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by the way, this new attitude towards the goalkeepers during the execution of any penalty shot (and the chance to support it through the VAR) is really annoying... they're just making a lot of injustice and taking most of the excitement off... basically, if the goalkeeper doesn't anticipate where the shot is going and start a fraction before the ball is actually hit, there's no chance to even imagine to stop a well placed penalty shot...you can only sit in the middle of the goal and hope that your rival throws the ball out of the stadium by himself (or attempts a silly shot in the middle of the goal, so to be already there to stop it without a single move)... I'm very much against this "evolution", take the VAR away from this kind of evaluation!

Calder Cup, Game #5 Recap Check and mate! Charlotte wins Calder Cup The Charlotte Checkers are bringing the Calder Cup to North Carolina. The American Hockey League’s top team from start to finish in 2018-19 secured its first championship tonight with a 5-3 victory over the Chicago Wolves at Allstate Arena, winning the Calder Cup Finals four games to one. Andrew Poturalski, who finished with two goals in Game #5, won the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as the most valuable player of the 2019 Calder Cup Playoffs. The third-year pro from Williamsville, N.Y., led the AHL with 12 goals, 23 points and a plus-15 rating in 18 postseason games played. Rookie Morgan Geekie added a goal and an assist in the clincher and Alex Nedeljkovic turned aside 26 shots as the Checkers secured the first Calder Cup win for the Carolina Hurricanes organization since 1991. Charlotte went 15-4 during the postseason following a 51-win regular season. Under head coach Mike Vellucci, who also serves as the Hurricanes’ assistant general manager and director of hockey operations, the Checkers finished with the best record in the league during the regular season and then defeated the Providence Bruins (3-1), Hershey Bears (4-0) and Toronto Marlies (4-2) before eliminating Chicago in five games in the Finals. Charlotte’s victory brings an end to the AHL’s 83rd season. In operation since 1936, the AHL continues to serve as the top development league for all 31 National Hockey League teams. Nearly 90 percent of today’s NHL players are American Hockey League graduates, and more than 100 honored members of the Hockey Hall of Fame spent time in the AHL in their careers. Game #5 Highlights https://theahl.com/ahl_videos/checkers-vs-wolves-finals-game-5 Calder Cup presentation to Charlotte https://theahl.com/ahl_videos/calder-cup-presentation-to-charlotte

yeah, at some point AFG bowlers just gave up doing their job seriously and threw the ball like they were at the park with their friends... on the other hand, you always need some help from your opponents when you establish those kind of records...it's not just an ordinary day at the office...

e a Rieti, Stefano Sottile salta 2.30 nell'alto maschile, minimo per Doha (francamente non ricordo se è anche buono per Tokyo o ci vuole di più )... mentre a livello juniores, esplode il martellista Giorgio Olivieri, che si migliora fino a 79.23 con l'attrezzo da 6 chili...speriamo sia di buon auspicio per eventuali futuri progressi anche con la palla senior, quella da 7.253kg... abbiamo tanto bisogno di qualche nuovo talento nei lanci (lui e Musci, con un po' di fortuna, potrebbero prima o poi rinverdire i fasti dei Vizzoni, Andrei, Dal Soglio etc. etc.)...

He's "Stano" (Massimo Stano)...not "Strano"... by the way, he didn't even win the race...he finished "only" second, behind the Japanese Toshikazu Yamanishi ...

after the first day completely off because of rain, today we have 2 matches... in the early one, England just destroyed Bangladesh, establishing all sort of offensive records for the CWC and the ODI format... they scored the amazing amount of 386 runs in 50 overs (only 6 wickets fallen)...Bangladesh could respond only with 280 runs in 48.5 overs before they were all out...therefore, the official score is: England win by 106 runs in the other game, New Zealand is on the verge of beating Afghanistan...they're still playing, but they only need about 30 runs from 130 balls (only 3 wickets fallen so far for them) to overtake AFG 172 runs scored in 41.1/50 overs (all out)...so, I guess that in a few minutes we're going to have the official score also for this match...

looking at those results, I guess that's better...

