution of the events letting all the speed specialists without a chance... what's gonna happen next?

Men's Individual Sabre Grand Prix (Montreal, CAN) Final Results Gold: Bolade Apithy Silver: Luca Curatoli Bronze: Luigi Samele & Sandro Bazadze Semifinals: Apithy b. Samele 15-8 Curatoli b. Bazadze 15-9 Gold Medal Match: Apithy b. Curatoli 15-12  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/158 Quarterfinals, Semifinals & Final Replays

Women's Individual Epee (La Habana, CUB) Final Results Gold: Aleksandra Zamachowska Silver: Ana Maria Popescu Bronze: Marie-Florence Candassamy & Renata Knapik-Miazga Semifinals: Zamachowska b. Knapik-Miazga 15-12 Popescu b. Candassamy 12-10 Gold Medal Match: Zamachowska b. Popescu 15-8  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/97 Unfortunately, as usual, no pictures from the Cuban Capital...

no, she's currently 58th in the OQR...no chance for her to climb up so many positions in the standings... her only shot at the Olympics is the global tournament in Paris next May, as it's a 1-day shot with 3 spots up for grabs for all who doesn't make it through the OQR (or the continental/host Nation places)... basically, it's a true world championship, where the 3 medallists book their ticket to Tokyo 2020...

Knockout Stage Semifinals, Second Leg Tuesday 14.1.2020 - Schedule* 18:00 Luleå Hockey (SWE) - Frölunda Indians (SWE) 18:00 Mountfield HK (CZE) - Djurgården Stockholm (SWE) *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.

Karate1 Serie A, Stage #1 (Santiago, CHI) today's action recap... women's Individual Kata Gold Medal match: Viviana Bottaro vs Dilara Eltemur Bronze Medal match #1: Sakura Kokumai vs rosa Almarza Bronze Medal match #2: Sanae Agalmam vs Ayse Yilmaz women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold Medal match: Irina Zaretska vs Silvia Semeraro Bronze Medal match #1: Feryal Abdelaziz vs Halyna Melnyk Bronze Medal match #2: Miroslava Kopunova vs Gong Li women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold Medal match: Cao Hanqi vs Hamideh Abbasali Bronze Medal match #1: Sofya Berultseva vs Meltem Hocaoglu Akyol Bronze Medal match #2: Sachiko Paulina Ramos Akita vs Laura Palacio Gonzalez men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold Medal match: Kaisar Alpysbay vs Douglas Brose Bronze Medal match #1: Oussama Edari vs Dany Cabello Bronze Medal match #2: Darkhan Assadilov vs Yerkinbek Baitureyev men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold Medal match: Alì Elsawy vs Burak Uygur Bronze Medal match #1: Didar Amirali vs Andres Madera Delgado Bronze Medal match #2: Assylbek Muratov vs Christian Wever men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold Medal match: Bahman Askari vs Breno Teixeira Bronze Medal match #1: Thomas Scott vs Erman Eltemur Bronze Medal match #2: Yermek Ainazarov vs Yassine Sekouri

as usual, it's almost impossible to find fresh news from Cuba, but here we have the last 8 in the Women's Epee Individual Tournament running tonight... Amalia Tataran vs Aleksandra Zamachowska Kelley Hurley vs Renata Knapik-Miazga Ana Maria Popescu vs Sun Yiwen Marie-Florence Candassamy vs Erika Kirpu

and here ends the Italian party in the Alpine disciplines...

maybe it was some TV network asking for that?

updated at the end of today's tournament...

the world ranking after the next Continental Championships will be used to determine the team events' brackets of the OGs... the individual events also will be drawn according to that, but there will be a draw 2 places by 2 (no.1 at the top, no.2 at the bottom, no.3 and 4 drawn one at the top and one at the bottom and so on for 5 & 6, 7 & 8...)

Women's Individual Foil (Katowice, POL) Final Results Gold: Inna Deriglazova Silver: Camilla Mancini Bronze: Ysaora Thibus & Lee Kiefer Semifinals: Mancini b. Thibus 15-8 Deriglazova b. Kiefer 15-13 Gold Medal Match: Deriglazova b. Mancini 15-11  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/127 Semifinals & Final