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no, you're right... these champs and the 2019 junior world cup are the 2 qualifying events for the 2020 YOG... in particular, the NOCs represented among the top 6 of the single distance races over 500m and 1500m in these champs earn a quota place (and if there are more than 1 athlete of a Country among the top 6 of these races, their NOC earn an additional quota place)...

yes, sir... p.s. and the participants to this kind of competitions are nicely named "caymans"...

looking at her photos (and listening to her name), she definitely has Caribbean heritage... but...from the very few info available on the net, she does live in the Netherlands and she's been living there since many years (at least before she turned 7 years young), because she said she' been training in the Netherlands (Utrecht) with Juul Acton (who should be a quite famous Dutch coach) since that age... so, she might even have Caribbean genes, but technically she's definitely a "Dutch athletic school" product (if someone can talk of "products" for people and especially for people of that age)...

I don't know why those Argentinian races were held "only" over 15k... in the past, they were 3, if not 4, times the distance (of course following the rivers' stream, but still)... hopefully the next races will be over real marathon distance (if confirmed in the schedule, for sure Capri-Napoli can't be that short even if they want )...

it's gonna be the 3rd last event of the morning session (which starts at 7 a.m. CET)...so, more or less it will be around 10 /10.30 a.m. p.s. the Russians are never clean... I've been told that they haven't discovered the warm water, yet...so, they never take a shower and therefore they can't be clean...

Last event from today's schedule... women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold Medal match: Clio Ferracuti vs Anne Laure Florentin Bronze Medal match #1: Aisha Mohamed vs Shaaban Okila Menna Bronze Medal match #2: Shymaa Aboualyazed vs Amelia Harvey

men's All-Round Gold: Chung Jae-Won Silver: Stepan Chistiakov Bronze: Francesco Betti Final Ranking: https://app.isuresults.eu/events/2019_ITA_0002/standings/ALLROUND_MEN

men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold Medal match: Hideyoshi Kagawa vs Mehdi Filali Bronze Medal match #1: Alexander Pshenitsyn vs Sajad Ganjzadeh Bronze Medal match #2: Jonathan Horne vs Hocine Daikhi

and Chistiakov instead did skate his 5000m race about 8 seconds faster than Loginov (6.53 vs 7.01) and overtakes him in the all-round ranking...

men's All-Round (Provisional Ranking after 3/4 Events) Gold: Chung Jae-Won, 109.383 pts Silver: Sergei Loginov, 109.891 pts (+ 5.08 secs in the final 5000m) Bronze: Stepan Chistiakov, 110.486 pts (+ 11.03 secs in the final 5000m) 4th Place: Francesco Betti, 110.813 pts (+ 14.30 secs in the final 5000m Final Ranking: https://app.isuresults.eu/events/2019_ITA_0002/standings/ALLROUND_MEN Chung Jae-Won has basically won the title, since he has already a big margin over his immediate followers and he also has the best PB by far in the entire starting field. Francesco Betti is currently 4th, but he has very good chances to climb up the ranking up to the Silver medal, since his PB over 5000m is around 24 seconds better than Loginov's (and the 2nd overall among today's starters). Chistiakov has a PB over 5000m just over 2 seconds slower than his teammate Loginov, therefore he should end up outside the medals. Based on PBs only, there's no chance for any other athlete to dream of a podium finish (maybe Gabriel Odor has a remote chance to reach the 4th place overall, but the medals look too far ahead).

Individual Events men's 500m Gold: Koki Kubo Silver: Artem Arefyev Bronze: Katsuhiro Kuratsubo men's 1500m Gold: Chung Jae-Won Silver: Sergei Loginov Bronze: Francesco Betti men's 1000m Gold: Janno Botman Silver: Chung Jae-Won Bronze: Stepan Chistiakov men's 5000m Gold: Lukas Mann Silver: Hallgeir Engebråten Bronze: Daniil Aldoshkin Full Competition Results: https://app.isuresults.eu/events/2019_ITA_0002/schedule

women's All-Round Gold: Femke Kok Silver: Karolina Bosiek Bronze: Ragne Wiklund Final Ranking: https://app.isuresults.eu/events/2019_ITA_0002/standings/ALLROUND_LADIES

Individual Events women's 500m Gold: Femke Beuling Silver: Femke Kok Bronze: Michelle De Jong women's 1500m Gold: Femke Kok Silver: Karolina Bosiek Bronze: Ragne Wiklund women's 1000m Gold: Michelle De Jong Silver: Femke Kok Bronze: Karolina Bosiek women's 3000m Gold: Ragne Wicklund Silver: Robin Groot Bronze: Karolina Bosiek Full Competition Results: https://app.isuresults.eu/events/2019_ITA_0002/schedule

women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold Medal match: Feryal Abdelaziz vs Irina Zaretska Bronze Medal match #1: Alisa Buchinger vs Marina Rakovic Bronze Medal match #2: Alizee Agier vs Tang Lingling

