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Women's Elite Downhill Gold: Rachel Atherton Silver: Tahnee Seagrave Bronze: Myriam Nicole p.s. what a race by Atherton... she annihilated all the other starters...

Women's Junior Downhill Gold: Valentina Holl Silver: Anna Newkirk Bronze: Mille Johnset Men's Junior Downhill Gold: Kade Edwards Silver: Kye A'Hern Bronze: Elliot Jamieson

that's really the right word... meanwhile the women's C1 was won by...guess who? yes, you're right...the correct answer is: Jessica Fox... when you look at the vocabulary for the definition of the word "unstoppable", there's a good chance you're gonna find "Jess Fox" for that...

and I didn't see our men's double sculls, yet...

watching our men's pair boat this season is so frustrating... I really hope next year we can get back to last year's guys, our crew of the season, our wonderful world champions...

p.s. tv/streaming pictures production is really awful...basically from those shots you can't understand anything about the race (excepts for the set timings at 500/1000/1500m and finish line)...

and the Sinkovic bros looks in good shape, too... I wonder how many close and exciting races we're going to have in these Champs? so far, both Lightweight Singles and the Women's Pairs look one-sided to say the least...meanwhile Romania maybe could make it something more than a red carpet walk for the Croatian monsters... it doesn't look that promising for the show in general...

Osborne is going to destroy the field... and if they can find a good partner for him, the Lightweight Doubles in Tokyo already have their Gold Medal winner (RIP Ireland, Norway, Italy and the other pretenders), even if transition from single sculls to doubles is not always automatic...

Today's Results Men's Team 300m Prone Rifle Gold: France Silver: Switzerland Bronze: Norway Women's Individual 50m Prone Rifle Gold: Zhang Qiaoying Silver: Rebecca Koeck Bronze: Aleksandra Szutko Women's Team 50m Prone Rifle Gold: Austria Silver: China Bronze: United States Men's Junior Individual 50m Prone Rifle Gold: Benjamin Tingsrud Karlsen Silver: Zalan Pekler Bronze: William Shaner Men's Junior Team 50m Prone Rifle Gold: Norway Silver: Austria Bronze: Russia Men's Individual 10m Running Target Slow + Fast Run Gold: Jesper Nyberg Silver: Maxim Stepanov Bronze: Vladislav Prianishnikov Men's Team 10m Running Target Slow + Fast Run Gold: Russia Silver: North Korea Bronze: Sweden Women's Individual 10m Running Target Slow + Fast Run Gold: Olga Stepanova Silver: Li Xue Yan Bronze: Galina Avramenko Women's Team 10m Running Target Slow + Fast Run Gold: China Silver: North Korea Bronze: Russia Men's Junior Individual 10m Running Target Slow + Fast Run Gold: Kris Grossheim Silver: Danylo Danilenko Bronze: Maksym Babushok Updated Medal Standings here: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/schedule.ashx?cshipid=1750

first loss for the Bolzano/Bozen Foxies... despite an early lead, they've been outplayed by Skelleftea and finally lost 2-1... now they're tied with HIFK in the standings, but they have to play twice the weakest team of the group, GKS Tychy (0 points in 4 games so far), meanwhile the Finns have to face the Swedish Elitserien's runner-up Skelleftea in the last couple of games of their group...so, if everything goes according to plan, they should still be able to qualify for the knockout stage without too many problems...

2018 Open Water Junior World Championships (Eilat, ISR) Final Medal Table USA, 2 / 2 / 1 FRA, 2 / 1 / 0 RUS, 1 / 2 / 1 HUN, 1 / 1 / 3 ITA, 1 / 1 / 3 ESP, 1 / 0 / 0 PER, 0 / 1 / 0

2018 Open Water Junior World Championships (Eilat, ISR) Day 3 Results 4*1.25km Mixed Relay (14-16 years old Kids) Gold: Hungary Silver: United States Bronze: Italy Open 4*1.25km Mixed Relay (19 years old & under Guys) Gold: France Silver: United States Bronze: Italy

