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women's 1000m, race #1 Gold: Kim Boutin Silver: Seo Whi Min Bronze: Fan Kexin

home triumph (on the Alicia Keys notes) for Kim Boutin... and the Korean sweep is not gonna happen also today...

men's 1500m Gold: Park Ji Won Silver: An Kai Bronze: Lee June Seo

women's 1500m Gold: Kim Ji Yoo Silver: Arianna Fontana Bronze: Noh Do Hee

it was the same last week...the Chinese girls especially are skating like it's rollerball rather than short track...

Men's Individual Foil (Bonn, GER) Final Results Gold: Julien Mertine Silver: Gerek Meinhardt Bronze: Alessio Foconi & Andrea Cassarà Semifinals: Meinhardt b. Foconi 15-12 Mertine b. Cassarà 15-10 Gold Medal Match: Mertine b. Meinhardt 15-9  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/135

Day #2 Gold Medal matches, Full Replay

Day #2 Medallists women's Sambo, -52kg Gold: Diana Ryabova Silver: Julia Rosso Bronze: Luisaigna Campos & Maryna Zharskaya women's Sambo, -64kg Gold: Ekaterina Onoprienko Silver: Tatsiana Matsko Bronze: Azhar Salykova & Vanya Ivanova women's Sambo, -80kg Gold: Mariya Oryashkova Silver: Rui Takahashi Bronze: Halyna Kovalska & Paula Martinez men's Sambo, -57kg Gold: Vakhtangi Chidrashvili Silver: Sayan Khertek Bronze: Maral-Erdene Chimeddorj & Avazbek Abdujalilov men's Sambo, -74kg Gold: Uali Kurzhev Silver: Stsiapan Papou Bronze: Levan Nakhutrishvili & Khadbaatar Narankhuu men's Sambo, -100kg Gold: Ruslan Kiselev Silver: Daviti Loriashvili Bronze: Syerik Byeryedmurat & Andrei Kazusionak men's Combat Sambo, -62kg Gold: Fedor Durymanov Silver: Kerimberdi Dovletov Bronze: Sorbon Latifov & Ernis Kaparov men's Combat Sambo, -82kg Gold: Aslanbek Kodzaev Silver: Edilbek Shakirmamatov Bronze: Yauheni Aleksiyevich & Assylbek Smaiylov men's Combat Sambo, +100kg Gold: Kirill Sidelnikov Silver: Maxwel Djantou Nana Bronze: Razmik Tonoyan & Khakimjon Ismoilov

my results page has "QA" beside Belgium (and GBR listed at 4:48.something)...

WBSC Premier12 Super Round schedule announced The six teams that are heading to the Super Round have been confirmed. The World Baseball Softball Confederation today announced the 2019 WBSC Premier12 Super Round schedule, which will be played over 12 games from 11-16 November at the Chiba’s ZOZO Marine Stadium and the Tokyo Dome in Japan. 2019 Premier 12 Full Schedule, here: https://premier12.wbsc.org/en/2019/schedule-and-results World No. 4 Chinese Taipei and No. 6 Mexico will officially kick off the Super Round on Monday, 11 November, at 12:00 JST at ZOZO Marine Stadium, with No. 7 Australia and No. 1 Japan following at 19:00. In a rematch of the 2015 Premier12 Final, No. 2 USA and No. 3 Korea, the defending champions, will open together at 19:00 at the iconic Tokyo Dome. Day 1 Super Round starting pitchers will be announced at the pre-event press conference on Sunday, 10 November. Day 2 of the Super Round features a clash between the two top-ranked baseball nations in the world -- Japan and USA -- at the Tokyo Dome, while rivals Korea and Chinese Taipei go head to head at ZOZO Marine Stadium, and Oceania’s top baseball country Australia will meet Mexico in the day’s opener. Mexico, Japan and Korea won their groups and will enter the Super Round carrying over their respective Opening Round head-to-head victories over the US, Chinese Taipei and Australia, who will enter 0-1. In Group C, Australia (+0.064), Canada (+0.046) and Cuba (-0.102) all finished with a 1-2 record, with Australia having the team-quality balance (TQB) tie-break advantage, which catapulted the Australian National Team into the Super Round. World No. 5 Cuba, No. 8 Netherlands, No. 9 Venezuela, No. 10 Canada, No. 11 Puerto Rico and No. 12 Dominican Republic have all been eliminated from the global competition. Olympic berth The higher finisher between Mexico and the USA will qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as the top team from the Americas. Either Australia, Chinese Taipei or defending Olympic champions South Korea will qualify into the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as the top team from the Asia/Oceania region.

and it's all over... South Korea win 7-0 against Cuba and therefore Australia qualify (together with the Koreans) to the Super-Round... Canada and Cuba are out and won't be able to play for an Olympic spot in this tournament (though, they will have more chances next Spring, first at the American Qualifying tournament and then at the Global Qualifying tournament)...

yes, I fixed my answer...I just read the wrong start list...

because they lost against GER and therefore they could only compete for Bronze... rules...

team pursuit women's competition: Germany vs Belgium for Gold; Italy vs France for Bronze men's competition: Denmark vs Italy for Gold; Great Britain vs France for Bronze

Day #1 Gold Medal matches, Full Replay (Opening Ceremony included in the video)

2 medals for our Berdi-friends from Turkmenistan!

