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I really know that feeling very well, mate! at the moment, I'm watching the Judo Grand Slam on TV (sky sports Italy) + the Alpine Skiing and Luge World Cup on my PC... I fear I'm getting squint... later in the day, I'm going on with more Winter Sports, Fencing and tonight it's all about (US) College Football (the L.A. derby above all, USC vs UCLA)...go Bruins!

first very busy weekend of the season... Men's Epee in Bern (SUI) Live Results: http://www.fencingworldwide.com/en/competition/57-2019/global/ Live Streaming: https://fie.org/live Women's Foil in Cairo (EGY) Live Results: Fencinglivetime site is off at the moment...link coming as soon as possible No Live Streaming as it happened for last week's men's Sabre... Women's Sabre in Orleans (FRA) Live Results: https://evenementsescrime-ffe.fr/cdm-orleans/resultats/ Live Streaming: https://evenementsescrime-ffe.fr/cdm-orleans/en-direct/

I know... I was just joking...

Grand Slam (Osaka, JPN) Day #1 Recap Last Grand Slam tournament of the season and, as expected, usual dominating performance by the Home Nation, Japan. One of the most anticapated themes of today's session was the chance for them to have a sweep of all 5 available Gold Medals...and this just didn't happen only because of Amandine Bouchard's success in the Golden Score in the women's -52kg class against Uta Abe. So, Japan finally won "only" 4 out of 5 Gold Medals awarded today: Naohisa Takato (-60kg) plus Hifumi Abe (-66kg) among the men and Funa Tonaki (-48kg) plus Momo Tamaoki (-57kg) among the women. The other great theme from today's session was the everlasting fight for the Olympic spot between Hifumi Abe and Joshiro Maruyama (men's -66kg class). and well, both easily reached the final, where they once again put on a great show. But this time Abe came out as the eventual winner (not even to be said, in the Golden Score...and thanks to a genius move), taking the overall score of their personal match-ups in international competitions to a 2-2 tie and keeping his hope to make the Japanese Olympic team alive. Full Results, here: http://www.ippon.org/gs_jpn2019.php

you're a true example of fair play and sportsmanship, sir!

p.s. I'm surprised we didn't have a celebrating visit by our friend @hckosice after yesterday's medal won by Patrick Jany... is it possible that he missed that? I just can't believe it...

last action for the 2019 season... 2019 Pistol & Rifle Shooting World Cup Final (Putian, CHN) President's Trophy, Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle Gold: Snezana Pejcic & Divyansh Singh Panwar Silver: Apurvi Chandela & Zhang Changhong Bronze: Seonaid McIntosh & Yu Haonan President's Trophy, Mixed Team 10m Air Pistol Gold: Manu Bhaker & Artem Chernousov Silver: Anna Korakaki & Chaudhary Saurabh Bronze: Zorana Arunovic & Shahzar Rizvi

maybe they're just saying the track is not ready yet (makin' it look not ready at any international inspection), but in fact it is and they're already secretly having massive training sessions over there... with the Chinese Officials you can never be sure...they're not your best example of integrity, fair play and transparency...

but normally they are given the passport of their "new" Country... in Rugby, that's not always the case...if I'm an Australian playing club rugby in Italy and I'm good, but not good enough to make the Australian NT in the past 2 years, I'm immediately eligible to play for Italy, without even bothering to take the Italian citizenship... basically, they have the same rules of club competitions, with foreign players allowed to play for a NT, which imho is absolutely crazy and unacceptable... and this could change a lot of things from your regular rugby tournaments and the Olympic teams, as the IOC has very different ideas about eligibility...

no, it's the opposite...ioc rules are for all sports and are a lot stricter than those of some international federation, IRB being the worst among them (in Rugby Union, a National team can play also with people who don't have a passport of that Country, only a couple of years in that same national championship -and not having played for another National team for quite a while- are enough to become eligible to play for a given NT)...

I agree on the point and I'd rather let the people know the score only at the end of the bout (of course the head of the judging panel must know the score round by round and possibly have the cance to warn those not doing their job properly on the fly)... but at the same time, if they keep the current aiba judging criteria, someone giving the impression to just refusing to fight can always lose a round 10-8 without even getting knocked down...and in this case the final score would be 28-28, with the decisive preference normally going to the boxer who had a fair behaviour on the ring... as I wrote in the past, it's not about the rules, it's always about the people in charge of the operations... p.s. I'm quite happy that they explicitly said that no judge and/or ref involved in the Rio Games will have anything to to with the Tokyo Boxing tournaments, qualifiers and actual Olympic showdown... in a world that can't be perfect, it's still something that had to be done...and it's a good start (they should have been even more harsh and exclude at least also those who were involved in the worst episodes of London 2012 and all of those who were at the recent aiba world champs in Russia, especially those who had a role in the women's event)...

