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oh, yes...I totally missed those lines...I don't know why? sorry...

maybe you could try the Eurosport Player (if you have a decent internet broadband connection)... it's very cheap (at least, here in Italy for our standard...until a few days ago we had it on offer for just 25€ for a full year, but even the standard 50€/year is absolutely worth the expense) and gives you full access to the 2 linear channels and many other contents... p.s. for those who watch the Italian raisport channel...if you only could understand a word in Italian language, you would get away from it as quick as possible (98% of the Italian sport fans just can't stand any "journalist" from our public tv, most of which just don't understand anything about any sport they talk of -and, strange to be said, those who follow football are among the worst in the world)...

Kemi Adekoya and Lucy Kabuu provisionally suspended after testing positive for Stanozolol (the infamous steroid of the Ben Johnson's saga) and Morphine, respectively... https://www.athleticsweekly.com/news/former-world-indoor-champion-kemi-adekoya-provisionally-suspended-1039920034/ https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/sports/article/2001290684/kenya-s-kabuu-fails-anti-doping-test-suspended-from-athletics

Le Bureau des Legendes (season #4 just bingewatched)...just wow! not to be missed for any reason (especially by those who normally love spy stories)... Mathieu Kassovitz is simply amazing...

quite disappointing semifinal...the qualification was never in doubt for almost the entire 120 mins... Ryan Lasch really destroyed Pilsen in the double match-up...

and as it happened until a few years ago with BeIN Sports, nowadays (in the past couple of years) in Italy it's a kind of fashion to subscribe to the Polish pay-tv networks (with Eleven sports option) to find a lot of football without spending the crazy amount of money sky Italia asks for... we have a full dedicated thread for that on the main Italian TV and Digital world forum... I think satsklep.pl has more Italian customers than Polish...

the same happened here with Volleyball and Basketball...in the last 20 years they switch more than once between free TV and pay-tv and the audience has been fluctuating a lot... meanwhile the total number of people practicing the sport has not changed dramatically (as the results of our NT have, instead )...

yes, it's 2 (I just misread the line and I did look at the African quota instead of Europe's)... however, it's not 1 per gender...it's 2 overall (it all depends on the final qualification tournament plus the qualification ranking and on the other Continents, as there are many parameters to be considered: max 12 quota in total, max 3 per class, each class must have 10 competitors and only 10 and the prority to the continental champions ahead of the siver medallists -and at last, the bronze medallists- must be followed...not to be mentioned that this is in any case the last part of the qualification after the OQT and OQR, which could easily make most of the EG theoretical spots already gone before they look at them)... as I wrote, it's a mess... thanks to WKF for that! if they think this is the right way to promote their sport at its first Olympic appearance...

Karate’s biggest stars to gather at Karate 1-Premier League Paris The best karatekas in the world will meet next week in the opening event of the season. The Karate 1-Premier League Paris features the top athletes of the sport as first-class karatekas continue getting closer and closer to making their Olympic dreams come true. The Pierre de Coubertin sports hall in Paris hosts the first Karate 1-Premier League of the year from January 25 to 27. All the defending World champions and all but one of the Grand Winners are registered to participate in the anticipated tournament. The current leaders of the Olympic standings will also take part in Paris. It will be the first opportunity for the newly-proclaimed Grand Winners to wear the special karate-gi with the golden embroidery on the shoulders. After their successful campaign last year, the owners of the “Best of the Best” award will try to extend their victorious run in Paris now that they get to display the special Grand Winners’ karate-gi. The line-up of these first-class karatekas will be headed by the two local representatives, Alizee Agier and Gwendoline Philippe who hope to shine at home. The Grand Winners in Female Kumite -68kg and Female Kumite -61kg respectively lead the numerous delegation of 49 athletes representing France at the event. The new World champions will also debut as world title-holders in the first Karate 1-Premier League of the season after the historic 2018 World Championships in Madrid. All the attention of local fans will be put on Steven Dacosta. The young French karateka took the world crown in Madrid and now aims at using the home-ground factor in his favour next weekend. Sandra Sanchez of Spain who continues on her quest to become The World Games’ Athlete of the Year 2018, Japan’s World champions Ryo Kiyuna and Miho Miyahara, and the new generation of kings and queens of the sport spearheaded by Poland’s Dorota Banasczczyk and Italy’s Angelo Crescenzo, among others, will also attend the event. Karate fans will also have the opportunity to watch in action the current leaders of the Olympic standings since all the top-placed karatekas will compete in Paris, including World champion and Grand Winner Jonathan Horne of Germany, Japan’s Ken Nishimura, Ayumi Uekusa and Kiyou Shimizu, and China’s Xiaoyan Yin, in addition to Japan’s Ryo Kiyuna and Miho Miyahara, and Italy’s Angelo Crescenzo. The 2019 Karate 1-Premier League starts on January 25 at 09:00 (local time). The finals are scheduled for Sunday, January 27. All the medal bouts will be streamed LIVE on Karateworld.tv (and on the Italian website PMG Sport for free, but probably they will be geo-blocked...so, you also need a good VPN)...

