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World Cup, Stage #5 (Turin, ITA) women's 500m, Run #2, Final Results Gold: Martina VALCEPINA Silver: Elise CHRISTIE Bronze: Mame BINEY

Grand Slam (Paris, FRA) Day #1 Recap Japan lost early in the day their flagship representant, but they still managed to dominate the day with good 4 Gold Medals out of 7 weight classes contested yesterday... Ami Kondo (women's -48kg), Ai Shishime (women's -52kg), Naohisa Takato (men's -60kg) and Soichi Hashimoto (men's -73kg) didn't show any mercy over their opponents and came up on top of their respective classes... the 3 remaining Gold Medals were shared by Moldova (the surprising and at the same time outstanding Denis Vieru in the men's -66kg), Canada (in the women's -57kg, where Christa Deguchi edged out her teammate Jessica Klimkait in an all-Canadian final) and the host Nation, France (thanks to the great Clarisse Agbegnenou, who took another partial revenge against the Rio 2016 Olympic Champion Tina Trstenjak, SLO, who beat her in the Rio final, in the women's -63kg final)... Full Results here: https://live.ijf.org/gs_fra2019/results today the remaining 7 weight categories will be contested in the final day of this Grand Slam tournament (which I don't know how the organizers still continue to keep in this sh*tty 2-day format, which always leads to a too busy schedule and doeasn't allow the fans to watch even all the medal finals, unless they are on the stands, as they have to go with the 2 bronze medal matches at the same time not to go too long with the session )...

wow! you've gone down harsh on her...

yesterday's performance by Lombardo is the perfect example of how man can waste the tournament of an entire career... beating the best judo player in the world pound for pound and then losing to 2 almost unknown average players... meanwhile, good final outcome for Basile (but he could even have won the tournament...his quarterfinal's loss against Heydarov's still shouting for revenge) and Giuffrida (who took the eventual winner Shishime to the golden score and lost only because of a small mistake in the GS period)...

and at the end of these World Champs, the most important event of them all... tonight, ladies and gemtlemen, in the women's snowboard slopestyle, we're going to attend to the great match between @hckosice and @heywoodu (represented respectively by Klaudia Medlova and Cheryl Maas)... c'mon, guys! show us your best tricks! p.s. of course there are 6 more girls into the final, but for us they don't count...world title is not we're looking for nor we're interested in... p.p.s. NED are on fire...they have a guy (namely, Nieck Van der Velden) also in the men's final...

Men's Individual Epee (Vancouver, CAN) Final Results Gold: Koki Kano Silver: Enrico Garozzo Bronze: Jacob Hoyle & Alexandre Bardenet Semifinals: Kano b. Bardenet 15-8 Garozzo b. Hoyle 15-14 Gold Medal Match: Kano b. Garozzo 15-7  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/98/results/rank

the Czechs look in great shape right now...today, it took half match for them, but then they dominated Finland and secured the final victory of the Sweden Hockey Games with still 1 round to be played... in the other match from today, instead, the hosts from Sweden won their match against Russia after the "Sbornaja" bounced back from 0-2 to 2-2 early in the 3rd period, but finally they couldn't keep the pace of the Swedes and gave up 2 more goals (the last one being a "classic" empty netter with just a few seconds still to go)...

February 2019 International Break Saturday 09.02.2019 - Results EURO HOCKEY TOUR (STAGE 3/4 - SWEDEN HOCKEY GAMES ) - 4 Nations Round-Robin Tournament Day 2 12:00 Czech Republic - Finland 3-1 15:30 Sweden - Russia 4-2 Provisional Standing After Day 2: 1. CZE 6, 2. SWE 3, 3. RUS 2, 4. FIN 1 EURO HOCKEY TOUR 2018/19 Cumulative Standing after Games 8/12: 1. RUS 16, 2=. FIN 11, 2=. CZE 11, 4. SWE 10

@hckosice hey, pal! 3 more medals for Slovakia, today...Karate has become definitely the most reliable combat sport for your Country...

