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and it's Gold for Barshim!!!!

Akimenko out... one more jump before the Home Nation's triumph...

Ivanyuk also failed for the 2nd time at 2.37...

Nadasekau out... Akimenko 2nd missed jump at 2.37... Barshim's Gold medal looks closer...

the 2019 world siver medallist in the men's 3000m steeplechase...

what a finish in the men's steeplechase and Kipruto finally saved his ass...still Gold for Kenia in this race...

sadly, not yet..Akimenko also did it and therefore he's ahead on countback... and Ivanyuk is over 2.35, too

if somehow they find a way to save the US men's 4*100m relay's ass, it's a scandal...their last handover was meters outside the zone... in the meantime, once Tamberi went out, Italian tv commentators are talking of the men's high jump final as if they were attending to a funeral...low voice and sad tone...except right now for the 2.35 by Barshim (they're clearly routing for him now)...

results not as good as they might look at a first view for Italy... Luigi Busà, in fact, wasted a big chance to make the final, perpetuating the Italian jinx against the Kazakh fighters (also his sister Lorena lost to Serikova in the repechage round of the women's -55kg)... meanwhile Angelo Crescenzo lost to Pavlov underperforming once again against people he should beat blindfolded...and to increase the size of this disaster, Samdan is again in the big final, which he's going to win easily... at this pace, soon the Turkish guy will overtake Crescenzo in the OQR and Italy will lose one of their spot at the Olympics (and one of the few medal chances we have), as Assadilov is also among the safe top 3 round after round and keeps his advantage over the Italian in the OQR... finally, in the women's -55kg, Sara Cardin's struggle continues...since her injury of last year, she's not anymore the same "machine" she used to be...and it's unlikely that she will be able to qualify at the final tournament if she does not find her old shape and skills...

K1PL Stage #6 (Moscow, RUS) Action from Day #1 in Moscow... women's Individual Kata Gold Medal match: Kiyou Shimizu vs Sandra Sanchez Jaime Bronze Medal match #1: Viviana Bottaro vs Dilara Eltemur Bronze Medal match #2: Sakura Kokumai vs Hikaru Ono men's Team Kata Gold Medal match: Italy vs Turkey Bronze Medal match #1: Russia "B" vs Spain Bronze Medal match #2: Russia "A" vs Malaysia women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold Medal match: Sara Bahmanyar vs Shara Hubrich Bronze Medal match #1: Miho Miyahara vs Nurane Aliyeva Bronze Medal match #2: Li Ranran vs Nadia Gomez Morales women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold Medal match: Sara Yamada vs Anzhelika Terliuga Bronze Medal match #1: Wen Tzu-Yun vs Assel Serikova Bronze Medal match #2: Taravat Khaksar vs Shiori Nakamura men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold Medal match: Eray Samdan vs Emil Pavlov Bronze Medal match #1: Darkhan Assadilov vs Daulet Shymyrbekov Bronze Medal match #2: Angelo Crescenzo vs Kalvis Kalnins men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold Medal match: Alì Elsawy vs Steven Dacosta Bronze Medal match #1: Masamichi Funahashi vs Hnat Pak Bronze Medal match #2: Davit Pataridze vs Didar Amirali men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold Medal match: Rafael Aghayev vs Yermek Ainazarov Bronze Medal match #1: Bahman Askari vs Rodrigo Ibanez Saenz-Torre Bronze Medal match #2: Luigi Busà vs Ivan Korabau

