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Men's Cross-Country Race Gold: Mathias Flueckiger Silver: Mathieu Van der Poel Bronze: Jordan Sarrou

Foconi finally wins it! by what a scare against the young US prodigy Nick Itkin...he did really have to use all his experience to edge out the American...

Inna "the Queen" Deriglazova at the moment is just too strong for anybody...even with a good start, Alice Volpi couldn't do anything against her class...it's 6 wins out of 8 events for her this season... but let's see if she can lose the most important competition of the year once again later this Summer...

Women's Cross-Country Race Gold: Kate Courtney Silver: Jolanda Neff Bronze: Yana Belomoina

Men's Team Epee (Paris, FRA) Final Results Gold: Switzerland Silver: France Bronze: Italy Semifinals: France b. Spain 45-26 Switzerland b. Italy 36-27 Bronze Medal Match: Italy b. Spain 39-37 Gold Medal Match: Switzerland b. France 45-32  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://www.engarde-service.com/files/ffe/sncfreseau2019/sncf-eq/index.php?page=clasfinal.htm

and the real drama is that she did it against the team that probably will end up being our main rival for the last Olympic spot, Poland (unless some serious underperforming by France and Estonia also in the next OQP events)...

Women's Team Epee (Dubai, UAE) Final Results Gold: Poland Silver: United States Bronze: Italy Semifinals: USA b. China 45-35 Poland b. Italy 36-30 Bronze Medal Match: Italy b. China 30-29 Gold Medal Match: Poland b. USA 41-28  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://www.engarde-service.com/files/fie_fencing/dubai_2019/epee_women_team/index.php?page=clasfinal.htm

Men's Individual Foil (Shanghai, CHN) Final Results Gold: Alessio Foconi Silver: Nick Itkin Bronze: Ryan Choi Chun Yin & Timur Safin Semifinals: Itkin b. Safin 15-7 Foconi b. Choi 15-11 Gold Medal Match: Foconi b. Itkin 15-14  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2019/145/results/rank

Women's Individual Foil (Shanghai, CHN) Final Results Gold: Inna Deriglazova Silver: Alice Volpi Bronze: Lee Kiefer & Arianna Errigo Semifinals: Deriglazova b. Errigo 15-10 Volpi b. Kiefer 15-9 Gold Medal Match: Deriglazova b. Volpi 15-10  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2019/457/results/rank

well, last year Alessio competed in the Rome GP in the -68kg class...so, it's not sure he has to go up to 80kg... now I don't know if he can still make that weight or not, so we can only sit down and wait to see what he and his technical crew decide to do...

and finally Eleonora Giorgi proved she was just controlling the race...she did even accelerate over the last couple of kilometers and not only won the event (at the end, she still is 56 seconds ahead of Julia Takacs, who also set a new PB and NR), but she also set a new European record destroying by more than a minute the older European best time, held by Inès Henrique, who ended up 3rd in today's race, almost 4 minutes behind Giorgi...

European Cup 2019 (Alytus, LTU) as expected, Yohann Diniz dominated the men's 50k...he won with more than 8 min-margin over Dzmitry Dziubin...3rd was Joao Vieira further 1min40secs behind... but the most interesting race is the women's 50km, with Eleonora Giorgi leading from the start with good margin, but now Julia Takacs has cut down the distance to 1 minute with 3kms to go...and it looks that we're going to have an amazing head to head finish...

he's only 19 years young... he was European Youth champion in 2017 and last year his best result was the Grand Prix tournament in Rome (he participated in the -68kg class, thanks to a wild card), where he reached the quarterfinals (beating the Brazilian Edivaldo Pontes among others)...then he lost to the great Lee Dae Hoon (with a reasonable margin, 36-20)... this year he won the Cyprus Open and the Africa President's Cup... and now he's the first ever male senior world champion for Italy! p.s. and yesterday it was almost a perfect day for Italian Taekwondo, if only Roberto Botta in the -80kg didn't lose in the quarterfinals to the Greek guy (who then easily reached the Gold Medal match, where he's going to face Milad Beigi) by a small point, taking a kick to the head with less than 2 seconds on the clock...

