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Kovalev easily won the bout on points (unanimous decision, 2 judges with 4-point margin, the 3rd one, who clearly saw another fight, with a crazy 120-108 score for the Russian)... Commey destroyed in only 2 rounds (actually, less than 2 rounds) his opponent...and he's probably earned a chance to take a boxing lesson by Vasyl Lomachenko next time round... but the top of the night happened just after Valdez finished to demolish Tommasone (TKO in 7, the Italian went to the floor 4 times...and he wanted to have more, as he was definitely unhappy about the ref stopping the fight in the seventh round)... in fact, probably while under the effect of the hevy shots taken from the Mexican, Tommasone after the match went down to his knee and with the traditional ring in his hands asked her fiancèe if she wanted to get married with him... and for the joy of all those who like romance and happy endings (hey, don't look for hidden meanings ), she said "YES!"... p.s. I've always said that boxing is a really dangerous sport...

Hempel World Cup Series, Round #2 (Miami, USA) Medallists Recap (Part #1) women's RS:X, Final Result Gold: Lu Yunxiu Silver: Katy Spichakov Bronze: Charline Picon men's RS:X Gold: Bing Ye Silver: Radoslaw Furmanski Bronze: Pierre Le Coq women's 49er FX Gold: Martine Soffiatti Grael & Kahena Kunze Silver: Alexandra Maloney & Molly Meech Bronze: Charlotte Dobson & Saskia Tidey men's 49er Gold: Erik Heil & Thomas Ploessel Silver: Dylan Fletcher-Scott & Stuart Bithell Bronze: Sime Fantela & Mihovil Fantela mixed Nacra 17 Gold: Jason Waterhouse & Lisa Darmanin Silver: Samuel Albrecht & Gabriela Nicolino De Sà Bronze: Santiago Lange & Cecilia Carranza Saroli Full Results: http://sailing.org/worldcup/results/index.php

wow! great final rush by Curatoli... down 10-13 he changed gear and landed 4 consecutive attacks... then, after Hartung tied the bout at 14, he didn't lost his mind and scored the winning hit with style...

Men's Individual Sabre (Warsaw, POL) Final Results Gold: Eli Dershwitz Silver: Luca Curatoli Bronze: Max Hartung & Oh Sanguk Semifinals: Curatoli b. Hartung 15-14 Dershwitz b. Oh 15-14 Gold Medal Match: Dershwitz b. Curatoli 15-9  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/163/results/rank

the remaining competitions will be completed Tomorrow, but the girls have already completed 2 out of 3 runs in their individual race ( Evelin Lathaler is leading with a big, big margin over the defending world champion Greta Pinggera and Tina Unterberger), meanwhile the men have only 1 out of 3 runs already in their bag (and surprise, surprise...the defending world champion Alex Gruber is leading the competition, with Patrick Pigneter currently in runner up position and Thomas Kammerlander currently 3rd...but this is still close, as they are all 3 within 56/100 of a second, which isn't such a big margin in natural track luge)...

Open Doubles, Medallists Recap Gold: Patrick Pigneter & Florian Clara Silver: Pavel Porshnev & Ivan Lazarev Bronze: Patrick Lambacher & Matthias Lambacher Full Results: https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/finale-doppel-ergebnisliste.pdf

the Natural Track Luge world Championships are back in Italy...and the Home Team is out for a clean sweep... Task #1...completed! Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara are World Champions for the 4th time in the Doubles' competition...

Luge FIL Natural Track World Championships 2019 Latzfons (ITA) - 2 February 2019 - 3 February 2019  Official Website

and the Junior World Champs end with the local team (Austria) winning the Team Relay, thus spoiling the German party and avoiding the clean sweep by the guys from North of the Border... Germany ended up the team race in second place and Russia in 3rd... Italy had another shameful moment when Alex Gufler, already losing a lot of time since the start of his stint, made a big mistake and blew all of our chances away with a depressing DNF... full result, here: https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/ergebnis-team-02-02-19.pdf 2019 Junior World Championships Final Medal Table GER, 3 / 1 / 1 AUT, 1 / 1 / 0 RUS, 0 / 1 / 2 ITA, 0 / 1 / 1

end of today's program... very nice surprise for Italy, Cynthis Mascitto's bronze medal (her 1st in the world cup)... on the other side, very irritating wasted chance to make the final for the men's relay... more in general, Korea dominating the field with 3 gold medals out of 4 events, with Russia's Prosvirnova being the only athlete stopping the Asian powerhouse in one of today's events... and very strange outcome for the relays' semifinals, with many top teams failing to reach the final act (even KOR won't be in the men's relay final )...

