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finally, RUS won...but what a scare in these last 2 minutes... p.s. @hckosice if the Russians play like in the final stretch of tonight's game, you have more than a chance to steal some points from them and keep your hopes to make the quarterfinals alive...

it ain't over till it's over...the great "Yogi" Berra said many years ago... but he was right...oh, if he was right... SUI scored and we have a game once again...

yeah...I just fixed my previous post... I'm starting thinking that my words are not a good sign for those who I speak/write for...

probably they did... in the meantime, we have a real game between RUS and SUI... 5 mins to go and the Swiss seem to have turn the momentum around...I hope the Russians don't do anything silly... and as I write something, the class of the Big Red Machine ends the Swiss hopes... they're just amazing...

however, leaving the jokes about the prediction contest apart, I didn't really expect CAN to play that bad as they're doing tonight... they're so "empty" and undisciplined like I've rarely (almost never) seen before... Finland deserve this big win at 100%...they outplayed CAN in each and every role and aspect of this game...

and here we go...not even the time to write it...and Switzerland scores! I'd rather go watching some golf...maybe it's a bit more relaxing...

at least it seems that RUS and SUi are going according to my plan... but with more than 9 minutes still to play, there's a lot of time to make my day a complete nightmare...

are you kidding me? c'mon, man! this is a "gombloddo*" (it's a plot) against me and my predictions... I wish Germany, Belarus and Canada all the worst things in the World!!! *cit. Antonio Conte

Today's Results... Men's -74kg: Gold: Toni Kanaet Silver: Muhammed Yldiz Bronze: Peter Longobardi & Piero Maric Women's -62kg: Gold: Irem Yaman Silver: Marta Calvo Bronze: Kristina Beros & Rabia Bachmann Men's -80kg: Gold: Maksim Khramtcov Silver: Aaron Cook Bronze: Milad Beigi & Richard Andre Ordemann Women's -67kg: Gold: Lauren Williams Silver: Nur Tatar Bronze: Daniela Rotolo & Polina Khan

at the end of day #1 of the finals we have Turkey on top of the Medal Table with 2 Gold Medals (and 7 in total)... also with 2 Gold Medals are France, Spain and Switzerland, meanwhile AZE, BIH, ITA, MKD and UKR have 1 Gold Medal each... in total, 21 Nations have at least 1 Medal, with CRO leading the pack of those without a Gold one thanks to 2 Silver and 2 Bronze Medals...

as expected, total domination by Spain in the Individual Kata events... only Japan can stop them in the World right now...

Team Kumite Final Results Men's Gold: Turkey Silver: Spain Bronze: Ukraine & Serbia Women's Gold: Switzerland Silver: Italy Bronze: France & Croatia

France won the first Bronze in the Women's Team Kumite (they beat Turkey)...

naaa, I don't agree...there was nothing wrong with the judges this time...the truth is that Maresca wasted the first 2 minutes of the bout by doing absolutely nothing... then when you're down in the score, things get extremely difficult in a close match... shame on him, not on the refs... he should regret the semifinal against the Turkish guy, rather than today's consolation match

Men's Epee Live Streaming from Paris (Semifinals were scheduled @ 15.30 CET, but they're a bit late) Men's Sabre Live Streaming links from Moscow (they're playing the round of 32 right now)... http://sabremoscow.ru/#on-line-video

Men's Individual Sabre (Moscow, RUS) Final Results: Gold: Oh Sanguk (KOR) Silver: Luca Curatoli (ITA) Bronze: Gu Bon Gil (KOR) & Mojtaba Abedini (IRI) Semifinals: Oh b. Abedini 15-9 Curatoli b. Gu 15-11 Gold Medal Match: Oh b. Curatoli 15-8 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/162/results/rank

Men's Individual Epee (Paris, FRA) Final Results: Gold: Nikolai Novosjolov (EST) Silver: Bogdan Nikishin (UKR) Bronze: Bas Verwijlen (NED) & Park Kyoung Doo (KOR) Semifinals: Novosjolov b. Verwijlen 15-13 Nikishin b. Park 15-9 Gold Medal Match: Novosjolov b. Nikishin 15-13 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/111/results/rank

it has something to do with a lady, I guess...

