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another couple of medals for Italy...very successful champs for us, both under the organizing and the competitive point of view...

Men's Junior K1 Final Results BARTA Jan 79.40 DELASSUS Anatole 80.32 ZIMA Tomas 81.00 Full Finals Results HERE Full Semifinals Results HERE Full Heats (Qualification) Results Heat 1 and Heat 2

Women's Junior C1 Final Results SATKOVA Gabriela 100.45 BERTONCELLI Marta 101.24 STANOVSKA Sona 104.55 Full Finals Results HERE Full Semifinals Results HERE Full Heats (Qualification) Results Heat 1 and Heat 2

mental & tactical masterpiece by Navarria...and finally at the age of 34 she gets her first individual medal at a major championship...and it's a Gold medal! congrats to her...well deserved after a dedicated career... p.s. and with today's result she also wins the 2017/2018 World Cup... meanwhile in the men's sabre it's a Korean day, with the master of parèe et resposts, Kim Jung Hwan, who takes advantage by Dershwitz lack of fantasy (and of a plan B) in his tactics...

yes, HUN are the big losers today...they got close, but couldn't finalize (and Szasz's loss to an almost unknown Swiss girl is particularly painful, I guess)...

wow! Kim Jung Hwan beat Gu Bon Gil in the men's sabre quarters... and Russia finally enter the medal table thanks to Ibragimov (who won against Szatmari)... unfortunately Ferjani's run has been stopped by Kim Jun Ho...so, today we have 2 Koreans on the podium... finally, Dershwitz put the USA among the medallists also in the men's division...2 honors for them today...

well, this looks a big payback to me... however I agree, those Countries who don't respect some of the partecipating athletes shouldn't be allowed to host any event at all...

naaa...today we shouldn't risk anything like that...the football champs are still on holiday (and the sub-19 Europeans are scheduled for 5.30 p.m., so when fencing is over)...

Men's Individual Sabre Final Results: Gold: Kim Jung Hwan (KOR) Silver: Eli Dershwitz (USA) Bronze: Kamil Ibragimov (RUS) & Eli Dershwitz (USA) Semifinals: Kim Jung Hwan b. Ibragimov 15-13 Dershwitz b. Kim Jun Ho 15-14 Gold Medal Match: Kim Jung Hwan b. Dershwitz 15-11 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/246/results/rank

Women's Individual Epee Final Results: Gold: Mara Navarria (ITA) Silver: Ana Maria Popescu (ROU) Bronze: Laura Staehli (SUI) & Courtney Hurley (USA) Semifinals: Navarria b. Staehli 15-8 Popescu b. Hurley 14-13 Gold Medal Match: Navarria b. Popescu 13-9 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/241/results/rank

I don't know if I should put the loughin' smiley or the sad one...

well, Hurley got many podium finish in the World Cup, so it's not such a big surprise (like Staehli, who beat Szasz in the quarters)...

finally a global medal for her...let's hope she doeasn't stop right now, when things get more "tasty"... p.s. we also have RAISport HD live for the finals (at least they announced it)...

no, I think he's been injured for quite a while right now... I guess (I hope) we'll see him again in the next season...

nothing went right for Italy last night, so Portugal once again beat the Azzurri (4-2 the final score yesterday) and will play their 1599467 Gold Medal match at the European Championships... and as expected, they will face Spain, who destroyed France (8-2 the final score) in the other semifinal match... ITA and FRA will play for the Bronze Medal later Today (5 p.m. CET), meanwhile the big game is scheduled for 7.30 p.m. (always today)... earlier in the day also the consolation finals will be played in La Coruna: ENG vs GER for the 7th place and AND vs SUI for the 5th place...meanwhile the ranking from 9th to 11th place will be determined by the last game of a 3-way round robin, NED vs AUT (so far, NED have won against BEL and AUT vs BEL ended with a tie)...

Chinese Taipei beat the Netherlands 7-5 last night, so they earned the second spot into the Gold Medal match, where they are going to face Japan... the big game is scheduled for Today's afternoon at 2 p.m. CET the Netherlands, instead, end up their tournament in 3rd place...

not all the people have the same character and/or mental strenght...here in Italy we are full of athletes who had an unbelievably long career always on top (look at Vezzali, just to name a fencer)...but Fiamingo isn't one of those, unfortunately for us... however, I still hope for her to get back to her glory days...she's still quite young, especially for a weapon like epee...maybe she's just recharging her batteries before the Tokyo Games...

by the way, the streaming is a joke...it's half an hour behind the real time...if you go to the blue piste right now, they're stull waiting to show the round of 16 in the men's sabre (which is way over...there's even the clock on the pictures, indicating 16.15 local time, meanwhile now it's 16.45, 10.45 here in Central Europe)... I hate those fuc*in' events held in China...how much I hate them...

I always fear the Estonians...for Navarria, beating Lehis wn't be so easy...our girls always fence badly against the Baltic women... however, I hope this timew Navarria can finally reach the final of a major championship...she deserves it...

I think she did burn out mentally... I don't think she has big technical issues (and I'm sure she's not injured)...

it was expected... our guys have been very inconsistent throughout the entire season... moreover, at the moment we just can't play against the Koreans...the only man who had a chance was Berrè, but he lost an apparently close match against Szatmari (who's a good fencer...you can always lose against him and it's not a shame for sure)... and, sad to be said, Montano is a former athlete...he shouldn't be anymore part of our team, but you know, in Italy is always very difficult, if not impossible, to keep a decorated veteran out unless he calls himself out... finally, I'm very surprised by Ferjani's result...congrats to him...and let's hope not to see too many Koreans on the podium... in the women's epee, instead, at least Navarria got into the top 8...let's see if she can deliver when it really matters once in her career...surprisingly, no Russians in the top 8... and I expected Fiamingo to go out against Branza-Popescu, but not with that infamous score...

and Janja strikes again! this woman is just unbelievable, unstoppable...

every day is a new day...and this time Italy played a very poor game on the mound, allowing Cuba to take their revenge from round robin play with the score of 9-5... therefore, Cuba ended up in 4th place and Italy in 5th...

only 5th place for Ghisolfi tonight... well deserved win for Megos... technically, overall not the best competition of the season, since nobody did reach the top... now the women's final is underway...with 4 out of 8 starters coming from Slovenia...

IFSC World Cup, Stage #9 (Briançon, FRA) Women's Lead 1st, Janja Garnbret (SLO) 2nd, Jessica Pilz (AUT) 3rd, Anak Verhoeven (BEL) Men's Lead 1st, Alexander Megos (GER) 2nd, Romain Desgranges (FRA) 3rd, Domen Skofic (SLO)