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women's individual Foil quarterfinals Pauline Ranvier b. Yuka Ueno 15-11 Arianna Errigo b. Lee Kiefer 15-13 Elisa Di Francisca b. Huo Xingxin 15-8 Inna Deriglazova b. Adelina Zagidullina 15-3 women's individual Foil semifinals Pauline Ranvier vs Arianna Errigo  Elisa Di Francisca vs Inna Deriglazova

and finally Errigo is back on the podium! still..her attitude is really annoying...if I were one of her opponent, I could really go mad... champions do not behave like her on the piste (and even outside, given what she's doing lately)... Di Francisca, instead, not only wins her bouts, but she's also an example to follow, on and off the pistes... by the way, she's also through to the semis and therefore she also has a guaranteed medal... the day that started so bad, finally is turning into one of the most exciting of the year...

men's individual Epee quarterfinals Andrea Santarelli b. Yannick Borel 15-12 Gergely Siklosi b. Bas Verwijlen 15-8 Igor Reizlin b. Ruslan Kurbanov 15-12 Sergey Bida b. Koki Kano 15-12 men's individual Epee semifinals Andrea Santarelli vs Gergely Siklosi Igor Reizlin vs Sergey Bida

women's individual Foil quarterfinals Yuka Ueno vs Pauline Ranvier Lee Kiefer vs Arianna Errigo Huo Xingxin vs Elisa Di Francisca Adelina Zagidullina vs Inna Deriglazova

this was quite unexpected...but still, having won against all the Frenchmen is so sweet...

meh...just a 5th place in the end for Ivan Federico... with the same score of the semifinals, he would have easily been second...

5 Star International Skateboarding Open of Nanjing, Men's Final Gold: Heimana Reynolds Silver: Luiz Francisco Bronze: Alex Sorgente The Full Results of the ISO Park of Nanjing are available in the result section of the WorldSkate website: http://www.worldskate.org/skateboarding/results/category

Ueno, Kiefer, Zagidullina and Huo (who just upset Thibus) are the first 4 girls progressing to the quarterfinals...

@heywoodu you'd better stop watching yesterday's stuff for a while and @ around 4.40 p.m. go live on Youtube (Yellow piste)... there's Verwijlen close to the medal zone (unfortunately, he has to face the home hero, who looks quite determined to give the hosts another medal)...

men's individual Epee quarterfinals Yannick Borel vs Andrea Santarelli Gergely Siklosi vs Bas Verwijlen Igor Reizlin vs Ruslan Kurbanov Koki Kano vs Sergey Bida and now, ladies & gentlemen, some magic... did we have fewer Nations than expected in the top 16? sure, we did...but somehow, now we have 8 different Nations in the top 8 places...et voilà, voici la magie du jour!

you should have definitely taken a bye on this one... just to update your infos... http://www.omegatiming.com/2019/18th-fina-world-championships-dv-live-results

because I'm Italian... and Volpi isn't ill nor injured nor focused on Tokyo (she isn't even sure to be in the team by 12 months)...simply, today she wasn't focused enough in her match against Diaz and she hasn't been able to react to the problems the Spaniard gave her and change her attitude through the entire assault, which it's not to be expected from the reigning world champion...

as expected, it's a Japanese clean sweep... in the Park discipline, they're miles ahead of anybody else... another amazing win for the Japanese sensation Okamura...but still, a 12 year young baby shouldn't be allowed to compete in a senior event, imho...

