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thanks a lot... about the Iranian names, I tried to guess...and I must admit that I guess right for most of them... the only 2 I was wrong are Kavianinejad (I'd have cut the -nejad part) and Ghasemi-Monjezi (I didn't expect he keeps the double family name)... and of course I'd have missed all the double given names (the Mohammad part for Yazdani in the 65kg FS, the Ali part for Geraei and the Hadi part for Saravi)... the rest, I guessed right...

he's competing...and I think he's going to thrash everybody out (except for the US guy, Snyder) once again...

well this is not an insurance for anything... "our" guys named before already competed last year at the European (Kudiiiamagomedov) and/or World Championships (Conyedo even won the bronze medal) among the seniors, but because the UWW and the IOC rules in terms of elegibility are completely different, this year they can't be on the mat... I know, it looks crazy, but this is how it works with UWW...

by the way, it's still the good old aiba... I saw a few fights from today's program...and as usual I've seen some "curious" outcomes... reading now the full scores, I suggest to take care in particular of the judges from Jordan (Nabeel Younis), USA (Shawn Reese) and the flagbearer of the integrity himself, mr. Frank Fiacco from CAN (his interpretation of the fight between Bryan Angulo and Eumir Marcial is simply surreal...the man from Ecuador was basically thrashed out and he still has a 28-28 tie )...

yes, no mistake...he's really listed in the 79kg class... @hckosice about Gulaev...is there a chance that he's not yet eligible for an Olympic qualification tournament because of the stricter IOC rules on changing Nationality (like our Cuban and Russian guys)? meanwhile, for what concerns Italy, it's confirmed that we won't be able to start Abraham Conyedo (men's FS -97kg) nor Shamil Kudiiamagomedov (men's FS -86kg) nor Nikoloz Kakhelashvili (men's GR -97kg, replaced by "granny" Daigoro Timoncini)... that fuck*n' Italian burocracy! our team will feature only: - Givi Davidovi (FS -57kg) - Frank Chamizo Marquez (FS -74kg) - Jacopo Sandron (GR -60kg) - Riccardo Vito Abbrescia (GR -77kg) - Fabio Parisi (GR -87kg) - Daigoro Timoncini (GR -97kg) - Arianna Carieri (WW -57kg) - Aurora Campagna (WW -62kg) - Dalma Caneva (WW -68kg) - Eleni Pjollaj (WW -76kg) p.s. @MHSN why don't you write a letter to UWW explaining the correct interpretation of the names of the Iranian athletes? I'm looking at the entry list and I see some scary 200-letter names which I'm sure they are not the right ones...

Mixed Team Junior Trap Gold: Italy 1 (Sofia Littame & Lorenzo Ferrari) Silver: Poland (Sandra Bernal & Remigiusz Charkiewicz) Bronze: Italy 2 (Gaia Regazzini & Edoardo Antonioli) Mixed Team Trap Gold: Spain 1 (Fatima Galvez & Alberto Fernandez) Silver: France 1 (Carole Cormenier & Antonin Desert) Bronze: Italy 1 (Jessica Rossi & Mauro De Filippis)

Mixed Team Junior Trap Gold Medal match: Poland (Sandra Bernal & Remigiusz Charkiewicz) vs Italy 1 (Sofia Littame & Lorenzo Ferrari) Bronze Medal match: Italy 2 (Gaia Regazzini & Edoardo Antonioli) vs Portugal (Maria Ines Coelho De Barros & Manuel Vieira Da Silva) Mixed Team Trap Gold Medal match: Spain 1 (Fatima Galvez & Alberto Fernandez) vs France 1 (Carole Cormenier & Antonin Desert) Bronze Medal match: Italy 1 (Jessica Rossi & Mauro De Filippis) vs Italy 2 (Silvana Stanco & Giovanni Pellielo)

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women's Team Trap Gold: Italy Silver: Spain Bronze: Great Britain women's Junior Team Trap Gold: Russia Silver: Germany Bronze: Italy men's Team Trap Gold: Italy Silver: Croatia Bronze: France men's Junior Team Trap Gold: Finland Silver: Great Britain Bronze: Italy

good question...I fear that they would eventually go down to the team ranking points...and the representative from the team higher in the 2019 ISA Worlds final ranking would finally prevail... but this is just my logical interpretation, based on the criteria they will use also for some reallocation of the WSL spots (where they will go down to the team world champion at the ISA Games having priority for a 3rd surfer if the WSL ranking can't fill all the established quota places)... actually, I don't have (and I fear nobody has) any clue about such kind of situation (hoping it doesn't happen, so we don't have toworry about it)...

by the way, this is a quick recap of the women's tournament so far... the 12 girls still in contention are: round 6 Silvana Lima Tatiana Weston-Webb Bianca Buitendag Sofia Mulanovich repechage 8A Anat Lelior Stephanie Gilmore Sally Fitzgibbons Courtney Conlogue repechage 8B Caroline Marks Brisa Hennessy Carissa Moore Nikki Van Dijk as explained in the posts above, the competition format is quite complicated... - the top 2 of the round #6 heat will advance directly to the Final - the 3rd and 4th ranked of the round #6 heat will be relegated to the repechage heat #10 - the top 2 of the repechage heats #8A and 8B will advance to the repechage heat #9 - the 3rd and 4th ranked of the repechage heats #8A and #8B are eliminated and ranked from 9th to 12th place in the overall standings - the top 2 of the repechage heat #9 will advance to the repechage heat #10 - the 3rd and 4th ranked in the repechage heat #9 are eliminated and ranked 7th and 8th respectively in the overall standings - the top 2 of the repechage heat #10 will advance to the Final - the 3rd and 4th ranked in the repechage heat #10 are eliminated and ranked 5th and 6th respectively in the overall standings - the 4 girls contesting the Final are ranked accordingly to the results of that heat...the top 3 will get Gold, Silver and Bronze medal respectively... I hope you didn't get too much of a headache, now...

