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a parziale rettifica di quanto scritto ieri, sono doverose un paio di correzioni (si ringrazia sentitamente il sito della FPI per le info sbagliate di ieri )... prima di tutto, c'è da segnalare che le medaglie "sicure" dell'Italia sono 9 (e non solo 8), grazie al fatto che le ragazze Azzurre in semifinale erano 6 (e non 5 come scritto ieri)... e di queste 6 atlete, ben 3 ieri hanno vinto il loro match e si sono qualificate per la finale per l'oro (in programma domenica)... questi i risultati delle semifinali donne di ieri: 54 KG. Giulia LAMAGNA perde contro Ebonie Alice Lillie JONES (ENG) 0-5 57 KG. Irma TESTA vince contro Urguya US (TUR) 5-0 64 KG. Rebecca NICOLI vince contro Natalia BARBUSINSKA (POL) 5-0 60 KG. Francesca MARTUSCIELLO vince contro Nikoleta PITA (GRE) 3-2 69 KG. Monica FLORIDIA perde contro Natalia MARCZYKOWSKA (POL) 0-5 75 KG. Carlotta PAOLETTI perde contro Aoife O'ROURKE (IRL) 0-5

KHL Hockey (CSKA @ SKA, game #1) and MLB Baseball (jumping here and there between the day games of the Opening Day of the 2018 season)...

starting with fireworks, so to say...

here we go! today is the 2018 Opening Day in the MLB... in about a hour, the first game of the season (Chicago Cubs @ Miami Marlins) will be underway...followed by all the other 12 games (Pittsburgh @ Detroit and Washington @ Cincinnati have already been post-poned because of the inclement weather)... here's a guide to the Opening Day... https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-2018-opening-day-games-and-schedule-guide/c-269482334 can't wait for the games start...

Agli Europei Under-22 di Boxe, in corso di svolgimento in Romania, sono ben 8 le medaglie sicure per l'Italia: 3 maschili e 5 femminili Tanti sono infatti i pugili Azzurri giunti fino alle semifinali. Gli uomini sono: 64 KG. Francesco IOZIA (in SF il 31/3 vs Erdemir, TUR) 69 KG. Vincenzo ARECCHIA (in SF il 31/3 vs Fail, ENG) +91 KG. Aziz Abbes MOUHIIDINE (in SF il 31/3 vs Abdullayev, AZE) le donne sono: 54 KG. Giulia LAMAGNA (in SF oggi vs Jones, ENG) 57 KG. Irma TESTA (in SF oggi vs Us, TUR) 64 KG. Rebecca NICOLI (in SF oggi vs Starkova, UKR) 60 KG. Francesca MARTUSCIELLO (in SF oggi vs Pita, GRE) 69 KG. Monica FLORIDIA (in SF oggi vs Yonuzova, BUL)

36 referees and 63 assistant referees appointed as Russia 2018 Match Officials http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2018/m=3/news=36-referees-and-63-assistant-referees-appointed-as-russia-2018-match-officials.html List of Match Officials for the 2018 FIFA World Cup http://resources.fifa.com/image/upload/list-of-match-officials-for-the-2018-fifa-world-cuptm.pdf?cloudid=ygppy1zdhjaxituykarn

non ci posso credere... lo prenderei a calci in culo da casa sua a Bolzano e ritorno...

pienamente d'accordo

in these days it's only about Hockey (with very few exceptions, like Golf, Biathlon and Fencing in the last weekend)... in particular, earlier today I watched game #7 of the quarterfinal series of the Czech Extraliga between Mountfield Hradec Kràlove and Bily Tigry Liberec... and later it's time for some NHL stuff from last night (I still have to decide if it's gonna be Nashville @ Winnipeg or Boston @ Minnesota )

yes

no, because you need a lot of pitchers* to make a team... *pitchers can't throw/play every game/every day...once you've thrown a certain number of pitches, then you need a few days rest before you're able to start a game once again... and also relief pitchers, who normally throw a few pitches a game, once every 2/3 days of work they need a day off... you just can't pitch when you're gassed out (and, moreover, it's very dangerous...the more workload you carry, the higher is the risk of injury...and especially for pitchers, elbow and shoulder injuries are lethal)...

