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yeah... you Karate federation apparently is more powerful within the WKF/EKF than within the French NOC/Paris LOCOG...

you just skipped the part "with such margin"... I do also believe that they're better runners than European and American people...but c'mon! a full lap of the track between an average East African runner (it doesn't matter which passport he/she's using of course) and the best in the rest of the world? no way... by the way, I just read on the Italian press that in the first days of the championships the weather forecast is going up to 48° C at 8 p.m. local time... and the women's Marathon + both 50km Race Walking events (men and women are racing together in that competition) are going to be cancelled (not postponed, just cancelled) if the temperature goes really that high (the final decision will be taken only 1 hour before the supposed start of the race in all cases)...

Australia are just on another planet...there's no really decisive game for the top place in this tournament... the real fight is CHN vs TPE for the runner-up place (good for nothing)...

and Ethiopia is no different as well... or does someone really believe that they are "superior runners" (with such margin on the rest of the world) by nature?

that! there's no prize for that! by the way, raisport will cover the championships minute by minute...and if they don't make it a mess (which is always possible with our national tv ) there's more than a chance you can get the streaming on demand with the pasty.link system as it happened for the swimming worlds...

for sure it's unfair...and personally I don't like this kind of approach to the management of the sport... but I wouldn't say "cheating", as the WKF has always been very vague about the calendar, saying that changes would be possible at any time... in any case, it's only 1 event giving up some points in the OQR, not direct quota places...so, the damage is limited (not that this is good, but at least it's not that disgraceful)...otherwise it would have been more than cheating, a true scandal...

Men's Final, Result Gold: Nyjah Huston Silver: Yuto Horigome Bronze: Gustavo Ribeiro 4th, Kelvin Hoefler 5th, Jamie Foy 6th, Yukito Aoki 7th, Angelo Caro 8th, Dashawn Jordan Final's Full Video

yes, as @Dunadan wrote, there have been a few switches in the calendar, so some 2019 events that were supposed to count for the ranking will be replaced by the 2020 "newly" scheduled events... for Italy, it's bad news for Busà (but I'm sure he's going to win a medal also in 2020 EChs, so, in the end it won't make any difference) and maybe also for Crescenzo (but I think the silver medal of 2019 was an average achievement, he's definitely the best European guy in that class, with only Samdan close to him...so, the bad news is more that the Turkish guy can make up more points in 2020 than he did in 2019, not Crescenzo losing his points from this year's tournament)... but it's also a good thing for Semeraro (who now can score more points than the 2019 edition, with Quirici and Zaretska maybe losing also some of theirs) and for those who are looking for points so to have a better seeding at the final OQT (Martina and Cardin, mainly) and in 2019 for one reason or another weren't even at the start of the EChs... however, I fear that most of all, it's France who are going to benefit from this switch (and I'm pretty sure it was their proposal to make that change happen)...

don't forget Aaron Hernandez...one of the saddest stories in the NFL history (even if his troubles had nothing to do with the game of football)...

very disappointing last Serie A tournament of the year for Italy...we were there with the full team and we only managed 2 bronze medals in Kumite with our stars Busà and Crescenzo (but the fact that he lost 8-0 to Samdan, who eventually won the tournament, makes his 3rd place a lot worse than it actually looks) and a few bitter 5th places... even Bottaro in the women's Kata this week lost to Hikaru Ono (who she beat 2 weeks ago in Tokyo in the last K1PL stage)...at least, her ranking is still solid like a rock (and anyway, all of her opponents ended behind her this week)...

