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OMG!!!!! thunderstorms coming!!!

yes, it was last Spring...so, he's the reigning world bronze medallist...

Karate, men's +84kg semifinals Asiman Gurbanli vs Gogita Arkania Andjelo Kvesic vs Jonathan Horne

Karate, men's -84kg semifinals Ugur Aktas vs Valerii Chobotar Ivan Kvesic vs Michele Martina

Karate, women's -68kg semifinals Irina Zaretska vs Halyna Melnyk Elena Quirici vs Silvia Semeraro

good and bad news for Italy... the notorious chance waster Clio Ferracuti is out in the women's +68kg class, meanwhile Silvia Semeraro easily beat Miroslava Kopunova and Alizèe Agier after a draw against Irina Zaretska and therefore she and the Azeri girl are through to the semifinals in the women's -68kg class... Karate, women's +68kg semifinals Meltem Hocaoglu vs Titta Keinanen Eleni Chatziliadou vs Laura Palacio Gonzalez

Zaretska on fire in the last couple of matches...

by the way, Mattia Busato lost once again against Alì Sofuoglu in men's Kata and will fight "only" for Bronze, meanwhile Viviana Bottaro filled her contract and will win the Silver Medal among the women (no chance she can beat Sandra Sanchez)... so, the first 2 Gold Medal matches of the Karate tournament are: Men's Kata: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila vs Alì Sofuoglu Women's Kata: Sandra Sanchez Jaime vs Viviana Bottaro now let'go to more serious stuff, the Kumite events... first on the mat, the women's -68kg and +68kg...

yeah...and I don't like Kata at all...

yeah, we only need the "real Hockey" (the one played on the Ice, for those who still don't want to accept that ) season to start again... don't worry...it's less than 2 months, my friend!

2019 Swimming World Championships: the Italian Team here's the list of the Italian swimmers named for the upcoming Worlds...no Vergani (as expected and because it's the correct decision to take) and no women's relays 4*100m free and 4*200m free (this also was expected, but with our federation you just can't be sure until the official lineup comes out)... Men: Domenico Acerenza (Long Distance Freestyle) Stefano Ballo (4*200m Free Relay) Alessandro Bori (Sprint Relays) Federico Burdisso (Fly) Thomas Ceccon (Sprint Backstroke, maybe 200 IM) Matteo Ciampi (4*200m Free Relay) Piero Codia (Sprint Fly) Santo Condorelli (Sprint Free and Relays) Marco De Tullio (400m Free) Gabriele Detti (400m & 800m Free and 4*200m Free Relay) Stefano Di Cola (4*200m Free Relay) Luca Dotto (Sprint Free and Relays) Manuel Frigo (Sprint Relays) Nicolò Martinenghi (Sprint Breaststroke) Filippo Megli (200m Free, Individual & Relay) Alessandro Miressi (100m Free, Individual and Relay) Gregorio Paltrinieri (1500m Free, maybe also the 800m Free...surely the 10km Open Water, probably also the Team Event in the Open Water) Luca Pizzini (200m Breaststroke) Matteo Restivo (200m Backstroke) Simone Sabbioni (Sprint Backstroke) Fabio Scozzoli (Sprint Breaststroke) Women: Ilaria Bianchi (Fly) Martina Carraro (Breaststroke) Arianna Castiglioni (Breastroke) Ilaria Cusinato (Individual Medley) Elena Di Liddo (Sprint Fly) Giulia Gabbrielleschi (1500m Free) Margherita Panziera (Backstroke) Federica Pellegrini (100m & 200m Free) Benedetta Pilato (50m Breaststroke) Simona Quadarella (from 400m to 1500m Free) Silvia Scalia (Sprint Backstroke)

Men's Individual Foil Final Results Gold: Race Imboden Silver: Guilherme Toldo Bronze: Gerek Meinhardt & Alexander Massialas Semifinals: Imboden b. Meinhardt 15-7 Toldo b. Massialas 15-14 Gold Medal Match: Imboden b. Toldo 15-4  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2019/798

