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Adam McQuaid traded to NY Rangers by the Boston Bruins... https://www.nhl.com/news/adam-mcquaid-traded-from-boston-bruins-to-new-york-rangers/c-300047010?tid=278542340 and the big news of the last days, Steve Yzerman steps down as Tampa Bay Lightning GM... https://www.nhl.com/news/steve-yzerman-steps-down-as-tampa-bay-lightning-general-manager/c-300052884 https://www.nhl.com/news/steve-yzerman-future-in-question-after-resignation/c-300061104?tid=277548856

Today's Results Women's 300m Individual 3-Position Rifle Gold: Lisa Mueller Silver: Jolyn Beer Bronze: Elin Ahlin Women's 300m Team 3-Position Rifle Gold: Germany Silver: Austria Bronze: Switzerland Men's 300m Individual Standard Rifle Gold: Aleksi Leppa Silver: Karl Olsson Bronze: Odd Arne Brekne Men's 300m Team Standard Rifle Gold: Norway Silver: South Korea Bronze: Switzerland Women's Individual Target Sprint Race Gold: Kerstin Veronika Schmidt Silver: Jana Landwehr Bronze: Manuela Alberigi Men's Individual Target Sprint Race Gold: Michael Herr Silver: Alessio Di Stefano Bronze: Georg Unterpertinger Women's Junior Individual Target Sprint Race Gold: Madlen Guggenmos Silver: Emily May Shawyer Bronze: Charlotte Frances Huddart Men's Junior Individual Target Sprint Race Gold: Giovanni Pezzi Silver: Felix Elsner Bronze: Morten Jos Van der Schee Updated Medal Standings here: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/schedule.ashx?cshipid=1750

on the ISSF website they're listed as regular competitions, not just Grand Prix events... therefore, I expect them to be included in the final medal table...

this is the qualifications result of the Lead event, which was held with the athletes competing in 2 separate groups... the numbers you see are the final placing in their respective qualification heat and, between brackets, the ranking points within each group of starters (ranking is used to build the starting groups in the various competitions that need 2 separate groups...the serpentine system is used for that)... the formula for the ranking points is available at pages 27-28 of the rulebook http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/images/World_competitions/Event_regulations/IFSC-Rules_2018_V1.5.pdf

Italy on the podium of something else than the Groups competition... congrats to Alexandra...

Women's Boulder, climbers qualified to the Semifinals Tatiana Shemulinkina Alannah Yip Katharina Saurwein Johanna Färber Manon Hily Jessica Pilz Sol Sa Fanny Gibert Hannah Slaney Petra Klingler Berit Schwaiger Alex Puccio Ievgeniia Kazbekova Chloe Caulier Margo Hayes Katja Kadic Stasa Gejo Miho Nonaka Janja Garnbret Akiya Noguchi

Today's Results Women's Individual Skeet Gold: Caitlin Connor Silver: Kimberly Rhode Bronze: Amber English Olympic Quota: United States, United States, Slovakia & Russia Women's Team Skeet Gold: United States Silver: Italy Bronze: Cyprus Men's Junior Individual Skeet Gold: Elia Sdruccioli Silver: Nick Moschetti Bronze: Gurnihal Singh Garcha Men's Junior Team Skeet Gold: Czech Republic Silver: India Bronze: Italy Women's Junior Individual 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Xu Hong Silver: Jade Bordet Bronze: Maria Ivanova Women's Junior Team 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: China Silver: United States Bronze: Russia Men's Individual 10m Running Target Mixed Run Gold: Tomi-Pekka Heikkila Silver: Likasz Czapla Bronze: Mikhail Azarenko Men's Team 10m Running Target Mixed Run Gold: Sweden Silver: Russia Bronze: North Korea Women's Individual 10m Running Target Mixed run Gold: Xue Li Silver: Li Xue Yan Bronze: Irina Izmalkova Women's Team 10m Running Target Mixed Run Gold: China Silver: Ukraine Bronze: Russia Men's Junior Individual 10m Running Target Mixed Run Gold: Egor Spekhov Silver: Danylo Danilenko Bronze: Andrey Khudyakov Updated Medal Standings here: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/schedule.ashx?cshipid=1750

and once again Italy flopped big time in the only event in today's schedule they should have dominated... bitter consolation the new junior Gold Medal (men's jr. skeet) by Elia Sdruccioli... p.s. today's results recap comin'up later...unfortunately today I have a busy day and I can't spend much time following sport...

Pacioretty traded to Vegas Golden Knights! Max Pacioretty was traded to the Vegas Golden Knights by the Montreal Canadiens for forward Tomas Tatar, forward prospect Nick Suzuki and a second-round pick in the 2019 NHL Draft... https://www.nhl.com/news/canadiens-trade-max-pacioretty-to-vegas-golden-knights/c-300023512?tid=278542340 and then he immediately signed a 4-year contract extension (28 million US $) with Vegas... https://www.nhl.com/news/max-pacioretty-signs-four-year-extension-with-vegas-golden-knights/c-300030610

as far as I know, A = yes, B = no...but I'm gonna try and check out deeper in the rulebook if there's something about that... Edit: I just read the entire rulebook, and there's no reference to the medals not being awarded in competitions with less than 3 entries...therefore, I suppose that also in the women's LW Pairs USA and Italy will get their honors, despite this event is definitely a farce (well, not that the 3-crew races are really a serious thing)...

