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Results men's 1000m Gold: Jung Ho Kyoung Silver: Kim Tae Sung Bronze: Kazuki Yoshinaga

clear obstruction by Kim Tae Sung when his teammate made the decisive move on the outside... the Koreans do their team job already at this level (when there's no need for that, as they are by far stronger than any opponent)... and the judges closed their eyes on that...

Results women's 1000m Gold: Li Jinyu Silver: Park Yoon Jung Bronze: Claudia Heeney

yes, they are brother and sister (and their father is the former speedskating all-round world champion Roberto Sighel)...

Day #3 (Final) Live Streaming (running right now)

Results so far... men's 500m Gold: Kim Tae Sung Silver: Sun Long Bronze: Pietro Sighel men's 1500m Gold: Chang Hyun Woo Silver: Wang Pengyu Bronze: Pietro Sighel men's 3000m Relay, Teams qualified to the Final Japan Netherlands China Russia women's 500m Gold: Maame Biney Silver: Xandra Velzeboer Bronze: Georgie Dalrymple women's 1500m Gold: Seo Whi Min Silver: Li Jinyu Bronze: Courtney Lee Sarault women's 3000m Relay, Teams qualified to the Final South Korea Italy Russia Kazakhstan

today's Garmisch downhill made some victims also in the Italian team... Federica Sosio suffered a composed double fracture of tibia and fibula in her left leg... meanwhile further exhamination cleared Federica Brignone to take part in next week's GS in Maribor, but earlier in the day she was feeling strong pain to her knees and she was taken to the hospital to have that deep exhamination...

Women's Team Sabre (Salt Lake City, USA) Final Results Gold: France Silver: Hungary Bronze: Italy Semifinals: France b. China 45-37 Hungary b. Italy 45-37 Bronze Medal Match: Italy b. China 45-40 Gold Medal Match: France b. Hungary 45-42 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/826/results/rank

well, the girl is a really promising talent...she was Sub-21 World Champion last year (if I remember well what our commentator said...I'm too lazy to check it out right now)...

because if France blow out their race there's a small chance more for Italy to make the podium (which is still a very, very remote chance...but you never know)... and don't forget the traditional rivalry between ITA and FRA...if I say that I hope FRA goes well, I could go to jail and be tortured... just joking, of course...

not that I wouldn't like it, but I have to fix it...

maybe... probably... sure... p.s. but this year I'm pretty happy with Doro and Lisa, in any case...

no, no... the Dutch Flag is NOT blue, white and RED...

I hope so...

also that, of course...

Women's Individual Epee (Doha, QAT) Final Results Gold: Julia Beljajeva Silver: Kseniya Pantelyelyeva Bronze: Jung Hyo Jung & Violetta Kolobova Semifinals: Beljajeva b. Jung 15-6 Pantelyelyeva b. Kolobova 15-12 Gold Medal Match: Beljajeva b. Pantelyeyeva 15-11  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/79/results/rank

Men's Individual Epee (Doha, QAT) Final Results Gold: Yannick Borel Silver: Yulen Pereira Bronze: Jacob Hoyle & Bogdan Nikishin Semifinals: Pereira b. Nikishin 15-9 Borel b. Hoyle 15-10 Gold Medal Match: Borel b. Pereira 15-4  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/387/results/rank

it looks a George Clooney's commercial...'Wooden medal, what else?'

K1PL, Stage #1 (Paris, FRA) Final Overall Medal Table* JPN, 4 / 2 / 6 FRA, 2 / 1 / 2 IRI, 1 / 2 / 2 TUR, 1 / 0 / 1 UKR, 1 / 0 / 1 BLR, 1 / 0 / 0 GEO, 1 / 0 / 0 SUI, 1 / 0 / 0 ITA, 0 / 2 / 2 ESP, 0 / 2 / 0 EGY, 0 / 1 / 2 AZE, 0 / 1 / 0 POL, 0 / 1 / 0 KAZ, 0 / 0 / 3 GER, 0 / 0 / 2 BRA, 0 / 0 / 1 MEX, 0 / 0 / 1 RUS, 0 / 0 / 1 * = Team Kata events NOT included (because they are open to club teams, they have a low number of participants and they are not involved in any manner in the Olympic Qualification process)...

K1PL, Stage #1 (Paris, FRA) Medallists Recap women's Individual Kata Gold: Kiyou Shimizu Silver: Sandra Sanchez Jaime Bronze: Viviana Bottaro & Hikaru Ono men's Individual Kata Gold: Ryo Kiyuna Silver: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila Bronze: Issei Shimbaba & Kazumasa Moto women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu Silver: Miho Miyahara Bronze: Jessica De Paula & Shara Hubrich men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold: Majid Hassannia Silver: Angelo Crescenzo Bronze: Evgeny Plakhutin & Darkhan Assadilov women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold: Anzhelika Terliuga Silver: Dorota Banaszcyk Bronze: Lorena Busà & Shiori Nakamura men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold: Steven Dacosta Silver: Luca Maresca Bronze: Didar Amirali & Assylbek Muratov women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold: Gwendoline Philippe Silver: Giana Lofty Bronze: Laura Sivert & Merve Coban men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold: Ken Nishimura Silver: Rafael Aghayev Bronze: Alì Asiabari & Stanislav Horuna women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold: Elena Quirici Silver: Kayo Someya Bronze: Sachiko Paulina Ramos Akita & Johanna Kneer men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold: Anton Isakau Silver: Mahdi Ghararizadeh Bronze: Rikito Shimada & Mohamed Ahmed Ramadan women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold: Ayumi Uekusa Silver: Nancy Garcia Bronze: Shaaban Okila Menna & Ayaka Saito men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold: Gogita Arkania Silver: Saleh Abazari Bronze: Sajad Ganjzadeh & Mehdi Filali

the first one was clear... the second one...well, the hit was there, but the whole action was a bit confused and it could have been evaluated differently...giving the 2 points to the French girl was not a scandal, however... so far, I have to say the refereeing is pretty decent, compared to the standard of the past... right now, today I only strongly disagree with 2 matches...the bronze medal bout gifted to Coban in the women's 61kg and the gold medal bout between the Frenchman Dacosta and the Italian Maresca, who was robbed big time of a deserved gold medal... in all the other bouts I've watched I haven't seen any shameful and suspicious misdemeanor, just a few close calls that could easily have gone the other way round...but in those cases you can't call them scandals or robberies for sure...

when you watch a bout like the men's -67kg final, the "karate = boxing" comparison is quite clear... and then some people are surprised when they're asked if do we really need another thing like this at the Olympic Games?

this time is Loch's triumph (6th world title)... the funeral can start, now...

I just can't belive that! Pavlichenko makes a capital mistake on the last curve and blows it away... is it gonna be Loch or is it gonna be another Austrian upset?

OK, my day's over... as expected, K-Fisch waste the chance of his life... and Austria is on the podium in the men's single once again (and always with someone different from time to time)...