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I don't agree at all...Neymar is only good in acting and diving and complaining... he shouldn't even be allowed to put a foot on the pitch...he's just a living insult to football and sportsmanship... sorry for being so harsh...actually, a real hater...but I just can't stand him...

don't worry...Grenot is gonna win again in any case...

http://www.gyulaimemorial.hu/ Eredmènyek = Results

she already said to the Swiss TV that she's definitely going to run the hurdles in Berlin...that's her only target, anything else is just in preparation for the 400m H in Berlin...

really a great meet indeed... among others, great show by Adam Peaty in the men's quick breastroke (58 and a half over 100m and 26.41 over 50m -nobody outside him has ever swam a time like that) and wonderful fight between Pernille Blume and Sarah Sjostrom in the quick freestyle for the girls... another amazing result is the 21.16 over 50m free for Ben Proud... but overall almost all the races have been among the quickest in the world in this 2018 season so far... and we had also a lot of very promising results for the Italian team (the new IR by Panziera in the 200m back with a low 2.07 clocking is really impressive, she would have won the bronze medal in Rio with such performance)... now we have to wait and see if they can match all that in Glasgow next month, otherwise it would be another disappointing episode of which our swimming is full in its history...

7 years (the max he could sign for) and 77 million US $... https://www.nhl.com/news/john-tavares-agrees-to-seven-year-contract-with-toronto-maple-leafs/c-299370932 some other fresh news... Drew Doughty new 8-year contract with the L.A. Kings is worth 11 million/year on average... https://www.nhl.com/news/drew-doughty-agrees-to-eight-year-extension-with-los-angeles-kings/c-299348832 meanwhile Kovalchuk's 3-year deal with the Kings is worth 6.25 million US $/year on average... https://www.nhl.com/news/ilya-kovalchuk-signs-three-year-contract-with-kings/c-299366878?tid=281072352 Ryan McDonagh gets a 7 years extension with the Tampa Bay Lightning (6.75/year average)... https://www.nhl.com/news/ryan-mcdonagh-signs-seven-year-extension-with-tampa-bay-lightning/c-299366464 Jack Johnson left Columbus and signed a 5-year deal with Pittsburgh (16.25 million US $ on average)... https://www.nhl.com/news/jack-johnson-signs-five-year-contract-with-pittsburgh-penguins/c-299306690 all the remaining news about the NHL trades and signings here: https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-free-agency-news-and-signings/c-299365554?tid=281072352

naaa, that don't impress me much (cit.) some time ago, in fact, someone told me that all women have 3 of those... p.s. just jokin' of course (and yeah, I know it's a dirty and male chauvinist sentence I shouldn't even use, especially since I'm against any sort of attitude like that)...

from minute 50 on...last year's men's Italian Championships Individual Final (outside the Chinese Champs, basically the strongest event in the world in this discipline)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFHYuLKPzfE

Rowing, Men's Double Sculls Greece Slovenia Italy Rowing, Men's Lightweight Double Sculls Italy Greece Portugal Athletics, Men's Half Marathon Mohamed Reda El-Aaraby Eyob Gebrehiwet Faniel Kaan Kigen Ozbilen Athletics, Women's Half Marathon Sara Dossena Marta Galimany Guasch Elena Loyo Menoyo

back to yesterday... Men's 3X3 Basketball France Italy Slovenia Women's 3X3 Basketball France Spoain Portugal Boules, Women's Lyonnaise, Progressive Throw Inci Ece Ozturk Barbara Barthet Serena Traversa Boules, Men's Lyonnaise, Progressive Throw Ales Borcnik Stefano Pegoraro Frederic Jocelyn Hubert Marsens Equestrian, Mixed Individual Competition Felicie Adeline Bertrand Alexandra Paillot Abdelkader Said Sailing, Men's Laser Joaquin Blanco Albalat Pavlos Kontides Joel Rodriguez Perez Sailing, Women's Laser Radial Athanasia Fakidi Silvia Zennaro Martina Reino Cacho Judo, Women's -78kg Giorgia Stangherlin Loriana Kuka Patricija Brolih & Patricia Sampaio Judo, Men's -100kg Ramadan Darwish Giuliano Loporchio Lyes Bouyacoub & Alexandre Iddir Judo, Women's +78kg Kayra Sayit Nihel Cheikh Rouhou Sonia Asselah & Juliana Ofaina Tolofua Judo, Men's +100kg Zarko Culum Vincenzo D'Arco Angel Parra Labajos & Faicel Jaballah Taekwondo, Men's -58kg Jesus Tortosa cabrera Rui Braganca Hedi Neffati & Milos Gladovic Taekwondo, Men's -80kg raul Martinez Garcia Seif Eissa Yunus Sari & Julio Ferreira Taekwondo, Women's -67kg Matea Jelic Althea Laurin Dunja Lemajic & Hedaya Wahba

Road Cycling, Women's Individual Time Trial Elena Cecchini Lisa Morzenti Antri Christoforou Rowing, Men's Single Sculls Luca Rambaldi Marko Marjanovic Spyridon Kalentzis

