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he was there just for the World Champs...now we're back to the normal crew...

yes, there's a 5th-8th place PO... by the way, NED lost, but ITA won only 2-1 at the 10th inning against CRO (who yesterday drove Spain crazy, too)... until now, CRO are the most pleasant surprise of the tournament, despite the 2 losses in 2 games...let's see if they can also win a match when they face a weaker opponent in the next few days...

Stage #7 (Snowshoe, USA) Women's Short Circuit Race Gold: Jenny Rissveds Silver: Pauline Ferrand-Prevot Bronze: Kate Courtney Men's Short Circuit Race Gold: Nino Schurter Silver: Titouan Carod Bronze: Jordan Sarrou

Italy are also not even close to what they could be with their best MLB/Triple A players... however, I don't think this Israeli team is good enough to beat NED and ITA in the OQT...they're not even close to the group they were at the last World Baseball Classic (and also in that tournament they didn't have an impressive pitching staff, it was all about their batsmen)...

as expected, Japan totally dominated the field in their home K1PL stage... meanwhile, among the other Nations, we had the usual very balanced spread of medals... today wasn't a good day for Italy at all... after Bottaro very close win over Ono in the women's Kata bronze medal match, first Semeraro threw away a bronze medal, losing in a very stupid and inaccurate way to the Chinese Gong (however, with Zaretska's win, it doesn't change anything in Olympic perspective...unless a real miracle happen, she has to rely only on the continental spot, if she wants to avoid the risk of the final OQT next year...I think she doesn't have any chance anymore to make the Olympics through the OQR), then Ferracuti lost badly to Uekusa (even if it was expected, it's always painful to watch a girl having such a poor outing as Clio did earlier today) and Crescenzo couldn't do anything against his nemesis, Assadilov...when he faces this Kazakh guy, he's absolutely clueless...the Asian is faster and stronger (and today he was also smarter) under any aspect of the game...

K1PL Stage #5 (Tokyo, JPN) Final Medal Table JPN, 8 / 3 / 8 IRI, 1 / 2 / 2 AZE, 1 / 1 / 1 UKR, 1 / 0 / 1 EGY, 1 / 0 / 0 GER, 1 / 0 / 0 KAZ, 1 / 0 / 0 FRA, 0 / 3 / 1 ITA, 0 / 2 / 1 ESP, 0 / 1 / 2 TUR, 0 / 1 / 2 TPE, 0 / 1 / 0 CHN, 0 / 0 / 3 AUT, 0 / 0 / 1 BRA, 0 / 0 / 1 CRO, 0 / 0 / 1 GEO, 0 / 0 / 1 FIN, 0 / 0 / 1 GRE, 0 / 0 / 1 VIE, 0 / 0 / 1

K1PL Stage #5 (Tokyo, JPN) Medallists Recap, Part #2 women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold: Sara Bahmanyar Silver: Alexandra Recchia Bronze: Li Ranran & Ayaka Tadano women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold: Anzhelika Terliuga Silver: Wen Tzu-Yun Bronze: Carlota Fernandez Osorio & Shiori Nakamura women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold: Giana Lofty Silver: Leila Heurtault Bronze: Mayumi Someya & Yin Xiaoyan women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold: Irina Zaretska Silver: Alizèe Agier Bronze: Alisa Buchiger & Gong Li women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold: Ayumi Uekusa Silver: Clio Ferracuti Bronze: Eleni Chatziliadou & Titta Keinanen men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold: Darkhan Assadilov Silver: Angelo Crescenzo Bronze: Eray Samdan & Majid Hassannia men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold: Hiroto Gomyo Silver: Burak Uygur Bronze: Vinicius Figueira & Soichiro Nakano men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold: Ken Nishimura Silver: Rafael Aghayev Bronze: Bahman Askari & Stanislav Horuna men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold: Ryutaro Araga Silver: Zabiollah Poorshab Bronze: Ivan Kvesic & Aykhan Mamayev men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold: Jonathan Horne Silver: Saleh Abazari Bronze: Mehdi Filali & Gogita Arkania

