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Rink Hockey Men's European Championships 2018 La Coruña (ESP) - 14 July 2018 - 22 July 2018 Official Website Full Schedule (and Results & Stats) here: http://www.eurohockey2018.gal/en_stats

yeah...he's very hot right now... let's see if he can make it again next week (once again in France)...

IFSC World Cup, Stage #8 (Chamonix, FRA) Women's Lead 1st, Jessica Pilz (AUT) 2nd, Janja Garnbret (SLO) 3rd, Kim Ja-In (KOR) Men's Lead 1st, Stefano Ghisolfi (ITA) 2nd, Jakob Schubert (AUT) 3rd, Alexander Megos (GER) Women's Speed 1st, Aleksandra Rudzinska (POL) 2nd, Anna Tsyganova (RUS) 3rd, Mariia Krasavina (RUS) Men's Speed 1st, Danyil Boldyrev (UKR) 2nd, Dmitrii Timofeev (RUS) 3rd, Bassa Mawem (FRA)

busy schedule... among others, Football World Cup + Waterpolo Europeans + Athletics Junior Worlds + a lot of Golf (both Scottish Open -European Tour- & John Deere Classic -US PGA Tour)...and maybe also a bit of MLB Baseball, if I can find some time for it...

so, hopefully next week we could finally get rid of the biggest farce at the Olympic Games in the last 30 years or so? fingers crossed, then (even if I think they would do anything to save such an instrument for political spread of medals)...

Clay Target World Cup, Stage #6 (Tucson, AZ, USA) Women's Skeet Gold: Kimberly Rhode Silver: Caitlin Connor Bronze: Lucie Anastassiou Men's Skeet Gold: Lee Jong Jun Silver: Giancarlo Tazza Bronze: Stefan Nilsson

Mixed Nacra 17 Open European Championships 2018 (Gdynia, POL) Mixed Nacra 17 Gold: Ruggero Tita & Caterina Banti (ITA), 34 Pts (2nd title in a row for them) Silver: Fernando Echavarri & Tara Pacheco (ESP), 56 Pts Bronze: Lin Cenholt & Cp Lubeck (DEN), 64 Pts Regatta Overall Ranking 1st, Ruggero Tita & Caterina Banti (ITA), 34 Pts 2nd, Gemma Jones & Jason Saunders (NZL), 47 Pts 3rd, Fernando Echavarri & Tara Pacheco (ESP), 56 Pts Full News and Results here: http://nacra17.org/events/2018-european-championship/

49er & 49er FX Open European Championships 2018 (Gdynia, POL) Men's 49er Gold: Diego Botìn & Iago Botìn (ESP), 69 Pts Silver: Dominik Buksak & Szymon Wierzbicki (POL), 74 Pts Bronze: Dylan Fletcher-Scott & Stuart Bithell (GBR), 75 Pts Regatta Overall Ranking 1st, Diego Botìn & Iago Botìn (ESP), 69 Pts 2nd, Dominik Buksak & Szymon Wierzbicki (POL), 74 Pts 3rd, Dylan Fletcher-Scott & Stuart Bithell (GBR), 75 Pts Women's 49er Gold: Helene Naess & Marie Ronningen (NOR), 59 Pts Silver: Victoria Jurczok & Anika Lorenz (GER), 81 Pts Bronze: Sophie Weguelin & Sophie Ainsworth (GBR), 81 Pts Regatta Overall Ranking 1st, Helene Naess & Marie Ronningen (NOR), 59 Pts 2nd, Victoria Jurczok & Anika Lorenz (GER), 81 Pts 3rd, Sophie Weguelin & Sophie Ainsworth (GBR), 81 Pts Full News and Results here: http://49er.org/event/2018-european-championship/

now I know what happened...I'm not interested anymore in those streams (I was wasting some time earlier this afternoon when the game was being played and as I wrote, they stopped the live broadcast when things were getting more interesting... so, I'm not gonna waste any time anymore with them...

don't overestimate yourself...you could always find someone ready to make you cry...

yes, but unfortunately they stopped the live broadcast after less than 7 innings (not to mention that it was just a still picture from behind the catcher and nothing else)... however, good but unlucky outing for Italy...we lost "only" 1-0 after 10 innings of play in a pitchers' duel "for experienced fans" only... MVP for Italy, the starting pitcher Luis Lugo, with only 2 hits given up and good 9 K's in 5 innings...

