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2019 Shotgun Shooting World Cup Final (Al Ain, UAE) Men's Skeet Gold: Luigi Lodde Silver: Vincent Hancock Bronze: Azmy Mehelba

that's well possible...our swimming federation in the last 10 years improved a lot in both the technical and the financial mangement...and now iot's one of the richest federations in Italy (thanks mainly to the good results, as funding released by NOC is based mainly on that)... and Open Water Swimming has always been well supported, it's never been the black sheep of the federation (probably because they were already winning world medals when our pool swimmers still used to struggle a lot even in the European context)...

2019 Shotgun Shooting World Cup Final (Al Ain, UAE) Women's Skeet Gold: Wei Meng Silver: Amber Hill Bronze: Amber English

no, our budget is always the same (more or less) of the last few years (and it's quite a poor one, if compared to Nations like GB or GER or probably also FRA)... most of those medals can be explained with the extraordinary results we got at the recent Acquatics Worlds (more than half of them come from that event...and we all know that some of them have been just a lucky coincidence -Katie Ledecky being sick at the beginnning of that event, Serbian men in Waterpolo competing with their C team after having previously earned the Olympic spot at the Home World Cup, Paltrinieri taking advantage of a bad day from Wellbrock and Romanchuk in the 800m free)... then we have the usual high number of medals from Fencing and Shotgun Shooting (even if only "minor" medals) and no Gold and also a few in Track Cycling (where we have a young and improving female team, who dominated the junior ranks for years and now are starting to show up also among the senior ranks) and in a new discipline like Karate... plus those 3/4 random champions we have here and there (Rowing, Chamizo in Wrestling, the Nacra teams in Sailing, Kerschbaumer in Mountain Bike)... basically, we can say that we have a couple of sports rising (Swimming and Track Cycling), a couple trying to keep up with the high hopes (Fencing and Shooting), the new addition (Karate) and a few random exploits... we'll see if next year those disciplines can confirm (or why not? improve) themselves or if it's gonna happen what normally happens to the Italian sports...losing positions when it really matters... p.s.however, it's 36 medals...but half of them being just bronze (and not set to improve, rather losing positions in 12 months) and only 6/7 being Gold (a couple of which are impossible to be confirmed)...it's not such a good persepctive as it might look...

2019 Shotgun Shooting World Cup Final (Al Ain, UAE) Women's Trap Gold: Aeriel Alease Skinner Silver: Laetisha Scanlan Bronze: Alessia Iezzi Men's Trap Gold: Mauro De Filippis Silver: Alexey Alipov Bronze: Alberto Fernandez

Men's Skeet - Start list Tomas Nydrle Luigi Lodde Vincent Hancock Gabriele Rossetti Jakub Tomecek Jeremy Harry Bird, Jesper Hansen, Azmy Mehelba and Tammaro Cassandro go to the shoot-off for the last place in the Final

PROGRAM (...) Saturday October 12th • Final Men and Women to be precise, Women's Final @ 4 p.m. local time (3 p.m. CET) and Men's Final @ 7 p.m. local time (6 p.m. CET) https://vk.com/fedskate?z=photo-150050521_457242797%2Fwall-150050521_2303 most likely, Live Streaming will be available on the Russian Skateboarding Federation's page on Youtube (like yesterday's Semis)... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP-Us7ctuwevfpwI1Our3GQ/videos

questa può diventare una telenovela di successo...c'è un po' di tutto: sport, sesso, cospirazioni (e, parere personale, la sensazione che, arrivando così in ritardo, questa denncia nasconda qualche altro fine)... https://www.oasport.it/2019/10/ciclismo-maila-andreotti-accusa-il-ct-dino-salvoldi-entrava-in-camera-che-tu-fossi-vestita-o-no-e-un-massaggiatore/ anche se arrivano già le prime difese d'ufficio... https://www.oasport.it/2019/10/ciclismo-letizia-paternoster-difende-il-ct-salvoldi-sta-subendo-attacchi-irreali-abbiamo-una-dignita-non-permettiamo-che-succedano-certe-cose/ p.s. quasi quasi mi propongo per andare a fare il massaggiatore di una squadra di ciclismo su pista femminile...

it's in Italian (sorry, I didn't find anything in English)... https://www.oasport.it/2019/10/ginnastica-elsa-garcia-shock-ai-mondiali-abusata-e-insultata-dagli-allenatori-non-mi-hanno-fatto-qualificare-alle-olimpiadi/ according to the article, it's not even the first time Eric Demay and Cecile Pellerin are charged with this kind of behaviour (also the Swiss team sent them away in 2007 after Ariella Kaeslin reported to have been abused verbally, psychologically and phisically by the French couple)...

Women's Skeet - Start list Caitlin Connor Amber Hill Wei Meng Chiara Cainero Amber English Samantha Simonton and Andri Eleftheriou go to the shoot-off for the last place in the Final

if only there were a couple of Olympic Quota places up for grab as in the regular World Cup stages...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swimming-doping-dwyer/swimming-u-s-olympic-champion-dwyer-retires-after-doping-ban-idUSKBN1WQ2SB

Men's Street, Boys advancing to the Final Vincent Milou Konstantin Kabanov Jaakko Ojanen Douwe Macarè Simon Deprez Maxim Habanec Axel Cruysberghs Joseph Garbaccio Semifinals Full Result http://www.worldskate.org/skateboarding/results/category/673-european-championships-2019.html?download=4133:men-semifinal-full-results-street-european-championship-nizhny-novgorod-2019

tbh, there's nothing new or underdeveloped in 3x3 basketball...but this isn't the real 3x3 basketball, the same kind of game you can find in all the playgrounds around the world (and especially the big US cities, NY and L.A. above all)... it's just the same fiba basketball, but played by only 3 men/women per team... and this qualification system is just criminal...to say the least...

