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Aleksandra Miroslaw back to back world champion! she's been really good throughout the entire day...and now in the final she could stay calm after the impressive start of the Chinese girl (Niu Di) and make her class count...

Russia (thanks to the 16th and last seeded climber after qualification, Stanislav Kokorin) edges out Ukraine for bronze in the men's division... now it's time for the real deal...

bronze for France among the women...thanks to Song's mistake...definitely not the day of the Chinese sensation, dominator of this year's world cup...

Ludovico Fossali!!!!! it must really be his day...already twice winning by his opponent's false start... this format sucks! we must admit that...they have to change it to the best-of-3... by the way, this is the first ever final for Italy in the speed discipline...

and again! capital mistake by the favourite...and we have a major outsider in the final (Jan Kriz, CZE)... now Italy for history...

POL vs CHN (but not the expected girl) is the women's gold medal match!

frankly, with this 1-run format is more a lottery than a fair competition... basically, every race is decided by mistakes and not by top performances...

and Fossali is among the top 4!!!!

nooooo...the word champion is out!

@MHSN is Mehdi Alipour Reza's brother? (he was the first out of the top 16 today)...

where they have no chance, being only Speed specialists... by the way, I have this (very partial and subject to many changes) provisional ranking for the men's combined event (I didn't include any of the top speed specialists, as they have yet to finish their event and also because they have no realistic chance to make it through to the top 20 after their poor performance in the other disciplines)... 1 T.Narasaki, 1*12*22=264 2 Ondra, 6*1*58=348 3 Schubert, 2*3*59=354 4 Fujii, 4*14*29=1624 5 M.Narasaki, 13*4*38=1976 6 Harada, 9*7*32=2016 7 McColl, 14*5*37=2590 8 Megos, 25*2*75=3750 9 Ludovico Fossali, 70*61*1=4270 10 Dohi, 5*29*39=5655 11 Ruana, 8*16*47=6016 12 Flohè, 3*40*56=6720 13 Chon, 12*24*33=9504 14 Hojer, 11*33*35=12705 15 Ghisolfi, 49*6*44=12936 16 Kruder, 10*28*50=14000 17 Kriz, 96*81*2=15552 18 Kim H.W., 21*17*46=16422 19 Piccolruaz, 19*39*30=22230 20Skofic, 27*10*83=22410 21 Puman, 37*8*79=23384 22 Cornu, 16*41*41=26896 23 Lehmann, 25*23*48=27600 24 Bosi, 41*17*40=27880 25 Reuser, 45*11*64=31680 now, I don't have any source explaining if there's a 2-man limit per NOC (as it's an Olympic qualifier, where this limit is in charge)... hopefully, today afternoon (CET) we're going to have everything sorted out...

I'm happy too... I didn't really expect him to climb that fast that fuc*in' wall...

Finals to start in about 10 minutes time, at 10.30 a.m. CET...live streaming on Youtube and, for those who can watch it, Eurosport2 on TV (this one, at least, here in Italy...I don't know if it's the same in the rest of Europe)...

Men's Speed Climbers qualified to the Final Ladder 1st, Dmitrii Timofeev 2nd, Vladislav Deulin 3rd, Bassa Mawem 4th, Reza Alipour 5th, Cao Long 6th, Danyil Boldyrev 7th, Amir Maimuratov 8th, Rukin Sergey 9th, Kostiantyn Pavlenko 10th, Ludovico Fossali 11th, Ou Zhi Yong 12th, Jan Kriz 13th, John Brosler 14th, Rishat Khaibullin 15th, Zhong Qi Xin 16th, Stanislav Kokorin Full Qualifications Results https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competition/calendar#!comp=8253&cat=23&route=0

Women's Speed Climbers qualified to the Final Ladder 1st, Aleksandra Miroslaw 2nd, Mariia Krasavina 3rd, Anouck Jaubert 4th, Iuliia Kaplina 5th, Song Yi Ling 6th, Elizaveta Ivanova 7th, Natalia Kalucka 8th, Patrycja Chudziak 9th, Elena Remizova 10th, Niu Di 11th, Tian Pei Yang 12th, Anna Brozek 13th, Aleksandra Kalucka 14th, Aurelia Sarisson 15th, Andrea Rojas 16th, Ni Ming Wei Full Qualifications Results https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competition/calendar#!comp=8253&cat=24&route=0

for an official list, I think we have to wait until today's speed finals are over... maybe we'll try to find out by ourselves as quick as possible...