Today is the opening day of the 29th Haarlem Baseball Week, the most important tournament for National teams held on European soil... This is the official website: https://honkbalweek.nl/ Participating teams: The Kingdom of the Netherlands Cuba Japan Germany Italy Chinese Taipei tournament format: round robin play followed by a modified page-system playoff (with the top 4 teams of the round robin still on course for the final success)... unfortuately, it looks that there's no TV and/or streaming coverage... @heywoodu do you have some info about it?

and last night Italy had a disastrous outing against Spain, who won 8-4... now we have to face the Netherlands already in the semifinals on Saturday, which means that 1 of the 2 European powerhouses (and it's gonna be Italy, I fear) won't qualify for the U-18 World Cup later this year...and for Italy this would be the final nail on the grave of our hopes to earn a spot to the senior 2019 Premier 12 (the 1st and only global qualifier to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics)...

The U18 European Baseball Championship is kicking off in Grosseto, Italy on Monday the 9th of July, 2018. The Euros serve as a qualifier for the 2019 U-18 Baseball World Cup for which the two top teams of the competition will be qualified. Participants Group A Czech Republic France Great Britain The Netherlands Ukraine Group B Germany Ireland Italy Lithuania Spain Full Schedule, Results and Stats http://www.baseballstats.eu/2018/grosseto/schedule.php

Italy repeats as U12 European Baseball Champion in Budapest, Hungary. The italians beat the czechs 11-0 in the Championship game. Earlier that day, Russia finished third with a win over The Netherlands. 14 teams were participating to the competition which served as a qualifier for the 2019 U12 Baseball World Cup to be played in Taïwan. Final standings 1- Italy 2- Czech Republic 3- Russia 4- The Netherlands 5- France 6- Germany 7- Hungary 8- Belgium 9- Ukraine 10- Slovakia 11- Great Britain 12- Austria 13- Poland 14- Croatia

purtroppo il governo eterogeneo che ci troviamo temo finirà per imporre un obbrobrio "misto" Torino-Milano, azzerando ogni possibilità di essere anche soltanto presi in considerazione dal CIO (a meno che non si ritirino tutte le altre candidate o presunte tali, Sapporo e Calgary incluse)... e invece l'unica soluzione che, senza se e senza ma, potrebbe avere un minimo di chances è Milano "da sola" (con tutti gli sport del ghiaccio in città -quindi con almeno un nuovo palasport grande e davvero "moderno" da affiancare al Forum, non certo con il "nuovo" Palalido come sede credibile per l'Hockey- e gli sport della neve e il budello ghiacciato tra Valtellina e St.Moritz, non certo con le sedi flop del 2006, Cesana e Pragelato)... in ogni caso io rimango dell'idea che i pochi soldi che sono destinati allo sport Italiano sarebbe meglio, molto meglio, indirizzarli alla preparazione degli atleti olimpici e ai vivai degli stessi e non sprecarli per una vetrina -di serie B, perchè è inutile girarci intorno, i Giochi Invernali sono la serie B dell'Olimpismo- che poi ci porterebbe, come già visto dopo Torino 2006, a passare altri anni senza possibilità di essere competitivi a livello globale per mancanza di risorse economiche e umane... io tifo Stoccolma...sempre e comunque...

we're already at the Quarterfinal stage... today's schedule top half of the draw Sweden vs Netherlands France vs Spain bottom half of the draw Serbia vs Hungary Italy vs Portugal interesting match-ups between FRA and ESP and between SRB and HUN (who are playing at home, in Sopron)... quite surprising to see RUS already out at this stage of the tournament (yesterday they lost to Sweden in the round of 16)...

actually, that's a really disappointing result for Visca...she has almost 57m as her PB...yesterday she should have won with margin, but I guess she's just another promising youth class athlete who can't even make a decent transition to the junior level (not even counting how many of those can't make it to the senior level)...

that's the problem...this year it won't be our "usual" situation, since Chinese methods are well known...

