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and the Foxies do it again!!! after Skelleftea, also HIFK Helsinki must go back home from their trip in South Tyrol with a loss in their bag... Bolzano/Bozen let the Finns do the most of the job, but were just unstoppable in counter attacks and once again did benefit from an excellent job between the pipes by Leland Irving... I must admit I didn't expect them to have such kind of success at this stage of the season...generally, they were used to letargic start of their season, but this time they've built a very interesting team that could be able to play for the higher ranks in the EBEL regular season and should even reach the KO stages of the Champions League (which would be a premiere for them)... p.s. and hopefully, the newcomers Daniel Catenacci and Andrew Crescenzi (they were considered even as NHL prospects until a few years ago) will be also an interesting boost for our National Team, provided they're going to play in Bolzano enough time to become eligible for the Blue Team)...

Today's Results Mixed Team Air Pistol Gold: Russia 1 (Vitalina Batsarashkina & Artem Chernousov) Silver: China 2 (Wang Qian & Wang Meng Yi) Bronze: Ukraine 2 (Olena Kostevych & Oleh Omelchuk) Olympic Quota: Russia & China Mixed Team Air Rifle Gold: China 2 (Zhao Ruozhu & Yang Haoran) Silver: China 1 (Wu Mingyang & Song Buhan) Bronze: Russia 1 (Anastasiia Galashina & Vladimir Maslennikov) Olympic Quota: China & Russia Men's Individual 50m Junior Pistol Gold: Arjun Singh Cheema Silver: Kim Woo Jong Bronze: Gaurav Rana Men's Team 50m Junior Pistol Gold: India Silver: South Korea Bronze: China Updated Medal Standings here: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/schedule.ashx?cshipid=1750

Mack basically traded himself when decided to boycott the training camp and the pre-season waiting for a new (crazy) contract that never came... p.s. I'm a Raider fan since 1983...I really hate losing Mack, but now there are no other chances (and better send him to the fu**in' Bears than feeding any division rival)... p.p.s. for sure, given the player he is, I'd have paid him all the money he wanted... but I'm not the man running the show...

Final Medal Table TUR, 3 / 1 / 1 RUS, 2 / 0 / 1 ITA, 1 / 4 / 1 FRA, 1 / 2 / 1 NED, 1 / 1 / 0 GBR, 1 / 0 / 0 ESP, 1 / 0 / 0 DEN, 0 / 1 / 1 MDA, 0 / 1 / 0 CRO, 0 / 0 / 2 GER, 0 / 0 / 2 LUX, 0 / 0 / 1

results from this afternoon's final matches women's team recurve Gold Medal match: Turkey b. Italy 6-2 men's team recurve Gold Medal match: Russia b. Italy 5-4 (shoot-off: 28-25) mixed team recurve Gold Medal match: Italy b. France 6-0 women's individual recurve Bronze Medal match: Gulnaz Coskun b. Melanie Gaubil 6-5 (shoot-off: 9*-9) women's individual recurve Gold Medal match: Yasemin Anagoz b. Maja Jager 6-5 (shoot-off: 10-9) men's individual recurve Bronze Medal match: Jean-Charles Valladont b. Heorhiy Ivanytskyy 6-2 men's individual recurve Gold Medal match: Steve Wijler b. Dan Olaru 6-5 (shoot-off: 10-9)

2018 Individual European Championships Men's Finals Results Bronze Medal Match: Raphael Kandra b. Lucas Serme 3-1 (10-12, 11-3, 11-9, 11-4) Gold Medal Match: Borja Golàn b. George Parker 3-2 (8-11, 11-4, 10-12, 13-11, 11-6) Women's Finals Results Bronze Medal Match: Nele Gilis b. Tinne Gilis 3-0 (11-5, 11-4, 11-4) Gold Medal Match: Millie Tomlinson b. Coline Aumard 3-1 (11-9, 12-10, 4-11, 11-7)

fingers crossed...we just can't waste also this one from 4-0 up... and finally at least 1 gold for us...after 3 bitter losses (actually, 4...if we count the men's individual compound)...

