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not a problem for me... I'm not gonna follow anything related to breakdance in any case and for all the money in the world...

a lot less than those who throw wins away in such a silly and frustrating way! however, as I wrote many times, I would prefer Maresca and Semeraro to go to the Olympics rather than Crescenzo and Ferracuti because imho they have more chances to medal in that special event (they also showed in the past that they adapt better than their rivals to the "pool format", which will be used in Tokyo)...

I hope the Rabat stage (and the European Champs, too) won't be cancelled, even if Italy would have all the interest in frozing the situation as it is today... it wouldn't be fair for all those athletes who are on the edge to make their dream come true and won't have any other chance in the future because of that bunch of idiots running the IOC sports commission (opting for the senseless breakdance instead of one of the most ancient, most popular and participated disciplines in the world)...

new rankings are already out! literally only 5 minutes after the end of the Salzburg Premier League stage... to WKF...

what a bunch of losers! no need to say anything else...

Karate1 Premier League, Stage #3 (Salzburg, AUT) Medallists Recap (Part #1) women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold: Miho Miyahara Silver: Nadia Gomez Morales Bronze: Alexandra Recchia & Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold: Sara Cardin Silver: Jana Messerschmidt Bronze: Wen Tzu-Yun & Valeria Kumizaki women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold: Merve Coban Silver: Haya Jumaa Bronze: Yin Xiaoyan & Giana Lofty women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold: Gong Li Silver: Feryal Abdelaziz Bronze: Irina Zaretska & Victoria Isaeva women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold: Hamideh Abbasali Silver: Clio Ferracuti Bronze: Wen Tzu-Hsuan & Sofya Berultseva men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold: Emil Pavlov Silver: Angelo Crescenzo Bronze: Darkhan Assadilov & Eray Samdan men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold: Rafiz Hasanov Silver: Luca Maresca Bronze: Alì Elsawy & Mussa Bexultan men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold: Bahman Askari Silver: Stanislav Horuna Bronze: Erman Eltemur & Karoly Gabor Harspataki men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold: Ugur Aktas Silver: Ivan Kvesic Bronze: Kenji Grillon & Daniyar Yuldashev men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold: Ryzvan Talibov Silver: Brian Irr Bronze: Gogita Arkania & Tarek Mahmoud Taha

Karate1 Premier League, Stage #3 (Salzburg, AUT) Medallists Recap (Part #1) women's Individual Kata Gold: Sandra Sanchez Jaime Silver: Sakura Kokumai Bronze: Hikaru Ono & Grace Lau Mo Sheung men's Individual Kata Gold: Kazumasa Moto Silver: : Alì Sofuoglu Bronze: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila & Emre Vefa Goktas women's Team Kata Gold: Spain Silver: Belarus Bronze: Russia & Italy men's Team Kata Gold: Turkey Silver: Italy Bronze: Kuwait & Spain

Brignone is already allowed to start every race she wants in the finals...all the skiers with 500+ points in the general standings are automatically qualified for all 4 final races despite their discipline ranking... Chapter #11 of this document https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=2ahUKEwiApOiE_vjnAhUE36QKHX96APcQFjAAegQIAxAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.fis-ski.com%2Fimage%2Fupload%2Fv1536837762%2Ffis-prod%2Fassets%2FWorld_Cup_Rules_Alpine.pdf&usg=AOvVaw00HvmmhtqucA7VtLf6XM1h

naaa, she's been on another level through those last few seasons... looking at the starting field, imho it was only her to lose the Olympic quota in this tournament, but finally she filled her contract and booked her Olympic participation... I'm more curious to see how the men's event is going to develop...it should be closer than the women's, even if Bailey is the big favourite on paper...

basically, at the beginning of next season...

but don't forget to post at least the final rankings here in this thread...

season to forget as soon as it ends (and it's not over yet, unfortunately...I'm scared of the upcoming relegation round, especially now that SC Bern have suicided themselves against Lausanne HC and gifted HC Lugano the 8th and last playoffs spot, leaving themselves "in Hell")...

should have got more...that match in the -75kg box-off vs is still on my stomach...

