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no, they use only the final result, the official ranking... that table is just a preview of what would happen IF the final result was equal to the semifinal's...but those scores will eventually change after the final, when there will be an official ranking also for the combined event and the top 6 of that will compete for the medals on Sunday... looking at that table, I think that among the women the top 5 positions are locked, but Gejo could overcome Sa if she can get 1st or 2nd tonight (3rd wouldn't be enough, since she would go to 1200 negative points, which is still behind sa's 1092)...

there will be a Final event on Sunday with the 6 best athletes according to the combination of the final results of the single disciplines... here you can find the current situation (things might change from now to the end of both boulder competitions): https://wettkampf.austriaclimbing.com/kvoe/rk_ergebnis.php?idklasse=11&idbewerb=2107&rgsort=1

Today's Results Men's Individual Skeet Gold: Vincent Hancock Silver: Erik Watndal Bronze: Riccardo Filippelli Olympic Quota: United States, Norway, Italy & France Men's Team Skeet Gold: France Silver: Italy Bronze: Russia Women's Junior Individual Skeet Gold: Che Yufei Silver: Song Zhengyi Bronze: Austen Jewell Smith Women's Junior Team Skeet Gold: China Silver: United States Bronze: Russia Men's Individual 300m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Aleksi Leppa Silver: Istvan Peni Bronze: Gilles Vincent Dufaux Men's Team 300m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Austria Silver: Switzerland Bronze: France Men's Individual 25m Standard Pistol Gold: Pavlo Korostylov Silver: Gurpreet Singh Bronze: Kim Jun Hong Men's Team 25m Standard Pistol Gold: France Silver: South Korea Bronze: Ukraine Men's Junior Individual 25m Standard Pistol Gold: Vijayveer Sidhu Silver: Lee Gun Hyeok Bronze: Zhu Haojie Men's Junior Team 25m Standard Pistol Gold: India Silver: South Korea Bronze: Czech Republic Final Medal Table here: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/schedule.ashx?cshipid=1750

and here are the results of today's Boulder semifinals: http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competition#!comp=1564&cat=5&route=2 Women's Boulder, climbers qualified to the Final Miho Nonaka Stasa Gejo Jessica Pilz Akiyo Noguchi Petra Klinger Janja Garnbret

by the way, here's a quick recap of yesterday's events... Women's Speed, climbers qualified to the Knockout Stage Aleksandra Rudzinska Anouck Jaubert Mariia Krasavina Aleksandra Kalucka Anna Tsyganova Anna Brozek Yi Song Elizaveta Ivanova Patrycja Chudziak Iuliia Kaplina Victoire Andrier Natalia Kalucka Di Niu Ekaterina Barashchuk Cui Lian He Alla Marenych Men's Speed, climbers qualified to the Knockout Stage Reza Alipour Bassa Mawem Aleksandr Shikov Vladislav Deulin Stanislav Kokorin Qi Xin Zhong Ludovico Fossali Kostiantyn Pavlenko Leonardo Gontero Jan Kriz Marcin Dzienski Aleksandr Shilov Dmitrii Timofeev Peng Hui Lin Amir Maimuratov Jordan Fishman Women's Speed Gold: Aleksandra Rudzinska Silver: Anna Brozek Bronze: Mariia Krasavina Full Competition Results here: http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competition#!comp=1564&cat=24 Men's Speed Gold: Reza Alipour Silver: Bassa mawem Bronze: Stanislav Kokorin Full Competition Results here: http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competition#!comp=1564&cat=23

I'd say almost 0 for the men, quite slim for the girls (those who are so good in the speed event must improve a lot also in at least 1 of the other 2 disciplines to have a real shot at it)... that's because I expect from now to the next couple of years that quite a lot of lead/boulder specialist to eventually start working also on speed to consolidate their chances... and as you might have noticed from the results of these world champs, there are many girls with already a strong pedigree in both lead and boulder, which gives them a big advantage over the sprint specialists, who normally are good only in that event...

it is...but to find the 6 climbers qualified to Sunday's finals, they compile a ranking taking the results of the 3 single competitions...

https://www.nhl.com/news/san-jose-acquires-erik-karlsson-from-ottawa/c-300089330?tid=278542340 OMG! that's a bomb! and what a bomb! an atomic one! and the Sharks basically didn't give up anything significant for him...now they become by far the favourites to win the next Stanley Cup...who can cope with a Karlsson + Burns duo at the blue line? (I don't think they're gonna play together, not even in power play, by the way...it would make the entire unit too unbalanced and exposed to counters)...

it's easy to understand only the procedure...but why they should use multiplication of disciplines instead of addition it's a mistery...and it's totally unfair, it changes (and by much) the outcome of the entire competition (included the fact that they take the athletes not showing up in all 3 events from the single rankings, which causes also some more complications)... I don't think this is a good system...but still, this is what they've chosen and we have to accept it...

by the way, great Speed competition, tonight...full of surprises, upsets and great efforts... big winners of the day, surely Poland...they missed out on the medals in the men's divisions (where they had the defending champion, Marcin Dzienski), but they did make up for that with a totally dominant women's team (despite the shady absence of the Indonesian girls, who could have changed a lot the outcome of the final ranking)... big losers of the day, instead, the Russians...they came here to sweep all the medals and they only go home with 2 modest Bronze medals... and what a final in the men's event...it was so close...but Mawem just missed the touch on the final button...however, the tile goes to the strongest man in the world...so, no upset here (even if I'd would have liked to see the Indonesians at the startamong the men, too)... no comment on the shameful mistakes of the Italian guys (and the boys at least made it through to the final bracket, meanwhile Dalla Brida wasted her chances alrready in the qualification round with our usual false start)...

they should find another way of calculating those scores...this is almost impossible to understand also for people who normally follow Sport Climbing...imagine the newcomers...