First Cross-Country races of the season in Albstadt, GER... and the Short Circuit events go to: Women's SC X-CO Gold: Kate Courtney Silver: Jolanda Neff Bronze: Kathrin Stirnemann Men's SC X-CO Gold: Mathieu Van Der Poel Silver: Lars Forster Bronze: Nino Schurter The "classic" races will be held Tomorrow, the women @ 11 a.m. CET, the men @ 2.15 p.m. CET for most people, Live Streaming on the Red Bull streaming website/app...

awful results for Italy...probably the worst tournament in the last couple of years... and Crescenzo lost again against a Kazakh guy...and not the usual ones, today he was beaten by their 3rd tier guy! give us a psychologist...but a really good one...

Karate1 Serie A, Stage #2 (Istanbul, TUR) Tomorrow's Gold Medal matches women's Kata Kiyou Shimizu vs Sandra Sanchez Jaime women's Kumite -50kg: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu vs Gu Shiau-Shuang -55kg: Wen Tzu-Yun vs Taravat Khaksar -61kg: Merve Coban vs Alexandra Grande -68kg: Irina Zaretska vs Marina Rakovic +68kg: Ayaka Saito vs Hamideh Abbasali men's Kata Emre Vefa Goktas vs Kakeru Nishiyama men's Kumite -60kg: Eray Samdan vs Yerkinbek Baitureyev -67kg: Hiroto Shinoara vs Dionysios Xenos -75kg: Bahman Askari vs Luigi Busà -84kg: Mahdi Ghararizadeh vs Ugur Aktas +84kg: Saleh Abazari vs Gogita Arkania

Finn European (Open) Championships (Athens, GRE) Medallists Recap European Ranking Gold: Giles Scott Silver: Zsombor Berecz Bronze: Nicholas Heiner Men's Open Regatta Gold: Giles Scott Silver: Andrew Maloney Bronze: Zsombor Berecz Olympic Quota: Brazil, Norway, USA, Greece Full Results: http://www.eio.gr/athens-international-sailing-center/item/5042-finn-2019-european-championship-results

and after scoring our first goal of the tournament , we stopped playing once again...final score, 7-1 for the Scandinavians... by the way, the record for the world champs played with this format is now shared by ITA and AUT (and we're gonna play ewach other on Monday...those who like Cabbala are already all wet ) with 1 goal in the entire tournament...AUT had that wonderful performance in 2011...and it's definitive, they can't improve that anymore

Men's Individual Epee (Paris, FRA) Final Results Gold: Park Sang Young Silver: Nikita Glazkov Bronze: Gergely Siklosi & Mate Tamas Koch Semifinals: Park b. Siklosi 15-13 Glazkov b. Koch 15-10 Gold Medal Match: Park b. Glazkov 15-13  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2019/111/results/rank

here I am...the tournament has just finished, so I'm gonna post the final results in a few minutes... I can tell you that Tristan Tulen had another good day, even if not as good as in Cali...he lost 11-10 to the Russian Glazkov in the round of #16...

after a promising GP result in Cali, back to the usual disaster for Italy in the Epee competitions... no girls in the top 8 in Dubai and also no men in the top 8 in Paris (that tournament is still running, with the round of 16 still to be completed, but all of our guys are already out)...

Women's Individual Epee (Dubai, UAE) Final Results Gold: Choi In Jeong Silver: Courtney Hurley Bronze: Violetta Kolobova & Vivian Kong Man Wai Semifinals: Hurley b. Kolobova 15-14 Choi b. Kong 15-6 Gold Medal Match: Choi b. Hurley 15-11  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2019/451/results/rank

of course...

yes, now they can start a team in the Trap mixed team competition...

I told you...this is not our place... but still, this is not even a team (and in the past it was not like that)... however, I wouldn't bet against a 0-0 and a win in the shootout against AUT in the last match...aka ITA has a not so remote chance to keep themselves in the top division without scoring a single goal in the entire championship (I guess they won't score a goal also against NOR, as I'm pretty sure they're already thinking only about the game vs AUT)... should this happen, it would be a massive scandal and the evidence for IIHF that they have to chage format and get back to 12 teams as soon as possible (actually, they should do it even if ITA and GBR go down...it's not that this is a factor to determine if the 16-team format is competitive enough...it's already well clear that it isn't at all)...