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and Tsukasa Yoshida wins the pool C in the women's -57kg by beating by ippon Kwon You Jeong...in the semifinal she's going to face the winner of Nora Gjakova vs Christa Deguchi (playing right now)...

men's -73kg, pool C final: vs and our Iranian friend Mohammadi is also in the pool D final (he'll know his opponent in a few minutes)...

yeah, we've been lucky we just avoided one of those very unpleasant moments...

men's -73kg, pool B final: vs

women's -57kg pool finals pool C: vs pool D: vs

not yet, he's in the repechage bracket, but he still has to win one more bout (against the winner of SVK vs MGL) before he actually makes the Medal match...

he just lost his mind... now he's leaving the Army sports group and next Monday he's scheduled to enter the house of VIP Big Brother (the reason why he's leaving the Army SG, since they didn't give him permission to go to BB)... we can easily rank his Olympic Gold as a "one-hit wonder"...and quickly forget about him... and I repeat this concept for the million time...until we don't fire Murakami as the head coach of our NT, we won't get anything anymore...he can be the most qualified master in the world, but he's just not good for Italy...

Day #5 (Freestyle) Finals -57kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / / & vs / -65kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / / & vs / -70kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / / & vs / -79kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / / & vs / -97kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / / & vs /

Day #5 (Women's Wrestling) Medallists -53kg Gold: Umi Imai Silver: Aktenge Keunimjaeva Bronze: Enkhtsetseg Batbaatar & Mariia Tiumerekova -57kg Gold: Andoriahanako Sawa Silver: Qi Zhang Bronze: Sara Johanna Lindborg & Mansi Mansi -62kg Gold: Atena Kodama Silver: Nabira Esenbaeva Bronze: Aurora Campagna & Daria Bobrulko -65kg Gold: Miyu Imai Silver: Delgermaa Enkhsaikhan Bronze: Albina Khripkova & Iryna Koliadenko -72kg Gold: Koumba Selene Fanta Larroque Silver: Evgeniia Zakharchenko Bronze: Fanwen Shen & Naruha Matsuyuki

Super Six Day #4 Results Netherlands b. Greece 14-4 Geat Britain b. Russia 5-3 Italy b. Greece 9-1 Netherlands vs Czech Republic game stopped after 1 & 1/2 inning (the score was still 0-0) because of weather conditions, it will resume Tomorrow @ 10.30 CET Current Rankings Czech Republic, 4W - 0L Italy, 4W - 1L Netherlands, 3W - 1L Great Britain, 2W - 3L Russia, 1W-4L Greece, 0W - 5L NOTE: Tomorrow, Russia and Greece will play for the 5th/6th place; Great Britain are sure to play the 3rd/4th place match; meanwhile the Gold Medal game (and the second team playing the Bronze Medal match) will be determined by the result of the last Round Robin game, which will be completed Tomorrow morning)...

Super Six Day #4 Results Belgium b. Germany 7-6 Italy b. Czech Republic 25-10 Netherlands vs Spain game stopped after 1 and 1/2 innings on the score of 3-0 for the Netherlands (weather conditions...the game is set to resume later Today @ 3 p.m. CET)

naaaa...I hate the slug fests...I consider myself a "purist" of the game...I definitely prefer the great pitching duels (and the great defensive plays)... the emotion that a perfect game gives to me is not comparable with any other kind of situation in Baseball (OK, maybe a walk-off grand slam could match that...but that's it)...

OMG!!! but who were the pitchers? I'm sure I could have done a lot better... I feel so lucky I didn't watch that...I let you choose the definition you prefer...

actually Poliak was up by waza-ari...but then he tried an attack from an unbalanced position and the other guy could counter Poliak's move and find an unexpected victory... I saw that match this morning...and after Loforte's ippon, Poliak was really shocked...he didn't really expect that counter move...but it was all his fault, he should have never tried to attack from that position...he should have gone down in defensive position and force the ref to call "matè"...

I don't know which schedule you've seen, but here we've always known that the individual events were from Sept. 20th through Sept. 26th and the team events will be held on Sept. 27th (maybe you miread the "7" of 27 with a "1")...

women's -52kg Gold: Uta Abe Silver: Ai Shishime Bronze: Erika Miranda & Amandine Bouchard men's -66kg Gold: Hifumi Abe Silver: Yerlan Serikzhanov Bronze: An Baul & Georgii Zantaraia

actually they have 3 mats for the preliminaries and then they use just 1 for the finals, exactly as they do at the Olympics (and as they should do in every competition)... it's done to allow the fans to watch all the most important fights (semifinals and finals) without losing anything that really matters... but you only want to watch Algerians...you're not interested in sports...

yes, but I know for sure that the autograph was thrown away when we did some heavy renovation works (basically now we only have the same walls as 20 years ago)...

I've never been collecting autographs... but I used to have 1 of which I was very proud...the legend himself, the mastermind and coach of the greatest Hockey machine ever seen on the ice, the real Red Army and the Soviet Union of the late Seventies/early Eighties: the Soviet Army Colonel Viktor Tikhonov it was taken at the 1994 World Championships in Milan (during an interval of the SWE vs ITA quarterfinal match), but unfortunately it's gone lost in the mess of my house and I don't have it anymore...

and right now...the Opening Ceremony with Al Bano (Al Bano!!!!! ) as the main star... for all the masochists in the world...

quick recap, part #2... men's -66kg semifinals Tal Flicker vs Yerlan Serikzhanov Hifumi Abe vs An Baul repechage Kherlen Ganbold vs Daniel Cargnin (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Abe / An) Mikhail Puliaev vs Georgii Zantaraia (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Flicker / Serikzhanov)

and it's Kherlen Ganbold scoring the winning waza-ari with just 2 seconds still to go in regulation... therefore, in the men's -66kg the pool B final is vs

meanwhile the pool B final will be between Yerlan Serikzhanov and the winner of the match Kherlen Ganbold vs Nathan Burns...

men's -66kg pool A final will be between Tal Flicker and Daniel Cargnin...

quick recap, part #1... women's -52kg semifinals Amandine Bouchard vs Uta Abe Ai Shishime vs Erika Miranda repechage Gefen Primo vs Jessica Pereira (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Shishime / Miranda) Natalia Kuziutina vs Charline Van Snick (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Bouchard / Abe)