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basically, it's the same in all Countries... the difference starts on Saturday (in Italy, the 2 TV channels will show basically very few and often useless events because they want people to subscribe Discovery+ )...

no, of course...if necessary, the course marshalls send them away before golfers play their game on each hole...

Testa is a lock, if they don't allow her to win the Gold medal is a scandal...she's by far the best boxer in her weight class (and she did show that also at the OQT in Paris)... by the way, also Carini, with a favourable draw, can get a medal...she's still the reigning world silver medallist... p.s. and Nicoli and Sorrentino are not that bad, too...it's only a question of fair judging, but they could all 4 win a medal...I'm sure at least 1 will come home from boxing... my biggest doubt is about taekwondo (I'm not sure Dell'Aquila is the same guy who won the world GP in 2019 anymore...his last outing was really scary and depressing)

the player can drop a new ball (with no penalty) where the thing happened... p.s. it's already happened in the past...more than once (the yearly tournament in New Orleans is famous because it often has alligators sunbathing on the side of the artificial lakes around the course)...

Karate gives 4 medals (2 Bronze to the semifinals' losers)... Russia here is like ITA and FRA...we and our neighbours only have 1 shot in wrestling, but it's a very strong one (I see TKD more at risk for both of them)...Chernysheva has very good chances of a medal in Karate (where actually anything is possible, especially in Kumite)... Turkey have definitely more chances of anybody else...

(in this order)

maybe all the other Nation have at least 1 black hole... by the way, ITA and FRA only have 1 real shot in Wrestling...so, it will be difficult also for them...RUS and TUR are the only safe picks...

nice season despite the pandemic troubles... I didn't appreciate too much the "new" RS divisions, or, rather, the games being played within each team's division only (definitely, I can't stand the same match 8 or 9 times already during the RS and I missed the East vs West games, as well)... but in the end, the playoffs had some very entertaining series and some quite surprising results... the Finals were not so exciting, because it was clear since game #1 that Tampa is on another level than Montreal, but still we saw some better hockey overall if compared to last year's (despite the score was closer last season)... now, as usual, I'm a bit depressed as the hockey season is over... but fortunately in 2 weeks time the Olympic Games start and it will make it easier to get to September and the new Hockey season (can't wait already for the next KHL season to open my personal campaign )...

yes... and of course the news was reported also by the Italian newspapers that never write about sport in general (not to mention Equestrian in particular) only because of her family name... p.s. I'd have liked to see also his life mate (Lorenzo De Luca, for those who don't know that) among the starters in Tokyo, but Italy first threw the team qualification away with crazy selections at the qualifying events, then they decided to blow him individually...

yes, Eurosport1 is the same continent-wide, but Eurosport2 is localized, with different scheduling in each Country (normally, for the Olympics it might be that both Eusp channels are localized -I remember in Pyeongchang in Italy both channels were local, with the second channel showing almost every hockey match and the first showing the individual sports with special attention to the Italian athletes)...

some technical specs over the Olympic broadcasting... https://postlmg.cc/sQJzVcJG https://postlmg.cc/Yjpkd5p6

I hope it's not what it looks... OK, he's very young, but almost 3 seconds of improvement in a year...

just choose a Championship Tour event and enjoy... https://www.worldsurfleague.com/

main poll... Yes, in terms of the number of qualified athletes, who are way more than expected... Not so much, in terms of who actually did get a spot in a few events... side polls... A - men's basketball team for sure...I think nobody expected us to win the qualification tournament in Belgrade against Serbia... B - it should be quite a long list, but just to make it simple, women's waterpolo and men's football in team sports, men's full squad in archery, second quota in men's Trap (shotgun shooting), men's C1 in slalom canoeing, men's boxing (in full) among the individual sports...

Yes to all 3 questions... for what concerns the chance to change the format, I'd like to get back at least to the 1-day event like it was until London 2012 (with no ranking and bonus round in fencing, just the simple round robin as it once was)... the wet dream is to get back to the good old 5-day format, but I admit it would be quite anachronistic... A - it doesn't make sense to me...as I wrote, I'd rather be back to what MP once was, not going forward to more absurd formats... B - men: / women: we have a couple of girls competing, but I think only Elena Micheli has a chance to shine... unfortunately, for the first time we don't have any man qualified to the olympic event...what a shame!

55kg: 76kg: 87kg: side poll... +87kg:

no...at least, not with a chance of being replaced... NOCs had to confirm their final lineups by July, 5th...

moreover... (karate, men's +75kg) (very outside chances in Surf, both men and women and Karate, women's -61kg) (multiple chances: women's track cycling, table tennis, maybe even badminton, fencing)

for men's Judo is also an option, if they allow Denis Vieru (-66kg) to fight at the Olympics...

for Cyprus the best chances are in Shotgun Shooting, but they also have a slight chance in Sailing...

except for day 1, when I'm going straight from friday late morning to saturday night, I think I have no chance for external reason to do anything different from going to sleep at about 10.30/11 p.m. and wake up at about 3/3.30 a.m. gotta miss the live action of things like Triathlon and Open Water Swimming (and a few Athletics events), but I fear I just can't do more than that (the 6 p.m. - midnight sleep, which would have been the ideal option is definitely out of order right now for me)...

there's always a lot of rowing that night... and you can also go for a recovery of some softball and/or football matches from days -2 and -1 (I doubt you can watch all of them in full lenght in any single day)...

yes, all videos are also ondemand and yes, you can subscribe for a single month (here in Italy it's 7.99€, I think it's more or less the same in the whole Western Europe)...

Gold for and Silver for are a lock to me... for Bronze, I don't have a real clue...I just picked and but I'm not fully convinced...