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Today's Semifinals Men's GR, -77kg Aleksandr Chekhirkin vs Alex Michel Bjurberg Kessidis Tamas Lorincz vs Kim Hyeon Woo Men's GR, -97kg Musa Evloev vs Artur Aleksanyan Kiril Milov vs Mihail Kajaja Men's GR, -130kg Adam Jacob Coon vs Kim Min Seok Heiki Nabi vs Semen Semenov Today's Finals Men's GR -60kg Gold Medal Match: Sergey Emelin vs Victor Ciobanu Bronze Medal Match #1: Kristian Fris vs Walihan Sailike Bronze Medal Match #2: Aidos Sultangali vs Ri Se Ung Men's GR -67kg Gold Medal Match: Artem Surkov vs Davor Stefanek Bronze Medal Match #1: Meiirzhan Shermakhanbet vs Mamadassa Sylla Bronze Medal Match #2: Gevorg Sahakyan vs Danijel Janecic Men's GR -87kg Gold Medal Match: Zhan Beleniuk vs Metehan Basar Bronze Medal Match #1: Islam Abbasov vs Artur Shahinyan Bronze Medal Match #2: Bekkan Ozdoev vs Roberti Kobliashvili

Today's Semifinals Men's GR, -60kg Sergey Emelin vs Aidos Sultangali Kristian Fris vs Victor Ciobanu Men's GR, -67kg Meiirzhan Shermakhanbet vs Artem Surkov Davor Stefanek vs Gevorg Sahakyan Men's GR, -87kg Islam Abbasov vs Zhan Beleniuk Metehan Basar vs Bekkan Ozdoev Today's Finals Men's GR -55kg Gold Medal Match: Zholaman Sharshenbekov vs Eldaniz Azizli Bronze Medal Match #1: Ekrem Ozturk vs Norayr Hakhoyan Bronze Medal Match #2: Nugzari Tsurtsumia vs Cao Liguo Men's GR -63kg Gold Medal Match: Elmurat Tasmuradov vs Stepan Maryanyan Bronze Medal Match #1: Lenur Temirov vs Tuo Erbatu Bronze Medal Match #2: Hassan Hassan Ahmed Mohamed vs Rahman Bilici Men's GR -72kg Gold Medal Match: Balint Korpasi vs Frank Staebler Bronze Medal Match #1: Aik Mnatsakanian vs Tarek Aziz Benaissa Bronze Medal Match #2: Rasul Chunayev vs Abuiazid Mantsigov Men's GR -82kg Gold Medal Match: Peter Bacsi vs Emrah Kus Bronze Medal Match #1: Saeid Abdevali vs Maksim Manukyan Bronze Medal Match #2: Atabek Azisbekov vs Viktar Sasunouski

Women's Wrestling Medallists Recap Women's -50kg Gold: Yui Susaki Silver: Mariya Stadnik Bronze: Oksana Livach & Sun Yanan Women's -53kg Gold: Haruna Okuno Silver: Sarah Ann Hildebrandt Bronze: Diana Mary Helen Weicker & Pang Qianyu Women's -55kg Gold: Mayu Mukaida Silver: Zalina Sidakova Bronze: Lianna de la Caridad Montero & Jong Myong Suk Women's -57kg Gold: Rong Ningning Silver: Bilyana Zhivkova Dudova Bronze: Emese Barka & Pooja Dhanda Women's -59kg Gold: Risako Kawai Silver: Elif Jale Yesilirmak Bronze: Pei Xingru & Shoovdor Baatarjav Women's -62kg Gold: Taybe Mustafa Yusein Silver: Yukako Kawai Bronze: Yuliia Tkach Ostapchuk & Mallory Maxine Velte Women's -65kg Gold: Petra Maarit Olli Silver: Danielle Suzanne Lappage Bronze: Ayana Gempei & Iryna Netreba Women's -68kg Gold: Alla Cherkasova Silver: Koumba Selene Fanta Larroque Bronze: Zhou Feng & Tamyra Mariama Mensah Women's -72kg Gold: Justina Renay Di Stasio Silver: Nasanburmaa Ochirbat Bronze: Martina Kuenz & Buse Tosun Women's -76kg Gold: Adeline Maria Gray Silver: Yasemin Adar Bronze: Hiroe Minagawa Suzuki & Erica Elizabeth Wiebe Women's Wrestling Final Medal Table JPN, 4 / 1 / 2 CAN, 1 / 1 / 2 USA, 1 / 1 / 2 BUL, 1 / 1 / 0 CHN, 1 / 0 / 4 UKR, 1 / 0 / 2 FIN, 1 / 0 / 0 TUR, 0 / 2 / 1 AZE, 0 / 1 / 1 MGL, 0 / 1 / 1 BLR, 0 / 1 / 0 FRA, 0 / 1 / 0 AUT, 0 / 0 / 1 CUB, 0 / 0 / 1 HUN, 0 / 0 / 1 IND, 0 / 0 / 1 PRK, 0 / 0 / 1