Karate1 Serie A, Stage #4 (Santiago, CHI) Medallists Recap (Part #2) women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu Silver: Yorgelis Salazar Bronze: Junna Tsukii & Ayaka Tadano women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold: Valeria Kumizaki Silver: Anzhelika Terliuga Bronze: Jennifer Warling & Valentina Toro Meneses women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold: Giana Lofty Silver: Anna Rodina Bronze: Haya Jumaa & Zhang Xiaoling women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold: Gong Li Silver: Elena Quirici Bronze: Halyna Melnyk & Feryal Abdelaziz women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold: Ayaka Saito Silver: Johanna Kneer Bronze: Isabela Rodrigues & Rafaela Silva men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold: Eray Samdan Silver: Naoto Sago Bronze: Angelo Crescenzo & Darkhan Assadilov men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold: Hiroto Gomyo Silver: Vinicius Figueira Bronze: Camilo Velozo & Didar Amirali men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold: Stanislav Horuna Silver: Joaquin Gonzalez Lavin Bronze: Thomas Scott & Luigi Busà men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold: Ugur Aktas Silver: Zabiollah Poorshab Bronze: Rikito Shimada & Igor Chikhmarev men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold: Dnylson Jacquet Silver: Salim Bendiab Bronze: Rodrigo Rojas & Matias Salfate

Karate1 Serie A, Stage #4 (Santiago, CHI) Medallists Recap (Part #1) women's Individual Kata Gold: Hikaru Ono Silver: Viviana Bottaro Bronze: Emiri Iwamoto & Maho Ono men's Individual Kata Gold: Ryinosuke Kikuchi Silver: Kakeru Nishiyama Bronze: Kazumasa Moto & Alì Sofuoglu women's Team Kata Gold: Peru "A" Silver: Peru "B" Bronze: Brazil & Spain men's Team Kata Gold: Kokushikan University Silver: ASD Master Rapid SKF CBL Bronze: Colombia & Spain

from wednesday...

yes, it was Iran that was forced to leave some of their medal candidates home when Manchester hosted the World Taekwondo Championships last Spring...

you have to wait until the next WBC starts for that... no MLB players will be in Tokyo next year...and I wonder if even the Japanese NPB will get a break (or at least leave some of their players free) to take part into the games (I read somewhere that they won't, too...but there's still nothing official, as there are a lot of lobbies in Japan that want NPB players to be in the Olympic Tournament)... on the other side, Korean KBO will surely send their best players to the Games (in case KOR qualify, of course)...they even shut their star pitchers down in the last weeks of RS and the entire PO this year in order to give him proper rest before the WBSC Premier 12... http://www.wbsc.org/kia-tigers-shut-down-star-pitcher-hyeon-jong-yang-to-rest-ahead-of-wbsc-premier12/ p.s. after last night's brawl, ITA and ESP have been punished quite hard by WBSC... http://www.wbsc.org/a-total-of-67-games-of-suspension-issued-after-spain-italy/

Women's Final, Result Gold: Pamela Rosa Silver: Rayssa Leal Bronze: Aori Nishimura 4th, Candy Jacobs 5th, Mariah Duran 6th, Gabriela Mazetto 7th, Alexis Sablone 8th, Yumeka Oda Final's Full Video

2019 Wrestling World Championships, Olympic Weight Classes only Overall Medal Table RUS, 5 / 2 / 2 JPN, 2 / 2 / 1 USA, 2 / 0 / 2 TUR, 1 / 2 / 1 HUN, 1 / 1 / 1 AZE, 1 / 1 / 0 CUB, 1 / 1 / 0 IRI, 1 / 0 / 2 GEO, 1 / 0 / 1 UKR, 1 / 0 / 1 KGZ, 1 / 0 / 0 PRK, 1 / 0 / 0 SWE, 0 / 2 / 1 IND, 0 / 1 / 3 KAZ, 0 / 1 / 3 CHN, 0 / 1 / 1 ARM, 0 / 1 / 0 BUL, 0 / 1 / 0 ITA, 0 / 1 / 0 ROU, 0 / 1 / 0 GER, 0 / 0 / 4 UZB, 0 / 0 / 3 EST, 0 / 0 / 2 SRB, 0 / 0 / 2 BLR, 0 / 0 / 1 FRA, 0 / 0 / 1 MKD, 0 / 0 / 1 MGL, 0 / 0 / 1 NGR, 0 / 0 / 1 SUI, 0 / 0 / 1

