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Hifumi Abe is a monster...he's just unstoppable...he just eat Zantaraia alive in about 50 seconds in the final of the pool C of the men's -66kg... therefore, in the bottom half of the draw we're going to have Abe vs An in the semifinal match...that's gonna be great (an early final, I guess)...

Erika Miranda will be the opponent of Ai Shishime in the semifinal match of the bottom half of the draw in the women's -52kg, since she beat Charlene Van Snick quite easily...

and Ai Shishime is also through to the semifinals...all Japanese final is coming, I fear... meanwhile An Baul just destroyed Puliaev in the pool D final in the men's -66kg class...

Uta Abe wins the pool B in the women's -52kg and now she's going to face Bouchard in the semifinal of the top half of the draw...

men's -66kg pool finals C: Abe vs Zantaraia, D: Puliaev vs An Baul (A & B pool finalists have not been determined yet)...

and Amandine Bouchard is the first girl who made it through to the semifinals, by beating Gefen Primo...

women's -52kg pool finals... A: Bouchard vs Primo, B: Abe vs Pereira, C: Kuziutina vs Shishime, D: Miranda vs Van Snick

and just another day of shame for the Italian squad... in the men's -66kg, Medves somehow managed to win a pair of matches (but struggling a lot more than he was supposed to do against very modest opponents), but then he was humiliated by Abe (it was like watching a real man against a 12-year old kid), who literally threw him left, right and over as he wanted, until he scored the decisive ippon... meanwhile Giuffrida (the luckiest Olympic Silver medal ever) had basically already won against Primo (ISR) in her first match, but she lost focus for a while and the Israeli girl scored a flashy ippon with very few seconds to go (actually it looked that giuffrida didn't even understand what happened in the final action)... shame...shame...shame on that team...and fire Murakami!!!!!

imho, Zheng was really robbed by Lee in their semifinal match...the Korean scored at least 10 points by punches that landed evrywhere but in the places they're supposed to be to score points... and also the ref (the same blonde woman from SLO that tried to make Jade Jones lose by accumulating 10 warnings in Rome) was always penalizing the Chinese girl for shin stops when it was the Korean grabbing her opponent... those matches just drive me crazy...I just can't stand that kind of biased refereeing (and judging)... p.s. and I also can't stand matches like the Tortosa vs Artamonov or Yaman vs Asemani, where literally nothing happened for 3 rounds...sometimes TKD can be soooo boring...

that's great...more than great, enormous... but still, our main target was to make the top 6 with the team...and of course we failed big time (even if we have to say that we've been very unlucky with the injuries...first Zorzi in the week before the world champs, then Gaudiano yesterday)...

and as usual Italy wasted a 7-5 lead (giving up 2 solo homers) in the 9th inning and an 8-7 advantage in the top of the 10th and finally lost once again against their arch-rival from the Netherlands...

Day #4 (Women's Wrestling) Finals -53kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / / & vs / -57kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / & vs / -62kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / & vs / -65kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / & vs / -72kg Gold: vs Bronze: vs / & vs /

Day #3 (Women's Wrestling) Medallists -50kg Gold: Yui Susaki Silver: Ellen Riesterer Bronze: Marina Zakshevskaya & Veronika Gurskaya -55kg Gold: Saki Igarashi Silver: Khaliunaa Bayaraa Bronze: Ekaterina Verbina & Hou Jiajing -59kg Gold: Anastasia Nichita Silver: Sae Nanjo Bronze: Tetiana Rizhko & Anshu Anshu -68kg Gold: Khanum Velieva Silver: Macey Ellen Kilty Bronze: Miwa Morikawa & Alina Rudnytska Levytska -76kg Gold: Huang Yuanyuan Silver: Elmira Khalaeva Bronze: Yasuha Matsuyuki & Denise Sabina Makota Stroem

Super Six Day #3 Results Russia b. Greece 7-2 Czech Republic b. Great Britain 2-0 Italy b. Russia 8-0 Netherlands b. Great Britain 8-3 Current Rankings Czech Republic, 4W - 0L Italy, 3W - 1L Netherlands, 2W - 1L Great Britain & Russia, 1W - 3L Greece, 0W - 3L

Super Six Day #3 Results Czech Republic b. Belgium 15-10 Spain b. Germany 9-1 Netherlands b. Italy 9-8

c'mon! he could have gone playing in another league...in the KHL, Sweden, Switzerland salaries are quite good...he wouldn't get homeless for sure...

at least we already have 1 Gold Medal not going to Japan after Day 1... last year it took 3 days and the women's -57kg to find a different winner...

women's -48kg Gold: Daria Bilodid Silver: Funa Tonaki Bronze: Paula Pareto & Otgontsetseg Galbadrakh men's -60kg Gold: Naohisa Takato Silver: Robert Mshvidobadze Bronze: Ryuju Nagayama & Amiran Papinashvili

quick recap... women's -48kg semifinals Urantsetseg Munkhbat vs Funa Tonaki Paula Pareto vs Daria Bilodid repechage Catarina Costa vs Julia Figueroa (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Pareto / Bilodid) Marusa Stangar vs Otgontsetseg Galbadrakh (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Munkhbat / Tonaki) men's -60kg semifinals Ryuju Nagayama vs Naohisa Takato Robert Mshvidobadze vs Amiran Papinashvili repechage Kim Yong Gwon vs Karamat Huseynov (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Mshvidobadze / Papinashvili) Lee Ha Rim vs Eric Takabatake (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Nagayama / Takato)

Tonaki wins the women's -48kg pool B...she'll face Munkhbat in the top half semifinal match...

and Munkhbat is the 3rd girl qualified to the seminals in the -48kg class...

men's pool A final: Nagayama vs Kim

pool B final among the women: Tonaki vs Figueroa

wow! 5:12 of golden score in rd #3 between Tonaki and Kang... eventually it was the Japanese girl who won (by osaekomi) and went through to the pool final...

Takato looks in top shape...he easily destroyed all the field in pool B (included Huseynov in the final) and he's through to the semifinals...