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at that point it won't be so interesting anymore...we can't cut the number of competitors at all the global events...it would make them boring (with only the usual suspects at the start)...

and the Italian Olympic dream is flying away in a crazy top of the 8th...2 capital mistakes and a weird, really unlucky play opened up a 3-run gap in favour of Israel... and the inning is not over yet... it will be really difficult to comeback from this hole, now...

Street Skateboarding WC 2019: Open Qualifiers in Sao Paulo Competition began yesterday with open qualifiers in São Paulo for the World Skate 2019 SLS Street World Championships. With both relative newcomers and experienced veterans throwing their hats in the ring and with some risking it all to make it to the quarter finals, viewers were treated to great skating all day. Forty one women competed for the chance to join those already seeded in the quarter finals, with twenty one moving on. Men’s qualifiers had one hundred and eight people skateboarding, with twenty one moving on to join the pre seeded quarter finalists. Stakes were high through out the day. Heats were broken down into groups of three skaters going head to head, in jam format, for three minutes per heat. With the field being narrowed so much to get into the quarter finals, often one bail made the difference between making or not. Today should be another great day of skateboarders as we work our way closer super crown final this Sunday. Women advancing to Quarterfinals 1 Keet Oldenbeuving 2 Roos Zwetsloot 3 Zeng Wenhul 4 Samarria Brevard 5 Marina Gabriela 6 Meagan Guy 7 Kaya Isa 8 Andrea Benitez 9 Charlotte Hym 10 Silveria Ariadne 11 Julia Brueckler 12 Karen Feitosa 13 Mar Barrera 14 Kotone Nishimura 15 Isabelle Menezes 16 :Haylie Lyn Powell 17 Una Farrar 18 Annie Guglia 19 Tonje Pedersen 20 Asia Lanzi 21 Vianez Morales Men advancing to Quarterfinals 1 Jhancarlos Gonzalez 2 Jamie Foy 3 Zion Wright 4 Yukito Aoki 5 Sean Malto 6 Angelo Caro 7 Micky Papa 8 Brayan Coria 9 Daisuke Ikeda 10 Joseph Garbaccio 11 Axel Cruysberghs 12 Kostya Kabanov 13 Douwe Macarè 14 Patrick Praman 15 Zach Saraceno 16 TJ Rogers 17 Alex Decunha 18 Shay Sandiford 19 Torey Pudwill 20 Lucas Rabelo 21 Richard Tury COMPETITION SCHEDULE FRIDAY - 09/20 11am - Women's Quarterfinals 5.30pm - Men's Quarterfinals SATURDAY - 09/21 3pm - Women's Semifinals 6.30pm - Men's Semifinals SUNDAY - 09/22 2pm - Women's Final 4.30 - Men's Final LIVE STREAMING SCHEDULE ON WWW.WORLDSKATE.TV (BRAZIL LOCAL TIME) SATURDAY - 09/21 Women's Semifinals 3pm Men's Semifinals 6.30pm SUNDAY - 09/22 Women's Final 2pm Men's Final 4.30pm VODs and HIGHLIGHTS available on WWW.WORLDSKATE.TV COMPETITION FORMAT (WOMEN AND MEN) SEEDING 04 Skateboarders Preseed to the Semifinal 16 Skateboarders Preseed to the Quarterfinal OPEN QUALIFIERS The Open Qualifier round is open to a country quota of 3 athletes registered by World Skate recognized National Governing Body, Event Wildcard and Last Chance Qualifier Wildcard holding athletes. Jam Format with a single jam composed of maximum 3 skaters with 3 minutes jam session time. A minimum 16 skaters from the Open Qualifier Ranking will progress to the Quarterfinal. Event phases after the Open Qualifier will be organized using the Olympic contest street format. QUARTERFINAL - 36 SKATERS 2 runs of 45 seconds and 5 individual trick attempts; the best 4 scores from runs or trick attempts will be added to give the total round score. A minimum 16 skaters from the Quarterfinal Ranking will progress to the Semifinal. SEMIFINAL - 24 SKATERS 2 runs of 45 seconds and 5 individual trick attempts; the best 4 scores from runs or trick attempts will be added to give the total round score. The first 8 skaters from the Semifinal Ranking will progress to the Final. FINAL - 8 SKATERS 2 runs of 45 seconds and 5 individual trick attempts; the best 4 scores from runs or trick attempts will be added to give the total round score.

