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2019 Sport Climbing World Cup, Stage #11 (Xiamen, CHN) Women's Speed Gold: Aries Susanti Rahayu Silver: Song Yi Ling Bronze: Mariia Krasavina Men's Speed Gold: Zhong Qi Xin Silver: Lev Rudatskiy Bronze: Vladislav Deulin

yes, to me it's clear...the second part of your quote is absolutely explicit: whrever the 1st spot comes from, the reallocation comes through the WT Olympic Ranking...there's no mention at all of possible reallocation through the Grand Slam Series...

very good result for Dell'Aquila, who now has really overtaken and got the edge of his arch-rival Jesus Tortosa Cabrera...he started losing by some margin, he cut down the distance, he started winning close bouts and now he's literally dominating the Spanish guy... and I can smell the same is happening against the Korean Jang Jun...he was losing big time against him until the world champs, but now it's the second time in a row that he loses to the world champion by a (relatively) narrow margin... probably Tokyo is coming a bit too early to overtake the Korean too, but at least now we can say he's a real medal hope for the Olympics (if he gets a reasonably good draw)...

Sofia Grand Prix Day #1, Medallists Recap men's -58kg Gold: Jang Jun Silver: Kim Tae-Hun Bronze: Vito Dell'Aquila & Armin Hadipour women's -57kg Gold: Zhou Lijun Silver: Lee Ah-Reum Bronze: Tatiana Kudashova & Hatice Kubra Ilgun men's -68kg Gold: Zhao Shuai Silver: Lee Dae-Hoon Bronze: Huang Yu-Jen & Soroush Ahmadi

Full Playoffs Bracket

Playoff draw in the books! The Road to the Final starts NOW! Liverpool FC legend Sami Hyypiä was the star of the show on Friday at the C More Studios in Helsinki, as the former UEFA Champions League winner draw the Round of 16 matchups at the official CHL Playoff Draw. These pairings set up the 2019/20 Road to the Final, as teams can now see the route they will have to take to become European Trophy winners. Round of 16 Matchups Skellefteå AIK vs Djurgården Stockholm EHC Biel-Bienne vs Augsburger Panther Red Bull Munich vs Yunost Minsk Frölunda Indians vs Färjestad Karlstad EV Zug vs Tappara Tampere Luleå Hockey vs SC Bern Adler Mannheim vs Mountfield HK Lausanne HC vs HC Pilsen All matchups will be played in two games, with the first games at the homes of the group runners-up (teams on the right) and the second games at the homes of the group winners (teams on the left), except where arena and broadcasting obligations necessitate a switch. The first legs of the Round of 16 matchups will all be played on 12/13 November and the second legs on 19/20 November. The schedule will be confirmed next week.

3rd day in Marrakech...and it was a true Georgian festival, with their guys monopolizing both men's weight classes contested today... and Italy won another bronze medal... but also got a bitter 5th place with the most expected of our guys... women's -70kg Gold: Mami Asahi Silver: Madina Taimazova Bronze: Morgane Fereol & Marlene Galandi men's -81kg Gold: Vladimir Akhalkatsi Silver: David Karapetyan Bronze: Tato Grigalashvili & Guilherme Schimidt men's -90kg Gold: Lasha Bekauri Silver: Roland Goz Bronze: Louis Mai & Gennaro Pirelli Full Results: http://www.ippon.org/wc_jun2019.php

3 more events contested today in Marrakech...and Italy won a bronze medal... women's -57kg Gold: Eteri Liparteliani Silver: Kanako Hakamata Bronze: Kim Ji Su & Pleuni Cornelisse women's -63kg Gold: Szofi Ozbas Silver: Anja Obradovic Bronze: Asumi Ura & Laura Fazliu men's -73kg Gold: Somon Makhmadbekov Silver: Georgii Elbakiev Bronze: Victor Sterpu & Edoardo Mella Full Results: http://www.ippon.org/wc_jun2019.php

