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it happened a few years ago (2013 and 2015)... now the aiba political committee is different...

wow! it looks like our dear friend @MHSN is in top shape he got basically all of his previews right so far...

men's Greco-Roman Wrestling, day #1 Semifinals -55kg Nugzari Tsurtsumia vs Shota Ogawa Eldaniz Azizli vs Khorlan Zhakansha -63kg Shinobu Ota vs Almat Kebispayev Stepan Maryanyan vs Slavik Galstyan -72kg Abuiazid Mantsigov vs Balint Korpasi Aik Mnatsakanian vs Aram Vardanyan -82kg Saeid Abdevali vs Rafig Huseynov Lasha Gobadze vs Nurbek Khashimbekov

some interesting news... https://totallympics.com/index.php?/topic/1423-wrestling-2019-discussion-thread/&do=findComment&comment=240587

Krasnoyarsk to Host 2022 World C’Ships Bureau Adds Age and Term Restrictions The United World Wrestling bureau passed a series of decisions yesterday during a meeting before the start of the 2019 Senior Wrestling World Championships at the Barys Arena in Nur-Sultan. Topping the outcomes was the selection of Krasnoyarsk as host of the 2022 Senior Wrestling World Championships. The Russian city is well known to wrestling fans as host city of the prestigious Ivan Yaryiguin Invitational held each January in memory of the two-time Olympic champion. The 2022 championships will be Krasnoyarsk’s first time hosting the combined world championships and the first world championships since the Siberian city welcomed men’s freestyle in 1997. The bureau also named several cities as hosts for the 2021 season, highlighted by Guatemala City (Pan-Am) and Katowice (Europe) each set to be senior-level hosts of the continental championships. The Russian city of Ufa was also named the host of the Junior World Championships and Belgrade as host the U23 World Championships. The full and updated calendar of events can be found at www.unitedworldwrestling.org/events. In a move meant to better align with established Olympic norms Bureau members approved limiting the age of Bureau members to 75 years old and the term of president to two (2) six-year terms. For consistency across the organization, the bureau also approved a limitation on the term of continental presidents, who may now serve no more than three terms of four years each. Changes to the UWW constitution require the affirmation of the Congress which will take place in fall of 2020. In addition to host city allocations and self-governance the bureau also approved the nominees for the 2020 Hall of Fame ceremony in Tokyo. Saori YOSHIDA (JPN) a three-time Olympic champion, Olympic silver medalist and 13-time world champion was nominated to the Hall of Fame in the “Legend” category. She will be joined by former teammate, Olympic champion and eight-time World Champion Hitomi OBARA SAKAMOTO (JPN) who looks to enter the Hall of Fame as a member of women’s wrestling. The men’s freestyle nominations included twin brothers John PETERSON (USA) and Ben PETERSON (USA). The Peterson’s each won Olympic gold, Olympic silver, world silver and world bronze. In Greco-Roman, Gheorghe BERCEANU (ROU) - who won Olympic gold, Olympic silver and was a two-time world champion - was nominated alongside Olympic and world gold medalist Pertti UKKOLA (FIN). Mr. MOLINA (CUB) was nominated as a referee and Yuri SHAKHMURADOV (RUS) as a coach. Mr. Shakhmuradov was also added to the Women and Sport commission.

by the way, today NED vs ESP is scheduled for 3 p.m. CET, meanwhile ITA vs ISR is scheduled for 7 p.m. CET...

naaa..they're too inconsistent...they don't have enough pitching depth to be really dangerous in a whole championship... however, with their top pitchers on the mound, they can make almost anybody cry on a given day...

18 – 24 May 2020 Street World Champ by SLS, London (GBR) 25 – 31 May 2020 Park World Champ by CB, TBA (CHI)

no, you should definitely watch more baseball..it's a wonderful sport...

Women advancing to the Semifinals 1 Sky Brown 2 Mami Tezuka 3 Kokona Hiraki 4 Poppy Starr-Olsen 5 Arianna Carmona 6 Isadora Pacheco 7 Bryce Wettstein 8 Kihana Ogawa 9 Alana Smith 10 Dora Varella 11 Jordan Santana 12 Julia Benedetti 13 Leticia Gonçalves 14 Victoria Bassi 15 Lilly Stoephasius 16 Minna Stess Full Quarterfinals Results: http://www.worldskate.org/skateboarding/results/category/656-wc-park-sao-paulo-2019-results.html?download=3982:sao-paulo-park-world-championship-women-quarter-final-results

it's been a painful night...but luckily it's over...with the right winner! Alberto Mineo wins it for Italy with a 2-run walkoff HR in the bottom of the 9th...7-5 the final score... congrats to Germany...they played a very good game and gave Italy a big, big scare... the semis NED vs ESP and ITA vs ISR are scheduled for tomorrow at 3 and 7 p.m. CET...we'll see later tonight who's going to play at what time...

and soft hit back to the pitcher...assist in 1st and inning over... we should have taken a lot more advantage of such kind of inning...

and here come another sac fly...but this was a great catch by the German centerfielder... however, what matters is that now we are tied at 5, with runners in 2nd and 3rd (and 2 outs) still in the 6th...

pretty disappointing sac fly...only 1 run scored and now runners only in 1st and 2nd with 1 out... but now the bases are loaded again... more than ever...it's now or never...gotta kill the Germans now!

bases loaded and no out in the 6th...it's now or never for Italy...

by the way, Chris Colabello just sent the ball in the woods over the fence and ITA have shortened the distance to 3-5 in the 6th...

top 5 (there will be the 5th-8th place PO for those who lose in the quarterfinals)...

Yes, it's the top tier baseball in Japan (there are 12 teams, 6 in the Central League and 6 in the Pacific League...the format is more or less the same of the MLB, with most league play, a short interleague play and then the PO...one league has DH and one hasn't)...

on the other side, Sweden are the first relegated team (after losing 12-2 after 8 innings vs GBR), meanwhile Austria are safe after winning 10-0 against Croatia... the same GBR and CRO will play tomorrow to avoid the last relegation (the loser will go down in 2nd division)...

meanwhile, the first 3 quarterfinals are already over: Israel 8-2 France Netherlands 17-2 Belgium (after 5 innings) Spain 5-4 Czech Republic (after 10 innings) therefore, the first semifinal pairing is NED vs ESP, meanwhile ISR are waiting for the winner of the GER vs ITA match-up...

I just can't belive what those bunch of chokers named "Italy" are doing... they are unbelivably down 5-2 (and they were 0-5 until a few minutes ago) against GER after 5 innings... Maestri just unwatchable on the mound and the bats more than cold...frozen! what a shame! I should stop wasting my time with them and watch Russian hockey and MLB/NPB Baseball...

women's Junior Individual Skeet Gold: Eva-Tamara Reichert Silver: Vanesa Hockova Bronze: Elena Bukhonova

hope you didn't get too much consolation with litres of beer, then...

yeah, but this is not his first worldskate sanctioned event... meanwhile for White it is the first appearance outside the US tour in this discipline...

did you go to the arena or did you just watched the game on TV? by the way, tonight also the Swiss, German and Austrian Leagues are going to start, even if the game of the day is scheduled in the KHL, the everlasting battle between SKA and CSKA, which I'm enjoying right now (thanks to the Czech/Slovak TV, Sport2 HD )...