K1PL Stage #5 (Tokyo, JPN) Medallists Recap, Part #1 women's Individual Kata Gold: Kiyou Shimizu Silver: Sandra Sanchez Jaime Bronze: Viviana Bottaro & Emiri Iwamoto men's Individual Kata Gold: Ryo Kiyuna Silver: Issei Shimbaba Bronze: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila & Kazumasa Moto women's Team Kata Gold: Kenshinkan Japan Silver: Keio University Bronze: Yakumo Gakuen & Vietnam men's Team Kata Gold: Ryueiryu Ryuhokai Silver: Naniwa High School Bronze: Turkey & Teikyo

Stage #8 (Nantou, TPE) women's 10km Gold: Ana Marcela Cunha Silver: Arianna Bridi Bronze: Rachele Bruni Full Results: http://fina.org/competition-detailed-results/finacnsg-marathon-swim-world-series-2019-women-10km/event-5 men's 10km Gold: Nicholas Sloman Silver: Hayden Paul Cotter Bronze: Matteo Furlan Full Results: http://fina.org/competition-detailed-results/finacnsg-marathon-swim-world-series-2019-men-10km/event-4

Stage #7 (Lake Ohrid, MKD) women's 10km Gold: Ana Marcela Cunha Silver: Rachele Bruni Bronze: Arianna Bridi Full Results: http://fina.org/competition-detailed-results/finacnsg-marathon-swim-world-series-2019-women-10km/event-4 men's 10km Gold: Kiril Abrosimov Silver: Axel Raymond Bronze: Matteo Furlan Full Results: http://fina.org/competition-detailed-results/finacnsg-marathon-swim-world-series-2019-men-10km/event-3

Stage #6 (Lac Megantic, CAN) women's 10km Gold: Arianna Bridi Silver: Rachele Bruni Bronze: Anna Olasz Full Results: http://fina.org/competition-detailed-results/finacnsg-marathon-swim-world-series-2019-women-10km/event-3 men's 10km Gold: Kristof Rasovszky Silver: Dario Verani Bronze: Hau-Li Fan Full Results: http://fina.org/competition-detailed-results/finacnsg-marathon-swim-world-series-2019-men-10km/event-2

Stage #5 (Lac St.Jean, CAN) women's 10km Gold: Rachele Bruni Silver: Anna Olasz Bronze: Caroline Laure Jouisse Full Results: http://fina.org/competition-detailed-results/finacnsg-marathon-swim-world-series-2019-women-10km/event-2 men's 10km Gold: Kristof Rasovszky Silver: Fares Zitouni Bronze: Dario Verani Full Results: http://fina.org/competition-detailed-results/finacnsg-marathon-swim-world-series-2019-men-10km/event-1

no idea...probably she doesn't care that much about the Olympics, she's just interested in her Pro/WSL career (and for that, as an Australian she has more advantage than being from NED)...

France is obvious...but the other 3...where do they come from? then, it's true...the world is not anymore the one we used to know...

nice moustache, by the way...

what a strange day it was...8 road wins out of 8 games! unfortunately "my" Ambrì weren't capable of sealing the deal with a few minutes left in regulation (when they had a "strategical" power-play) and then they went on to lose at the shootouts against the Red Bull Munich...and this loss probably means that they won't make it through to the knockout stage... a win tonight was really a must to keep the hopes alive... meanwhile in Group A, Pilsen and Zug are the first teams to be mathematically qualified to the knockout stage, meaning that the Finnish Liiga runner-up team from last season (HPK) are already out in the group stage...

