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yeah, I think Therese today was absolutely in control of the operations and didn't want to waste too much energy (tomorrow there's another race)... p.s. Scardoni yesterday won the qualification race of the sprint event...today, after 1.2km, she was 23 secs behind Johaug... and at the end of the race she's "only" 2.05 behind the Norwegian (currently in 35th place, best Italian girl of the day)...

Stage #3 (Nagoya, JPN) 2000m mixed Relay Gold: South Korea Silver: Russia Bronze: Netherlands

Stage #3 (Nagoya, JPN) women's 3000m Relay teams qualified to the A Final South Korea United States Canada Italy Russia (Advanced by the Jury) men's 5000m Relay teams qualified to the A Final South Korea China Russia Kazakhstan

Stage #3 (Nagoya, JPN) men's 1000m Gold: Park Ji Won Silver: Shaoang Liu Bronze: Semen Elistratov men's 1500m, race #1 Gold: Kim Dong Wook Silver: Park In Wook Bronze: Keita Watanabe

Stage #3 (Nagoya, JPN) women's 1000m Gold: Noh Ah Rum Silver: Suzanne Schulting Bronze: Kristen Santos women's 1500m, race #1 Gold: Kim Ji Yoo Silver: Kim Boutin Bronze: Arianna Fontana

and here we go...6.2km and the Czech woman is starting to lose ground big time...most likely, she's not even gonna make the top 5...

Parmakoski "only" 30 secs behind the Norwegian Queen...I fear she's going to overtake Razymova by the end of the race...

formerly known as Berouskova... why women have to change their names after they get married? I'll never understand (as if nowadays they're still a true property of the new husband)... p.s. at 5km, she's only 13 secs behind Therese...it was not just a flashy start...

OK, I missed that...but to me, it's contradictory according to what they wrote above...first, they say "1 of those events" (among which, the world champs) then they say "must have been at the world champs", which is quite differnt from the other criteria... meh...

Tokyo 2020 Qualification System (the .pdf file) in this page: https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/olympic-games directly from it: Section C, Athlete Eligibility: "(an athlete must) have participated at least in one (1) of the events mentioned in section D, “Qualification Pathway” of this document." and in Section D are listed 3 different categories: the World Champs, the OQT in Toulouse and the various Continental Champs in 2020...

the ruled has been amended...it says they have to participate at the world champs or at the continental champs 2020 (or the world qualification tournament, but as this is an extension of the world champs/world cup in terms of invited climbers I don't count it)... so, nobody is still out of chances, even if it's unlikely that any new Nation in that group will show up in the next continental champs next year)...

it's too easy, man! the only tricky question to me is the no. #5... 1 - B (but if he does it to save a goal, the goal is automatically allowed in any case) 2 - C 3 - B 4 - A 5 - A 6 - C (at least, I hope) 7 - B 8 - B

disaster for Italy... many poor outings, especially Angelo Crescenzo lost again opposed to the Kazakh number #2 Alpysbay (and he lost badly), meanwhile the Kazakh no. #1 Assadilov easily made the final (where he's going to meet his teammate Alpysbay in an all-Kazakh affair on Sunday) and Eray Samdan is into the bronze medal match (and won quite a few bouts to get there)... basically, Crescenzo is now virtually out of the qualifying positions in the OQR and most likely, as it looks he lost his magic touch, he won't be able to qualify even in the single shot final qualification tournament...sad decline for a reigning world champion... and even the only medal match reached by an Italian fighter (Viviana Bottaro's subscription to bronze medal matches in women's Kata doesn't count to me) it's a real disappointing result, as Luigi Busà lost in the semifinal match against a man he should beat with closed eyes (the man from Ainazarov)... ironically, in this same class, the best result of the day for us is Lorenzo Pietromarchi's win in round #1 against the reigning world champion Bahman Askari, even if then he lost in the next round and didn't go anywhere in the tournament...

K1PL Stage #7 (Final) (Madrid, ESP) Action from Day #1 in Madrid... women's Individual Kata Gold Medal match: Sandra Sanchez Jaime vs Kiyou Shimizu Bronze Medal match #1: Grace Lau Mo Sheung vs Emiri Iwamoto Bronze Medal match #2: Viviana Bottaro vs Hikaru Ono men's Team Kata Gold Medal match: Italy vs Turkey Bronze Medal match #1: Spain vs C.D. Pablo Armenteros Bronze Medal match #2: C.R. Lazio Karate vs Morocco women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold Medal match: Bakhriniso Babaeva vs Serap ozcelik Arapoglu Bronze Medal match #1: Tatiana Rybalchenko vs Radwa Sayed Bronze Medal match #2: Nurane Aliyeva vs Rinka Tahata women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold Medal match: Tuba Yakan vs Yassmin Attia Bronze Medal match #1: Wen Tzu-Yun vs Sevinch Rakhimova Bronze Medal match #2: Carlota Fernandez Osorio vs Jana Bitsch men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold Medal match: Darkhan Assadilov vs Kaisar Alpysbay Bronze Medal match #1: Eray Samdan vs Jovanni Martinez Bronze Medal match #2: Oussama Edari vs Yunosuke Minami men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold Medal match: Omer Abdurrahim Ozer vs Amir Mehdizadeh Bronze Medal match #1: Vinicius Figueira vs Alì Elsawy Bronze Medal match #2: Hiroto Shinohara vs Steven Dacosta men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold Medal match: Yermek Ainazarov vs Logan Dacosta Bronze Medal match #1: Luigi Busà vs Alì Asiabari Bronze Medal match #2: Rodrigo Ibanez Saenz-Torre vs Yusei Sakiyama

