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yes, that's interesting... and I wonder how we always missed out on that particular point before today? however, it's still a good thing to take notice of the "virtual" Continental qualifiers because if those athletes (or someone else from the same Country) don't get the spot through the final tournament, we already know who's in pole position to get this last chance place... and as I expected, now Italy have the repechage spot thanks to Maresca instead of the direct qualification spot of Crescenzo in the men's kumite -67kg... good to see that we can still keep our 5 virtual places (like Turkey and Iran), the most of the entire field of candidates... also surprising to see Iran with 3 women's virtual spots and only 2 among the men...

just a reminder... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Winter_Olympics " The Games featured 102 events over 15 disciplines. A total of 2,914 athletes from 92 NOCs competed, including the national debuts of Ecuador, Eritrea, Kosovo, Malaysia, Nigeria and Singapore." the Final Medal Table (30 of the 92 competing NOCs won at least 1 medal...and it came out of "only" 102 events) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Winter_Olympics_medal_table

please, can you also give a look at the Continental places? I feel there could be some major changes in that department...

she doesn't have any chance to qualify through OQR in any case... she has to rely on the final OQT next May in paris...

well, she's never been so slim... by the way, since when she came back from pregnancy, she's always looked a bit overweight more than before... no idea why she broke in tears at the award ceremony...maybe she was just emotional because it was quite some time she didn't get such kind of result...

I'm totally shocked... one of my favourite athletes all time, pound for pound... the accident happened a couple of hours ago in Calabasas, California...the helicopter he was flying with crashed and took fire, leaving no chance to Kobe and the other members of the crew (apparently there are 4 more deads other than Kobe)...

no, I can't see her name in the -55kg draw, the only Polish girl in that class was Natalia Szponder (she lost in rd #1 against Lorena Busà)...

2020 Grand Prix (Tel Aviv, ISR) Day #2 Recap Finally, in the last day of the Tel Aviv GP, the Home Nation hit the headlines and won 2 of the last 5 weight categories thanks to their big men (Peter Paltchik, -100kg and Or Sasson, +100kg)... the 3rd and last men's event from today instead was won by South Korea (Gwak Dong Han, -90kg) and this also gave the Asians the final victory in the medal table... the last 2 women's Gold Medals, on the other hand, went to Great Britain (Natalie Powell, -78kg) and France (Romane Dicko, +78kg)... the final Medal Table, as written before, was won by South Korea with 3 Gold Medals, followed by Great Britain, Israel and Japan with 2 Gold Medals each... Australia, Slovenia, Italy, France and Russia completed the list of Gold Medal winners with one Gold Medal each... Full Results http://www.ippon.org/gp_isr2020.php Day #3 Medal Session Replay

Karate1 Premier League, Stage #1 (Paris, FRA) Medallists Recap (Part #2) women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu Silver: Miho Miyahara Bronze: Junna Tsukii & Radwa Sayed women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold: Anna Cernysheva Silver: Anzhelika Terliuga Bronze: Wen Tzu-Yun & Carlota Fernandez Osorio women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold: Merve Coban Silver: Yin Xiaoyan Bronze: Leila Heurtault & Gwendoline Philippe women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold: Irina Zaretska Silver: Feryal Abdelaziz Bronze: Alisa Buchinger & Gong Li women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold: Hamideh Abbasali Silver: Meltem Hocaoglu Akyol Bronze: Anne Laure Florentin & Sohila Abouismail men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold: Eray Samdan Silver: Darkhan Assadilov Bronze: Oussama Edari & Christos-Stefanos Xenos men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold: Steven Dacosta Silver: Luca Maresca Bronze: Rafiz Hasanov & Yves Lamotte men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold: Bahman Askari Silver: Logan Dacosta Bronze: Joaquin Gonzalez Lavin & Luigi Busà men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold: Mohamed Ahmed Ramadan Silver: Ryutaro Araga Bronze: Wu Chun-Wei & Ugur Aktas men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold: Gogita Arkania Silver: Dnylson Jacquet Bronze: Saleh Abazari & Jonathan Horne

Karate1 Premier League, Stage #1 (Paris, FRA) Medallists Recap (Part #1) women's Individual Kata Gold: Sandra Sanchez Jaime Silver: Viviana Bottaro Bronze: Kiyou Shimizu & Hikaru Ono men's Individual Kata Gold: Ryo Kiyuna Silver: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila Bronze: Alì Sofuoglu & Kazumasa Moto women's Team Kata Gold: Spain Silver: Italy Bronze: Morocco & Russia men's Team Kata Gold: Turkey Silver: Spain Bronze: Italy & Morocco

Paris 2020 Gold Medal matches replays (most likely a good VPN is required also for this one)...

