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World Cup, Stage #3 (Almaty, KAZ) women's 1500m, run #1, Final Results Gold: KIM Geon Hee Silver: Ekaterina EFREMENKOVA Bronze: LI Jinyu

as @Dunadan wrote, only the use during (or immediately before) official races Oxygen inahalators are prohibited (and only by FIS), so don't expect WADA to do anything and expect FIS just gently slapping German asses for that race...

World Cup, Stage #3 (Almaty, KAZ) men's 1500m, run #1 skaters qualified to the final Semen ELISTRATOV Shaolin Sandor LIU Samuel GIRARD Steven DUBOIS (Adv.) KIM Gun Woo HWANG Dae Heon LIM Hyo Jun women's 1500m, run #1 skaters qualified to the final LI Xuan (Adv.) LI Jinyu Yuki KIKUCHI Ekaterina EFREMENKOVA CHOI Min Jeong KIM Geon Hee Anastassiya KRESTOVA men's 1000m skaters qualified to the final Sjinkie KNEGT Shaoang LIU Stijn DESMET Abzal AZHGALIYEV LEE June Seo women's 1000m skaters qualified to the final Suzanne SCHULTING Rianne DE VRIES Kim BOUTIN NOH Ah Rum Natalia MALISZEWSKA

World Championships are gone, Premier League is over...but the year 2018 still has something to show in Karate... it's the Shanghai stage of the Karate 1 Serie A (2nd tier competition behind the K1 Premier League)... and because this tournament is going to award some useful points in the race towards Karate's Olympic debut in Tokyo, many "big names" decided to take part, despite the unhappy period chosen for it... by the way, this is a recap of today's action (Gold Medal matches only, as the repechage trees have not been completed -or at least, there's no result for them on the WKF website)... women's Kata: Viviana Bottaro vs Sandra Sanchez Jaime women's Kumite, -50kg: Bettina Plank vs Gulsen Demirturk women's Kumite, -55kg: Fumika Ishiai vs Anzhelika Terliuga men's Kata: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila vs Yuda Ahmad Zigi Zaresta men's Kumite, -67kg: Vinicius Figueira vs Alì Ismail

sure! it's more than feasible... feel free to book your Christmas Holidays and try this new experience... https://www.tripadvisor.it/CheapFlightsSearchResults

well, frogs are well known in the Italian cuisine, especially in the Northern Regions (alongside the course of the River Po)... "Risotto con le Rane" (risotto with frogs) is really famous in those areas... https://www.cucchiaio.it/ricetta/ricetta-risotto-rane/ and believe it or not, it's really good... also fried frogs or "rane in umido" (basically, frogs with tomato sausage) are 2 well established ways to eat them... https://www.cibo360.it/cucina/mondo/rane_fritte.htm https://www.cibo360.it/cucina/mondo/rane_umido.htm

well, you already have a good young man (Jakub Simonak), who was 11th in the Nations Cup and then 27th in the World Cup race in Innsbruck ("only" 4 positions and half a second behind Ninis)... and also a promising double (Tomas Vavercak and Matej Zmij), who were 5th in the Nations Cup and then 13th in the World Cup race (always in innsbruck)... and in the Austrian WC stage, there was also a girl (Andrea Pavlikova) at the start, even if she didn't get as good results as the guys (she was only 35th out of 38 starters in the Nations Cup)... so, the situation for Slovak Luge sport is not so dark as you could think (OK, the top positions are still far away...and maybe they will never get close to that...but at least you already have a full set of world cup level lugers...and maybe in Beijing you'll have a chance to start also in the team event)...

it's very, very local (Sardinia only)... and hopefully there are very, very few lovers of that left... p.s. to me, it's more than disgusting and should be prohibited under any law and circumstance...

well, with a world title at stake, I'd not take it for granted that some coaches would choose to play with hyper-defensive style which could lead to 20 and more mins of OT without even a shot on goal... still, I hope to never see anything like that...

to be honest, I still consider the 3-on-3 OT just fun stuff, good for the regular season and the exhibition games... but when it really matters, you just can't use it to decide the winner of a world championship (or a national league, by the way)... moreover...20 mins (or more) 3-on-3 after the regulation? in a tournament where you already have to play 10 games in around 2 weeks? c'mon, man! that's the best way to force the players to give up or dope or just die on the ice... I don't really like this IIHF's decision...

in Italy there's nothing considered "weird"... even if the question about insects is still open, anything else is normally used in our food (in certain Regions more than others, where people might look a bit more "conservative" -I'm one of those really skeptical about most of this kind of things)... even one of the most famous and appreciated dishes of the Northern Italian cuisine, the "Risotto alla Milanese" is made with cows' bone marrow... but especially in Tuscany and Lazio (Rome's Region) you can often find their typical dishes like "Trippa" (the cow's stomach and esophagus with their connecting parts) or "Coratella" (sheep's heart, liver, lungs and spleen all together) or many others (in Valdaosta there's a dish made with pork's mamels )... I guess you need some help to translate it, but here's a list (with photos and description) of the top 15 dishes made with unusual parts of the animals in the Italian cuisine... https://cucina.corriere.it/notizie/cards/boom-frattaglie-cucina-ecco-15-migliori-provare/boom-frattaglie.shtml

never thought Italy was that good also in bowling...