Women's Individual Epee Final Results Gold: Kelley Hurley Silver: Maria Martinez Bronze: Maria Luisa Doig & Nathalie Moellhausen Semifinals: Hurley b. Moellhausen 15-11 Martinez b. Doig 15-9 Gold Medal Match: Hurley b. Martinez 15-7  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2019/797

Men's Team Sabre Final Results Gold: Egypt Silver: Tunisia Bronze: Algeria Semifinals: Egypt b. Senegal 45-29 Tunisia b. Algeria 45-21 Bronze Medal Match: Algeria b. Senegal 45-44 Gold Medal Match: Egypt b. Tunisia 45-34  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://www.fencingworldwide.com/en/competition/4650-2018/results/

Men's Team Epee Final Results Gold: Morocco Silver: Senegal Bronze: Egypt Semifinals: Morocco b. Egypt 45-41 Senegal b. Algeria 45-27 Bronze Medal Match: Egypt b. Algeria 45-18 Gold Medal Match: Morocco b. Senegal 45-31  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://www.fencingworldwide.com/en/competition/4648-2018/results/

Women's Team Foil Final Results Gold: Tunisia Silver: Egypt Bronze: Algeria Semifinals: Egypt b. Togo 45-4 Tunisia b. Algeria 45-37 Bronze Medal Match: Algeria b. Togo 45-5 Gold Medal Match: Tunisia b. Egypt 45-39  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2019/592

Men's Individual Sabre Final Results Gold: Eli Dershwitz Silver: Daryl Homer Bronze: Joseph Polossifakis & Pascual Maria Di Tella Semifinals: Dershwitz b. Polossifakis 15-10 Homer b. Di Tella 15-3 Gold Medal Match: Dershwitz b. Homer 15-14  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2019/802

Women's Individual Foil Final Results Gold: Nicole Ross Silver: Jessica Guo Zi Jia Bronze: Kalleigh Ryan & Eleanor Harvey Semifinals: Ross b. Harvey 6-5 Guo b. Ryan 15-10 Gold Medal Match: Ross b. Guo 11-10  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2019/800

Men's Team Foil Final Results Gold: Egypt Silver: Tunisia Bronze: Algeria Semifinals: Egypt b. Mali 45-4 Tunisia b. Algeria 45-38 Bronze Medal Match: Algeria b. Mali 45-10 Gold Medal Match: Egypt b. Tunisia 43-42  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2019/593

Women's Team Sabre Final Results Gold: Tunisia Silver: Egypt Bronze: Algeria Semifinals: Egypt b. Algeria 45-24 Tunisia b. Mali 45-12 Bronze Medal Match: Algeria b. Mali 45-13 Gold Medal Match: Tunisia b. Egypt 45-44  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2019/594

Women's Team Epee Final Results Gold: Egypt Silver: South Africa Bronze: Senegal Semifinals: Egypt b. Senegal 44-36 South Africa b. Tunisia Withdrawn Bronze Medal Match: Senegal b. Tunisia Withdrawn Gold Medal Match: Egypt b. South Africa 45-27  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2019/590

Bella Ciao is a comunist song...it's an insult to more than half the Country... please, let politics out of sports thread... of all those songs that have been mentioned, the only that deserved the status of "great song" is Caruso... Toto Cutugno is just a sterotype (like all those Al Bano & Romina Power's songs -I know Al Bano is the favourite entertainer of the IJF, as he's always called up to the opening ceremony of the world champs, especially when they're hosted by Countries like Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan "and friends")... probably (surely) not the most connected with a sport podcast, but still, considereing the fact that the University Games are held in Naples and surroundings, those 2 are probably the most significant Naples' songs of the last 20/30 years (after the end of the great tradition of the real Napolitan typical song)... for sure they're the 2 I like the most... meanwhile this is definitely more connected to a sport event (it was the Italia '90 Soccer World Cup Official Anthem...and Edoardo Bennato is from Naples)... finally, this is the Offial Song of the 2019 Universiade...

I don't know if I have to smile because of all this success or be even more *beeep* because of the world champs fails just one week ago...

by the way, Italy swept all the individual events in recurve archery...after Tatiana Andreoli among the women yesterday, a few minutes ago Mauro Nespoli won the men's event...

is it just me or the track cycling results on the official website are not working at all?