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Russia (3-0 against Argentina) and Italy (amazing comeback from 0-2 to 3-2 against Poland) will play for the gold medal tomorrow...

if there's a game #163 for the Dodgers, it's Buehler all the time...especially if Urias starts tonight's game as expected... by the way, the Yankees (or the Rays, depending on the point of view) are making the AL wild card race really, really interesting... right now, the Rays are 7-2 up in today's matchup against the Evil Empire...

Amazon Prime Video's All or Nothing series focused on the Toronto Maple Leafs 2020/2021 season premieres on Friday in 240+ Countries... https://www.nhl.com/news/all-or-nothing-toronto-maple-leafs-on-amazon-prime-video-shows-real-emotions/c-326480262

if they think the superheavyweights final and Conlan's bout were fixed, I'd like to know what they think of all the Tishchenko's fights, especially those in the first round against Clemente Russo and the gold medal match against Levit? (which most likely is the third or fourth worst robbery in the history of Olympic boxing)...

Russia just too good to be stopped... however, very good result for our girls...

not going to post the relays' results, but here are the Sprint races'... Women's Sprint 1. Irina Kazakevich (Sverdlovsk region) - 21: 20.4 (2) 2. Kristina Reztsova (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra) +6.7 (0) 3. Natalya Gerbulova (Krasnoyarsk province) +23.1 (1) 4. Uliana Nigmatullina (Udmurtia) + 30.9 (0) 5. Ekaterina Noskova (KhMAO-Yugra) +36,9 (1) 6. Larisa Kuklina (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) +37,1 (0) Men's Sprint 1. Eduard Latypov (Bashkortostan) - 24: 34.2 (2) 2. Daniil Serokhvostov (Novosibirsk region) +4.6 (1) 3. Denis Tashtimerov (Tyumen region) +17.5 (0) 4. Semyon Suchilov (KhMAO-Yugra) + 26,6 (1) 5. Ilnaz Mukhamedzyanov (Udmurtia) +33,1 (1) 6. Evgeny Sidorov (St.Petersburg region) +49,1 (1)

in any case, Sputnik-V is authorized by WHO...

yeah, but that's not the only reason... I've never liked Joshua as a fighter, even before London 2012 and I think he's way overestimated and he achieved all of his success (amateur & pro) only because of the rich and powerful organization behind him and not because he's a big talent nor an example of will and determination... on the other hand, I've always been a fan of those Ukranian fighters who had well deserved success first among the amateurs and then among the pros (Lomachenko, Dereviyanchenko, the Klitschko's and many more, now Usyk)...

like an orgasm!

not so fast... the Yankees have an awful schedule (2 games vs Boston, 3 vs the Jays and 3 vs the Rays), meanwhile Boston and Toronto, other than the direct matchups against the Yankees, have to play teams like Minnesota, Washington and the Orioles... sure, NY have their fate in their hands (if they win most of the direct matchups, they are in), but it won't be easy at all for them to accomplish that mission... in the NL, I fear the Cards could even make it through to the World Series, given the shape they're in right now...I wouldn't like to be the Dodgers, facing them in a single game Wild Card round (even if they play in LA)... in any case, it's gonna be an interesting "long week" to end this year's RS...

'cause he wasn't the only one "under treatment"...

I want men's K1 and K2 200m back in the Olympic program... immediately!!!

I think many things would eventually change in 3 years time... becoming a standalone discipline, I guess there will be a major development and the results could be quite different from nowadays'... however, speed doesn't really anything to do with boulder and lead, reason why it was time to leave it apart and stop adding to the Olympic Combined (which is still a nonsense, but at least now it's better than the Tokyo version)...

naaa, we're only missing Janja Garnbret and a couple of the top Japanese climbers, but the level is very good... actually, Grossman and Moroni put on a show earlier today in the women's boulder final, completing in style all the 4 sections to the top...

here's better... https://info.ianseo.net/?tourid=519

I'm sure there are a few in the heavyweights, but I don't have any name at the moment... I remember Ylenia Scapin in the late Nineties, early 2000's switching quite a few times from the -78kg (her "natural weight class") to the -70kg... she won more than 1 European and World medals in the lower division and twice the Olympic bronze medal in the heavier class (1996 and 2000)...

