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Men's Junior Team Skeet Gold: Italy Silver: Czech Republic Bronze: Russia Women's Junior Team Skeet Gold: Czech Republic Silver: Russia Bronze: Germany Men's Team Skeet Gold: Czech Republic Silver: Italy Bronze: Russia Women's Team Skeet Gold: Slovakia Silver: Germany Bronze: Italy

I really hope it won't... c'mon! look at the number of countries involved in that (I'm not even making a question of being a 2-way show at the top of the rankings, but just there are not enough Nations at the start to earn it the Olympic status)...

I did take the results from the same .pdf 10 minutes ago...and the USA were still on top... however, it's not that important...we all know that they will be the team to beat in 2 years time in any case... good for Brazil this time, then... p.s. fixed the previous post...

day #1 at the Judo Grand Prix in Budapest (HUN) women's -48kg Gold: Hiromi Endo Silver: Tamami Yamazaki Bronze: Distria Krasniqi & Marusa Stangar women's -52kg Gold: Natsumi Tsonoda Silver: Charline Van Snick Bronze: Chelsie Giles & Ecaterina Guica women's -57kg Gold: Rafaela Silva Silver: Theresa Stoll Bronze: Hedvig Karakas & Christa Deguchi men's -60kg Gold: Ryuju Nagayama Silver: Albert Oguzov Bronze: Robert Mshvidobadze & Amiran Papinashvili men's -66kg Gold: Kenzo Tagawa Silver: Mohamed Abdelmawgoud Bronze: Denis Vieru & Bogdan Iadov

where did you see that? because the official results still have them in the rankings (maybe they made appeal and won it )...

and the races are over for today because of bad weather (lightning expected) incoming... no Kiteboard finals yet (in any case, it's just a GBR vs FRA battle among the boys, with the addition of a US girl in the women's class)... edit: maybe there's a chance that the incoming storm would eventually go around Aarhus without staying on the city and the bay and we still have some Kite racing later this afternoon...

Final Results Women's 49er FX Gold: Annemiek Bekkering/Annette Duetz, 89 pts Silver: Tanja Frank/Lorena Abicht, 91 pts Bronze: Sophie Weguelin/Sophie Ainsworth, 94 pts

today's best from Tokyo... 400m Free Women: Katie Ledecky, 3.58.50; Ariarne Titmus, 3.59.66 Men: Jack McLoughlin, 3.44.20; Mack Horton, 3.44.31 100m Fly Women: Rikako Ikee, 56.08; Kelsi Dahlia-Worrel, 56.44; Emma McKeon, 56.54 Men: Caeleb Dressel, 50.75; John Conger, 51.32 200m Individual Medley Women: Yui Ohashi, 2.08.16; Sydney Pickrem, 2.09.07; Miho Teramura, 2.09.86; Ella Eastin, 2.09.90 Men: Chase Kalisz, 1.55.40; Mitch Larkin, 1.56.21; Kosuke Hagino, 1.56.66 4*100m Free Relay Women: Australia, 3.31.58 (Cate Campbell, 51.36 in the anchor Leg); United States, 3.33.45; Canada, 3.34.07 (Ruck, 52.85 in 1st Leg) Men: Brazil, 3.12.02 (Spajari, 46.94 in the anchor Leg); Australia, 3.12.53; United States DSQ

Final Results Men's 49er Gold: Sime Fantela/Mihovil Fantela, 72 pts Silver: Mathieu Frei/Noe Delpech, 91 pts Bronze: Tim Fischer/Fabian Graf, 93 pts

only indoor (and it was more than 10 years ago)... at the outdoor global champs, the 1st race walking event for the women happened in Stuttgart, at the 1986 Europeans...and it was over 10kms... then there was the 1st appearance at the world championships in Rome (1987, a really dramatic race, with most of the race walkers destriyed by the super hot and humid climate of Rome in that early september of 1987)... meanwhile the 1st Olympic Race Walking event for the women came in 1992 (Barcelona), always over the 10kms... the women finally start to compete over 20kms in Sevilla (1999 world champs), then Sydney 2000 (1st Olympic Games over that distance) and Munich 2002 (1st Europeans over the 20k)...

disaster for Italy, one of the worst outing ever at the European Champs...only 1 girl in the final (and only 5th at the end) and no men in the last act...what a flop!