actually, the 2019 European Games and the 2019 Panamerican Games are at the moment the only 2 Continental tournaments entitled to award direct Olympic spots (criteria is very complicated...the most recently updated version can be found here: Olympic Karate Qualification)... and it's not 1 quota per gender, but for both Europe and Americas is 3 quota overall (and at least 2 different NOCs) based on the Olympic Qualification Ranking of all the Gold medallists of the respective Continetal tournaments)...see criteria at the above link... meanwhile, if Continental Games are not approved as a qualification event on a specific Continent, then the highest ranked athlete not yet qualified from the Olympic Standing on 6 April 2020 from that specific continent, will obtain the quota place, respecting the maximum quota per NOC. on the other hand, all the last Continental Championships held before the final qualification deadline through the Olympic ranking (6 April 2020), will count towards that same ranking... p.s. as we wrote before, for Europe the 2019 EChs will count, as the 2020 champs are scheduled after the April deadline...

Women's Team Epee (La Habana, CUB) Final Results Gold: Estonia Silver: Poland Bronze: Russia Semifinals: Estonia b. China 45-23 Poland b. Russia 44-43 Bronze Medal Match: Russia b. China 42-35 Gold Medal Match: Estonia b. Poland 34-33 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/452/results/rank

so, nothing new...

2019 Short Track Speedskating European Championships Final Overall Medal Table HUN, 4 / 4 / 2 NED, 4 / 1 / 1 RUS, 2 / 2 / 6 ITA, 1 / 1 / 0 POL, 1 / 0 / 0 GBR, 0 / 1 / 3 BEL, 0 / 1 / 0 FRA, 0 / 1 / 0 ISR, 0 / 1 / 0

Women's 3000m Relay, Final Results Gold: Netherlands Silver: Russia Bronze: Hungary also making the Final: France (4th), Italy (5th) Men's 5000m Relay, Final Results Gold: Hungary Silver: Netherlands Bronze: Russia also making the Final: France (4th)

nothing at the moment...no Federscherma twitter nor facebook updates... if you are a subscriber of one of these social networks (I'm not...and never I will be), feel free to ask Federscherma if they can post some news...

unfortunately there's no live streaming... and today no live results, as well... p.s. but I can tell you that Estonia are in the semifinals, after beating UKR in the round of last 16 and USA in the quarterfinals (and this is all I know, thanks to USA fencing twitter)... p.p.s. I wonder how FIE insists on having world cup events in places where you can't find any live broadcasting nor basic info about results... imho, all Countries like China and Cuba should be banned from organizing international events, unless they start looking like the rest of the world...

Men's 3000m Superfinal, Result Gold: Yuri Confortola Silver: Vladislav Bykanov Bronze: Shaoang Liu 4th, Shaolin Sandor Liu 5th, Semen Elistratov 6th, Denis Ayrapetyan 7th, Stijn Desmet 8th, Thibaut Fauconnet 9th, Sebastien Lepape 10th, Pavel Sitnikov Overall Final Standings Gold: Shaolin Sandor Liu, 84 pts Silver: Shaoang Liu, 71 pts Bronze: Semen Elistratov, 55 pts Full Final Ranking: https://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Results.aspx?evt=11213100000064&gen=m&ref=19481&view=ocl

Women's 3000m Superfinal, Result Gold: Suzanne Schulting Silver: Hanne Desmet Bronze: Elise Christie 4th, Sofia Prosvirnova 5th, Lara Van Ruijven 6th, Martina Valcepina 7th, Tifany Huot Marchand 8th, Natalia Maliszewska Overall Final Standings Gold: Suzanne Schulting, 76 pts Silver: Sofia Prosvirnova, 57 pts Bronze: Elise Christie, 47 pts Full Final Ranking: https://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Results.aspx?evt=11213100000064&gen=w&ref=19481&view=ocl

we desperately need some talent...that's the real problem...

Men's 1000m, Final Results Gold: Semen Elistratov Silver: Shaolin Sandor Liu Bronze: Denis Ayrapetyan also making the Final: Thibaut Fauconnet (4th), Dan Breeuwsma (DSQ)

Women's 1000m, Final Results Gold: Sofia Prosvirnova Silver: Tifany Huot Marchand Bronze: Elise Christie also making the Final: Lara Van Ruijven (4th), Ekaterina Efremenkova (5th)

Men's Team Foil (Paris, FRA) Final Results Gold: Russia Silver: Italy Bronze: United States Semifinals: Italy b. South Korea 45-33 Russia b. United States 45-36 Bronze Medal Match: United States b. South Korea 45-41 Gold Medal Match: Russia b. Italy 45-40 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/206/results/rank

Women's Team Foil (Katowice, POL) Final Results Gold: France Silver: United States Bronze: Italy Semifinals: France b. Italy 45-44 United States b. Russia 45-43 Bronze Medal Match: Italy b. Russia 45-38 Gold Medal Match: France b. United States 45-26 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/755/results/rank

yeah, and today I didn't really understand how they chose the team...

the problem is that all those events are not shown following a logical masterplan... most times they have random time slots or they choose not the best game available on that given day or, even worse, they just "forget" to follow important parts of an event... not to be mentioned, they often relegate all these sports to tape delay broadcasts in the middle of the night or even days after they're over...