Hempel World Cup Series, Final Round (Marseille, FRA) Medallists Recap (Part #1) men's 49er Gold: Federico Alonso Tellechea & Arturo Alonso Tellechea Silver: Benjamin Bildstein & David Hussl Bronze: Sebastien Schneiter & Lucien Cujean women's 49er FX Gold: Julie Bossard & Aude Compan Silver: Aleksandra Melzacka & Kinga Loboda Bronze: Laura Schöfegger & Anna Boustani men's RS:X Gold: Mattia Camboni Silver: Daniele Benedetti Bronze: Louis Giard women's RS:X Gold: Lilian De Geus Silver: Saskia Sills Bronze: Flavia Tartaglini mixed Nacra 17 Gold: Vittorio Bissaro & Maelle Frascari Silver: John Gimson & Anna Burnet Bronze: Ruggero Tita & Caterina Marianna Banti men's IKA - Formula Kite Gold: Nicolas Parlier Silver: Theo De Ramecourt Bronze: Axel Mazella women's IKA - Formula Kite Gold: Daniela Moroz Silver: Kirstyn O'Brien Bronze: Alexia Fancelli Full Results: http://sailing.org/worldcup/results/index.php

actually, it's 4 out of 5...they missed out in the -50kg... p.s. in a couple of their runs, the Chinese girls had to beat some Italian fighters...so, no, they didn't even need any outside help...they only took advantage of all the gifts our girls made them...

Italian girls are so bad that they can't even take advantage of a shamefully favourable refereeing... in the women's +67kg, Laura Giacomini lost at the Golden Point to the Mexican Briseida Acosta despite the ref tried every possible trick to send her in the semifinals... meanwhile, in the men's -58kg, Vito Dell'Aquila confirms he's in a poor phase of his career and lost once again against his bète noir, Jesus Cabrera Tortosa (also in the quarterfinals...so, even today, no medals for Italy)...

K1PL Stage #4 (Shanghai, CHN) Tomorrow's Finals Line-Up (Part #2) women's Team Kata Gold Medal match: Kokushikan University vs China #2 Bronze Medal #1: Russia vs Hong Kong Bronze Medal match #2: Iran vs Vietnam men's Team Kata Gold Medal match: Kuwait vs Hong Kong Bronze Medal match #1: China #5 vs Malaysia Bronze Medal match #2: China #1 vs China #3

K1PL Stage #4 (Shanghai, CHN) Tomorrow's Finals Line-Up women's Individual Kata Gold Medal match: Kyou Shimizu vs Sandra Sanchez Jaime Bronze Medal match #1: Hikaru Ono vs Natsuki Shimizu Bronze Medal match #2: Grace Lau Mo Sheung vs Sakura Kokumai women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold Medal match: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu vs Alexandra Recchia Bronze Medal match #1: Kateryna Kriva vs Reem Ahmed Salama Bronze Medal match #2: Radwa Sayed vs Ku Tsui-Ping women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold Medal match: Anzhelika Terliuga vs Ding Jiamei Bronze Medal match #1: Travat Khaksar vs Lorena Busà Bronze Medal match #2: Tuba Yakan vs Sabrina Ouihaddadene women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold Medal match: Yin Xiaoyan vs Jovana Prekovic Bronze Medal match #1: Mayumi Someya vs Ayami Moriguchi Bronze Medal match #2: Laura Pasqua vs Leila Heurtault women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold Medal match: Gong Li vs Alizèe Agier Bronze Medal match #1: Lea Avazeri vs Vasiliki Panetsidou Bronze Medal match #2: Silvia Semeraro vs Elena Quirici women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold Medal match: Gao Mengmeng vs Sofya Berultseva Bronze Medal match #1: Clio Ferracuti vs Hamideh Abbasali Bronze Medal match #2: Ayumi Uekusa vs Meltem Hocaoglu men's Individual Kata Gold Medal match: Ryo Kiyuna vs Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila Bronze Medal match #1: Kazumasa Moto vs Ariel Torres Gutierrez Bronze Medal match #2: Issei Shimbaba vs Sakichi Abe men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold Medal match: Darkhan Assadilov vs Kaisar Alpysbair Bronze Medal match #1: Firdovsi Farzaliyev vs Abdullah Shaaban Bronze Medal match #2: Douglas Brose vs Majid Hassan Niaideilami men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold Medal match: Seyedali Karimi vs Andres Madera Delgado Bronze Medal match #1: Supa Ngamphuengphit vs Yves Martial Tadissi Bronze Medal match #2: Steven Dacosta vs Alì Elsawy men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold Medal match: Dastonbek Otabolaev vs Bahman Askari Bronze Medal match #1: Thomas Scott vs Yusei Sakiyama Bronze Medal match #2: Ken Nishimura vs Erman Eltemur men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold Medal match: Ugur Aktas vs Ivan Kvesic Bronze Medal match #1: Zabiollah Poorshab vs Mahdi Khodabakhshi Bronze Medal match #2: Mahdi Ghararizadeh vs Panah Abdullayev men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold Medal match: Sajad Ganjzadeh vs Saleh Abazari Bronze Medal match #1: Gogita Arkania vs Tyron-Darnell Lardy Bronze Medal match #2: Jonathan Horne vs Mehdi Filali

