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gran bella giornata per gli Azzurri di Softball, Nuoto e Vela (e anche per la Batki nei Tuffi)... peccato invece per il solito (atteso, peraltro) disastro nell'atletica (oggi salvo solo Cairoli nel Decathlon e, in parte, Galvan -nonostante l'eliminazione, ha quasi fatto il personale...perchè anche Pedroso e Trost, seppur qualificate, mi sono sembrate davvero modeste e lontane dai loro migliori risultati)...

second (and possibly 3rd, waiting for confirmation) quota for Italy (in the men's 470 for sure, probably also in the women's Laser Radial)... these champs are just becoming a big and unexpected success for us... always provided that Nacra and RS:X would eventually deliver the expected medals (Olympic quota in these 3 classes -especially the Nacra- are just the minimum effort, but still not fully satisfying)...

day #7 (provisional) recap Men's Laser (9 races): Pavlos Kontides 29 pts, Matthew Wearn 32 pts, Tom Burton 34 pts Women's Laser Radial (8 races): Paige Riley 42 pts, Emma Plasschaert & Marie Rindom tied with 43 pts **Finn (10 races): Max Salminen 60 pts, Zsombor Berecz & Josh Junior tied with 68 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race **Men's 470 (10 races): Anton Dahlberg/Fredrik Bergstrom 44 pts, Tetsuya Isozaki/Akira Takayanagi & Kevin Peponnet/Jeremie Mion tied with 50 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race **Women's 470 (7 races): Ai Kondo Yoshida/Miho Yoshioka 23 pts, Camille Lecointre/Aloise Retornaz 28 pts, Hannah Mills/Eilidh McIntyre 33 pts + / / / / / / going to the Medal Race *Men's 49er (6 races): Lucas Rual/Emile Amoros 14 pts, Logan Dunning Beck/Oscar Gunn 22 pts, Tim Fischer/Fabian Graf 23 pts Women's 49er FX (9 races): Tanja Frank/Lorena Abicht 47 pts, Natasha Bryant/Annie Wilmot 52 pts, Annemiek Bekkering/Annette Duetz 55 pts *Men's RS:X (6 races): Pawel Tarnowski 14 pts, Dorian Van Rijsselberge 17 pts, Daniele Benedetti & Mattia Camboni tied with 20 pts *Women's RS:X (6 races): Lu Yunxia 14 pts, Lilian De Geus 17 pts, Charline Picon 21 pts *Mixed Nacra 17 (7 races): Santiago Lange/Cecilia Carranza Saroli 16 pts, Samuel Albrecht/Gabriela Nicolino De Sà 21 pts, Jason Waterhouse/Lisa Darmanin 26 pts * = No races yet recorded on the official site for Today ** = Fleet Races are over Not Olympic classes... Men's Kiteboard (13 races): S.Bridge 11 pts, N.Parlier 14 pts, O.Bridge 14 pts Women's Kiteboard (10 races): D.Moroz 8 pts, E.Kalinina 17 pts, A.Fancelli 26 pts p.s. those Kiteboard results are driving me crazy...they go back and forth every day...races cancelled, races added...saying that's a real mess is an euphemism...

of course I was talking of the entire European Championships, all disciplines included (and I was writing when 2 Dutch Gold medal were coming almost at the same time -Van Dijk and Van Rouwendaal)...

I leave to @hckosice the hard task to replay to this post...

I agree on that...and I don't understand why they don't do it...it shouldn't be that complicated, I guess...

yeah, they were wearing those suits because of the cold water...and it was a big trouble for many swimmers (normally they swim in warm places, where you can't use those full bodysuits), especially for our girls (they said before the start they were going to have some problems because of those suits...they really hate them)... being able to recognize theathletes more easily is the only good thing about this situation...

I know the rules...I only meant that you can't take it so badly...in any case, it won't be that complicated for you to qualify even if you have to play 1 or 2 more tournaments with the lower ranked teams to do it...

p.s. @hckosice if you can, you should also change the title of this thread in "Open Water Swimming" and so on, rather than "Marathon Swimming" and so on...

no, it should be intended "Open Water Swimming"...all disciplines (5, 10 & 25k)...

and once again the Netherlands on top (thanks to our "genius" girls)...I just can't stand orange anymore...now I'm gonna throw away all my clothes with even a small part with that colour... at least we got a bronze medal at the end of the race...

c'mon, mate! now you're starting to make me worry...you can't be so pessimistic...

wow! great, great day for Italy... I didn't really expect this team to beat so easily the Chinese girls... and now let's take some prestigious scalps in the final round...well, maybe here I'm starting to dream the impossible...

don't worry...the hockey season is getting closer and closer...

these European Champs are getting soooo boring...just another Dutch sweep (in the women's individual time trial)...

3 defensive innings (if not less, in case we score more runs)... c'mon, girls! we can already see the light at the end of the tunnel...

p.s. guys, we have a dedicated thread also to the open water swimming at the european championships...we can use that... http://totallympics.com/index.php?/topic/1125-marathon-swimming-at-the-aquatics-len-european-championships-2018/

there are some posts related to this event in the "regular" swimming thread... it would be nice if you could switch them to this one (which we didn't see earlier)... p.s. I fear our friend @heywoodu is going to party at the end of this women's race...

really stupid tactical mistake by the Italian girls...they allowed Van Rouwendaal and Beck to swim away from the rest of the field since the beginning of the race...and now they can't catch them anymore...

yay! our TV is live from Loch Lomond... p.s. water is 17 degrees (the heavy full bodysuit is mandatory in this case)...

great start for Italy against CHN in the decisive match of their preliminary group... a 2-run HR in the 1st...and then we also saved a complicated situation in the top of the 2nd inning... c'mon, girls! the quarters are just 5 innings away...

Loch Ness is up north (close to the city of Inverness)...

unfortunately the weather conditions are not ideal...water is expected to be only around 13/15 degrees (which means that the swimmers will be allowed to wear the full "heavy" bodysuit)... and this will probably influence also the final results... the swimming marathon thread is dedicated to the world series (with all races over 10k), so this is the right thread for the open water swimming events at the european championships... however, I hope there will be some tv coverage (and for open water swimming my best chance is my "beloved" rai, our public TV )... p.s. by the way, Loch Lomond used to be also the site of the Golf Scottish Open until a few years ago (when they started to use only the socalled "links" kind of courses, meanwhile Loch Lomond is a wonderful "parkland" kind of course)...

and Vicaut is out of the final... that opens the door for him even more...

not only them...with this weather, I wouldn't say no to someone offering them to me...