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oh, yeah...I just forgot that we're risking a "bad draw" in the semis... I guess it would be a real shame if we have an undisputed semifinal bout on the first day of the worlds because of those stupid political issues...

p.s. I wrote too quick that I considered Szilagyi unbeatable...Kamil Ibragimov instead did think something different and upset the great Hungarian... and Hartung is out, too... wow! OK, it's a post-Olympic World tournament, but how many surpring result we're seeing today!

actually he is Ukranian (he competed for his native Country in the youth ranks)... he was one of the best juniors in the World between 2013 and 2015, so he was quite expected to become a strong contender... but then he switched to Israeli's team and had quite a difficult transition to the senior level... now it looks that he's started to improve again...and that's not good news for his opponents...

aaargh!!! Batini out against Sauer (GER)... only 3 Italians in the round of 16 in the women's foil...

sure...and she also has at least a couple of medals also in the other distances (she won bronze in the 10km last Sunday, for instance)... but unfortunately for her she missed out on the most important one (Rio 2016, of course)...

good 4th place for Grimaldi, too... we end up the Open Water Swimming section with quite a few medals, but no gold... I don't know if I can be satisfied with that or no...

it's over...gold for Cunha over 25km... 3rd time in 4 world champs...2011, 2015 and 2017...congrats to her...

150 meters or so...maybe less...

Bridi's gone...bronze for Italy... Cunha looks now unbeatable in sprint finish...

Bridi definitely has to learn how to make turns...she's always losing meters...

naaa...there's still some way to go... and Cunha looks dangerous...I tought Bridi and Van Rouwendaal could have let her a bit more behind in the previous split...

and now it's Bridi's turn to try an attack...wow! it looks a boxing fight between heavyweights when in the last rounds they're completely without energy and stand just because of their mental strenght...

definitely Bridi is not in control...actually, she looks drunk...she went right against the buoy and lost 2 meters from the Dutch girl...

and now she's trying hard... but Bridi looks quite in control...or maybe not so much... It's gonna be another great finish...

meanwhile rai TV are back live... and it's Bridi vs Van Rouwendaal for Gold and Silver...I don't think Cunha can stay with them when they launch the final attack... all the other girls are now too far away to think about top 3...

no, not at all...that's just a troll...

well, not so long, maybe... now he has to face the surprising Argentinian Di Tella (and we can't say he's not the favourite)... and if he does it, then it's a quarterfinal against France (Apithy or Anstett)...in this case he's not going to be the favourite, but still the 2 Frenchmen are among the less dangerous athletes qualified for the round of 16... for Italy, shame that Curatoli and Samele have to face each other in the round of 16...I hope that the winner can go straight to the semifinal against Szilagyi (frankly, I don't see anybody beating him once again)... pity for Montano, but he's no longer the athlete he used to be...I guess it's time to think about something new in his life...

if we can name it "luck"...

c'mon!!! what a mistake by Furlan! he has just thrown the Gold medal away...he started his forcing too late and came just short... Ruffini instead suddenly just lost his energy and at the end he's only 4th (and should have been disqualified for the move on Drattsev in the last 20 meters, too)... p.s. now the usual rai TV...they're not going to follow the rest of the women's race because of a senseless news program... hopefully they are back at least for the last few meters of the girls...

yeah, that's the main Italian sports website...they follow carefully almost everything... p.s. it looks that we're going to have another French Gold medal (but I still keep my fingers crossed for Ruffini to make a strong finish and upset Reynaud...and Furlan + Drattsev are not out of contention yet)... great finish of this race...

live from Italian TV: http://www.raisport.rai.it/dl/raiSport/dirette/ContentItem-49340f1d-5246-4cf7-931f-75d65af039e7.html p.s. probably you need a VPN...

Chapter 7 (in particular, section 10): https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/images/World_competitions/Event_regulations/IFSC-Rules_2017_V1.3.pdf p.s. that's for today's Boulder event...Lead and Speed (which are a lot easier to understand also for newcomers) have their own chapter... p.p.s. it looks that Italy is going very well in Life Saving...tonight we should get a lot of medals in the pool...

well, but she just swept the field at the recent (2 weeks ago) Europeans (she won 5 golds and a few other medals, if I remember correctly)... why wasting such an opportunity here? (I know that the World Games have Colombian and Asian competitors to make it more difficult, but c'mon! she's one of the best even with those girls among the starters)

with a VPN you can watch their "original" stream (which is way better than any other option)... I think even a free one like Hola should work...

sure, but not only her...I mean, in that race both Kenian girls to me looked more like boys (and I'm not making any stupid irony about them being beautiful or not...I really see their somatic traits/facial features more as male ones rather than female)... for what concerns the age of the boys/girls...well, we all know that many 3rd world countries do not have proper registration of births (and we also know that many of those countries use that thing to their advantage in many sport events)...so, I guess it's a very complicated question... I don't think that all youth competitions should be cancelled, but probably they should get less consideration and they shouldn't cost nor generate so much money and interest in the media...