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Men's Individual Sabre (Warsaw, POL) Final Results Gold: Aron Szilagyi Silver: Eli Dershwitz Bronze: Luca Curatoli & Oh Sanguk Semifinals: Szilagyi b. Curatoli (opponent pulled out because of an injury) Dershwitz b. Oh 15-11 Gold Medal Match: Szilagyi b. Dershwitz 15-9  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/163

not that it's different for the finals...no audio, poor pictures...and it looks like they're fencing in a small school room/office with the piste back against the wall and a few chairs behind the ref for the audience (if there's any audience)... tell me if this is a serious stage for an international event like this...

Junior World Championships 2020 (Oberhof, GER) Doubles Gold: Dimitry Buchnev / Daniil Kilseev Silver: Max Ewald / Jakub Jannusch Bronze: Michail Karnauchov / Iurii Chirva Full Result: https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/enderg-doppel.pdf Team Relay Gold: Germany Silver: Latvia Bronze: Russia Full Result: https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/enderg-staffel.pdf

Natural Track Luge European Championships 2020 open Doubles Gold: Matthias Lambacher / Patrick Lambacher Silver: Pavel Porshnev / Ivan Lazarev Bronze: Patrick Pigneter / Florian Clara Full Result: https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/results-final-doubles.pdf Team Relay Gold: Italy Silver: Austria Bronze: Russia Full Result: https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/results-team-4.pdf

meanwhile in the men's Sabre in Warsaw (POL), we're going to have a true state-of-the-art tableau in the top 8, with all the best specialists of the moment... not to be missed... said quarterfinals are: Max Hartung vs Aron Szilagyi Bolade Apithy vs Luca Curatoli Eli Dershwitz vs Luigi Samele Sandro Bazadze vs Oh Sanguk Quarterfinals, Semifinals and the Gold Medal match will be available Live, here (starting at 5 p.m. CET):

as usual, NO live pictures from Egypt... and FIE awarded them the next World Championships...

Men's Individual Foil (Cairo, EGY) Final Results Gold: Carlos Llavador Silver: Andrea Cassarà Bronze: Alexander Massialas & Alessio Foconi Semifinals: Llavador b. Massialas 15-3 Cassarà b. Foconi 15-11 Gold Medal Match: Llavador b. Cassarà 15-6  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/138

Women's Foil from Kazan... Semifinals and Final, Live right now

Women's Individual Foil (Kazan, RUS) Final Results Gold: Elisa Di Francisca Silver: Shi Yue Bronze: Adelina Zagidullina & Alice Volpi Semifinals: Shi b. Zagidullina 15-10 Di Francisca b. Volpi 15-7 Gold Medal Match: Di Francisca b. Shi 9-8  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/129

too early to say... let's keep an eye on the news in the next few days...

by the way, we started with no.10 and ended up in 10th place...perfect scoring, I'd say... p.s. a few news about Loginov's room raid by local police in Anterselva/Antholz... it was the IBU itself that asked for it... they went to the judge and asked to allow police to have a deep search because Loginov's personal coach is supposed to travel and sell (other than use for his pupil) doping substances... and that request was made a few days ago, before the championship started... then, here burocracy is what it is and it took more than a week for the police to be allowed to make today's room... that's the story so far (and how it's been told by Italian Eurosport commentators)...

naaa...sometimes also Countries that close down facilities do well in Luge...

if you are capable of makin'it work, here they are broadcasting some preliminary matches live: https://arryadia.snrt.ma/ and they're also goig to show the semis/finals tonight at 10.30 p.m. Moroccan time here's their tv schedule: https://arryadia.snrt.ma/grilles-des-programmes finally, here sooner or later they will publish the full results...I hope... https://worldtkd.simplycompete.com/eventDetails/11e98c1a-7166-c6aa-8057-060eebac42e8/1

curiously, I also had this nightmare a couple of times... however, I also dreamed multiple times of myself becoming Olympic Champion in the most different sports and under the most dramatic circumstances... more than once, the Olympic title came when I was very young, just after the end of my high school experience and in that dream, in one of the many interviews after the competition and the medal ceremony, I remember going down hard on a couple of my high school teachers, showing the Gold Medal to the camera and shouting revenge words towards them and all the discrimination I've had to go through during those years (and if myself being an Olympic champion is only a dream, the rest unfortunately is true and I still feel a lot of sourness because of that )...

