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well, FIE will only publish the regular 12-month based ranking as usual... so, if you want to keep track of the OQP only, you have to do your calculation by yourself (it's obvious that at the end of the period you'll see the results from the 12 months between April 2019 and April 2020 only, but in between all the provisional ranking will be "contaminated" with results which eventually will not be part of the final OQR)...

as a consequence, the teams qualified for the Relays at the 2019 World Championships are: Women RUSSIA NETHERLANDS SOUTH KOREA CANADA ITALY JAPAN KAZAKHSTAN CHINA Men HUNGARY CANADA JAPAN NETHERLANDS CHINA RUSSIA ITALY SOUTH KOREA

yes, they are... from the general ISU Rules about Short Track: 'ISU Members who qualify amongst the best eight (8) Relay Teams from the World Cup Relay Classification Ladies/Men (see Rule 286, paragraph 8) may enter a Team in the respective category in the Relay competition. If the host country is not ranked amongst the top eight (8) Teams of the World Cup Relay Classification they will replace the lowest ranked Team.'

*most events are still listed as "Provisional", but I think the definitive version won't be different from this one...

yes, from April on it's OQP...

unfortunately (or not...it depends on your point of view ), we're gonna have a true & tricky slalom run (the course setter is from FRA)... no chance for the speed specialists... if they don't make any big mistake, Schwarz and Pinturault are the clear favourites to take Gold and Silver...then maybe we're gonna have an interesting battle for Bronze, but I still think that the Paris/Inner/Janka of this world don't have any chance, despite the good downhill results...

Men's Team Epee (Vancouver, CAN) Final Results Gold: Russia Silver: Israel Bronze: France Semifinals: Israel b. Denmark 45-42 Russia b. France 45-33 Bronze Medal Match: France b. Denmark 45-32 Gold Medal Match: Russia b. Israel 45-36 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/454/results/rank

Italy lost to the Czech Republic in the round of last 16 in the men's Team Epee world cup in Vancouver...that's a bad, bad (and dangerous in perspective) bounce back from the last outing...

Grand Slam (Paris, FRA) Day #2 Recap Today it was South Korea to take the center stage at the Paris Tournament, being the only Nation to win 2 Gold Medals (Gwak Dong Han in the men's -90kg and Kim Sung Min in the men's +100kg)... meanwhile Japan (Yoko Ono in the women's -70kg), France (Madeleine Malonga in the women's -78kg), Cuba (Idalys Ortiz in the women's +78kg), Germany (Dominic Ressel in the men's -81kg) and Georgia (Vadim Liparteliani in the men's -100kg) won 1 Gold Medal each... Therefore, Japan won the overall medal table with 5 Gold Medals, followed by South Korea and the host Nation, France, with 2 each and 5 more Countries (Moldova, Canada, Cuba, Germany and Georgia) sharing 1 Gold medal each... Full Results here: https://live.ijf.org/gs_fra2019/results

@hckosice hey, man! today it was really close to get a gold for your Nation... overall, it was quite a good championship for you...if only you could get that gold... hope next time it will be the good one...

34 Nations winning at least a medal, 15 winning at least 1 Gold Medal... these championships have shown once again how well developed and well spread Karate is also in Europe, especially if compared with other Fight Sports... for Italy, scary flop among the Cadets (not even a single medal), good performance among the Juniors and the Sub-21 athletes, but still not even close to last year's results (10 medals overall instead of 15, 4 Gold medals instead of 5)... not really good that all the Kumite Gold medals came from the lower weight classes, with potential internal conflicts in these classes and problems to be foreseen in the heavy weights in the next few years...

Karate Cadet, Junior & U-21 European Championships 2019, Final Overall Medal Table TUR, 6 / 3 / 5 RUS, 5 / 1 / 6 ITA, 4 / 4 / 2 FRA, 3 / 2 / 4 ESP, 3 / 2 / 3 MKD, 2 / 2 / 0 AZE, 2 / 0 / 0 HUN, 1 / 2 / 0 LAT, 1 / 1 / 1 AUT, 1 / 0 / 3 POR, 1 / 0 / 3 GRE, 1 / 0 / 2 AZE, 1 / 0 / 1 DEN, 1 / 0 / 1 IRL, 1 / 0 / 0 GER, 0 / 2 / 4 SVK, 0 / 2 / 4 BEL, 0 / 2 / 2 GEO, 0 / 2 / 1 SUI, 0 / 1 / 4 BLR, 0 / 1 / 3 UKR, 0 / 1 / 2 CZE, 0 / 1 / 1 KOS, 0 / 1 / 1 MNE, 0 / 1 / 1 NED, 0 / 1 / 1 SCO, 0 / 1 / 0 CRO, 0 / 0 / 3 POL, 0 / 0 / 3 BIH, 0 / 0 / 1 BUL, 0 / 0 / 1 ENG, 0 / 0 / 1 EST, 0 / 0 / 1 SRB, 0 / 0 / 1