Junior Class only, Final Medal Table RUS, 3 / 0 / 2 ITA, 2 / 2 / 1 TUR, 2 / 0 / 4 HUN, 1 / 1 / 0 FRA, 1 / 0 / 2 IRL, 1 / 0 / 0 AZE, 1 / 0 / 0 BEL, 0 / 2 / 0 SUI, 0 / 1 / 1 BLR, 0 / 1 / 0 GER, 0 / 1 / 0 MKD, 0 / 1 / 0 MNE, 0 / 1 / 0 NED, 0 / 1 / 0 AUT, 0 / 0 / 2 SVK, 0 / 0 / 2 ESP, 0 / 0 / 2 UKR, 0 / 0 / 2 EST, 0 / 0 / 1 GEO, 0 / 0 / 1 GRE, 0 / 0 / 1 POR, 0 / 0 / 1

Day #2 Recap women's Junior Individual Kumite, -48kg Gold: Asia Agus Silver: Florence Voegelin Bronze: Aleksandra Grujic & Angelina Samokisha women's Junior Individual Kumite, -53kg Gold: Aleksandra Ilankovic Silver: Jill Augel Bronze: Damla Ocak & Amelie Voegelin women's Junior Individual Kumite, -59kg Gold: Anna Chernysheva Silver: Melissa Van Oudenaarden Bronze: Laura Palinkasova & Oksana Bazeliuk women's Junior Individual Kumite, +59kg Gold: Valeria Golubeva Silver: Milena Jovanovic Bronze: Marina Vukovic & Hira Nur Kasatura men's Junior Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold: Carmine Luciano Silver: Mikita Rashetnik Bronze: Victor Cuerva Mora & Burak Ozdemir men's Junior Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold: Aminagha Guliyev Silver: Has Amar Youness Oualad Bronze: Aleksandre Tkvatsiria & Brahim El Beqqal men's Junior Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold: Vladislav Taldykin Silver: Hoang An Nguyen Bronze: Yanis Lamotte & Daniele De Vivo men's Junior Individual Kumite, -76kg Gold: Raybak Abdesselem Silver: Ilias Hounifa Bronze: Andrii Zaplitnyi & Hasan Arslan men's Junior Individual Kumite, +76kg Gold: Christopher Crean McCarthy Silver: Gligor Petkov Bronze: Tomas Kosa & Albert Baranov Kata Competitions women's Cadet & Junior Team Event Gold: Spain Silver: Italy Bronze: Croatia & Russia men's Cadet & Junior Team Event Gold: Spain Silver: Turkey Bronze: Italy & Slovakia

World Cup, Stage #5 (Turin, ITA) women's 3000m Relay teams qualified to the final South Korea Netherlands Russia Italy men's 5000m Relay teams qualified to the final Netherlands Russia Italy Japan mixed 2000m Relay teams qualified to the final France United States Canada Russia

World Cup, Stage #5 (Turin, ITA) men's 1500m, Final Results Gold: KIM Gun Woo Silver: HONG Kyung Hwan Bronze: Steven DUBOIS

Live Streaming from Barcelona, right now:

Women's Individual Epee (Barcelona, ESP) Final Results Gold: Vivian Kong Man Wai Silver: Lee Hye In Bronze: Aleksandra Zamachowska & Kristina Kuusk Semifinals: Lee b. Zamachowska 15-7 Kong b. Kuusk 15-11 Gold Medal Match: Kong b. Lee 15-12  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/85/results/rank

World Cup, Stage #5 (Turin, ITA) men's 500m, Run #1, Final Results Gold: HWANG Dae Heon Silver: Shaolin Sandor LIU Bronze: Cedrik BLAIS women's 1500m, Final Results Gold: Suzanne SCHULTING Silver: KIM Ji Yoo Bronze: Anna SEIDEL

it took 4 starts, but finally they got away correctly...and Valcepina won her 2nd consevutive race over the 500m in the World Cup...and this time she did it at home, so...double satisfaction for her...

World Cup, Stage #5 (Turin, ITA) women's 500m, Run #1, Final Results Gold: Martina VALCEPINA Silver: Natalia MALISZEWSKA Bronze: Kim BOUTIN

in the meantime, Basile and Giuffrida are yet to fight their quarterfinal match, meanwhile Lombardo, after beating the lights of people like Abe and Safarov, has lost his quarterfinal match against mr. Nobody, Denis Vieru from Moldova... the perfect way to waste the day of your (still young) career so far...

sure, but she has not the same talent as Lombardo and Bellandi... that doesn't necessarily mean that she can't win even at Olympic level, however...only, it's more unlikely for her to win global medals than for the other 2...

