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I don't really know how I could do to see one day 12000 hot fans shouting and jumping for a wrestling match/tournament in Italy... I'm so envious... p.s. thanks for sharing that video...

especially that video is done very well... one thing about the written article...they say the bats can be alluminum or wood...nowadays the bats are always only made of wood...alluminum bats are only used in the NCAA (the US college system) and in Softball...

if you like reading... https://www.rulesofsport.com/sports/baseball.html meanwhile, if you prefer watching (and listening)... however, you can find a lot of tutorials (both written and/or as a video) around the web...

I tried to be gentle with him...today he looked more like a wrestler momentarily committed to Boxing, to say the least... but I guess his "aggressive" style (let's name it that way) impressed the judges enough to be declared the winner...

2019 European Baseball Championships Gold Medal match: Netherlands b. Italy 5-1 Bronze Medal match: Spain b. Israel 16-11 Final Standings Gold: Netherlands Silver: Italy Bronze: Spain 4th, Israel 5th, Czech Republic 6th, Germany =7th, Belgium =7th, France 9th, Great Britain 10th, Austria 11th, Croatia (Relegated to Div. II) 12th, Sweden (Relegated to Div. II)

game over! congrats to The Kingdom Of The Netherlands... we've been lucky to escape quarters and semis thanks to our big bats, but against NED it was obvious that we needed at least a decent performance from our pitchers...and it didn't happen, as expected... I'd like to say that we're going to take our revenge at the OQT, but tbh I fear that next time round things can only get worse than this week... with thse pitchers, there's no chance we get the Olympic Quota place...

yeah, today he was so impressive against a talented guy like Maryanyan... his move looks like a spinning/rotating head lock (I have to watch his match again and listen to the english sound to hear how they call it)...it's really spectacular...and I think the key for a move like that is more the precise grab and the speed of the execution rather than the pure strenght, so I think it might work well also at 67kg...

Italy stranded with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 7th... you just can't waste chances like that in a European Gold medal match...

@MHSN how realistic is the chance for Ota to go up to -67kg next year, if this Fumita is so good to close the door for him in the -60kg class? I mean, I don't any other Japanese so good in that class...he might (should) think something like that or do you think he's going to try and face Fumita also in next year's Jap trials with the heavy risk to watch the Games on TV?

Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling, Day #3 Finals -67kg Gold Medal match: Ismael Borrero Molina vs Artem Surkov Bronze Medal match #1: Fredrik Holmquist Bjerrehuus vs Mate Nemes / Chen Yan-Kai / Andreas Vetsch Bronze Medal match #2: Mohamed Ibrahim Elsayed vs Ryu Han Su / Frank Staebler / Hamed Tab / Mihai Radu Mihut -87kg Gold Medal match: Zhan Beleniuk vs Viktor Lorincz Bronze Medal match #1: Denis Maksymilian Kudla vs Mikalai Stadub / Alfonso Antonio Leyva Yepez / Ivan Huklek Bronze Medal match #2: Rustam Assakalov vs Na Junjie / Shyhazberdi Ovelekov / Atabek Azisbekov -97kg Gold Medal match: Musa Evloev vs Artur Aleksanyan Bronze Medal match #1: Mihail Kajaia vs Tadeusz Michalik / Jahongir Turdiev / Yuta Nara Bronze Medal match #2: Giorgi Melia vs Mohammad Saravi / Cenk Ildem / Aliaksandr Hrabovik / Matti Elias Kuosmanen

Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling, Day #2 Medallists -55kg Gold: Nugzari Tsurtsumia Silver: Khorlan Zhakansha Bronze: Shota Ogawa & Eldaniz Azizli -63kg Gold: Shinobu Ota Silver: Stepan Maryanyan Bronze: Almat Kebispayev & Slavik Galstyan -72kg Gold: Abuiazid Mantsigov Silver: Aram Vardanyan Bronze: Balint Korpasi & Aik Mnatsakanian -82kg Gold: Lasha Gobadze Silver: Rafig Huseynov Bronze: Saeid Abdevali & Qian Haitao

mixed Team Skeet Gold: Russia 2 (Zilia Batyrshina & Nikolay Teplyy) Silver: France 1 (Lucie Anastassiou & Anthony Terras) Bronze: Great Britain 2 (Amber Hill & Ben Llewellin) Junior mixed Team Skeet Gold: Germany 1 (Eva-Tamara Reichert & Christopher Robin Honkomp) Silver: Russia 2 (Elizaveta Evgrafova & Andrei Danilenkov) Bronze: Cyprus (Anastasia Eleftheriou & Petros Englezoudis)

