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sure! and considering that all the table draws are set by this ranking, there's a lot to care about it already in these days... moreover, the qualification through the WR is very, very strict (top 2 in each class, except the -75kg men and the -61kg women, which have the top 4)...so, every tournament will be crucial...probably just 1 single mistake and the chances to qualify through the WR are gone...

June has only 30 days...

no, the limit is set on the world ranking...if I remember well, it's the best 50 in the WR in each class among those who ask to enter the tournament (plus some wild cards for the host Country)...

Karate1 Premier League, Stage #5 (Istanbul, TUR) New K1PL stage and new faces on top of the medal table... overall, Iran dominated the field and won good 3 Gold medals... in the final medal table, they were followed by Japan, Italy and Turkey with 2 Gold medals each (but the second Turkish Gold came in the senseless women's Team Kata event -just to name it...Morocco won the men's Team Kata event)... finally, Finland, Switzerland, Chinese Taipei and Ukraine won the remaining "serious" Gold medals (1 each, of course)... looking at the Olympic classes, the 2 Kata events have been won by Japan (men) and Italy (women, where the Japanese reigning World Champion Kiyou Shimizu lost her first international tournament in the last couple of years)... in the Kumite disciplines, instead, TPE & ITA shared the honors in the lower female division (by winning respectively the -50kg & -55kg), with TUR taking once again the -61kg and SUI & FIN sharing the heavier class (by winning respectively the -68kg and +68kg...to be noticed: second consecutive win for FIN in the women's heaviest class)... on the men's side, IRI & JPN shared the lower weight division (they took the -60kg and -67kg classes, respectively), with UKR topping the middle weights (-75kg) and IRI destroying the field in both the heavy & super-heavyweights (-84kg and +84kg, respectively)... Full Results of the entire stage #5 of the K1PL can be found here: https://www.sportdata.org/wkf/sportsid/popup_main.php?popup_action=results&vernr=171&active_menu=calendar Very important...from the next time (Berlin, GER, 14-16 September 2018) the K1PL Results will count for the Olympic Qualification Ranking, therefore a really tough competition with all the best fighters in the world is expected...

Sailing World Cup, Series Finals 2018 (Marseille, FRA) Final Results (Part #2) Men's Finn Jorge Zarif (BRA), 34 Pts Josh Junior (NZL), 51 Pts Andrew Maloney (NZL), 55 Pts Men's 470 Mathew Belcher / William Ryan (AUS), 44 Pts Jordi Xammar Hernandez / Nicolás Rodríguez García-Paz (ESP), 59 Pts Keiju Okada / Jumpei Okazono (JPN), 63 Pts Women's 470 Hannah Mills / Eilidh McIntyre (GBR), 24 Pts Silvia Mas Depares / Patricia Cantero Reina (ESP), 32 Pts Elena Berta / Bianca Caruso (ITA), 54.7 Pts Men's Laser Philipp Buhl (GER), 53 Pts Hermann Tomasgaard (NOR), 54 Pts Elliott Hanson (GBR), 56 Pts Women's Laser Radial Emma Plasschaert (BEL), 48 Pts Maria Erdi (HUN), 54 Pts Tuula Tenkanen (FIN), 73 Pts

The Toronto Marlies won game #5 of the Calder Cup finals on the ice of the Texas Stars with the score of 6-2 and now the series heads back to Toronto with the Marlies just 1 game away from winning the Cup... Last night they started on fire and with 2 goals in the first couple of minutes basically killed the contest...and despite a shy attempt to open the game by the Stars at the beginning of the second period, from that moment it was only a white and blue show... Game #6 is scheduled for Tuesday (June 12th) night @ 7 p.m. ET (1 a.m. CET) at the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto and it could be the very last hockey game of the 2017/2018 season... Here are game #5 highlights:

as expected, at the home stage of the World Cup, the US boys and girls did show up big and were the only ones to avoid a full Japanese sweep of the event... for Italy, back to the usual (awful) standards (for sue, the only 5 days between the Japanese and the American stage didn't help Moroni's psychological readyness)...

