so, Russia and Poland will fight for today's Gold Medal...
meanwhile, in the placing matches, Italy will eventually limit the damage, as they are going to play for the 5th place against the locals from Estonia, which means that both teams now can only earn 2 points over the opponents at the end of the day...
therefore, the situation in the Olympic Qualification looks like this:
China have 216 points and will stay at the top of the ranking (they're going to sum up 40 or 36 points, depending on the outcome of the Bronze Medal match vs the USA), even if Russia will close the gap...
Russia are currently second with 188 points...a win (64 points) would get them very close to the top and considerably widen the margin over Poland, a loss (52 points) in the final against the Poles instead would send them down to 3rd place...
Poland currently have 180 points...a win today would move them up to second in front of the Russians, a loss would leave them in 3rd place, but would still increase their margin over the 4th ranked USA...
USA are currently 4th with 180 points and will remain 4th at the end of today's competition in any case (they will score 40 or 36 points)...
still, those 4 teams are surely going to strenghten their position, as they are all ahead of their main rivals...
as, written before, Italy are 5th with 160 points and will remain in that position (they will add 32 or 30 points to their ranking)...they are surely increasing big time their margin over South Korea (starting today's event with 150 pts) and France (starting from 110 pts, but they are both outside the top 8, so no more than 24 points for them) and they will also gain from 2 to 6 points over their direct followers for the European spot, Ukraine (127 points before today's effort which would eventually give them 28 or 26 points), with Estonia also still in the hunt (starting the day at 116, scoring 32 or 30 today)...