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c'mon! all videos crashed on the final seconds of Fiamingo vs Nelip and Ndolo vs Szasz! I can believe that!!!

trampoline should stay in Circus, where it belongs... Diving is one of "those kind of activities" (couldn't name them all)...

well...maybe you can say that's a fascinating discipline (individual preference shouldn't be discussed, only respected)... but definitely that's not sport (like they're not sport rhythmic gymnastics, trampoline, aerobics and all those kind of activities)...

Julio Maglione (81) is still the FINA President... with some "magic" in the whole procedure, the elections that took place earlier today also designated Husain Al Musallam as vice-president... to be noticed that Al Musallam is also president of the Asian Olympic Committees Association and involved in many scandals (there's a video where he tried to get money from a potential Chinese sponsor, another procedure in the US where he's charged with attempted corruption of a soccer referee and other major and minor issues always about corruption here and there)... moreover, FINA reinstated Vladimir Salnikov among their Bureau members (Salnikov is deeply involved in the Russian State Doping affair)... what a wonderful and transparent future is ahead of all swimmers and swimming fans throughout the entire world...

Paolo Pizzoooooo!!! wow! 2nd World title for him...and this time it's really a great surprise (even if he already showed a good shape at the Europeans last month when he won the silver medal...but, you know, the europeans are surely not comparable to the worlds)... he tried to lose a won match, but this time he couldn't...a finally we got our first gold of this year's worlds... and this compensate the shameful end of Vecchi's bout (and the the disapponiting day of all the other Italian fencers)...

still, today it's 3-1 France the summary of our "classic" derby... but you're right...in the end we have a medal (and with a bit of luck it can be Gold) and they don't...so, I stop whining about men's epee... but I can't let things go on women's sabre...if Gregorio was irritating against Kharlan (who remains a lot stronger than her), what can I say about Vecchi? she's been the luckiest girl in Leipzig today, she got a place in the semis that didn't deserve at all, she's up against a girl who's not even close to her skills, she's 14-10 ahead... and what does she do? she loses her nerves, stops doing what she needs to do and let the Tunesian comeback from hell... c'mon, man! she must go to work in the mine!!! really shameful performance...and no excuses... by the way, Kharlan has just won her 3rd world title without even a sweat drop... for what concerns epee, instead, it's quite normal to have veterans and experienced guys among the best because it's the less athletic and most tactical weapon...more than great fitness and strenght, in epee you need patience, experience, ability to keep yourself calm (most bouts go to the last hit...if you let yourself get annoyed by nerves, you don't have chances in cases like those ones), which are features you can find more among elder people rather than youngsters...

this happens in Boulder and Lead...every place has a different structure... but Speed is quite a different thing, in fact you can find athletes who are very good in both Boulder and Lead, but they usually don't even try Speed (and viceversa)... that's why the Olympic format (a combined event with all 3 disciplines) is a complete farce (and something that doesn't even exists in current Sport Climbing)...

no, single run only...

irritating performance by Gregorio against Kharlan...she had the bout in her hands and then suddenly stopped attacking and let the Ukranian comeback... and it's not the first time that she wastes chances this way... meanwhile Vecchi was very lucky...she was almost out against Balzer (FRA), when the French girl had such a bad accident (I think ligaments of her knee are gone)... I think we have to rebuild our women's sabre team as quick as possible (talents are there...we dominated the last few seasons among the juniors...so...what are the coaches waiting for???)...

@Gianlu33 in Italy we have a good championship...the overall level is decent for non-US standards, but it was better 10 or 15 years ago... now there are countries like Germany and Austria that are clearly stronger than the others...then we have France, Italy, GBR and some Nordic Nations also with good tradition and level of play...but still a lot lower than Japan, Mexico and of course North America (which is a world apart in this discipline)... Italian Superbowl was played just a couple of weekes ago (it was shown live on Fox Sports HD) and was won by the Seamen Milano against the Rhinos (also from Milan), that had a perfect season until the last game but unfortunately they lost when it mattered the most...

OK...but I have a clear idea about that...I'm a great NFL fan and I also watch some European American Football sometimes...so, I know what's the abyss between us and them...

no, in AF there's a lot more difference between the lower levels of the game in the US and the top levels in the rest of the World... just to tell you...at the last World Championships, the USA sent a team made with players that didn't even play in the third tier university league and dominated the field... that's the kind of difference between them and the others...

sure, but ITA vs FRA (especially in the Individual events) has almost always had the same winner in the last few years... and unfortunately it's not the red, white and green flag...

Ok, it's post-Olympic year...but I've never seen such a turnaround of established values in Fencing, even in this kind of situation... we're just looking at something new and unusual for this sport (probably it's another sign of the global growth of Fencing, with many new faces ready to upset the well known champions as they take even only a minimum break in their focus and training schedule)...

what the fu*k is happening in the women's sabre? top seeds out, Japan with 3 girls in the last 16...the world is going upsidedown... meanwhile in the men's epee we're going to have twice ITA vs FRA in the last 16...it doesn't look promising at all for us today...

Yes, in Italy all federations of all sports disciplines (also motorsports) receive funding and must respond to our NOC (named CONI in Italian), since we don't have an actual Ministry of Sports (Sport is in charge to the Culture & Tourism Ministry, but the only thing they do is establishing the yearly amount of public fincing to the NOC, which is absolutely independent for what concerns ruling and administration of sport)...

oh, that's almost a miracle! but, man, our girl was more than 9 seconds far away from silver and more than 10 seconds from the gold medallist... so, I don't think we can say that this medal has a great value in perspective...

on the FIE biography they wrote that she started fencing at age 7, she did study at Corvinus University in Budapest (now she's a full time athlete) and she speaks German, too... about her sport results, she was cadet world champion and got a silver and a bronze among the juniors... among the seniors, instead, she didn't get any particular success... that's all what I found about Miss Kreiss... meanwhile, coming back to today's competitions I was really impressed by Deriglazova's performance against Errigo...but Volpi almost made me cry with a fantastic comeback... unfortunately her inexperience (despite being almost 25 years young, this was Alice's first World Championship...and this shows how difficult is to make the Italian team in women's foil) came out on the decisive action in the overtime minute... on the other hand, exceptional day for Szatmari in the men's sabre...and in the final bout he just did a masterpiece against Gu, where he also meda a great comeback after a slow start...with the big difference that he, unlike Volpi in the women's foil, completed his job and got his well deserved gold medal...

to be noticed...the usaual absence of Italian specialists on the podium...

I posted this morning the rulebook (with explaination of the scoring system)... here: http://totallympics.com/index.php?/topic/180-the-world-games-2017/&do=findComment&comment=86965

so, today we have 3 Nations with 2 medals each (Russia, France and Italy) and 2 Nations with a single tally (Hungary and South Korea)... later we'll see who gets the first 2 golds...

well, their ranking wouldn't suggest anything different... I think that Walczyk did a great tournament, for sure the best of her life so far... so, she should be happy of that and start from today to build her future... p.s. now it's over...15-9 for the Italian girl... meanwhile, as I wrote before, Mancini got a good fencing lesson from the Olympic Champion...now it's still early for her, but she showed that she is talented enough to get also among the seniors the same great success she had in the youth ranks (she was junior world champion a few years ago)...

no, it's 11-5 for Volpi right now...

I hope, too... but if we put 2 girls in the semis, we can't say it's not a good day, since recently we have not won anything in the men's individual sabre (and even if I think he wasted a great chance of winning a medal, it's not proper to say that Curatoli was among the favourites of today's event)...

meanwhile Errigo is going like a train over Guyart and Volpi, as I expected, is having some troubles against Walczyk...