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yes, the E Chs are 1 of the Golden events where to collect points in the 3rd time slot of the OQR...

well, it's known since a lot of times that some of his envious collegues are protected by wada and have always thrown loads of shit on him... Diniz is an idiot and a cheater if there's one in the world...he's always been a more than modest race walker and suddenly he improved so much at an age when most athletes retire... and what a surprise! the defamatory article is signed by the significant pool of BBC, Insidethegames, Dunfee and Tallent... p.s. Tallent too is the perfect example of a cheater saved all life long by IAAF and WADA because he's part of the English-speaking Empire...the "good world" against "the big cheaters" coming from anywhere else... p.p.s. and that website are just a bunch of biased liars (knowing what they are and what they're doing)... Schwazer's samples from Beijing 2008 have been re-tested at least 100 times in order to find something to destroy him, but the evidence was so clear in his favour that they had to make up false evidence when he came back from his disqualification when he was caught because he actually used doping in 2011 and 2012 (and he admitted to have done it, showing all proofs in a serious trial court...and this is why those biased cheaters of IAAF and WADA are still trying to cover him with loads of shit)... today's athletics is less trustable than weightlifting thanks to people like them...

by the way, in the men's tournament, Choupenitch is out in the round of 16 and also out of contention for the continental spot, meanwhile Michal Siess is still alive... he needs a win in the quarterfinal match against Takahiro Shikine to make his dream come true...

there's nothing official yet... among the women, Volpi and Errigo are locked in, but the 3rd place and the reserve spot are still to be determined (Batini is one of the contenders, but also Palumbo, Mancini and Cipressa are still in the game)... the men's team instead is basically done with Foconi, Garozzo and Cassarà (with Avola and Marini fighting for the reserve spot)... however, I fear that in Tokyo we're going to hit the lowest point in the glorious history of our fencing...

down to 1, only Irem Karamete could fill her target... she's going to face in the decisive assault Leyla Pirieva in about half an hour... by the way, I'm shocked by the awful performance by all the Italian fencers...especially in the men's division, where they are all out before the round of 64 (and all the top 5 guys were already gone in round of 64)... if this is the prologue of what's gonna happen in Tokyo, I really hope that the Games are cancelled...I refuse to watch a similar disaster at the Olympics...

if the Niners want to be competitive and get back to the SB soon, I don't think taking a young QB like Lance or Wilson is the right move, I'd rather take Sewell and look for a trade to get an experienced backup QB to protect the team from JimmyG possible injuries... in their first couple of years, Lance or Wilson wouldn't give SF a lot more than a Beathard of this world...they're not Lawrence... if he's still available, the Falcons are going to call Wilson for sure...and Atlanta might be the right place for him, more than SF (or the Jets, even if I'm reading more and more often that they're going to call Sewell at no.2 and either stay with Darnold or find the way to bring DeShaun in NY)... we'll see how it goes very soon...

they might take Devonta from 'Bama to give JimmyG a reliable target on both the short and deep passing routes, instead (they already signed some good linemen to improve their QB protection)... imho no other above the average QB would eventually move this year, except for DeShaun (if can stay out of jail, considered his last off the field performances)...

so, it will be a joke for sure...

yes, FIE rankings are OK, it's the qualification recap that's wrong (and it can't change, as there are no more events to be played until the next Olympic Games, except for the last Foil Individual GP)...

probably they would take the test format after the traditional 36-player final with the best 12 of that event... if you look at the list of qualified athletes to the final on the official website, in fact, they are 36...

36...the best 10 from each group + the 6 best scores among those initially excluded... women's qualifications results are here: https://www.uipmworld.org/event/uipm-2021-pentathlon-world-cup

Women and Men's Epee Qualification Tables updated as of March 24th, 2021* *I updated the tables according to our calculations here on this forum, but the FIE official qualification page has another outcome (imho, completely wrong, not updated with the last results yet), despite the rankings look correct... Therefore, for now let's mark these Epee tables as "subject to change", just in case we are wrong and FIE right...

why not any single sovereign citizen or self-proclamed so of this world, then? I have a home that's my exclusive property, I have my Flag, I have my personal account and family balance sheet, I have a printer (so, I can even print my own money by myself)... now, I want my own NOC, too...

