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it's over...gold for Cunha over 25km... 3rd time in 4 world champs...2011, 2015 and 2017...congrats to her...

150 meters or so...maybe less...

Bridi's gone...bronze for Italy... Cunha looks now unbeatable in sprint finish...

Bridi definitely has to learn how to make turns...she's always losing meters...

naaa...there's still some way to go... and Cunha looks dangerous...I tought Bridi and Van Rouwendaal could have let her a bit more behind in the previous split...

and now it's Bridi's turn to try an attack...wow! it looks a boxing fight between heavyweights when in the last rounds they're completely without energy and stand just because of their mental strenght...

definitely Bridi is not in control...actually, she looks drunk...she went right against the buoy and lost 2 meters from the Dutch girl...

and now she's trying hard... but Bridi looks quite in control...or maybe not so much... It's gonna be another great finish...

meanwhile rai TV are back live... and it's Bridi vs Van Rouwendaal for Gold and Silver...I don't think Cunha can stay with them when they launch the final attack... all the other girls are now too far away to think about top 3...

no, not at all...that's just a troll...

well, not so long, maybe... now he has to face the surprising Argentinian Di Tella (and we can't say he's not the favourite)... and if he does it, then it's a quarterfinal against France (Apithy or Anstett)...in this case he's not going to be the favourite, but still the 2 Frenchmen are among the less dangerous athletes qualified for the round of 16... for Italy, shame that Curatoli and Samele have to face each other in the round of 16...I hope that the winner can go straight to the semifinal against Szilagyi (frankly, I don't see anybody beating him once again)... pity for Montano, but he's no longer the athlete he used to be...I guess it's time to think about something new in his life...

if we can name it "luck"...

c'mon!!! what a mistake by Furlan! he has just thrown the Gold medal away...he started his forcing too late and came just short... Ruffini instead suddenly just lost his energy and at the end he's only 4th (and should have been disqualified for the move on Drattsev in the last 20 meters, too)... p.s. now the usual rai TV...they're not going to follow the rest of the women's race because of a senseless news program... hopefully they are back at least for the last few meters of the girls...

yeah, that's the main Italian sports website...they follow carefully almost everything... p.s. it looks that we're going to have another French Gold medal (but I still keep my fingers crossed for Ruffini to make a strong finish and upset Reynaud...and Furlan + Drattsev are not out of contention yet)... great finish of this race...

live from Italian TV: http://www.raisport.rai.it/dl/raiSport/dirette/ContentItem-49340f1d-5246-4cf7-931f-75d65af039e7.html p.s. probably you need a VPN...

Chapter 7 (in particular, section 10): https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/images/World_competitions/Event_regulations/IFSC-Rules_2017_V1.3.pdf p.s. that's for today's Boulder event...Lead and Speed (which are a lot easier to understand also for newcomers) have their own chapter... p.p.s. it looks that Italy is going very well in Life Saving...tonight we should get a lot of medals in the pool...

well, but she just swept the field at the recent (2 weeks ago) Europeans (she won 5 golds and a few other medals, if I remember correctly)... why wasting such an opportunity here? (I know that the World Games have Colombian and Asian competitors to make it more difficult, but c'mon! she's one of the best even with those girls among the starters)

with a VPN you can watch their "original" stream (which is way better than any other option)... I think even a free one like Hola should work...

sure, but not only her...I mean, in that race both Kenian girls to me looked more like boys (and I'm not making any stupid irony about them being beautiful or not...I really see their somatic traits/facial features more as male ones rather than female)... for what concerns the age of the boys/girls...well, we all know that many 3rd world countries do not have proper registration of births (and we also know that many of those countries use that thing to their advantage in many sport events)...so, I guess it's a very complicated question... I don't think that all youth competitions should be cancelled, but probably they should get less consideration and they shouldn't cost nor generate so much money and interest in the media...

I guess it's because Arena Sport has bought the TV rights (even though they're not showing many events, looking at their tv schedule)... p.s. @Gianlu33 I have no idea why Sportitalia gave up their broadcasts at the last moment (actually, I'm not even sure that they really finalized the contract, to be honest)...

for those who can see the channel, also Germany's Sport1 DE (free to air on satellite Astra @ 19.2 East) will show on TV a lot of events from Wroclaw, starting tonight with the Opening Ceremony and going live almost all day long tomorrow (less time will be dedicated to the World Games in the weekend, because of many other events in their schedule)...

I would add also c) I've watched very few moments of this event, but I was really impressed by most of the female athletes from some Countries (Kenia more than any other)...for instance, were Kenia's girls in the 800m (who of course dominated the event by miles over the opposition) really "girls"??? and I could go on for a good while with some more examples...

yes, but the main difference is the format of the competition...until last year it was a time trial race with the 3 members of each team swimming together (like time trials in cycling), now we have a real relay with 4 members (2 men + 2 women) for each team... and that makes it a lot more spectacular...I'd even say that this event should be put into the Olympic program...and it would make a lot more sense than most of the latest additions (Judo team event included, just to talk about mixed gender team events)... however, going back to the races of this first week at Balaton Lake, pretty disappointing results for Italy until now...all of our athletes definitely underperformed, if compared to this season's regular World Cup series... and especially in the men's Olympic distance we are really behind the best, we need someone else rather than this group of guys, who are good but not enough for the individual medals... and I'm not sure that taking Paltrinieri in this kind of events would be the right idea...

I just noticed that in the Men's Epee quite a few very good specialists have been eliminated in the preliminary rounds... and also that Italy has been killed by awful positioning of our fencers in the main draw...even if they are at their best, no more than 2 would survive the round of 16 because of too early direct match-ups between them... better tableau should have the Sabre specialists...especially Curatoli should be able to fill his contract and reach at least the quarterfinals (but of course I hope to see him finally on the podium)...

Official Website: http://www.fechten2017.de/welcome.html?L=1 Event Schedule (to be noticed...we are back to the Kazan 2014 format, with the first couple of days dedicated to the preliminary rounds up to the last 64 in all the Individual Weapons): http://www.fechten2017.de/sport/schedule.html?L=1