Women's Individual Epee (Budapest, HUN) Final Results: Gold: Mara Navarria (ITA) Silver: Lin Sheng (CHN) Bronze: Marie-Florence Candassamy (FRA) & Ewa Nelip (POL) Semifinals: Navarria b. Candassamy 14-13 Lin b. Nelip 15-8 Gold Medal Match: Navarria b. Lin 5-4 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://www.engarde-service.com/files/hunfencing/2018_westend_gp/swe-in/

Men's Individual Epee (Budapest, HUN) Final Results: Gold: Max Heinzer (SUI) Silver: Alex Fava (FRA) Bronze: Jonathan Bonnaire (FRA) & Sergey Khodos (RUS) Semifinals: Heinzer b. Khodos 15-10 Fava b. Bonnaire 15-14 Gold Medal Match: Heinzer b. Fava 15-13 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/112/results/rank

Israel will not even take part into the qualification process, since most of the MLB players who started for them in the last WBC are not eligible for International play under the IOC rules... and in any case, without their best MLB/Triple A players (they won't be able to show up at the final OQT because it will be held when the US leagues are already playing their season), they don't even exist on the Baseball chart... the Euro/African spot would eventually go to the Netherlands...they won't even have to bother of Italy, since the new boss of our federation is trying to destroy our National team by not calling anymore the US and/or South American born Italians...so, we won't be competitive at all also in that tournament...

Attendance Stats for the 2017/2018 Season (Numbers @ March 20th) Switzerland lead again; SC Bern on top of the European Clubs Swiss giant SC Bern leads the European attendance study for the 17th consecutive year with an average of 16,371 fans in the regular season. The club from the Swiss capital has led the European ranking since overtaking Kolner Haie from the German city of Cologne in 2001/2002 despite a marginal drop by 28 spectators this year. Switzerland also leads the European national leagues in league attendance with an average of 6,833 spectators. Second comes the KHL that claims second and third spot in the club rankings but this year with SKA St. Petersburg moving from fifth to second place. Arguably the strongest team in Europe with many Russian home comers from the NHL and the highest budget, the club averaged 11,847 fans and is followed by another KHL team, Dynamo Minsk from Belarus with 11,738 fans. The two KHL teams are followed by two German clubs. Eisbaren Berlin stays in fourth place with 11,384 fans while Kolner Haie dropped to fifth with 11,222 spectators in average. Finnish KHL team Jokerit Helsinki and Adler Mannheim from Germany are the other clubs over the 10,000 mark. Frolunda Gothenburg (Sweden), the ZSC Lions Zurich (Switzerland) and Sparta Prague (Czech Republic) complete the top-10 in Europe. The top-100 club teams come from 14 different countries across the continent from Great Britain in the west to Kazakhstan in the east. Some of them perform in a second-tier league led by Czech club HC Ceske Budejovice with 5,869 fans. In the league ranking the Russian-based cross-border league KHL moved to second place with 6,234 fans. The strategy to decrease the number of the teams paid off. While the current 27 teams had less spectators in average, the league average increased by losing Metallurg Novokuznetsk (relegated) and Medvescak Zagreb (tops the Austrian-based cross-border league EBEL in attendance). The German DEL had a decrease in attendance of over 3 per cent and dropped to third place with an average of 5,996 fans followed by the Swedish Hockey League (5,669), the Czech Extraliga (5,455) and the Finnish Liiga (4,254). With Medvescak Zagreb replacing Olimpija Ljubljana in the EBEL, the Austrian-based league increased its attendance to 3,216 fans and moved to seventh place ahead of the leagues from Great Britain, Slovakia and Norway. The NHL with 17,414 is by far the most attended league world wide and is followed by Switzerland, Russia and Germany in terms of attendance before the second-most visited league in North America, the AHL with 5,817 fans. The Chicago Blackhawks (21,635) and the Montreal Canadiens (21,299) are the clubs with the highest attendance and the only hockey teams that average more than 20,000 fans. Full Stats HERE

