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my picks (not that I'm a real expert, tbh)... Santiago Muniz, Lucca Mesinas and Jhony Corzo should be the top male specialists (but surprising results from a few other competitiors are not to be excluded -I don't know anything about the race course, which could be a factor)... among the women, instead, it should be a Brisa Hennessy one-woman show... and in terms of Olympic qualification, since I think Hennessy would eventually qualify through the WSL (as surely will do the American girls), I'd keep an eye especially on Bethany Zelasko and Daniela Rosas...

after some of the big names of the discipline missed out on the decisive act, it was a quite tight final, but at the end of the competition we had an amazing clean sweep by the Japanese climbers... now it's time to see if Janja Garnbret can get back with a revenge and start a new winning streak after last week's fail...

2019 Sport Climbing World Cup, Stage #9 (Briançon, FRA) Men's Lead Gold: Hidemasa Nishida Silver: Hiroto Shimizu Bronze: Shuta Tanaka

so, the individual events are over...with USA, Italy and (on a second row) Japan being the big losers...and, on the opposite side, a lot of surprising and unexpected medallists... for Italy, the stats are devastating...the worst results in about 30 years (last time without a single individual finalist, Lausanne 1987)... hopefully, we could (should) turn things around in the team events, that this year are also a lot more important, as they're the key event on the route to the Olympic qualification...

Today's recap... Women's Individual Sabre Gold: Olga Kharlan Silver: Sofya Velikaya Bronze: Theodora Gkountoura & Bianca Pascu Semifinals Velikaya b. Gkountoura 15-11 Kharlan b. Pascu 15-5 Gold Medal Match Kharlan b. Velikaya 15-14 Full Ranking (and Results) here: https://2019budapestfencing.com/files/hunfencing/2019_wfc_bud/sws-in/index.php?page=clasfinal.htm Men's Individual Foil Gold: Enzo Lefort Silver: Marcus Mepstead Bronze: Son Young Ki & Dmitry Zherebchenko Semifinals Mepstead b. Son 15-12 Lefort b. Zherebchenko 15-7 Gold Medal Match Lefort b. Mepstead 15-6 Full Ranking (and Results) here: https://2019budapestfencing.com/files/hunfencing/2019_wfc_bud/smf-in/index.php?page=clasfinal.htm

with the (relatively new) FIL trend of inventing new farcical events, soon also Luge will be in the mix... and cross-country skiing was also very close last Winter...

as expected, Velikaya and Kharlan made it through to the grand final... at least in women's sabre, we're going to have the best possible gold medal match...actually, women's sabre at its finest...

men's individual Foil, Quarterfinals Marcus Mepstead b. Michal Siess 15-9 Son Young Ki b. Lee Kwang Hyun 15-11 Dmitry Zherebchenko b. Andrea Cassarà 15-6 Enzo Lefort b. Ryan Choi Chun Yin 15-10 men's individual Foil, Semifinals Marcus Mepstead vs Son Young Ki Dmitry Zherebchenko vs Enzo Lefort

and with this one, I'm dead and gone... see you in the other forum's threads...

now we can finally say it: this championship is a total disaster, the worst Italian team since 1995... what a shame! now we only need to compromise the Olympic qualification in a couple of events and make a lot of people happy...

Cassarà

no, it's a huge surprise...she might be no.14 in the WR because of her regularity on an average basis, but she's never been so high even in a normal world cup event...so, I think not even herself expected to go so deep in the tournament...

it's been a crazy day, but at least in women's sabre we're finally heading towards a highly expected new chapter of the Velikaya vs Kharlan saga... in the men's foil, instead, however it goes, we're gonna have a really unexpected outcome...

women's individual Sabre, Quarterfinals Sofya Velikaya b. Anna Marton 15-7 Theodora Gkountoura b. Cecilia Berder 15-13 Bianca Pascu b. Anne-Elizabeth Stone 15-13 Olga Kharlan b. Alina Komashchuk 15-14 women's individual Sabre, Semifinals Sofya Velikaya vs Theodora Gkountoura Bianca Pascu vs Olga Kharlan

she just needed some more excitement...it was too easy...

no medal for the host Nation, today... Velikaya simply untouchable so far...she gets better round after round...

Stage #6, Corona Open J-Bay (Jeffreys Bay, RSA) Gold: Carissa Moore Silver: Lackey Peterson Bronze: Malia Manuel & Caroline Marks Full Ranking: https://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2019/wct/2918/corona-open-j-bay/results?resultsType=prizes

Stage #6, Corona Open J-Bay (Jeffreys Bay, RSA) Gold: Gabriel Medina Silver: Italo Ferreira Bronze: Kolohe Andino & Filipe Toledo Full Ranking: https://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2019/mct/2917/corona-open-j-bay/results?resultsType=prizes

men's individual Foil, Quarterfinals Marcus Mepstead vs Michal Siess Son Young Ki vs Lee Kwang Hyun Dmitry Zherebchenko vs Andrea Cassarà Enzo Lefort vs Ryan Choi Chun Yin

up... women's team Epee, Round of 16 United States b. Canada 45-25 Italy b. Germany 29-28 China b. Hungary 42-36 South Korea b. Romania 45-42 Russia b. Japan 45-39 Estonia b. Hong Kong 38-25 Ukraine b. France 45-44 Poland b. Switzerland 45-36 women's team Epee, Quarterfinals (Tomorrow) United States vs Italy China vs South Korea Russia vs Estonia Poland vs Ukraine

this men's Foil draw is absolutely crazy... by the way, Cassarà won the Italian derby against Garozzo by a score of 15-10...now we are all in his hands to save the last 24 years of our history... for sure, Cassarà and Lefort have a big, big chance right now...they are by far the best still in business...

it's over! we won it!!! unbelievable!!! Fiamingo can still win a match at the last hit!!!!! this is a super imprtant result for us...we still have a chance to qualify this team (and also the other results are helping us, with Poland close to win vs SUI, KOR well ahead vs ROU and FRA and UKR already OUT...

28-28 between ITA and GER with 1 minute to go