and after today's game (Kiwoom Heroes won the 3rd match against SK Wyverns 10-1 and swept the series against them), we already have the teams playing the 2019 Korean Series... KBO PLAYOFFS BRACKET Wild Card Series (Best-of-3, with all games on the turf of the higher seeded team, also starting from 1-0 in the series) LG Twins (#4) b. NC Dinos (#5) 2-0 (Bonus Win; 3-1) Semi-Playoffs Series (Best-of-5 Series) Kiwoom Heroes (#3) b. LG Twins (WCS Winners) 3-1 (1-0; 5-4; 2-4; 10-5) Playoffs Series (Best-of-5 series) Kiwoom Heroes (#3, Semi-Playoffs Series Winners) b. SK Wyverns (#2) 3-0 (3-0; 8-7; 10-1) 2019 Korean Series (Best-of-7 series) Doosan Bears (#1) vs Kiwoom Heroes (#3, Playoffs Series Winners) And this is the 2019 Korean Series schedule: game #1, Tuesday, October 22nd, Kiwoom Heroes @ Doosan Bears (h.18.30 local time, h. 11.30 CET) game #2, Wednesday, October 23rd, Kiwoom Heroes @ Doosan Bears (h.18.30 local time, h. 11.30 CET) game #3, Friday, October 25th, Doosan Bears @ Kiwoom Heroes (h.18.30 local time, h. 11.30 CET) game #4, Saturday, October 26th, Doosan Bears @ Kiwoom Heroes (h.14.00 local time, h.07.00 CET) game #5, if necessary, Sunday, October 27th, Doosan Bears @ Kiwoom Heroes (h.14.00 local time*, h.06.00 CET*) game #6, if necessary, Tuesday, October 29th, Kiwoom Heroes @ Doosan Bears (h.18.30 local time*, h. 10.30 CET*) game #7, if necessary, Wednesday, October 30th, Kiwoom Heroes @ Doosan Bears (h.18.30 local time*, h. 10.30 CET*) * = DST over in Europe, no Time change in South Korea

in 1964, 3 different venues were used for the Equestrian competitions: - Karuizawa (Chiba Prefecture) hosted the 3-Day event - the Equestrian Park in Setagaya-ku* (Tokyo) hosted the Dressage competitions - the National (Olympic) Stadium in Shinjuku-ku* (Tokyo) hosted the Show Jumping events * -ku basically means "block"... for more details, check the IOC Tokyo 1964 Official Reports #1 (page 115 and following) and #2 (page 577 and following)... https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll8

Playoff Draw: Friday, October 18th @ Noon CET The 2019/20 Champions Hockey League Playoff Draw will take place on Friday, October 18th in Helsinki, and it will be conducted by a special guest. Read below to find out all relevant information for the draw and the Round of 16. The Champions Hockey League is proud to announce that former Finnish football player and coach Sami Hyypiä will conduct the Playoff Draw on October 18th in Helsinki. Sami won the UEFA Champions League back in 2005 with Liverpool FC, where he spent 10 years of his storied career. The Finn, who has also played and coached in Germany and Switzerland, is an avid hockey fan. The CHL Playoff Draw will take place two days after the Group Stage has been completed. The live show will be recorded at the CMore studios in Helsinki and streamed live on the CHL’s digital platforms (Website & Facebook). The Playoff Draw starts at 12:00 CEST (13:00 local time). Draw Rules & Regulations - 16 teams enter the Playoff Draw - the 8 group winners and 8 runners-up. - The group winners are all placed in Pot A and the runners up in Pot B. - Teams from Pot A will be randomly drawn against teams from Pot B. The draw will not only produce the Round of 16 pairings, but also determine each team’s position in the playoff tree, showing their potential path all the way to the Final. Starting in the Playoffs, national clashes are now possible. However, teams that played each other during the Group Stage cannot play each other in the first playoff round. As match-ups in all subsequent rounds will be determined by bracket position, they will be able to meet again later in the competition. Once the Playoff Draw for the Round of 16 has been made, no additional draws for the following rounds will be held. Playoff Format & Schedule The CHL Playoffs start on 12/13 November with the first three playoff rounds being a two-game, home-and-away, aggregate scoring series. The season culminates on 4 February 2020 with the ultimate one-game Final. In general group runners-up will play their home game first in the Round of 16, unless an arena is unavailable and the home games must be switched. For the following playoff rounds the CHL will determine the schedule based solely on factors such as arena availability and broadcasting obligations.

game over! Augsburg win in Liberec by a score of 3-2 (the winning goal came thanks to the most classic empty netter, though) and are the 16th and last team to qualify to the knockout stage of the 2019/2020 Champions Hockey League... so, after the end of the preliminary stage, we have the entire field of teams still in contention to win this year's main European Trophy... The 8 Group Winners EHC Biel/Bienne (A) EV Zug (B) Luleå Hockey (C) Lausanne HC (D) Skellefteå IK (E) Adler Mannheim (F) Red Bull Munich (G) Frölunda Indians (H) The 8 Group Runner-ups Tappara Tampere (A) HC Pilsen (B) Augsburger Panther (C) Yunost Minsk (D) SC Bern (E) Djurgården Stockholm (F) Färjestad Karlstad (G) Mountfield HK (H) here you can find also the full final standings in each group (with extended stats)... https://www.championshockeyleague.com/en/standings#tab_standings=group-stage&select_standings=0

