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Still, the race was won with 14.36 and Greg is not improving anymore since 2016... I think that all of his Australian journeys and the Open Water project are taking a lot off his 1500m skills... I hope he's gonna turn his trend around or Tokyo's podium finish could become very complicated... congrats to Wellbroeck...frankly I didn't expect him to swim 14.36... Miressi...great job, great win (I didn't expect him to manage that pressure so well)...but, tbh, I expected quite a faster time from him (46.9 in the relay's anchor leg means that he should have got at least a 47.7 in today's final)... in any case, I think it's only a question of time...he's gonna go below 48 secs very soon...

Mixed Team Trap Gold: Italy 2 (Giovanni Pellielo & Jessica Rossi) Silver: Slovakia 2 (Erik Varga & Zuzana Rehak-Stefecekova) Bronze: Turkey (Oguzhan Tuzun & Sagiye Sariturk) Junior Mixed Team Trap Gold: Russia (Dmitrii Isaev & Daria Semianova) Silver: Italy 1 (Matteo Marongiu & Sofia Littame) Bronze: France (Clement Francis Andrè Bourgue & Loemy Recasens)

yeah, in a certain way... but still, I definitely prefer that (not that I don't like meat...it's just a step down in my own ranking)...

fish and vegetables...don't forget the main part...

noooo.... I didn't know you were so sensitive about that...

meanwhile I'm waiting for the day they will show us 4K pictures (and add commentary to all those files still without it)...

street food all the way... and who cares of the rest?... but I'm for fish and vegetables at most, rather than meat...

Women's Team Trap Gold: Italy Silver: Germany Bronze: Finland Men's Team Trap Gold: Italy Silver: Portugal Bronze: France Women's Junior Team Trap Gold: Italy Silver: Great Britain Bronze: Germany Men's Junior Team Trap Gold: France Silver: Finland Bronze: Germany

well, I know about Quadarella history (she's the typical Italian athlete...until last year she used to train just once a day since she was going to highschool -where you have to attend classes everyday for 5/6 hours from September to June... basically she became a professional athlete after the end of her highschool education..that's why we always have a lot of those guys improving around the 19/20/21 years by quite some margin and we normally don't have 16/18 years old senior medal contenders (unless you're special like Pellegrini, who was so good at 16 that she started winning medals at that age in Athens despite not training like a pro yet)... Hungary instead has a different system...they really push everybody to the limit since the youngest age, therefore they have the "big jump" in their performance earlier than the average (the only thing they have if compared to other Countries, they can make their champions last for a long time -just look at Darnyi, Cseh, the same Katinka)... I don't know a lot about Titmus, but I don't think she's a differend kind of girl within the Australian standard... however, I'm just guessing and hoping...as I always say, my opinions are just opinions..and therefore are subject to fail (actually, most often I don't get it right)... my words are not "the Truth"...I've never thought to be God...

well, a few years their situation was really complicated (not sure now it's a lot better, though)... once I read an interview by the great Yana Klockova and she basically said that swimming for her Country at that time was an "act of faith", since they didn't have almost any infrastructure nor a good coach (all stayed in russia when the 2 Countries split)... so, I can understand their guys taking some difficult decisions such leaving their own Nation... but stil, I have always so many doubts about Azerbaijani sport (and not only that)...

just read the post above...it's not weird...you just can't compare Italy (and the other Latin Countries) with those I mentioned...the difference is enormous in all aspects of life... here in Italy you won't find more than 3% of people under 25 years going to live by themselves and living their life as "real adults"... in your (and many other) Countries this is difficult to understand...but that's how things go... all of our lives are postponed if compared to many other Nations and this reflects also on our sporting results overall, in the senior ranks...

in the points race the most crowded group is always the main reference (you can add or take off points from that)...people only need to keep that in mind..and then it's not such chaos as many could think (well, a good tv commentator always helps in this case...and our tv is quite lucky...we have a certain Silvio Martinello at the mic right now )...

more in general, Latin girls (and partially also Latin men) become "real women" ("real men") later than girls from GBR/USA/AUS and Northern European Countries... it's just a cultural question...unless life situations forces us otherwise, we normally spend more time with our original family before starting our own living project...and this reflects also on all the other activities, including a full physical and mental development... there are many studies trying to explain that...without a single convincing theory, to be honest...

day #3 recap Men's Laser (4 races): Sam Meech 3 pts, Kaarle Tapper 5 pts, Tom Burton 7 pts Women's Laser Radial (4 races): Paige Riley 8 pts, Marie Rindom 9 pts, Line Flem Host 10 pts Finn (6 races): Ed Wright 22 pts, Max Salminen 22 pts, Nicholas Heiner 22 pts Men's 470 (6 races): Anton Dahlberg/Fredrik Bergstrom 15 pts, Keiju Okada/Jumpei Okazono 20 pts, Tetsuya Isozaki/Akira Takayanagi & Mathew Belcher/William Ryan tied with 21 pts Women's 470 (6 races): Ai Kondo Yoshida/Miho Yoshioka 17 pts, Hannah Mills/Eilidh McIntyre 19 pts, Camille Lecointre/Aloise Retornaz 27 pts Men's 49er (3 races): Logan Dunning Beck/Oscar Gunn, Lucas Rual/Emile Amoros, Mathieu Frei/Noe Delpech & Jorge Lima/Josè Costa all tied with 3 pts Women's 49er FX (3 races): Jena Hansen/Katja Slskov-Iversen 2 pts, Odile Van Aanholt/Marieke Jongens 3 pts, Ida Marie Baad Nielsen/Marie Thusgaard Olsen 4 pts

well, until is there, I'm totally OK with that...

aaaarghhh...I'm reading the (in)famous word "mixed"... urticaria is really killing me right now...

actually he's from Ukraine and he's not so young to have competed at the junior Europeans that recently (he's already 25 years old)... no idea about his junior record, but he represented Ukraine until 2015 (he missed out on the final in the 400 IM for them in London), then he switched to AZE... tbh, I guess this late improvement after changing to that specific Nation is at least suspect (but don't be bothered by this last sentence...it's surely me...I just can't trust AZE anymore for anything)...

as if 5 seconds were nothing... the Chinese girls we all know that today are there and tomorrow they could be on the wada black list... Titmus...for the Australian standards she's already on top of her game, meanwhile Quadarella, for the Italian standards, is still very young and improving fast (actually this was only her second global event and she improved her PB by 5 seconds... only Kesely could be a real threat...but I think she's gonna be more of a new Risztov/Kapas than a new Hosszu...knowing the Hungarian system, she's already been pushed to her absolute limits in training...if she doesn't leave HUN for another Country (like Hosszu), she's gonna be totally burnt out by Tokyo... and as I already wrote, I'm one of Simona's biggest fans...therefore I really hope she's gonna have a bright future, even more than people watching her races with a more "relaxed" approach...

sure... but still, if there are some races with a clear favourite, those are Sjostrom's 100 Fly and Peaty's 100 Breast...

I don't know what smiley is better in this case? or or maybe even

not that there was any doubt about it before the start of the championship...

the big baby is still growing... let's see if tomorrow he can make a name for himself...

the omnium needs to be cancelled... they should have the points race and the elimination race as they stand in the program (and the men's madison, of course...the girls maybe in the future, right now they need to make a lot more experience on that race before they should be allowed to ride it at the global events, imho)...and stop.

well, their coach might even have a different idea...

great, great swim by Simona... Ledecky is still untouchable, but the silver medal in Tokyo now is really a chance... p.s. she swam with negative split... meanwhile, Peaty!!!!! he's a monster...he's not human!