Women's Wrestling Medal Table USA, 3 / 0 / 0 RUS, 2 / 1 / 2 JPN, 1 / 3 / 2 AZE, 1 / 0 / 1 CAN, 1 / 0 / 0 KGZ, 1 / 0 / 0 PRK, 1 / 0 / 0 UKR, 0 / 2 / 0 CHN, 0 / 1 / 4 SWE, 0 / 1 / 1 BUL, 0 / 1 / 0 ROU, 0 / 1 / 0 MGL, 0 / 0 / 3 GER, 0 / 0 / 2 BLR, 0 / 0 / 1 EST, 0 / 0 / 1 IND, 0 / 0 / 1 KAZ, 0 / 0 / 1 NGR, 0 / 0 / 1

Women's Wrestling, Day #7 Medallists (and Olympic Quota places) -62kg Gold: Aisuluu Tynybekova Silver: Taybe Mustafa Yusein Bronze: Henna Katarina Johansson & Yukako Kawai Olympic Quota for: / / / / / -68kg Gold: Tamyra Mariama Mensah Silver: Anna Jenny Eva Maria Fransson Bronze: Anna Carmen Schell & Battsetseg Soronzonbold Olympic Quota for: / / / / /

Men's Freestyle Wrestling, Day #7 Medallists (and Olympic Quota places) -57kg Gold: Zavur Uguev Silver: Suleyman Atli Bronze: Kumar Ravi & Nurislam Sanayev Olympic Quota for: / / / / / -65kg Gold: Gadzhimurad Rashidov Silver: Daulet Niyazbekov Bronze: Bajrang & Iszmail Muszukaejev Olympic Quota for: / / / / /

I know what they did...but still I find it unfair and totally anti-climatic from the fans' point of view... I hope one day they find a way to end this competition format and replace it with one where all the lifters fighting for the medals are together in a single session (something like having a qualification round and a final...I know it's very complicated in a sport like this, but somehow they have to improve and make it more fan friendly)...

Colabellooooooooo!!! once again, Italy went down first (0-2 after 4 innings), but now Colabello brought Poma and Maggi home with a double at center field in the 5th and we're tied at 2... in the meantime, also in the 5th, the Netherlands are 3-1 ahead against Spain...

Evening Session Semifinals -57kg Gold Medal match: Lazaro Jorge Alvarez Estrada vs Mirazizbek Mirzakhalilov Bronze: Peter McGrail & Tsendbaatar Erdenebat -69kg Gold Medal match: Andrei Zamkov vs Pat McCormack Bronze: Ablaikhan Zhussupov & Bobo-Usmon Baturov -81kg Gold Medal match: Dilshodbek Ruzmetov vs Bekzad Nurdauletov Bronze: Julio La Cruz & Benjamin Whittaker +91kg Gold Medal match: Kamshybek Kunkabayev vs Bakhodir Jalolov Bronze: Justis Huni & Maksim Babanin

in the men's -67kg class we have the snatch gold and the total silver medals coming from group B (both won by the Chinese Feng Lyudong) how the hell you put a Chinese lifter in group B?

Afternoon Session Semifinals -52kg Gold Medal match: Shakhobidin Zoirov vs Amit Bronze: Billal Bennama & Saken Bibossinov -63kg Gold Medal match: Andy Cruz Gomez vs Keyshawn Davis Bronze: Manish Kaushik & Hovhannes Bachkov -75kg Gold Medal match: Gleb Bakshi vs Eumir Marcial Bronze: Hebert Conceicao Sousa & Tursynbay Kulakhmet -91kg Gold Medal match: Muslim Gadzhimagomedov vs Julio Cesar Castillo Torres Bronze: Radoslav Pantaleev & Vassily Levit

almost all of them are just Jewish Americans, who live and play in the US Baseball system... how strong their relationship with Israel as a Country is, frankly I don't know...

no special policy for them...they fight against everybody without any problem...

Men's Tournament Standings after 2 out of 3 matches in each Pool Pool I Semenov / Leshukov, 2W - 0L Nicolai / Lupo, 1W - 1L Kantor / Losiak, 1W - 1L Gerson / Heidrich, 0W - 2L To be played tomorrow: ITA vs SUI & POL vs RUS Pool J Brouwer / Meeuwsen, 2W - 0L* Andre / George, 1W - 1L Plavins / Tocs, 1W - 1L Berntsen / Mol, 0W - 2L** To be played tomorrow: NED vs NOR & LAT vs BRA * Mathematically qualified to the Semifinals ** Mathematically eliminated

