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deadline? edit: OK, I've seen the answer to @Werloc right now... no problem for me...just answer to my other question and by the end of next week/beginning of the following I can write down a few lists... and how many names/crews would you like to have for each discipline? let me know...there's a good chance I have some time to help this coming week...

considering that the serial medallists are the usual RUS, KAZ and the returning on top (after a few years of "punishment") THA, I wouldn't call them the "champs of money"... it's just the usual political sh*t run by AIBA...

fighters qualified for the semifinals (and therefore assured to win at least a Bronze medal) from today's sessions... Men's -52kg: Ivan PRICE, Luiz OLIVEIRA, Bhavesh KATTIMANI, Asa STEVENS Men's -56kg: Criztian Pitt LAURENTE, Abdumalik KHALOKOV, Vsevolod SHUMKOV, Noppharat THAKHUI Men's -60kg: ANKIT, Adriàn Krisztofer ORBÁN, Atichai PHOEMSAP, Mohamed Madboly Marawan MAMDOUH Men's -64kg: Idalberto UMARA IRIBAR, Bader Osama Majed SAMREEN, Maksym MOLODAN, Ilia POPOV Men's -69kg: Peerapat YEASUNGNOEN, Yermakhan ZHAKPEKOV, Dzhambulat BIZHAMOV, Patrick USAMI SHO Men's -75kg: Conner TUDSBURY, Daniil TETEREV, Navo TAMAZOV, Nurbek ORALBAY Men's -81kg: Ruslan KOLESNIKOV, Cristhian PINDER CHAVECO, Sagyndyk TOGAMBAY, Aliaksei ALFIORAU Women's -48kg: Nillada MEEKOON, Kseniia BESCHASTNOVA, NITU, Anel KUDAIBERGEN

probably they're still trying to figure out what event they want to take into consideration... maybe they would use next year's Asian Champs instead of these AGs (also Africa and Oceania don't have their continental event chosen)...

meanwhile, Indonesia lost (to Malaysia) one of the Pencak Silat semifinals (men's 70 to 75kg class)... and Iran won a Bronze in the women's 60 to 65 kg class (she lost to Vietnam)... Laos also got to the final of the women's 55 to 60kg class, so they get at least a silver medal...

I still have to figure out how the Continental quota work...but I'm pretty sure that these AG are not a qualification event by themselves (though the points accumulated should count for the Olympic Ranking)... here you can find the official qualification rules...take a read and let me know what's your opinion... https://www.wkf.net/olympic-tokyo2020.php

and our SRI guy lost in the repechage contest (against UAE, if I'm not wrong)...

he's not even ranked...he has no records beyond 2015 (when he was 7th at the Asian Champs and lost in round #1 at the junior/cadet worlds)...

Kuwait got their 1st medal, since their guy made it to the final of the men's -67kg in Karate, beating a man from Jordan who's ranked million places ahead of him in the WKF ranking... @MHSN I just watched Mahdi Zadeh's final... it's true that the Indonesian guy was gifted a lot of points for insignificant and not perfectly landed punches, but your guy is also to blame badly, because he didn't do almost anything to put the Indonesian under pressure in the first part of the bout, when the refs were not giving away points for free yet...and that's not expected from an experienced champion like Mahdi Zadeh... p.s. imho, also the kick to the head that gave Mahdi 3 points towards the end and almost re-opened the match wasn't to be accepted, to be honest...it was a beautiful move, but he landed the kick not even close to his opponent's hair... still, I'm surprised by the final result and upset because the home boy should not have won the match in any case...

and we also have the first medallists of the championships... in fact, both the men's -49kg and the women's -69 kg already completed their quarterfinal bouts... and those semifinalists are: men's -49kg: Makhmud SABYRKHAN, Jan Paul RIVERA PIZARRO, Jude GALLAGHER, Thitisan PANMOD women's -69kg: Paige GOODYEAR, Angelina KABAKOVA, Alina POPP, Charlie CAVANAGH

also Miroslava Jedinakova (-64 kg) won her bout today... p.s. also a pair of Italian girls won their respective matches...and looking at what they're doing with Italy in this tournament, it's almost a miracle...

I understand they have a particular need (to protect home team)... and I agree on the fact that they are doing it not in a clean way... but still, I only wanted to find some logic in the actual development of the final bracket (provided that they built it without any logic and without any fair play)... and looking at that bracket in the way I suggested, someone could even find that (strange and unfair) logic... p.s. no idea of what they did in the other competitions...and no, thanks...I don't event want to try and understand that (even if I can easily guess from your words that they've been very creative, so to say )...

RS:X Open European Championships 2018 (Sopot, POL) Men's RS:X Gold: Mattia Camboni (ITA), 42 Pts Silver: Yoav Omer (ISR), 64 Pts Bronze: Shahar Zubari (ISR), 66 Pts Women's RS:X Gold: Zofia Noceti-Klepacka (POL), 40 Pts Silver: Stefania Elfutina (RUS), 50 Pts Bronze: Emma Wilson (GBR), 53 Pts Full News and Results here: https://www.rsxclass.org/europeans2018/

well, it's not that weird...it's just a partial round of 16 with only 12 teams... you can look at that bracket like this: KSA bye TPE bye THA vs INA QAT vs MYA KOR vs PAK JPN vs IND IRI bye CHN bye which is going to build those quarterfinals: KSA vs TPE THA/INA vs QAT/MYA KOR/PAK vs JPN/IND IRI vs CHN and then semis and finals... it's unusual because of the fact that 2 quarterfinals are already set before the partial eightfinals, but still, not so crazy at it could look at first sight...

Blackhawks & Bruins unveil old school Winter Classic logos... https://www.nhl.com/news/chicago-blackhawks-boston-bruins-reveal-nhl-winter-classic-logos/c-299849598

good version: he's still/already preparing himself for the home world champs... bad version: he's been caught by a doping test (but there's no official announcement yet)... let's wait and see if 1 of the 2 is true...

1 week to go! I just can't wait anymore...I'm in total abstinence...I hope these 7 days will fly away as quick as possible...

and 2 Italians lost to an Indian and and a Thai...cheaters! cheaters! cheaters! p.s. actually, the loss against the Thai guy was a real robbery, but still...

but you should never go at bat with glasses...it's so dangerous (even if it's softball and not baseball, which would be an attempt to suicide yourself)...

yes, amazing places and, above all, people who want and like to take care of them... unfortunately it's not always the same in other parts of Italy, despite potentially being as beautiful as South Tyrol (and sometimes even more)...

yes, now I've read also the following posts (of course I didn't yet, when I posted my first answer/question)...

well, that's not Italy...it's South Tyrol... they have different laws, different culture...they are different from the rest of our Country (and I'm not blaming them for anything...they are the good part of Italy in most cases)...

I've never used it to go beyond Rome, so I don't know how it can get all of this delay in such a short trip... Milan to Rome usually is quite a perfect ride, with very short (if any) delay...

well, if you take a Frecciarossa (or any of the other most modern trains between the most important cities), you normally have an high class service with all the features you're supposed to find in 2018...but just try some local trips...

are you in Italy?