The 4th game is now over in each of the 8 groups and 1 more of them is now over in terms of who's going to qualify to the knockout stage and who's going to end their trip in this year's CHL... Red Bull Salzburg and HC Bolzano are safe through the next round, meanwhile Frisk Asker and JKH GKS Jastrzębie are already out of contention... So, after 4 of 6 gamedays, the total number of teams already through to the knockout stage is 4 (1 each for ), meanwhile the teams already eliminated are 8 (out of 32, quite a high percentage tbh)...

Group Stage Day 2, Part 2 Sunday 12.09.2021 - Make-up Games Results Group H 18:00 HC Bolzano (ITA) - Frisk Asker (NOR) 1-2 (SO) 20:20 Red Bull Salzburg (AUT) - JKH GKS Jastrzębie (POL) 6-1 Standing : 1.RB Salzburg 12 (Q), 2.HC Bolzano 9 (Q), 3.Frisk Asker 2, 4.GKS 1

Group Stage Day 2, Part 2 Sunday 12.09.2021 - Make-up Games Schedule* Group H 18:00 HC Bolzano (ITA) - Frisk Asker (NOR) 20:20 Red Bull Salzburg (AUT) - JKH GKS Jastrzębie (POL) *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.

Group Stage Day 2, Part 1 Saturday 11.09.2021 - Make-up Games Results Group G 19:30 Rungsted Seier Capital (DEN) - HC Donbass Donetsk (UKR) 4-3 (OT) 19:30 Rouen Dragons (FRA) - KAC Klagenfurt (AUT) 0-4 Standing : 1.KAC 10, 2.Donbass 5, 3.Rungsted 5, 4.Rouen 4

it's just game 1 of of a very long season...don't worry, at the end of the campaign we're gonna be at the bottom of the pile as usual...

Junior Europeans, Day 3 Last day of the individual events at the Junior Europeans...and once again a good spread of gold medals, with 5 Countries winning 1 title each ( Georgia in the -90kg, Russia in the -100kg, Hungary in the +100kg among the boys; Germany in the -78kg and France in the +78kg among the girls)... This means that Russia win the final medal table (I'm not going to consider the mixed team event as part of this championship) with 4 gold medals ahead of France with 3, meanwhile 7 more Countries won 1 gold medal each... here's the results' recap... https://live.ijf.org/eju_jun2021/results

I think she could become a dominating force also in that class... of course she has to put some muscles on, because in that class you need also a lot of pure strenght, it's not only about pure technique anymore (as it might be in the -48kg, where almost every player doesn't have enough room to work on anything but making that really light weight)... I guess it won't be a ready-steady-go switch for her, but surely in the medium and long terms it's the right move to save her from injuries and burnouts... personally, I'm against every excess in cutting weight...I see only disadvantages rather than benefit, especially if you want to have a long career...

imho, it's not enough even the -52kg...she has to go up until at least the -57kg, where she would still be taller than most of her opponents, but she would also have some room to build some muscles and above all, avoid the excessive weight cutting before the competition as she has to do right now... in all the evnts she entered this year, she was clearly completely spent because of that...it's a miracle that she came home with a bronze medal from the Tokyo Olympics... and that's a shame, because she's so talented and beautiful to watch when she's in top shape...

Junior Europeans, Day 2 Yesterday there was quite a good spread of winners in Luxembourg ( Romania and Russia winning the men's classes, Croatia and Ukraine taking gold home in the women's division), the only constant being the disappointing results from the most expected Italian judo players... we did even have 2 guys in the -73kg class semis, but they both failed in the clutch moments and ended up 3rd and 5th... here's the results' recap... https://live.ijf.org/eju_jun2021/results and don't forget that all the action is always live for free on Youtube...