Rome Grand Prix Day #1, Medallists Recap Women's -67kg Gold: Matea Jelic Silver: Kim Jan Di Bronze: Hedaya Malak & Magda Wiet Henin Men's -68kg Gold: Mirhashem Hosseini Silver: Lee Dae Hoon Bronze: Bradly Sinden & Zhao Shuai Men's +80kg Gold: Vladislav Larin Silver: Ruslan Zhaparov Bronze: Sajjad Mardani & Mahama Cho

Calder Cup, Game #4 Recap Cardiac Checkers one win away after Game #4 rally Another comeback by the Charlotte Checkers has them one win away from their first Calder Cup championship. Nicolas Roy scored twice in the third period and Charlotte scored four unanswered goals en route to a 5-3 victory over Chicago at Allstate Arena on Thursday night. The Checkers will take a 3-1 series lead into Game #5, which is set for Saturday evening in suburban Chicago (8 p.m. ET, AHLTV, NHL Network). Charlotte spotted the Wolves a 3-1 lead before scoring four times in the final 21 minutes of the game to earn its third consecutive victory. After falling behind early in each of the first three games of the series, Chicago grabbed a 1-0 lead just 45 seconds into Game #4. Big defenseman Nic Hague carried the puck end-to-end, drove to the net and slipped it behind Checkers goaltender Dustin Tokarski for his fourth goal of the postseason. The Wolves played with a lead for the first time in the series, but it lasted less than five minutes before Jesper Sellgren‘s shot from the left point got through and eluded Oscar Dansk at 5:21. Chicago went back in front at 16:29 when Zac Leslie intercepted a clearing attempt and threw a shot on net that beat a screened Tokarski for his second goal of the series, making it 2-1. The Wolves upped their lead to 3-1 at 13:47 of the second period when Brooks Macek netted his fourth goal of the postseason, banging home the rebound of Dylan Coghlan‘s shot from the left circle. The Checkers’ comeback started with 1:00 to play in the middle frame, as Martin Necas showed patience in the slot and drew Dansk out of position before burying his third goal of the series and fifth of the playoffs. The power-play goal cut Chicago’s lead to 3-2 heading into intermission. Charlotte wasted just 32 seconds before tying the game early in the third period, as Roy took a back-door pass from Julien Gauthier and netted his fifth goal of the playoffs to make it 3-3. Aleksi Saarela got the game-winner with 7:08 to play, sniping a shot high to the short side past Dansk for his. Roy’s empty-net goal with 2:32 remaining sealed the win. Tokarski (5-0) made 22 saves for his 12th win in as many appearances as a member of the Checkers this season. For the second time in the series, Tokarski drew the start in net in the second half of games on back-to-back nights. Dansk (10-8) turned aside 18 of 22 shots in the loss. NOTES: Hague’s goal was the fastest to open a Calder Cup Finals since 2017, when Syracuse’s Kevin Lynch scored 17 seconds into Game #5 against Grand Rapids. Charlotte trailed after 40 minutes for just the second time this postseason; they have come back to win both times. The Checkers are also 4-3 when allowing the game’s first goal. The Checkers were 1-for-3 on the power play in Game #4, while the Wolves went 0-for-4. Chicago was without regular-season AHL MVP Daniel Carr, who was injured in Game #3 on Wednesday. Highlights https://theahl.com/ahl_videos/checkers-vs-wolves-game-4

yeah...of course I saw the full match earlier this morning... I mean, when he was presented to the crowd before the start of the game I was almost crying, thinking of what could ever be his feelings (and his pain, even if he would never admit that)... the TD Garden was almost exploding... but...but I still think that he took too much of a risk, playing in that situation... and moreover, since life is normally full of injusticehis effort didn't pay off, as STL finally did play a great game (luckily the level of play is growing up game after game...after the first 3 ugly matches, now we've seen quite a couple of clashes in the last 2 games) and finally won 2-1... now, on Sunday night in STL, Boston have to really dig deep in their hearts and in their tricks' bag to find the counters and get the series back to the TD Garden for game #7...

it would be a good idea, but I doubt our federation would encourage this move...I think they already chose to bet all of their money on Dell'Aquila in the -58kg and Alessio in the -80kg class...if any Italian male is going to Tokyo, it must be 1 (or both) of those 2...

as far as I know, unfortunately not... not even the Italian Federation's website covers all the results, they only posted on Twitter our embarassing series of 1st round losses and stop...

