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first medallists... Men's -54kg Semifinals: ITA vs ESP & RUS vs TUR Women's -49kg Semifinals: CRO vs AZE & RUS vs FRA

and we have the first results... Women's Individual Kata Gold Medal Bout: Viviana Bottaro (ITA) vs Sandra Sanchez Jaime (ESP) Bronze Medal Bouts: Veronika Miskova (CZE) vs Dorota Balciarova (SVK) & Alexandra Feracci (FRA) vs Dilara Eltemur (TUR) Men's Individual Kata Gold Medal Bout: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila (ESP) vs Alì Sofuoglu (TUR) Bronze Medal Bouts: Mattia Busato (ITA) vs Ilja Smorguner (GER) & Mehman Rzaev (RUS) vs Roman Heydarov (AZE) good but not so good start for Italy...unfortunately Busato had to face the super-favourite Quintero already in the semifinal bout, so he couldn't get to the gold medal final... in any case, as expected, here Spain are dominating the field...

it was expected... still, despite I'm with Serbia all the time in the Kosovo dispute, I don't like when politics invade so strongly the sport's events...

not really updated...all the matches of round #1 of the women's -46kg (I know that Corelli, ITA beat Laguna, ESP by a score of 11-5) and of the men's -58kg (Flecca, ITA has lost his bout against Anushkevich, BLR) have already been completed... and they still show a wrong timetable for that...

good afternoon for my prediction contest... let's see if tonight's gonna be even better...

draws and results should be found here: https://wkf.net/continental-championships-main/ekf-senior/ meanwhile here are the official schedule of the finals and the live streaming access page (registration is needed, but it's absolutely free): https://karateworld.tv/live/53rd-european-senior-karate-championship-novi-sad,-serbia

schedule, draws and results will be found here: http://centrvostok.wtf-vao.ru/sobytiya/mirovye-sobytiya/741-european-taekwondo-senior-championships-2018-russian-of-kazan some very bad news... http://en.mastkd.com/2018/04/kazan-2018-will-not-be-broadcast/

e ancor più grande bronzo di Shamil...alla fine ha perso solo dal vincitore dell'oro e per un piccolo punticino (7-6) dopo essere stato in vantaggio 6-2 fino a meno di un minuto dalla fine... se aggiungiamo la sorpressisima di bronzo di Sandron nella Greco-Romana, questi Europei di Lotta sono stati comunque un successo per noi (sperando che Frank abbia imparato la lezione...ma conoscendolo ne dubito...lui è proprio così )...

p.s. with Germany's loss and tonight's results my prediction contest is getting worse and worse...

finally, in today's game of the day things have been better than the forst period made me think, also thanks to an unusually undisciplined Swedish team...however, in the end they still managed to take the 3 points home... @hckosice I'm sorry, my friend...I really fear that earlier you were right...SVK are not looking good at all...they're surely still paying the prize of last night's effort against the Czechs...SUI are leading safely without even being so impressive... I think this game would need a good shock to make it more exciting in the final minutes...

for Italy it's been a wonderful tournament in Greco-Roman with the absolutely unexpected medal by Jacopo Sandron (20 years young, his birthday exactly on the first day of his competition)... on the other hand, it's been a good but not exceptional tournament in men's Freestyle because of the stupid semifinal's loss by Frank Chamizo (meanwhile Kudiiamagomedov has been fantastic, losing only to the eventual gold medal winner Naifonov by a score of 7-6 after having been 6-2 ahead with less than a minute still to go...Conyedo instead should be watched carefully at least another time before a proper judging...this time he's been not as good as expected, though)... the women's side...well, better not to write anything...they just had a shameful and insignificant participation...