well, that changes the entire development of the game... back to game #2...and it was another painful night for the Dodgers fans...Ryu gave up the first run of the game, but then he had a strong outing until the 2nd out of the 5th inning, when Boston, at that point back 1-2 in the score, did all the damage with 2 consecutive hits off the Korean pitcher, followed by back to back base on balls, the first one off Ryu once again, the second one off the first reliever Madson, who gave up also the last hit that led to the 4-2 for the Red Sox, which eventually was also the final score of the game... so, now Boston lead 2-0 in the best-of-seven series... now...Boston is a very, very strong team...why should someone repeatedly do the same mistakes all the time? why the Dodgers fans must have a coach like Mr.Roberts? once agin he started with that sh*tful lineup made only with righthanded hitters..and when Ryu was clearly dead and gone, he kept him on the mound 2 batters too much...but it wasn't enough...why not matching up Benintendi with a lefty (Urias or Alexander) and then go to the untouchable -at least the night before- Baez? why using the always inconsistent Madson in that specific key situation? above all...why is he paid so much money to waste all of the enormous talent of the team when even the last fan like me could do a lot better??? FIRE that jerk!!!!!! now there's a one-day break and the teams fly to LA, where game #3 is scheduled for tomorrow night (2.09 a.m. CET), with rookie sensation Walker Buehler starting for the Dodgers and Rick Porcello for the Red Sox...

she did never played at the Olympic Games, but she was part of the Italian women's Volleyball team that won the 2002 World Championships... Sara Anzanello died earlier today at the age of 38, after a long fight against the consequences of a fulminant epatitis she got in 2013 while playing her club Volley in Azerbaijan (she did have a liver transplant too, 5 years ago)... https://www.archyworldys.com/volley-sara-anzanello-is-dead-she-was-world-champion-in-2002/ R.I.P.

last 4 days of the 2018 Wrestling Worlds...it's time for the Greco-Roman specialists to take the center of the stage... Today's Semifinals Men's GR, -55kg Ekrem Ozturk vs Zholaman Sharshenbekov Nugzari Tsurtsumia vs Eldaniz Azizli Men's GR, -63kg Lenur Temirov vs Elmurat Tasmuradov Stepan Maryanyan vs Hassan Hassan Ahmed Mohamed Men's GR, -72kg Rasul Chunayev vs Frank Staebler Balint Korpasi vs Aik Mnatsakanian Men's GR, -82kg Saeid Abdevali vs Emrah Kus Peter Bacsi vs Atabek Azisbekov Today's Finals Women's -50kg Gold Medal Match: Yui Susaki vs Mariya Stadnik Bronze Medal Match #1: Oksana Livach vs Ritu Ritu Bronze Medal Match #2: Kin Son Hyang vs Sun Yanan Women's -53kg Gold Medal Match: Haruna Okuno vs Sarah Ann Hildebrandt Bronze Medal Match #1: Diana Mary Helen Weicker vs Zhuldyz Eshimova Bronze Medal Match #2: Katarzyna Krawczyk vs Pang Qianyu Women's -57kg Gold Medal Match: Rong Ningning vs Bilyana Zhivkova Dudova Bronze Medal Match #1: Emese Barka vs Kateryna Zhydachevska Bronze Medal Match #2: Grace Jacob Bullen vs Pooja Dhanda Women's -62kg Gold Medal Match: Yukako Kawai vs Taybe Mustafa Yusein Bronze Medal Match #1: Yuliia Tkach Ostapchuk vs Marianna Sastin Bronze Medal Match #2: Mallory Maxine Velte vs Lais Nunes De Oliveira

and Japan sweeps the field today... Yukako Kawai survices a big scare against Tkach-Ostapchuk and she's going to face tomorrow in the -62kg class Taybe Yusein, who won quickly by fall/pin against her American rival... see you for the finals later tonight...

and Dudova kills the last Hungarian hopes of making a gold medal match among the women... in the final act, tomorrow she'll face Rong, who destryed the Norwegian Bullen in the other semifinal match...

and she's on the verge of breaking the home fans' hearts...

and Japan makes it 2 out of 2 in this session so far... Okuno, in fact, won against a brave Krawczyk and will face Hildebrandt (who won the North-American derby against the Canadian Weicker) in the gold medal match of the -53kg...