Women's Tournament Standings after 2 out of 3 matches in each Pool Pool I Liliana / Elsa, 2W - 0L Hermannova / Slukova, 1W - 1L Wojtasik / Kociolek, 1W - 1L Wang / Xia, 0W - 2L To be played tomorrow: CZE vs CHN & ESP vs POL Pool J Menegatti / Orsi-Toth, 2W - 0L Ittlinger / Laboureur, 1W - 1L Graudina / Kravcenoka, 1W - 1L Schützenhöfer/Plesiutschnig, 0W - 2L To be played tomorrow: ITA vs GER & LAT vs AUT

Men's Team 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Norway Silver: Czech Republic Bronze: Hungary Men's Individual 50m 3-Position Rifle, Shooters qualified to the Final (tomorrow) Simon Claussen* Henrik Larsen* Karolis Girulis Petr Nymbursky Jon-Hermann Hegg* Lorenzo Bacci Filip Nepejchal* Dean Bale * NOT eligible for an Olympic Quota place

Italy had to wait until the extra innings to close the match vs RSA... at least, in the 10th it was an explosion of our offense...they scored 6 unanswered runs and the game was over (thanks also to a spectacular triple play in the defensive half of the inning that sealed the deal)... final score, Italy b. South Africa 10-4 (after 10 innings) and tonight, the showdown against Israel (8 p.m. CET)

Frank! and tomorrow it's gonna be an interesting revenge between him and Sidakov, who won a very close match against Burroughs just on the final second thanks only to the last point scored (the bout ended 3-3)...

Men's Freestyle Wrestling, Day #8 Finals -70kg Gold Medal match: David Baev vs Nurkhoza Kaipanov Bronze Medal match #1: Yones Emami vs Joshua Miguel Trambulo Riley / Nicolae Cojocaru Bronze Medal match #2: Magomedmurad Gadzhiev vs Ikhtyor Navruzov / Andrei Karpach / Zurabi Iakobishvili -74kg Gold Medal match: Zaurbek Sidakov vs Frank Chamizo Marquez Bronze Medal match #1: Jordan Ernest Burroughs vs Mao Okui / Kamil Rybicki / Victor Eduardo Hernandez Luna Bronze Medal match #2: Zelimkhan Khadjiev vs Daniyar Kaisanov / Lee Seung Chul / Marc Dietsche Olympic Quota so far: / / / -92kg Gold Medal match: Ali Reza Karimi vs J'den Michael Tbory Cox Bronze Medal match #1: Irakli Mtsituri vs Nurgali Nurgaipuly / Mohamed Fardj Bronze Medal match #2: Alikhan Zhabrailov vs Liubomyr Sagaliuk / Georgii Rubaev -125kg Gold Medal match: Taha Akgul vs Geno Petriashvili Bronze Medal match #1: Deng Zhiwei vs Khasanboy Rakhimov / Alexandr Romanov Bronze Medal match #2: Oleksandr Khotsianivskyi vs Badzha Khutaba / Egzon Shala Olympic Quota so far: / / /

Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, England...18 out of 32 semifinalists (medallists) come from those 4 Nations (15 from the first 3)... aiba is still well in the hands of the same mafia as the last 10 years...

Today's Semifinals -52kg Billal Bennama vs Shakhobidin Zoirov Saken Bibossinov vs Amit -63kg Andy Cruz Gomez vs Manish Kaushik Hovhannes Bachkov vs Keyshawn Davis -75kg Gleb Bakshi vs Hebert Conceicao Sousa Tursynbay Kulakhmet vs Eumir Marcial -91kg Radoslav Pantaleev vs Muslim Gadzhimagomedov Vassily Levit vs Julio Cesar Castillo Torres -57kg Lazaro Jorge Alvarez Estrada vs Peter McGrail Tsendbaatar Erdenebat vs Mirazizbek Mirzakhalilov -69kg Andrei Zamkov vs Ablaikhan Zhussupov Bobo-Usmon Baturov vs Pat McCormack -81kg Julio La Cruz vs Bekzad Nurdauletov Benjamin Whittaker vs Dilshodbek Ruzmetov +91kg Kamshybek Kunkabayev vs Justis Huni Maksim Babanin vs Bakhodir Jalolov

Men's Freestyle Wrestling, -125kg Semifinals Taha Akgul vs Deng Zhiwei Geno Petriashvili vs Oleksandr Khotsianivskyi Olympic Quota so far: / / /

Men's Freestyle Wrestling, -92kg Semifinals J'den Michael Tbory Cox vs Irakli Mtsituri Alikhan Zhabrailov vs Ali Reza Karimi

Men's Freestyle Wrestling, -74kg Semifinals Zaurbek Sidakov vs Jordan Ernest Burroughs Frank Chamizo Marquez vs Zelimkhan Khadjiev Olympic Quota so far: / / /