Stage #1 (Doha, QAT) women's 10km Gold: Ana Marcela Cunha Silver: Kareena Lee Bronze: Rachele Bruni Full Results: http://fina.org/competition-detailed-results/154970/46560 men's 10km Gold: Florian Wellbrock Silver: Kristof Rasovszky Bronze: Jordan Wilimovsky Full Results: http://fina.org/competition-detailed-results/154969/46560

it doesn't mean anything, but still... men's Team Kata Gold Medal match: Kuwait vs Turkey Bronze Medal match #1: Azerbaijan vs Spain Bronze Medal match #2: Iran vs Iran women's Team Kata Gold Medal match: Italy vs Iran Bronze Medal match #1: Russia vs Australia Bronze Medal match #2: Russia vs Algeria

men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold Medal match: Alì Fadakar vs Ugur Aktas Bronze Medal match #1: Faruk Abdesselem vs Makoto Koike Bronze Medal match #2: Zabiollah Poorshab vs Torgut Hasanov women's Individual Kumite, -68kg semifinals Alizee Agier vs Irina Zaretska & Alisa Buchinger vs TBD ( Feryal Abdelaziz / Marina Rakovic)

Stage #1 (Doha, QAT) Cunha of Brazil and Wellbrock of Germany touch home first in Doha 10km race Florian Wellbrock of Germany and Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil were the fastest today in Doha, Qatar, the inaugural leg of the FINA Marathon Swim Series 2019. Wellbrock touched home first in 1h52m21s6, while Hungary's Kristof Rasovsky was second in 1h52m22s8. United States' Jordan Wilimovsky completed the podium, clocking a time of 1h52m24s4. Italy's long distance star Gregorio Paltrinieri was fourth in 1h52m28s1. In the women's race, 2018 overall Series winner Cunha clocked the best time in 2h03m52s5, while newcomer Kareena Lee of Australia secured the second position in 2h03m52s0 and Italy's veteran Rachele Bruni clinched the bronze medal in 2h03m53s0. Olympic champion and last year winner in Doha Sharon Van Rouwendaal (NED) ended in the twelfth position this morning in 2h04m05s2. The Series resumes on May 12 in the Seychelles (SEY) for the second-out-of-nine leg, before heading to Portugal and Hungary.

today's action has started... and these are the first results... men's Individual Kata Gold Medal match: Ryo Kiyuna vs Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila Bronze Medal match #1: Yuhei Horiba vs Issei Shimbaba Bronze Medal match #2: Mattia Busato vs Kinjo Arata women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold Medal match: Giana Lofty vs Gwendoline Philippe Bronze Medal match #1: Rozita Alipour vs Merve Coban Bronze Medal match #2: Haya Jumaa vs Carolina Videla Toro

yeah, that's the main issue...but, as for what reports have been written, it wasn't the only false step they had to cope with...

the main concept is exactly that... using the most iconic winter sports venues already existing and working in Italy, with the less new buildings as possible (the main expenses would be the re-building of the Cortina Track and the covering of the Baselga Ice Rink...the new big hockey -actually, multi-purpose, of course- arena in Milan is not counted, as it looks that it will be build in any case by private investors, even if Milan doesn't get the honor of hosting the Olympic Games...so, there's no public funding required nor actual relationship with the Games for that)... p.s. Predazzo and Tesero are also "regular" hosts for the Nordic Skiing Worlds (and World Cup/Tour de Ski)... and Livigno, even if they don't normally get involved in the world cup stuff, has one of the most beautiful Snow Park in the Alps, with permanent tracks for most "freestyle" disciplines of ski and snowboard... not to mention Cortina's tradition in Bobsleigh...the new track would follow the course of the old one, just getting renovated according to the more modern security standards (and adapted to Skeleton and Luge requirements, as those 2 disciplines have never been really contested in Cortina, not internationally at least)... in general, all those places are very much familiar with the winter sports world, at least in the past, when not that recently...

well, technically, only Anterselva/Antholz is in South Tyrol... in the picture above there's a map of Northern Italy with all the proposed venues for Milano-Cortina 2026, so to understand where they're located within the Country (just click on it to see a bigger version of the map) p.s. Predazzo is not selected on the map, but basically it's the same place as Tesero, just a few minutes drive down the same road...

final action for today... women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold Medal match: Wen Tzu-Yun vs Anzhelika Terliuga Bronze Medal match #1: Valeria Kumizaki vs Taravat Khaksar Bronze Medal match #2: Salma Elshafi vs Fatemeh Chalaki men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold Medal match: Luigi Busà vs Bahman Askari Bronze Medal match #1: Rafael Aghayev vs Logan Dacosta Bronze Medal match #2: Thomas Scott vs Alì Asiabari

and yes, he did it...finally, Busà could win a fight against an Iranian guy (and what a win...he destroyed him by superiority, 8-0)... and actually, today he destroyed all of his opponents (another hammer win by 7-0 against Nishimura in the pool final included)... but now things become more serious...as in the gold medal match we're going to look at the 2018 world final's revenge between him and Bahman Askari (also from iran, of course...what else? )