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Men's Skeet Gold: Jesper Hansen Silver: Erik Watndal Bronze: Alexandr Zemlin Women's Skeet Gold: Danka Bartekova Silver: Lucie Anastassiou Bronze: Victoria Larsson

day #9 recap *Men's 49er (12 races): Sime Fantela/Mihovil Fantela 62 pts, Tim Fischer/Fabian Graf 75 pts, Tim Heil/Erik Ploessel 80 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race *Women's 49er FX (12 races): Tanja Frank/Lorena Abicht 71 pts, Sophie Weguelin/Sophie Ainsworth 82 pts, Annemiek Bekkering/Annette Duetz 85 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race *Men's RS:X (12 races): Dorian Van Rijsselberge 52 pts, Kiran Badloe 65.8 pts, Louis Giard 80 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race *Women's RS:X (12 races): Lilian De Geus 36 pts (mathematically already World Champion), Lu Yunxia 66 pts, Charline Picon 76 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race *Mixed Nacra 17 (13 races): Ruggero Tita/Marianna Caterina Banti 69 pts, Nathan Outteridge/Haylee Outteridge 70 pts, Santiago Lange/Cecilia Carranza Saroli 72 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race * = Fleet Races are over Men's Finn, Men's 470, Women's 470, Men's Laser, Women's Laser Radial are over and their Final Results have already been posted... p.s. Men's 49er and Women's 49er FX Medal Races are scheduled for tomorrow (14.07 CET and 14.47 CET respectively), meanwhile both RS:X events and Nacra 17 Medal Races are scheduled for Sunday (starting at 14.07 CET)...

today's best from Tokyo... 100m Free Women: Cate Campbell, 52.03; Simone Manuel, 52.66; Taylor Ruck, 52.72 Men: Kyle Chalmers, 48.00; Caeleb Dressel, 48.22 200m Fly Women: Hali Flickinger, 2.07.35; Sachi Mochida, 2.07.66 Men: Daiya Seto, 1.54.34; Leonardo De Deus, 1.54.89; Zach Harting, 1.55.05 100m Back Women: Kylie Masse, 58.61; Emily Seebohm, 58.72; Kathleen Baker, 58.83; Regan Smith, 58.95 Men: Ryan Murphy, 51.94; Ryosuke Irie, 52.78; Mitch Larkin, 52.88; Matt Grevers, 52.99 4*200m Free Relay Women: Australia, 7.44.12 (Titmus, 1.55.27 in 1st Leg); United States, 7.44.37 (Ledecky, 1.53.84 in the anchor Leg); Canada, 7.47.28 (Ruck, 1.54.08 in 2nd Leg); Japan, 7.48.96 (Ikee, 1.54.69 in 2nd Leg) Men: United States, 7.04.36 (Haas, 1.43.78 in the anchor Leg); Australia, 7.04.70 (Cartwright, 1.45.52 in 3rd Leg)

all results have now been published on the official website, so we can take them for official... 3 Olympic spots for Italy and the 49er crew just missing out by finishing 1 single point behind DEN, 2 points behind SUI and 3 points behind POR (all of them qualified to Tokyo 2020)...they just haven't been lucky, to say the least... and Tita/Banti finally did make up for yesterday's disaster and now they're back on top of the rankings of the Nacra 17 class before the Medal Race (which is expected to be a great show, since we have ITA 1 point ahead of AUS, then ARG 3 points from the top and DEN 6 points behind ITA...even BRA -12 points behind ITA- is not out of the Gold Medal fight yet)...

men's RS:X race #10 was abandoned, women's RS:X race #10 postponed as the last 49er fleet race (probably they won't be able to complete any race today)... it looks that only in the stadium the wind is under control...in the outer courses it's not possible to have a fair race at the moment... edit: it looks that the men's RS:X (race #10) will have a new start in 5 mins...let's see if they don't abort it once again...

Final Results Women's Laser Radial Gold: Emma Plasschaert, 66 pts Silver: Marit Bowmeester, 75 pts Bronze: Anne-Marie Rindom, 85 pts

Final Results Men's Laser Gold: Pavlos Kontides, 59 pts Silver: Matthew Wearn, 61 pts Bronze: Philipp Buhl, 70 pts

crews already qualified to the Tokyo Games after the 2018 World Championships, part #2 Men's Laser Australia Brazil Croatia Cyprus Estonia Finland France Germany Great Britain New Zealand Norway Peru South Korea United States Women's Laser Radial Belgium Canada China Denmark Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Switzerland Sweden Turkey United States Women's 49er FX Australia Austria Brazil Denmark Great Britain Netherlands New Zealand Norway

Men's Junior Skeet Gold: Alessandro Calonaci Silver: Alexander Karlsen Bronze: Emil Kjelgaard Petersen Women's Junior Skeet Gold: Giada Longhi Silver: Anna Sindelarova Bronze: Eva-Tamara Reichert

14.55 - 14.36 = 19...sorry for not being so precise to count also the hundreds of a second...c'mon! be serious... about my thoughts on Van Rouwendaal...you're just writing false things...so, once again you're totally off target... and p.s. I repeat you should learn what sense of humor is (and try to use a big amount of that in your life, before you get mad for nothing)...if you don't understand the joke that was running between me and @heywoodu on the Dutch great success in the European Championships overall, then don't try to be part of that same joke... well, at this point our "virtual" relationship on this forum is over right now...