Men's Freestyle Final Medal Table RUS, 6 / 2 / 0 AZE, 2 / 2 / 4 TUR, 2 / 0 / 3 GEO, 0 / 2 / 4 BLR, 0 / 1 / 2 POL, 0 / 1 / 1 FRA, 0 / 1 / 0 GER, 0 / 1 / 0 ITA, 0 / 0 / 2 HUN, 0 / 0 / 1 ROU, 0 / 0 / 1 SRB, 0 / 0 / 1 UKR, 0 / 0 / 1 Women's Wrestling Final Medal Table RUS, 2 / 3 / 3 BUL, 2 / 1 / 0 TUR, 2 / 0 / 3 BLR, 1 / 2 / 3 AZE, 1 / 1 / 3 SWE, 1 / 0 / 1 FIN, 1 / 0 / 0 FRA, 0 / 1 / 1 POL, 0 / 1 / 1 ROU, 0 / 1 / 1 AUT, 0 / 0 / 1 GRE, 0 / 0 / 1 HUN, 0 / 0 / 1 UKR, 0 / 0 / 1 Men's Greco-Roman Final Medal Table RUS, 4 / 2 / 1 ARM, 2 / 0 / 1 AZE, 1 / 2 / 2 GEO, 1 / 1 / 4 TUR, 1 / 0 / 2 ROU, 1 / 0 / 1 SRB, 0 / 2 / 0 BLR, 0 / 1 / 0 EST, 0 / 1 / 0 NOR, 0 / 1 / 0 HUN, 0 / 0 / 3 BUL, 0 / 0 / 1 FIN, 0 / 0 / 1 GER, 0 / 0 / 1 ITA, 0 / 0 / 1 MDA, 0 / 0 / 1 SWE, 0 / 0 / 1 Wrestling European Championships 2018 Overall Final Medal Table RUS, 12 / 7 / 4 TUR, 5 / 0 / 8 AZE, 4 / 5 / 9 BUL, 2 / 1 / 1 ARM, 2 / 0 / 1 BLR, 1 / 4 / 5 GEO, 1 / 3 / 8 ROU, 1 / 1 / 3 SWE, 1 / 0 / 2 FIN, 1 / 0 / 1 POL, 0 / 2 / 2 FRA, 0 / 2 / 1 SRB, 0 / 2 / 1 GER, 0 / 1 / 1 EST, 0 / 1 / 0 NOR, 0 / 1 / 0 HUN, 0 / 0 / 5 ITA, 0 / 0 / 3 UKR, 0 / 0 / 2 AUT, 0 / 0 / 1 GRE, 0 / 0 / 1 MDA, 0 / 0 / 1

Today's Results Men's Freestyle Wrestling, Finals 61kg Gold: Gadzhimurad Rashidov (RUS) Silver: Beka Lomtadze (GEO) Bronze: Ivan Guidea (ROU) & Recep Topal (TUR) 74kg Gold: Soner Demirtas (TUR) Silver: Zelimkhan Khadjiev (FRA) Bronze: Frank Chamizo Marquez (ITA) & Andrei Karpach (BLR) 86kg Gold: Artur Naifonov (RUS) Silver: Aleksandr Gostiyev (AZE) Bronze: Shamil Kudiiamagomedov (ITA) & Sandro Aminashvili (GEO) 92kg Gold: Abdulrashid Sadulaev (RUS) Silver: Sharif Sharifov (AZE) Bronze: Serdar Boke (TUR) & Kyrylo Mieshkov (UKR) 125kg Gold: Taha Akgul (TUR) Silver: Geno Petriashvili (GEO) Bronze: Jamaladdin Magomedov (AZE) & Robert Baran (POL)

Men's Freestyle Wrestling, Today's Finals 61kg Gold: GEO vs RUS Bronze: BLR vs TUR & ROU vs AZE 74kg Gold: FRA vs TUR Bronze: SRB vs BLR & SVK vs ITA 86kg Gold: AZE vs RUS Bronze: GER vs GEO & ITA vs TUR 92kg Gold: AZE vs RUS Bronze: MDA vs TUR & UKR vs GEO 125kg Gold: GEO vs TUR Bronze: AZE vs RUS & AUT vs POL

meh...awful games earlier today...I really hate those blowouts (even if they were very predictable...I missed both those games by just 1 goal each...I had +8 for RUS and +9 for CAN...I got so close )... and also the game of the day (SWE vs CZE) is quite disappointing so far...it looks that the Czechs haven't physically nor mentally recovered from last night's battle against SVK and they're not giving SWE a hard time at all...

