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Men's Individual Sabre Grand Prix (Montreal, CAN) Final Results Gold: Bolade Apithy Silver: Luca Curatoli Bronze: Luigi Samele & Sandro Bazadze Semifinals: Apithy b. Samele 15-8 Curatoli b. Bazadze 15-9 Gold Medal Match: Apithy b. Curatoli 15-12  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/158 Quarterfinals, Semifinals & Final Replays

Women's Individual Epee (La Habana, CUB) Final Results Gold: Aleksandra Zamachowska Silver: Ana Maria Popescu Bronze: Marie-Florence Candassamy & Renata Knapik-Miazga Semifinals: Zamachowska b. Knapik-Miazga 15-12 Popescu b. Candassamy 12-10 Gold Medal Match: Zamachowska b. Popescu 15-8  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/97 Unfortunately, as usual, no pictures from the Cuban Capital...

no, she's currently 58th in the OQR...no chance for her to climb up so many positions in the standings... her only shot at the Olympics is the global tournament in Paris next May, as it's a 1-day shot with 3 spots up for grabs for all who doesn't make it through the OQR (or the continental/host Nation places)... basically, it's a true world championship, where the 3 medallists book their ticket to Tokyo 2020...

Knockout Stage Semifinals, Second Leg Tuesday 14.1.2020 - Schedule* 18:00 Luleå Hockey (SWE) - Frölunda Indians (SWE) 18:00 Mountfield HK (CZE) - Djurgården Stockholm (SWE) *All times CET Watch live Check here for details of live TV broadcasts: https://www.championshockeyleague.com/en/fans/where-to-watch All games are also live on the CHL website for free, subject to geo-blocking restrictions in certain countries due to TV rights.

Karate1 Serie A, Stage #1 (Santiago, CHI) today's action recap... women's Individual Kata Gold Medal match: Viviana Bottaro vs Dilara Eltemur Bronze Medal match #1: Sakura Kokumai vs rosa Almarza Bronze Medal match #2: Sanae Agalmam vs Ayse Yilmaz women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold Medal match: Irina Zaretska vs Silvia Semeraro Bronze Medal match #1: Feryal Abdelaziz vs Halyna Melnyk Bronze Medal match #2: Miroslava Kopunova vs Gong Li women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold Medal match: Cao Hanqi vs Hamideh Abbasali Bronze Medal match #1: Sofya Berultseva vs Meltem Hocaoglu Akyol Bronze Medal match #2: Sachiko Paulina Ramos Akita vs Laura Palacio Gonzalez men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold Medal match: Kaisar Alpysbay vs Douglas Brose Bronze Medal match #1: Oussama Edari vs Dany Cabello Bronze Medal match #2: Darkhan Assadilov vs Yerkinbek Baitureyev men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold Medal match: Alì Elsawy vs Burak Uygur Bronze Medal match #1: Didar Amirali vs Andres Madera Delgado Bronze Medal match #2: Assylbek Muratov vs Christian Wever men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold Medal match: Bahman Askari vs Breno Teixeira Bronze Medal match #1: Thomas Scott vs Erman Eltemur Bronze Medal match #2: Yermek Ainazarov vs Yassine Sekouri

as usual, it's almost impossible to find fresh news from Cuba, but here we have the last 8 in the Women's Epee Individual Tournament running tonight... Amalia Tataran vs Aleksandra Zamachowska Kelley Hurley vs Renata Knapik-Miazga Ana Maria Popescu vs Sun Yiwen Marie-Florence Candassamy vs Erika Kirpu

and here ends the Italian party in the Alpine disciplines...

maybe it was some TV network asking for that?

updated at the end of today's tournament...

the world ranking after the next Continental Championships will be used to determine the team events' brackets of the OGs... the individual events also will be drawn according to that, but there will be a draw 2 places by 2 (no.1 at the top, no.2 at the bottom, no.3 and 4 drawn one at the top and one at the bottom and so on for 5 & 6, 7 & 8...)

Women's Individual Foil (Katowice, POL) Final Results Gold: Inna Deriglazova Silver: Camilla Mancini Bronze: Ysaora Thibus & Lee Kiefer Semifinals: Mancini b. Thibus 15-8 Deriglazova b. Kiefer 15-13 Gold Medal Match: Deriglazova b. Mancini 15-11  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/127 Semifinals & Final

Men's Individual Foil (Paris, FRA) Final Results Gold: Nick Itkin Silver: Daniele Garozzo Bronze: Alexey Cheremisinov & Enzo Lefort Semifinals: Garozzo b. Cheremisinov 15-11 Itkin b. Lefort 15-12 Gold Medal Match: Itkin b. Garozzo 15-9  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/142 Semifinals & Final

