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quite a busy day... among others... Canoeing, European Championships (part on CT Sport HD, part online) Fencing, Italian Championships (sat feed) Shooting, World Cup (online) BMX Cycling, World Championships (BBC Red Button on satellite) Waterpolo, Champions League final (Fox Sports Italia)

Men's Race Gold: Sylvain Andre Silver: Joris Daudet Bronze: Anderson Ezequiel De Souza Filho

where are our Totallympics Brazilian friends? it's time to party!

French double (thanks to the usual mess at the big turn) and Bronze for Brazil!

and now it's time for the big boys...I hope to see a clean race, but I doubt...the track seems to be quite tricky...

I'm surprised he's not here writing something yet...

Women's Race Gold: Laura Smulders Silver: Merel Smulders Bronze: Judy Baauw

actually, second, third and fourth for 3 different South American Countries (COL, CHI and ARG) in that race...

and the women's final makes no exception...Willoughby suicides herself and leaves the door open to an amazing Dutch triple, with the Smulders sisters getting Gold and Silver...

a lot of big crashes so far in the early rounds... and right now we are ready for the big finals...ladies first, as usual...

Last Individual events at the Italian Championships 2018... and they were Alice Volpi (Women's Foil), Marco Fichera (Men's Epee) and Enrico Berrè (Men's Sabre) to win the National Honors... http://www.federscherma.it/homepage/media/news/14-news/top-news/29351-campionati-italiani-sorgenia-milano2018-occhi-puntati-su-fiorettiste,-spadisti-e-sciabolatori-e-sulla-spada-paralimpica.html

CAE Fencing African Championships 2018 Final Medal Table EGY, 6 / 6 / 7 TUN, 5 / 4 / 2 MAR, 1 / 0 / 0 ALG, 0 / 1 / 7 SEN, 0 / 1 / 1 CIV, 0 / 0 / 1

Men's Team Sabre Final Results: Gold: Egypt Silver: Tunisia Bronze: Algeria Gold Medal Match: Egypt b. Tunisia 45-39 Full Results and Rankings comin'up (not so soon, I fear)...

Men's Team Epee Final Results: Gold: Egypt Silver: Senegal Bronze: Algeria Gold Medal Match: Egypt b. Senegal 45-27 Full Results and Rankings comin'up (not so soon, I fear)...

Women's Team Foil Final Results: Gold: Tunisia Silver: Algeria Bronze: Egypt Gold Medal Match: Tunisia b. Algeria 45-28 p.s. Only 3 teams at the start of this competition...

Clay Target World Cup, Stage #5 (Siggiewi, MLT) Men's Skeet Gold: Vincent Hancock Silver: Azmy Mehelba Bronze: Gabriele Rossetti

Sailing World Cup, Series Finals 2018 (Marseille, FRA) Final Results Mixed Nacra 17 Ruggero Tita / Caterina Banti (ITA), 32 Pts Vittorio Bissaro / Maelle Frascari (ITA), 41 Pts Ben Saxton / Nicola Boniface (GBR), 48 Pts Men's RS:X Pierre le Coq (FRA), 33 Pts Thomas Goyard (FRA), 36 Pts Louis Giard (FRA), 43 Pts Women's RS:X Noga Geller (ISR), 48 Pts Lilian De Geus (NED), 49 Pts Stefania Elfutina (RUS), 52 Pts

I'm ready to bet on the fact that this won't be the trio on the podium in Tokyo...

it's not strange at all...since, as usual, no Italian TV is going to broadcast this event... meanwhile rai and usigrai are totally committed to complain because of the soccer TV rights new format established by our lega calcio...

finally, some good results for Italy in this season's K1PL... Sara Cardin (Women's Kumite, -55kg) and Viviana Bottaro (Women's Kata) made it through to the final (and a couple more fighters had access to the Bronze medal bout)... it's quite an important result for us, especially Bottaro's win over the (almost) unbeatable Spaniard Sandra Sanchez Jaime in the Kata semifinals...let's see if next Sunday they can complete the effort and win Gold...it would be really encouraging in perspective, since the Olympic Ranking tournaments will start really soon...

Full Rankings (and Results): Women's Team Epee http://www.engarde-service.com/files/fie_fencing/championnat_afrique_tunis/epee_women_team/index.php?page=clasfinal.htm Women's Team Sabre http://www.engarde-service.com/files/fie_fencing/championnat_afrique_tunis/saber_women_team/index.php?page=clasfinal.htm Men's Team Foil http://www.engarde-service.com/files/fie_fencing/championnat_afrique_tunis/foil_men_team/index.php?page=clasfinal.htm

Clay Target World Cup, Stage #5 (Siggiewi, MLT) Women's Skeet Gold: Amber Hill Silver: Amber English Bronze: Zhang Donglian

and finally, mong the women, Diana Bacosi, thanks to a couple of decent (23/25) final rounds, saved the honor of Italy and will take part into the final 6 of the Women's Skeet competition... the qualified shooters are: Amber Hill (GBR), Caitlin O'Connor (USA), Amber English (USA), Zhang Dongliang (CHN), Diana Bacosi (ITA) and, just to make our friend @hckosice happy Veronika Sykorova (SVK)... I remember once again, the final is scheduled for 6 p.m. CET later today...

wow! this is a world premiere! It's the first time ever I see the qualification rounds of a shooting event shown on tv (or online)... not even at the Olympic Games they've ever been broadcasted... chapeau! to Maltese TV for this wonderful effort... and now ISSF and IOC have no more excuses...they MUST show us also the elimination rounds of the shooting events in Tokyo...

today at 6 p.m. CET the first final of this WC stage, the Women's Skeet... live Streaming, as always, on the ISSF website... unfortunately, after a disaster in day #1, the Italian shooters won't be part of this final (only Bacosi has still a really marginal shot at making the top 6, but it's very unlikely...Cainero and Spada are definitely already out of contention after the 4th series of 5 in the preliminaries)...