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by the way, in the men's -84kg, Zabiollah Poorshab beat Daniyar Yuldashev by a score of 3-0 and wins today's first medal for Iran...

the crowd in the stands are not happy at all with the refereeing of the bout between Poorshab and Yuldashev...

yeah, it was a bit a messy bout, with not so many clean actions...but still, a medal it's a medal, no matter how you get it (provided it's a fair way)...

it's a Slovak medal!!! Miroslava Kopunova wins by Hantei (judges decision) vs Halyna Melnyk

I'm really sorry (the VPN option is still in place, though)... so far, it's still 0-0...30 secs to go...

or try their own website...maybe it works... https://www.pmgsport.it/

just use the hola extension for chrome and choose the Italian VPN...

women's -68 kg, first bronze medal match Lamya Matoub b. Maryia Aliakseyeva 2-1

@hckosice it's almost time for Slovakia...next bronze medal match will feature Miroslava Kopunova in the women's -68kg... we're just a couple of minutes away (you can find the link to a free streaming in the previous page)...

second bronze medal in the men's +84kg goes to Alparslan Yamanoglu, who beat Alexander Pshenitsyn 2-0...

not a great start of the season for Italy...Rossella Fiamingo was shamefully eliminated in the qualifying rounds of the Tallin World Cup stage...

Spain get their first medal... in the men's +84kg, Babacar Seck Sakho beat Filipe Reis by a score of 7-1 and wins the bronze medal...

the Italian commentators (who are Chiara Soldi and I think Davide Benetello, both former Karate players -I'm sure you know Benetello, as he won a lot of global medals in the past) said that there were 3 options: if Florentin wasn't able to continue, option one was the DSQ for the Swedish girl for the excessive use of strenght, but they could also DSQ the French girl because she could have been considered guilty of not protecting herself well enough and thus leading the opponent to hit her hard... the 3rd option, that was the one they eventually adopted was to let the bout continue giving the Swedish girl just a "normal" warning for not controlling her hit well enough (option available only if Florentin was able to continue, which was the case)... p.s. my new keyboard sucks!

p.s. having the super-Heavyweights as the first class to start the session is really anti-climatic...

and the Swedish girl gets it done, somehow...and she wins the second Bronze Medal in the women's +68kg... Hana Antunovic b. Anne Laure Florentin 2-0

Antunovic just broke Florentin's nose here...I hope she doesn't get a DQ...

the 1st Bronze of this year's Worlds goes to Shymaa Abouel Yazed, who beat Ramona Bruederlin 7-3 in the women's +68kg...

and for those who are watching, we finally have just seen the "new" video review situation, with the video judges in a separate room and their pictures show also to the audience...

by the way, let's stop with politics and history... it's time for the first medals to be awarded...the first Bronze Medal match has just started... here the Italian Live broadcast (totally free)...

Puerto Rico is in the same situation as Hong Kong and co...there are no political controversies around them, it's just a different status recognized by political and sports authorities... Kosovo is a totally different question (and I wouldn't compare that even to the most recent attempt of the Catalan people to part ways from the rest of Spain, since Kosovo is just part of the ancient Serbian territory -it goes back to Alexander the Great Macedonian Empire and then to the Roman Empire, with the Turkish domination of that being only a 500-year long but marginal part of the story- stripped from the Serbian State thanks to a war that only the USA and Germany wanted, despite having the "umbrella" of those bunch of *** of the UN)...

if google translate has not gone crazy (at least, not more than usual ), it looks that Friday's games @ the Gdansk tournament have just been cancelled and won't count for the final standings, if not only as a tie-breaker for those teams who played each other and should they end up with the same amount of points after Saturday and Sunday matches, which have been confirmed as of the original schedule... here the original news in Polish... Gdansk Tournament news

Munich 1972...

definitely not a good day for IIHF Hockey... hopefully tomorrow will be better...

In the Olympic "Park" competition, Great Britain dominated the men's qualifiers, with James Jones and Jack Clark 1st and 2nd respecitvely... the recently crowned World Cup Champion, Marin Rantes, ended up only in 44th place and he didn't even qualify among the 24 riders (coming from 14 Nations) who will start the semifinal round... the women's event didn't have any qualifying round and will start directly from the semifinals (even if they still call them qualifiers)...

BMX Trial, Team Competition Gold: Spain Silver: Germany Bronze: France Full Results https://prod.chronorace.be/angular/results.html#/uci/event/20181104_urban/TRIAL/Teams