Day #1 Medallists women's Sambo, -48kg Gold: Elena Bondareva Silver: Anfisa Kapaeva Bronze: Maria Guedez & Cristina Casas women's Sambo, -60kg Gold: Olga Mitina Silver: Aurore Cabanne Bronze: Dinara Zhumabayeva & Ana-Mariya Manusheva women's Sambo, -72kg Gold: Anastasiia Khomiachkova Silver: Nino Odzelashvili Bronze: Nataliya Smal & Anzhela Zhylinskaya men's Sambo, -52kg Gold: Igor Beglerov Silver: Bolatbek Raiymkulov Bronze: Givi Nadareishvili & Shin Jae-Yong men's Sambo, -68kg Gold: Altansukh Dovdon Silver: Mindia Luluashvili Bronze: Mikhail Vorobev & Emil Hasanov men's Sambo, -90kg Gold: Sergey Ryabov Silver: Paata Ghviniashvili Bronze: Nemat Yokubov & Aliaksei Stsepankou men's Combat Sambo, -57kg Gold: Alexander Nesterov Silver: Serikzhan Tussupov Bronze: Ahmet Tanriberdiyev & Togtokhbayar Nyamkhuu men's Combat Sambo, -74kg Gold: Vladyslav Rudniev Silver: Istam Kudratov Bronze: Bayzet Khatkhokhu & Otgonbaatar Nergui men's Combat Sambo, -100kg Gold: Vadim Nemkov Silver: Ilkhomjon Yuldashev Bronze: Ariunbold Tur-Ochir & Charymyrat Annagurbanov

yeah, in Baseball it happens more often than not... it's the nature of the game...if you get a pitcher who's not in his best shape, the game easily gets broken (and most of the times, boring)... but this Cuban team is really breakin' my heart...

I'm really asking myself what's going on in the IOC and Paris Organizing Committee's minds? I thought Tokyo 2020 was easily getting the title of "worst Olympics ever", but I see that Paris is fighting hard to win that already 5 years before their Games...

poor Cuba! it's so sad to see them playing this bad... 6-0 after 5 innings for the Koreans...it would take more than a miracle for the Caribbeans to comeback from this... the Australians right now are ready to take some champagne off the fridge...

Canada is mathematically out... qualify only by winning against Korea, otherwise Australia advance to the Super-Round... p.s. and if this happens, Mexico have the biggest chance to grab the American Olympic Quota, as they have won the direct match-up against their at-that-point only rivals from the USA...

in Italy, YT have a very random availability (and it's very limited when it comes to on-demand, there are a lot more games available if you watch them live)... Gametime instead works for every match (live and on-demand)... the problem, as I wrote in the past days, is that YT has a very useful app on basically every smart TV/connected device, meanwhile Gametime has no app at all...and not even full chromecast support (you have to rely on awful mirroring)...moreover, for the on-demand stuff, they have a mega-spoiler already in the title of any file... unfortunately, my subscription to the Japanese IPTV expired last week (not gonna pay another 30$ for 1 more month only for those few Premier 12 games)... I also found out some interesting sat tv feeds, but they are @ 55.5° West, which is impossible to reach for me (there's another palace beside the one where I live, stopping my west view at 30° (and my dish is too small, in any case)...

easy task for Japan against Chinese Taipei...8-1 the final score in their favour... a lot closer and more interesting, intead, the late game played in Seoul, where South Korea won 3-1 against Canada and basically earned their spot in the Super-Rouind (provided they're not thrashed out by the Cubans tomorrow and at the same time Canada give Australia a lesson)... so far, we know already 4 of the 6 teams going to play the Super-Round: Mexico, USA (with MEX carrying the win against the US guys over from the preliminary round), Japan and Chinese Taipei (with today's Japanese win against TPE also counting in the SR ranking)... if tomorrow in group C everything goes according to plan, South Korea and Canada also qualify for the SR, which would lead to a direct match-up between KOR and TPE for the Asian Olympic Quota and to an interesting battle between MEX, CAN and USA for the American Olympic Quota...

Alice Robinson has to miss the next world cup stage (knee)... https://asia.eurosport.com/alpine-skiing/killington-vt/2019-2020/alpine-skiing-alice-robinson-to-miss-killington-with-bone-bruising_sto7527865/story.shtml

definitely not the mighty Cubans we used to see anymore... however, most likely this result won't change Cuba's destiny in any case, as I don't see them beating this Korean team in Seoul tomorrow...