2 years ago, when they also met in the world championships final (and while Popescu won both Doha's matches, Navarria won the title in Wuxi)...

2020 Short Track European Championships, Final Medal Table NED, 5 / 3 / 1 HUN, 4 / 3 / 0 RUS, 2 / 1 / 4 ITA, 1 / 4 / 4 BEL, 0 / 1 / 0 GER, 0 / 0 / 1 ISR, 0 / 0 / 1 POL, 0 / 0 / 1

women's 3000m Relay Gold: Netherlands Silver: Italy Bronze: Russia men's 5000m Relay Gold: Russia Silver: Netherlands Bronze: Italy

and here you go...Popescu vs Navarria is today's final match...

men's 3000m Superfinal Gold: Semen Elistratov Silver: Stijn Desmet Bronze: Itzhak De Laat men's Overall Competition, Final Ranking Gold: Shaoang Liu, 77 pts Silver: Shaolin Sandor Liu, 75 pts Bronze: Semen Elistratov, 65 pts 4th, Itzhak De Laat, 50 pts 5th, Stijn Desmet, 34 pts 6th, Vladislav Bykanov, 23 pts 7th, Daan Breeuwsma, 8 pts 8th, Yuri Confortola, 7 pts Full Ranking https://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Results.aspx?evt=11213100000074&gen=m&ref=64362&view=ocl

women's 3000m Superfinal Gold: Arianna Fontana Silver: Ekaterina Efremenkova Bronze: Martina Valcepina women's Overall Competition, Final Ranking Gold: Suzanne Schulting, 102 pts Silver: Arianna Fontana, 68 pts Bronze: Martina Valcepina, 34 pts 4th, Lara Van Ruijven, 32 pts 5th, Ekaterina Efremenkova, 30 pts 6th, Natalia Maliszewska, 24 pts 7th, Cynthia Mascitto, 14 pts 8th, Hanne Desmet, 13 pts Full Ranking https://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Results.aspx?evt=11213100000074&gen=w&ref=64362&view=ocl

women's 1000m Gold: Suzanne Schulting Silver: Lara Van Ruijven Bronze: Arianna Fontana men's 1000m Gold: Shaolin Sandor Liu Silver: Shaoang Liu Bronze: Semen Elistratov

Men's Individual Epee Grand Prix (Doha, QAT) Women & Men's "Final Four" Live Streaming (running right now)

Men's Individual Epee Grand Prix (Doha, QAT) Final Results Gold: Sergey Bida Silver: Alexandre Bardenet Bronze Masaru Yamada & Andrea Santarelli Semifinals: Bida b. Yamada 15-8 Bardenet b. Santarelli 15-10 Gold Medal Match: Bida b. Bardenet 15-6  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/387

Women's Individual Epee Grand Prix (Doha, QAT) Final Results Gold: Ana Maria Popescu Silver: Mara Navarria Bronze: Erika Kirpu & Tatyana Andryushina Semifinals: Navarria b. Kirpu 15-13 Popescu b. Andryushina 15-5 Gold Medal Match: Popescu b. Navarria 15-9  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/79

not that the Italian team looks a lot better...we still have to send true "veterans" like Moelgg, Gross, Razzoli down the slopes because we only have a couple of decent slalom specialists...

bronze medal finals (live right now)... but I think you need a good VPN to make it work...

yes, he's Seb's son (he's already 21, however...I thought he was younger)...

actually, it's been a disaster for quite a while now...since the last major update last autumn, they've gone back to the unwatchable 25 fps pictures... and their streams are having a lot of troubles all week long...it all started last sunday/monday when the tennis tournament in Melbourne opened the doors...I'm not following tennis, but it's all week that I'm reading they have a lot of worldwide troubles, with matches missing completely, others being cut at the beginning or at the end, picture quality lowering down every while... tbh, they are by far the worst sport OTT service among all those I normally use from a technical point of view... in this sense, they're not worth even the 25€ for 1 year I paid for on the last Black Friday (and I subscribed only because of the Olympics and because I fear they're going to heat up the price when the Olympics come)... luckily, I have a lotr of options thanks to my satellite dish and I can avoid using EuspPlayer and/or the Italian tv (rai)... you're lucky if you don't understand what they say... otherwise you wouldn't be so happy to follow almost any sport on that tv channel...