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I don't really know why are they trying to keep weightlifting into the Olympic program at any cost... it's time to get rid of those cheaters...and keep them away until there's even only 1 convicted doper in any single national federation's board (and of course in the IWF's board, too)...

OQR, Team Standings after today's event 1st, USA, 320 pts (Q) 2nd, France, 236 (Q) =3rd, Italy, 188 pts (Q) =3rd, South Korea, 188 pts (Q) 5th, Hong Kong, 186 pts (Q, best Asian team outside the top 4) 6th, Russia, 176 pts (Q, best European team outside the top 4) 7th, Japan, 161 pts 8th, Egypt, 158 pts (Q, best African team outside the top 4) =9th, Germany, 155 pts =9th, China, 155 pts 11th, Great Britain, 135 pts (? but still in the top 16), Canada, 124 pts (Q, best Panamerican team outside the top 4)

so, today's team event in men's Foil is almost completed...and we can do a few early considerations about the Olympic Qualification Ranking... the USA are already leading with big margin...and with today's 52 or 64 points (depending on the Gold Medal match result), they are going to increase their lead over their main rivals... going up to 308 or 320 points, we can consider them already safe in Tokyo... France, despite their poor 5th place in today's competition, are up to 236 points, which mean that they're still in second place with some margin of the rest of the field... and then comes the big pack of teams aiming at the last 2 direct spots and at the continental places... South Korea today get most likely 52 points (but they have a chance of taking 64), which means that they will go up to 188, if not 200 points, which would eventually place them in 3rd position in the OQR... meanwhile, if they only get 52 pts, they could still stay behind Italy, who are going up to 188 (if they lose the 3rd place match vs RUS) or 192 points (if they win Bronze today)... in any case, ITA and KOR will be the 3rd and 4th ranked after today's event... Hong Kong, instead, drop to 5th place in the OQR (186 points) after today's 6th in Bonn (but they would remain the top Asian team outside the top 4 overall, therefore they would still virtually qualify)... Russia will keep their 6th place with 172/176 points (depending on the outcome of the bronze medal match vs ITA)...and keep also their virtual qualification as the top European team outside the top 4 overall Japan were 7th today and are also 7th in the OQR (161 points)... Egypt (today only 14th) are 8th in the OQR with 158 pts and basically sure of a place in Tokyo as the best African team in the standings (no way they drop out of the top 16)... Germany (today only 8th) and China (today only 10th) are tied with 155 points in the OQR, followed by Great Britain with 135 points... finally, Canada with 124 points are also safe as the top Panamerican team outside the top 4 overall (as there's no way the USA would drop out of the top 4)...

Men's Team Foil (Bonn, GER) Final Results Gold: United States Silver: South Korea Bronze: Russia Semifinals: USA b. Russia 45-42 South Korea b. Italy 45-37 Bronze Medal Match: Russia b. Italy 45-40 Gold Medal Match: USA b. South Korea 45-31  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/205

Day #3 Gold Medal matches, Full Replay

Team Rankings women's Sambo Gold: Russia Silver: Ukraine Bronze: Bulgaria men's Sambo Gold: Russia Silver: Mongolia Bronze: Georgia men's Combat Sambo Gold: Russia Silver: Ukraine Bronze: Kazakhstan

Day #3 Medallists women's Sambo, -56kg Gold: Tatiana Kazeniuk Silver: Laure Fournier Bronze: Ana-Maria Ciobanu & Katsiaryna Prakapenka women's Sambo, -68kg Gold: Marina Mokhnatkina Silver: Dildash Kuryshbayeva Bronze: Volha Maleika & Battsetseg Tsog-Ochir women's Sambo, +80kg Gold: Anastasiya Sapsai Silver: Maria Kandratsyeva Bronze: Maria Shekerova & Elene Kebadze men's Sambo, -62kg Gold: Davlatjon Khamroev Silver: Savvas Karakizidis Bronze: Rakhat Zhananiyet & Khusqadam Khusranov men's Sambo, -82kg Gold: Aram Grigorian Silver: Ulugbek Rakhmonov Bronze: David Grigoryan & Besarioni Berulava men's Sambo, +100kg Gold: Purevdorj Damdinsuren Silver: Ilie Daniel Natea Bronze: Andrey Volkov & Beka Berdzenishvili men's Combat Sambo, -52kg Gold: Rodion Askanakov Silver: Nurken Dombayev Bronze: Ganbayar Gankhuyag & Novruz Atayev men's Combat Sambo, -68kg Gold: Stepan Kobenov Silver: Merab Dvalishvili Bronze: Saidyokub Kakhramonov & Yerlan Makhmutov men's Combat Sambo, -90kg Gold: Magomed Magomedov Silver: Tengis Batsaikhan Bronze: Petro Davydenko & Zhanybek Amatov

Golf European Tour, Fencing and Short Track Speedskating World Cup stages, EuroHockey Tour and, later tonight, NFL RedZone (with an eye on Milan-Juventus, Italian Soccer Serie A) are the main dishes of my Sunday's menu...

men's 5000m Relay teams qualified to the A Final China Russia South Korea Hungary

women's 3000m Relay teams qualified to the A Final China Russia Canada Italy

mixed teams 2000m Relay Gold: China Silver: Russia Bronze: South Korea

at the London 6 Days they had that... it was very useful...

men's 1000m, race #1 Gold: Hwang Dae Heon Silver: Steven Dubois Bronze: Han Tianyu

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...