Group Stage Day 6, Part 2 Wednesday 16.10.2019 - Results Group A 18:00 Tappara Tampere (FIN) - Frisk Asker (NOR) 7-3 Final Standing : 1. Biel/Bienne 15 (Q), 2. Tampere 12 (Q), 3. Klagenfurt 9, 4. Asker 0 Group C 19:30 Bìlì Tygři Liberec (CZE) - Augsburger Panther (GER) 2-3 Final Standing : 1. Luleå 14 (Q), 2. Augsburg 12 (Q), 3. Liberec 6, 4. Belfast 4 Group G 19:45 HC Ambrì-Piotta (SUI) - HC05 Banskà Bystrica (SVK) 4-3 Final Standing : 1. Munich 12 (Q), 2. Färjestad 11 (Q), 3. Ambrì 10, 4. Banskà Bystrica 3 Group H 17:00 Mountfield HK (CZE) - Graz 99ers (AUT) 7-1 Final Standing : 1. Frölunda 13 (Q), 2. Mountfield 12 (Q), 3. Cardiff 8, 4. Graz 3

Russia (women) and the Netherlands (men) win the Team Sprint titles...as expected...

GBR vs GER for Gold and ITA vs FRA for Bronze...

Denmark!!!!! 3.48.7!!! second fastest time ever!

Ganna! what a man! his front laps literally destroyed Britain's hopes to go for Gold in the men's Team pursuit! amazing match-up, luckily ITA ended up on the right side of the clock... p.s. and what a time also for the Swiss in an earlier heat...

finally, the championship started...and in the first day of competition we had 4 different Nations winning the 4 Gold Medals awarded today... women's -48kg Gold: Wakana Koga Silver: Shirine Boukli Bronze: Jon Su Song & Andrea Stojadinov women's -52kg Gold: Sosorbaram Lkhagvasuren Silver: Hsu Lin Hsuan Bronze: Ayumi Kawada & Larissa Pimenta men's -60kg Gold: Konstantin Simeonidis Silver: Ahmad Yusifov Bronze: Ken Suematsu & Salih Yildiz men's -66kg Gold: Willian Lima Silver: Takeshi Takeoka Bronze: Ibrahim Aliyev & Michael Marcelino Full Results: http://www.ippon.org/wc_jun2019.php

I'm so disappointed with our girls of the Team Pursuit! they just improved marginally during these last 3 years, meanwhile many other Nations are cutting their times down by seconds from championship to championship...now we're far behind the Germans, too... and in Italy someone still talk of them as medal candidates...it will be a great success should they just qualify to the Olympics...

