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I'm always reading them with a lot of interest... should you stop doing them, it would be a big loss for the forum... p.s. the 5th quarter are we talking about the slaughter of a calf?

we were complaining about a "traditional" (even if not so "ancient") event, well established in the Olympic program... here we are talking about a few events that have never been in the Olympic program and also many of them being basically the same thing, just changing the distance or the number of seconds between the single series... it's slightly different, I guess (because nobody is complaining about the 50m free pistol or the running targets -which are not here, too)... moreover, the main concern is about all these team events (most of them are really senseless, especially when you have only 3/4 teams showing up with the required 3 shooters and the result being the simple addition of the individual scores -at least the mixed events have a different format, which partially justify their existence)... p.s. and in any case, I'm not complaining because all those events exists...I was just saying that I'm losing count of the so many competitions that are scheduled in this event, with the most important ones just relegated to 1 day and not well spread through the entire week...

Women's Wrestling, Day #5 Medallists (and Olympic Quota) -50kg Gold: Mariya Stadnik Silver: Emilia Alina Vuc Bronze: Valentina Islamova Brik & Ekaterina Poleshchuk Olympic Quota for: / / / / / -53kg Gold: Pak Yong Mi Silver: Mayu Mukaida Bronze: Vinesh & Pang Qianyu Olympic Quota for: / / / / / -55kg Gold: Jacarra Gwenisha Winchester Silver: Nanami Irie Bronze: Olga Khoroshtavtseva & Bolortuya Bat Ochir -72kg Gold: Natalia Vorobeva Silver: Alina Berezhna Stadnyk Makhynia Bronze: Paliha & Masako Furuichi

Mixed Team Junior 50m Pistol Gold: Russia 1 Silver: Russia 2 Bronze: Ukraine

and also the last Italian fighter still in the tournament has gone out... Salvatore Cavallaro (-75kg), in fact, earlier today was declared as the loser of the quarterfinals bout against the Brazilian joker Hebert Da Conceicao Sousa...a man who used to raise his arm after every punch (well off the target) he threw...once even after having taken a hit on his face... but despite that (and the fact that he landed just 1 punch in the entire match and went with his ass on the ground in rd.#1 -somehow not even counted by the ref.), Sadie Duffy, Yaroslav Renev, Manuel Vilarino and Shawn Reese (oh, once again this name among the judges when there's a controversial to say the least final result ) still saw the Brazilian as the winner of today's match... not that it was unexpected (especially by the Russian and the Irish judges, our political enemies since a very long time), but still...as a boxing fan, it hurts to see day after day how the Olympic Boxing is dying after corruption and interests that have nothing to do with the sport...

now I'm also experimenting the blocked live broadcast on Youtube... but at least the live broadcast on the Thailand TAWA Facebook Page is working great... https://www.facebook.com/OfficialThailandTawa/videos/784069175346671/

Men's Tournament Second Phase Draw Pool E Gerson / Heidrich Grimalt / Grimalt Brouwer / Meeuwsen Pool F Herrera / Gavira Kantor / Losiak Plavins / Tocs Pool G Semenov / Leshukov Andre / George Seidl / Waller Pool H Berntsen / Mol Perusic / Schweiner Nicolai / Lupo

Women's Tournament Second Phase Draw Pool E Hermannova / Slukova Lahti / Parkkinen Schützenhöfer/Plesiutschnig Pool F Menegatti / Orsi-Toth Heidrich / Vergè-Deprè Wojtasik / Kociolek Pool G Liliana / Elsa Angela / Carol Horta Ittlinger / Laboureur Pool H Graudina / Kravcenoka Keizer / Meppelink Wang / Xia

Women's Wrestling, Day #6 Finals -57kg Gold Medal match: Rong Ningning vs Risako Kawai Bronze Medal match #1: Jowita Maria Wrzesien vs Marina Simonyan / Iryna Kurachkina Bronze Medal match #2: Odunayo Folasade Adekuoroye vs Anastasia Nichita / Lissette Alexandra Antes Castillo / Tserenchimed Sukhee Olympic Quota so far: / / / -59kg Gold Medal match: Linda Morais vs Ljubov Ovcharova Bronze Medal match #1: Shoovdor Baatarjav vs Tetiana Omelchenko / Anhelina Lysak Bronze Medal match #2: Pooja Dhanda vs Pei Xingru / Gulnora Toshpulatova -65kg Gold Medal match: Inna Trazhukova vs Iryna Koliadenko Bronze Medal match #1: Elis Manolova vs Yuliana Vasileva Yaneva / Aina Temirtassova / Choi Se Eun Bronze Medal match #2: Forrest Ann Molinari vs Wang Xiaoqian / Bolortuya Khurelkhuu -76kg Gold Medal match: Hiroe Minagawa Suzuki vs Adeline Maria Gray Bronze Medal match #1: Epp Maee vs Zhou Qian / Aline Da Silva Ferreira / Blessing Joy Oniebuchi Bronze Medal match #2: Aline Rotter Focken vs Chang Hui Tsz / Elmira Syzdykova / Eleni Pjollaj Olympic Quota so far: / / /

the top 2 of each group of 3 will go through to round 3, which is another group stage, with 2 groups of 4 (then the top 2 will advance to the semifinals)...

here in Italy everything works perfectly... of course I didn't watch the live broadcast, so I don't know what happened earlier this morning...