Athletics, Yesterday's Results Men's Discus Throw Apostolos Parellis Kristjan Ceh Hannes Kirchler Men's High Jump Majd Eddin Ghazal Kostantinos Baniotis Marco Fassinotti Women's Triple Jump Yanis Esmeralda David Ottavia Cestonaro Fatima Diame Men's 400m Hurdles Ludvy Vaillant Yasmani Copello Escobar Zied Azizi Men's 200m Ramil Guliyev Eseosa Desalu Meba-Mickael Zeze Women's 200m Carolle Zahi Gloria Hooper Estela Garcia Women's 800m Rababe Arafi Malika Akkaoui Cynthia Anais Women's 100m Hurdles Andrea Ivancevic Luminosa Bogliolo* Elisavet Pesiridou* *tied for 2nd place (Silver medal) Men's 1500m Brahim Kaazouzi Abdessalem Ayouni Fouad El Kaam Women's 5000m Kaoutar Farkoussi Ines Monteiro Ana Lozano Del Campo Para-Athletics Women's T54 800m Zubeyde Supurgeci Eva Maria Moral Pedrero Lea Mazza

Road Cycling, Men's Individual Time Trial Edoardo Affini Domingos Goncalves Izidor Penko Rowing, Women's Single Sculls Aikaterini Nikolaidou Kiri Tontodonati Virginia Diaz Rivas Rowing, Women's Lightweight Single Sculls Valentina Rodini Thomais Emmanoulidou Natalia Miguel Gomez Rowing, Men's Lightweight Single Sculls Luka Radonic Pedro Fraga Spyrydon Christos Giannaros

a few more news about the NHL offseason moves... first of all, the Tavares saga is not yet to the end...he needs (at least) another day to eat his own words from earlier this year, before explaining the Islanders fans he won't play anymore for that serial losers... https://www.nhl.com/news/john-tavares-decision-will-likely-take-another-day/c-299335806 then, Barry Trotz has finally found his successor in Washington...and he is, as the players wanted, his former assistent Todd Reirden (which means that Ovi and Backstrom are the new real co-coaches of the team )... https://www.nhl.com/news/todd-reirden-named-coach-of-washington-replaces-barry-trotz/c-299341596 finally, Drew Doughty agrees to 8-year contract extension with the Los Angeles Kings (terms undisclosed, since he can't officially sign until July 1st)... https://www.nhl.com/news/drew-doughty-agrees-to-eight-year-extension-with-los-angeles-kings/c-299348832

you name it a "small joy"... should we have a prospect like him, I'd drink 1 or 2 bottles of the most expensive champagne...

Sailing, Men's RS:X Matteo Camboni Louis Giard Matteo Evangelisti great scalp for Camboni...this was a really high caliber competition, with some of the best windsurfers in the World like Giard, Kokkalanis, Pastor Lafuente...

ops...you're right...my mistake... however, the part "it is and it's always gonna be a mess" is not a mistake, unfortunately...

Joris Otten in men's C1 (he was 53rd -out of 60 starters- in the 1st run and 31st -out of 40 starters- in the 2nd run, therefore he was eliminated) Claudia Leenders in women's K1* (29th in run #1, 27th in run #2...eliminated) Maartje Otten in women's K1 (44th in run #1, 22nd in run #2...eliminated) Martina Wegman in women's K1 (54th in run #1, 16th in run #2...eliminated) *61 starters in run #1, 41 in run #2 no Dutch starters this afternoon in men's K1 and women's C1

watching the live streaming on the Olympic Channel, I guess... otherwise, here's a written (almost) live update of all the activities going on in Tarragona, Athletics included (but it's only in Italian and focused mainly on the Italian athletes, of course): https://www.oasport.it/2018/06/live-giochi-del-mediterraneo-2018-in-diretta-29-giugno-italia-serve-lo-scatto-per-vincere-il-medagliere/ p.s. I don't know how quickly they update it, but the official website is also a good source (once it's updated, obviously...and now it's working definitely better than in the early days)... http://results.tarragona2018.cat/en/ALL/schedule

well, next time they should be held in Naples... but I want to underline the conditional auxiliary "should"...because basically there's nothing ready with only 3 years to go and the organizing committee is doing absolutely nothing (not even the refurbishing of the San Paolo Stadium, which is mandatory for SSC Napoli to play at home the next Champions League -since in the past years they received a special permission by UEFA, which is now over and it won't be renovated...now they must do some consistent works to the stadium, but all is stopped at the moment)... in fact, the local organizers have been replaced by a special commission named by CONI and the local prefectural authorities... in any case, it's a real mess now and it's gonna be the same also in the next future... EDIT: there's a big mistake...the Universiade will be in Naples, not the MGs (which will be in Algeria), as explained in the following posts... p.s. the rest of this post in any case is the sad truth, even if it's referred to the Universiade and not to the MGs...

Spanovic (one of my favourite athletes overall...you can imagine why? ) beyond 7m in the women's long jump...

very optimistic... I'd cut immediately Baseball off (there's no way we can beat the Netherlands with the current federation's management)... then, it would really take a miracle to qualify in women's Hockey and Softball... I'd rather give women's basketball a chance (if we somehow get to qualify for the 2019 Europeans, which is the most difficult task for us at the moment)... meanwhile, if we want to have a pessimistic view, we could say that we're going to qualify only in the 2 waterpolo tournaments and maybe 3x3 women's basketball (with the new rules, even volleyball, especially the men's team, is really at risk)...

the bronze medallist is Magnaldi, not Mignaldi...

Judo (Gold medal) Finals (@ 5 p.m. CET) women's -48kg: Nikolic vs Figueroa Pena women's -52kg: Giuffrida vs Krasniqi women's -57kg: Boi vs Gjakova men's -60kg: Garrigos Rosa vs Dhouibi men's -66kg: Lombardo vs Gaitero Martin

Men's Cycling, Road Race Jalel Duranti Filippo Tagliani Rafael Silva