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as usual, when a major tournament is held in China, it makes almost impossible to follow properly, especially when it comes to live broadcast now, there's only a streaming on the official website working only on PCs, no YT, no apps, which means no comfortable TV watch however, the first couple of days has already gone and we know the individual Sabre medallists...

new IOC President & Executive Board, but the good old shit doesn't seem to stop at all

the Italian Spring Nationals (main selection meet for the World Champs) start on Sunday in the usual location of Riccione a few of our main swimmers won't participate (or won't be tapering because they are already qualified), among them Gregorio Paltrinieri and Thomas Ceccon, who's still training in Australia and he's likely to compete at the Australian Trials (despite he won't be able to swim the A finals, as far as I know) however, a few youngsters are expected to step up and earn themselves some attention by our NT officials (if not a place on the team) the main star of the week should be Carlos D'Ambrosio, who recently beat the old 200m freestyle short course national record held by Filippo Magnini since a very long time (2009, with the old rubber suits) among the women, lots of expectations are on Sara Curtis but, even if it seems a bit too early, take note of this name: Alessandra Mao (class of 2011) many people expect her as the true "new" Pellegrini

women's 10m Air Rifle Gold: Wang Zifei Silver: Kwon Eun Ji Bronze: Audrey Gogniat Full Results & Rankings https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/3268/results

quite a good start of the new Olympic cycle for the Italian crews very promising newcomers and re-shuffled teams in the women's Ilca 6 and mixed 470, still on the right page the stars of the team (Renna and Pianosi), Giubilei & Ugolini now ready to take Tita/Banti's heritage, even if Today's poor medal race painfully cost them the gold medal only negative outing, women's Olympic iQFoiL champion, Marta Maggetti let's see if they can deliver also in the next stages and in the more important championships

2025 Sailing Grand Slam, Trofeo Princesa Sofia ( Palma De Mallorca) ILCA 6 Gold: Zoe Thomson Silver: Emma Mattivi Bronze: Daisy Collingridge ILCA 7 Gold: Michael Beckett Silver: Elliot Hanson Bronze: Finn Lynch 49er Gold: Erwan Fischer & Clement Pequin Silver: Richard Schultheis & Fabian Rieger Bronze: Frederik Rask & Jakob Precht Jensen 49er FX Gold: Freya Black & Saskia Tidey Silver: Johanne & Andrea Schmidt Bronze: Pia Dahl Andersen & Nora Edland Mixed 470 Gold: Bettine Harris & Martin Wrigley Silver: Anna Markfort & Simon Diesch Bronze: Elena Berta & Giulio Calabrò women's iQFoil Gold: Emma Wilson Silver: Yan Zheng Bronze: Veerle Ten Have men's iQFoil Gold: Grae Morris Silver: Nicolò Renna Bronze: Adrien Mestre women's Formula Kite Gold: Li Wan Silver: Lily Young Bronze: Ellie Aldridge men's Formula Kite Gold: Maximilian Maeder Silver: Riccardo Pianosi Bronze: Valentin Bontus Mixed Nacra 17 Gold: Anna Burnet & John Gimson Silver: Maria Giubilei & Gianluigi Ugolini Bronze: Sha Su & Zhao Huancheng Full Results & Rankings https://www.trofeoprincesasofia.org/en/default/races/race-resultsall

() ICE Hockey League Playoffs The Finals (Best-of-7 Series) Game #2: Red Bull Salzburg b. KAC Klagenfurt 4-0 (0-0, 3-0, 1-0) Red Bull Salzburg lead series 2-0 Game #3 is scheduled for Tuesday, April 8th @ 7.30 p.m. local time in Klagenfurt

men's 10m Air Rifle Gold: Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil Silver: Istvan Peni Bronze: Marcelo Julian Gutierrez Full Results & Rankings https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/3268/results

yes, sir! with both eyes on LA 2028

USA (NCAA Div.I) Frozen Four (St.Louis, Missouri) Semifinals Denver vs Western Michigan (Thursday, April 10th @ 4 p.m. local time, 11 p.m. CET) Penn State vs Boston U. (Thursday, April 10th @ 7.30 p.m. local time, 2 a.m. Friday CET)