Susaki and Stadnik are the first finalists from this afternoon's action (women's -50kg class)...

and finally we are at the season's climax... World Series started last night in Boston, where the Red Sox hosted game #1 against the Los Angeles Dodgers, playing their second consecutive final act... and also this time it looks they will end up on the losing side, since Boston did show all of their power with the bats, thrashing LA by a score of 8-4... it was clear from the beginning that it wasn't to be LA night, since Kershaw gave up 2 points already in the first inning...then the Dodgers cambe back once, twice and almost a third time (Machado had a chance to hit with bases loaded and 1 out in the top of the 7th, but he only hit a useless sac fly that left the team 1 run short at that point)... but one of the usual "scientific" managerial decisions by coach Roberts in the bottom of the 7th (changing an untouchable Baez to put on the mound a long time boiled Alex Wood) costed a 3-run homer hit by Nunez on the very first pitch thrown by Wood and so the game was basically over... tonight (2.09 a.m. CET) game #2 (still in Boston) will feature David Price as a starting pitcher for Boston against Hyu Jin Ryu for the Dodgers...it's gonna be another long and difficult night for the Dodger Nation, I fear...

semifinals just started... finals to follow, but not before from 6 p.m. CET

Today's Semifinals women's -50kg Yui Susaki vs Oksana Livach Kim Son Hyang vs Mariya Stadnik women's -53kg Sarah Ann Hildebrandt vs Diana Mary Helen Weicker Haruna Okuno vs Katarzyna Krawczyk women's -57kg Rong Ningning vs Grace Bullen Bilyana Zhivkova Dudova vs Emese Barka women's -62kg Mallory Maxine Velte vs Taybe Mustafa Yusein Yukako Kawai vs Yuliia Tkach Ostapchuk Today's Medal Matches women's -65kg Gold Medal Match: Petra marit Olli vs Danielle Suzanne Lappage Bronze Medal Match #1: Ritu Ritu vs Ayana Gempei Bronze Medal Match #2: Forrest Ann Molinari vs Irina Netreba women's -68kg Gold Medal Match: Koumba Selene Fanta Larroque vs Alla Cherkasova Bronze Medal Match #1: Maryia Mamashuk vs Zhou Feng Bronze Medal Match #2: Olivia Grace Di Bacco vs Tamyra Mariama Mensah women's -72kg Gold Medal Match: Justina Renay Di Stasio vs Nasanburmaa Ochirbat Bronze Medal Match #1: Martina Kuenz vs Samar Amer Ibrahim Hamza Bronze Medal Match #2: Wang Yuan vs Buse Tosun women's -76kg Gold Medal Match: Adeline Maria Gray vs Yasemin Adar Bronze Medal Match #1: Hiroe Minagawa Suzuki vs Zsanett Nemeth Bronze Medal Match #2: Erica Elizabeth Wiebe vs Epp Mae

IFSC World Cup, Stage #13 (Wujiang, CHN) Women's Speed 1st, Aries Susanti Rahayu (INA) 2nd, Anouck Jaubert (FRA) 3rd, Iuliia Kaplina (RUS) Men's Speed 1st, Aspar Jaelolo (INA) 2nd, Ludovico Fossali (ITA) 3rd, Reza Alipour (IRI) Women's Lead 1st, Janja Garnbret (SLO) 2nd, Kim Ja In (KOR) 3rd, Jessica Pilz (AUT) Men's Lead 1st, Romain Desgranges (FRA) 2nd, Jakob Schubert (AUT) 3rd, Min Hyun Bin (KOR)

sad news about Per Elofsson...the former Swedish cross country world and world cup champion had a stroke a few days ago... he's alive, but now he's experiencing a lot of really big troubles and he has to face a very tough (and uncertain) rehab... https://vaaju.com/swedeneng/per-elofsson-received-stroke-cohabitation-ia-backlund-tells/ unfortunately almost all news about it are in Swedish language, this is the only article in English I could find (I admit I didn't spend much time for that, since I already read all the info on an Italian website)... good luck to him and his family... not so dramatic, but there are bad news also about Sergei Ustyugov... earlier today he fell down while training on the skirolls in Val Senales (ITA) and he had to go to the hospital... there are no official news yet about how serious the accident was, but apparently he had strong pain (and possibly further damages) to his left hand and ankle...

very happy for Conyedo...we all expected Chamizo, but finally "our" medal came from the unexpected Cuban-born Italian no.2... hopefully this is the first of many medals for him... and Sadulaev... I had so much hype for that, but he ended so quickly...even too quick to really enjoy the show...

