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if we only had a serious wrestling federation (and NOC and President of the Republic)... looking at this result, with a decent draw (which means basically avoiding the IRI vs RUS quarter), "our" Kudiiamagomedov could have won at least the silver medal quite easily... but our burocrats are just...our burocrats...

Women's Team 25m Pistol Gold: Germany Silver: France Bronze: Hungary Women's Individual 25m Pistol, Shooters qualified to the Final Doreen Vennekamp* Anna Korakaki* Monika Karsch* Veronika Major* Celine Goberville Heidi Diethelm-Gerber* Mathilde Lamolle Zsofia Csonka * NOT eligible for an Olympic Quota place

San Marinooooooooo!!!!! Men's Freestyle Wrestling, -86kg Semifinals Hassan Yazdani vs Myles Nazem Amine Stefan Reichmuth vs Deepak Punia Olympic Quota for these 4 Nations...

Men's Freestyle Wrestling, -79kg Semifinals Kyle Douglas Dake vs Rashid Kurbanov Jabarayil Hasanov vs Taimuraz Salkazanov

Men's Freestyle Wrestling, -61kg Semifinals Behnam Ehsanpoor vs Magomedrasul Idrisov Rahul Balasheb Aware vs Beka Lomtadze

updated after this morning's repechage rounds...

probably they didn't even know this rule...I'm pretty sure they thought about winning (to close the door to every other option) or, at worst, they had to count on the set & then point ratio... otherwise, if they knew that rule, they Marta, Viktoria and all of their coaches are just a bunch of idiots (hopefully they will qualify in any case through the WR, but if this was their only chance, I just can't believe they made such a "tactical" mistake)... p.s. fivb rules for tie-breaking suck big time! once again...

ops...no, the posts above are in the wrong thread...

Women advancing to the Semifinals 1 Aori Nishimura 2 Candy Jacobs 3 Roos Zwetsloot 4 Yumeka Oda 5 Zeng Wenhui 6 Virginia Fortes Aguas 7 Keet Oldenbeuving 8 Margielyn Didal 9 Isabelle Menezes 10 Funa Nakayama 11 Isabelly Ávila 12 Momiji Nishiya 13 Kotone Nishimura 14 Mariah Duran 15 Alexis Sablone 16 Samarria Brevard 17 Gabriela Mazetto 18 Silveria Ariadne 19 Karen Feitosa 20 Marina Gabriela Quarterfinals Full Results http://www.worldskate.org/skateboarding/results/category/660-wc-street-sao-paulo-2019-results.html?download=4001:result list womens quarterfinal Men advancing to the Semifinals 1 Lucas Rabelo 2 Giovanni Vianna 3 Sora Shirai 4 Jake Ilardi 5 Jamie Foy 6 Angelo Caro 7 Yukito Aoki 8 Axel Cruysberghs 9 Alex Midler 10 Carlos Ribeiro 11 Manny Santiago 12 Richard Tury 13 Micky Papa 14 Dashawn Jordan 15 Jhancarlos Gonzalez 16 Sean Malto 17 Maurio McCoy 18 Alex Decunha 19 Matt Berger 20 Vincent Milou Quarterfinals Full Results http://www.worldskate.org/skateboarding/results/category/660-wc-street-sao-paulo-2019-results.html?download=4002:world skate sls 2019 street skateboarding world championship-men quarterfinal results

Men's Tournament Final Qualification Play-Offs Plavins / Tocs b. Semenov / Leshukov 2-1 (12-21; 22-20; 15-8) Nicolai / Lupo b. Brouwer / Meeuwsen 2-0 (21-17; 21-19) & qualified to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Men's Tournament 3rd Phase, Final Standings Pool I Semenov / Leshukov, 3W - 0L Nicolai / Lupo, 1W - 2L* Kantor / Losiak, 1W - 2L Gerson / Heidrich, 1W - 2L * qualified thanks to a better point ratio than their rivals with the same record in the head-to-head match-ups... Pool J Brouwer / Meeuwsen, 2W - 1L Plavins / Tocs, 2W - 1L Andre / George, 1W - 2L Berntsen / Mol, 1W - 2L

Women's Tournament Final Qualification Play-Offs (Tomorrow) Liliana / Elsa vs Ittlinger / Laboureur Graudina / Kravcenoka vs Hermannova / Slukova

Women's Tournament 3rd Phase, Final Standings Pool I Liliana / Elsa, 3W - 0L Hermannova / Slukova, 2W - 1L Wojtasik / Kociolek, 1W - 2L Wang / Xia, 0W - 3L Pool J Graudina / Kravcenoka, 2W - 1L* Ittlinger / Laboureur, 2W - 1L* Menegatti / Orsi-Toth, 2W - 1L Schützenhöfer/Plesiutschnig, 0W - 3L * & qualified thanks to I don't know which absurd criteria (in the 3-way tie between , & , the Italian pair have a better set & point ratio of the Germans, but still they're out of the tournament )...

it's Italy...

game officially over... Israel now really have one and a half foot in Tokyo...they can just waste it by themselves...

no way they can do it... meanwhile in the other match played tonight, the Netherlands b. Spain 6-2 now, if Israel win tonight's match, they only need one more success in the last 2 games against Czech Republic (tomorrow) and/or South Africa (Sunday) to mathematically earn the Olympic spot reserved to the European teams, without even caring of what Italy and the Netherlands do in their last matches...

edit: wrong thread...

edit: wrong thread...

at that point it won't be so interesting anymore...we can't cut the number of competitors at all the global events...it would make them boring (with only the usual suspects at the start)...

and the Italian Olympic dream is flying away in a crazy top of the 8th...2 capital mistakes and a weird, really unlucky play opened up a 3-run gap in favour of Israel... and the inning is not over yet... it will be really difficult to comeback from this hole, now...