Men's Elite Cross-Country Gold: Nino Schurter Silver: Gerhard Kerschbaumer Bronze: Mathieu Van Der Poel

what a final! the route looked indeed too difficult (actually, I think it was definitely too difficult...the semifinal heat was way more exciting also for the 3rd through mid-ranking positions), but then Jessica and Janja showed us that no route is really too difficult... their battle for the Gold medal is probably the highlight of the entire championship, even if this is only the first competition to be completed... I'm happy for Jessica, who is now World Champion...and she won in front of the home crowd...but a the same time I'm so sad for Janja, who's my favourite climber and lost just because of those *** 12 seconds (and frankly it's really painful to lose the Gold medal at the tie-breaker after reaching the top of the wall with all the pressure she had on her shoulders once Pilz completed her climb in that way)... pity also for "our" teenage sensation, Laura Rogora, who couldn't repeat herself in the final, after an amazing semifinal climb...but you can't buy experience at the supermarket... and Tomorrow, it's time for the men to earn their honors in the Lead event...I just can't wait (c'mon, Stefano!)... Women's Lead Gold: Jessica Pilz Silver: Janja Garnbret Bronze: Kim Ja In Full Competition Results here: http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competition#!comp=1564&cat=2

because Rogora, Schubert and the 2 Japanese girls were all tied for 7th place (44+ their score) and, since the qualification event was held in 2 separate heats, they couldn't go to countback from the qualification round... so, the jury decided that 10 was still a reasonable number of climbers (not impacting too much the lenght of the TV broadcast) and enlarged the field of starters of the final, rather than going through a complicated (and unfair) tie-breaker...

Women's Lead Climbers qualified for the Final Laura Rogora Mei Kotake Hannah Schubert Akiyo Noguchi Mia Krampl Ashima Shiraishi Anak Verhoeven Kim Ja In Jessica Pilz Janja Garnbret

and finally also queen Janja goes top without even struggling...actually, joking with the last (very difficult) passage... looking at what we've seen right now, the final looks very promising and exciting...

after a slow start now things are getting hot and the big names are putting on quite a good show...Verhoeven and Kim did even make the top of the wall... and Pilz did reach the top, too...

Women's Elite Cross-Country Gold: Kate Courtney Silver: Annika Langvad Bronze: Emily Batty

disaster for Langvad...

p.s. by the way, amazing landscape (and great crowd)... despite Neff's flop, the organizers should be very happy in any case...

watching the race on the Swiss TV...it looks like they're broadcasting a State Funeral...

just another day to forget for Italy... this time it really looks we can only win some medals in Junior and/or "abandoned" events... meanwhile, in the events that really matter, amazing final in the women's 25m pistol, where Batsarashkina first wasted a 5-shot advantage midway through the final and then lost to Kostevych after an endless shoot-off... for neutral spectators, these champs are showing so many exciting and really entertaining competitions...almost every day there's at least 1 final to be remembered for the ages, with a lot of drama and turnarounds...

Today's Results Women's Individual 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Yulia Karimova Silver: Isabella Straub Bronze: Snjezana Pejcic Olympic Quota: Russia, Germany, Croatia & Great Britain Women's Individual 25m Pistol Gold: Olena Kostevych Silver: Vitalina Batsarashkina Bronze: Doreen Vennekamp Olympic Quota: Ukraine, Russia, Germany & Chinese Taipei Women's Team 25m Pistol Gold: China Silver: South Korea Bronze: Germany Junior Mixed Team Trap Gold: Italy 2 (Erica Sessa & Lorenzo Ferrari) Silver: Italy 1 (Maria Lucia Palmitessa & Matteo Marongiu) Bronze: China 2 (Gao Wendi & Ouyang Yiliu) Women's Junior Individual 25m Pistol Gold: Wang Xiaoyu Silver: Katelyn Morgan Abeln Bronze: Anna Dedova Women's Junior Team 25m Pistol Gold: South Korea Silver: China Bronze: Hungary Men's Individual Double Trap Gold: Ankur Mittal Silver: Yang Yiyang Bronze: Hubert Andrzej Olejnik Men's Team Double Trap Gold: Italy Silver: China Bronze: India Updated Medal Standings here: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/schedule.ashx?cshipid=1750

great day for Italy, with the expected Ghisolfi second only to the living legend Adam Ondra in his qualification group, but also with 2 more guys making it through to the semis, Francesco Vettorata and Marcello Bombardi...and that was definitely less expected... but the news of the day is the early elimination of the reigning European Champion (and one of the main favourites here, too), the Frenchman Romain Desgranges... not so good looking the local hero, Jakub Schubert, but still safely through...meanwhile the other big names (Ondra, Skofic, Megos above all) were just as good as expected... Tomorrow the 1st Gold Medal will be awarded, the Women's Lead...semifinals at 1 p.m. CET and the big final at 7 p.m. CET... all the action, as usual, live for free on IFSC's official page on Youtube: Semifinals here: and Finals here: p.s. and for those who can watch it, Live TV broadcast on the Austrian public TV channel ORF Sport+ HD (satellite Astra @ 19.2° East, encrypted...you need an ORF/Austriasat subscription to watch this channel)...