IFSC World Cup, Stage #6 (Vail, USA) Women's Boulder 1st, Alex Puccio (USA) 2nd, Miho Nonaka (JPN) 3rd, Akiyo Noguchi (JPN) Men's Boulder 1st, Rei Sugimoto (JPN) 2nd, Sean Bailey (USA) 3rd, Tomoa Narasaki (JPN)

quite a busy day... among others... Canoeing, European Championships (part on CT Sport HD, part online) Fencing, Italian Championships (sat feed) Shooting, World Cup (online) BMX Cycling, World Championships (BBC Red Button on satellite) Waterpolo, Champions League final (Fox Sports Italia)

Men's Race Gold: Sylvain Andre Silver: Joris Daudet Bronze: Anderson Ezequiel De Souza Filho

where are our Totallympics Brazilian friends? it's time to party!

French double (thanks to the usual mess at the big turn) and Bronze for Brazil!

and now it's time for the big boys...I hope to see a clean race, but I doubt...the track seems to be quite tricky...

I'm surprised he's not here writing something yet...

Women's Race Gold: Laura Smulders Silver: Merel Smulders Bronze: Judy Baauw

actually, second, third and fourth for 3 different South American Countries (COL, CHI and ARG) in that race...

and the women's final makes no exception...Willoughby suicides herself and leaves the door open to an amazing Dutch triple, with the Smulders sisters getting Gold and Silver...

a lot of big crashes so far in the early rounds... and right now we are ready for the big finals...ladies first, as usual...

Last Individual events at the Italian Championships 2018... and they were Alice Volpi (Women's Foil), Marco Fichera (Men's Epee) and Enrico Berrè (Men's Sabre) to win the National Honors... http://www.federscherma.it/homepage/media/news/14-news/top-news/29351-campionati-italiani-sorgenia-milano2018-occhi-puntati-su-fiorettiste,-spadisti-e-sciabolatori-e-sulla-spada-paralimpica.html

CAE Fencing African Championships 2018 Final Medal Table EGY, 6 / 6 / 7 TUN, 5 / 4 / 2 MAR, 1 / 0 / 0 ALG, 0 / 1 / 7 SEN, 0 / 1 / 1 CIV, 0 / 0 / 1

Men's Team Sabre Final Results: Gold: Egypt Silver: Tunisia Bronze: Algeria Gold Medal Match: Egypt b. Tunisia 45-39 Full Results and Rankings comin'up (not so soon, I fear)...

Men's Team Epee Final Results: Gold: Egypt Silver: Senegal Bronze: Algeria Gold Medal Match: Egypt b. Senegal 45-27 Full Results and Rankings comin'up (not so soon, I fear)...

Women's Team Foil Final Results: Gold: Tunisia Silver: Algeria Bronze: Egypt Gold Medal Match: Tunisia b. Algeria 45-28 p.s. Only 3 teams at the start of this competition...

Clay Target World Cup, Stage #5 (Siggiewi, MLT) Men's Skeet Gold: Vincent Hancock Silver: Azmy Mehelba Bronze: Gabriele Rossetti

Sailing World Cup, Series Finals 2018 (Marseille, FRA) Final Results Mixed Nacra 17 Ruggero Tita / Caterina Banti (ITA), 32 Pts Vittorio Bissaro / Maelle Frascari (ITA), 41 Pts Ben Saxton / Nicola Boniface (GBR), 48 Pts Men's RS:X Pierre le Coq (FRA), 33 Pts Thomas Goyard (FRA), 36 Pts Louis Giard (FRA), 43 Pts Women's RS:X Noga Geller (ISR), 48 Pts Lilian De Geus (NED), 49 Pts Stefania Elfutina (RUS), 52 Pts