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and for the happiness of our friends @hckosice & @LDOG (and for my desperation ) this is the provisional ranking of the women's Skeet competition... https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=1750&resultkey=Q00001_I_1009180905.1.SK125W.0

Today's Results Men's Individual 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Gold: Lin Junmin Silver: Zhang Jian Bronze: Jean Quiquampoix Olympic Quota: China, China, France & Russia Men's Team 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Gold: China Silver: Germany Bronze: South Korea Men's Junior Individual 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Gold: Zhu Haojie Silver: Lee Jaek Yoon Bronze: Cheng Zhipeng Men's Junior Team 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Gold: China Silver: South Korea Bronze: Poland Men's Individual 300m Prone Rifle Gold: Rajmond Debevec Silver: Daniel Romanczyk Bronze: Josip Kuna Women's Individual 300m Prone Rifle Gold: Bae Soo Hee Silver: Eva Roesken Bronze: Silvia Guignard Schnyder Women's Team 300m Prone Rifle Gold: Germany Silver: South Korea Bronze: Switzerland Men's Junior Individual 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Amir Mohammad Nekounam Silver: Zalan Pekler Bronze: Cao Bo Men's Junior Team 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: China Silver: Russia Bronze: Hungary Updated Medal Standings here: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/schedule.ashx?cshipid=1750

as expected, the final was ruined by a damn crazy (basically impossible) route... OK...this is the World Championship and things must be complicated, but this was definitely too much also for this kind of event... when nobody can even get close to the Top of the wall, it's obvious that the technical commission made a big mistake in building the route... having said that, we still have a "dream" podium, with 3 of the 4/5 main pre-competition favourites...so, at least we can't say that we had a "roulette" final, but a competition where the best climbers did show why they are the best (climbers)... and also tonight we had to use a tie-breaker to decide the 2018 world champion, but this time, since Schubert and Ondra were not tied in the semifinals, we only went back to the "classic" countback (the best in the previous round has the advantage), without the need to go further and use the cruel climbing time tie-breaker (as t happened yesterday in the women's final)... and finally it was Austria once again to come up with the top honor, making the host the absolute dominator of the Lead competitions thanks to both Gold Medals in this particular disciplines... tomorrow's rest day...from Tuesday, the Boulder competitions will be on stage...and despite Austria still have some chances, I expect the music to change drastically... p.s. just another thing about the lead finals (and semis)...call me a conservative, but I don't think that all that disco music and strobo lights in the arena during the climbs did help the athletes through their efforts...

Men's Lead Gold: Jakob Schubert Silver: Adam Ondra Bronze: Alexander Megos Full Competition Results here: http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competition#!comp=1564&cat=1

2018 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships (Lenzerheide, SUI) Final Medal Table SUI, 4 / 1 / 0 GBR, 2 / 1 / 2 AUT, 2 / 0 / 0 USA, 1 / 2 / 0 FRA, 1 / 0 / 2 RSA, 1 / 0 / 0 GER, 0 / 2 / 0 DEN, 0 / 1 / 1 ITA, 0 / 1 / 1 AUS, 0 / 1 / 0 BEL, 0 / 1 / 0 CZE, 0 / 1 / 0 CAN, 0 / 0 / 2 NED, 0 / 0 / 2 NOR, 0 / 0 / 1

Men's Elite Downhill Gold: Loic Bruni Silver: Martin Maes Bronze: Danny Hart

OMG!!! our men's Quadruple Sculls basically has stopped rowing after just 1000m and it's been humiliated by their opponents... and after the show they put on at the European Champs, it was supposed to be our best medal chance among the Olympic boats...

OK, I understand... meanwhile I'm just watching MTB and Rowing at the moment...

well, the race is still underway in any case...so at the moment nobody knows the final result...

they are on redbull TV https://www.redbull.com/int-en/tv/video/AP-1WNSQN6UW1W11/womens-mens-dh-finals-en-lenzerheide

finally, some good news for Italy...our Lightweight Double Sculls has recorded the best time overall in their class and the injection of last year's world champion in Pairs, Matteo Lodo, has revitalized our Fours crew... so far, for what I've seen, the men's Four is the race where we can expect the best show of the entire Championships...there are at least 5/6 boats all capable of winning the Gold medal (and at the same time, risking of not even making the A Final)...

despite the very diffcult and unusual route of the semifinal round, in any case we have almost all the favourites qualified for the final act... in fact, only Stefano Ghisolfi (ITA) and Tomoa Narasaki (JPN) are the really big names eliminated earlier today (and we should also add Romain Desgranges, FRA, who went already out in the qualifications 2 days ago)...