2019 Pistol & Rifle Shooting World Cup Final (Putian, CHN) Women's 10m Air Rifle Gold: Elavenil Valarivan Silver: Lin Ying-Shin Bronze: Laura Georgeta Coman Men's 10m Air Rifle Gold: Divyansh Singh Panwar Silver: Istvan Peni Bronze: Patrik Jany

2019 Pistol & Rifle Shooting World Cup Final (Putian, CHN) Women's 10m Air Pistol Gold: Manu Bhaker Silver: Zorana Arunovic Bronze: Wang Qian Men's 10m Air Pistol Gold: Pang Wei Silver: Park Dae Hun Bronze: Artem Chernousov

so, at the end of the round of 16, the Elite 8 of this year's Champions Hockey League are known... they are: Mountfield HK Red Bull Munich EHC Biel/Bienne Lausanne HC EV Zug Djurgården Stockholm Frölunda Indians Luleå Hockey as obvious as it looks, we have 2 European National Leagues dominating the field, the Swedish SHL and the Swiss NLA, qualifying 3 teams each among the best 8... and the only other Nations still in competition at this stage of the tournament are Czech Republic and Germany, with 1 team each... once again, the big losers are the Finnish teams, this time in good company of all the 2nd tier European leagues, as this year we don't have any surpring entry among the top teams of the CHL... sad to be noticed, Sweden and Switzerland are also the 2 Countries with the lowest attendance to the games, which means that the better the leagues are, the less their average audience is interested in International Club Hockey...

Round Of 16, Second Leg, Part 2 Wednesday 20.11.2019 - Result 20:00 Red Bull Munich (GER) - Yunost Minsk (BLR) 6-0 (9-2 on Aggregate)

2019 Pistol & Rifle Shooting World Cup Final (Putian, CHN) Women's 25m Pistol Gold: Zhang Jingjing Silver: Kim Min Jung Bronze: Monika Karsch Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Gold: Clement Bessaguet Silver: Christian Reitz Bronze: Jean Quiquampoix

Knockout Stage Quarterfinals Pairings Tuesday 03.12.2019 / Wednesday 04.12.2019 & Tuesday 10.12.2019 Djurgården Stockholm (SWE) - Red Bull Munich (GER) EV Zug (SUI) - Mountfield HK (CZE) EHC Biel/Bienne (SUI) - Frölunda Indians (SWE) Lausanne HC (SUI) - Luleå Hockey (SWE)

Knockout Stage Round Of 16, Second Leg, Part 1 Tuesday 19.11.2019 - Results 18:00 Frölunda Indians (SWE) - Färjestad Karlstad (SWE) 8-2 (11-8 on Aggregate) 18:00 Luleå Hockey (SWE) - SC Bern (SUI) 4-2 (7-2 on Aggregate) 18:00* Djurgården Stockholm (SWE) - Skellefteå AIK (SWE) 4-1 (7-4 on Aggregate) 19:00 Adler Mannheim (GER) - Mountfield HK (CZE) 1-1 (1-2 on Aggregate) 19:45 EV Zug (SUI) - Tappara Tampere (FIN) 3-1 (6-4 on Aggregate) 19:45 EHC Biel/Bienne (SUI) - Augsburger Panther (GER) 2-1 (OT) (4-3 on Aggregate) 19:45 Lausanne HC (SUI) - HC Pilsen (CZE) 4-4 (OT) (6-5 on Aggregate) *Game start was postponed to h.20:00 CET due to late arrival of the visiting team (late flight because of bad weather)

Semifinals Results Ivory Coast b. Ghana 5-4 on Penalties (2-2 after 90 and 120 minutes) Egypt b. South Africa 3-0 Ivory Coast and Egypt qualify to the CAN U-23 Gold Medal match (next Friday, November 22nd at 8 p.m. local time, 7 p.m. CET) and to the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Ghana and South Africa will play for the last available spot in the Bronze Medal match next Friday, November 22nd at 4.30 p.m. local time, 3.30 p.m. CET

it's only because those are a couple of disciplines/events I like to follow...

2019 Pistol & Rifle Shooting World Cup Final (Putian, CHN) Women's 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Seonaid McIntosh Silver: Pei Ruijiao Bronze: Nina Christen Men's 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Filip Nepejchal Silver: Milenko Sebic Bronze: Sergey Kamenskiy

yes, this works perfectly...

I don't know if it's just me or what... but I can't see any video in your post...only a big white page... p.s. by the way, yesterday I saw Banskà Bystrica vs Zvolen on STV 2...close, interesting match...

sure... they all get the points normally awarded at every Continental Open tournament... 100 pts for the winner, 70 for the runner-up, 50 for the bronze medallists and so on... as explained in this document: http://99e89a50309ad79ff91d-082b8fd5551e97bc65e327988b444396.r14.cf3.rackcdn.com/up/2017/01/IJF_WRL_Events_2017-2020_Point-1483967512.pdf

Tomorrow's Semifinals h.16.00 local time, 15.00 CET, Ivory Coast vs Ghana h.20.00 local time, 19.00 CET, Egypt vs South Africa the winners qualify for Tokyo 2020 and will play the Gold Medal match, the losers will play for the last available spot in the Bronze Medal match...