Women's Individuall All-Around Gold: Simone Biles, 58.999 Pts Silver: Tang Xijing, 56.899 Pts Bronze: Angelina Melnikova, 56.399 Pts Full Results: https://live.gymnastics.sport/link.php?id=2792 Men's Individual All-Around Gold: Nikita Nagornyy, 88.772 Pts Silver: Artur Dalaloyan, 87.165 Pts Bronze: Oleg Verniaiev, 86.973 Pts Full Results: https://live.gymnastics.sport/link.php?id=2796

very disappointing performance by Asia Lanzi...she only ended up the semifinal round in 10th place overall and so she wasted her best chance to sum up quite a few points in the OQR (even if actually I don't know if it would be better to see her finishing last at the Olympics or not seeing her in Tokyo at all)...

Women's Street, Girls advancing to the Final Candy Jacobs Keet Oldenbeuving Roos Zwetsloot Lore Bruggeman Charlotte Hym Ksenia Maricheva Sarah De Laet Evelien Bouilliart Semifinals Full Result http://www.worldskate.org/skateboarding/results/category/673-european-championships-2019.html?download=4132:women-s-semifinal-full-results-street-european-champioship-nizhny-novgorod-2019

Men's Qualification Round Full Results (Top 24 advancing to the Semifinal Round) http://www.worldskate.org/skateboarding/results/category/673-european-championships-2019.html?download=4131:men-qualification-full-results-street-european-championship-nizhny-novgorod-2019 p.s. Women's Qualification Round wasn't contested because there were only 20 girls at the start of this Event.

2019 Street Skateboarding European Championships (Nizhny Novgorod, RUS) Running from October 8th to October 12th 2019 at sports complex "Mescherskiy"in Nizhny Novogorod - Russia, the event is the first of our continental Championships for Olympic qualification season #2. Below the list of athletes that have been granted preseeding spot in Semifinal phase of competition, based on Olympic World Skateboarding Ranking (OWSR) status after the Street Skateboarding World Championship 2019. These skaters will not count toward the country quota of 6 per gender allowed for registration in the Open Qualifier. Women Candy Jacobs Roos Zwetsloot Keet Oldenbeuving Andrea Benitez Asia Lanzi Julia Brueckler Mar Barrera Aura Brèdart Ksenia Maricheva Charlotte Hym Men Gustavo Ribeiro Aurélien Giraud Vincent Milou Axel Cruysberghs Richard Tury Alex Decunha Joseph Garbaccio Maxim Habanec Konstantin Kabanov Denny Pham PROGRAM Tuesday October 8th • Practice: Men and Women (practice by assigned heat) Wednesday October 9th • Practice: Men and Women (practice by assigned heat) Thursday October 10 • Qualifier Men and Women Friday October 11th • Semifinal Men and Women Saturday October 12th • Final Men and Women COMPETITION FORMAT In the Qualifiers, skaters will compete in Jam Format with a single jam composed of maximum 3 skaters with 3minutes jam session time. Event phases after the Qualifier will be organized using the Olympic contest street format. Each skater will perform 2 runs of 45 seconds and 5 individual trick attempts; the best 4 scores from runs or trick attempts will be added to give the total round score. • A minimum 22 skaters from the Qualifier Ranking will progress to the Semifinals • The first 8 skaters from the Semifinal Ranking will progress to the Final

do you mean Elisa Iorio? nothing too serious, luckily... she had a spraine ankle at the vault...she still has to undergo the usual medical examination, but the Italian federation released a note stating it's nothing to worry about...

tbh, I don't know why they didn't use a few of the many "dome" (indoor) stadiums they have in Japan to avoid a situation like this... I mean, they should have had at least a plan B...it's well known that the end of september/beginning of October is typhoon time in that area... and if a match between ITA and NZL can be considered useless (even if actually ITA still had an unrealistic mathematical/theoretical chance to qualify), FRA vs ENG must be played no matter how, otherwise we can say already from now that we have a farce of a tournament, with 2 teams that could have changed completely the knockout stage table draw depending on the outcome of their direct match-up and now they also have a really tough game less in their legs and more recovery time than their opponents, who already played all of their preliminary stage matches...

guys! I didn't mean literally where did you find that news? I just meant what's new in an Italian boxer being robbed in the last 10 years? by the way, both robberies stayed unpunished...bith times Italy made appeal and both times said appeal was rejected... p.s. OA has quite a few weak points, but it's still not only the best, it's the only reliable (under some circumstances) Italian sport website... Gazzetta 3000...ops...I mean, la Gazzetta dello Sport's website is only good to look at Diletta Leotta and Wanda Nara's naked pictures...

where's the news?

more rosters announced... defending champions, South Korea http://www.wbsc.org/defending-champions-korea-announce-premier12-roster/ Mexico http://www.wbsc.org/group-a-host-mexico-reveals-premier12-roster/ Dominican Republic http://www.wbsc.org/dominican-republic-unveils-28-man-roster-for-wbsc-premier12/ and they also announced their new jerseys' manufacturer (guess what? a Japanese firm) and the new look of their uniforms... http://www.wbsc.org/dominican-republic-unveils-official-uniforms-for-premier12/ https://t.co/7DqC4UNf3l

The 6th and final Gameday of the preliminary stage is scheduled for next week, on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 15th and 16th...