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and finally we got what we asked for... after another heartbreaker (SKA once again dominated the game, with CSKA still 1-2 down until 3 minutes before the end of regulation...then came the OT, when Sorokin made a couple of miracles and eventually Grigorenko scored the game and series winner), CSKA sent SKA home with their tails between their legs... and let me enjoy the day also thanks to the Foxes, aka HC Bolzano, who won game#1 of the EBEL final series in Salzburg, already turning the home ice advantage around... just a little satisfaction for all the poor Italian hockey fans...

in addition to the first 10 athletes per weapon (max 1 per NOC), 3 more men and 3 more women will get their spot at the YOG 2018 based on a very controversial (and subject to different interpretations) ranking... those places should go to: Veronika Bieleszova (CZE), Europe (Women's Epee) Katina Proestakis (CHI), Pan-America (Women's Foil) Chen Yi-Tung (TPE), Asia (Men's Foil) Christiaan Bester (RSA), Africa (Men's Epee) meanwhile I have absolutely no idea of how to spread the 2 spots reserved to Oceania: according to the World Champs and the Asia & Oceania Continental Champs results, Australia should get a place in the Women's Foil (their best event in Verona) and the same should happen to New Zealand, who only participated in that competition... but this would break the "max 1 per weapon" rule... so, there's a chance that AUS would be forced to select someone in the men or women's Sabre, meanwhile, if they want to give the second spot to Oceania at any cost, they can only let them participate in the only event they entered in both the World and Continental Champs (which is the Women's Foil)... therefore, I guess it's better to wait for some official comunication before taking this list for granted...

according to my quick calculations, these should be the fencers qualified for the Foil events at the YOG 2018... Women's Foil: Martina Favaretto (ITA), Europe #1 Rebeca Candescu (ROU), Europe #2 Christelle Joy Ko (HKG), Asia & Oceania #1 Yuka Ueno (JPN), Asia & Oceania #2 May Tieu (USA) Pan-America #1 Magdalena Lawska (POL), Europe #3 Karolina Zsoldosi (HUN), Europe #4 Anabella Acurero Gonzalez (VEN), Pan-America #2 Fu Yingying (CHN), Asia & Oceania #3 Noah Hany (EGY), Africa Men's Foil: Diego Cervantes (MEX), Pan-America #1 Kenji Bravo (USA), Pan-America #2 Maciej Bem (POL), Europe #1 Chan Pak Hei (HKG), Asia & Oceania #1 Armand Spichiger (FRA), Europe #2 Filippo Macchi (ITA), Europe #3 Xu Jie (CHN), Asia & Oceania #2 Jonas Winterberg-Poulsen (DEN), Europe #4 Kwon Jung Sung (KOR), Asia & Oceania #3 Loaay Marouf (EGY), Africa

in addition to the first 10 athletes per weapon (max 1 per NOC), 3 more men and 3 more women will get their spot at the YOG 2018 based on a very controversial (and subject to different interpretations) ranking... those places should go to: Veronika Bieleszova (CZE), Europe (Women's Epee) Katina Proestakis (CHI), Pan-America (Women's Foil) Chen Yi-Tung (TPE), Asia (Men's Foil) Christiaan Bester (RSA), Africa (Men's Epee) meanwhile I have absolutely no idea of how to spread the 2 spots reserved to Oceania: according to the World Champs and the Asia & Oceania Continental Champs results, Australia should get a place in the Women's Foil (their best event in Verona) and the same should happen to New Zealand, who only participated in that competition... but this would break the "max 1 per weapon" rule... so, there's a chance that AUS would be forced to select someone in the men or women's Sabre, meanwhile, if they want to give the second spot to Oceania at any cost, they can only let them participate in the only event they entered in both the World and Continental Champs (which is the Women's Foil)... therefore, I guess it's better to wait for some official comunication before taking this list for granted...

and according to my quick calculations, these should be the fencers qualified for the Foil events at the YOG 2018... Women's Foil: Martina Favaretto (ITA), Europe #1 Rebeca Candescu (ROU), Europe #2 Christelle Joy Ko (HKG), Asia & Oceania #1 Yuka Ueno (JPN), Asia & Oceania #2 May Tieu (USA) Pan-America #1 Magdalena Lawska (POL), Europe #3 Karolina Zsoldosi (HUN), Europe #4 Anabella Acurero Gonzalez (VEN), Pan-America #2 Fu Yingying (CHN), Asia & Oceania #3 Noah Hany (EGY), Africa Men's Foil: Diego Cervantes (MEX), Pan-America #1 Kenji Bravo (USA), Pan-America #2 Maciej Bem (POL), Europe #1 Chan Pak Hei (HKG), Asia & Oceania #1 Armand Spichiger (FRA), Europe #2 Filippo Macchi (ITA), Europe #3 Xu Jie (CHN), Asia & Oceania #2 Jonas Winterberg-Poulsen (DEN), Europe #4 Kwon Jung Sung (KOR), Asia & Oceania #3 Loaay Marouf (EGY), Africa