Nats sweep Cards to clinch 1st World Series trip Washington leans on rotation arms to reach 'a beautiful place' Maybe it had to be this way, a reminder of the road they traveled. That first playoff series seven years ago came against the Cardinals, a crushing loss in Game 5 that in retrospect foreshadowed what October would be like for years to come in D.C. All the heartbreak. All the disappointment. All the unfulfilled expectations left throughout this journey. So maybe it was appropriate for the Nationals to officially eradicate those postseason demons this way, catching the breaks other teams always caught against them, and then punishing and pulverizing the Cardinals in cathartic fashion. The Washington Nationals are going to the World Series. Picture saying that on May 24, or at the start of the eighth inning of the NL Wild Card Game, or after falling behind two games to one in the NL Division Series to a 106-win Dodgers team, or in the eighth inning of Game 5 of that same NLDS. But it’s true. The Nationals swept the Cardinals out of the NL Championship Series, clinching the first trip to the World Series in franchise history with an emphatic 7-4 victory on Tuesday night at Nationals Park. "I can’t put this moment in words," manager Dave Martinez said. "I can say this: Often, bumpy roads lead to beautiful places, and this is a beautiful place." On Tuesday night, they weren’t going to give the Cardinals a chance to get off the mat. Patrick Corbin needed 10 pitches to strike out the side in the top of the first. The offense batted around and scored seven runs in the bottom of the first. St. Louis chipped away at the deficit to pull to within striking distance, even loading the bases in the eighth, but Daniel Hudson shut the door with a four-out save. And then the party began at South Capitol Street. “There were other times, couldn’t get over the hump or whatever it was, but really it’s kind of tough to say what’s going to happen in the playoffs,” right-hander Stephen Strasburg said. “You have a great year and you kind of run into a buzzsaw, but maybe this year we’re the buzzsaw.” The sold-out crowd of 43,976 fans erupted with each out recorded, counting down until they could call their team the National League champions for the first time. The World Series is coming to D.C. for the first time since 1933. Eighty-six years have passed since then, two teams have left and another arrived, before the Nats transformed from also-ran into perennial contender. “I took the October heartbreaks as a step in the right direction,” said first baseman Ryan Zimmermann, who has been active for every season in Nationals history. “We had some times here where we knew on April 1 we weren’t going to make the playoffs. We came a long way. And sometimes you’ve got to learn from failure and go through some bad times to get to some good times.” The Nationals have enjoyed these locker-room celebrations a few times now, but even though “wet is wet,” as Martinez joked, he admitted each one gets better. They played the usual hits, Sean Doolittle brought out a lightsaber. Brian Dozier and Yan Gomes lost their shirts. Gerardo Parra danced merengue with Martinez and Strasburg. And they drank from the NL championship trophy, which Martinez carried into a local establishment at the end of the night. These Nationals are going to the World Series. Really. This team. The one that won 93 games, the fewest of their five playoff teams. They’re going to the World Series the year they lost Bryce Harper. The Nationals brought the oldest team in baseball to the dance and a bullpen with one of the worst ERAs in postseason history, and they’re going to the World Series anyway. “It’s hard to win in the playoffs,” Zimmerman said. “Everyone just assumes: You won 97 games, you’re just going to go ahead and win in the playoffs. You’ve got to get some lucky breaks. And more importantly, you’ve got to take advantage of those lucky breaks. This year we definitely got some lucky breaks. But we got some huge hits with two outs. We made our own luck.” The Nationals did not begin this month as the favorite to win the NL, but they are no miracle. Once they got healthy they were one of the best teams in baseball. After May 24, the day they hit their lowest point, they were tied with the Dodgers for the second-best record in baseball, behind only the Astros. Washington rode the arms of a stellar starting rotation -- the four-headed monster of Max Scherzer, Strasburg, Corbin and Aníbal Sánchez -- who imposed their will on the Cardinals for the entire NLCS and rendered their sometimes leaky bullpen an afterthought. Anthony Rendon is an NL MVP Award candidate. Juan Soto is a star who turns 21 on the night of Game 3 of the World Series. They are two of the best and most dangerous hitters in baseball. Trea Turner and Victor Robles are two of the most electric players. Howie Kendrick, the NLCS MVP, has been a breakout star at 36. “I think once you start naming guys that stepped up in different ways, you’ll end up naming everybody on the team,” Doolittle said. “We got so many contributions from different guys who had to embrace new roles. There are so many examples of that up and down this team.” The Nationals will almost certainly not be the favorite over the American League champion, either the Astros or Yankees, when the World Series begins next Tuesday in the AL city, but count out Washington at your own risk. After all, this team nearly buried itself after 50 games, but it rallied. This team stared down a 3-1 deficit in the eighth inning of the Wild Card Game with baseball’s most unhittable reliever, Josh Hader, on the mound and rallied. And then the Nats were down 3-1 in the eighth inning of a winner-take-all Game 5 at Dodger Stadium facing Clayton Kershaw, the best pitcher of his generation, and they still survived. “Because baseball is such a cruel sport sometimes,” Scherzer said. “We played some really good games against some really good teams and we laid it on the line. Those past teams have been really good and we've come up just an inch short so many times. I've been a part of that and been on the losing end, and it's just a gut punch every single time. When we can finally do it, and the way we handled business against the Brewers and the Dodgers and the Cardinals, I mean, just great, great ballclubs in the National League to finally punch through, man, it's just an ultimate feeling that you just can't describe.” All Credits: MLB.com

new update... the Washington Nationals surprisingly (but not so much) swept the St.Louis Cardinals out and earned their first World Series appearance... meanwhile Houston won game #3 in the Bronx by a score of 4-1 and so they took the series lead (2-1) and regained the home field advantage in the American League Championship Series... AMERICAN LEAGUE POST-SEASON BRACKET Wild Card Game* League Division Series** League Championship Series*** A New York Yankees 3 Minnesota Twins 0 New York Yankees 1 Houston Astros 2 Tampa Bay Rays, 5 B Houston Astros 3 Oakland A's, 1 Tampa Bay Rays (AL WCG winners) 2 NATIONAL LEAGUE POST-SEASON BRACKET Wild Card Game League Division Series League Championship Series A Atlanta Braves 2 St.Louis Cardinals 3 St.Louis Cardinals 0 Washington Nationals 4 Milwaukee Brewers, 3 B Los Angeles Dodgers 2 Washington Nationals, 4 Washington Nationals (NL WCG winners) 3 * = Single Game Match-up ** = Best-of-5 Series *** = Best-of-7 Series WORLD SERIES: Winners ALCS vs Washington Nationals, NL Champions (Best-of-7 Series)

quick update on the KBO playoffs series... Kiwoom Heroes won the first 2 games on the road against SK Wyverns and are just 1 win away from reaching the 2019 Korean Series... game #1 was a wonderful pitching duel, involving not only the starters of both teams but also the bullpens...it ended 3-0 after 11 innings! game #2 was more of a slugfest, but still a thrilling and highly entertaing match, ending 8-7 for the road team... game #3 is scheduled for tomorrow @ 6.30 p.m. local time (11.30 a.m. CET)

if only I was rich enough...

Sun Yang's CAS hearing on November 15th will be streamed live! https://www.apnews.com/87f89aedf6de44e9af9b70af8184dcfe

so, why not moving them directly to the Svalbard Islands?