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it should be 12, after the IAAF awarded a wild card to Trost (women's High Jump) and Di Lazzaro (women's 60hs)... however, it will be a cosmetic participation, as always for our athletics in the most recent years (Tamberi's success in Portland 2 years ago was just a lucky exeption)...

Yes, if you already have a tv channel showing those 3/4 games a week, it would be enough to start... only when (because it's not a question of "if", it's only about "when" ) you get addicted like me and @hckosice...that's the right moment to opt for NHL.tv first...and for a good psychiatrist, then...

so, it's time for you to raise the game... NHL.tv has also 4 free games a week (they are available live and on-demand, so you can still watch those past games from the early months of this season)...just need to register at their website... p.s. however, now it's just 19.99 US $ (+ VAT, in the same percentage of your Country's "regular" VAT) for the Premium Subscription, which includes all the RS and all the Playoff games, Stanley Cup Finals included...so, it's very cheap... p.p.s. welcome to the wonderful world of the Ice Hockey fans...

no, they cut down the individual spots for the smaller Nations... the teams will be 8 per event (plus, in case they elect 3 athletes in that given weapon without actually qualifying, the hosts), as usual...

Men's Team Sabre (Warsaw, POL) Final Results: Gold: South Korea Silver: Iran Bronze: Hungary Semifinals: South Korea b. Russia 45-24 Iran b. Hungary 45-37 Bronze Medal Match: Hungary b. Russia 45-43 Gold Medal Match: South Korea b. Iran 45-31 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/827/results/rank

not only, right now Iran is facing South Korea in the gold medal final of the Team event... here's the Live streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfBCiYGTGVo

overall review... as I wrote in the poll's thread, I didn't enjoy these Games that much... awful scheduling and other controversies didn't let me appreciate the few good things I just saw... even many competitions weren't exciting at all...so, also the strictly sporting review is quite negative... my favourite moments... of course the 3 gold medals won by Italy (Michela Moioli's SBX above all)... then, Chloe Kim's runs and the 3-way battle in the men's event in the snowboard Halfpipe, the women's Cross-Country Skiing relay and skiathlon, the highly controversial but so entertaining women's relay in Biathlon, the men's 10000m race in Speedskating, many Short Track races (despite the judges and the Koreans) and the men's single Luge final run... the biggest upsets... 2 or 3 Italian missed chances (Sofia Goggia's Super-G race above all) and shameful performances... the poor quality of the men's Ice Hockey tournament (despite the well known absence of the NHL stars, still I expected a lot more from it...also on the mere overall level of play)... and I wouldn't call them upsets...let's name them "big surprises" (pleasant surprises, to me)... Ledecka winning Gold in alpine skiing women's Super-G, the US boys winning the men's Curling tournament and Germany's Cinderella story in the men's hockey tournament

I'm sorry...I missed the young Korean, since she didn't skate in the final (only in the heats)... however, the Games are over and the answer to the betting contest question is officially "NO", since we only have 4 champions less than 18 years young...

I know that all depends on my personal state of mind, which is no longer the same that once was... but I voted "BAD" also for a series of things strictly connected with the Games themselves...first of all, the awful scheduling (and the "uncomfortable" TV coverage here in Italy)...absolutely the worst ever...then a series of controversies (started well before the Olympics with the "Russian saga", and continued in Pyeongchang with judging scandals, competitions held in unfair conditions, depressing environment in many sports and so on) completed my not so enjoyed and enjoyable Olympics... I never thought I'd have said just a few minutes after watching the last event: "I'm happy that's all over"...but this time it really happened...

yeah...he looks very good...and he doesn't even have ears like his father's...

3: Gerard & Kim (both USA, both Snowboard) + Zagitova (RUS, Figure Skating)

Men's Individual Sabre (Warsaw, POL) Final Results: Gold: Gu Bon Gil (KOR) Silver: Szabo Matyas (GER) Bronze: Alì Pakdaman (IRI) & Benedikt Wagner (GER) Semifinals: Gu b. Pakdaman 15-13 Szabo b. Wagner 15-11 Gold Medal Match: Gu b. Szabo 15-10 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/160/results/rank

on paper, yes... now it remains to be seen what they do if the DQ comes months/years later because of a positive drug test... in this case, I think they only upgrade the final ranking of the competition, without recalculating the sprints (so, the 4th at the finish line not necessarily ends up with a medal)... but for sure if the DQ comes at the end of the race because of an infraction on the track, then the 4th at the line gets upgraded to 3rd in the final ranking...