IFSC World Cup, Stage #3 (Chongqing, CHN) Women's Boulder 1st, Akiyo Noguchi (JPN) 2nd, Miho Nonaka (JPN) 3rd, Stasa Gejo (SRB) Men's Boulder 1st, Kokoro Fujii (JPN) 2nd, Sean McColl (CAN) 3rd, Aleksei Rubtsov (RUS) Women's Speed 1st, Aries Susanti Rahayu (INA) 2nd, Elena Timofeeva (RUS) 3rd, Puji Lestari (INA) Men's Speed 1st, Dmitrii Timofeev (RUS) 2nd, Aspar Jaelolo (INA) 3rd, Danyil Boldyrev (UKR)

Men's Team Foil from St.Petersburg: Live Streaming (bronze medal match running right now) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-j_v-oTtNw Women's Team Epee from Dubai: Live Streaming (Gold medal match running now...actually, it's almost over)

Women's Team Epee (Dubai, UAE) Final Results: Gold: United States Silver: Russia Bronze: Italy Semifinals: Russia b. Italy 29-22 USA b. France 43-36 Bronze Medal Match: Italy b. France 45-35 Gold Medal Match: USA b. Russia 29-28 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/762/results/rank

Men's Team Foil (St.Petersburg, RUS) Final Results: Gold: United States Silver: Italy Bronze: France Semifinals: USA b. Russia 45-38 Italy b. France 45-31 Bronze Medal Match: France b. Russia 45-34 Gold Medal Match: USA b. Italy 45-25 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/571/results/rank

I watched the game on the Czech TV...Robert Zaruba is a legend...he looks like a South American football broadcasters with his yells and cries... after Necas tied the game with just 9 seconds to go, I thought he could have an heart attack... p.s. and when the same Necas crushed himself into the boards I thought he could have seriously compromised his health...luckily he only got there with his arm and not with his head... p.p.s. I'm sorry pal...it was a great game for your Slovakia, but a silly half mistake by Ciljak (who was almost pefect till there) let the Czechs save their a**es...even if it was against my prediction, at one point I started to hope that you could take the victory home, it would have been deserved because of the good organization and pride shown by your team... I hope that tonight you can have a better outcome against the Swiss...

Belarus is fuc*in'up my prediction contest... meanwhile I got a perfect score with Latvia and almost with Finland (I had +6 for them, instead of the actual +7)... and at least I got the right winner with SUI (even if I thought they could put some more difference between them and AUT)...

Today's Results Men's Freestyle Wrestling, Finals 57kg Gold: Giorgi Edisherashvili (AZE) Silver: Zavur Uguev (RUS) Bronze: Stevan Andria Micic (SRB) & Uladzislau Andreyeu (BLR) 65kg Gold: Haji Aliyev (AZE) Silver: Ilias Bekbulatov (RUS) Bronze: Selahattin Kilicsellayan (TUR) & Vladimer Kinchegashvili (GEO) 70kg Gold: Magomed Kurbanaliev (RUS) Silver: Magomedmurad Gadzhiev (POL) Bronze: Murtazali Raxmatullayevic Muslimov (AZE) & Zurabi Iakobishvili (GEO) 79kg Gold: Akhmed Shiabdinovitch Gadzhimagomedov (RUS) Silver: Martin Obst (GER) Bronze: Mihaly Nagy (HUN) & Jabrayil Hasanov (AZE) 97kg Gold: Vladislav Baitsaev (RUS) Silver: Aliaksandr Hushtyn (BLR) Bronze: Nurmagomed Gadzhiyev (AZE) & Elizbar Odikadze (GEO) Semifinals 61kg GEO b. AZE RUS b. TUR 74kg FRA b. BLR TUR b. ITA 86kg AZE b. GEO RUS b. TUR 92kg AZE b. TUR RUS b. GEO 125kg GEO b. POL TUR b. RUS

meanwhile, good news for Kudiiamagomedov...Naifonov won hi ssemifinal bout, so he has a chance to go for Bronze tomorrow in the repechage rounds... p.s Sadulaev...what a monster he is!

an idiot, to say the least... you just can't lose a bout like that...

Men's Foil from St.Petersburg: Live Streaming (semifinals starting @ 16.30 CET) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpjHBOSMKlo&index=4&list=TLGGd12LhP80aCEwMzA1MjAxOA Women's Epee from Dubai: Live Streaming (Final running now...actually, it's almost over) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErL8LLBZMhg