World Cadet Championships - Men's Individual Foil Final Results: Gold: Kenji Bravo (USA) Silver: Marcello Olivares (USA) Bronze: Diego Cervantes (MEX) & Maciej Bem (POL) Semifinals: Bravo b. Cervantes 15-9 Olivares b. Bem 15-8 Gold Medal Match: Bravo b. Olivares 15-11 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/238/results/rank

World Cadet Championships - Women's Individual Foil Final Results: Gold: Yuka Ueno (JPN) Silver: May Tieu (USA) Bronze: Martina Favaretto (ITA) & Delphine Devore (USA) Semifinals: Ueno b. Favaretto WD (Injury) Tieu b. Devore 15-8 Gold Medal Match: Ueno b. Tieu 14-7 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/237/results/rank

Karate1 Premier League, Stage #4 (Rabat, MAR) first, we have to say that many of the usual main contenders were't there... but, since it's always the absents' fault, we have to honor those who were in Rabat... overall, Egypt and France were the only Nations to get multiple Gold medals (2 each), if we don't count the Moroccan double in the senseless Team Kata events... all the remaining Gold medals, in fact, were spread between a bunch of Nations with just a single Gold each one (HKG, TUR, JPN, BRA, DEN, FIN, UZB and AZE)... looking at the Olympic classes, the 2 Kata events have been won by Turkey (men) and Hong Kong (women)... in the Kumite disciplines, instead, JPN & BRA shared the honors in the lower female division (by winning respectively the -50kg & -55kg), with FRA taking once again the -61kg and DEN & FIN sharing the heavier class (by winning respectively the -68kg and +68kg)... on the men's side, UZB & EGY shared the lower weight division (they took the -60kg and -67kg classes, respectively), with the geat Rafael Aghayev of AZE topping the middle weights (-75kg) and EGY, once again, & FRA sharing the heavy & super-heavyweights (-84kg and +84kg, respectively)... Full Results of the entire stage #4 of the K1PL can be found here: https://www.sportdata.org/wkf/set-online/popup_main.php?popup_action=results&vernr=166&active_menu=calendar

and it's 2 silver medals for Italy... not bad, but it could (should) have gone a lot better...

talking about inexperience and lack of personality...that's Martina Favaretto...she literally threw away the World Junior title (being herself still a Cadet) because of that...

World Junior Championships - Men's Individual Foil Final Results: Gold: Nick Itkin (USA) Silver: Tommaso Marini (ITA) Bronze: Grigoriy Semenyuk (RUS) & Sidarth Kumbla (USA) Semifinals: Marini b. Semenyuk 15-10 Itkin b. Kumbla 14-13 Gold Medal Match: Itkin b. Marini 15-11 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/226/results/rank

World Junior Championships - Women's Individual Foil Final Results: Gold: Yuka Ueno (JPN) Silver: Martina Favaretto (ITA) Bronze: Eva Lacheray (FRA) & Lauren Scruggs (USA) Semifinals: Favaretto b. Scruggs 15-11 Ueno b. Lacheray 15-12 Gold Medal Match: Ueno b. Favaretto 15-14 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/225/results/rank

yeah, but let's wait for the doping tests before we celebrate them...

wow! great tactical effort by CSKA Moscow (goalie Sorokin just heroic), leading them to win game #5 of the KHL Western Conference Final in Saint Petersburg by the score of 1-0...now they lead the series 3-2 and in 2 days they will have the chance to close the series at home and reach AK Bars Kazan (they swept Traktor Chelyabinsk 4-0 in the Eastern Conference Final series) in the Gagarin Cup Final...

unbelievable success by the Italian guys... they've been able to beat a real super-team from Russia with people like Lokhanov, Pozdniakov and Kostenko, all of them multiple European and World title holders and already well established specialists among the senior ranks... that's what we can call "a big upset"... and the US girls almost did the same against the mighty Russians...they've just been unlucky with the final hit... so, the Sabre events are also over...and in this discipline it's been mostly a Russian fest...in fact, they won 3 out of 6 titles, meanwhile Italy, Hungary and Romania won 1 Gold medal each... therefore, after 2 weapons, Russia are leading the medal table with 4 Gold medals followed by Italy with 3 and Hungary with 2, while France, Hong Kong and Romania have 1 Gold medal each. USA, POL, KOR, KAZ, JPN, MEX, ESP, GER are also in the medal table, but with no Gold... starting tomorrow, it's time for the Foil competitions, which will lead this year's Worlds to an end... First on the stage, the women and men's Junior Individual events...