I agree at 101%

no, it's part of the show...the organizers are responsible for that (with permission given by the IFSC, of course) and the climbers can't do anything about it... however, in normal conditions there's a softer atmosphere (also because most competitions are held outdoor)...that show is something you find only at the world champs or in exhibition events (and if I can understand that in the not-so-important competitions, I think it shouldn't happen at the most important event of the 2-year span...

wow! Italy have never been so good in RG (outside the Groups event)... I'm so happy for our girls, because I know how much work there's behind this wonderful results... but at the same time I'm so scared of those medals...if we were used to see our TV wasting most of the Olympic broadcasting time with Artistic Swimming and Rhythmic Gymnastics when were so bad at that, I just can't imagine what's gonna happen now that they even have a chance to win some medals...may someone up there help me!!!

meanwhile I just can't believe that in terms of age I could be the father of most of the athletes we write about here on this forum day after day...

however, I hope the official website would eventually give us an update about the combined event, because it's impossible to make all calculations by myself...

I think she's way better than just "top 10"...she should be 7th (the first outside the final on Sunday)... at a first quick look, I'd say she's behind only the Japanese duo Miho Nonaka & Akiyo Noguchi, the Slovenian Janja Garnbret, the Swiss Petra Klinger and the Austrian Jessica Pilz... but this only if they use the qualification results of every single discipline...if they use the (final) general result, we still have to wait for the bouldering finals, which could change many things (only Nonaka, Garnbret and Kotake can consider themselves sure to make the top 6 in any case)... edit: I also found out that the Korean Sa Sol should be better than Gejo... maybe I was a bit too optimistic about her chances to make the final...

Women's Speed, climbers qualified to the Knockout Stage Aleksandra Rudzinska Anouck Jaubert Mariia Krasavina Aleksandra Kalucka Anna Tsyganova Anna Brozek Yi Song Elizaveta Ivanova Patrycja Chudziak Iuliia Kaplina Victoire Andrier Natalia Kalucka Di Niu Ekaterina Barashchuk Cui Lian He Alla Marenych also in this event we didn't have many surprising early eliminations, just the Russian Timofeeva (+ her teammate Krasovskaia and the young Italian Dalla Brida, who did suicide themselves with a false start)...

yeah, I see... not that it does change much for me...I only care about the Olympic events...

Men's Skeet, Individual Results after Day 1... https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=1750&resultkey=Q10001_I_1309180830.1.SK125.0

Today's Results Men's Individual 25m Center Fire Pistol Gold: Julio Almeida Silver: Christian Reitz Bronze: Pavlo Korostylov Men's Team 25m Center Fire Pistol Gold: South Korea Silver: France Bronze: China Men's Junior Individual 25m Pistol Gold: Udhayveer Sidhu Silver: Henry Turner Leverett Bronze: Lee Jaek Yoon Men's Junior Team 25m Pistol Gold: India Silver: China Bronze: South Korea Men's Target Sprint Relay Gold: Germany 1 (Michael Herr, Paul Bottner, Felix Elsner) Silver: Italy 1 (Giovanni Pezzi, Davide Ricco, Georg Unterpertinger) Bronze: Italy 2 (Alessio Di Stefano, Giuseppe Conte, Niccolò Mingozzi) Women's Target Sprint Relay Gold: Germany 1 (Madlen Guggenmos, Jana Landwehr, Kerstin Veronika Schmidt) Silver: Great Britain 1 (Poppi Nelin Bowden Clark, Katie May Robbins, Emily May Shawyer) Bronze: Great Britain 2 (Victoria Margaret Olivia Bradbury, Charlotte Frances Huddart, Isabel Ruth Moore) Mixed Target Sprint Relay Gold: Germany 1 (Kerstin Veronika Schmidt & Sven Mueller) Silver: Germany 2 (Jana Landwehr & Michael Herr) Bronze: Great Britain 1 (Rachel Jane McManus & Oliver Charles Vass) Updated Medal Standings here: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/schedule.ashx?cshipid=1750

no major surprise in the men's boulder qualifications, all the favourite guys are through without too many troubles... tomorrow it's time for the entire competition of the fast and furious Speed event, where a great fight between the Russians and the Asian climbers (and France, Poland + hopefully also Italy as the outsiders...well, actually Joubert from France in the women's division and Dzienski from Poland in the men's division are more than simple outsiders) is expected... the Finals (M+W) are scheduled for 8 p.m. CET (Live on the usual channels...Youtube, ORF Sport+, Eurosport and Eurosport Player, Totallympics TV)... p.s. tomorrow it's also time for the Para-Cimbing Finals...but don't expect me to follow and post anything about that...

Men's Boulder, climbers qualified to the Semifinals Florian Klingler Jakob Schubert William Ridal Sergii Topishko Nimrod Marcus Jan Hojer Manuel Cornu Keita Watabe Gabriele Moroni Gregor Vezonik Nathan Phillips Kokoro Fujii Adam Ondra Aleksei Rubtsov Mickael Mawem Yoshiyuki Ogata Kai Harada Jong Won Chon Tomoa Narasaki Jernej Kruder

It's more or less the same thing as the combined event in Modern Pentathlon (the difference being that in this case they use fire weapons instead of laser pistols)... The competition is held over 6*200m laps with three shooting sessions (Running Target shooting, as the name of the event says)...

Italy just made the final in the men's Eight... and this time it's a very unexpected result, since the entire season didn't go well in this boat for Italy... USA, AUS (from the 1st heat) and GER (they won the second heat with 1.4 secs margin over ITA) are the other boats already qualified for the A final...all the other crews must try and find their place through the repechage round...