Day #3 Recap women's U-21 Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold: Nicole Murabito Silver: Gulsen Demirturk Bronze: Ines Grdenic & Valeriya Sergeeva women's U-21 Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold: Veronica Brunori Silver: Sara Heurtault Bronze: Maya Schaerer & Albulena Gervalla women's U-21 Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold: Anna Rodina Silver: Alessandra Mangiacapra Bronze: Sara Elwart & Nina Radjenovic women's U-21 Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold: Lea Avazeri Silver: Victoria Isaeva Bronze: Madeleine Schroeter & Maryia Aliakseyeva women's U-21 Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold: Ana Rita Oliveira Silver: Eda Eltemur Bronze: Kinga Harast & Sarah Lina Mimouni men's U-21 Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold: Christos-Stefanos Xenos Silver: Alejandro Ortiz Fernandez Bronze: Nenad Dulovic & Yassine Boucharaouf men's U-21 Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold: Muratcan Deniz Silver: Valentyn Naida Bronze: Devid Nhuyen & Daniel Martin Guirado men's U-21 Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold: Doan Osmani Silver: Nikita Belyavsky Bronze: Mads Viberg Larsen & Dimitrios Rigas men's U-21 Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold: Petar Spasenovski Silver: Adi Gyurik Bronze: Hamza Cajic & Maxime Relifox men's U-21 Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold: Murad Hajizade Silver: Babacar Seck Sakho Bronze: Dorde Tesanovic & Brandon Carr U-21 Class only, Final Medal Table ITA, 2 / 1 / 0 MKD, 2 / 0 / 0 TUR, 1 / 2 / 0 FRA, 1 / 1 / 1 RUS, 1 / 1 / 1 GRE, 1 / 0 / 1 AZE, 1 / 0 / 0 POR, 1 / 0 / 0 ESP, 0 / 2 / 1 GEO, 0 / 1 / 0 SVK, 0 / 1 / 0 UKR, 0 / 1 / 0 BLR, 0 / 0 / 2 GER, 0 / 0 / 2 POL, 0 / 0 / 2 SUI, 0 / 0 / 2 BEL, 0 / 0 / 1 BIH, 0 / 0 / 1 CRO, 0 / 0 / 1 DEN, 0 / 0 / 1 ENG, 0 / 0 / 1 KOS, 0 / 0 / 1 MNE, 0 / 0 / 1 SRB, 0 / 0 / 1

quite an interesting women's tournament... it looked that we were almost back to the good old times when Italy used to be untouchable... very happy for Palumbo, who this time finally has been able to win an assault against queen Deriglazova... among the boys, well...it's quite clear that at the moment Foconi and Imboden are well above the rest of the field...shame that they had to face each other before the Gold Medal bout...

World Cup, Stage #5 (Turin, ITA) Final Medal Table KOR, 4 / 5 / 1 ITA, 2 / 1 / 1 RUS, 2 / 0 / 1 NED, 2 / 0 / 0 CAN, 1 / 1 / 5 GBR, 0 / 1 / 0 HUN, 0 / 1 / 0 JPN, 0 / 1 / 0 POL, 0 / 1 / 0 USA, 0 / 0 / 2 CHN, 0 / 0 / 1 GER, 0 / 0 / 0

World Cup, Stage #5 (Turin, ITA) women's 3000m Relay, Final Results Gold: Netherlands Silver: Italy Bronze: Russia men's 5000m Relay, Final Results Gold: Russia Silver: Japan Bronze: Italy mixed 2000m Relay, Final Results Gold: Russia Silver: Canada Bronze: United States

1-definitely, yes... 2-once again, definitely, yes... unfortunately, having success in the American circuit is the only way to make money enough to afford this kind of life (and also in North America, it's much more a question of marketing, shooting, modelling and things like that rather than competing in that circuit)... sad, but that's how it works in this kind of disciplines...

World Cup, Stage #5 (Turin, ITA) women's 1000m, Final Results Gold: Kim BOUTIN Silver: CHOI Min Jeong Bronze: Alyson CHARLES men's 1000m, Final Results Gold: HWANG Dae Heon Silver: PARK Ji Won Bronze: Steven DUBOIS

Men's Individual Foil (Turin, ITA) Final Results Gold: Race Imboden Silver: Cheung Ka Long Bronze: Alessio Foconi & Gerek Meinhardt Semifinals: Imboden b. Foconi 15-13 Cheung b. Meinhardt 15-12 Gold Medal Match: Imboden b. Cheung 15-6  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/134/results/rank

Women's Individual Foil (Turin, ITA) Final Results Gold: Alice Volpi Silver: Elisa Di Francisca Bronze: Francesca Palumbo & Anastasia Ivanova Semifinals: Volpi b. Ivanova 15-12 Di Francisca b. Palumbo 15-7 Gold Medal Match: Volpi b. Di Francisca 15-9  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/458/results/rank

another shameful outing for Italy and another disaster in terms of the world ranking... our girls were only 8th at the end of the day...and what's worse, they ended up behind a bunch of teams who were right behind us in the standings, which will make our chances to qualify for Tokyo in this discipline even thinner than before...

Women's Team Epee (Barcelona, ESP) Final Results Gold: Poland Silver: Russia Bronze: China Semifinals: Poland b. France 36-29 Russia b. China 42-36 Bronze Medal Match: China b. France 45-38 Gold Medal Match: Poland b. Russia 45-40 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/822/results/rank

well, technically this is the most important tournament he has entered...therefore, so far it's the tournament of his (young) senior career... and today, it was a disappointing outing after another...especially Bellandi (she's definitely not ready for this level of judo, yet...too many stupid mistakes in her competitions among the seniors until now) and Marconcini left me down... meanwhile I didn't expect anything from Mungai...actually, I always ask myself how can he get some results being technically so poor and definitely not so smart on the tatami (the way he lost to Toth today is irritating...more than irritating)...

World Cup, Stage #5 (Turin, ITA) men's 500m, Run #2, Final Results Gold: LIM Hyo Jun Silver: KIM Gun Woo Bronze: YU Songnan

and it's 3 wins in the last 3 500m races for Valcepina...right now, she's almost untouchable over this distance...