and in fact... Australia saved themselves thanks to a frustrating and disappointing offensive inning by the West Indies... they've been in line to win it despite the early elimination of their superstar Chris Gayle, but they had a really poor final phase (when instead AUS had a strong finish in their offensive effort) and finally AUS took the match home quite comfortably (they won by 15 runs)... tbh, I didn't like the attitude of some of Windies' batters at all...what's the good of having a half century on almost double the balls played, mr. Hope?

to me, he's absolutely crazy... the risk is not worth the possible consequence...he already won a Stanley Cup...and it's not that they don't give him his ring this time if he doesn't play the last 2/3 games because of such an injury... I hope his family can make him understand that pride is one great thing, but stupidity is the level immediately following...

noooooooooo!!!!! Gayle is already out! and now it's gonna be difficult for the West Indies without their emotional leader so early in the offensive inning...

288 all out in 49/50 overs for Australia... Windies need a great inning to overtake the Aussies' score... and CG looks well determined to put on a good show (even by taking some unnecessary risk, I fear)...

if you're interested, ESPN Player (for European viewers) has them in full (live and ondemand)... https://www.espnplayer.com/home p.s. it works great and the picture quality is among the best you can find on this kind of OTT service (no match with Eurosport Player, for instance...it's better than some HDTV channels)...

Calder Cup, Game #3 Recap Checkers take series lead with Game 3 victory Alex Nedeljkovic made 38 saves to lead Charlotte to a 4-1 victory over Chicago in Game #3 of the Calder Cup Finals at Allstate Arena on Wednesday night. The teams go back at it on Thursday night in Game #4 (8 p.m. ET, AHLTV) with the Checkers up two games to one. After getting Game #2 off on Sunday following an overtime loss in Game #1 the previous night, Nedeljkovic showed why he was voted the AHL’s top goaltender during the regular season, keeping the Wolves at bay as Chicago fired 39 shots on net. Charlotte broke through with the game’s first goal for the third time in the series, taking a 1-0 lead just 1:51 into the contest. Julien Gauthier, returning to the lineup after missing Games #1 and #2, redirected a shot from the left point by Jake Bean that slipped past Oscar Dansk for his fifth goal of the playoffs. The Checkers took the 1-0 lead to the locker room after 20 minutes despite being outshot 15-6, including 15-2 over the final 17-plus minutes. Charlotte doubled its advantage at 2:16 of the second period when Bean wristed a shot from the center point that got through traffic and beat Dansk for a power-play goal. It was the first marker of the playoffs for Bean, an AHL All-Rookie selection during the regular season. After seeing Chicago erase two-goal leads in the first two games, Charlotte grabbed a 3-0 lead in Game #3 when Patrick Brown stole the puck at center ice and converted on a breakaway at 11:46, the Checkers’ sixth shorthanded goal in their last six games. The Wolves spoiled Nedeljkovic’s shutout bid with 5:11 to play in regulation when Brooks Macek knocked in a rebound of Zach Whitecloud‘s wrister for his third goal of the playoffs. But Charlotte sealed the victory with an empty-net goal as Martin Necas scored with 3:05 remaining. Bean (1g, 1a), Brown (1g, 1a), Necas (1g, 1a) and Tomas Jurco (2a) all had two-point nights for the Checkers. Dansk finished with 22 saves in net for the Wolves. NOTES: Charlotte’s game-opening goals in the series have all come within the first four minutes of play (2:19, 3:50, 1:51). Nedeljkovic’s 38 saves represented a career high for a regulation game. Chicago was without alternate captain Curtis McKenzie, who served a one-game league suspension. Macek’s goal for Chicago was his first in 13 games. The Wolves held Charlotte’s top line of Andrew Poturalski, Morgan Geekie and Aleksi Saarela off the scoresheet in Game 3; Poturalski’s empty-net goal in Game #2 is that trio’s only point over the last two contests. Charlotte was 1-for-2 on the power play, while Chicago was 0-for-3. Highlights https://theahl.com/ahl_videos/checkers-vs-wolves-finals-game-3

breaking news... as expected our first ever world champion (at the non-Olympic weight of -74kg), Simone Alessio, finally chose to go up in the men's -80kg class, instead of trying a very diffcult cut at 68kg... this is of course the most logical and probably the best decision he could take, but unfortunately it means that 1 between him and Roberto Botta (our second best athlete overall) won't even have a real shot to try to qualify for the Olympic Games, as right now they are fighting in the same weight class...

from Tomorrow, stage #1 of this year's Olympic Classes main series in Rome... Rome's stage outline http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/competition/world-taekwondo-grand-prix/roma-2019-world-taekwondo-grand-prix/information/ Streaming links http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/competition/world-taekwondo-grand-prix/roma-2019-world-taekwondo-grand-prix/live/