Vergani = his first season as a professional...and apparently he's a great sprinter (but he still can't swim more than 50m yet)... Quadarella = our best young and improving talent...former junior european medallist widening her range of events (but all reasonbly close one to the other)... Panziera = actually she's 22, so she's quite young for the typical Italian standard (and I also explained what has always been the opinion and the expectations of our coaching staff about her)... Codia = his PB in the 100m fly was 52.67 in 2012 and then he improved slightly every year since 2014: 52.40, 51.69, 51.42, 51.09...and then today's new IR (which I already wrote is definitely unexpected)... Cusinato + Miressi = they are just 19, coming out of a successful junior career (and their improvement in terms of clockings is not that impressive, tbh)... Zofkova = you should read the story of her life to know why she wasn't as good in the past (but still, I can also admit that she's another "amazing" performer, so to say)...p.s. in any case, she was always around the 60 secs "high" in the last few years...not that she came down from 1.03 or so... Pizzini = he was a talented and successful junior, then he had 2/3 years where he lost interest in high level swimming...then he got back and won the bronze medal already 2 yars ago...he's always been consistent between 2.09 and 2.10 for 3/4 seasons...so, swimming 2.08.5 after being healty and in good shape for a full year is not that crazy, I guess... Restivo = he' studying as a medicine doctor...he had a surprising Italian record last year (but then he failed at the world champs)...still, his time is improved by just a few hundreds in the last 24 months... Megli = he's been swimming the same clockings (1.47 low, 1.46 high) for years (and he's still reasonably young)...he's only had a one-hit wonder in an internal leg of a relay...how can you name this "a meet of his life"? p.s. we have a 44-people team in Glasgow...and no more than 15 guys (including a bunch of teenagers at their 1st or 2nd global event) improved their PB... p.p.s. I repeat...there's no strange system behind our improvement, just good work (and a very modest past, which makes this new life of Italian swimming more surprising to the eyes of the people who don't know exactly how things used to be here until a few years ago)... p.p.p.s. Wellbrock's best was 14.55 before this year... p.p.p.p.s. what did I write about Van Rouwendaal that's not fair to her? p.p.p.p.p.s. not gonna answer about women's track cycling and Tortu...ot's obvious that you don't know anything about Italian sports history, troubles, development...more in general, it's clear that you don't know anything about Italy... once again...keep your frustration out of your home...you're gonna benefit of that by soooo much...

day #8 recap *Men's Laser (10 races): Pavlos Kontides 29 pts, Matthew Wearn 32 pts, Elliott Hanson 34 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race *Women's Laser Radial (10 races): Emma Plasschaert 56 pts, Marit Bowmeester 67 pts, Marie Rindom 79 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race Men's 49er (10 races): Sime Fantela/Mihovil Fantela 48 pts, Tim Fischer/Fabian Graf 48 pts, Tim Heil/Erik Ploessel 60 pts *Women's 49er FX (12 races): Tanja Frank/Lorena Abicht 71 pts, Sophie Weguelin/Sophie Ainsworth 82 pts, Annemiek Bekkering/Annette Duetz 85 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race Men's RS:X (9 races): Dorian Van Rijsselberge 34 pts, Pawel Tarnowski 44 pts, Kieran Holmes Martin 45 pts Women's RS:X (9 races): Lilian De Geus 30 pts, Lu Yunxia 35 pts, Zofia Noceti-Klepacka 45.2 pts Mixed Nacra 17 (10 races): Nathan Outteridge/Haylee Outteridge 42 pts, Santiago Lange/Cecilia Carranza Saroli 45 pts, Lin Ea Cenholt/Christian Peter Lubeck 46 pts * = Fleet Races are over Men's Finn, Men's 470, Women's 470 are over and their Final Results have already been posted...

well, if we talk about shotgun shooting, Italy would be more than happy to use 3 different men and/or women in the trap events...leaving Silvana Stanco home before the Rio Games was so painful for our coach (ad for her, more than obviously)... with the team event in the program, it wouldn't have happened...

no, they won't the mixed team qualification is only for that specific competition p.s. I think some qualification criteria are absurd...and this is one of those...but still, that's how it works...

she's one of them, but potentially there are a lot more of those average pool swimmers in the long distances that could make the same move...in many Countries... p.s. Gabbrielleschi is one of those...she's only at her second year outside the lanes...and today she was better than Vermeulen... p.p.s. in any case, I think Van Rouwendaal's worst enemy in Tokyo (and in Korea) will be the water temperature...it will be extremely high, I fear (and SVR could have some troubles because of that...at least, more than some of her main rivals, especially the Italian and Brazilian girls, who normally love the hot water)...