men's epee, Olympic qualification update before today's finals are completed... 1. 319/331 2. 238/242 3. 224/228 4. 221/223 5./6. 200/202 7./6./5. 193/205 6./7. 192/194 8. 182/183 9. 180 10. 160/161 11. 158/160 12. 131 13. 130 14. 127 15. 113/114 16. 108/109 17. 106/107 18. 102/103 France are locked in first place, no matter what happens later today... Switzerland keep their second place and Italy improve by 1 position in the ranking, climbing up to the 3rd provisional rank... Ukraine, despite a down day, are still 4th...and they even increase their margin over 5th place, as South Korea had a real nightmare of a day and scored only 8 points (17th place today), falling down to 9th in the OQR... the 5th place now is up for grabs, with China and Hungary fighting for it, depending on the outcome of today's finals (Hungary are definitely today's gran winners, reaching the gold medal match and closing down on the top 4 positions of the OQR)... Russia could still be either 6th or 7th at the end of the day...but it looks that they are fading in the last exits and they are likely going to lose also their virtual qualifying spot in the European Continental race... Japan are 8th and lost some points to China for the Asian Continental spot, Korea, as written above, now are down to 9th and it seems that they have almost definitively compromised their chances to earn a team spot at the next Olympic Games... USA and Egypt today weren't that impressive, but with their average placing still managed to lock their position within the top 16 of the OQR, therefore they are closer to the qualification to the Olympics through their respective Continental spot...

Men's Team Epee (Heidenheim, GER) Final Results Gold: Hungary Silver: France Bronze: Switzerland Semifinals: France b. Italy 45-24 Hungary b. Switzerland 45-34 Bronze Medal Match: Switzerland b. Italy 45-36 Gold Medal Match: Hungary b. France 45-43  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/823 Bronze & Gold Medal matches

all games are live on the Al Kass TV channels (today it's Al Kass 3)... as far as I know, they have a free app to watch them (unless you can get them via satellite, like me )...

and France are going to Tokyo... basically, it was a no contest, the French were never really under threat tonight... France b. Germany 3-0 (25-20; 25-20; 25-23)

Karate1 Serie A, Stage #1 (Santiago, CHI) today's action recap... men's Individual Kata Gold Medal match: Alì Sofuoglu vs Enes Ozdemir Bronze Medal match #1: Antonio Diaz vs Sayed Mohammed Almosawi Bronze Medal match #2: Emre Vefa Goktas vs Ariel Torres Gutierrez men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold Medal match: Zabiollah Poorshab vs Ugur Aktas Bronze Medal match #1: Ivan Kvesic vs Igor Chikhmarev Bronze Medal match #2: Nabil Ech-Chaabi vs Tomas Doussang men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold Medal match: Sajad Ganjzadeh vs Jonathan Horne Bronze Medal match #1: Saleh Abazari vs Brian Irr Bronze Medal match #2: Gogita Arkania vs Simone Marino women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold Medal match: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu vs Yorgelis Salazar Bronze Medal match #1: Shara Hubrich vs Junna Tsukii Bronze Medal match #2: Sara Bahmanyar vs Li Ranran women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold Medal match: Sara Cardin vs Anzhelika Terliuga Bronze Medal match #1: Ivet Goranova vs Tuba Yakan Bronze Medal match #2: Yassmin Attia vs Lorena Busà women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold Medal match: Rozita Alipour vs Jovana Prekovic Bronze Medal match #1: Merve Coban vs Leila Heurtault Bronze Medal match #2: Yin Xiaoyan vs Zhang Xiaoling

Men's Individual Epee (Heidenheim, GER) Final Results Gold: Gergely Siklosi Silver: Park Sang Young Bronze: Sergey Bida & Radoslaw Zawrotniak Semifinals: Siklosi b. Bida 15-8 Park b. Zawrotniak 15-9 Gold Medal Match: Siklosi b. Park 15-14  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/108 Semifinals & Final Replay

it's called "globalization"...people moving around the world and "contaminating" culture, habits and genetics of the places where they travel...

well, maybe that's true in some cases, but when they denied FIL and St.Moritz Track to use their always in place streaming service to integrate the OBS pictures for what concerns the Bob/Skeleton/Luge events, they did show their real nature and their real lack of interest in making the event as much "global" as they could... add this to such a poor opening ceremony, the super-G course running less than a minute race for the girls (I can't imagine what the boys are gonna do...45 secs race?)... to me, those Games are already over...too many more user-friendly (and important on an overall scale) events to follow...here's just not worth the effort...

Switzerland in women's Super-G

they still are, but at the same time they are a disfunctional group of players (rather than "a team"), some of them also have disciplinary problems... sometimes they can perform at the top level despite that, sometimes they just destroy themselves with those troubles...

disaster for Bulgaria... what a wasted chance for them!

Ski Mountaineering should give the Host Nation a big boost... on paper, there's no way they're going to miss out the double Gold & Silver in both races, especially among the girls... just to make it clear, the entry list has been published according to the last world champs' results and world rankings...

p.s. it's Sandro Viletta, not Villeta... p.p.s. just seen the Olympic Channel broadcasting schedule...I can't believe that not a single second of Cross-Country Skiing and Biathlon (or Speedskating) are going to be broadcasted... it's only Alpine Skiing (not even all the events, for instance tomorrow's Super-G for both boys and girls are not in that list), Curling, Figure Skating, Hockey and a few Freestyle/Snowboard events...the other disciplines basically don't exist for the Olympic Channel (at least, for what I can see here from Italy)...