2020 Grand Slam (Düsseldorf, GER) Day #1 Recap Japan entered this week's tournament with a very strong team, featuring some of their best fighters, who are going to represent their team in Tokyo... and this immediately evident when we look at day #1's results, where 3 out of 5 contested weight classes were won by a Japanese Judo player... the 2 men's titles up for grabs in yesterday's schedule, in fact, went to Naohisa Takato (-60kg) and Hifumi Abe (-66kg), meanwhile in the women's division Uta Abe (Hifumi's sister, -52kg) completed the Japanese bonanza... the remaining 2 women's Gold Medals instead went to France (Shirine Boukli, -48kg) and Canada (Jessica Klimkait, -57kg)... Full Results http://www.ippon.org/gs_ger2020.php Day #1 Medal Session Replay

2020 Grand Slam (Paris, FRA) Tournament Recap Paris GS tournament is always the most star-filled event of the year...and this season it made no exception... So, we have among the winners a lot of world and Olympic champions and medallists, with Europe keeping up with the mighty Asians, even more than expected (actually, we only have Asian domination in the men's low weight classes and 1 single win in the whole women's division)... but the real shocking news of the week is certainly Teddy Riner's first loss since 9 years and 154+ bouts... despite that, France were still the dominating force in the home tournament, with their women capable of winning 3 Gold Medals... only Japan could win the same amount of Gold Medals, thanks to their lightweights men and to Yoko Ono in the womnen's -63kg... here are this year's Paris Grand Slam tournament Champions: women -48kg: Daria Bilodid -52kg: Distria Krasniqi -57kg: Christa Deguchi -63kg: Clarisse Agbegnenou -70kg: Yoko Ono -78kg: Madeleine Malonga +78kg: Romane Dicko men -60kg: Ryuju Nagayama -66kg: An Baul -73kg: Soichi Hashimoto -81kg: Matthias Casse -90kg: Nikoloz Sherazadishvili -100kg: Peter Paltchik +100kg: Henk Grol Full Results http://www.ippon.org/gs_fra2020.php Day #1 Medal Session Replay Day #2 Medal Session Replay

Junior World Championships 2020 (Oberhof, GER) women's Singles Gold: Jessica Degenhardt Silver: Diana Loginova Bronze: Lisa Schulte Full Result: https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/enderg-jun-w.pdf men's Singles Gold: Moritz Elias Bollmann Silver: Gints Berzins Bronze: David Nössler Full Result: https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/enderg-jun.pdf

the problem with Sanfilippo and Carrara is that it take them a hour or so to release the shots at the range...and they still shoot with shameful percentages...with them, we are lucky if we collect "only" 2 or 3 penalty loops and the max number of recharges... by the way, I must admit that I'm writing this only for superstition...I hope all 4 girls are going to perform at their best so they can end up between 6th and 8th place in the end...

Natural Track Luge European Championships, scheduled for Tomorrow and Sunday in Moscow, ended up in a farce because of the unexpected hot weather... the track was shortened to the minimum lenght required by FIL (basically, a few pushes and a turn after the start...the races have been won with an 11-second run) and the competitions have been held over a single run (of that kind)... not only, men and women's singles have been anticipated to Today (cutting 1 training day off) and open doubles and the team relay will be held tomorrow... however, here are the medallists... women's Singles Gold: Evelin Lanthaler Silver: Ekaterina Lavrentjeva Bronze: Tina Unterberger Full Result: https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/results-final-women.pdf men's Singles Gold: Michael Scheikl Silver: Aleksandr Egorov Bronze: Alex Gruber Full Result: https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/results-final-men.pdf

it's to maximize €€€€€ for FIBA (more Countries paying to host and less risk that a big tv market misses out because of poor results in the qualification matches) and to save as much money as possible for the National Federations (less cities and venues involved in each Host Nation)...

bout tomorrow's women's relay... since tomorrow in Anterselva/Antholz there will be a true "parade" by many Italian politicians no rest day for Wierer... and actually, she can't even hope to save her leg after ITA being lapped in the first 3 fractions, because our Team will be in "kamikaze" mode, with Vittozzi starting, then Doro (hoping in the most classical "tv show up" = leading at mid-race), Sanfilippo in 3rd leg (hoping to keep the Team among the top 6th/8th position) and Carrara to close it out (hoping not to be lapped, maybe to save a top 10 finish)...

so, they are all parasites except for the Germans themselves (those who always put this farce on the schedule, trying to get advantage of these conditions as much as they can) and a few Austrians...

he might do it in both sports... and looking at the Olympic schedule, he wouldn't have any problem to actually take part in both sports/events...

this entire period is political... and imho is also disrespectful of half the world, that because of religious, cultural, traditional and social issues can't even imagine to match with this "mixed gender" policy obsession...

also Italian TV shows the Ski Classic Tour...and tbh, I prefer races like Birkebeiner, Marcialonga or Vasaloppet to the current World Cup races (with very few exceptions)... being myself born and grown up in a (relatively) big, messy, heavily polluted city, those places in the middle of nature are always very attractive to me...