I'm not saying it's not gonna be exciting for the real sailing fans...but popular? it's the most elitarian event they could add to the program...the exact opposite of youth, urban and easily accessible... there are no more than 5 or 6 Nations that could build a crew not going to risk their life in such kind of regatta...not to mention how expensive it is in terms of organization (mainly due to the monitoring and rescue teams)... the Volvo Ocean race is popular just in those few Countries with centennial sailing tradition (and not all of them)...USA, GBR, AUS, NZL, FRA...maybe NED and the Scandinavian Nations...that's it... and I don't know how much tv time it gets on the main tv networks also in those Countries...

it has nothing to do with Olympic sailing... it's just because the French are more than obsessed with those trans-oceanic races and would like to celebrate their popular heroes also at a global event... some kind of activity, as entertaining and exciting they could be, are just not tailor made for the Olympic Games and their environment...this is one of those (otherwise, why not a full America's Cup kind of class and format? surely it's more exciting and tv friendly than this thing)...

women's Middle Distance Gold: Tove Alexandersson Silver: Simona Aebersold Bronze: Natalia Gemperle & Venla Harju (tied) Full Ranking https://eventor.orienteering.org/Documents/Event/3192/1/Official-Results-Women men's Middle Distance Gold: Olav Lundanes Silver: Gustav Bergman Bronze: Magne Daehli Full Ranking https://eventor.orienteering.org/Documents/Event/3194/1/Official-Results-Men-Middle-Final

all races are live on Norwegian public channels NRK1 and NRK2, which are available in streaming (also ondemand) on their official website (provided you use a VPN)...

and among the men, after day #2, we have Yavuz Ilnam leading the field with 73/75, followed by William Chetcuti with 72/75 and the pair composed by Joao Azevedo and Andreas Loew with 71/75... then, tied for 5th place, there's a 9-man pack with 70/75 (group including also Giovanni Pellielo, looking for his 8th Olympic participation)...

2019 World Cup, Stage #7 (Lahti, FIN) Women's Trap Gold: Penny Smith Silver: Satu Makela-Nummela Bronze: Laetisha Scanlan Olympic Quota: Australia, Finland

women's Freestyle Wrestling, day #5 medallists -53kg Gold: Haruna Okuno Silver: Anudari Nandintsetseg Bronze: Mariia Tiumerekova & Meiduolaji -57kg Gold: Akie Hanai Silver: Alina Akobiia Bronze: Nuraida Anarkulova & Magdalena Ursula Glodek -62kg Gold: Yuzuka Inagaki Silver: Wu Yaru Bronze: Mariia Lachugina & Ana Paula Godinez Gonzalez -65kg Gold: Miwa Morikawa Silver: Macey Ellen Kilty Bronze: Zhang Yue & Wiktoria Choluj -72kg Gold: Yuka Kagami Silver: Evgeniia Zakharchenko Bronze: Anastasiya Alpyeyeva & Cheng Shuiyan men's Greco-Roman Wrestling, day #6 finals -55kg: Zaur Aliyev vs Anvar Allakhiarov -63kg: Abu Muslim Amaev vs Leri Abuladze -77kg: Damir Rakhimov vs Mohammad Naghousi -87kg: Giorgi Katsanashvili vs Ilia Ermolenko -130kg: Colton Michael Schultz vs Aliakbar Yousofi

good luck to the girls...they're shooting in awful conditions...it's raining like hell... luckily it looks that there's not much wind... p.s. after the world champs and the european games, back to our usual world cup tv director...he must be one of those headache pills reseller...

men's Greco-Roman Wrestling, day #5 semifinals -55kg: Zaur Aliyev vs Ken Matsui / Tigran Minasyan vs Anvar Allakhiarov -63kg: Abu Muslim Amaev vs Alston Jon Nutter / Shahin Badaghi vs Leri Abuladze -77kg: Exauce Mukubu vs Damir Rakhimov / Abdurrahman Kalkan vs Mohammad Naghousi -87kg: Ihar Yarashevich vs Giorgi Katsanashvili / Bedirhan Tan vs Ilia Ermolenko -130kg: Zhang Lu vs Colton Michael Schultz / Aliakbar Yousofi vs Muhammet Hamza Bakir