phelps

maybe... probably... sure... p.s. but this year I'm pretty happy with Doro and Lisa, in any case...

no, no... the Dutch Flag is NOT blue, white and RED...

I hope so...

also that, of course...

Women's Individual Epee (Doha, QAT) Final Results Gold: Julia Beljajeva Silver: Kseniya Pantelyelyeva Bronze: Jung Hyo Jung & Violetta Kolobova Semifinals: Beljajeva b. Jung 15-6 Pantelyelyeva b. Kolobova 15-12 Gold Medal Match: Beljajeva b. Pantelyeyeva 15-11  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/79/results/rank

Men's Individual Epee (Doha, QAT) Final Results Gold: Yannick Borel Silver: Yulen Pereira Bronze: Jacob Hoyle & Bogdan Nikishin Semifinals: Pereira b. Nikishin 15-9 Borel b. Hoyle 15-10 Gold Medal Match: Borel b. Pereira 15-4  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/387/results/rank

it looks a George Clooney's commercial...'Wooden medal, what else?'

K1PL, Stage #1 (Paris, FRA) Final Overall Medal Table* JPN, 4 / 2 / 6 FRA, 2 / 1 / 2 IRI, 1 / 2 / 2 TUR, 1 / 0 / 1 UKR, 1 / 0 / 1 BLR, 1 / 0 / 0 GEO, 1 / 0 / 0 SUI, 1 / 0 / 0 ITA, 0 / 2 / 2 ESP, 0 / 2 / 0 EGY, 0 / 1 / 2 AZE, 0 / 1 / 0 POL, 0 / 1 / 0 KAZ, 0 / 0 / 3 GER, 0 / 0 / 2 BRA, 0 / 0 / 1 MEX, 0 / 0 / 1 RUS, 0 / 0 / 1 * = Team Kata events NOT included (because they are open to club teams, they have a low number of participants and they are not involved in any manner in the Olympic Qualification process)...

K1PL, Stage #1 (Paris, FRA) Medallists Recap women's Individual Kata Gold: Kiyou Shimizu Silver: Sandra Sanchez Jaime Bronze: Viviana Bottaro & Hikaru Ono men's Individual Kata Gold: Ryo Kiyuna Silver: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila Bronze: Issei Shimbaba & Kazumasa Moto women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu Silver: Miho Miyahara Bronze: Jessica De Paula & Shara Hubrich men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold: Majid Hassannia Silver: Angelo Crescenzo Bronze: Evgeny Plakhutin & Darkhan Assadilov women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold: Anzhelika Terliuga Silver: Dorota Banaszcyk Bronze: Lorena Busà & Shiori Nakamura men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold: Steven Dacosta Silver: Luca Maresca Bronze: Didar Amirali & Assylbek Muratov women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold: Gwendoline Philippe Silver: Giana Lofty Bronze: Laura Sivert & Merve Coban men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold: Ken Nishimura Silver: Rafael Aghayev Bronze: Alì Asiabari & Stanislav Horuna women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold: Elena Quirici Silver: Kayo Someya Bronze: Sachiko Paulina Ramos Akita & Johanna Kneer men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold: Anton Isakau Silver: Mahdi Ghararizadeh Bronze: Rikito Shimada & Mohamed Ahmed Ramadan women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold: Ayumi Uekusa Silver: Nancy Garcia Bronze: Shaaban Okila Menna & Ayaka Saito men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold: Gogita Arkania Silver: Saleh Abazari Bronze: Sajad Ganjzadeh & Mehdi Filali

the first one was clear... the second one...well, the hit was there, but the whole action was a bit confused and it could have been evaluated differently...giving the 2 points to the French girl was not a scandal, however... so far, I have to say the refereeing is pretty decent, compared to the standard of the past... right now, today I only strongly disagree with 2 matches...the bronze medal bout gifted to Coban in the women's 61kg and the gold medal bout between the Frenchman Dacosta and the Italian Maresca, who was robbed big time of a deserved gold medal... in all the other bouts I've watched I haven't seen any shameful and suspicious misdemeanor, just a few close calls that could easily have gone the other way round...but in those cases you can't call them scandals or robberies for sure...

when you watch a bout like the men's -67kg final, the "karate = boxing" comparison is quite clear... and then some people are surprised when they're asked if do we really need another thing like this at the Olympic Games?

this time is Loch's triumph (6th world title)... the funeral can start, now...

I just can't belive that! Pavlichenko makes a capital mistake on the last curve and blows it away... is it gonna be Loch or is it gonna be another Austrian upset?

OK, my day's over... as expected, K-Fisch waste the chance of his life... and Austria is on the podium in the men's single once again (and always with someone different from time to time)...

and Ludwig is behind the Austrian... 3 left...

wow! Egger had a great final stint in run #2... Can Austria put some winning cards on the table once again?

Repilov losing time vs Eissler despite being quicker at the last curve...that's not promising at all (= Loch's gonna do it once again)...

and Navarria is out, too... 2 competitions, no Italians in the top 8... shame! shame! shame! on them...

D-Fisch lost almost 2/10 in the final 3 curves from Kindl...no way he can climb up the standings with such a performance... being out of the Olympic medals for 1/1000 of a second was so painful, but being so far away from the podium like today...well, it really sucks!

so, Iran, Egypt and Japan (twice each) plus France and Ukraine (once each) won the last Bronze Medal matches of this morning... now (2.30 p.m. CET) it's time for the "big ones"...

Women's Team Foil (St.Maur, FRA) Final Results Gold: France Silver: Russia Bronze: Italy Semifinals: France b. USA 45-44 Russia b. Italy 45-38 Bronze Medal Match: Italy b. USA 45-37 Gold Medal Match: France b. Russia 41-39 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/824/results/rank

great, great win for our Foil guys against the almost unbeatable US dream team... on the other side, our girls lost once again vs the Russians and will only fight for 3rd place in St.Maur (FRA and RUS will play for Gold)...

naaa...in epee it's not that rare... however, not a good day for Italy once again... only Navarria is still in contention (but they are only at the round of 16)...all the guys are out before the quarterfinals (and Di Veroli didn't even make it through to the main draw of 64)...

and now she's desperate...

game over for anybody with a start number over 7/8...as expected... it's gonna be an "interesting" 2nd run, I guess...