Group Stage Day 4, Part 2 Sunday 08.09.2019 - Schedule* Group A 18:00 Tappara Tampere (FIN) - EHC Biel/Bienne (SUI) 18:30 Frisk Asker (NOR) - KAC Klagenfurt (AUT) Group C 14:00 Bìlì Tygři Liberec (CZE) - Luleå Hockey (SWE) 17:00 Augsburger Panther (GER) - Belfast Giants (GBR) Group D 15:45 Lausanne HC (SUI) - Lahti Pelicans (FIN) 17:00 Ocelàři Třinec (CZE) - Yunost Minsk (BLR) Group F 15:00 Djurgården Stockholm (SWE) - GKS Tychy (POL) 16:00 Adler Mannheim (GER) - Vienna Capitals (AUT) *All times CET Watch live Check here for details of live TV broadcasts: https://www.championshockeyleague.com/en/fans/where-to-watch All games are also live on the CHL website for free, subject to geo-blocking restrictions in certain countries due to TV rights.

Group Stage Day 4, Part 1 Saturday 07.09.2019 - Results Group B 18:00 HPK Hämeenlinna (SUI) - EV Zug (SUI) 1-3 18:00 Rungsted Seier Capital (DEN) - HC Pilsen (CZE) 2-4 Standing : 1. Pilsen 10 (Q), 2. Zug 10 (Q), 3. Hämeenlinna 4, 4. Rungsted 0 Group E 17:00 SC Bern (SUI) - Kärpät Oulu (FIN) 1-2 (SO) 19:30 Grenoble (FRA) - Skellefteå AIK (SWE) 1-4 Standing : 1. Oulu 9, 2. Skellefteå 7, 3. Bern 5, 4. Grenoble 3 Group G 14:15 HC05 Banskà Bystrica (SVK) - Färjestad Karlstad (SWE) 3-4 (OT) 19:45 HC Ambrì Piotta (SUI) - Red Bull Munich (GER) 2-3 (SO) Standing : 1. Munich 9, 2. Färjestad 8, 3. Ambrì 4, 4. Banskà Bystrica 3 Group H 17:00 Mountfield HK (CZE) - Frölunda Indians (SWE) 3-4 19:15 Graz 99ers (AUT) - Cardiff Devils (GBR) 2-5 Standing : 1. Cardiff 8, 2. Frölunda 7, 3. Mountfield 6, 4. Graz 3

I can understand that point of view...probably, I'd also wash my hands with that kind of an excusation, if I had to take this kind of decision...

however, back in topic... men's Junior Individual Trap Gold: Murat Ilbilgi Silver: Lorenzo Ferrari Bronze: Jason Picaud

actually, we had more than 350 athletes in Sydney and Athens...we went down to slightly less than 300 in London and Rio and now we have 126 quota (with only 4 teams and the awful perspective to add only 1 more, maybe 2 if we're lucky), meaning that we don't have many chances to get even to 250/260 by the end of the OQP... so, there's a lot of reason to keep whining...our sport movement is dying day after day...but probably is too difficult to see such disaster from outside...

tournament started earlier Today... and Spain almost lost to Croatia... finally, however, they survived the scare and won 3-2... meanwhile Italy destroyed France (16-2) and Israel and Belgium edged out Czech Republic and Austria, 6-1 and 5-1 respectively... Sweden and Germany start their game in a few minutes, while the Netherlands and Great Britain were stopped by darkness (Solingen's stadium doesn't have floodlights just tell me if it's acceptable in 2019 to have the ECHs hosted in such kind of venue )... here you can find all the info you need: schedule, results, standings and stats from every game... https://www.baseballstats.eu/2019/bonn/schedule.php meanwhile here you can watch every game in streaming (free for all, no geo-blocking)... https://www.baseballsoftball.tv/league/euro-baseball-2019/632

only bronze medals going downwords...losing positions...to me, the higher the pressure, the less reliable he is...and you know that the Olympic pressure is something beyond imagination...a lot worse than any other competition... p.s. and euro/world medals have been achieved in Lonato, his home range...

Belaud gold, Choong silver and Jun bronze...

men's Individual Trap Gold: Jiri Liptak Silver: Aaron Heading Bronze: Mauro De Filippis Olympic Quota: Czech Republic, Great Britain