still...amateurs! they're no way near to the overall record... last year in the Norwegian top league a game (Sparta Sarpsborg vs Storhamar) went to the 8th OT (157:14 mins + the 60-min regulation, of course)... however, this is a great series...apart from game #1 (which was basically a blowout in CSKA's favor), all matches are a lot closer than expected and played at a very high overall level... frankly, it's a lot more enjoyable than many NHL games of this final stretch before the playoffs start...

Fencing FIE Cadet & Junior World Championships 2018 Verona (ITA) - 1 April 2018 - 9 April 2018 Totallympics Results Thread

Kata is the most boring activity ever... it should have never been included in the Olympic program...

I also posted a more specific document in the specific thread... you can cross-post it here, too (if you want)... by the way, Karate qualification pathway is gonna be one of the most difficult (I hope not also controversial...but never trust WKF) of any sport... to give an idea, just think that in some Kumite classes at the last World Champs there were more than 150 starters (with the 1 per NOC rule) and at the Olympics we're going to have only 10 starters per class (and in Kumite in 4 out of 6 chances, an Olympic class is made up of 2 "normal" weight categories)... good luck to all the Karate players in the World...

Diego Occhiuzzi (ITA, Fencing, Sabre) announced he's going to retire at the end of this season... his most remarkable success was surely the Olympic Individual Silver medal he won in London 2012 (he also won the Bronze medal in the Team event in both Beijing 2008 and London 2012)... among others, he also won 3 Gold, 1 Silver and 2 Bronze medals between World and European Championships, always with the Italian team...

Qualification Criteria (Draft version) https://www.google.it/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi47d_jofnZAhUFjqQKHTmnAFAQFghUMAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.karatecanada.org%2Fpdf%2FTOKYO%202020_Provisional_Information.pdf&usg=AOvVaw1k97iooOnwghFfSjb5BhCE

I agree however, it wouldn't be a problem to reach that number even without a dedicated qualification pathway, considered the previous Games...

well, this is the procedure used in each and every world cup, continental and world champs event... for the mixed team events, they just add the best man and woman for each Country and make the rankings...the top 16 go through to the elimination round stage... I don't see anything wrong... I understand that many of you are used to the Olympic format for team events, where no teams are normally eliminated after the ranking round, but that's the abnormal situation...in any other circumstance, we always have more than 16 teams at the start of any event and only the top 16 going through to the final stages... p.s. that document is written very, very poorly, but it's clear that all the NOCs with at least 1 man and 1 woman qualified to the Games will start also in the Mixed Team event (and they all will start from 0, from the same point...so, there's nothing unfair)

Women's Individual Foil (Anaheim, California, USA) Final Results: Gold: Inna Deriglazova (RUS) Silver: Anne Sauer (GER) Bronze: Leonie Ebert (GER) & Lee Kiefer (USA) Semifinals: Deriglazova b. Kiefer 15-14 Sauer b. Ebert 15-14 Gold Medal Match: Deriglazova b. Sauer 15-3 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Yesterday's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/121/results/rank

Men's Individual Foil (Anaheim, California, USA) Final Results: Gold: Race Imboden (USA) Silver: Andrea Cassarà (ITA) Bronze: Damiano Rosatelli (ITA) & Nicholas Edward Choi (HKG) Semifinals: Cassarà b. Choi 15-9 Imboden b. Rosatelli 15-10 Gold Medal Match: Imboden b. Cassarà 15-10 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Yesterday's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/140/results/rank