Panziera is not an average girl...she was expected to this kind of level for years...but she has been underperforming for quite a while for personal reasons... p.s. for you is it more surprising a technically perfect swim like Panziera's bringing her to world excellence than the so funny and almost illegal swim by Burian getting so close to the Italian? c'mon! the only "amazing" and surprising clocking by an Italian this week is Codia's 50.6...but still, sometimes it happens that you have a perfect race once in your life and get what you never expected before the race (and however, he had a PB of 51.0 and did make the final at the world and european champs -winning medals at the short course europeans, too- already earlier in his career...so, it's not that he improved more than 20 seconds in a year -any referral to Wellbroeck is not unintentional)... p.p.s. of course 2 or 3 Italians having the meet of their life is a farce... meanwhile teenagers like Milak, Kolesnikov, Chupkov, Chalmers or Freya Anderson coming out of nowhere -not necessarily this year, of course- and almost breaking world records or people like the Americans or Hosszu -not this time for obvious reasons, of course- winning multiple olympic gold medals in the most different disciplines is absolutely normal... or watching people swimming a sprint race with 2 secs advantage on the rest of the field is also absolutely beyond any suspicion... c'mon, man! calm down and let your frustration out of your door...shouting at the bad Italians is not gonna make you live better...

with all those Russians, Hungarians and Britons also on the podium is not so difficult...

with Codia swimming this morning's heats in the relay, he would have not won the individual race...that's sure...better like it's gone... p.s. however, we could have used Restivo in the backstroke leg and Burdisso in the fly leg...in that case, we surely would have qualified for the final...and then, who knows? p.p.s. in any case, nobody seems really caring about that fail, after the unexpected rain of gold medals we enjoyed earlier this afternoon...

sure, but there are athletes who can cope with that a lot better than average and others that are more penalized by that (Bruni, for instance, is one of those, since she's a lot lighter than her main rivals -and normally the heavier you are, the more you get some help by the full bodysuit used in cold water conditions)... for what concerns the Tokyo race, at the moment Van Rouwendaal is the main favourite, no doubt about that...but we still have a couple of years to go, so there's always the option to find a newcomer to open water swimming that could upset her... we can only wait and see...

Aru has no talent (he was only lucky -and very suspicious- in his only good run at the Giro a few years ago)...if they make the mistake to count on him to win a medal, it would end up in an epic fail for us...

I still think that the women would eventually find their course also very tough...for them there's no need of a Tourmalet/Mortirolo kind of climb to make a big difference... meanwhile I hope Nibali would finally have his revenge after the unlucky Rio ending of his Olympic campaign...this course seems to be really good for him...

già...non dirlo a me...che sono uno dei fans più accaniti dello sport NCAA americano (che di fatto è anche una delle pochissime cose che invidio agli amici d'oltre Oceano)...

so, nothing... I was just reporting the best results of the day (and Campbell's time is one of them) and some other clockings by the most famous swimmers competing in Japan this week (and Dressel is surely one of those)... there was no comparison at all between their results (I think you should know that I'm not a fan of certain events and I'm experienced -old- enough to avoid certain "impossible" comparisons... p.s. I forgot to mention also the 4.07 by Kalisz in the men's 400 IM from today's action...

beh, questa è purtroppo una grande verità (calcio/basket/volley/tennis/golf e motori a parte)... però c'è da dire che almeno i membri fissi delle varie Nazionali sono comunque "protetti" dall'esser parte dei gruppi sportivi militari, che garantiscono loro stipendio ed eventuale lavoro una volta terminata la carriera sportiva... non oso immaginare come potremmo fare senza questa risorsa incommensurabile (verso la quale personalmente nutro un amore/odio viscerale anche per ragioni personali)...

il problema sono gli infortuni...non si vogliono correre troppi rischi buttando atleti in pieno carico pre-mondiali in una competizione potenzialmente difficile come un GP... comunque io sono da sempre scettico sulle scelte dei nostri coach in fatto di partecipazione a questi tornei...secondo me i nostri ragazzi gareggiano troppo poco nelle gare più importanti...