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OMG!!! that's an absolute killer! only 1 km loop...they must be totally crazy...so, we're gonna have the same mess we're used to see in the 50km race also in the 20km event... once again...get rid of this farce!

wow! that's something new... IAAF should have changed some rules (since until last year the 2-km circuit also for the 50km race was mandatory)... however, I think this new format is way, way better...the 2km circuit is too short for a race that long...there's always too much confusion with all those lappings..if they can cut them down , it's only a good thing... p.s. always thinking that Race Walking should be cancelled from any sport program...since it's a total farce ran by a couple of cheaters making only their personal interests... any reference to the Damilano family and China + Japan is not unintentional...

Kaspar/Sindler (CZE) win the first qualification run of the men's C2, at its last international appearance... meanwhile Mallory Franklyn (GBR) dominated the field in the first qualification run of the women's C1...and I can't believe my eyes, Italy has qualified a girl to the semifinals in this discipline...

Official Website http://www.slalomtroja.cz/en/ Official Schedule of Events http://www.slalomtroja.cz/en/teams/race-schedule Live Timing/Results https://siwidata.com/canoelive/#/live/eca/1373 Live Streaming https://www.youtube.com/CanoeEurope

no, they're trying (seriously) with Winter Polo (played on snow)...

it should be the zone you can see in that map between the 32nd and 34th Km of the Marathon course, more or less (it will be a 2-km ring, as always)...

i 200m sono una gara "pericolosa" (correre in curva usura rapidamente i tendini)...va costruita bene e va centellinata al minimo... penso che la gestione di Tortu sin qui sia stata magistrale...tanta velocità, niente indoor (e soprattutto niente 200/400 sull'anello "letale") e poche puntate mirate sulla distanza "clou"... forse qualcuno (il padre, direi) ha imparato qualcosa dalle sciagurate e perseveranti follie dei cosiddetti tecnici "di nome", che negli anni recenti hanno rovinato tanti talenti nostrani spingendoli a spremersi e infortunarsi con le indoor e con micro-meeting di nulla utilità... fossi in loro, adesso Tortu dovrebbe fare ancora 2/3 gare importanti (DL) sui 100m, una "di prova" sui 200m e poi concentrarsi direttamente sugli Europei (e, soprattutto, in caso di successo a Berlino, dovrebbe resistere alla tentazione delle passerelle post-Euro nei piccoli meeting Italiani e chiudere lì la stagione, con al max 1/2 grandi gare sui 100m -DL o di livello equivalente)... p.s. a proposito di "talenti bruciati", ogni volta che vedo la Trost non so più se mettermi a piangere o inca**armi e sfondare la tv tirando il telecomando (poi penso a quanto l'ho pagata, la TV, e allora mi "contengo" )... p.p.s. mentre ogni volta che vedo la Lasitskene e la Levchenko (ma non solo loro...l'atletica è proprio un "bello" sport)...beh, meglio soprassedere...

beh, per oggi ha l'attenuante di essere appena arrivata dagli USA (sabato sera era in gara nella finale NCAA division II, che tra l'altro ha vinto)...sarà ancora pesantemente sotto jet lag...

comunque oggi dopo i primi 3 lanci ha un modestissimo 57.66 (e per ora hanno lanciato 3 volte solo in 2), peraltro buono per il 6. posto (e matematicamente non sarà neanche ultima)... qui c'è il live scoring: https://rome.diamondleague.com/programma-risultati/programma-risultati-roma/#baseFrame#__athDisciplineRoot#DisciplineInit#Rome2018_TIMING_ATW052101_json##main-frame_content#__athLongJump#LongJumpSubFrame#Rome2018_TIMING_ATW052101_json

surprise, surprise...

direi proprio di sì, visto che anticipa qualunque altra gara ed è già in corso (e di TV non se ne parla almeno fino alle 19)... comunque la Osakue non mi pare poi 'sto fenomeno...non credo diverrà mai una da piazzamenti di prestigio ai mondiali e/o alle Olimpiadi (detto in modo "scaramantico" al 200%...spero tanto di essere sorpreso dalla sua "evoluzione", prima o poi)... mentre spero molto in Musci versione discobolo ma qui siamo a prospettive ancora molto lontane, vista l'età del ragazzone Pugliese)...

I think that here in Europe, at least 98% of the fans would love to see Ovi lift the Cup... personally, I've always said that if "my" LA Kings can't win, my choice is and always will be Ovi's team (wherever he ends up playing)... meanwhile normally I don't care about Italian players if and when they don't wear our Blue Team jersey, even if this time we have the only Italian-born in the history of the NHL* playing for Las Vegas... *Luca Sbisa, in fact, despite playing normally for the Swiss National team, was born in Italy (in Ozieri, Sardinia, to be precise)...then his family went to work in SUI (in Zug), where he became a hockey player and at the age of 17 he did fly to North America to play his hockey, first in the WHL (Western Hockey League), then in the NHL (he played his first NHL games with the Philadelphia Flyers when he was only 18 years young)...