well, they use 5 mats because of that, but also because there are more than 1000 athletes at the start... it's by far the most crowded tournament of the year... with Lombardo, I think we've found a real jewel... he's already among the best seniors in the world in his weight class (p.s. and throwing Abe around the way he did, it's something he'll be able to tell it to his nephews, one day)... Bellandi, she's also very good, but still she lacks something to win matches against the lights of the top French and Japanese women... Centracchio, well...great respect for her improvement, but she's definitely not at the same level of the 2 youngsters (especially Lombardo)... good round #1 match alkso for Bsile, who scored a quick ippon against an always dangerous Mongolian... now he has a reasonably easy draw to get at least to the pool final (and I'd say it's also an easy draw in that round, to be the Paris tournament -he should face Macias, SWE or Mohammadi, IRI...2 good but not unbeatable players)... so, let's say that if he doesn't make the semifinals, it's fair to call the day "disappointing"... p.s. a bit OT, but sadly I have noticed that Kudiiamagomedov isn't on the mat at the Freestyle Wrestling Italian Nationals...I fear that we've already lost him after just 1 global tournament with our singlet...

our young raising star Manuel Lombardo defeated (by Ippon) the great Hifumi Abe in round #2 in Paris!!! that's an upset! great job, man! p.s. there are so many starters at this tournament that they're fighting over 5 mats (and they began the day just after 8.30 a.m.)...

Cadet Class only, Final Medal Table TUR, 3 / 0 / 1 FRA, 1 / 1 / 1 LAT, 1 / 1 / 1 RUS, 1 / 0 / 2 AUT, 1 / 0 / 1 AZE, 1 / 0 / 1 DEN, 1 / 0 / 0 ESP, 1 / 0 / 0 GER, 0 / 1 / 2 CZE, 0 / 1 / 1 SVK, 0 / 1 / 1 GEO, 0 / 1 / 0 HUN, 0 / 1 / 0 KOS, 0 / 1 / 0 MKD, 0 / 1 / 0 SCO, 0 / 1 / 0 POR, 0 / 0 / 2 BLR, 0 / 0 / 1 BEL, 0 / 0 / 1 BUL, 0 / 0 / 1 CRO, 0 / 0 / 1 NED, 0 / 0 / 1 POL, 0 / 0 / 1 SUI, 0 / 0 / 1

Day #1 Recap women's Cadet Individual Kumite, -47kg Gold: Margot Soulier Silver: Renèe Stein Bronze: Muserref Ozdemir & Kristina Tsvetanova women's Cadet Individual Kumite, -54kg Gold: Erika Batakujevic Silver: Emma Marie Elisabeth Bronze: Varvara Golovina & Mia Bitsch women's Cadet Individual Kumite, +54kg Gold: Hanna Devigili Silver: Klara Muzikarova Bronze: Darya Trebka & Alita Popova men's Cadet Individual Kumite, -52kg Gold: Akhmed Akhmedov Silver: Bojan Kostov Bronze: Jakub Cernicky & Tim Scheuer men's Cadet Individual Kumite, -57kg Gold: Omer Faruk Yurur Silver: Jacob Smart Bronze: Huseyn Mammadli & Damien De Barros men's Cadet Individual Kumite, -63kg Gold: Tale Yagubov Silver: Leon Gaiduk Bronze: Dominik Kocandrle & Gino Phillipen men's Cadet Individual Kumite, -70kg Gold: Artjom Jermolaev Silver: Saba Mania Bronze: Hubert Jarocki & Danyil Anisimov men's Cadet Individual Kumite, +70kg Gold: Ahmet Bulut Silver: Melos Gashi Bronze: Konstantinos Papastergios & Luka Stefano Cipric Kata Competitions women's Cadet Individual Gold: Menekse Vardar Silver: Michaela Cukanova Bronze: Natacha Fernandes & Isra Celo men's Cadet Individual Gold: Salvador Balbuena Cisneros Silver: Adam Bardos Bronze: Martin Sousa & Antonio Rodrigues Yanovitskiy women's Junior Individual Gold: Keyda Nur Colak Silver: Sara Soldano Bronze: Nikoleta Zervou & Anna Shcherbina men's Junior Individual Gold: Enes Ozdemir Silver: Alessandro Cricco Bronze: Pedro Carvalho & Raul Martin Romero women's U-21 Individual Gold: Carola Casale Silver: Arzu Firdevs Koc Bronze: Laetitia Feracci & Raquel Roy Rubio men's U-21 Individual Gold: Roman Heydarov Silver: Franck Ngoan Bronze: Khai Truong & Emre Vefa Goktas

@hckosice hey, man! this is the real combat sport made for Slovakians...they are really becoming a powerhouse in karate! 2 medals in today's Cadet events!