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still, 28-27 for the Czech guy would be the correct score... Maietta did nothing in the first 2 rounds...he deserves to go home...

Boxing and Biathlon right now...

no, he lost badly... actually, he should have lost the 2nd round 10-8, but all the judges gave the Czech only a 10-9 margin... the first 2 rounds were so painful to watch...

no, you have either to watch the Olympic Channel pictures or wait for the olympic boxing website to post the full results list at the end of each session...

you have the full race on eurosport player, though... at least, here in Italy we have it...

first Italian boxer on the ring, first Italian boxer coming back home early... 3rd round here is pretty much useless...

no, I was assuming something wrong for the second round, which I followed very much with half an eye... but the 3rd round (the only one I watched carefully) wasn't close at all...it was totally under control by the Belorussian... those 3 judges that gave it to Dubois are at least biased (if not pure "old style aiba")... p.s. I admit that I'm totally biased when it comes to British amateur fighters, as many of them robbed too many medals in the last 10 years (starting with the second worst scandal ever in Olympic Boxing, the Superheavyweight final in London 2012)... meanwhile I don't think I'm biased when it comes to former Soviet Union fighters...they are really as awful as they look and only truly corrupted judges gifted them almost all of their medals in history...

didn't watch the first round...and actually I was also very much distracted during the second one, but the 3rd round was dominated from start to finish by the Belorussian... if we can call one of the other 2 rounds "tight", the outcome is controversial... however, as I said, I'm only judging round 3 and assuming that at least the second was going more or less on the same pathway... if you tell me that she dominated the first 2 rounds, then OK... in any case, Dubois wasn't impressive at all...that 3rd round doesn't speak in her favour (and still 3 judges gave it to her, which is definitely a "home call")...

so far, Raing A doesn't have any commentary... strange, if considered that they had both rings commented at the whole African tournament

no big scandals, but some controversial decisions for sure... the fact that the values on the ring were pretty much clear in favor of the supposed powerhouses and the many spots available didn't require too much manipulation... I think we're going to see a lot more unfair verdicts in the European tournament (and in fact we already have 1 in the very first bout)

and here we have the first controversial decision... Belarus out and Dubois heavily protected by the judges...

yes, it's on the Olympic Channel... from today, early session starts at noon British time, late session at 6 p.m. British time (there are 2 rings running the action at the same time, both are available to watch)...

but we expect the numbers to explode in the South of Italy in the next 10 days/2 weeks, as many of those who escaped from Lombardy when the first Red Zone measures were announced last week surely took the virus to their relatives' homes... moreover, in many places in the South of Italy irresponsible behaviours like going to super-crowded beaches have been performed through the entire week... maybe the situation is going to improve here in Lombardy, but it will take years to get the entire Country back on track... the next couple of weeks will be really interesting...and not in a positive way...

all officials are from aiba, but those who judged the Rio Olympics and the last World championships have been excluded from being part of this new panel... more important, we have a new technical commission, with new members and not the same one that manipulated many results in the last 2/3 years... however, after watching the African and Asian qualifiers, I don't trust this jury panel either...I've already seen a few scandals, especially in the African tournament...

yes, according to Italian press it's official...today Azerbaijan declared the state of crisis in the Country and stopped all the sport events...

earlier today I watched the Snowboardcross World Cup finals and the Biathlon women's Sprint race... that's it for today... from tomorrow I think I'm going to follow the Boxing European Olympic qualification tournament... then I guess I'm going to take a break from sports and watch more tv series/read some books...

but don't worry, they will go back home very quickly... looking at the men's draws, I wonder if any of our guys would eventually get past the 2nd round... the only remote chance of qualification should go to Mangiacapre in the -69kg class...he "only" has to beat bad fighters or "former" fighters like Sotomayor (who should also be no longer protected by the new workgroup jury panels)... then I'm really curious to see if the Russians will still be gifted some wins or would go out in the first/max second round as they deserve (some of them are really terrible...if it wasn't for the aiba judges in their hands, there's no way they would win all the medals they got in these last 10/15 years or so)...

yeah, but it's only Visintin to blame... not only he didn't play any team tactics, he did even disturbed Sommariva when he was fighting hard against Haemmerle... why didn't he keep the distance and let them play for the major result without interfering with that?

Alessandro Haemmerle wins race and Cup title... Sommariva, heavily disturbed by his teammate Visintin, had to let the Austrian (and the same Visintin) go before the last couple of turns and basically didn't have any real chance to overtake Heammerle and win the cup...

in the meantime, Michela Moioli wins not only the SBX World Cup, but also today's race with a great comeback on the last straight...

and they are both in the big final... it's gonna be a great showdown...

Ice Hockey - Russian top-tier League, KHL, is still going on regularly (even if games in Moscow could/should be played behind closed doors - and this will lead to free live streaming of such games, which is not bad for us)... playoffs second round (conference semifinals, or quarterfinals, if you prefer) is scheduled to start on March, 17th (round #1 was completed just yesterday)... https://en.khl.ru/calendar/ also, keep an eye on the news section of that website to discover if and when some games are going to be streamed live for free (highlights and full match replays are available for free on the KHL app on Apple TV 4/4K - not sure if it also works like that on Android devices)...

thanks, but not being a hardcore fan of rugby in general, I'd rather watch the Australian NRL... the other leagues are less attractive to me (especially if they are played in empty stadiums - I just can't watch games in realtively big stadiums with no audience on the stands and therefore no athmosphere all around)... however, as I'm a curious man, I'm going to give it a look...just to know how it is...

general trend is quite stable... about 2000 new cases (total number including deaths and healed people = 15113, of which 12839 still considered sick), 188 deaths more than yesterday (total = 1016), 213 people declared healed (total since the beginning of this sh*t = 1258)... it keeps going, but there's no drastic increase...we're still growing constantly in the number of new cases, but there's a hope that in 8/10 more days the curve might change its direction and start going downside...

I used to watch a few games when Fox Sports Europe was available (cracked) on satellite... I know they have a nice app, but it's really expensive (and I already have many OTT service that I'm paying for nothing right now -MLB and NHL above all...NFL if they don't get back in September)... I guess I'm going to take a full break from my beloved sports (except for some KHL Hockey, if the Russians can resist to this storm) and try to get back on track with many TV series I just left behind on Sky Italia and Amazon Prime Video (I have a long list of them)...