World Junior Championships - Men's Team Sabre Final Results: Gold: Italy Silver: Russia Bronze: United States Semifinals: Russia b. Great Britain 45-23 Italy b. United States 45-39 Bronze Medal Match: United States b. Great Britain 45-21 Gold Medal Match: Italy b. Russia 45-44 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/234/results/rank

World Junior Championships - Women's Team Sabre Final Results: Gold: Russia Silver: United States Bronze: Italy Semifinals: Russia b. South Korea 45-33 United States b. Italy 45-41 Bronze Medal Match: Italy b. South Korea 45-34 Gold Medal Match: Russia b. United States 45-44 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/233/results/rank

yes, it's this year's Copa America that has a place in Tokyo 2020 up for grab (and a second place heading towards a playoff against a CAF team)... as you can read on the official website of the CONMEBOL: "También hay en disputa 1 cupo para el Torneo Olímpico de Fútbol Femenino Tokio 2020 y la selección que ocupe la segunda posición disputará un repechaje contra un equipo de la CAF." full article: http://www.conmebol.com/es/chile-recibe-la-copa-america-femenina-2018

It's always the same address... it's a 24h/day running streaming...

I think that 10 and 20 have been chosen because they are "round" digits, it shouldn't have anything to do with politics (at least for that)... choosing "strange" intervals, like every 11 or 14 or 19 positive tests, for instance, it would have been a lot more suspect in terms of hitting someone in particular, in my opinion... but who knows? maybe they really made a simulation before deciding those parameters...we will never know "the real truth", I guess...

according to my calculation, these should be the boys and girls qualified for the 2018 YOG after Today's events (more names will be determined after the end of the entire World championship)... Women's Sabre: Alina Klyuchnikova (RUS), Europe #1 Liza Pusztai (HUN), Europe #2 Alexis Anglade (USA), Pan-America #1 Natalia Botello (MEX), Pan-America #2 Yoana Ilieva (BUL), Europe #3 Benedetta Taricco (ITA), Europe #4 Ma Ho Chee (HKG), Asia & Oceania #1 Lin Kesi (CHN), Asia & Oceania #2 Lin Ju Eun (KOR), Asia & Oceania #3 Chaima Benadouda (ALG), Africa Men's Sabre: Robert Vidovszky (USA), Pan-America #1 Krisztian Rabb (HUN), Europe #1 Alonso Santamaria (ESP), Europe #2 Andrei Pastin (ROU), Europe #3 Samuel Jarry (FRA), Europe #4 Hyun Jun (KOR), Asia & Oceania #1 Hudson Santana (PUR), Pan-America #2 Zhou Xuyi (CHN), Asia & Oceania #2 Hibiki Kato (JPN), Asia & Oceania #3 Mazen El Araby (EGY), Africa

and according to my calculation, these should be the boys and girls qualified for the 2018 YOG after Today's events (more names will be determined after the end of the entire World championship)... Women's Sabre: Alina Klyuchnikova (RUS), Europe #1 Liza Pusztai (HUN), Europe #2 Alexis Anglade (USA), Pan-America #1 Natalia Botello (MEX), Pan-America #2 Yoana Ilieva (BUL), Europe #3 Benedetta Taricco (ITA), Europe #4 Ma Ho Chee (HKG), Asia & Oceania #1 Lin Kesi (CHN), Asia & Oceania #2 Lin Ju Eun (KOR), Asia & Oceania #3 Chaima Benadouda (ALG), Africa Men's Sabre: Robert Vidovszky (USA), Pan-America #1 Krisztian Rabb (HUN), Europe #1 Alonso Santamaria (ESP), Europe #2 Andrei Pastin (ROU), Europe #3 Samuel Jarry (FRA), Europe #4 Hyun Jun (KOR), Asia & Oceania #1 Hudson Santana (PUR), Pan-America #2 Zhou Xuyi (CHN), Asia & Oceania #2 Hibiki Kato (JPN), Asia & Oceania #3 Mazen El Araby (EGY), Africa

World Cadet Championships - Men's Individual Sabre Final Results: Gold: Andrei Pastin (ROU) Silver: Robert Vidovszky (USA) Bronze: Krisztian Rabb (HUN) & Alonso Santamaria (ESP) Semifinals: Vidovszky b. Rabb 15-11 Pastin b. Santamaria 15-11 Gold Medal Match: Pastin b. Vidovszky 15-10 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/240/results/rank

World Cadet Championships - Women's Individual Sabre Final Results: Gold: Liza Pusztai (HUN) Silver: Natalia Botello (MEX) Bronze: Alina Klyuchnikova (RUS) & Alexis Anglade (USA) Semifinals: Pusztai b. Klyuchnikova 15-9 Botello b. Anglade 15-8 Gold Medal Match: Pusztai b. Botello 15-11 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/239/results/rank

there are only 7 weight classes per gender too much...