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and in the MLB now we are well into the League Championship Series... here's the updated playoffs table: 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 1 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 2 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 Winners NLCS (Best-of-7 Series)

updates from Japan and Korea... in the Country of the Rising Sun we are ready for the final showdown, the Japan Series 2019 (they will start next Saturday)...in Korea we are at the "semifinal" stage, to decide who's going to face the Doosan Bears in the final act (Kiwoom Heroes won earlier today game #1, 3-0 after 11 innings)... here are the updated tables... 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) SK Wyverns (#2) vs Kiwoom Heroes (Semi-Playoffs Series Winners) 2019 Korean Series (Best-of-7 series) Doosan Bears (#1) vs TBD (Playoffs Series Winners) CENTRAL LEAGUE POST-SEASON BRACKET Playoffs, Round #1* Climax Series** Yokohama DeNA BayStars 1 Yomiuri Giants 3 Hanshin Tigers 2 Hanshin Tigers (PO, Rd #1 winners) 1 PACIFIC LEAGUE POST-SEASON BRACKET Playoffs, Round #1* Climax Series** Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 2 Saitama Seibu Lions 0 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 1 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (PO, Rd #1 winners) 4 * = Best-of-3 Series (all games played on the turf of the higher seeded team) ** =Max-of-7 Series (all games played on the turf of the higher seeded team) JAPAN SERIES (Best-of-7 Series) Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks vs Yomiuri Giants and this is the Schedule of the Japan Series 2019 game #1, Saturday, October 19th @ Fukuoka (h.18.30 local time, h.11.30 CET) game #2, Sunday, October 20th @ Fukuoka (h.18.30 local time, h.11.30 CET) game #3, Tuesday, October 22nd @ Tokyo (18.15 local time, h.11.15 CET) game #4, Wednesday, October 23rd @ Tokyo (18.15 local time, h.11.15 CET) game #5 (if necessary), Thursday, October 24th @ Tokyo (18.15 local time, h.11.15 CET) game #6 (if necessary), Saturday, October 26th @ Fukuoka (h.18.30 local time, h.11.30 CET) game #7 (if necessary), Sunday, October 27th @ Fukuoka (h.18.30 local time, h.10.30 CET*) * = DST ends in Europe, meanwhile there is no DST in Japan

do you mean Laura Rogora? she's very good (actually, junior world champion) not only in Boulder, but also in Lead (where she almost made the final at the Innsbruck Worlds last year)... by the way, I hope she doesn't leave the sport before she can actually win something (I recently read an interview where she was saying that she left her birthplace -Rome- because she didn't feel happy anymore there...she wanted to live in the mountains, because she dreams of rock climbing...she is way more interested in climbing the natural walls rather than competing on artificial walls...and this makes me think she will never get what she might reach in the competitive Sport Climbing)...

He and Renato Canova are really a sort of "miracle guys"...for those who believe in miracles, of course...

good luck to Natalie...hope everything's going well...

yes, it's a new rule brought in with this new format...and using a replacement, it costs "only" 20 pens, which doesn't kill your chances at 100% to me, this new format is better than the previous one...I'm always against discarded scores...if you're competing, your score must count...

Chicago Marathon, men's race results 1st, Lawrence Cherono, 2:05:45 2nd, Dejene Debela, 2:05:46 3rd, Asefa Mengstu, 2:05:48 what a finish among the men! all the final results can be found in this page: https://results.chicagomarathon.com/2019/?lang=EN_CAP&pid=start

Brigid Kosgei just won the women's race at the Chicago Marathon in 2h14mins04secs, which is the new women's Marathon World Record (and this is a real record, not the farce of the sub-2 hours by Eliud Kipchoge yesterday in Vienna, made with laser guidance and 37 pace makers running only just over a kilometer each)...

2019 Shotgun Shooting World Cup Final, Mixed Team President's Trophy (Al Ain, UAE) Mixed Team Trap Gold: Catherine Skinner & Khaled Almudhaf Silver: Laetisha Scanlan & Lyndon Sosa Bronze: Aeriel Alease Skinner & Josip Glasnovic Mixed Team Skeet Gold: Caitlin Connor & Luke Peter Argiro Silver: Amber Hill & Saeed Almaktoum Bronze: Francisca Crovetto Chadid & Christian Elliott

Men's Vault Gold: Nikita Nagornyy, 14.966 Pts Silver: Artur Dalaloyan, 14.933 Pts Bronze: Igor Radivilov, 14.749 Pts Full Results: https://live.gymnastics.sport/link.php?id=2814 Women's Balance Beam Gold: Simone Biles, 15.066 Pts Silver: Lu Tingting, 14.433 Pts Bronze: Li Shijia, 14.300 Pts Full Results: https://live.gymnastics.sport/link.php?id=2815 Men's Parallel Bars Gold: Joe Fraser, 15.000 Pts Silver: Ahmet Onder, 14.983 Pts Bronze: Kaya Kazuma, 14.966 Pts Full Results: https://live.gymnastics.sport/link.php?id=2816 Women's Floor Gold: Simone Biles, 15.133 Pts Silver: Sunisa Lee, 14.133 Pts Bronze: Angelina Melnikova, 14.066 Pts Full Results: https://live.gymnastics.sport/link.php?id=2817 Men's Horizontal Bar Gold: Arthur Mariano, 15.000 Pts Silver: Tin Srbic, 14.983 Pts Bronze: Artur Dalaloyan, 14.966 Pts Full Results: https://live.gymnastics.sport/link.php?id=2818