Men's Skeet Gold: Jesper Hansen Silver: Erik Watndal Bronze: Alexandr Zemlin Women's Skeet Gold: Danka Bartekova Silver: Lucie Anastassiou Bronze: Victoria Larsson

day #9 recap *Men's 49er (12 races): Sime Fantela/Mihovil Fantela 62 pts, Tim Fischer/Fabian Graf 75 pts, Tim Heil/Erik Ploessel 80 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race *Women's 49er FX (12 races): Tanja Frank/Lorena Abicht 71 pts, Sophie Weguelin/Sophie Ainsworth 82 pts, Annemiek Bekkering/Annette Duetz 85 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race *Men's RS:X (12 races): Dorian Van Rijsselberge 52 pts, Kiran Badloe 65.8 pts, Louis Giard 80 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race *Women's RS:X (12 races): Lilian De Geus 36 pts (mathematically already World Champion), Lu Yunxia 66 pts, Charline Picon 76 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race *Mixed Nacra 17 (13 races): Ruggero Tita/Marianna Caterina Banti 69 pts, Nathan Outteridge/Haylee Outteridge 70 pts, Santiago Lange/Cecilia Carranza Saroli 72 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race * = Fleet Races are over Men's Finn, Men's 470, Women's 470, Men's Laser, Women's Laser Radial are over and their Final Results have already been posted... p.s. Men's 49er and Women's 49er FX Medal Races are scheduled for tomorrow (14.07 CET and 14.47 CET respectively), meanwhile both RS:X events and Nacra 17 Medal Races are scheduled for Sunday (starting at 14.07 CET)...

today's best from Tokyo... 100m Free Women: Cate Campbell, 52.03; Simone Manuel, 52.66; Taylor Ruck, 52.72 Men: Kyle Chalmers, 48.00; Caeleb Dressel, 48.22 200m Fly Women: Hali Flickinger, 2.07.35; Sachi Mochida, 2.07.66 Men: Daiya Seto, 1.54.34; Leonardo De Deus, 1.54.89; Zach Harting, 1.55.05 100m Back Women: Kylie Masse, 58.61; Emily Seebohm, 58.72; Kathleen Baker, 58.83; Regan Smith, 58.95 Men: Ryan Murphy, 51.94; Ryosuke Irie, 52.78; Mitch Larkin, 52.88; Matt Grevers, 52.99 4*200m Free Relay Women: Australia, 7.44.12 (Titmus, 1.55.27 in 1st Leg); United States, 7.44.37 (Ledecky, 1.53.84 in the anchor Leg); Canada, 7.47.28 (Ruck, 1.54.08 in 2nd Leg); Japan, 7.48.96 (Ikee, 1.54.69 in 2nd Leg) Men: United States, 7.04.36 (Haas, 1.43.78 in the anchor Leg); Australia, 7.04.70 (Cartwright, 1.45.52 in 3rd Leg)

all results have now been published on the official website, so we can take them for official... 3 Olympic spots for Italy and the 49er crew just missing out by finishing 1 single point behind DEN, 2 points behind SUI and 3 points behind POR (all of them qualified to Tokyo 2020)...they just haven't been lucky, to say the least... and Tita/Banti finally did make up for yesterday's disaster and now they're back on top of the rankings of the Nacra 17 class before the Medal Race (which is expected to be a great show, since we have ITA 1 point ahead of AUS, then ARG 3 points from the top and DEN 6 points behind ITA...even BRA -12 points behind ITA- is not out of the Gold Medal fight yet)...

men's RS:X race #10 was abandoned, women's RS:X race #10 postponed as the last 49er fleet race (probably they won't be able to complete any race today)... it looks that only in the stadium the wind is under control...in the outer courses it's not possible to have a fair race at the moment... edit: it looks that the men's RS:X (race #10) will have a new start in 5 mins...let's see if they don't abort it once again...

Final Results Women's Laser Radial Gold: Emma Plasschaert, 66 pts Silver: Marit Bowmeester, 75 pts Bronze: Anne-Marie Rindom, 85 pts

Final Results Men's Laser Gold: Pavlos Kontides, 59 pts Silver: Matthew Wearn, 61 pts Bronze: Philipp Buhl, 70 pts

crews already qualified to the Tokyo Games after the 2018 World Championships, part #2 Men's Laser Australia Brazil Croatia Cyprus Estonia Finland France Germany Great Britain New Zealand Norway Peru South Korea United States Women's Laser Radial Belgium Canada China Denmark Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Switzerland Sweden Turkey United States Women's 49er FX Australia Austria Brazil Denmark Great Britain Netherlands New Zealand Norway

Men's Junior Skeet Gold: Alessandro Calonaci Silver: Alexander Karlsen Bronze: Emil Kjelgaard Petersen Women's Junior Skeet Gold: Giada Longhi Silver: Anna Sindelarova Bronze: Eva-Tamara Reichert

14.55 - 14.36 = 19...sorry for not being so precise to count also the hundreds of a second...c'mon! be serious... about my thoughts on Van Rouwendaal...you're just writing false things...so, once again you're totally off target... and p.s. I repeat you should learn what sense of humor is (and try to use a big amount of that in your life, before you get mad for nothing)...if you don't understand the joke that was running between me and @heywoodu on the Dutch great success in the European Championships overall, then don't try to be part of that same joke... well, at this point our "virtual" relationship on this forum is over right now...