Men's World Bowling Championships 2018 (Hong Kong, HKG) Medallists Recap Singles Gold: Muhd Rafiq Ismail Silver: Dan McLelland Bronze: Andrew Anderson & Kyle Troup Doubles Gold: Malaysia 2 Silver: United States 2 Bronze: Canada 2 & South Korea 3 Trios Gold: United States 1 Silver: Indonesia 1 Bronze: South Korea 2 & Sweden 2 Teams (of 5) Gold: Italy Silver: United States Bronze: Canada & Singapore

as @Dunadan wrote, it's 2019, as the 2020 edition is scheduled after the OQ period is over...

all the scores, but those listed between last Summer and April 2019 (except for the recent world champs, of course) will give only 50% of points, meanwhile those registered in the last 12 months of the OQ period (april 2019 - april 2020) will give 100% of points...

yes, only the last Continental Championship held within the OQ period counts... so, if there will be some Continental Champs in 2019, they will count towards the 2018 ones... p.s. next week the serie A tournament in Shanghai will put some OQR points up for grabs...it will be interesting to see how many of the big boys (and girls) will start in China... back to Italian (big) troubles...Sara Cardin a couple of days ago had a torn ACL (+ broken meniscus), so she had to undergo a complicated surgery and she's expected to miss at least half of the next season, which means that it will be basically impossible for her to qualify through the World Ranking and that she'll have to rely only on the world qualification tournament in Paris after the OQP is over (May 2020)...

actually FIH says that the non-Dutch games are available on YT for the Dutch fans... https://www.worldcup2018.hockey/men/fans p.s. for those who have a sat dish in Europe, there's a wonderful HD feed available @ 7 East (it's encrypted, but biss key is well known -and it's the same for the entire tournament, so you don't even have to search for it every given day)... p.p.s. a VPN and/or KodiMod are also good (and illegal, too) options...

Field Hockey, men's World Cup (Australia vs Ireland) Handball, women's Europeans (Serbia vs Poland & Sweden vs Denmark) Swimming, Italian short course Nationals Cross-Country Skiing, World Cup Luge, World Cup (men's doubles) American Football, TNF (Dallas Cowboys vs New Orleans Saints), condensed version

but still... "The PwC report on refereeing and judging at the Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018 found that none of the key observations caused concern to the boxing competitions, and that the tournament’s integrity and credibility had not been affected." basically the most important thing of them all is put aside and almost ignored...they just gave a look at 1 youth tournament with 5/6 matches per weight class in total and because of that they think judging is no longer a problem... not only "throw boxing out of the Games!", but also "throw IOC out of this world! and find another institution to govern the sports world"...

feel free to watch... https://www.ehftv.com/us/

Arianna won Gold over 500m, Silver with the women's Relay and Bronze over 1000m in the Short Track tournament... and she was Italy's Flagbearer at the Opening Ceremony (even if it doesn't count for this prize)... Shaun White...well, it was a save on the line for you...

Women's Water Polo FINA World League 2019 Budapest (HUN) - 4 June 2019 - 9 June 2019 Official Website

Magnus Carlsen retains the Chess World title Three-time defending champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Fabiano Caruana did face a nerve-wracking showdown in the World Chess Championship in London on Wednesday, after 12 regular games failed to break the deadlock. The two young masters face off in the tie-break, which consists of four rapid matches with 25 minutes for each player with an increment of 10 seconds after each move. But the Norwegian only needed 3 of those 4 rapid matches, as he won all of them to successfully defend his crown.

I like Milano/Cortina logo...1 billion times better than Torino 2006, for instance... meanwhile Stockholm...well, the IKEA designers would have done better (and it's definitely NOT a compliment, for those who might think otherwise)...

basta che i soldi vadano poi tutti allo sport Olimpico... battute a parte, l'unica "riforma" di natura economica che dovrebbero fare, invece, non la faranno mai... eppure basterebbe destinare il 10% degli incassi di superenalotto e lotterie varie (e se non vogliono rinunciare neanche a un centesimo della parte dell'erario, possono toglierli tranquillamente dal montepremi destinato ai vincitori "premium", che tanto avrebbero lo stesso cifre scandalose senza alcun merito) alle discipline Olimpiche -con strettissimo controllo su utilizzo e beneficiari, da premiare secondo criteri mirati e meritocratici... p.s. poi ci sarebbe la questione scuola e reclutamento...senza un serio programma di investimento sulle infrastrutture scolastiche (niente più catapecchie diroccate e senza spazi per lo sport nei centri storici, ma via con campus sul modello USA appena fuori dai centri urbani, con tanto spazio per palestre, piscine e campi per ogni sport escluso il calcio) e senza una valorizzazione accademica (crediti enormi e magari anche qualche "promozione d'ufficio" all'americana...e chissenefrega delle conseguenze, tanto già adesso ci si ritrova con tanti Toninelli qualsiasi nei punti chiave di ogni istituzione per raccomandazione...peggio non può andare comunque ) della pratica sportiva agonistica, non si va da nessuna parte...