I hope it's like you wrote...but I fear that disciplinary sanctions would stay also under the IOC governed quali and actual Olympic Tournament... we'll see... frankly, I didn't want to write anything about the match itself because it's obvious that I'm biased (it's always a plot against Italy also when we're not involved at all ), but c'mon! for what reason the Welsh team felt that they had to appeal that verdict? Fontijn dominated the bout from start to finish, Price was only launching herself against the Dutch girls and hold for the entire match and she landed only 1 clean shot in the whole fight (in the last 15 seconds of the 3rd round) and already the judges came out with a close 3-2 score for Fontijn... and still they found the way to overturn that already crazy enough result in an absolute scandal...

and finally comes the big surprise! Price's appeal has been accepted and the final outcome in the -75kg class has been overturned!!! so, in the end, Gold Medal for Wales...and Fontijn (and the whole Dutch delegation) refused to take part into the victory ceremony!!! sanctions incoming for the Netherlands and Fontijn, I fear...

not to mention that Russia obviously won quite easily the final Medal Table with 3 Gold Medals (and more side dish)... they were followed by 7 different Nations with "only" 1 Gold Medal each, among which China (3 Silver medals and 1 Bronze) and Turkey (2 Silver medals) were the most successful in terms of "minor" medal placings...

2019 AIBA Women's Boxing World Championships, Medallists Recap -48kg Gold: Ekaterina Paltceva Silver: Manju Rani Bronze: Chuthamat Raksat & Demie Resztan -51kg* Gold: Liliya Aetbaeva Silver: Busenaz Cakiroglu Bronze: Pang Chol Mi & Mery Kom Hmangte -54kg Gold: Huang Hsiao-Wen Silver: Caroline Cruveillier Bronze: Jamuna Boro & Mikiah Kreps -57kg* Gold: Nesthy Petecio Silver: Liudmila Vorontsova Bronze: Lin Yu-Ting & Karriss Artingstall -60kg* Gold: Beatriz Iasmin Ferreira Silver: Wang Cong Bronze: Mira Potkonen & Rashida S. Q. Ellis -64kg Gold: Dou Dan Silver: Angela Carini Bronze: Ekaterina Dynnik & Milana Safronova -69kg* Gold: Busenaz Surmeneli Silver: Yang Liu Bronze: Lovlina Borgohain & Saadat Dalgatova -75kg* Gold: Lauren Louise Price** Silver: Nouchka Mireille Fontijn** Bronze: Tammara Thibeault & Khadija Mardi -81kg Gold: Zenfira Magomedalieva Silver: Elif Guneri Bronze: Wang Lina & Nguyen Thi Huong +81kg Gold: Danielle Perkins Silver: Yang Xiaoli Bronze: Dina Islambekova & Katsiaryna Kavaleva * = Olympic Classes ** = Fontijn actually won the Gold Medal bout, but the result was appealed by Wales and finally it was overturned, gifting the Welsh team of the Gold Medal and relegating the Netherlands to the Silver Medal position... p.s. just for the memories, the original judges of the Price vs Fontijn bout were from Philippines, Belarus, North Korea, China and Sri Lanka...

the last bout... Danielle Perkins almost KOed Yang Xiaoli (she did even knocked her down once...she literally destroyed her)...and the judges (all 5) still managed to score the bout "only" 30-27 for the American fighter...

yes, and finally the Russian girl went on to win a really undeserved Gold medal (also her win in today's final bout was quite controversial)... and apparently the Welsh team appealed against Price's loss to Fontijn in the -75kg Gold Medal match... they stopped the victory ceremony after presenting the 2 Bronze medallists and delayed the whole presentation to a later moment (right now we're just watching the last of today's fights...there's no much time left to take a definitive decision)...

yay! first ever Italian podium in the WSL circuit! pity that Leo wasn't able to take part into the ISA World Games because of that fuc*in' shoulder injury that ruined most of his season)... hopefylly, he's going to get an Olympic spot next year (even if it's going to be extremely difficult)...

Stage #9, Quiksilver Pro France (Leemore, CA, USA) Gold: Jeremy Flores Silver: Italo Ferreira Bronze: Jack Freestone & Leonardo Fioravanti Full Ranking: https://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2019/mct/2923/quiksilver-pro-france/results?resultsType=prizes

Stage #8, Freshwater Pro (Leemore, CA, USA) Gold: Gabriel Medina Silver: Filipe Toledo Bronze: Owen Wright & Griffin Colapinto Full Ranking: https://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2019/mct/2920/freshwater-pro/results?resultsType=prizes

Stage #7, Freshwater Pro (Leemore, CA, USA) Gold: Lakey Peterson Silver: Johanne Defay Bronze: Caroline Marks & Carissa Moore Full Ranking: https://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2019/wct/2921/freshwater-pro/results?resultsType=prizes

Men's Street, Final Result Gold: Vincent Milou Silver: Axel Cruysberghs Bronze: Jaakko Ojanen Championship Full Result http://www.worldskate.org/skateboarding/results/category/673-european-championships-2019.html?download=4137:men-full-results-street-european-championship-nizhny-novgorod-2019

Men's Rings Gold: Ibrahim Colak, 15.233 Pts Silver: Marco Lodadio, 15.000 Pts Bronze: Ait Said Samir, 14.800 Pts Full Results: https://live.gymnastics.sport/link.php?id=2806

sorry, for not answering earlier...but I had to go preparing the dinner for my dad and myself... could you give me some more details? p.s. Igor Cassina (commentating for our National TV) said the opposite...it was close, but Lodadio was better in his opinion...

meh I'm not an expert, but to my eyes Lodadio's exercise was better than Colak's... what do you think about it?

the rules are simple...only 1 boat per NOC can qualify (unless a NOC wins 2 events, which didn't happen), so all the other non winning boats from those NOCs must be "discarded" from the final rankings...