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by the way, being only 5 kgs behind the "virtual" bronze medallists, if everything goes according to plan, Pizzolato is basically in pole position to be at the side of the 2 Chinese guys (they're playing in their own world, well beyond anybody else) at the end of the day in the Olympic Total (which is what really matters)... finally it looks that we've found a real medal threat for the Olympic medals...

however, you can find all the videos on the TAWA Thailand page on Youtube... Live streamings don't work (they are blocked because of copyright infringments -I think because of the music played in the hall), but replays are always all available just a few minutes after the end of the live broadcast... Live broadcasts of A groups, instead, are available on the Olympic Channel (English commentary) and on the Facebook Page of TAWA Thailand (Thai commentary)...

Men's -81kg Group C Full Video

Women's -64kg Group B Full Video

Women's -64kg Group C Full Video

women's -64kg Group D Full Video

Men's Freestyle Wrestling, Day #9 Finals -61kg Gold Medal match: Magomedrasul Idrisov vs Beka Lomtadze Bronze Medal match #1: Behnam Ehsanpoor vs Abbos Rakhmonov / Andrei Bekreneu / Tuvshintulga Tumenbileg Bronze Medal match #2: Rahul Balasheb Aware vs Mihai Esanu / Tyler Lee Graff -79kg Gold Medal match: Kyle Douglas Dake vs Jabarayil Hasanov Bronze Medal match #1: Rashid Kurbanov vs Gadzhi Nabiev / Oibek Nasirov Bronze Medal match #2: Taimuraz Salkazanov vs Galymzhan Usserbayev / Dmytrii Tkachenko -86kg Gold Medal match: Hassan Yazdani vs Deepak Punia Bronze Medal match #1: Myles Nazem Amine vs Artur Naifonov / Istvan Vereb / Jaime Yusept Espinal Bronze Medal match #2: Stefan Reichmuth vs Carlos Arturo Izquierdo Mendez / Bakhodur Kodirov / Adilet Davlumbayev Olympic Quota so far: / / / / / -97kg Gold Medal match: Abdulrashid Sadulaev vs Sharif Sharifov Bronze Medal match #1: Alisher Yergali vs Magomedgadji Nurov / Nicolai Ceban Bronze Medal match #2: Kyle Frederick Snyder vs Elizbar Odikadze / Valerii Andriitsev / Seo Min Won Olympic Quota so far: / / / / / updated after this morning's repechage rounds...

first... then...

in the teamplaying this OQT there are "only" 8 American born and 3 South American born guys out of 24 players... less than half, which is one of the lowest percentages we've ever had in the last 30 years or so... hopefully, at the next WBC we're going to be able to fill the roster with all US-born MLB players (but I fear our NF will reject this option)...

ESP vs CZE has been officially rescheduled at 4 p.m. CET (still to be seen if they can play because of foreseen bad weather)...

no way, my resignation is not rejectable...

well, the Greeks in 2004 did that in Baseball and Softball (and normally they have a high rate of naturalized athletes in all the combat sports -and even in Basketball, which is supposed to be their most beloved national discipline after football)... so, it would have been nothing strange nor new to them... in any case, you have to make a difference between naturalized athletes (sometimes ligitimately, sometimes just bought by the various Countries) and those with the heritage of a certain Nation... those people are actually Greeks rather than Italians rather than from any other Country in the world... their blood is from their respective Nation... and this is a way stronger connection with said Nations than the always fashionable ius soli, which in most cases doesn't mean anything, just a mere stay in a place you don't even like or understand or respect in all of its cultural and social expressions...only because it's economically convenient... taking advantage of the Countrymen/women of the Diaspora is absolutely fair to me, it's a Nation's richness that they have all the moral, ethical and legal rights to take advantage of... I have no complaints at all if a Country wins tons of medals thanks to their men/women who have found better conditions to live and practice sport in another place but then finally choose to represent the Country of their hearts, of their Fathers, of their Grannies and so on...

sorry... it's obvious that I just can't get the medal tables sorted out in the correct order... so, after today's final day at the wrestling worlds, I'm done...I won't even try anymore to do it...I officially resign (if ever I was hired)... p.s. fixed the original table, however...

@heywoodu Candy Jacobs (only European girl among the finalists) is among the top 8 skaters in the world once again... worldskate.tv / Olympic Channel have it live tonight @ 7 p.m. cet...

Women advancing to the Final 1 Mariah Duran 2 Pamela Rosa 3 Rayssa Leal 4 Yumeka Oda 5 Aori Nishimura 6 Candy Jacobs 7 Alexis Sablone 8 Gabriela Mazetto Semifinals Full Results http://www.worldskate.org/skateboarding/results/category/660-wc-street-sao-paulo-2019-results.html?download=4003:world skate sls 2019 street skateboarding world championship-women semifinal results Men advancing to the Final 1 Dashawn Jordan 2 Angelo Caro 3 Gustavo Ribeiro 4 Yuto Horigome 5 Nyjah Huston 6 Yukito Aoki 7 Jamie Foy 8 Kelvin Hoefler Semifinals Full Results http://www.worldskate.org/skateboarding/results/category/660-wc-street-sao-paulo-2019-results.html?download=4004:world skate sls 2019 street skateboarding world championship-men semifinal results

Women's Tournament Final Qualification Play-Offs Graudina / Kravcenoka b. Slukova / Hermannova 2-1 (21-17; 15-21; 17-15) Liliana / Elsa b. Ittlinger / Laboureur 2-1 (18-21; 21-17; 15-10) & qualified to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

ISR vs RSA also rescheduled for noon CET tomorrow... ESP vs CZE is still without an official start time...probably it will be played only if it's going to have an influence on the final ranking of the tournament after the other 2 games to be played tomorrow at lunch time are over...

the best case scenario for ITA would surely be ITA beating the NED, ISR losing (big) vs RSA and CZE beating ESP... a messy 4-way tie with ITA, ISR, NED and CZE all with a 3-2 record...

no, it's a lot more complicated... if more teams are tied at the end of the round robin, the tie breaker is the socalled Team Quality Balance (TQB), whose explainaton is in the second post of this thread... should that be the case, we would need a calculator to find out the final ranking...

and tomorrow, rain is expected in Bologna and Parma, therefore there would be some schedule changes... for sure, ITaly vs Netherlands will be played at noon CET... still TBD the start times in Parma (where both ISR vs RSA and ESP vs CZE are scheduled)...

I just love brawls... sure, hockey brawls are a lot better, but also in baseball are quite interesting...

game over... Spain b. Italy 4-3 and there's a big brawl...benches cleared after the last out...

no, Israel just need to win against South Africa tomorrow...

and Italy are only 2 outs away from another loss (tonight vs Spain)...

Final Medal Table UZB, 3 / 1 / 1 RUS, 3 / 0 / 1 KAZ, 1 / 1 / 4 CUB, 1 / 1 / 1 ENG, 0 / 1 / 2 IND, 0 / 1 / 1 ECU, 0 / 1 / 0 PHI, 0 / 1 / 0 USA, 0 / 1 / 0 ARM, 0 / 0 / 1 AUS, 0 / 0 / 1 BRA, 0 / 0 / 1 BUL, 0 / 0 / 1 FRA, 0 / 0 / 1 MGL, 0 / 0 / 1