2019 Wrestling World Championships, Final Overall Medal Table RUS, 9 / 5 / 5 USA, 5 / 0 / 2 GEO, 4 / 0 / 2 JPN, 3 / 3 / 3 AZE, 1 / 3 / 2 TUR, 1 / 2 / 1 UKR, 1 / 2 / 1 IRI, 1 / 1 / 5 HUN, 1 / 1 / 2 CUB, 1 / 1 / 0 CAN, 1 / 0 / 0 KGZ, 1 / 0 / 0 PRK, 1 / 0 / 0 KAZ, 0 / 3 / 4 SWE, 0 / 2 / 1 CHN, 0 / 1 / 5 IND, 0 / 1 / 4 UZB, 0 / 1 / 3 ARM, 0 / 1 / 1 BUL, 0 / 1 / 1 ITA, 0 / 1 / 0 ROU, 0 / 1 / 0 GER, 0 / 0 / 4 MGL, 0 / 0 / 3 EST, 0 / 0 / 2 SRB, 0 / 0 / 2 BLR, 0 / 0 / 1 FRA, 0 / 0 / 1 MKD, 0 / 0 / 1 NGR, 0 / 0 / 1 POL, 0 / 0 / 1 SVK, 0 / 0 / 1 SUI, 0 / 0 / 1

yes...

Men's Freestyle Wrestling Medal Table RUS, 5 / 1 / 3 USA, 2 / 0 / 2 GEO, 2 / 0 / 1 IRI, 1 / 1 / 2 KAZ, 0 / 2 / 1 AZE, 0 / 2 / 0 TUR, 0 / 2 / 0 IND, 0 / 1 / 3 ITA, 0 / 1 / 0 FRA, 0 / 0 / 1 HUN, 0 / 0 / 1 MKD, 0 / 0 / 1 POL, 0 / 0 / 1 SVK, 0 / 0 / 1 SUI, 0 / 0 / 1 UKR, 0 / 0 / 1 UZB, 0 / 0 / 1

Men's Freestyle Wrestling, Day #9 Medallists (and Olympic Quota places) -61kg Gold: Beka Lomtadze Silver: Magomedrasul Idrisov Bronze: Rahul Balasheb Aware & Behnam Ehsanpoor -79kg Gold: Kyle Douglas Dake Silver: Jabarayil Hasanov Bronze: Taimuraz Salkazanov & Gadzhi Nabiev -86kg Gold: Hassan Yazdani Silver: Deepak Punia Bronze: Stefan Reichmuth & Artur Naifonov Olympic Quota for: / / / / / -97kg Gold: Abdulrashid Sadulaev Silver: Sharif Sharifov Bronze: Kyle Frederick Snyder & Magomedgadji Nurov Olympic Quota for: / / / / /

Mixed Team 25m Standard Pistol Gold: Germany 2 Silver: Ukraine 1 Bronze: Sweden

Tournament Schedule https://olympicsoftball.wbsc.org/en/2019/schedule-and-results Competition Format Opening Round Two (2) groups of four (4) Teams (A,B), will play all vs. all (round robin format), with the top two (2) teams from each group advancing to the Super Round. Bottom two (2) teams from each group will be eliminated from competition after the Opening Round. Super Round The top two (2) teams from each group will advance to the Super Round carrying the result of the games played between each other. The Super Round will be a 4-team round robin without playing the team of their original group. The top National Team in the tournament final standings will gain a berth for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Women's Softball WBSC Asian/Oceanian Olympic Games Qualification Tournament 2019 Shanghai (CHN) - 24 September 2019 - 28 September 2019 Official Website

what a disappointing C&J by Pizzolato! he wasted such a big chance to make the podium...