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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...

now's better...but surely not enough... and Karapetyan bombs out, as expected...

fu*k!!! Pizzo...

wow! Jon already out and Lyu also seems to have serious physical troubles... this could open things out for silver medal, too...

Basketball has a rule about naturalized players (no more than one), but they can't rule on those who are citizens from their birth (even if they asked for the official documents later in their life)... they are 2 different situations... by the way, all of our Diaspora guys are Italian citizens (otherwise you wouldn't be allowed to play for our NT under the IOC rules)...if you have true Italian blood/heritage, you are Italian...and citizenship is automatically granted, provided you ask for it... all the other ways to get our citizenship are a different question...and it's not that easy to get it, especially if you come from a Country outside the European Union...

well, I just saw Rodallegs' recent results...he's really dangerous, more than I thought...probably, it's gonna be close between him and Pizzolato... and maybe even Jon Wi-Choe... hopefully it's gonna be a fun battle for bronze...but of course I hope Pizzo finally wins it...

Karapetyan, if he really opens at 200kg, is going to bomb out...sure...

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