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joining the already qualified boats from and (to both the A Final and the Olympics) and therefore making the final and getting an Olympic spot in the women's Quadruple Sculls: / / / more quota will be awarded in the B Final...

non Olympic boats... men's Lightweight Single Scull, making the Final A: / / / / / women's Lightweight Single Scull, making the Final A: / / / / /

well, not a bad day for Italy so far... but that 4th place in the women's lightweight double sculls hurts, as it's not promising at all the poor result of our men's Four (despite getting at least the final and therefore the Olympic quota)...losing Matteo Lodo in the crew hurt them a lot... waiting for the women's quadruple sculls (very slim chance to make the Olympics, though) and the men's Eight (I'm not confident at all in this boat, but I still hope they can make the final, even if it's gonna be really difficult)...

the 6 boats making the final and getting an Olympic spot in the women's Four. They are: / / / / / more quota will be awarded in the B Final...

the 6 boats making the final and getting an Olympic spot in the men's Four. They are: / / / / / more quota will be awarded in the B Final...

the 6 boats making the final and getting an Olympic spot in the women's Lightweight Double Sculls. They are: / / / / / more quota will be awarded in the B Final...

not in the sport itself (unless you're so idiot to shoot your own foot or so)... but there's always the chance you get sick/injured outside the shooting range, like it happens to all human beings...gotta take this into consideration if you are leading a professional/top level activity...you can't be surprised if something normally unexpected happens...

and here they are the 6 boats making the final and getting an Olympic spot in the men's Lightweight Double Sculls. They are: / / / / / more quota will be awarded in the B Final...

so, now we have the 6 boats making the final and getting an Olympic spot in the women's Pair. They are: / / / / / more quota will be awarded in the B Final...

and the men's lightweight double does it, too! but it was a lot more difficult than expected...Spain, Poland and also China (who missed out on a place in the final in the end) made our life really complicated throughout the entire race...

yeah! first Olympic spot for Italy! and it comes from a women's boat! the women's pair!

if McIntosh is unable to start in Tokyo (for whatever the reason might be), they can pick whoever they want to replace her, provided the new shooter has the MQS in all the disciplines they want him/her to start... quotas are for NOCs, who can do what they want, even asking to switch the disciplines between one where they actually won the spot and one where they missed out (if I remember correctly, there's only the limit of 1 switch per gender)...

All set for start of 2019/20 season! And so it begins! Game Day 1 of the 2019/20 Champions Hockey League begins today, and from here on in it's a journey to find out which team will be crowned European Champions and lift that trophy in February. The first Game Day has several 'firsts' of its own: seven of the 16 teams in action play their debut games in the competition! Group Stage Day 1, Part 1 Thursday 29.08.2019 - Schedule* Group A 19:30 KAC Klagenfurt (AUT) - Tappara Tampere (FIN) 19:45 EHC Biel/Bienne (SUI) - Frisk Asker (NOR) Group B 17:00 HC Pilsen (CZE) - HPK Hämeenlinna (SUI) 19:45 EV Zug (SUI) - Rungsted Seier Capital (DEN) Group C 18:00 Luleå Hockey (SWE) - Augsburger Panther (GER) 20:30 Belfast Giants (GBR) - Bìlì Tygři Liberec (CZE) Group G 18:00 Färjestad Karlstad (SWE) - HC05 Banskà Bystrica (SVK) 19:30 Red Bull Munich (GER) - HC Ambrì Piotta (SUI) *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.

the (long) waiting is finally over! it's baaack!!! it's Hockey season!!!

Men's Ice Hockey IIHF European Champions League 2019 - 2020 Multi-Stage Event - 29 August 2019 - 4 February 2020  Official Website

today's early action recap... women's -70kg semifinals Margaux Pinot vs Barbara Timo Marie Eve Gahie vs Sally Conway repechage round Sanne Van Dijke vs Michaela Polleres (winner going for Bronze vs loser of Gahie vs Conway fight) Maria Perez vs Anna Bernholm (winner going for Bronze vs loser of Pinot vs Timo fight) men's -90kg semifinals Noel Van T End vs Nemanja Majdov Markus Nyman vs Soichiro Mukai repechage round Axel Clerget vs Mammadali Mehdiyev (winner going for Bronze vs loser of Nyman vs Mukai fight) Krisztian Toth vs Ivan Felipe Silva Morales (winner going for Bronze vs loser of Van T End vs Majdov fight)

I guess that they're a little bit biased (but just a little)... imho, after watching the fights, he didn't lost on purpose even the match vs Casse (despite knowing that Muki was already qualified to the gold medal match)... but the only one who really knows what he actually did is Saeid himself...we will never know the "real truth", but just interpretations of it...

Chinese Taipei, if you don't want to fuel a diplomatic war...

and it's India getting the first Gold of this world cup stage, thanks to Elavenil Valarivan, who dominated from start to finish the 10m Air Rifle competition...

2019 World Cup, Stage #8 (Rio De Janeiro, BRA) Women's 10m Air Rifle Gold: Elavenil Valarivan Silver: Seonaid McIntosh Bronze: Lin Ying-Shin Olympic Quota: Chinese Taipei, Iran

which means that McIntosh, Valarivan and Lin are today's medallists... we'll see in a few minutes who's going to get which kind of medal...

and the "wooden medal" (the unlucky and painful 4th place) goes to... Armina Sadeghian...

and now it's Coman to close her competition...5th place for her... GBR / IND / TPE and IRI fighting for the medals...

Moudgil ends her day in 6th place...