It's max 9 qualifying races (done) + max 7 Final Series races (3 today, 3 tomorrow, 1 on Friday) + 1 Medal Race (on Friday)... Racing Format and Daily Schedule can be found on the Attachments C and D respectively of the Sailing Instructions... https://www.lanzarotewinterseries.com/international/files/documentos/1616172276-sislanzarotequalifier_final.pdf All possible last minute changes can be found when available on the Notice Board of the Official Website... https://www.lanzarotewinterseries.com/international/documentos.php

what a comeback by Marco Fichera in the final assault of the Gold Medal match against Ukraine! after killing the Russians at the OT hit, he started 39-32 down against Anatoly Herey and he finally led our team to a 44-43 win... meanwhile among the girls, Poland just destroyed the Koreans by a score of 45-24 in the Gold Medal match... both Bronze medals (M + W) went to China...

looking at the qualification table right now, JPN have "only" 1 team qualified for the Home Games, but they also have 1 man/woman already qualified as individual in all the remaining 5 weapons, which means that they could potentially raise their participation to 5 full teams (they have 8 wild cards to manage, if I remember correctly) by adding 2 athletes in 4 different disciplines... so, I guess that we would eventually have 5 weapons with a 9-team draw at the Olympics (and only 1 with the basic 8-team start list)... my pick is that Men's Team Sabre will be the only 8-team tournament...

Oh, yes...I miscalculated the points for a 4th place...you're absolutely right... and I also miscalculated Ukraine's score...because they have an awful 8 to discard, so today's 23 points are to be taken into account and so they go to 212 and France have to be at least 4th to overtake UKR...

well, it's still an important match because it would eventually determine the quarterfinal's pairing in Tokyo... so, for us losing to Korea could potentially mean that we have to face POL or even RUS in the olympic quarterfinal match (the Koreans still need to make the Gold Medal match tomorrow to overtake ITA in the overall ranking), meanwhile defeating the Asians would lock the ITA vs USA quarterfinal pairing at the Games (which is a lot better than facing another European team for us)... not to mention how we could put France (or Ukraine) back in contention if we are 3rd (or better) and sneak in into the top 4 overall (fact that would break the Canadian hearts, I guess)

it's more complicated than that... provided Italy won't finish the ranking among the top 4 overall (we need to beat the Koreans in the quarterfinal match and then finish at least 3rd tomorrow to overtake the USA), you need to score 22 points more than Estonia (who also are among the top 8 in Kazan and have the edge in case of a tie)... but if ITA end up in the top 4 of the overall ranking, then you suddenly are qualified even if you end up tomorrow's event in 8th place (the worst case scenario)... talking of women's Epee, of course, as in the men's event both you and us are already qualified with the full team quota...

USA b. EGY 45-39 in the men's event...now it's very complicated for EGY...they need almost a miracle to save their qualification spot... among the girls, JPN are 39-29 ahead right now...a comeback is really improbable...

It looks that the Egyptian dream among the women is almost over... Japan have a comfortable 28-19 lead right now... and in the men's division things are going to get complicated as well...USA have a 43-37 lead over EGY right now, so the Africans only have the 13th place as an option...they'd need 2 wins against DEN first and the loser of the HUN vs ISR matchup then...very, very difficult to achieve, I fear...

The rule talks of "placing", so I think we should look at the actual position in the rankings and not at the number points scored (which may be different only because of a different coefficient for the single competitions)... But I'm not sure at 100%...only FIE could solve the doubt if they wrote the tie-breaking criteria with more detailes... However, in today's case it's quite clear that Egypt have the edge in their tie-breakers... Still, among the women they have to beat Japan and among the men they have to end up at least in 13th place...otherwise, all our posts are useless...

first of all, no quota was added to the Fencing program, as the team events have been added without adding new quota to those who were already there for the Individual event...they just adjusted the distribution of those spots... second, Fencing is the most historical discipline of the Games together with Athletics and Artistic Gymnastics...so, it was time to make up for that enormous injustice that the was the rotation of 4 out of 6 team events (and we're still talking of a sport with 12 competitions all together, when there are some other sports giving away tons of medals to the same athlete or tons of medals in general without having a true diversification between their disciplines)... I'm really tired of new sports without tradition and/or special features replacing the core of the Games I've always loved and I still love... it's absolutely a nonsense... third, team events in Fencing are not just the addition of some individual performance (like many other sports), therefore, if there are 2 sports where team events have their own nature and must be saved, those are Fencing (and Archery)... p.s. Compound Archery doesn't have anything to do with the true art of Archery, which has always been and always will be only the naked Archery (the current olympic event)...

yes, if ROU beat MNE by 6+ goals...

Norway also almost qualified for the OGs... with today's +5, however, only a win by ROU over MNE with a 5 goal margin and scoring at least 30 goals could deny the Norwegian girls the qualification...