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yeah, that was my first tought, too...

and here comes the damage: the new competition format... New Karate 1 Premier League: Round Robin system to take event to new competitive heights The 2022 Karate 1-Premier League is introducing a new competition system. The Round Robin format will now be applied to the elimination rounds to further raise the competitive level of the tournaments. With the introduction of the Round Robin, competitors have now the opportunity to progress even more as athletes. The karatekas taking part in Karate 1-Premier League events will now fight a minimum number of bouts in the first stages of the competition. As the amount of bouts in each event is increased, competitors can now improve their sports performance at Karate’s biggest international tournaments. Moreover, greater fairness to the competition is added as karatekas will have to show their skills in several bouts before reaching the final phases of the competition. ROUND ROBIN EXPLAINED In the Round Robin system, karatekas are divided into pools of three or four competitors each. The participants in each pool will clash all against all in the elimination round. Athletes receive points for their performance in each bout of the pool phase, with two points being awarded for a victory, 1 for a tie, and 0 for a loss. "Hikiwake" or draw is permitted in Round Robin. The top-ranked competitors in each pool at the end of the elimination round will then qualify for the quarterfinals. The last rounds of the competition (quarterfinals, semi-finals, medal bouts, and repechages) will be done in a knockout format.

here are some news about the "new" K1PL... New Karate 1 Premier League: Updated registration process gives athletes more chances to shine The season of Karate 1-Premier League begins this month with the first event to be held in Fujairah (UAE) from February 18 to 20. New features are added this year to further increase the prominence of the event and to consolidate the tournaments as truly elite sporting competitions. In order to stimulate the competitiveness of athletes even more, the registration process of the Karate 1-Premier League has now been updated. The main elements of the new registration format are: Limited number of competitors Greater importance of WKF World Ranking Priority to top-ranked athletes As it happened in previous editions, the participation in Karate 1-Premier League is limited to a maximum of 32 competitors per category. To establish the event as a truly elite competition, the tournaments are restricted to the Top 100 athletes in WKF World Ranking. THREE PHASES OF REGISTRATION Additionally, the registration process has been updated to provide more opportunities for the best karatekas to participate. The new inscription system is divided into three phases: The first phase is limited to competitors placed in positions 1 to 32 of the WKF World Ranking. The second phase is open to athletes ranked in positions 33 to 64. The final phase is for competitors in positions 65 to 100. The second and third phases will be available until the maximum of 32 athletes per category is completed. With this update, the top-ranked athletes find now an easier path to register, as they have now priority in the registration of the events. Therefore, the competitive level of the events is now guaranteed.

The new season is well underway, and after the beginning of the Youth League and of the second-tier Serie A Series in the past weeks, now it's time for the start of the rejuvenated (becoming a lot worse than before, imho ) Karate1 Premier League... Stage #1 is going on this weekend in Fujarah... and this is this year's full K1PL calendar... https://www.wkf.net/karate1-main

I'm not against new sports...I'm against screwing traditional sports & events to replace them with those farce events in the name of the youth & urban "philosophy"... by the way, about those events you mentioned, yes to NTL and ski mountaineering (since they're not "judged sports"), no curling at all (tbh...but that's just personal taste) and no mixed gender events. point. any mixed gender event. exclamation mark! (therefore, no mixed curling, of course)...

because IOC screwed World Skate and promised them to include inline skating, but then opted for 2 disciplines of skateboarding only to be part of the Games... you know, youth and urban...

I respect your opinion, but about the Olympic program I'm a true conservative (and nostalgic...give me back the good old Nineties' -and 2000- Games)...

sure! especially the hockey GMM... they just can't stop that attitude...it drives me more than crazy!

restoration is the key... mass start (unless they take the true Marathon format) and team pursuit must go... the traditional 5 distances are more then enough...and they must not be touched by those youth and urban fanatics who are destroying the Olympics (Summer or Winter doesn't make any difference)...

so, we're already close to the end... tomorrow I'm gonna start at 7 a.m. with a quick recap of the alpine skiing team event, then it's time for some live cross-country skiing (jip) and the speedskating's mass start races semis (on the second screen), followed by the speedskating medal races... in the afternoon, obviously the men's hockey bronze medal match followed by the men's curling gold medal match and the men's halfpipe of freestyle skiing (ondemand)...maybe also the last few sleds of the women's bobsleigh (but only if the medal race is still on)...

12th place: women: Sofie Karoline Haugen men: Livio Wenger

then, the main question is: how do you make them do those quad jumps? overtraining? and if it's because of (too much) hard training, how do you make them sustain this routine day after day? not with gentle encouragement words, I guess...

I mean that Italy should have never been invited to the previously 5, now 6 Nations... our team is not good enough, our movement is not even comparable with yours (or the British Unions')... it's as simple as it looks...we just don't belong to that level of rugby... so, when they throw Italy off and replace them with a better team/program is a good thing, but they should have done it 20 years ago, at least...

I agree... but, you know...some good hockey in August is something not to be refused (nor underestimated)... it does shorten my withdrawal symptoms period...

would have liked more Leerdam to win... you know...

when it happens, it's still too late...

tbh, medals were not out of order...actually, Perilli's medal was highly expected...

today's slalom was set by the US coach and obviously he made an exception to that rule to ensure Shiffrin's chances... unfortunately for them, it didn't go how they would have liked, but still, this slalom run was a true one, even more difficult than the 1st run of the actual slalom race...

tbh, this venue is at the same altitude of Antholz, where I've never seen anybody collapsing that way (actually, the previous collapse by Tandrevold was in Oberhof, one of the lowest places in Biathlon)... All the problems we've experienced in these Olympics are surely related to different factors (cold, well known and established sickness -Tandrevold's case- maybe some "treatment" not gone the right way)... p.s. moreover, many Scandinavian athletes who are not born in altitude places normally and regularly abuse of the hypobaric chamber all year long... so, altitude conditions shouldn't be an issue even for them...

pretty much a one-sided prediction, I see... maybe it's better not to tell that to Sandra Naeslund...she might think we're all a bunch of...

don't worry, our noc will fire all the ice federation's officials and coaches she wants to be replaced... and we'll find the way to cover her with money to keep on going until 2026... She and Goggia are not only the 2 most talented athletes we have, they're also the cover girls of our home Games... p.s. another amazing stat...Fontana, Schulting and Desmet made all 3 individual finals...I don't think we've never seen 3 girls at the same time being so dominant over the whole range of distances...

tomorrow I'm starting at 7 a.m. with the alpine skiing women's combined event live, followed by the women's skicross competition ondemand... then back live to speedskating and nordic combined... finally, in the afternoon it's time for the women's hockey gold medal match...

our broadcasters explained that because they saw her on the stretcher talking with the doctor seemingly in pain for a physical injury rather than collapsed like Tandrevold the previous race... of course they're not even on site, so they misread the real situation...