5 Star International Skateboarding Open of Nanjing, Women's Final Gold: Misugu Okamoto Silver: Sakura Yosozumi Bronze: Kisa Nakamura The Full Results of the ISO Park of Nanjing are available in the result section of the WorldSkate website: http://www.worldskate.org/skateboarding/results/category

yes, but for now I only have the women's results...still waiting for worldskate to publish the men's final results (the event should be over right now)... the mistake on the day of the finals happened because of a copy & paste from yesterday's post...

c'mon! the no.1 seeded just can't lose a match like that... it's not me having to relax, it's Volpi who should have been a lot more focused... she was just irritating in the way she lost (you can always lose...but there are quite a few different ways to do it...Volpi chose one of the worst of them all)......

first, you don't have to look only at the medal table, but also at the top 8 (and beyond) and at the total number of Nations qualifying some athletes to the main draw (and in general, at the total number of participants...not only at the world champs, but also at the various world cup stages)... then, as I wrote, the stint I'm considering it's a bit longer (20 years and more)... until the Nineties of the last Century, it was almost impossible to find any Nation outside the usual powerhouses in the medal table, nowadays the situation is really different... on the contrary, we have some sports which are going in the opposite direction...we have always less competitive Nations and 1 of them going for an amazing but unacceptable clean sweep of the events (the first one that comes to my mind is Diving, as we're watching the world champs just this week)...

you're a true fencing expert...

and Santarelli is really lucky...he only has to win the "French championship" to win a medal...

tell me that's just a nightmare...this can't be true...it's just a mistake...it was a fake video, a plot against me... p.s. meanwhile in the men's epee, which is supposed to be the most "open" weapon, with the most athletes and Countries with a chance to shine, we have 3 Frenchmen, 3 Japanese, 2 Hungarians, 2 Ukranians, 2 Kazakhs (and 4 others) in the top 16...only 9 Nations in the round of 16... I've never seen so few Nations represented at this stage of a men's Epee event in the last 20 years or so (and I just wrote that fencing is becoming more and more widely spread at the top level of play)...

yes, very good result for Federico... if he makes the final also at the world champs later this year, he's basically sure to be among the 20 lucky riders that will fight for the Olympic medals (not to mention that a world medal would mean automatic qualification)... p.s. still, I don't know why they put this thing in the Olympic program...

5 Star International Skateboarding Open of Nanjing Men's Semifinals And now we know also the 8 riders advancing to Today's men's Final. Here they are: 1 Alex Sorgente 2 Ivan Federico 3 Luiz Francisco 4 Heimana Raynolds 5 Corey Juneau 6 Jagger Eaton 7 Vincent Matheron 8 Hericles Fagundes Galle The Full Results of the ISO Park of Nanjing are available in the result section of the WorldSkate website: http://www.worldskate.org/skateboarding/results/category

you said it all, I think... no way Jurka and Capek can go as deep as the top 8..it would be a huge, huge surprise...even bigger than the Luxembourg girl yesterday... the same for the men's Team Epee...they can definitely do well (and even upset some better teams), but a medal is a very long shot...

as far as I know, the only Continental Events approved as Olympic Qualifier are the European Games and the Pan-American Games (at least, those are the only 2 named in the official qualification document on the WKF website)... therefore, for Asia, Africa and Oceania the following statement should be considered: "If Continental Games are not approved as a qualification event on a specific continent, then the highest ranked athlete not yet qualified from the Olympic Standing on 6 April 2020 from that specific continent, will obtain the quota place, respecting the maximum quota per NOC." so, this event should give points for the OQR, but shouldn't be among those events giving up direct quota (which will be reallocated to the OQR, also to choose the best male and female for the Continental Quota)... basically, it's quite a mess...they could (and should) definitely have made it a lot simpler, imho...

5 Star International Skateboarding Open of Nanjing Women's Semifinals Today the Results service is working quicker than the previous days, so we already know who are the 8 riders advancing to Today's women's Final. Here they are: 1 Misugu Okamoto 2 Kisa Nakamura 3 Sky Brown 4 Yndiara Asp 5 Bryce Wettstein 6 Poppy Starr Olsen 7 Sakura Yosozumi 8 Isadora Pacheco The Full Results of the ISO Park of Nanjing are available in the result section of the WorldSkate website: http://www.worldskate.org/skateboarding/results/category/571-iso-park-nanjing-2019.html