and here we are...last K1PL stage of the year... Memorable Karate 1-Premier League to conclude in Madrid The 2019 edition of the Karate 1-Premier League concludes in Madrid (Spain) this weekend. The final event of the season to be held from November 29 to December 1 will complete a memorable edition of Karate’s first-class of international tournaments and will crown the new Grand Winners. The anticipated tournament will start on Friday at 09:00 (local time). The competition will continue throughout the weekend until Sunday when the medal bouts will be held. The finals are scheduled for Sunday from 14.30 to 16.35 (local times). All the medal bouts on Sunday will be streamed LIVE on karateworld.tv and on many TV networks around the world. As the season of Karate 1-Premier League comes to an end in Madrid, the new Grand Winners will be decided at the final event. Seven athletes have already confirmed their titles since Serap Ozcelik (TUR), Anzhelika Terliuga (UKR), Ayumi Uekusa (JPN), Ryo Kiyuna (JPN), Darkhan Assadilov (KAZ), Steven Dacosta (FRA) and Sajad Ganjzadeh (IRI) have already earned the right to wear the special karategi with the golden embroidery next year. The rest of the categories are up for grabs and will be determined in the capital of Spain. In addition to the crowning of the new Grand Winners, the Karate 1-Premier League Madrid will distribute the last points of the year. Competitors will fight for the points to finish the season on top of the WKF World ranking and the Olympic standings.

I think someone has watched too many "sleepy fuck" videos on youporn... Guys! sorry to kill your excitement, but those are all fake videos...you can't be fucked (or get something injected...it's the same, more or less...) while sleeping and don't even get aware it happened...

no, there are not... reallocations? yeah, almost surely... and not only the tripartite places, but also the African spot among the women (and maybe the men's too, even if there's a South African climber in the top 70 of the IFSC combined world ranking...but with RSA's participation policy we should start thinking they won't accept any invitation for such a low level athlete)...

Women's Qualification, Final Ranking (Top 8 advancing to Sunday's Final) 1. Ai Mori, 44 pts 2. Lucka Rakovec, 45 pts (Possible Olympic Quota)* 3. Mia Krampl, 120 pts (Possible Olympic Quota)* 4. Laura Rogora, 256 pts (Olympic Quota) 5. Futaba Ito, 392 pts 6. Julia Chanourdie, 420 pts (Olympic Quota) 7. Iuliia Kaplina, 441 pts (Olympic Quota) 8. Kyra Condie, 528 pts (Olympic Quota) --- 9. Song Yiling, 760 pts (Olympic Quota) 10. Fanny Gibert, 845 pts * Slovenia mathematically won 1 Quota Place: Rakovec and Krampl will have to fight for that on Sunday's Final... only 1 of them will be able to earn a ticket for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, as Janja Garnbret has already taken the first available spot for Slovenia at the last World Championships earlier this year)...

OK, it's official (according to IFSC's website)... Women's Qualification, Lead Result 1. Ai Mori 2. Mia Krampl 3. Lucka Rakovec Full Ranking: https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competition/calendar#!comp=8322&cat=42&route=2

quota for those 6... Mia Krampl or Lucka Rakovec (will have to fight for the only Slovenian Olympic spot in Sunday's Final) Laura Rogora Julia Chanourdie Iuliia Kaplina plus, likely, Kyra Condie and Fanny Gibert, but there's a chance that Lead scores (there are 4 girls tied at 36+ and could be ranked differently because of their climbing time) can change and one between Condie or Gibert loses her place in favour of Song Yiling...

that's another very low & dirty trap... but it's worth a smile in any case...

first race of the season...first sweep of the season... Nordic Combined definitely doesn't like mixing it up in terms of top Nations... by the way, very good start of the season for Italy...Costa looks back to the form he had before that butal injury of 2 years ago, Kostner is improving steadily, Pittin...well, he's always the good old usual Pittin...a true disaster from the hill, by far the best skier on the circuit...

of course... my mistake...

definitely yes, I'd be surprised if they don't get 2 spots (even if Gibert is a bit at risk in the Lead discipline, meanwhile the Korean Sa and the Austrian Lettner on paper could still overtake her)... Jaubert has no chances, imho...

Kaplina and Song will definitely drop down a lot of places, the 2 Japanese don't count for the Olympic race, Slovenia can only qualify 1 girl (they already have Garnbret among the girls who made it through the world championships earlier this year)... so, 1 Slovenian between Rakovec and Krampl, Condie, Chanourdie, Rogora, a second French woman between Gibert (heavy favourite) and Jaubert should be safe for the Olympic spot, meanwhile I guess there will be an interesting fight between Sa, Lettner and maybe also Yip for the last place on the plane flying to Tokyo next Summer...