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women's Epee quarterfinals Olena Kryvytska b. Kang Young Mi 15-14 Lin Sheng b. Lee Hye In 11-10 Vivian Kong Man Wai b. Coraline Vitalis 15-9 Nathalie Moellhausen b. Lis Rottler-Fautsch 11-10 women's Epee Semifinals Olena Kryvytska vs Lin Sheng Vivian Kong Man Wai vs Nathalie Moellhausen

Nathalie!!! very lucky escape from her, to be honest...

yeah, I must have confused her with someone else from some other small Nation... however, she has a 7th place in a world cup event in 2017 and at the European champs 2017 in Tbilisi as her best results before today...

she does train in Paris (where she actually lives right now)... actually I wrote before that she won an individual world Bronze medal and a few team medal (including 1 Gold) with Italy... she switched her Nationality because she wanted to be sure to take part in the Rio Games (as she is half Brazilian) and with the Italian team she didn't have any guarantee (with Fiamingo and Navarria in the squad, her only chance was with the team...but we were not going to qualify the full team...so she decided to go elsewhere)...

men's Sabre quarterfinals Eli Dershwitz vs Andras Szatmari Mojtaba Abedini vs Max Hartung Shaul Gordon vs Luca Curatoli Konstantin Lokhanov vs Oh Sanguk

women's Epee quarterfinals Olena Kryvytska vs Kang Young Mi Lee Hye In vs Lin Sheng Vivian Kong Man Wai vs Coraline Vitalis Nathalie Moellhausen vs Lis Rottler-Fautsch

when I wrote that post, Samele was still there (then he lost to Oh)... and as I wrote before, Moellhausen now represents Brazil, but she's more Italian than Brazilian (she was born and raised here, even if her mom is Brazilian)...

and finally Curatoli is the last man to reach the top 8...Bazadze is definitely not happy with the ref...

Szatmari and Hartung also in the quarterfinals...only the match between Curatoli and Bazadze is still running (with the Georgian not playing fair, even if I have to say that a couple of hits against him have been judged not correctly)...

and Samele is out...destroyed by Oh Sanguk...

and Dershwitz is the 4th fencer to make the top 8 in the men's sabre... now it's time for the 2 "true" Italians left in the competition today...

Brazil is actually Italy...Moellhausen already won an individual Bronze medal and a few Team medals (including 1 Gold) with the Italian team, before switching to her mom's native Country, Brazil... meanwhile this girl from Luxembourg is really improving, after a very good career among the juniors (I think she won a few international medals between cadets and juniors classes or in any case she got really close...I have to check it out properly)...

Gordon and Lokhanov (who easily defeated Gu Bon Gil ) are also through to the quarterfinals...

Abedini did it! he won 15-9 against Ibragimov and he's in the top 8...

well, actually Curatoli has the chance of his life...now he has to face Sandro Bazadze, then the winner of Gordon vs Yoshida... if he misses out on a medal today, he should be kicked off from Budapest to Naples... in the meantime, the Korean armada already lost 2 of their men...Ha Han Sol and Kim Junho are out...

and it's over...easy win for our no.1... so we have 2 guys left in the competition...but now it's when things get difficult...

however, Berrè wasted a big chance against a not unstoppable Dolniceanu (and he definitely can't blame anybody other than himself), meanwhile Samele survived a tough battle against Danilenko... right now, Curatoli has a big margin over Rahbari...

yeah, but who knows why? at least 85% of those weird decisions were going always in the same direction... p.s. Hungarian can hate Montano...it's their right (until they don't do anything stupid)...but it was ref's job that wasn't good enough to be a world champs assault...

I wouldn't say so... being Italian, obviously I'm focusing more on our athletes (especially in the preliminary stages of any event, when you can choose what to watch) and I write about them... for sure I've seen as many "wrong" results not involving the Italians, but I don't have any interest in coming here to write about it, unless it happens in the finals phase... for sure I'm not wasting my time writing that the Chinese divers or the Russian gymnasts and figure skaters are always overpayed, as it doesn't change anything in Italian perspective (and I just can't keep track of all the disasters I normally see in sports like Boxing -and not only Boxing)... still, it's there for anybody to see what usually happens...

big time robbery...especially the last hit (he was 14-14 against Csanad Gemesi), it was a real home call of the worst type...

meanwhile in women's epee, we're facing the well expected disaster (and the fact that our girls lost just at the final hit is even more depressing)...

I just can't believe what they did to Montano...

Moellhausen! she's in the top 16 after defeating no.9 seed Zhu... unfortunately now she has to face Alberta Santuccio, who unexpectedly beat Courtney Hurley in the round of 32 (actually, bot Hurleys are already out)...

5 Star International Skateboarding Open of Nanjing Global Qualifiers After three days of intense heat and practice the first Skater dropped into her qualifier run Wednesday morning. Three runs, three chances to own a spot in the Quarter finals for the 60 riders coming from around the globe to compete at the International Skateboarding Open in Nanjing qualifier. Jagger Eaton (USA), here above with one of his flowless Switch Stance FS ollies in the deep end, took the first place in Men division followed by Elias Nilsen (Norway) and George Richards (Australia). Top ten ranking of the Men qualifier (there were 18 places for the quarterfinals up for grabs) follows here below: 1 Jagger Eaton 2 Hericles Fagundes Galle 3 Kieran Woolley 4 Oskar Rozenberg 5 Pedro Acosta Carvalho 6 Felipe Foguinho 7 Tyler Edtmayer 8 Steven Piniero 9 Ayumu Hirano 10 Ethan Copeland On the Women side of things the qualifier have been won by China own Xin Zhang, here above doing an inverted aerial during her run, followed by the two fine Australian riders Amar Hadid and Charlotte Heath. Top ten ranking of the Women qualifier (in any case, all the starting riders were sure of a place in the quarterfinals) follows here below: 1 Xin Zhang 2 Amar Hadid 3 Charlotte Heath 4 Hunter Long 5 Jordan Santana 6 Taniah Meyers 7 Amelia Brodka 8 Valeria Bertaccini 9 Lucrezia Zarattini 10 Heini Luotola Impressive skateboarding went down by many of the skaters, showing the variety in the range of tricks and styles of skateboarding that you expect from a group of skaters coming from such diverse countries and backgrounds. Thursday will be the time for Quarter Finals and this will get hotter and hotter. The full results of qualifications are available in the result section of the WorldSkate website: http://www.worldskate.org/skateboarding/results/category/571-iso-park-nanjing-2019.html

naaa...if at least 3 between ITA, GER, RUS and HUN qualify as a team, he won't have any trouble to make the individual cut (his only serious opponent would be Bazadze, who's not that consistent)...