è in occasioni come queste che ringrazio la TV Svizzera di esistere (e il mio impianto sat "di notevole flessibilità")... p.s. comunque mi risulta che raisport inizierà la diretta già alle 19 con la trasmissione delle serie "minori" di alcune delle gare in programma e i primi concorsi... certo, poi rimane il buco tra le 20.25 e le 21 "e rotti", perchè la diretta di rai2 è impossibile stabilire con precisione a che ora partirà (e dubito che saranno puntuali alle 21.05, senza contare che la infarciranno di pubblicità)... a meno che su rai2 non vadano di differita integrale "time-shifted" da dove interromperanno su raisport (visto che tireranno fino alle 22.30 è anche questa una concreta possibilità, dato che la riunione finisce alle 22, salvo concorsi -asta, principalmente- che sforino)...

back to basics...and back to success... this time the Caps didn't allow Vegas to play their run and gun style of hockey, they got back to the hard checking in the neutral zone and kept them under control from start to finish... despite that, Vegas still managed to score first, to shoot 39 times on WSH net and with less than 2 minutes to go and only a Holtby's pure magic saved the Caps' win... Holtby, who redeemed himself from game #1 and he was definitely the hero of the Caps last night with 37 saves, some of those really amazing... always on the Caps side, last night we did watch the first Ovi goal in a Stanley Cup final... now the series is tied at 1 apiece and moves to the US Capital, where game #3 and #4 are scheduled (game #3 is set for Saturday night @ 8 p.m. ET, which means the night between Saturday and Sunday @ 2 a.m. for the fans in Central Europe)...

dovrebbe esserci anche lo streaming free sulla pagina Youtube della Federazione Italiana... domani lo scopriremo...

naaa...I don't like those showers without any individual cabin...and if a bar of soap slips through someone's hands and fall down, who's gonna try and catch it? I definitely don't... meanwhile I like the Jacuzzi...

Clamoroso colpo della FISI, che ingaggia come nuovo allenatore del tiro (a tutto tondo, quindi allenamento tecnico specifico, ma anche supporto psicologico/motivazionale) per tutte le nostre Nazionali del Biathlon (giovani inclusi) nientepopodimenochè l'immenso Niccolò Campriani... Se adesso tutti i nostri ragazzi non diventano dei cecchini infallibili, allora non so proprio cosa si possa fare di più con loro...

big, big news for Italian Biathlon... our National Federation hired a new shooting coach for our guys...and he's nothing less than Niccolò Campriani! I don't think I have to explain who he is, especially on this forum... he's going to be the man in charge of all shooting activities (specific training, but also for psychological/motivational support) for all of our teams (senior M + F and juniors, too)... if they don't improve their shooting skills with him, I don't really know what else can our federation do...

definitely not your classic (nor "average") Stanley Cup Finals start... actually, not even a "beautiful" nor "well played" game from both sides... but surely an exciting one, full of episodes of any kind (freaky thrashy opening before the real game got started, great goals, great saves, big mistakes, dirty hits...we got them all)... my absolute highlight of night...Micheal Buffer's classic "let's get ready to rrrrrrrrrumbleeeeeee"... what definitley turned me down last night...Lars Eller's open-net miss (I don't think McNabb's play was decisive enough to justify Eller's mistake) with less than 40 seconds to go, who killed any residual hope for the Caps... what I didn't like at all...the cleary illegal Vegas goal that tied the game at 4 at the beginning of the 3rd period and, above all, the really late (dirty) hit by Tom Wilson over Jonathan Marchessault, also in the final period of the match (fortunately, Marchessault could return to the ice a few minutes later)...

they're working exclusively on their home Worlds... I guess they will shine when it really matters...

so, also the last World Cup stage of this season for Rifle and Pistol is over... and once again it was China topping the medal table with 3 Gold medals... Ukraine won 3 Gold medals, too...but less Silver and Bronze than China, so they ended up in second place... finally, 4 more Countries (BLR, IRI, RUS, TPE) won at least 1 Gold medal, meanwhile the number of Nations with 1 or more medals (even without Gold) are in total 12... full medal table (and results recap) is here: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue.ashx?cshipid=2393

World Cup, Stage #4 (Munich, GER) 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team Event Gold: Ukraine-2 (Olena Kostevych & Oleh Omelchuk) Silver: Serbia-1 (Zorana Arunovic & Damir MIkec) Bronze: China-2 (Xiong Yaxuan & Pu Qifeng)

World Cup, Stage #4 (Munich, GER) 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team Event Gold: Russia-1 (Anastasiia Galashina & Sergey Kamenskiy) Silver: China-1 (Wu Mingyang & Song Buhan) Bronze: China-2 (Wang Luyao & Yu Haonan)

ops...my mistake, obviously... I'm gonna fix it immediately... p.s. however, it would be nice, considering our current scary situation...

First podium finish for one of our most promising youngsters, Federica Isola among the girls, meanwhile second shameful performance in a row for the boys (no one beyond the round of 32)... I'm really scared of what's happening to our men's Epee team, after they did so well in the recent past (Rio 2016 team Silver above all)... Next weekend (women's Sabre in Tunisia) will be the last World Cup weekend in the 2017/2018 season...not to be missed, especially the Individual Finals on Saturday night (21.30 local time, 22.30 CET) @ the wonderful Roman Theatre in Carthage...