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Preliminary Women's Wrestling Seeds Preliminary Men's Freestyle Wrestling Seeds Preliminary Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling Seeds

LW2X close to 0 M4- might have some chances, more by coming in the top 3 in the semis than winning the eventual B final, tbh it might come down to a close fight against for the 3rd spot in the semis (if our guys confirm the surprising level they hit in the prelims, which is a big "if") if you qualify 2 or more boats here, you can only qualify 1 more boat at the final qualifying regatta

so, let's give a look to the men's -61kg OQR Li Fabin stays on top with 314kg, 6 kilos more than what he lifted today (I guess he's just keeping something in the tank for the Asian Games) now have 3 men in the top 5, since Chen Lijun's 310kg are also untouched from Today's event and Ding Hongjie hit 301kg as a new entry the best non-Chinese lifter in the ranking now is Today's silver medallist Sergio Massidda with 302kg (nice improvement from last year's world), he's the 3rd overall in this class Erko Yuli Irawan is now 3rd in the 1-per-Nation ranking (5th overall, for what it counts) with 300kg Theerapong Silachai is still high in the ranking with 299kg, despite today only sustained a competitive training in group D Shota Mishvelidze climbed the OQR up to the 5th National representative with the new PB of 297kg, followed by John Ceniza, who improved his record up to 296kg Ivan Dimov, Teerapat Chomchuen broke in the top 10 with 293kg (unfortunately for him, the Thai man is still only the 2nd of his Nation), as did Trinh Van Vinh with 292kg and Aniq Kasdan, Arley Calderon with 291 meanwhile, Hampton Miller Morris (bombed out, stuck on the previous 290kg), Jhon Jairo Serna Mendoza and Aznil Bidin dropped out of the provisional qualifying positions so, the new top 10 Nations in this class are:

I think he's been extremely lucky with his 160kg effort in C&J, given how strict were the judges Today I still can't understand why Mishvelidze's 2nd lift in snatch was called a "no lift", meanwhile I can't believe they gave the 3rd lift in C&J good to the Uzbek man (the only truly wrong call)

nice and close (for Silver and Bronze) competition in the men's -61kg class Li Fabin dominated this event with 308kg in the Olympic Total (141kg in the snatch, 167 in C&J) Sergio Massidda won a wonderful silver with a Total of 302kg (137 + 165) bronze in the Olympic Total also went to (sorry, I don't remember his name, as he lifted in Group B ) snatch Gold went to Li Fabin, meanwhile the C&J Gold went to Hampton Miller Morris (who bombed out in the snatch, despite starting with the lowest weight in group A) but the most important outcome from Today's competition is that the OQR of this weight class has seen some dramatic changes (we'll analyze them later, when the full results are up, also because some of the top ranked athletes were in Group B)

and in SF #1 (3rd spot is very open, I hope but I don't trust them at all) and in SF #2 ( should get the 3rd spot, but might sneak in into the top 3 as well) in any case, if the weather is like today, the lane draw will do it, as there's too much disparity between the lanes 1-3 and the others (Today, good 90% of the races had the boats in the lanes 1-3 also in the top 3 of the rankings, with very few exceptions...and not only because they were the top seeds)

yeah, way better than expected but it's only a first step most of these boats won't even qualify to the Olympics...and the medals are far away from our capability (with 2, maybe 3 exceptions) however, having 12 of our 13 Olympic boats (in 1 event we didn't participate) in the top 12 of the World is great, it means that our rowing is still very good on average unfortunately, right now we miss a few absolute top class rowers to build 2 or 3 crews being consistently a gold medal threat

Part #2 men's Eights (5 OQPs, Top 2 Advance to the Final, already through to the Top 6) Repechage Heat: men's Lightweights Double Sculls (7 OQPs, Top 3 Advance to the Final) SF #1: SF #2:

and here we go with the men's Semifinals Lineup: men's Single Sculls (9 OQPs, Top 3 Advance to the Final) SF #1: (AIN2) SF #2: men's Pairs (11 OQPs, Top 3 Advance to the Final) SF #1: SF #2: men's Double Sculls (11 OQPs, Top 3 Advance to the Final) SF #1: SF #2: men's Fours (7 OQPs, Top 3 Advance to the Final) SF #1: SF #2: men's Quadruple Sculls (7 OQPs, Top 3 Advance to the Final) SF #1: SF #2:

Part #2 women's Lightweights Double Sculls (7 OQPs, Top 3 Advance to the Final) SF #1: SF #2:

and this the schedule for the Semifinal heats: women's Single Sculls (9 OQPs, Top 3 Advance to the Final) SF #1: SF #2: (AIN1) women's Pairs (11 OQPs, Top 3 Advance to the Final) SF #1: SF #2: women's Double Sculls (11 OQPs, Top 3 Advance to the Final) SF #1: SF #2: women's Fours (7 OQPs, Top 3 Advance to the Final) SF #1: SF #2: women's Quadruple Sculls (7 OQPs, Top 3 Advance to the Final) SF #1: SF #2: women's Eights (5 OQPs, Top 4 Advance to the Final, already through to the Top 6) Repechage Heat:

I think precision sports can be classified as a broader interpretation of "stronger" (to be intended that in those sports you have to be "mentally stronger" than your opponent to beat him/her) for what concerns skateboarding and all the other artistic sports, you've already got the point: if artistic gymnastics and diving already have a clear set of codes and rules to help the judges to be (theoretically, only theoretically) fair in their job and help the audience to understand at first sight (almost, at least) which move/exercise is more difficult (and deserves to be evaluated with a higher score) than another, why the other disciplines of the same kind haven't yet? imho, it's fair to say that they shouldn't be on the Olympic program at least until they get some basic fair set of codes like artistic gymnastics and diving...then, we can discuss about what deserves to be in and what not

not many moves in the women's -49kg OQR today's winner is surely Rosegie Ramos, who finished the championship in 7th place but, above all, improved her record to 188kg (Total), which is good enough to climb the standings up to the 9th useful place very unlucky effort instead by Lin Chen Jing and Fang Wan-Ling, who both improved themselves up to 186kg and 185kg respectively, which means that right now they are the 1st and 2nd below the qualification line unfortunately, also Giulia Imperio couldn't improve her record, repeating once again her PB of 183kg and sitting right behind the 2 girls from just outside the qualification mark (187kg at the moment) finally, no changes at the top of the standings, however all the 3 medallists from Today ( Jiang Huihua, Hou Zhihui and Jourdan Elizabeth De La Cruz) consolidated their positions with huge improvements of their records

@dodge this link is a live scoreboard, so, the results are on only while the action is taking place the full results will be published on the IWF website (and Wikipedia or a few other specialistic websites), but only taking their time...we have to wait by the way, the live action is free on the Olympic Channel in many Countries (I have no idea if is among them, you have to check by yourself)

right now, we have yesterday's results on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_World_Weightlifting_Championships_–_Women's_45_kg hopefully, from today/tomorrow the IWF website will be updated more carefully

very, very good race by Ragaini, improving himself of almost 2 secs from the recent Junior Europeans even Bertoni looks back in the same shape of last year (almost) now we just have to get Galossi back and we have 3 very good freestylers born in 2006 that could ensure our future in a good range of races (200m to 1500m) bit disappointed with the men's 4*100m free relay...they were close to bronze and all the guys could have been a bit faster, looking at their PBs surprised to see a guy like Flyn Southam in the Aussie relay, since he's already attending the senior worlds ealier this Summer

International GamePass is no longer available as a standalone app, now people have to subscribe through DAZN which means no more Brazilian price for me and, above all, it means that I won't be able to watch a single game anymore, because DAZN has to close down and will never have a cent from me...bunch of idiots! one sport less in my schedule (after ESPN Player closed down and took away the NCAA)

sorry, Today I'm really frustrated for personal reasons and I'm getting really aggressive against anything I don't like...it's just like "me vs the world" I know I shouldn't put my troubles on other people, but I have to throw them off somehow before it gets serious better going to sleep...maybe tomorrow is a better day (still, I won't start liking those things in any case but maybe I'm gonna keep it for myself)

p.s. Flag Football is also just a kid's game please, God! save us from this!

Breaking is NOT a sport...there are no set competition rules, the winners are not clear to the audience and those who are proclamed as winners are never the true best in the game in that given day same for artistic swimming, rhythmic gymnastics, trampoline gymnastics, dressage, surf and skateboard LET'S GET RID OF THOSE ARTISTIC ENTERTAINING ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE NEVER TO DO WITH SPORT! ALTIUS, CITIUS, FORTIUS...if the final result is not measurable according to at least one of those 3 principles, it's not an a sport and it shouldn't be in the Olympic program

good news for : - the women's Double Sculls (despite being both lightweights, our girls proved themselves more than competitive also among the senior crews...a truly amazing quota place is not out of reach now -they're in the semis, they only need not to end last in the B Final and Paris will not be only a dream anymore) -the men's Quadruple Sculls look in top form...they might even win it all the bad news: -almost everything not mentioned above, especially the women's Quadruple Sculls the awful news: Rodini & Cesarini...our women's Lightweight Double Sculls Olympic Champions most likely won't even qualify to the Paris Games...today they were just painful to watch

even less... with the T20 format, it's 15 players each team (the 2/3 stand-by players could be "outside village" guys, like the fencing teams' reserves, and become official players only if and when they replace someone else), so 90 per gender for a 6-team tournament (which would be a farce, I hope they have at least 8 -2 groups of 4 + semis and medal matches, just to give the tournament a fair development) so, officially it could be 180 or 240 total players (depending if it's a 6 or 8-team tournament, both genders included)

earlier Today, Zane Weir won the men's Shot Put in Padua with 22m44cm (he also had 22m22cm and 22m05cm throws) Joe Kovacs was second with 22m40cm (he also had a 22m39cm throw) World Silver medallst Leonardo Fabbri was 3rd with 21m49cm women's 100m World Champion Sha'Carri Richardson was also announced at the start of this meet, but finally she didn't show up Tomorrow night a really nice meet in Bellinzona will be on stage with a few interesting competitions star of the night is men's High Jump champion of everything Gianmarco Tamberi

unfortunately, none! if he doesn't resign by himself (which is impossible, I fear), nobody will fire him before Paris 2024 only a full team boycott (he against all of us) could change the situation, but it won't happen

Regular Season Day 3, Part 1 Thursday 07.09.2023 - Schedule* 17:30 Tappara Tampere (FIN) - Adler Mannheim (GER) 18:00 Dynamo Pardubice (CZE) - Stavanger Oilers (NOR) 19:00 Skellefteå AIK (SWE) - Rouen Dragons (FRA) 19:30 HC Innsbruck (AUT) - Belfast Giants (GBR) 19:45 Genève-Servette HC (SUI) - HC Bolzano/Bozen (ITA/AUT) 19:45 Rapperswil-Jona Lakers (SUI) - Lukko Rauma (FIN) 20:20 Red Bull Salzburg (AUT) - ERC Ingolstadt (GER) *All times CET Watch live Check here for details of live TV broadcasts: https://www.championshockeyleague.com/en/fans/where-to-watch All games are also live on the CHL website for free, subject to geo-blocking restrictions in certain countries due to TV rights.