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Women's Qualification, Ranking after 2/3 Events (Top 8 advancing to Sunday's Final) 1. Lucka Rakovec, 15 pts 2. Iuliia Kaplina, 21 pts 3. Song Yiling, 40 pts 4. Ai Mori, 44 pts 5. Kyra Condie, 48 pts 6. Futaba Ito, 49 pts 7. Mia Krampl, 60 pts 8. Julia Chanourdie, 60 pts 9. Laura Rogora, 64 pts 10. Fanny Gibert, 65 pts 11. Aries Susanti Rahayu, 66 pts 12. Anouck Jaubert, 72 pts 13. Aleksandra Kalucka, 85 pts 14. Alannah Yip, 108 pts 15. Sandra Lettner, 112 pts 16. Sa Sol, 144 pts =17. Zhang Yuetong, 187 pts =17. Ievgeniia Kazbekova, 187 pts 19. Margo Hayes, 190 pts 20. Kim Ja In, 210 pts 21. Elnaz Rekabi, 234 pts 22. Ashima Shiraishi, 252 pts

finally, very good 4th place for Laura Rogora in the Bouldering section, which keeps her fully in contention for Sunday's Final and, above all, for the Olympic spot... tbh, I thought there would be a lot more 4T4Z at the end of today's Bouldering, but many girls found unexpected troubles here and there and somehow underperformed (if compared to the world cup standars we've seen earlier in the season)... given the current situation, the Lead ranking would eventually decide also the final ranking of the girls, as many of the main contenders are grouped within a very narrow margin after 2 events...

Women's Qualification, Boulder Result 1. Lucka Rakovec 2. Ai Mori 3. Mia Krampl Full Ranking: https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competition/calendar#!comp=8322&cat=42&route=1

small consolation...

I'd be surprised if there are not 5 or more teams (AUS, GBR, DEN, ITA and GER...not counting FRA as they're not going to qualify, but they could also reach that mark next year) below the 3.48 mark by the Tokyo Games are over...

for Kazbekova...she must be feeling a really strong pain in her left ankle...despite that, good 2T4Z for her in the bouldering section...

I'm for the 3 disciplines = 3 different sets of medals... by the way, the Asian Games format looks like the one we're going to have in paris 2024, with 2 competitions per gender (the Boulder + Lead combo and Speed as a standalone event)...

if only I was watching sport to feed... this is quite a different moment of my daily routine, instead...

however, 3T4Z for Laura...hopefully, she can climb a few positions in the provisional ranking, but surely she would eventually need a masterful lead climb to earn her Olympic spot...

I see it differently...as I wrote, I'm a damn old conservative traditionalist... I don't like combined events at all...it's like mixing pears and apples...

no good...no top for Laura in the 3rd problem...she's not gonna earn a good multiplying factor also in boulder... and the fuc*in' live scoring system looks to have stopped updating...

Laura doesn't look to have perfectly read the 3rd problem...

Alannah Yip! very impressive!

and Laura is perfect also on the second Boulder...

great start by Laura Rogora...storming through the first Boulder... at a first look, today's routes don't seem too selective...most likely, we're going to see many 4T4Z scores...

fun fact, if you write Elio Locatelli, speedskating, in Italy almost nobody would recognize him...he's way more famous as the technical director of our Track & Field National team first and of the IAAF developing program then (and maybe also an appreciated Athletics TV color-commentator in the early Nineties -I remember him commentating the Barcelona 1992 Olympics and also the main IAAF meets in the same period on the Italian Monaco-based TV named Telemontecarlo)...

by the way, this is mostly for the Italian users (or, at least, those who can easily understand Italian and some slang of our language)... dedicated to Scardoni, Laurent, Pellegrino and their poor/disappointing (especially after the qualification stage) quarterfinals' performance...

controversial issue, to say the least... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_doping https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306052031_Debunking_the_Myth_of_Pregnancy_Doping my opinion...becoming mother normally give women stronger motivations and reinforce their determination*...that's the real and only advantage being an athlete-mom gives women... *if they don't fall into post-pregnancy depression, which is always a risk...

watching those sprint specialists trying to face a boulder problem and/or a lead climb is just a waste of time, humiliating for the athletes and senseless for the fans...

actually, this combined event shouldn't exist at all... sport climbing has always been about the 2 (then 3) standalone disciplines... this thing to get an Olympic opportunity is just against its own nature and sucks big time, no matter how do you manage to build the final score...

decent placing for Laura Rogora in her Achille's Heel discipline...hopefully, she can deliver some great stuff in her 2 favourites climbs (Boulder & Lead)...

Women's Qualification, Speed Result 1. Iuliia Kaplina 2. Song Yiling 3. Aries Susanti Rahayu Full Ranking: https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competition/calendar#!comp=8322&cat=42&route=0

at my last check-up, I was tested positive for losartan potassium and hydrochlorothiazide... actually, I was so doped that the tube exploded... of course, I got a lifetime ban on any too salted food (and all other foods causing blood pressure problems)...

I hope they've only put something special under their skis and not through their veins... by the way, really unexpected result by Lucia and Greta...

I hope someone is going to keep him and his "coeds" (Hassan above all) well far away from the Japanese Capital...