Men's Freestyle Wrestling Medallists Recap Men's -57kg Gold: Zavur Uguev Silver: Nurislam Sanayev (AKA Artas Sanaa) Bronze: Yuki Takahashi & Suleyman Atli Men's -61kg Gold: Yowlys Bonne Rodriguez Silver: Gadzhimurad Rashidov Bronze: Joseph Daniel Colon & Tuvshintulga Tumenbileg Men's -65kg Gold: Takuto Otoguro Silver: Bajrang Bajrang Bronze: Akhmed Chakaev & Alejandro Enrique Valdes Tobier Men's -70kg Gold: Magomedrasul Gazimagomedov Silver: Adam Batirov Bronze: Franklin Maren Castillo & Zurabi Iakobishvili Men's -74kg Gold: Zaurbek Sidakov Silver: Avtandil Kentchadze Bronze: Jordan Ernest Burroughs & Bekzod Abdurakhmonov Men's -79kg Gold: Kyle Douglas Dake Silver: Jabrayil Hasanov Bronze: Akhmed Gadzhimagomedov & Ali Shabanau Men's -86kg Gold: David Morris Taylor III Silver: Fatih Erdin Bronze: Taimuraz Friev Naskidaeva & Hassan Yazdani Men's -92kg Gold: J'Den Michael Tbory Cox Silver: Ivan Yankouski Bronze: Atsushi Matsumoto & Alireza Karimi Men's -97kg Gold: Abdulrashid Sadulaev Silver: Kyle Frederick Snyder Bronze: Abraham de Jesus Conyedo Ruano & Elizbar Odikadze Men's -125kg Gold: Geno Petriashvili Silver: Deng Zhiwei Bronze: Nicholas Edward Gwiazdowski & Parviz Hadi Men's Freestyle Final Medal Table RUS, 4 / 1 / 2 USA, 3 / 1 / 3 GEO, 1 / 1 / 2 CUB, 1 / 0 / 2 JPN, 1 / 0 / 2 BLR, 0 / 1 / 1 TUR, 0 / 1 / 1 AZE, 0 / 1 / 0 BRN, 0 / 1 / 0 CHN, 0 / 1 / 0 IND, 0 / 1 / 0 KAZ, 0 / 1 / 0 IRI, 0 / 0 / 3 ITA, 0 / 0 / 1 MGL, 0 / 0 / 1 ESP, 0 / 0 / 1 UZB, 0 / 0 / 1

now it's time for the medal matches...let's go Abraham!

and Gray just avoided the Canadian sweep by beating Wiebe in the semifinals of the -76kg class... she'll face Adar in the Gold medal match tomorrow...

and Canada makes it 2 out of 2 so far... in the -72kg class Justine Di Stasio (at least there's some Italian blood in the gold medal matches ) will face Ochirbat in the final...

and it's vs for Gold in the women's -68kg class... pity for our Dalma Caneva...she lost in the quarters against but unfortunately the Chinese girl couldn't match Cherkasova in the semifinal bout, so our girl won't take part in the repechage round tomorrow...

and Olli upsets the Japanese armada...for Gempei the shame of being the first Japanese girl to miss the Gold Medal match... vs for Gold in the women's -65kg class...

I think they're using the same new rules that allow Italy to use Conyedo, Kudiiamagomedov and Kakhelashvili...now you just need to have the residence in a Country and be part of a local club to take part in the international events for that Nation... the only part that remained the same as it was in the past (actually, the required inactivity period before the switch has increased) are the Olympic Games (and their qualification tournaments)...

Today's Semifinals... Women's -65kg Ayana Gempei vs Petra Maarit Olli Irina Netreba vs Danielle Suzanne Lappage Women's -68kg Koumba Selene Fanta Larroque vs Tamyra Mariama Mensah Zhou Feng vs Alla Cherkasova Women's -72kg Justina Renay Di Stasio vs Samar Amer Ibrahim Hamza Wang Yuan vs Nasanburmaa Ochirbat Women's -76kg Yasemin Adar vs Zsanett Nemeth Adeline Maria Gray vs Erica Elizabeth Wiebe and Today's Medal Matches... Men's FS -70kg Gold Medal Match: Magomedrasul Gazimagomedov vs Adam Batirov Bronze Medal Match #1: Franklin Maren Castillo vs Andriy Kvyatkovskyy Bronze Medal Match #2: Byambadorj Bat Erdene vs Zurabi Iakobishvili Men's FS -97kg Gold Medal Match: Abdulrashid Sadulaev vs Kyle Frederick Snyder Bronze Medal Match #1: Abraham Conyedo Ruano vs Pavlo Oliinyk Bronze Medal Match #2: Magomed Ibragimov vs :Elizbar Odikadze Women's -55kg Gold Medal Match: Mayu Mukaida vs Zalina Sidakova Bronze Medal Match #1: Lianna de la Caridad Montero Herrera vs Jacarra Gwenisha Winchester Bronze Medal Match #2: Jong Myong Suk vs Zhang Qi Women's -59kg Gold Medal Match: Risako Kawai vs Elif Jale Yesilirmak Bronze Medal Match #1: Pei Xingru vs Svetlana Lipatova Bronze Medal Match #2: Shoovdor Baatarjav vs Alejandra Romero Bonilla