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today's quarterfinals... -57kg vs vs vs vs -65kg vs vs vs vs -79kg vs vs vs vs -92kg vs vs vs vs

now they are all working...meh! p.s. Sokalski lost by superiority (1-12 the score)...sorry...

by the way, also today UWW website sucks as usual...I have mat C not working this time...

yeah, but the track in Inzell has become very fast...all those PBs smashed by the Italian skaters are there to show there's a technological improvement in that track...I just can't imagine all of them becoming that fast in a year's time because of their training...

yeah...but I'm pretty sure that there will be also some very good players, since Japanese and Korean Pro leagues will stop for sure... the main problem is with American (and European) teams since MLB will never allow their players to play in Tokyo (the funny situation is that the qualification tournament -in early 2020) probably will be played with some MLB stars, meanwhile there's no chance to watch them in Tokyo (I can imagine Italy qualifying at the expense of the Netherlands because they make a team with people like Rizzo, Benintendi, Iannetta, Cervelli, Gallo, Nimmo, Conforto and so on and then going to the Olympics with the same team we normally see at the European Champs )...

Squash, if in, will only have 40 (if they are lucky), 20 men and 20 women (notoriously IOC doesn't care if then we have odd draws by not keeping 2˟ number of athletes)... meanwhile I'm very optimist about Karate and Sport Climbing expanding their field...Karate having Kata + all 5 Kumite weight classes (with 12/16 fighters each instead of only 10) and Sport Climbing having its 3 "special" disciplines (with 20 competitiors per event) instead of this farce of the combined event... and I see Baseball/Softball go once again...

Prodan is from , not France...

unfortunately not even the local hero Bianca Walkden could avoid today's Asian sweep...3 weight classes and 3 Gold medals for the Asian fighters...

Women's +67kg, Gold Medal Match Zheng Shuyin b. Bianca Walkden 6-4

Men's -58kg, Gold Medal Match Armin Hadipour b. Kim Tae-Hun 16-12

Women's -49kg, Gold Medal Match Panipak Wongpattanakit b. Sim Jae-Young 11-0

2019 Senior Global Championships * = Events included in the Olympic Qualification Period

2019 Junior Global Championships

2018/2019 World Cup Schedule * = Events included in the Olympic Qualification Period

The new season is coming, so it's time to open a new thread and recap all the most important upcoming events... The first big championship to start is of course the World Cup, which from next April will also count for the Olympic Qualification... Meanwhile later in 2019 we're going to follow the Global Championships, first the Junior Continental and World Champs in Spring and then the Senior Continental and World Champs (also counting for the Olympic Qualification, actually awarding the most points for that) in Summer, according to the usual FIE traditional calendar...

Fencing FIE World Cup 2018 - 2019 Multi-Stage Event - 9 November 2018 - 19 May 2019 Official Website

still 1 semifinal match to go, but we already know that if it was not for Walkden, today's a true Asian party in Manchester with 5 out of 6 finalists coming from that Continent... for Italy, our young talent Dell'Aquila surprisingly won his 2nd round bout against the no.2 seed Mikhail Artamonov (and with good margin, about 10 points if I remember correctly), but then he had to surrender to the Iranian Hadipour (and once again with some margin, well over 10 points)... hopefully with all the points collected in the last couple of tournaments, he's going to improve his seed by next GP event and have a slightly less prohibitive draw...

last day of the Junior Worlds... and today's Gold Medal finals are: men's -100kg: vs men's +100kg: vs women's -78kg: vs women's +78kg: vs

Women's -49kg, Semifinals Panipak Wongpattanakit b. Hung Yu-Ting 27-10 Sim Jae-Young b. Miyu Yamada 15-13 Men's -58kg, Semifinals Kim Tae-Hun b. Adrian Vicente Yunta 14-8 Armin Hadipour b. Jesùs Tortosa Cabrera 17-15 Women's +67kg, Semifinals Bianca Walkden b. Maria Espinoza 22-5 Zheng Shuyin b. Gao Pan 7-2

so, you'd better not entering this thread anymore until you watch the semis, since I guess in a few seconds we're going to write about the results of the bouts...

sure they do...but the problem could be the one I wrote just above...

the problem is that often those videos are not in perfect order, so there's always the chance to see who's in the final before watching the semifinals...

I'm watching the Hungarian TV and we are already halfway through the first semi in the -61kg...

the upper back part of the left thigh (I know...I just did a copy&paste from the source reporting the medical terms)...

let's see what we can do...if only our friend and "specialist" in video archives @Olympian1010 could help, it would be highly appreciated... by the way, all semifinals (strating right now) will follow the logical order (first the -61kg rank, then the other weight classes up to the -125kg) and will be on 1 mat, so we have the chance to watch them one by one in total relaxation (well, maybe not so relaxed for some bouts...but still)...