Street Skateboarding WC 2019: Open Qualifiers in Sao Paulo Competition began yesterday with open qualifiers in São Paulo for the World Skate 2019 SLS Street World Championships. With both relative newcomers and experienced veterans throwing their hats in the ring and with some risking it all to make it to the quarter finals, viewers were treated to great skating all day. Forty one women competed for the chance to join those already seeded in the quarter finals, with twenty one moving on. Men’s qualifiers had one hundred and eight people skateboarding, with twenty one moving on to join the pre seeded quarter finalists. Stakes were high through out the day. Heats were broken down into groups of three skaters going head to head, in jam format, for three minutes per heat. With the field being narrowed so much to get into the quarter finals, often one bail made the difference between making or not. Today should be another great day of skateboarders as we work our way closer super crown final this Sunday. Women advancing to Quarterfinals 1 Keet Oldenbeuving 2 Roos Zwetsloot 3 Zeng Wenhul 4 Samarria Brevard 5 Marina Gabriela 6 Meagan Guy 7 Kaya Isa 8 Andrea Benitez 9 Charlotte Hym 10 Silveria Ariadne 11 Julia Brueckler 12 Karen Feitosa 13 Mar Barrera 14 Kotone Nishimura 15 Isabelle Menezes 16 :Haylie Lyn Powell 17 Una Farrar 18 Annie Guglia 19 Tonje Pedersen 20 Asia Lanzi 21 Vianez Morales Men advancing to Quarterfinals 1 Jhancarlos Gonzalez 2 Jamie Foy 3 Zion Wright 4 Yukito Aoki 5 Sean Malto 6 Angelo Caro 7 Micky Papa 8 Brayan Coria 9 Daisuke Ikeda 10 Joseph Garbaccio 11 Axel Cruysberghs 12 Kostya Kabanov 13 Douwe Macarè 14 Patrick Praman 15 Zach Saraceno 16 TJ Rogers 17 Alex Decunha 18 Shay Sandiford 19 Torey Pudwill 20 Lucas Rabelo 21 Richard Tury COMPETITION SCHEDULE FRIDAY - 09/20 11am - Women's Quarterfinals 5.30pm - Men's Quarterfinals SATURDAY - 09/21 3pm - Women's Semifinals 6.30pm - Men's Semifinals SUNDAY - 09/22 2pm - Women's Final 4.30 - Men's Final LIVE STREAMING SCHEDULE ON WWW.WORLDSKATE.TV (BRAZIL LOCAL TIME) SATURDAY - 09/21 Women's Semifinals 3pm Men's Semifinals 6.30pm SUNDAY - 09/22 Women's Final 2pm Men's Final 4.30pm VODs and HIGHLIGHTS available on WWW.WORLDSKATE.TV COMPETITION FORMAT (WOMEN AND MEN) SEEDING 04 Skateboarders Preseed to the Semifinal 16 Skateboarders Preseed to the Quarterfinal OPEN QUALIFIERS The Open Qualifier round is open to a country quota of 3 athletes registered by World Skate recognized National Governing Body, Event Wildcard and Last Chance Qualifier Wildcard holding athletes. Jam Format with a single jam composed of maximum 3 skaters with 3 minutes jam session time. A minimum 16 skaters from the Open Qualifier Ranking will progress to the Quarterfinal. Event phases after the Open Qualifier will be organized using the Olympic contest street format. QUARTERFINAL - 36 SKATERS 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 16 skaters from the Quarterfinal Ranking will progress to the Semifinal. SEMIFINAL - 24 SKATERS 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. The first 8 skaters from the Semifinal Ranking will progress to the Final. FINAL - 8 SKATERS 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.

Women's Wrestling Medal Table USA, 3 / 0 / 0 RUS, 2 / 1 / 2 JPN, 1 / 3 / 2 AZE, 1 / 0 / 1 CAN, 1 / 0 / 0 KGZ, 1 / 0 / 0 PRK, 1 / 0 / 0 UKR, 0 / 2 / 0 CHN, 0 / 1 / 4 SWE, 0 / 1 / 1 BUL, 0 / 1 / 0 ROU, 0 / 1 / 0 MGL, 0 / 0 / 3 GER, 0 / 0 / 2 BLR, 0 / 0 / 1 EST, 0 / 0 / 1 IND, 0 / 0 / 1 KAZ, 0 / 0 / 1 NGR, 0 / 0 / 1

Women's Wrestling, Day #7 Medallists (and Olympic Quota places) -62kg Gold: Aisuluu Tynybekova Silver: Taybe Mustafa Yusein Bronze: Henna Katarina Johansson & Yukako Kawai Olympic Quota for: / / / / / -68kg Gold: Tamyra Mariama Mensah Silver: Anna Jenny Eva Maria Fransson Bronze: Anna Carmen Schell & Battsetseg Soronzonbold Olympic Quota for: / / / / /

Men's Freestyle Wrestling, Day #7 Medallists (and Olympic Quota places) -57kg Gold: Zavur Uguev Silver: Suleyman Atli Bronze: Kumar Ravi & Nurislam Sanayev Olympic Quota for: / / / / / -65kg Gold: Gadzhimurad Rashidov Silver: Daulet Niyazbekov Bronze: Bajrang & Iszmail Muszukaejev Olympic Quota for: / / / / /

I know what they did...but still I find it unfair and totally anti-climatic from the fans' point of view... I hope one day they find a way to end this competition format and replace it with one where all the lifters fighting for the medals are together in a single session (something like having a qualification round and a final...I know it's very complicated in a sport like this, but somehow they have to improve and make it more fan friendly)...