Vergani = his first season as a professional...and apparently he's a great sprinter (but he still can't swim more than 50m yet)... Quadarella = our best young and improving talent...former junior european medallist widening her range of events (but all reasonbly close one to the other)... Panziera = actually she's 22, so she's quite young for the typical Italian standard (and I also explained what has always been the opinion and the expectations of our coaching staff about her)... Codia = his PB in the 100m fly was 52.67 in 2012 and then he improved slightly every year since 2014: 52.40, 51.69, 51.42, 51.09...and then today's new IR (which I already wrote is definitely unexpected)... Cusinato + Miressi = they are just 19, coming out of a successful junior career (and their improvement in terms of clockings is not that impressive, tbh)... Zofkova = you should read the story of her life to know why she wasn't as good in the past (but still, I can also admit that she's another "amazing" performer, so to say)...p.s. in any case, she was always around the 60 secs "high" in the last few years...not that she came down from 1.03 or so... Pizzini = he was a talented and successful junior, then he had 2/3 years where he lost interest in high level swimming...then he got back and won the bronze medal already 2 yars ago...he's always been consistent between 2.09 and 2.10 for 3/4 seasons...so, swimming 2.08.5 after being healty and in good shape for a full year is not that crazy, I guess... Restivo = he' studying as a medicine doctor...he had a surprising Italian record last year (but then he failed at the world champs)...still, his time is improved by just a few hundreds in the last 24 months... Megli = he's been swimming the same clockings (1.47 low, 1.46 high) for years (and he's still reasonably young)...he's only had a one-hit wonder in an internal leg of a relay...how can you name this "a meet of his life"? p.s. we have a 44-people team in Glasgow...and no more than 15 guys (including a bunch of teenagers at their 1st or 2nd global event) improved their PB... p.p.s. I repeat...there's no strange system behind our improvement, just good work (and a very modest past, which makes this new life of Italian swimming more surprising to the eyes of the people who don't know exactly how things used to be here until a few years ago)... p.p.p.s. Wellbrock's best was 14.55 before this year... p.p.p.p.s. what did I write about Van Rouwendaal that's not fair to her? p.p.p.p.p.s. not gonna answer about women's track cycling and Tortu...ot's obvious that you don't know anything about Italian sports history, troubles, development...more in general, it's clear that you don't know anything about Italy... once again...keep your frustration out of your home...you're gonna benefit of that by soooo much...

day #8 recap *Men's Laser (10 races): Pavlos Kontides 29 pts, Matthew Wearn 32 pts, Elliott Hanson 34 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race *Women's Laser Radial (10 races): Emma Plasschaert 56 pts, Marit Bowmeester 67 pts, Marie Rindom 79 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race Men's 49er (10 races): Sime Fantela/Mihovil Fantela 48 pts, Tim Fischer/Fabian Graf 48 pts, Tim Heil/Erik Ploessel 60 pts *Women's 49er FX (12 races): Tanja Frank/Lorena Abicht 71 pts, Sophie Weguelin/Sophie Ainsworth 82 pts, Annemiek Bekkering/Annette Duetz 85 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race Men's RS:X (9 races): Dorian Van Rijsselberge 34 pts, Pawel Tarnowski 44 pts, Kieran Holmes Martin 45 pts Women's RS:X (9 races): Lilian De Geus 30 pts, Lu Yunxia 35 pts, Zofia Noceti-Klepacka 45.2 pts Mixed Nacra 17 (10 races): Nathan Outteridge/Haylee Outteridge 42 pts, Santiago Lange/Cecilia Carranza Saroli 45 pts, Lin Ea Cenholt/Christian Peter Lubeck 46 pts * = Fleet Races are over Men's Finn, Men's 470, Women's 470 are over and their Final Results have already been posted...

well, if we talk about shotgun shooting, Italy would be more than happy to use 3 different men and/or women in the trap events...leaving Silvana Stanco home before the Rio Games was so painful for our coach (ad for her, more than obviously)... with the team event in the program, it wouldn't have happened...

no, they won't the mixed team qualification is only for that specific competition p.s. I think some qualification criteria are absurd...and this is one of those...but still, that's how it works...