and together with the North American MLB, also the other 2 more important Pro Baseball leagues in the world ended their Regular Season and are ready to start their respective Playoffs campaign... so, let's see how things went in the Japanese NPB and in the Korean KBO... here's a quick recap of both leagues... NPB Regular Season CENTRAL LEAGUE Rank Team Wins Losses Draws Win Pct. 1 Yomiuri Giants* 77 64 2 .546 2 Yokohama DeNA BayStars** 71 69 3 .519 3 Hanshin Tigers** 69 68 6 .504 4 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 70 70 3 .500 5 Chunichi Dragons 68 73 2 .482 6 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 59 82 2 .418 * = Teams qualified to the Climax Series as League Champions ** = Teams qualified to the Playoffs, Round #1 PACIFIC LEAGUE Rank Team Wins Losses Draws Win Pct. 1 Saitama Seibu Lions* 80 62 1 .563 2 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks** 76 62 5 .551 3 Tohoku Rajuten Golden Eagles** 71 68 4 .511 4 Chiba Lotte Marines 69 70 4 .504 5 Hokkaido nippon-Ham Fighters 65 73 5 .471 6 Orix Buffaloes 61 75 7 .452 * = Teams qualified to the Climax Series as League Champions ** = Teams qualified to the Playoffs, Round #1 NPB Post-Season CENTRAL LEAGUE POST-SEASON BRACKET Playoffs, Round #1* Climax Series** Yokohama DeNA BayStars Yomiuri Giants Hanshin Tigers TBD (PO, Rd #1 winners) PACIFIC LEAGUE POST-SEASON BRACKET Playoffs, Round #1* Climax Series** Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Saitama Seibu Lions Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles TBD (PO, Rd #1 winners) * = Best-of-3 Series (all games played on the turf of the higher seeded team) ** = Best-of-7 Series JAPAN SERIES: Winners CL CS vs Winners PL CS (Best-of-7 Series) KBO Regular Season KOREAN BASEBALL ORGANIZATION (KBO) Rank Team Wins Losses Draws Win Pct. 1 Doosan Bears* 88 55 1 .615 2 SK Wyverns** 88 55 1 .615 3 Kiwoom Heroes*** 86 57 1 .601 4 LG Twins**** 79 64 1 .552 5 NC Dinos**** 73 69 2 .514 6 kt Wiz 71 71 2 .500 7 KIA Tigers 62 80 2 .437 8 Samsung Lions 60 83 1 .420 9 Hanwha Eagles 58 86 0 .403 10 Lotte Giants 48 93 3 .348 * = Team qualified to the 2019 Korean Series ** = Team qualified to the Playoff Series *** = Team qualified to the Semi-Playoff Series **** = Teams qualified to the Wild Card Game KBO Post-Season 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) vs LG Twins (WCS Winners) Playoffs Series (Best-of-5 series) SK Wyverns (#2) vs TBD (Semi-Playoffs Series Winners) 2019 Korean Series (Best-of-7 series) Doosan Bears (#1) vs TBD (Playoffs Series Winners)

hey, man! 1500m are long...very long...I'd get a DNF after 40m, not 400... by the way, nice picture with the Uibos...

well, I guess Mayer disagrees...

Kaul 8691 pts Uibo 8604 pts Warner 8529 pts Shkurenyov 8494 pts Lepage 8445 pts

Kaul is in his own world... and Uibo saves his ass, somehow... bronze for Warner...

Uibo playing it dangerously...he is 10 secs slower than the German on paper...if he follows him, he's going to die in the last lap...

well, gold medal is only Kaul's to lose...the real fight should be on paper between Shkurenyov, Uibo and Warner for silver and bronze...

by the way, Shaunae Miller-Uibo is a very nice woman...just saw her interview and she looks a really positive and smiling girl...

KJT 6981 pts (5th best score ever after Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Kluft, Thiam and Nikitina, the only 4 girls over 7000 pts so far in history) Thiam 6677 pts Preiner 6560 pts and Ahouanwanou 8th with 6210 pts!

wow! 2.07.26 for KJT! that should be a new British record... and it is!!! 6981 pts for her!

she has a 2.07 PB...she definitely can...

I don't think she can go for any of those...she needs 979 points for Ennis' score and more than 1000 for the 7000 pts mark... and 2.12 only gives around 930/940 points...she should go for a 2.10 mark to beat Ennis and for something around 2.06/2.07 for the 7000 pts mark...

Anouk Vetter DNS in the eptathlon's 800m...

super...suspicious, you'd rather mean?

they're wrong... or maybe not... actually, looking at her while being interviewed, her skin is slightly less dark than the usual Nigerian girl's...