yeah, they like to make it really complicated...I think the WSL format is way better than this...heats, head-to-head repechage and then a simple knockout stage with no further complication...

sure? those in round #6 should be 6th at worst... correct me, if I'm wrong... the top 2 in round 6 will advance to the final,meanwhile the 3rd and 4th ranked should go to the repechage #10 with only 1 heat of 4 surfers (and the top 2 advancing to the final, meanwhile the 3rd and 4th ranked should end the competition as 5th and 6th)... because repechage 9 should feature only 1 heat of 4 surfers, the top 2 of the 2 rep. 8 heats (with 2 advancing from rep. 9 to rep. 10)... 7th and 8th overall should be the 2 rep. 9 losers...

yes, she's guaranteed a top 6 finish, if I'm not wrong about the competition format (in any case, there are only 12 girls left, so she can't be worse than 12th)...

yeah...frankly I've never been able to understand that classification...it looks so stupid...

it's because those 2 weights have been created by merging the old bantam+feather (it was 54 and 57) and the old Lightweights+light welterweights (it was 60 and 64) to cut from 10 to 8 the total number of weight classes... therefore, as they don't have an official name for the new classes, there's some confusion within the media, calling the new weights with one or the other old name indifferently... that's why I agree at 100% with @heywoodu...they should just name them by their actual weight limit and stop... I mean, the names are absolutely relative...for instance, to me 91kg are small men, just like flyweights

yes, of course he is... I don't know why I wrote the wrong name...

MTB Women's Cross-Country World Cup Final Overall Rankings 1st, Kate Courtney, 1772 pts 2nd, Jolanda Neff, 1742 pts 3rd, Pauline Ferrand-Prevot, 1575 pts MTB Men's Cross-Country World Cup Final Overall Rankings 1st, Nino Schurter, 1995 pts 2nd, Mathieu Van Der Poel, 1649 pts 3rd, Henrique Avancini, 1565 pts Full Rankings can be found in this page: https://www.uci.org/mountain-bike/events/mercedes-benz-uci-mountain-bike-world-cup

Stage #7 (Snowshoe, USA) Men's Cross-Country Race Gold: Lars Forster Silver: Nino Schurter Bronze: Maxime Marotte

Italy, instead, only have 5 boxers in Ekaterinburg, with only 2 of them being the real top tier of the team... Salvatore Cavallaro is seeded no.4 in the -75kg class and has a quite easy route to the semis...if he's in top shape and the judges don't kill him, he should get a bronze medal... meanwhile our raising star, Aziz Mouhiddine, didn't have a favourable draw in the men's -91kg...he's set to fight against Vassily Levit in the quarterfinals, which means that he won't come home with a medal no matter what happens on the ring...not in a tournament held under aiba organization, at least...

actually, Argentina is starting in Ekaterinburg...without specifically searching for that, I saw a fighter named Brian Agustin Allegri in the -69kg class (facing a man from in round #1)... and Daniel Francisco Veron in the -75kg class (facing Adam Chartoi in round #1)...

they only count results from the aiba sanctioned tournaments through the year...if you don't send a team there, you don't have any chance to be seeded at the world champs... and considering that most of those tournaments are spread around the world in some 3rd world Nations, it's quite obvious that many teams from Europe tend to skip those trips, meanwhile those Countries who host a tournament or benefit from the aiba developing program (that pays the travel tips to them) have a lot more chances, despite their fighters are not the best nor the most well known in our area...

back to normality, with 6 home wins out of 8 matches... and the German champions Adler Mannheim add to the list of teams already mathematically qualified to the knockout stage after only 4 rounds of play... now the Champions Hockey League takes a pause, leaving the center stage to the National Leagues, almost all of them set to begin in the next weekend... the Continental tournament will be back in October with Game Day #5 (8th and 9th) and #6 (15th and 16th), to close the group stage... see you in a month or so...

Group Stage Day 4, Part 2 Sunday 08.09.2019 - Results Group A 18:00 Tappara Tampere (FIN) - EHC Biel/Bienne (SUI) 1-0 18:30 Frisk Asker (NOR) - KAC Klagenfurt (AUT) 0-4 Standing : 1. Klagenfurt 9, 2. Biel/Bienne 9, 3. Tampere 6, 4. Asker 0 Group C 14:00 Bìlì Tygři Liberec (CZE) - Luleå Hockey (SWE) 4-5 (OT) 17:00 Augsburger Panther (GER) - Belfast Giants (GBR) 3-1 Standing : 1. Luleå 8, 2. Augsburg 8, 3. Liberec 4, 4. Belfast 4 Group D 15:45 Lausanne HC (SUI) - Lahti Pelicans (FIN) 4-3 (SO) 17:00 Ocelàři Třinec (CZE) - Yunost Minsk (BLR) 7-2 Standing : 1. Lausanne 8, 4. Třinec 6, 3. Lahti 5, 4. Minsk 5 Group F 15:00 Djurgården Stockholm (SWE) - GKS Tychy (POL) 2-0 16:00 Adler Mannheim (GER) - Vienna Capitals (AUT) 4-0 Standing : 1. Mannheim 11 (Q), 2. Djurgården 9, 3. Vienna 3, 4. Tychy 1

Stage #7 (Snowshoe, USA) Women's Cross-Country Race Gold: Pauline Ferrand-Prevot Silver: Anne Terpstra Bronze: Annie Last