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another robbery incoming... poor Ssemujju...

Karate1 Premier League, Stage #3 (Salzburg, AUT) Day #1 action recap... women's Individual Kata Gold Medal match: Sakura Kokumai vs Sandra Sanchez Jaime Bronze Medal match #1: Lidia Rodriguez Encabo vs Grace Lau Mo Sheung Bronze Medal match #2: Hikaru Ono vs Jasmin Juettner men's Team Kata Gold Medal match: Italy vs Turkey Bronze Medal match #1: Russia vs Spain Bronze Medal match #2: Kuwait vs France women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold Medal match: Miho Miyahara vs Nadia Gomez Morales Bronze Medal match #1: Alexandra Recchia vs Radwa Sayed Bronze Medal match #2: Bettina Plank vs Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold Medal match: Sara Cardin vs Jana Messerschmidt Bronze Medal match #1: Wen Tzu-Yun vs Yassmin Attia Bronze Medal match #2: Veronica Brunori vs Valeria Kumizaki men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold Medal match: Angelo Crescenzo vs Emil Pavlov Bronze Medal match #1: Eray Samdan vs Evgeny Plakhutin Bronze Medal match #2: Darkhan Assadilov vs Yerkinbek Baitureyev men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold Medal match: Luca Maresca vs Rafiz Hasanov Bronze Medal match #1: Stefan Pokorny vs Alì Elsawy Bronze Medal match #2: Burak Uygur vs Mussa Bexultan men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold Medal match: Bahman Askari vs Stanislav Horuna Bronze Medal match #1: Karoly Gabor Harspataki vs Luigi Busà Bronze Medal match #2: Erman Eltemur vs Joe Kellaway

gone! Busà also makes it through to the bronze medal match... definitely a day ending on a very high note for Italy...

today has been one of the most successful days for Italy in the last 10 years or so... Crescenzo, Maresca, cardin and the men's team Kata all reaching the gold medal match... plus the youngster Brunori losing only to Cardin in the semifinal of the women's -55kg (therefore reaching the bronze medal match) and Busà leading 2-0 over Asiabari in the last repechage match (30 secs to go), which means he would also reach the bronze medal match if he wins...

Moroccan Abdelhaq Nadir qualify in the men's -63kg class by robbing Fiston Mbaya Mulumba thanks to a shameful decision in the box-off... I'm more than disgusted...that's pure cheating AIBA-style...

Women's 10m Air Pistol Gold: Bobana Velickovic Momcilovic Silver: Heidi Diethelm Gerber Bronze: Anna Korakaki Olympic Quota: Austria, Bulgaria

Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle Gold: Russia (Yulia Karimova & Vladimir Maslenikov) Silver: Hungary (Eszter Denes & Istvan Peni) Bronze: Croatia (Estera Herceg & Miran Maricic)

Ghana qualify by winning the men's -52kg box-off... Mozambique's Maquina will have to watch the Games only on TV...

very sad and unfair situation... hopefully, Moradi can pull out a miracle at Asian Champs (but are we sure that they will be held sometimes somewhere? )... but I don't think China would leave Tian out of their Olympic team, especially if this means no Moradi in the starting field of the Olympic event... in the end, i think China will make 4 "utilitaristic" picks, choosing 4 weight classes where they are a safe Gold (meaning that most likely they won't challenge Om in the -61kg, as I'm pretty sure Om would eventually show up with monster lifts also in that class in Tokyo, even if so far he hasn't been impressive at all in this class)...

oh, yes...obviously if you don't go below 4 mins on 4 kms you can't be faster than 60km/h... still, it's always amazing how he goes faster and faster in the later stages of his effort... p.s. mybe tonight he goes under the 4-min mark...

61.5Km/h on average!

by the way, Italy have the best team score in the qualification round... maybe we can win a medal also in the team event on Sunday (it's not really important, but it's always nice)...

because I'm normally always pessimistic, but in these days I'm even more than usual (for personal reasons)... maybe I'm just superstitious...or maybe not...

Men's 10m Air Pistol, Shooters qualified to the Final Artem Chernousov Ismail Keles Paolo Monna* Damir Mikec Robin Walter* Frederik Larsen* Lauris Strautmanis* Juraj Tuzinsky* * = in the hunt for 2 Olympic Quota available today...

way too many contenders...no chance for

they can postpone them, too... actually, I bet on some kind of troubles for them since now...

no surprises here... and I'm happy they're destroying physically and mentally Hifumi Abe and Joshiro Maruyama in the men's -66kg... I hope their epic fight for the Olympic spot continues until the last useful day, so to have them completely dead and gone in the actual Olympic tournament...

still no sign of the Junior Team events results...

Women's Juniors Individual Sabre Final Results Gold: Honor Johnson Silver: Natalia Botello Bronze: Jessica Yolima Morales Linares & Chloe Gouhin Semifinals: Johnson b. Nixon 15-8 Botello b. Morales Linares 15-8 Gold Medal Match: Johnson b. Botello 15-11  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/FC4F4D6989104DB6827F2264BBD96487

Women's Juniors Individual Epee Final Results Gold: Michaela Joyce Silver: Ariane Leonard Bronze: Karina Dyner Villa & Caroline Nixon Semifinals: Joyce b. Nixon 15-11 Leonard b. Dyner Villa 15-12 Gold Medal Match: Joyce b. Leonard 15-8  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/081537294F424C108B1B286A5C067E16

Men's Juniors Individual Foil Final Results Gold: Chase Emmer Silver: Diego Cervantes Bronze: Paulo Morais & Leopoldo Alarcon Semifinals: Emmer b. Morais 15-10 Cervantes b. Alarcon 15-5 Gold Medal Match: Emmer b. Cervantes 15-11  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/89C3C2B8586A474CBC5169ED30A3082A

I think they're running out of options... and I don't think they can still keep the date, as 1 week notice is really a short period... let's see if later today or tomorrow they release an official statement... however, in may there are still world cup stages on schedule, so they could use them to replace this weekend's even if they are outside the original OQP...

I absolutely agree... that's not serious by UCI... there are a few international federations that have live streaming also for the cadets and junior events, and this buch of *beep* can't even cover properly the senior world champs... p.s. not to mention the mess they do when they have coverage...any referral to the finish of yesterday's men's scratch race is purely intentional...

Women's Juniors Individual Foil Final Results Gold: Katina Proestakis Silver: Alina Lee Bronze: Erica Hooshi & Arantza Inostroza Semifinals: Proestakis b. Inostroza 15-11 Lee b. Hooshi 15-9 Gold Medal Match: Proestakis b. Lee 15-12  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/17FE65E45A1E4ED3AF85FD840C13B196

Men's Juniors Individual Sabre Final Results Gold: Kamar Skeete Silver: James Linder Bronze: Andrew Johnson & Angelo Chiara Semifinals: Skeete b. Chiara 15-10 Linder b. Johnson 15-6 Gold Medal Match: Skeete b. Linder 15-13  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/D2F1119AC57C43AEB73CF75B2AD35C7F