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https://www.tissottiming.com/2019/ctrwch/pl-pl/Default/

which is normally the case... it's quite unusual to see fire weapons events held before the air weapons'...but this time it went that way... on the other side, if they went the other way round, now it would be the Korean Kim (who today won her quota place as 4th ranked) to call it an unlucky circumstance... every medal has always 2 sides...

the trade deadline came...and most teams made all what they could to improve their immediate and/or their future perspective (depending on their current ranking and ambition in this season)... among the moves that hit the headlines: Mark Stone traded from Ottawa to the Vegas Golden Knights; Nashville sacrifying some young talent like Kevin Fiala to add consistency and experience with Mikael Granlund and Wayne Simmonds; San Josè adding scoring depth with Gustav Nyquist, acquired from Detroit; Winnipeg re-shuffling their lines with the newcomers Kevin Hayes (from the NY Rangers), Matt Hendricks (from Minnesota), Bogdan Kiselevich (from Florida), Alexander Broadhurst (from Columbus) and Nathan Beaulieu (from Buffalo); Colorado acquiring Derek Brassard from Florida; Calgary fixing their defence with Oscar Fantenberg from the L.A. Kings (that earlier in the season sent also Jake Muzzin to Toronto and made many other moves intended to find some space in their salary cap for the upcoming offseason)... here are all the moves made in these days from the 31 NHL teams: https://www.nhl.com/news/2018-19-nhl-trades/c-289968698?tid=278542340 and here's a quick analysis of where the teams stand right now, after the trade deadline: https://www.nhl.com/news/how-each-team-fared-at-nhl-trade-deadline/c-305243854?tid=278542340

Italy out in quarterfinals in the women's team foil...

Women's Cadet Team Foil Final Results Gold: Russia Silver: France Bronze: Ukraine Semifinals: France b. Poland 23-22 Russia b. Ukraine 45-37 Bronze Medal Match: Ukraine b. Poland 45-25 Gold Medal Match: Russia b. France 45-35  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/3321F4D4336E47A3B851AD9FD133BB02

Men's Cadet Team Sabre Final Results Gold: Italy Silver: Russia Bronze: Hungary Semifinals: Italy b. Hungary 45-33 Russia b. France 45-36 Bronze Medal Match: Hungary b. France 45-44 Gold Medal Match: Italy b. Russia 45-30  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/76224C9C177448E69F59CCA7AC53CE76

Men's Cadet Team Epee Final Results Gold: Italy Silver: Hungary Bronze: Russia Semifinals: Italy b. Poland 45-38 Hungary b. Russia 45-26 Bronze Medal Match: Russia b. Poland 45-27 Gold Medal Match: Italy b. Hungary 45-34  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/1E4C065DCFDB43F0B5E44D9E0CD9FD41

what a farce! man can't trust even the Swiss clocks anymore...

2019 World Cup, Stage #1 (New Delhi, IND) Men's Individual 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Gold: Christian Reitz Silver: Li Junmin Bronze: Kim Jun Hong

Embiid would have not played the WC in any case...I'm pretty sure about that... he's too important to his NBA team and he's too much injury prone...he's gonna spend all Summer having physio and resting, nothing else...

2019 PSA Squash World Championships (Chicago, USA) Last #16 Men Mohamed El Shorbagy b. Leo Au 3-0 (11-7, 11-3, 11-6; 31m) Miguel Rodriguez b. James Willstrop 3-2 (12-14, 11-2, 7-11, 11-9, 11-8; 105m) Marwan El Shorbagy b. Ryan Cuskelly 3-1 (11-4, 11-7, 9-11, 11-7; 58m) Tarek Momen b. Mohamed Abouelghar 3-2 (5-11, 11-4, 8-11, 13-11, 11-3; 67m) to be played later Tonight Simon Rösner vs Borja Gola Saurav Ghosal vs Joel Makin Paul Coll vs Fares Dessouky Mazen Hesham vs Ali Farag