World Cup, Stage #4 (Dresden, GER) men's 5000m Relay teams qualified to the final China Hungary Canada Japan

what a bunch of morons! being overtaken in that way in the last lap...I'd send them back to Italy kickin' their asses for all the trip...

World Cup, Stage #4 (Dresden, GER) women's 3000m Relay teams qualified to the final Russia South Korea Canada Netherlands

World Cup, Stage #4 (Dresden, GER) mixed 2000m Relay teams qualified to the final Russia South Korea Hungary Great Britain

World Cup, Stage #4 (Dresden, GER) men's 1000m, Run #1, Final Results Gold: HWANG Dae Heon Silver: Charle COURNOYER Bronze: HONG Kyung Hwan women's 1000m, Run #1, Final Results Gold: Sofia PROSVIRNOVA Silver: CHOI Ji Hyun Bronze: Cynthia MASCITTO men's 1500m, Final Results Gold: KIM Gun Woo Silver: Charles HAMELIN Bronze: LIM Hyo Jun women's 1500m, Final Results Gold: KIM Ji Yoo Silver: Kim BOUTIN Bronze: Suzanne SCHULTING

https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/47095072 https://www.supersport.com/athletics/news/190201_Twelve_Russian_track_and_field_athletes_suspended_for_doping https://www.dw.com/en/russian-athletes-banned-for-doping/a-47330519

for Italy, in the girls' race, very disappointing outcome for Verena Hofer, who lost a very much anticipated gold medal because of a very poor 1st run... meanwhile the bronze medal won by Lukas Gufler among the boys has to be considered a good result... let's see what happens tomorrow in the doubles' race, with another chance for Italy (namely, Gufler and Felderer) to get some satisfaction in this really shady winter for our luge sport...

and somehow the home Nation always finds the way of getting unexpected medals... very good final run by Dierdorff, who took advantage from the really slow start and the consequential struggle to comeback in touch by "oldie" Perathoner, who was dominat through the previous rounds but probably felt too much pressure in the final act... Samkova instead didn't suffer from anything like that and dominated the day from start to finish... good, actually, very good team result for the Italian girls (3 in the top 6), but still somehow disappointing because of Moioli "only" getting the Bronze medal and especially because of her very passive attitude in the final run (she didn't even try to get anything more than the 3rd place)... in general, good but not great day for us, as also in the men's division we saw Visinting failing big time once again...the guy definitely can't handle the big events...he's just a good world cup racer and nothing more than that... fortunately Perathoner saved the day for our boys, but he also left the feeling of an incomplete effort, after being so dominant in the qualifications run and in the previous rounds of the actual competition... p.s. despite the women's field being not that deep, long life to snowboardcross...by far the most exciting (and upset-prone) event in the whole snowboard & freestyle program...

Olympic gold (Moioli), silver (Pereira) and 4th ranked (Jacobellis) in the same heat...

Women's Snowboardcross, Round of 16 (Tomorrow) Heat #1 SAMKOVA Eva ODINE Meryeta BRUTTO Raffaella IHEDIOHA Hanna Heat #2 MOIOLI Michela JACOBELLIS Lindsey PEREIRA de SOUSA Julia SIEGENTHALER Sina Heat #3 BANKES Charlotte TRESPEUCH Chloe CASANOVA Lara BELINGHERI Sofia Heat #4 MOENNE LOCCOZ Nelly GALLINA Francesca PAUL Kristina BRENNEMAN Carle