Olympic Champion Kikkan Randall (USA) diagnosed with breast cancer... apparently it's been diagnosed early enough and the prognosis is good... https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2018/07/11/kikkan-randall-breast-cancer-olympic-gold-medalist/775482002/ https://twitter.com/kikkanimal good luck to her...I hope in a full and (relatively) quick recovery...

around the NHL in your ordinary Summer days... Nikita Kucherov signs 76 million US $ 8-year deal extension with Tampa Bay... https://www.nhl.com/news/nikita-kucherov-signs-eight-year-extension-with-lightning/c-299452510 and it looks that the Florida team won't stop their market with this move... https://www.nhl.com/news/steve-yzerman-talks-nikita-kucherov-extension/c-299458778 on the other side, the NHL unveiled the 2019 Winter Classic logo (the jury is still out to deliberate if I like it or not )... https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-unveils-2019-winter-classic-logo/c-299451760 finally, some gossip (no comment on that )... this is actually from last week, but in case you missed it... https://www.nhl.com/news/pk-subban-lindsey-vonn-independence-day-bathing-suits/c-299414982?tid=281396148 and here are the latest news... https://www.nhl.com/news/pk-subban-sports-illustrated-cover-short-shifts/c-299457944?tid=281396148 p.s. I'm just asking myself: "Is Lindsey who has a bad influence on him or viceversa? or are they both "really like it does look" and therefore are they the "perfect match" as the magazine claims? )...

and, as expected for a sport event held in China, it looks that Live Scoring and Live Streaming will be only available through their website...and not through the usual sites like Fencing Worldwide or Youtube, which is really scary... I hope for some late (good) news...but I'm not that confident...

Official Schedule http://www.wuxifencing2018.cn/en/jsrc.html Live Scoring and Results Recap https://fencingtimelive.com/tournaments/eventSchedule/63E63654903643BFB7B643531CB24D67#today

Fencing FIE World Championships 2018 Wuxi (CHN) - 19 July 2018 - 27 July 2018 Totallympics Results Thread

Speedskating Day #7 & Freestyle Day #3, 2018 Worlds Final Recap The final curtain went down on the 2018 edition of the Inline Speed Skating and Inline Freestyle World Championhships in Arnhem and the closing feelings can only be positive: a successful format unified speed, freestyle and side events in a urban cluster downtown Arnhem. World Skate President Sabatino Aracu: "I would like to thank the Netherland Federation and TIGsport for the great job done. These world championships fit perfectly the core of our world, bringing the sports into the hearth of the city. And I would like to thank the athletes and the coaches: their passion and perseverance make all of us so proud to be part of this great family!" SPEEDSKATING MARATHON Since Nanjing 2016, the Junior and Senior categories have been unified: the Women started at ten o clock and the Men at twelve. The 42.195mt have been divided in 7 laps from the starting line of the road circuit throught the famous Anrhem bridge of the movie "A bridge so far" and back to the road starting line. In the women race, Ho-Chen Yang crossed the line 0.005 seconds before Francesca Lollobrigida who finished the race in 1:10:33.440. The Italian champion arrived at the final sprint together with the two Colombians Johana Viveros, desqualified for fault, and the Junior promise Maria Camila Guerra Guevara who got the Bronze in 1:10:33.602. The Chinese champion Dan Guo, crossed the line fourth. Gold - Ho Chen Yang - CHINESE TAIPEI Silver - Francesca Lollobrigida - ITALY Bronze - Maria Camila Guerra Guevara - COLOMBIA Also in the men race, a Junior guy was able to reach the podium: Jason Suttels representing Belgium won the Bronze Medal - 1:02:15.988 - behind the Ecuadorian Jorge David Bolaños Villacorte - 1:02:15.626. Felix Rijnen was the first to cross the line in 1:02:15.607. Gold - Felix Rijhnen - GERMANY Silver - Jorge Davide Bolaños Villacorte - ECUADOR Bronze - Jason Sutterls - BELGIUM FREESTYLE The last competitions in the Freestyle Worlds were the battle for all the categories. Junior Women Gold - Sofia Bogdanova - RUSSIA Silver - Anna Smirnova - RUSSIA Bronze - Liu Jia Xin - CHINA Junior Men Gold - Gleb Velikanov - RUSSIA Silver - Gu Kun Qi - CHINA Bronze - Zeng Chen Yu - CHINA Senior Women Gold - Vasilisa Petushok - BIELORUSSIA Silver - Daria Kuznetsova - RUSSIA Bronze - Zoe Granjon - FRANCE Senior Men Gold - Zhang Hao - CHINA Silver - Lorenzo Guslandi - ITALY Bronze - Valerio Degli Agostini - ITALY