Full Video (men's -55kg Group B is at the beginning, women's -45 Group B starts at around 2h29mins)...

Full Video:

Men's Tournament Pairs qualified to the Second Phase Gerson / Heidrich Nicolai / Lupo Andre / George Herrera / Gavira Berntsen / Mol Seidl / Waller Semenov / Leshukov Plavins / Tocs Brouwer / Meeuwsen Perusic / Schweiner Grimalt / Grimalt Kantor / Losiak

Women's Tournament Pairs qualified to the Second Phase Hermannova / Slukova Wang / Xia Schützenhöfer/Plesiutschnig Menegatti / Orsi-Toth Liliana / Elsa Angela / Carol Horta Ittlinger / Laboureur Heidrich / Vergè-Deprè Graudina / Kravcenoka Keizer / Meppelink Lahti / Parkkinen Wojtasik / Kociolek

Women's Wrestling, Day #5 Semifinals -57kg Rong Ningning vs Jowita Maria Wrzesien Odunayo Folasade Adekuoroye vs Risako Kawai Olympic Quota so far: / / / -59kg* Shoovdor Baatarjav vs Linda Morais Pooja Dhanda vs Ljubov Ovcharova * NOT an Olympic Weight Class -65kg* Elis Manolova vs Inna Trazhukova Forrest Ann Molinari vs Iryna Koliadenko * NOT an Olympic Weight Class -76kg Hiroe Minagawa Suzuki vs Epp Mae Adeline Maria Gray vs Aline Rotter Focken Olympic Quota so far: / / /

updated after this morning's repechage rounds...

only because they adopt freaking wrong rules (and because of biased -if not corrupted- refs and officials)... with the rules they were using until 20 years ago, Greco-Roman wrestling was a lot more spectacular and offensive-minded... then someone started to say that it was not so "accasional viewer friendly" and they started to change the rules year after year...and always going in the wrong direction, giving refs too many responsibilities and chances to heavily influence the final outcome of every single bout... p.s. and it's not my/our fault if most people nowadays have the attention span of a hamster and/or can't appreciate a sport for what it is...

yeah, when our great Giorgio Minisini (by far the best male in the sport right now) will be gone...

I'm losing count of how many (in most cases redundant) events are contested in this championship... and we're still 4 days away from the only 4 that really matters...

Mixed Team 50m Prone Rifle Gold: Norway 2 Silver: Russia 1 Bronze: Great Britain 1 Mixed Team 50m Pistol Gold: Russia 2 Silver: Ukraine 1 Bronze: Ukraine 2 Mixed Junior Team 25m Standard Pistol Gold: Germany 1 Silver: Italy Bronze: Ukraine Men's Junior Individual 25m Standard Pistol Gold: Laurent Pierre Andrè Cussigh Silver: Matej Rampula Bronze: Florian Peter Men's Junior Team 25m Standard Pistol Gold: Czech Republic Silver: Italy Bronze: Russia Men's Individual 25m Standard Pistol Gold: Pavlo Korostylov Silver: Yusuf Dikec Bronze: Christian Reitz Men's Team 25m Standard Pistol Gold: Turkey Silver: Ukraine Bronze: Germany

also there it's just a question of...

guys, Greco-Roman Wrestling is the history of this sport...this is the discipline that was present since the very first edition of the modern Games...and it doesn't include women's competitions...point. I just wish all the worst to those who even think about a further cut to the Wrestling Olympic program... gender equality has really become an obsession that doesn't make any sense in the way it's intended right now... it's OK having a place for both men and women within the entire sport, but nobody should even think that they must have the same number of events and athletes, when it's more than obvious that no sport in the world has so many female participants as males (not to mention that a relevant part of the world doesn't support -to say the least- women's sport at all)... p.s. and someone should explain to me why nobody think about kicking artistic swimming and rhythmic gymnastics out of the Games program, as they blatantly reject any male presence (even when it should be possible to expand in that direction, but the IOC just said no to FINA when they proposed to switch from the all female duets to the mixed duets already in time for Tokyo 2020)? frankly, I have to repeat myself once again...I find irritating all this talking of this farce named gender equality...and even more I find annoying every kind of justification of this sh*t which is just destroying the world of the Olympic sports as it's always been appreciated by the only fans the Games can have...

Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling, Final Medal Table RUS, 2 / 3 / 0 GEO, 2 / 0 / 1 JPN, 2 / 0 / 1 HUN, 1 / 1 / 1 CUB, 1 / 1 / 0 TUR, 1 / 0 / 1 UKR, 1 / 0 / 0 KAZ, 0 / 1 / 2 UZB, 0 / 1 / 2 ARM, 0 / 1 / 1 AZE, 0 / 1 / 1 SWE, 0 / 1 / 0 IRI, 0 / 0 / 3 GER, 0 / 0 / 2 SRB, 0 / 0 / 2 BUL, 0 / 0 / 1 CHN, 0 / 0 / 1 EST, 0 / 0 / 1

Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling, Day #4 Medallists -60kg Gold: Kenichiro Fumita Silver: Sergey Emelin Bronze: Ali Reza Nejati & Mirambek Ainagulov -77kg Gold: Tamas Lorincz Silver: Alex Michel Bjurberg Kessidis Bronze: Mohammad Geraei & Jalgasbay Berdimuratov -130kg Gold: Riza Kayaalp Silver: Oscar Pino Hinds Bronze: Iakobi Kajaia & Heiki Nabi