USA (NCAA Div.I) NCAA Tournament - Regionals Manchester Regional 1st Round Boston College b. Bentley 3-1 Denver b. Providence 5-1 Elite 8 Denver b. Boston College 3-1 Toledo Regional 1st Round Cornell b. Michigan State 4-3 Boston U. b. Ohio State 8-3 Elite 8 Boston U. b. Cornell 3-2 OT Allentown Regional 1st Round Penn State b. Maine 5-1 UConn b. Quinnipiac 4-1 Elite 8 Penn State b. UConn 3-2 OT Fargo Regional 1st Round Western Michigan b. Minnesota State 2-1 2OT Massachusetts b. Minnesota 5-4 OT Elite 8 Western Michigan b. Massachusetts 2-1

USA (NCAA Div.I) Regular Season Final Standings (Pairwise Rankings) 1.Boston College 2.Michigan State 3.Maine Full Ranking https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/icehockey-men/d1/pairwise Individual Stats RS Best Scorer: Isaac Howard (Michigan State), 52 Pts in 37 games (1.41 avg) RS Best Goal Scorer: Ryan Leonard (Boston College), 30 Goals in 37 games (0.81 avg) RS Best Goaltender by GAA: Alex Tracy (Minnesota State), 1.424 GAA (55 GA in 2317 minutes played) RS Best Goaltender by SVS%: Alex Tracy (Minnesota State), 94.6% (961 Saves in 2317 minutes played)

Elite League Playoffs The Finals (Best-of-7 Series) Game #2: Stavanger Oilers - Storhamar Ishockey 1-2 OT (0-0, 0-1, 1-0, 0-1) Storhamar lead series 2-0 Game #3 is scheduled for Tuesday, April 8th @ 7 p.m. local time in Hamar

Synerglace League Magnus Playoffs The Finals (Best-of-7 Series) Game #5: Grenoble b. Angers 6-2 (1-1, 2-1, 3-0) Grenoble win the series 4-1 and are French Champions for the 12th time in their history (1st since 2022)

men's Skeet Gold: Christian Elliott Silver: Gabriele Rossetti Bronze: Elia Sdruccioli Full Results & Rankings https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/3268/results

basically... - excessive workload in training - coaches being extremely rude, often abusing athletes (for instance, volleyball legendary coach Karpol was famous for beating the girls who weren't playing/training according to his very high standard...but the worst things always happened in gymnastics, swimming and other sports where the "medal projects" were very young girls) - truly humiliating punishments (normally, in front of the training group as an example) for those who were making too many mistakes - total control over the athletes' life, also over the private and most intimate aspects

women's Skeet Gold: Dania Jo Vizzi Silver: Kimberly Rhode Bronze: Arina Kuznetsova Full Results & Rankings https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/3268/results

women's 25m Pistol Gold: Sun Yujie Silver: Esha Singh Bronze: Feng Sixuan Full Results & Rankings https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/3268/results

women's 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Sift Kaur Samra Silver: Anita Mangold Bronze: Arina Altukhova Full Results & Rankings https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/3268/results

() ICE Hockey League Playoffs The Finals (Best-of-7 Series) Game #1: KAC Klagenfurt - Red Bull Salzburg 1-2 OT (1-1, 0-0, 0-0, 0-1) Red Bull Salzburg lead series 1-0 Game #2 is scheduled for Sunday, April 6th @ 5.30 p.m. local time in Salzburg

Albanian (or from the Bahamas) VPN (need to be a good one, not all of them do the trick) and free YT advertising is gone actually, there's a full list of small Countries where YT doesn't have any ad, just check on the www

Elite League Playoffs The Finals (Best-of-7 Series) Game #1: Storhamar Ishockey b. Stavanger Oilers 3-2 OT (0-0, 1-1, 1-1, 1-0) Storhamar lead series 1-0 Game #2 is scheduled for Tomorrow, Saturday, April 5th @ 6.15 p.m. local time in Stavanger

men's 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Istvan Peni Silver: Tian Jiaming Bronze: Chain Singh Full Results & Rankings https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/3268/results

another event going behind a paywall? fuck them all! W JOJ Sport!

in 2021 I had a knee injury with partially torn ACL and the tibial plateau was almost fractured (it went so close...I was very, very lucky not to see my knee literally explode, said the doctor) it took me 7 months (with a lot of physio and painkillers, luckily no surgery) to walk normal with (almost) no pain so, I know what we talk of