women's Team Skeet Gold: Italy Silver: Slovakia Bronze: Russia men's Team Skeet Gold: Czech Republic Silver: France Bronze: Cyprus women's Junior Team Skeet Gold: Slovakia Silver: Russia Bronze: Germany men's Junior Team Skeet Gold: Czech Republic Silver: Germany Bronze: Cyprus

men's Junior Individual 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Gold: Egor Ismakov Silver: Antonin Tupy Bronze: Dmitrii Maliukin men's Junior Team 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Gold: Germany Silver: Russia Bronze: Ukraine women's Junior Individual 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Anna Janssen Silver: Sofia Ceccarello Bronze: Melissa Ruschel men's Junior Individual 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Max Braun Silver: Grigorii Shamakov Bronze: Maciej Kowalewicz women's Junior Team 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Germany Silver: Czech Republic Bronze: Hungary

I think you're a bit too optimistic...to make the top 10, you need more than 10 gold medals...and frankly I don't see Brazil going that far, even if they could (easily?) win 2 gold medals in skateboarding and 1 in surfing...

don't write it too early... now, with Breek out of the game, many things could change... and don't forget that our strenght is the last part of the game...our bats are kinda a diesel machine...

our only very talented boxer, Aziz Mouhiddine (-91kg), is also out in round #1..today he lost (?) against a man from Jordan I never heard of before... Italian men's boxing is really at their lowest point ever...

sure, there are no more hard dates...but still you must give every competitor the chance to play their cards... ioc have more freedom to make their choice, but they just can't do "whatever they want"...there's a certain difference between the 2 positions...

I haven't watched today's final, so I don't know if Reynolds' win is deserved or not...but for sure he wasn't the guy expected on top of the podium before the world championship started...

2019 Park World Championships Complete Final Results Women http://www.worldskate.org/skateboarding/results/category/656-wc-park-sao-paulo-2019-results.html?download=3992:sao-paulo-park-world-championship-women-complete-results Men http://www.worldskate.org/skateboarding/results/category/656-wc-park-sao-paulo-2019-results.html?download=3994:sao-paulo-park-world-championship-men-complete-results

quite surprising outcome in the men's final...both heavy favourites (Schaar and Barros) didn't even make the podium... and another bitter 4th place for Australia, after they got the "wooden medal" also in the girls' event yesterday... men's Final Gold: Heimana Reynolds Silver: Luiz Francisco Bronze: Pedro Quintas 4th, Keegan Palmer 5th, Thomas Schaar 6th, Pedro Barros 7th, Tate Carew 8th, Mateus Hiroshi

no, they can't even do it...they have to launch a bid campaign and give enough time to every interested city to present their bid properly before they award an Olympiad to somebody... maybe they won't wait until 2025 (as it would be needed, according to the current rules), but surely it won't happen too quickly either...

the problem it's not the girls competing...it's the boys and girls of that age competing with adult people and being part of a "dark world" as the one behind this kind of activity excercised in a professional way... I used that word because it hits immediately the attention and reminds to the worst things, but I just wanted to say that's insane to expose children of that age to the danger of overtraining, public overexposure, doubtful personal relationships (like those developing between certain coaches and too young pupils) and the effect that all this could have on them (mentally and not only mentally...think about a 12-year boy leaving the school and his friends for 2 or 3 years to pursuit "the Olympic dream" -often the dream of his parents rather than his- and which consequence it could have on him)... if you prefer, we can even use other words (even 3-line long paraphrasis) to describe the situation... but still the main problem remains that I'm totally against this "age deregulation" in certain sports...to me, 11/12 year old boys and girls should just go to school and play with friends, not running a professional acitvity (but, as I wrote, maybe I'm too heavily influence by the Italian culture, which tends to delay every aspect of people's life if compared with many other areas in the World)...

yes, next Saturday (some preliminaries will be next Friday, though) it will be a Shooting Super-Saturday with all 4 Olympic weapons' finals in a single day...

hey, there's a , in between the 2 arguments... I repeat, they're too inconsistent and they don't have enough pitching depth to be dangerous in an entire round robin tournament (like the OQT)... then, with their best pitchers on the mound, on a given day they can be a nightmare for everybody (and they can even win a 5th place match playoff)... today they were lucky, too...in the 9th inning they've been 2 centimeters away from being overtaken by GER...I still don't know how their shortstop stopped that ball hit by the German player (don't remember who he was) with bases loaded a no outs... to me, there's no chance they make the top 2 in the OQT...