@hckosice by the way, you should give Sweden some more space now...I need them to win some margin for my prediction contest (assuming that Germany will be causing me a lot of troubles once again)...

updated... Men's -74kg Semifinals Toni Kanaet (CRO) b. Peter Longobardi (GBR) Muhammed Yldiz (TUR) b. Piero Maric (CRO) Men's -80kg Semifinals Maksim Khramtcov (RUS) b. Milad Beigi (AZE) Aaron Cook (MDA) b. Richard Andre Ordemann (NOR) Women's -62kg Semifinals Irem Yaman (TUR) b. Rabia Bachmann (GER) Marta Calvo (ESP) b. Kristina Beros (CRO) Women's -67kg Semifinals Nur Tatar (TUR) b. Polina Khan (RUS) Lauren Williams (GBR) b. Daniela Rotolo (ITA) Live streaming of today's finals, as always, on Russian network Match!TV website (VPN needed in most cases), starting 4 p.m. CET

just gone... Karate, European Championships, part #1 (streaming thanks to livekarate.tv) now... Athletics, Diamond League from Shanghai (on TV, Fox Sports ITA) and Ice Hockey, World Champs (SWE vs SVK, Youtube) later today... Ice Hockey, NHL (Tampa Bay vs Washington, game #1 from last night on NHL.tv) Karate, European Championships, part #2 (streaming or Sat Tv feed, if I can find it) tonight Ice Hockey, World Champs (CAN-FIN + SUI-RUS, Sat TV feed...this is sure...I already have it) Golf, US PGA Tour, The Players Championship (on TV, Sky Sports ITA)

Men's -74kg Semifinals Toni Kanaet (CRO) vs Peter Longobardi (GBR) Piero Maric (CRO) vs Muhammed Yldiz (TUR) Men's -80kg Semifinals Maksim Khramtcov (RUS) b. Milad Beigi (AZE) Aaron Cook (MDA) vs Richard Andre Ordemann (NOR) Women's -62kg Semifinals Irem Yaman (TUR) vs Rabia Bachmann (GER) Marta Calvo (ESP) vs Kristina Beros (CRO) Women's -67kg Semifinals Nur Tatar (TUR) b. Polina Khan (RUS) Daniela Rotolo (ITA) vs Lauren Williams (GBR) Live streaming of today's finals, as always, on Russian network Match!TV website (VPN needed in most cases), starting 4 p.m. CET

so, the first part of today's finals is over... the first 7 kumite finals now have France on top of the medal table with 2 gold medals, followed by Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Italy, Switzerland and Ukraine with only 1 Gold... Croatia are leading the pack of the medallists without Gold (yet) with 2 Silver medals... in total, at the moment, we have 15 Contries with at least 1 Medal (no matter which kind of)...

Individual Kata Final Results Men's Gold: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila (ESP) Silver: Alì Sofuoglu (TUR) Bronze: Mattia Busato (ITA) & Roman Heydarov (AZE) Women's Gold: Sandra Sanchez Jaime (ESP) Silver: Viviana Bottaro (ITA) Bronze: Dorota Balciarova (SVK) & Dilara Eltemur (TUR)

Individual Kumite Final Results Men's +84kg Gold: Ivan Klepic (BIH) Silver: Shahin Atamov (AZE) Bronze: Tyron-Darnell Lardy (NED) & Gogita Arkania (GEO) Men's -84kg Gold: Michele Martina (ITA) Silver: Ivan Kvesic (CRO) Bronze: Helio Hernandez (POR) & Ugur Aktas (TUR) Men's -75kg Gold: Rafael Aghayev (AZE) Silver: Gabor Harspataki (HUN) Bronze: Stanislav Horuna (UKR) & Luigi Busà (ITA) Men's -67kg Gold: Burak Uygur (TUR) Silver: Stefan Joksic (SRB) Bronze: Stefan Pokorny (AUT) & Yves Martial Tadissi (HUN) Men's -60kg Gold: Emil Pavlov (MKD) Silver: Angelo Crescenzo (ITA) Bronze: Evgeny Plakhutin (RUS) & Kalvins Kalnins (LAT) Women's +68kg Gold: Anne Laure Florentin (FRA) Silver: Eleni Chatziliadou (GRE) Bronze: Laura Palacio Gonzalez (ESP) & Ana Marija Celan Bujas (CRO) Women's -68kg Gold: Elena Quirici (SUI) Silver: Irina Zaretska (AZE) Bronze: Silvia Semeraro (ITA) & Ivona Cavar (BIH) Women's -61kg Gold: Lucie Ignace (FRA) Silver: Anita Serogina (UKR) Bronze: Merve Coban (TUR) & Tjasa Ristic (SLO) Women's -55kg Gold: Anzhelika Terliuga (UKR) Silver: Alesandra Hasani (CRO) Bronze: Sara Cardin (ITA) & Tuba Yakan (TUR) Women's -50kg Gold: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu (TUR) Silver: Bettina Plank (AUT) Bronze: Nurana Aliyeva (AZE) & Alexandra Recchia (FRA)