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I hope, but I don't have the same feeling right now...

I don't agree at all...3 medals (and at least 3 more OQPs) would have been the bare minimum (the men's double sculls out of the podium is really a big disappointment, even if Sartori deserves a better teammate than Rambaldi) in Lucerne we MUST add the men's Fours and the men's Singles (and it must be Di Mauro, who's our biggest talent right now, the only one who can dream big in that discipline...stop sending 2nd and 3rd tier rowers in the 1X and stop with that fuckin' idea of building an Eight that will never be capable of competing for the medals) and hopefully, in Paris it would be great having Lodo and Vicino back on the men's Pairs...for what I've seen this week, if they get back to their best shape (big "if", though), it's an easy gold (unless the Sinkovich bros also get back to this discipline, as on the double sculls they don't stand a chance against the Dutch duo) for what concerns the women's LW 2X, now we're gonna have a lot of problems, as we are stuck to the declining duo Rodini and Cesarini for both the qualifiers and the OGs themselves because our no.2 crew in that class has now qualified in the senior 2X and can't be used in Lucerne a trip to Lourdes might be an option for them, now

bad for the Italian Olympic medal table (especially all those Dutch Gold medals)...but I'm just joking with our Dutch friends... it would be bad for the sport if there was only 1 Country winning all the gold medals, but this outcome is perfectly acceptable, with 3 dominant Countries and many others on the medal table (I'd only like to see also an African Country among the medallists, but you can't have it all) the only real bad thing is the Italian flop (from my very own perspective, of course)

as if that was somehow a good thing it will only help our coaches and officials to sell this championship as successful, when instead it's the lowest point ever of our (Olympic) rowing and they should all resign (or being kicked out, but that's impossible, unless they break any law)

Olympic Events Medal Table 5 / 3 / 0 4 / 1 / 1 2 / 1 / 2 1 / 1 / 0 1 / 0 / 2 1 / 0 / 0 0 / 3 / 1 0 / 1 / 3 0 / 1 / 2 0 / 1 / 1 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 have to repeat myself...this domination by and doesn't look good (once again, sorry my friends ) however, the disaster does look even worse

and now we also recorded the worst disappointment among the few boats that at least qualified to the Games so, we finish this championship with 4 OQP and 2 medals (no gold)...worse than the most pessimistic preview

I fear that the Moroccan delegation will be heavily affected by the earthquake that caused so many deaths and damages in their Country I wouldn't even say that their losses are a big upset, given the situation they live right now

and here we go! just another boat missing the Olympic qualification this time it's the men's single bravi! well done, guys! perfect choice, great result!

now I'm really curious to see what happens at the next Asian Games (especially considering that many people already posted some scary (suspicious) results earlier in the year at the Asian Champs I fear that some Asian guys still have some fine tuning to do and are not at 100% here in Saudi Arabia

a true poet among us

I still think it all depends on how Vargas wakes up if she comes down the bed with the wrong foot, there's no Santarelli or Karakurt or Gunes that can save them from a bad loss

Regular Season Day 4, Part 2 Sunday 10.09.2023 - Schedule* 15:00 Pelicans Lahti (FIN) - Oceláři Třinec (CZE) 15:00 Ilves Tampere (FIN) - Vìtkovice Ridera (CZE) 15:00 Lukko Rauma (FIN) - Adler Mannheim (GER) 15:30 Växjö Lakers (SWE) - EHC Biel-Bienne (SUI) 15:45 Rapperswil-Jona Lakers (SUI) - HC Košice (SVK) 16:30 Red Bull Munich (GER) - HC Innsbruck (AUT) 19:00 Färjestad BK Karlstad (SWE) - Aalborg Pirates (DEN) *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.

Regular Season Day 4, Part 1 Saturday 09.09.2023 - Provisional Standings https://www.championshockeyleague.com/en/standings#select_standings=0&tab_standings=regular-season

Regular Season Day 4, Part 1 Saturday 09.09.2023 - Results 16:00 Tappara Tampere (FIN) - Skellefteå AIK (SWE) 3-5 (2-2, 0-3, 1-0) 16:30 Dynamo Pardubice (CZE) - ERC Ingolstadt (GER) 6-1 (4-0, 2-0, 0-1) 19:45 Genève-Servette HC (SUI) - Rouen Dragons (FRA) 9-1 (3-0, 5-0, 1-1) 20:00 Belfast Giants (GBR) - HC Bolzano/Bozen (ITA/AUT) 4-0 (2-0, 1-0, 1-0) 20:20 Red Bull Salzburg (AUT) - Stavanger Oilers (NOR) 5-2 (0-0, 4-0, 1-2)

however, looking at the men's -73kg OQR, Today's competition didn't bring anything new to the standings Today's Gold medallists Weerapon Wichuma (349kg Total) was already high in the ranking, but of course now goes even higher, in 2nd place the only new entry in the Top 10 is Today's Silver medallist, Wei Yinting (337kg Total), who climbed the ranking up to 7th place, consolidating position, as they were only 10th after Chen Lijun's effort in the -67kg a couple of days ago now the last above the qualification line is Muhammed Furkan Ozbek with 334kg Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist Mirko Zanni, who didn't participate in today's event (even if he was regularly registered in Group A) because of a knee injury that made the Italian coaches take the decision to pull out at the last minute to preserve him from aggravating said injury, is still in the 9th useful place and he should pay attention to what's gonna happen in the next months if he doesn't want to miss the Paris Games

yeah, I guess this is the first ever Group C champion (while we've seen a few from Group B, even the Olympic Champion -the great Om in London) by the way, 5th and 7th overall are from Group D imho, not good for the sport, though and I have to say that Wichuma might be sensational, but I fear Thailand haven't learned the lesson from the previous suspension

old samples can be legally tested until 8 years after they were collected, so those of 2012 are now "legally dead" and actually they should have been destroyed after the end of the period they have to be kept by law

so, we need to hire an exorcist as the new president of the volleyball federation

however...this is the Olympic Events Medal Table so far 3 / 1 / 1 3 / 1 / 0 1 / 1 / 0 1 / 0 / 1 0 / 2 / 0 0 / 1 / 2 0 / 1 / 1 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 this & domination doesn't look good at all (sorry British and Dutch friends )

it will never happen...Italy are definitely too weak to be an OQP contender tomorrow could lose the quota place only if they fall into the water like the men's German LW Doubles in the semis

yes, it looks that's still the case but the main problem (with the non-Olympic classes being cut off the program year after year) is that they also live a parallel life where the Eight is the dream boat, they sacrifice almost everything to that also this year, we could easily have a stronger Fours (that would have qualified without any problem) and our biggest talent Di Mauro in the single scull (with medal ambitions, not only a miserable OQP), but no...they had to waste a lot of talent in that fuckin' Eight (which didn't even make the final, as I expected) and also among the women, it's the same (sure, they are in the final, but only because there were only 5 more competitive boats at the start...tomorrow they will finish dead last at least 20 secs behind the medallists) I'm really furious about that

@hckošice just another bad night for your team

Mexico!!! @mrv86

well, also is going to the OQT with their B team (and Z coach )

here we go! another (expected) epic fail by our Olympic champions no Paris also in this class...well done, girls (and staff)!!!