2019 PSA Squash World Championships (Chicago, USA) Last #16 Women Raneem El Welily b. Alison Waters 3-0 (11-8, 11-6, 11-7; 29m) Nouran Gohar b. Victoria Lust 3-0 (11-8, 11-8, 11-9; 36m) Annie Au b. Laura Massaro 3-0 (11-9, 11-8, 11-4; 33m) Nour El Tayeb b. Melissa Alves 3-0 (11-7, 11-3, 11-6; 23m) to be played later Tonight Joelle King vs Joey Chan Nicol David vs Camille Serme Sarah-Jane Perry vs Tesni Evans Amanda Sobhy vs Nour El Sherbini

men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol, shooters qualified to the Final Clement Bessaguet Kim Jun Hong Christian Reitz Zhu Haojie Anish Anish Lin Junmin *NO Olympic Quota will be awarded in this event because of the "Pakistani affair"...

2019 World Cup, Stage #1 (New Delhi, IND) Women's Individual 10m Air Pistol Gold: Veronika Major Silver: Wu Chia Ying Bronze: Kim Bo Mi Olympic Quota: Chinese Taipei, South Korea

women's 10m Air Pistol, shooters qualified to the Final Wu Chia Ying Kim Bo Mi* Kim Min Jung Veronika Major* Afaf Elhodhod Viktoria Chaika Tanyaporn Prucksakorn Mina Ghorbani *NOT eligible for Olympic Quota

2019 World Cup, Stage #1 (New Delhi, IND) Women's Individual 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Nina Christen Silver: Shi Mengyao Bronze: Yelizaveta Korol Olympic Quota: Switzerland, China

Egypt Open 2019 (G2 tournament, Hurgada, EGY) Spain were the winners of this tournament with 3 Gold Medals... in the Medal Table they were followed by Croatia and Jordan with 2 Gold Medals each and then by a bunch of Nations with "only" 1 Gold Medal ( Austria, Belgium, Egypt, Germany, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Serbia and Ukraine)... Full Medallists Recap here: Day #1 Day #2

for sure it's not "He Got Game"... that's a movie about Basketball (the dirty world behind the college teams trying to recruit the most talented high school kids with all kind of methods, illegal ones included) and about the difficult and controversial family relationship between the main character (role played by the NBA star Ray Allen) and his father (the classic "survivor", just released from jail and already facing a lot of troubles and so on)... and another great movie directed by Spike Lee is "Inside Man" (this is more a traditional "robbery movie", but with something original that's worth the time in front of the screen, if compared to the vast majority of the movies about robberies)... I'm not a fan of Spike Lee, too...but those 2 movies are definitely the ones to watch in his filmography...

even if you dislike Spike Lee as a director big time, you gotta watch "He Got Game" (I think it's already 20 years old, but still)...

in fact I'm not disappointed by these results in long terms perspective... It's only about this specific unexpected bad day...

that's the strangest calendar of events I've ever seen in Fencing...

Schedule of Events Cadets Thursday, February 28th Women's Individual Sabre; Men's and Women's Individual Foil Sunday, March 3rd Men's Individual Sabre; Men's and Women's Individual Epee Juniors Tuesday, February 26th Women's Individual Sabre; Men's and Women's Individual Foil Wednesday, February 27th Women's Team Sabre; Men's and Women's Team Foil Friday, March 1st Men's Individual Sabre; Men's and Women's Individual Epee Saturday, March 2nd Men's Team Sabre; Men's and Women's Team Epee

Fencing CPE Cadet & Junior American Championships 2019 Bogotá (COL) - 26 February 2019 - 3 March 2019 Official Website

what a disaster! 3 team events and not a single one making the final... even worse, women's epee and men's foil not even making the semifinals!

Men's Cadet Team Foil Final Results Gold: Russia Silver: France Bronze: Hungary Semifinals: France b. Great Britain 45-41 Russia b. Hungary 45-41 Bronze Medal Match: Hungary b. Great Britain 45-42 Gold Medal Match: Russia b. France 45-43  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/EAC6DA3ADC5D4EE989AA4C1526CB645D