African Qualification Tournament Boxers qualified to the Olympic Games women's Flyweights (48kg-51kg) Rabab Cheddar Roumaysa Boualam Christine Ongare women's Featherweights (54kg-57kg) Khouloud Hlimi Ep Moulahi Sadie Kenosi Keamogetse women's Lightweights (57kg-60kg) Imane Khelif Mariem Homrani Ep Zayani women's Welterweights (64kg-69kg) Oumayma Bel Ahbib Helena Panguana Acinda women's Middleweights (69kg-75kg) Khadija Mardi Adosinda Gramane Rady men's Flyweights (48kg-52kg) Mohamed Flissi Patrick Chinyemba Tetteh Sulemanu men's Featherweights (52kg-57kg) Everisto Mulenga Nicholas Okongo Okoth Samuel Takyi men's Lightweights (57kg-63kg) Jonas Jonas Louis Richarno Colin Abdelaq Nadir men's Welterweights (63kg-69kg) Albert Mengue Ayissi Stephen Zimba Shadiri Bwogi men's Middleweights (69kg-75kg) Younes Nemouchi David Tshama Dieudonne Seyi Ntsengue men's Light Heavyweights (75kg-81kg) Abdelrahman Salah Orabi Abdelgawwad Mohammed Houmri Mohamed Assaghir men's Heavyweights (81kg-91kg) Youness Baalla Abdelhafid Benchabla men's Super Heavyweights (+91kg) Maxime Yegnong Njieyo Chouaib Bouloudinats

last qualified fighters from today's final session... (women's -51kg) (men's -57kg) (men's -69kg) (men's -81kg)

Women's Juniors Individual Foil Final Results Gold: Martina Favaretto Silver: Vittoria Ciampalini Bronze: Emilia Corbu & Maria-Eleni Chaldaiou Semifinals: Ciampalini b. Chaldaiou 15-12 Favaretto b. Corbu 15-5 Gold Medal Match: Favaretto b. Ciampalini 15-8  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/4BE0C4F5801C4CC9B6B632B300F68230

to be noticed...in Italian language, "Fioretto" means "Foil"...but Luca competed and won a medal in the Sabre discipline...

Men's Juniors Individual Sabre Final Results Gold: Vasyl Humen Silver: Luca Fioretto Bronze: Krisztian Rabb & Kirill Tyulyukov Semifinals: Humen b. Tyulyukov 15-14 Fioretto b. Rabb 15-5 Gold Medal Match: Humen b. Fioretto 15-14  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/C171308757A04CF48D817B2FD8BF0CFE

yes, he was born there while his parents were serving as missionaries... the whole family moved back to the USA only when he was 3 years young... therefore, because he was born in the Philippines, he could easily get the local citizenship and play for them in the international sport events...

men's 10m Air Rifle Gold: Istvan Peni Silver: Oleh Tsarkov Bronze: Sergey Richter Olympic Quota: Hungary, Turkey

Karate1 Premier League, Stage #3 (Salzburg, AUT) Day #2 action recap... men's Individual Kata Gold Medal match: Alì Sofuoglu vs Kazumasa Moto Bronze Medal match #1: Emre Vefa Goktas vs Enes Ozdemir Bronze Medal match #2: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila vs Gakuji Tozaki women's Team Kata Gold Medal match: Spain vs Belarus Bronze Medal match #1: Italy vs Slovakia Bronze Medal match #2: Russia vs England women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold Medal match: Haya Jumaa vs Merve Coban Bronze Medal match #1: Giana Lofty vs Joane Orbon Bronze Medal match #2: Yin Xiaoyan vs Alana Kochieva women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold Medal match: Feryal Abdelaziz vs Gong Li Bronze Medal match #1: Irina Zaretska vs Tan Lingling Bronze Medal match #2: Sherilyn Wold vs Victoria Isaeva women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold Medal match: Hamideh Abbasali vs Clio Ferracuti Bronze Medal match #1: Charlotte Grimm vs Wen Tzu-Hsuan Bronze Medal match #2: Maria Torres Garcia vs Sofya Berultseva men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold Medal match: Ivan Kvesic vs Ugur Aktas Bronze Medal match #1: Zabiollah Poorshab vs Kenji Grillon Bronze Medal match #2: Aykhan Mamayev vs Daniyar Yuldashev men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold Medal match: Ryzvan Talibov vs Brian Irr Bronze Medal match #1: Asiman Gurbanli vs Tarek Mahmoud Taha Bronze Medal match #2: Gogita Arkania vs Daniel Gaysinsky

Semeraro is throwing her chances away...hopefully Abbasali tomorrow can stop Ferracuti, otherwise she could even start a comeback that put Semeraro out of contention without she can do anything about it... and frankly I think Semeraro is the only one of the 2 with a true chance to get a medal in Tokyo...

as expected, no chance for Ziviani...she ended up in a good (for her) 7th place, well beyond the 2 gorls who earned their flight to the Olympics...

women's 10m Air Rifle Gold: Laura Georgeta Coman Silver: Anastasiia Galashina Bronze: Andrea Arsovic Olympic Quota: Russia, Serbia

Mixed Team 10m Air Pistol Gold: Russia (Vitalina Batsarashkina & Artem Chernousov) Silver: Serbia (Zorana Arunovic & Damir Mikec) Bronze: Switzerland (Heidi Diethelm Gerber & Jason Solari)