now also the WA streaming is back... and Landi just started to make damages again...

and also the live stream went off for the final end and the shoot-off...really a bad day in any sense, not just because of the final results...

just as if I didn't write anything... also our "boys" wasted a big chance and finally lost the gold medal match in the men's team recurve against Russia at the shoot-off (after having given away the 4th end to a team that only scored 53 points)...

my only cents are on the men's recurve team...if we're lucky, that's gonna be our only gold... the girls are just too weak in the mental part of the game...they're always unwatchable in the individual events and there's always at least one of them flopping badly in the team... they must work hard on that if they want to have a chance to qualify for Tokyo (and then have a decent competition in Japan)...

and the Turkish curse strikes again! after throwing away an almost sure Gold in the women's team compound final against Turkey, Italy repeat themselves in the team recurve Gold medal match...and lose again to the Turkish girls!

and in the Baseball Gold medal match, Japan lost to Korea once again... 3-0 for the Koreans the final score of today's match (with the result basically decided after the 1st inning, when KOR scored 2 of their 3 runs)...

nice to read that... good way to face adversity...

results from this morning's final matches women's team compound Gold Medal match: Turkey b. Italy 227-227 (shoot-off: 30-28) men's team compound Gold Medal match: Great Britain b. France 230-229 mixed team compound Gold Medal match: France b. Netherlands 157-153 women's individual compound Bronze Medal match: Tanja Jensen b. Sophie Dodemont 146-144 women's individual compound Gold Medal match: Andrea Marcos b. Yesim Bostan 146-144 men's individual compound Bronze Medal match: Federico Pagnoni b. Pierre-Julien Deloche 149-144 men's individual compound Gold Medal match: Anton Bulaev b. Sergio Pagni 147-145

at least he can say he's very consistent... I feel sorry for him...it must be quite painful (even if in life there's surely something worse than being always a runner-up in a sport event)...

2018 Individual European Championships Men's Finals (Today @ 2 & 4 p.m. CET) Bronze Medal Match: Raphael Kandra vs Lucas Serme Gold Medal Match: Borja Golàn vs George Parker Women's Finals (Today @ 1 & 3 p.m. CET) Bronze Medal Match: Nele Gilis vs Tinne Gilis Gold Medal Match: Coline Aumard vs Millie Tomlinson

2018 Individual European Championships Men's Semifinals Results George Parker b. Raphael Kandra 3-2 (11-7, 9-11, 6-11, 11-6, 11-4) Borja Golàn b. Lucas Serme 3-0 (11-5, 11-6, 11-7) Women's Semifinals Results Millie Tomlinson b. Tinne Gilis 3-0 (11-7, 11-8, 11-5) Coline Aumard b. Nele Gilis 3-2 (11-9, 8-11, 8-11, 11-7, 11-8)

and 8 in the shoot-off...more than a disaster...

and Today's the day... at 4 p.m. CET, in fact, the KHL season gets underway in the Tatarstan Capital with the opening match between the reigning Champions, AK Bars Kazan and SKA St.Petersburg... https://video.khl.ru/events/759749?locale=en

I just can't believe Bolzano/Bozen Foxies last night beat Skelleftea... great result for the poor Italian Hockey (if we can consider the South Tyroleans part of our Hockey system )... finally, this year they are "ready" since the beginning of the season...and not just by January/February as their usual...

and Turkey win the first gold (women's team compound)... but Italy...how to literally throw a gold medal in...well, you know where...

Yay!!! Pencak Silat at the Olympic Games!!! I just can't wait for that... should I get sick (sgrat...sgrat...), they just gave me a reason to fight against anything and try to get fully healty by that time...

in these last days of Summer, I'm watching Power (season #5) and Snowfall (season #2)... about Power, I love the "Ghost" character and the girls appearing in the cast, even if acting is not the forte of the series (and 50 Cent as an actor...meh )... meanwhile I like the stories narrated in Snowfall and the general atmosphere of the series...

be serious...once every while... this is NOT the entry list...this is the MEDAL table... if they have no medals, how can we put them in the "medal table"??? p.s. now KAZ is ahead of IND