Emanuel Perathoner won the qualifications of the men's Snowboardcross... and also all the other Italian guys are through to the final brackets, despite a poor performance in today's races... this is the Final Ladder for tomorrow's competition: Round of 32 Heat #1 PERATHONER Emanuel HERNANDEZ Regino LAMBERT Adam WILLIAMS Steven Heat #2 BAUMGARTNER Nick VUAGNOUX Ken BECKHAUS Leon LINDFORS Anton Heat #3 PULLIN Alex MARIN TARROCH Lluis HILL Kevin WATTER Nick Heat #4 EGUIBAR Lucas GRONDIN Eliot BROCHU Baptiste GODINO Michele Heat #5 BERG Paul NOERL Martin SCHAD Konstantin MOMONO Shinya Heat #6 VEDDER Jake PACHNER Lukas TAKAHARA Yoshiki BOLTON Cameron Heat #7 HOLLAND Nate DOUSCHAN Hanno HAEMMERLE Alessandro KOBLET Kalle Heat #8 DIERDORFF Mick BOZZOLO Loan VISINTIN Omar CORDI Fabio

tonight I'm gonna start the second season of 'L'Art du crime', nice French dramedy about crimes related to the world of Arts, with investigations led by an unconventional pair featuring a reluctant detective (who doesn't like at all his new task and would like to get back to the homicide section) and a naive art expert, who wants to act as a detective... easy going for sure, but really nice...perfect for a relaxing soirèe in front of your TV screen... and tomorrow's time for "The Blacklist", season #6...can't wait for Raymond Reddington (James Spader at his best) and his new "cheating" adventures...

@heywoodu we left Loek Van Mil in big troubles a few weeks ago... https://totallympics.com/index.php?/topic/768-baseball-2018-discussion-thread/&do=findComment&comment=184422 but it looks that he fully recovered from the injury and he's already back in good shape... last Sunday he had a very good (and decisive) outing for his Brisbane Bandits in the semifinal series of the ABL... and earlier Today he did pitch once again for his team in game #1 of the ABL Finals and he did have another good (decisive) outing, playing a perfect 7th inning and a scoreless (he gave up just 1 hit) 8th, before handing the ball over to Brisbane's closer Ryan Searle for the last 3 outs of the game... now he and his team are just 1 win away from the 4th title in a row in the ABL (game #2 is scheduled for Saturday @ 9 a.m. CET, live for free on Youtube, ABL Baseball page)... here you can watch the full game #1 of the ABL Finals (as written before, Van Mil's performance came into the 7th and 8th innings, starting @ about 2h14m30s of the video)...

CHL places for 2019/20: Switzerland overtake Finland to earn 5 Season 2019/20 EV Zug and other Swiss teams' performances mean their league will get five places next season. Red Bull Munich could earn four for Germany by winning the final in regulation. While we now know the two teams who'll contest the Champions Hockey League Final in 2019, there are also changes to the amount of teams some leagues will get in the 2019/20 competition. Back in 2017/18 the Champions Hockey League introduced a new format with 32 teams and based on sporting merits only. Since then, the CHL League Ranking is used to allocate the number of places per league. There were no changes in the ranking in the first two years that affected the number of places a league will receive. But now there is one - Switzerland has managed to climb up the ranking and overtake Finland. As the Swiss are now ranked second, they will get five places for the 2019/20 season (previously four) while the Finnish Liiga will be reduced to four. The CHL League ranking is based on point per game in average, and while all Swiss teams went out in the Round of 16 their performance prior to elimination was strong enough to be second overall as a league in 2018/19 (1,88 points per game in average). Combined with their performances in the previous seasons, it was the key to finally overtake Finland and achieve one more place for next season. Another country which can hope for more CHL places next season is Germany. Thanks to the success of Red Bull Munich and their qualification for the CHL Final, the DEL has currently overtaken the Czech Republic and is now ranked fourth after the Semi-Finals. If the Germans can keep this spot it would bring them four places next season, while the Czech Republic would lose one place as they are now only fifth. The outcome of this will go down to the wire in the CHL Final - a win for Red Bull Munich is needed in regulation, otherwise the CHL League Ranking will be reversed again and the Czech Republic will be able to keep their position and the four places they received in previous seasons. The CHL League Ranking calculates the performance of teams over each CHL season and the better the teams perform, the more places a league can achieve. For calculating the index, four consecutive CHL seasons are taken into consideration (weighted 100, 75, 50 and 25 percent – in which the newest season counts the most). However, the six founding leagues remain ranked 1-6 while all challenger leagues follow. How does the CHL League Ranking work? Teams must earn their place in the CHL on the ice in their own league, based on sporting merits only. Teams must reach one of the following criteria in order to qualify for the CHL: 1. CHL champions 2. National league champions 3. Regular season winners 4. Regular season runners-up 5. Regular season third-placed team 6. Regular season fourth-placed team 7. Regular season fifth-placed team