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c'mon, man! you just can name it "a bad day"... actually, today is the best day of the year (and nothing's gonna change that in the near future)...

Some dates to mark on your calendars. The 2026 Winter Olympics will take place from February 6 to 22. The 2026 Winter Paralympics will be held from March 6 to 15.

voting was 47-34 (1 blank sheet) in favour of Milano & Cortina...

and now the usual Italian lack of discipline... p.s. the Swedish prime minister leaving the assembly to fly and see the football game in Paris is the last class act by them...

and now.... it's time to party!!!!

there's still a small bit of justice in the World!

and the winner is... MILANO & CORTINAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

I hope so... Cortina has a long tradition as an international sliding track e basically they still have the track there...the problem is that it can't be used with the ice surface (part of it, it's open to tourists in summer...you can skate or go down with a street luge/bob...the top part instead is almost abandoned) and currently it doesn't meet the safety requirements to be used for competitions... but if finally someone put the money on the renewal it needs, then I think it will survive for quite a while...the project of our NOC is quite clear about that...it must be operative also in the years following the games, not only until 2026 and stop...

sì, una coppia senza chance... Resca al primo appuntamento dopo 2 anni ha dimostrato di avere un gran feeling con la Stanco...per me loro sono la coppia numero #1... e poi comunque è una somma di prestazioni individuali, quindi Fabbrizi si accoppierebbe benissimo con la Rossi, senza ricorrere a quella palla al piede di Pellielo, che ormai è un ex tiratore...non smetterò mai di ripeterlo...

sì, penso aspettassero di vedere i risultati di Minsk... io ribadisco...i 2 da mandare a Tokyo (anche tramite switch con altre gare, in primis il secondo posto dello skeet maschile ed eventualmente, se si può fare, sacrificare De Nicolo...ma spero che prima di fine qualificazione almeno una carta nel Trap e quella della Zublasing nel tiro a segno arrivino) sono Fabbrizi e Resca... ed è importante fare in modo che siano 2 anche le coppie miste del Trap... il trio del Trap per Lonato a questo punto spero sia Fabbrizi, Resca, Grazini...

and the Italian curse (disaster) continues...Petra Zublasing started like a turtle with 3 series at 103.x/102.x/103.x and then ended up missing the final for just 0.5 points...

yes, there is... channel 2 of the IBS service right now...

@Gianlu33 and @Olympian1010 well, at this point you can only go with efedrine and other kind of similar "doping" to save you from falling asleep when you're too tired...

go for a couple of coffee! but the real Italian "black" one, made with the "moka" (the traditional coffee maker, not those modern machines that give back an awful version)! and with no sugar... I'm sure you're not gonna fall asleep for quite a while, then (especially if you're not used to it)...

great job, guys... really appreciate it!

nice couple of gold medals for our girls... expected loss by Martina against Aktas... on the negative side, Crescenzo and Bottaro once again out of the podium...

sure, Germany is entitled to enter a pair in the mixed team air pistol competition... but technically, the Olympic quota for those events are only the 2 awarded at the last world champs... in practice, all the Countries can enter in those events, provided they have at least 1 man and 1 woman qualified in a shooting discipline (and both have the MQS in the air pistol)... and it's the same in the mixed team air rifle event... theoretically, 1 single shooter could enter all the shooting events if he/she has the MQS (as we wrote in the past, triple starts are quite common...maybe in the next future someone will go for the quadruple job)...

yes

not the classiest of winners...let's say that...

game over! Gold and Olympic Quota for David Kostelecky and the Czech Republic, Silver and many, many regrets for Valerio Grazini and Bronze for Aaron Heading... that's all folks! and thanks to those idiots of the Italian coaches who left Fabrizi and Resca home...

another miss by the Italian...chances gone...

nooooooo!!!! a miss for Grazini with 5 targets to go...

so, Aaron Heading wins the Bronze and now we're down to the last 10 targets with Grazini and Kostelecky fighting for Gold and, what matters more, the Olympic Quota... now they are tied with 7 targets remaining...

not that great, tbh... the most important things have gone wrong (Judo) or are on the verge of going wrong (men's Trap)... Cycling gold doesn't count anything and Archery's win is almost insulting, after having missed the Olympic Qualification with both teams at the world champs just 1 week ago...

now, let's go Valerio! it's the most important event of the entire Games for us...you must win the Olympic Quota...