the 4th ranked...points count over placing in the final sprint, of course (final sprint placing is just the tie-breaker for those tied with points)...

that's a very good news...later today I'll check how it goes by me... and maybe tonight's worth a quick watch even if it's spring training...

ebbene...questo è un punto che necessiterebbe di più chiarezza... perchè mi sembra una cosa senza senso il fatto di far disputare a certi atleti i tornei "commerciali" con una Nazionale e poi non permettere loro di partecipare ai grandi eventi (voglio dire...nel rugby gli equiparati -che mi sembrano il metro di paragone più ovvio- alla fine possono fare tutte le gare, 6 Nazioni e Mondiale inclusi)... in particolare, anche fosse da intendersi così questa norma, il CONI davvero è disposto a tollerare una situazione del genere senza avere almeno in prospettiva la possibilità di schierare anche alle Olimpiade detti atleti? mah...sono alquanto perplesso... vedremo come finirà (speriamo con i 2 in Azzurro anche a mondiali e Olimpiadi, ma a questo punto ne dubito)...

fu*k! this one hurts! a bunch of idiots...they are just a bunch of idiots... Bettrone useless, Lollo...well, how the hell did she think to make all those sprints in the semifinals, which left her without legs in the final sprint??? moreover, why not try all season (all career, better) long to improve on the classic middle distance races, so to have a better and more efficient engine also in this kind of races??? really, I don't understand the Italian team...they always say they care so much about those mass starts...but they don't do enough to be effective in them... and now comes Giovannini...another one who messed up all the Olympics with an indecent shape... why should we trust him justy today? really awful end of Games for us...

unfortunately not... those 2 guys mentioned above have already taken part (and won) in our National Champs (since they are under contract with Italian club teams, which gives also to foreign athletes the permission to paticipate at our champs)... and so have done many other foreign wrestlers, but I don't remember the name of Ghanem among the participants at those said Italian champs... maybe he's still trying to find a club and we'll hear of him in the next future...

good question... I know that both have been living here for quite a while now, so I guess they can try to get our passport because of that... but it could well be that they are engaged to Italian women, so with marriage it would be easier... and finally, the last option is our federation asking our President to give them our passport for special merit (in sports activity, in this case...but I guess that only Kudiamagomedov can qualify for that because his past success, even if not with our team)... we can only wait and see... however, as I wrote, it would be nice to have them both with us...

yeah...I'm happy that BB is back... but to tell you the truth, I'm not a great fan of spring training...I rarely watch games...normally I can wait until the start of the RS (I'd rather watch some Korean KBO games, which normally starts 15/20 days before the MLB, but since last year they don't put their games live on youtube anymore and moreover, this year they're late because of the Olympics, they'll start at the end of march too)...

no, I can't, too... it's all stuck to last november also for me... on the other hand, I can see today's games on my samsung BD player (a mid-level model from 2015, if I remember well..it's a H series), but the new app is so slow that makes me quit after a first try... moreover, the main menu doesn't work, so I can't choose to hide the scores... basically, this option has gone for me... maybe in the next few days I also try the android app with my chromecast, it would be better than nothing (waiting for the ATV update)...

we also have in this team wrestling in Ukraine another Cuban, Abraham Conyedo (who's been living here for a while and won the 97kg class at the recent Italian champs)... but both Kudiamagomedov and Conyedo do not have the Italian passport yet...and it could take a very long time before they get it, so probably this season they will only be able to wrestle in the international "minor" tournaments under a provisional authorization (like it happened for Frank Chamizo in 2014), but they won't represent Italy in any major event like Europeans and/or Worlds... still, I hope they'll get the Italian passport before the 2019 European Games...it would be a nice improvement for our starving team (it looks here it's impossibe to raise any good Italian born wrestler anymore )...

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meanwhile I don't like tomorrow's schedule at all...almost all the action is in the middle of the night (and then there's just a couple of events all day long)... I'm old and tired......I need to sleep at that time of the night!!!!

yeah! with the Olympics almost over, it was time to re-start with the B-Ball season... p.s. nice to see another Baseball fan here on this forum (actually, there are very few)... p.p.s. I'm a Dodgers fan, just in case... and today there are already 11 games out of 15 available on MLB.tv (btw, I think this new graphics of their mediacenter on PC are a lot less usefu than last years'...it was all better organized on their page)... but who cares? I do have my faithful Apple TV 4K and I don't need my PC to watch baseball...