yeah, they are definitely going too much further... I wonder what's gonna happen tonight? meh... they're just killing the show...difficult doesn't mean impossible... not having a single "Top" in the semifinal round, normally is just unthinkable... by the way, thanks to this kind of routes, we're gonna have a 10-man final also in the men's division... Men's Lead, climbers qualified to the Final Tomoaki Takata Adam Ondra Sascha Lehmann Jakub Konecny Kai Harada Marcello Bombardi Meichi Narasaki Alexander Megos Jakob Schubert Domen Skofic

Women's Elite Downhill Gold: Rachel Atherton Silver: Tahnee Seagrave Bronze: Myriam Nicole p.s. what a race by Atherton... she annihilated all the other starters...

Women's Junior Downhill Gold: Valentina Holl Silver: Anna Newkirk Bronze: Mille Johnset Men's Junior Downhill Gold: Kade Edwards Silver: Kye A'Hern Bronze: Elliot Jamieson

that's really the right word... meanwhile the women's C1 was won by...guess who? yes, you're right...the correct answer is: Jessica Fox... when you look at the vocabulary for the definition of the word "unstoppable", there's a good chance you're gonna find "Jess Fox" for that...

and I didn't see our men's double sculls, yet...

watching our men's pair boat this season is so frustrating... I really hope next year we can get back to last year's guys, our crew of the season, our wonderful world champions...

p.s. tv/streaming pictures production is really awful...basically from those shots you can't understand anything about the race (excepts for the set timings at 500/1000/1500m and finish line)...

and the Sinkovic bros looks in good shape, too... I wonder how many close and exciting races we're going to have in these Champs? so far, both Lightweight Singles and the Women's Pairs look one-sided to say the least...meanwhile Romania maybe could make it something more than a red carpet walk for the Croatian monsters... it doesn't look that promising for the show in general...

Osborne is going to destroy the field... and if they can find a good partner for him, the Lightweight Doubles in Tokyo already have their Gold Medal winner (RIP Ireland, Norway, Italy and the other pretenders), even if transition from single sculls to doubles is not always automatic...

Today's Results Men's Team 300m Prone Rifle Gold: France Silver: Switzerland Bronze: Norway Women's Individual 50m Prone Rifle Gold: Zhang Qiaoying Silver: Rebecca Koeck Bronze: Aleksandra Szutko Women's Team 50m Prone Rifle Gold: Austria Silver: China Bronze: United States Men's Junior Individual 50m Prone Rifle Gold: Benjamin Tingsrud Karlsen Silver: Zalan Pekler Bronze: William Shaner Men's Junior Team 50m Prone Rifle Gold: Norway Silver: Austria Bronze: Russia Men's Individual 10m Running Target Slow + Fast Run Gold: Jesper Nyberg Silver: Maxim Stepanov Bronze: Vladislav Prianishnikov Men's Team 10m Running Target Slow + Fast Run Gold: Russia Silver: North Korea Bronze: Sweden Women's Individual 10m Running Target Slow + Fast Run Gold: Olga Stepanova Silver: Li Xue Yan Bronze: Galina Avramenko Women's Team 10m Running Target Slow + Fast Run Gold: China Silver: North Korea Bronze: Russia Men's Junior Individual 10m Running Target Slow + Fast Run Gold: Kris Grossheim Silver: Danylo Danilenko Bronze: Maksym Babushok Updated Medal Standings here: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/schedule.ashx?cshipid=1750

first loss for the Bolzano/Bozen Foxies... despite an early lead, they've been outplayed by Skelleftea and finally lost 2-1... now they're tied with HIFK in the standings, but they have to play twice the weakest team of the group, GKS Tychy (0 points in 4 games so far), meanwhile the Finns have to face the Swedish Elitserien's runner-up Skelleftea in the last couple of games of their group...so, if everything goes according to plan, they should still be able to qualify for the knockout stage without too many problems...

2018 Open Water Junior World Championships (Eilat, ISR) Final Medal Table USA, 2 / 2 / 1 FRA, 2 / 1 / 0 RUS, 1 / 2 / 1 HUN, 1 / 1 / 3 ITA, 1 / 1 / 3 ESP, 1 / 0 / 0 PER, 0 / 1 / 0

2018 Open Water Junior World Championships (Eilat, ISR) Day 3 Results 4*1.25km Mixed Relay (14-16 years old Kids) Gold: Hungary Silver: United States Bronze: Italy Open 4*1.25km Mixed Relay (19 years old & under Guys) Gold: France Silver: United States Bronze: Italy