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and Varlam Liparteliani is the winner of pool A, after beating Ramadan Darwish...

OMG!!! Niyaz Ilyasov beat Aaron Wolf and makes it through to the semifinals (where he'll face the Korean Cho in the decisive match of the bottom half of the draw)

men's -100kg Cho Gu Ham is the first man through to the semifinals after beating Michael Korrel

men's -100kg pool B final: Jorge Fonseca vs Otgonbaatar Lkhagvasuren

women's -78kg pool B final: Madeleine Malonga vs Ma Zhenzhao; pool D final: Aleksandra Babintseva vs Marhinde Verkerk

and here we go with one of the biggest upsets of the entire world championship... Aleksandra Babintseva just threw Audrey Tcheumeo shoulders to the mat and eliminated the big favourite of the tournament... and also the reigning world champion Mayra Aguiar is out, thanks to Ma Zhenzhao

women's -78kg pool C final: Klara Apotekar vs Shori Hamada

men's -100kg pool A final: Varlam Liparteliani vs Ramadan Darwish

men's -100kg pool C final: Michael Korrel vs Cho Gu Ham; pool D final: Aaron Wolf vs Niyaz Ilyasov women's -78kg pool A final: Guusje Steenhuis vs Katie Jemima Yates-Brown

and finally, after 5 years of troubles (mental and physical), Tiger is back... he won the Tour Championship tournament in Atlanta and almost took also the big prize money, which was instead won by Justin Rose thanks to a birdie in the final hole of the day... and from Friday, it's Ryder Cup time (on one of the most beautiful golf courses in the world, Le Golf National in St.Quintin just outside Paris)...I just can't wait...

ho appena finito di distruggerli su OA... e ho già scritto in sintesi ciò che penso nei giorni scorsi anche qui... non mi va di ripetermi un'altra volta... dico solo: licenziate Murakami e "dimettete" tutto il consiglio federale finchè siamo ancora in tempo... ah, se solo Malagò la smettesse di fare il pagliaccio con improbabili candidature Olimpiche (tanto nessuno lo farà mai santo nè si ricorderà di lui una volta serenamente "dipartito") e si occupasse di tutti gli sport Azzurri ormai allo sfascio...

Majdov wasn't that bad...he lost by 3rd shido (very controversial, too) against a young and promising Frenchman, who we'll see on the podium in many international events very soon, I guess...it can happen... Kukolj, instead...well, he just had a bad (very bad) day...

Georgian born, but he's been living in Spain for quite a long time now... as far as I know, he's been always competing for them, I don't remember him with the Georgian team...

not the podium I expected, today... and by the way, today it's the first day where I've seen many controversial (not to say missed...and sometimes biased) calls by the refs and the video judges... as if Japan would really need that help (on the other hand, France would have their good reason to be totally unhappy with today's outcome)...

women's -70kg Gold: Chizuru Arai Silver: Marie Eve Gahie Bronze: Yuri Alvear & Yoko Ono men's -90kg Gold: Nikoloz Sherazadishvili Silver: Ivan Felipe Silva Morales Bronze: Kenta Nagasawa & Axel Clerget

in the last weekend, the Karate 1 Serie A tournament in Santiago (CHI) was on stage... despite it came just a week after the Premier League stage in Berlin, since also in this case there were points for the Olympic Ranking up for grab, some "big names" were at the start in the Chilean Capital... among them: Sandra Sanchez Jaime (winner of the women's Kata), Serap Ozcelik (winner of the women's Kumite -50kg), Anzhelika Terliuga (winner of the women's Kumite -55kg, the most qualified class, with Tuba Yakan finishing 2nd and Valeria Kumizaki finishing 3rd), Leila Hertault (winner of the women's Kumite -61kg), Meltem Hocaoglu (winner of the women's Kumite +68kg), Damian Quintero (only 3rd in the men's Kata), Almasatfa Abdel Rahman and Vinicius Figueira (winner and runner-up in the men's Kumite -67kg), Ugur Aktas (winner of the men's Kumite -84kg) and Jonathan Horne (only 2nd in the men's Kumite +84kg)... here are the Full Results of the Santiago tournament... https://www.wkf.net/imagenes/karate1/-resultados-karate-1-series-a-santiago-2018-september-21-23-001.pdf

but, as I posted earlier, she's not "that" Yoko Ono...

so, this is a quick recap of today's early action... women's -70kg semifinals Maria Perez vs Chizuru Arai Marie Eve Gahie vs Assmaa Niang repechage Kelita Zupancic vs Yuri Alvear (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Gahie / Niang) Sally Conway vs Yoko Ono (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Perez / Arai) men's -90kg semifinals Ivan Felipe Silva Morales vs Axel Clerget Krisztian Toth vs Nikoloz Sherazadishvili repechage Kenta Nagasawa vs Komronshokh Ustopiriyon (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Toth / Sherazadishvili) Eduard Trippel vs Asley Gonzalez (winner to the Bronze Medal match vs loser of Silva Morales / Clerget)

and last but not least, Axel Clerget is the 4th man in the -90kg class semifinals, as he beat the Tajik Ustopiriyon in the pool B final... in the top half of the draw semifinal match he's going to face the Cuban Silva Morales...

women's -70kg semifinal match in the bottom half of the draw will be Marie Eve Gahie vs Asmaa Niang, who upset the Japanese Yoko Ono (no, she's not John Lennon's wife) in the quarterfinals...

and no double for Cuba, as Nikoloz Sherazadishvili beat Asley Gonzalez and wins the men's -90kg pool D, thus setting up a semifinal match between himself and Krisztian Toth in the bottom half of the draw of this class...

and men's -90kg pool A goes to Ivan Silva Morales, who just defeated Kenta Nagasawa by 3rd shido after 3:36 minutes in the Golden Score period...

Krisztian Toth wins the men's -90kg pool C by beating Eduard Trippel (GER) and he's through to the semifinals...

Maria Perez beat Kelita Zupancic (CAN) and she's also through to the semifinals of the women's -70kg... so, the semifinal match of the top half of the draw in this class will be between Maria Perez and Chizuru Arai...

Axel Clerget vs Komronshokh Ustopiriyon is the men's 90kg pool C final...