I wouldn't say "easily" (with the top 3 places already gone, she's still behind people like Rhode, Connor & Allen)... and in any case, everything not being a clean sweep of the event (which is now de facto impossible), for us it's a flop... the truth is that we are facing our worst world championship in a very, very long time in shotgun shooting...and one of the worst ever in rifle & pistol shooting (at least since we did appear with some ambition on this sport's map)...

good debut for Kakhelashvili for the Italian team... after basically more than 2 years of inactivity he won a good Bronze Medal at the Polish Open... after losing his 1st bout against the US guy Tracy Gangelo Hancock* with the close score of 3-2, he took the scalp of the Russia Maksim Safarian in the repechage round, then finally he did benefit from Aleksanyan's withdrawal in the Bronze Medal bout... *Hancock who then just destryed everybody else he faced in this tournament, included the great Artur Aleksanyan who was beaten in their semifinal match by pin/fall and then didn't show up for the Bronze Medal match against "our" new Georgian-born wrestler...

and for the happiness of our friends @hckosice & @LDOG (and for my desperation ) this is the provisional ranking of the women's Skeet competition... https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/results/detail.ashx?cshipid=1750&resultkey=Q00001_I_1009180905.1.SK125W.0

Today's Results Men's Individual 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Gold: Lin Junmin Silver: Zhang Jian Bronze: Jean Quiquampoix Olympic Quota: China, China, France & Russia Men's Team 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Gold: China Silver: Germany Bronze: South Korea Men's Junior Individual 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Gold: Zhu Haojie Silver: Lee Jaek Yoon Bronze: Cheng Zhipeng Men's Junior Team 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Gold: China Silver: South Korea Bronze: Poland Men's Individual 300m Prone Rifle Gold: Rajmond Debevec Silver: Daniel Romanczyk Bronze: Josip Kuna Women's Individual 300m Prone Rifle Gold: Bae Soo Hee Silver: Eva Roesken Bronze: Silvia Guignard Schnyder Women's Team 300m Prone Rifle Gold: Germany Silver: South Korea Bronze: Switzerland Men's Junior Individual 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Amir Mohammad Nekounam Silver: Zalan Pekler Bronze: Cao Bo Men's Junior Team 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: China Silver: Russia Bronze: Hungary Updated Medal Standings here: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/schedule.ashx?cshipid=1750

as expected, the final was ruined by a damn crazy (basically impossible) route... OK...this is the World Championship and things must be complicated, but this was definitely too much also for this kind of event... when nobody can even get close to the Top of the wall, it's obvious that the technical commission made a big mistake in building the route... having said that, we still have a "dream" podium, with 3 of the 4/5 main pre-competition favourites...so, at least we can't say that we had a "roulette" final, but a competition where the best climbers did show why they are the best (climbers)... and also tonight we had to use a tie-breaker to decide the 2018 world champion, but this time, since Schubert and Ondra were not tied in the semifinals, we only went back to the "classic" countback (the best in the previous round has the advantage), without the need to go further and use the cruel climbing time tie-breaker (as t happened yesterday in the women's final)... and finally it was Austria once again to come up with the top honor, making the host the absolute dominator of the Lead competitions thanks to both Gold Medals in this particular disciplines... tomorrow's rest day...from Tuesday, the Boulder competitions will be on stage...and despite Austria still have some chances, I expect the music to change drastically... p.s. just another thing about the lead finals (and semis)...call me a conservative, but I don't think that all that disco music and strobo lights in the arena during the climbs did help the athletes through their efforts...

Men's Lead Gold: Jakob Schubert Silver: Adam Ondra Bronze: Alexander Megos Full Competition Results here: http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competition#!comp=1564&cat=1

2018 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships (Lenzerheide, SUI) Final Medal Table SUI, 4 / 1 / 0 GBR, 2 / 1 / 2 AUT, 2 / 0 / 0 USA, 1 / 2 / 0 FRA, 1 / 0 / 2 RSA, 1 / 0 / 0 GER, 0 / 2 / 0 DEN, 0 / 1 / 1 ITA, 0 / 1 / 1 AUS, 0 / 1 / 0 BEL, 0 / 1 / 0 CZE, 0 / 1 / 0 CAN, 0 / 0 / 2 NED, 0 / 0 / 2 NOR, 0 / 0 / 1

Men's Elite Downhill Gold: Loic Bruni Silver: Martin Maes Bronze: Danny Hart

OMG!!! our men's Quadruple Sculls basically has stopped rowing after just 1000m and it's been humiliated by their opponents... and after the show they put on at the European Champs, it was supposed to be our best medal chance among the Olympic boats...

OK, I understand... meanwhile I'm just watching MTB and Rowing at the moment...

well, the race is still underway in any case...so at the moment nobody knows the final result...

they are on redbull TV https://www.redbull.com/int-en/tv/video/AP-1WNSQN6UW1W11/womens-mens-dh-finals-en-lenzerheide

finally, some good news for Italy...our Lightweight Double Sculls has recorded the best time overall in their class and the injection of last year's world champion in Pairs, Matteo Lodo, has revitalized our Fours crew... so far, for what I've seen, the men's Four is the race where we can expect the best show of the entire Championships...there are at least 5/6 boats all capable of winning the Gold medal (and at the same time, risking of not even making the A Final)...

despite the very diffcult and unusual route of the semifinal round, in any case we have almost all the favourites qualified for the final act... in fact, only Stefano Ghisolfi (ITA) and Tomoa Narasaki (JPN) are the really big names eliminated earlier today (and we should also add Romain Desgranges, FRA, who went already out in the qualifications 2 days ago)...

yeah, they are definitely going too much further... I wonder what's gonna happen tonight? meh... they're just killing the show...difficult doesn't mean impossible... not having a single "Top" in the semifinal round, normally is just unthinkable... by the way, thanks to this kind of routes, we're gonna have a 10-man final also in the men's division... Men's Lead, climbers qualified to the Final Tomoaki Takata Adam Ondra Sascha Lehmann Jakub Konecny Kai Harada Marcello Bombardi Meichi Narasaki Alexander Megos Jakob Schubert Domen Skofic