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imho, the best solution would be completely abandon the relays in the world cup stages... relays are only interesting at the world champs/olympics, when all the teams put all their best athletes in the squads...world cup relays are just a long list of missing/not pushing hard athletes, trying to save themselves for what really matters, the individual stuff... if I had to make the schedule, I'd do something like this: first 3/4 stages: Wednesdays & Thursdays 20/15km Individuals; Fridays & Saturdays 7.5/10km Sprints always alternating men and women (so to give a one day recovery between the longer races); Sundays both M+F Pursuit races then, once a good number of events are completed, the Individual events could be replaced by the Mass Start races: Thursdays & Fridays the Sprint races; Saturdays both M+F Pursuit events and Sundays both M+F Mass Start competitions... I'm pretty sure that almost every Tv network would be happy with this kind of scheme...

No Russian superstars, but still... Cerioni is back on the driving seat of the Italian Foil...and magically we're back winning...

2021/2022 Fencing World Cup Women's Team Foil ( St.Maur) Gold: Italy Silver: Japan Bronze: Russia Semifinals Italy b. Canada 45-37 Japan b. Russia 31-26 Bronze Medal Match Russia b. Canada 44-39 Gold Medal Match Italy b. Japan 43-40 Full Ranking & Results https://www.engarde-service.com/index.php?lang=fr&Organisme=arcasso&Event=stmaur2021&Compe=fds-eq

2021/2022 Fencing World Cup Women's Individual Foil ( St.Maur) Gold: Alice Volpi Silver: Lee Kiefer Bronze: Jacqueline Dubrovich & Francesca Palumbo Semifinals Volpi b. Palumbo 15-12 Kiefer b. Dubrovich 15-4 Final Volpi b. Kiefer 15-14 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2022/118

disaster race for Italy...Moioli out in a quarterfinal heat with 2 teammates...Visintin out & injured in the early stages ( it's not a season-ending injury)...the remaining girls just don't have enough talent and the remaining men just don't have enough "huevos" to be good in the fights of the knockout stages...

@hckošice 2 nights ago, a Slovak goalie (Adam Huska) made his NHL debut with the NY Rangers... unfortuantely, he had to face the scoring machine named Colorado Avalanche and got beaten 7 times, but it was not his fault...I saw the game and he didn't play that bad, it was the Rangers defense that was really poor... https://nypost.com/2021/12/08/adam-huska-didnt-get-much-help-from-rangers-defense-in-debut/

just this:

Knockout Stage, Quarterfinals 2nd Leg Wednesday 14.12.2021 - Schedule* 19:00 Frölunda Gothenburg (SWE) - Leksands IF (SWE) 19:00 Rögle Ängelholm (SWE) - Sparta Prague (CZE) 19:30 Rouen Dragons (FRA) - Tappara Tampere (FIN) 20:15 Red Bull Munich (GER) - Lukko Rauma (FIN) *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.

Knockout Stage, Quarterfinals 1st Leg, Match Highlights Lukko Rauma (FIN) - Red Bull Munich (GER) Tappara Tampere (FIN) - Rouen Dragons (FRA) Sparta Prague (CZE) - Rögle Ängelholm (SWE) Leksands IF (SWE) - Frölunda Gothenburg (SWE)

Knockout Stage, Quarterfinals 1st Leg Wednesday 07.12.2021 - Results 18:00 Lukko Rauma (FIN) - Red Bull Munich (GER) 2-2 18:00 Tappara Tampere (FIN) - Rouen Dragons (FRA) 3-3 18:00 Sparta Prague (CZE) - Rögle Ängelholm (SWE) 2-5 19:00 Leksands IF (SWE) - Frölunda Gothenburg (SWE) 2-5

quite classic jerseys...and I like the classic style...always... p.s. oh, boy...that's not new to me either...

Italy have announced that they won't take part in any sort of boycott, even the diplomatic farce the US and their faithful guard dogs are going to do... p.s. and our NOC President Malagò also said that we're going to win more than 10 medals, which was our final score in Pyeongchang 2018... given the preview he made before Tokyo, I think we're going to enjoy some good Italian results in a couple months time...

up... tomorrow's the day...

maybe, but I'm not sure they want...

we can already say that Italy would eventually use all of his 8 spots among the men and only 1 among the women (Lollobrigida will skate all the 4 events where Italy have an entry)...

wonderful night, amazing location, great atmosphere, phenomenal athletes, unbelievable exercises, undisputable judges, truly fair results... I'm pretty sure that Breaking would eventually become the main event of the 2024 Olympics, the real step ahead that IOC was looking for... p.s out of joke, USA (B-boys) and Japan (B-girls) are the 2021 world champions... guess what? I don't know why? but but I'm not surprised at all...

Hockey in the Desert History has been made... Yesterday the KHL played the first professional league game ever in the United Arab Emirates... Reigning champions Avangard Omsk did face AK Bars Kazan at the Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai in front of a 5000+ enthusiastic fans (among them, the Swedish legendary goalie "King" Henrik Lundqvist)... More on this historical game... https://en.khl.ru/news/2021/12/03/493570.html Highlights

she shouldn't be allowed to start in any race. point. I know it's all done in perspective of Milano-Cortina 2026 (by the way, 2 days ago the final agreement to rebuild the Cortina track has been signed...€€€ are coming...so, no more attempts to strip the olympic sliding events from their natural location...it should be ready by 2025), but they just can't send these crews to the world cup events, if they're not ready at all for this level of competition...

not surprisingly it was Margaglio to take off, however...

Stop! I just can read further than that... Just another discipline I won't follow anymore...

OMG!!! the new format for air pistol and rifle! I can't believe they really approved such kind of farce! a lot of dead time, not immediately understandable scores, cerebral format overall... this would finally kill even the most hadcore fan, making the medal stages just unwatchable (it's also unfair to the shooters, tbh, but we're talking of the attractiveness of the new format for the audience and will take care of the remaing issues in another session)...

it looks that in the shotgun events we're back to the multiple phase competitions as it was in the 2016 Olympic cycle (with a slight diversification of the semifinal round, this time with 2 groups of 4 instead of the traditional 6-man single heat, a fully different system for the Final round, basically the same of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic cycle, even if with only 4 shooters rather than 6)... in practice, it's a combination of the last 2 kind of format, taking the worse from each one...

a very sad story from France... https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-divers-justice/judo-l-entraineur-alain-schmitt-relaxe-de-faits-de-violences-conjugales-sur-la-championne-margaux-1638348674

not himself a world class athlete, but the king of corrupted officials among the many corrupted sports federations... Lamine Diack, former IAAF president, dies at the age of 88 https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/convicted-ex-head-world-athletics-lamine-diack-dies-88-2021-12-03/

Federica Pellegrini (swimming) game over, guys! the last 50 meters (actually not a race, but a party with some of her historical rivals and a touching memory of Camille Muffat)... thank you, Federica for all the emotions...