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my prediction...the Games will be cancelled because we have only a bunch of idiots leading our government and our institutions...and because the IOC is led by the idiot most idiot of them all

Laura... unfortunately, she wasted her best boulder in the qualification round...if only she could repeat that kind of performance today, she would have got the OQP

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/former-nhler-adam-johnson-dies-after-freak-accident-during-game-in-england/

game #28, beat by 87 runs basically a no contest, the team scored only 229/all out in the 1st inning, but never gave the idea of being even close to complete their chase and in fact they stopped at 142/all out in 42+ overs in the 2nd stint after the very emotional Oceanian Derby, this match was good just to take a quick sleep in the mid of the afternoon (European time) game details https://www.cricketworldcup.com/match/102743 Tomorrow, game #29 features the Host Nation vs the reigning champions, vs at 9.30 a.m. CET in Lucknow under normal circumstances, this would be a not-to-be-missed matchup, but given situation, only the "name" of a great rivalry remains, which takes a lot of hype away from the game

Shiffrin and Odermatt should win it easily, if nothing "strange" happens

the Individual events are over...and and all have won 2 Gold medals, meanwhile the remaining 4 titles went to and out of curiosity, if Karate was still an Olympic sport, and would have won an Olympic Gold, together with or , or , or and or

so, just 1 silver and 3 bronze medals (2 in Kumite) for and Tomorrow's team events won't change the general perspective of this championship for us: it's the worst performance since a very, very long time a true disappointment, especially by the most consolidated "names" among our Kumite specialists more in general, we had another match ended with high drama like in the first session of the day: the great Steven Dacosta saved himself the gold medal exactly like Abdelaziz earlier, thanks to the final hit by Dulovic coming a fraction of a second too late Tomorrow the World Championships end with the Team Events medal matches

Today's Medallists (Part II) Men's Individual Kata Gold: Alì Sofuoglu Silver: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila Bronze #1: Ariel Torres Gutierrez Bronze #2: Kakeru Nishiyama Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold: Christos-Stefanos Xenos Silver: Kaisar Alpysbay Bronze #1: Angelo Crescenzo Bronze #2: Eray Samdan Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold: Steven Dacosta Silver: Nenad Dulovic Bronze #1: Didar Amirali Bronze #2: Fahad Alkhathami Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold: Moldir Zhangbyrbay Silver: Erminia Perfetto Bronze #1: Reem Ahmed Salama Bronze #2: Yorgelis Salazar Camacho Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold: Tuba Yakan Silver: Ivet Goranova Bronze #1: Barbara Perez Bronze #2: Anzhelika Terliuga Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold: Gong Li Silver: Fatma Naz Bronze #1: Laura Sivert Bronze #2: Alì Noursin

what a match!!! in game #27, just edged out by 5 runs in an amazing record-breaking clash of Titans went out red hot and led by Travis Head's "century", they scored a crazy 388/all out in 49.2 overs in the 1st inning it looked that their lead was quite comfortable, but didn't think so and in the 2nd inning started a furious chase, which remained short of only 5 runs, as they went 383/9 in 50 overs remarkable "century" also for the New Zealander Rachin Ravindra this match improves the numbers of the early clash between and and with 771 total runs establish the new record for a ODI CWC match game details https://www.cricketworldcup.com/match/102768

high drama in the men's -75kg Kumite Gold Medal match, as local hero Gabor Harspataki was 3-2 down with a few seconds left when he looked to have pulled out a miracle and found a 3-point projection that would have given him the Gold Medal but unfortunately for him, the final action came just outside the time limit, when the clock already had all 0s on and therefore Abdelaziz saved himself and won the gold medal among the women, 3rd world title for Zaretska, but tbh it was quite a robbery, given what happened in the last 15 seconds of the match, when Quirici was denied at least 2 good yuko (the scored was tied 4-4 at that moment) that would have put her ahead with very few seconds left on the clock, before Zaretska scored the final point

Today's Medallists (Part I) Women's Individual Kata Gold: Hikaru Ono Silver: Grace Lau Mo Sheung Bronze #1: Paola Garcia Lozano Bronze #2: Terryana D'Onofrio Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold: Iryna Zaretska Silver: Elena Quirici Bronze #1: Alizèe Agier Bronze #2: Georgia Zefanya Ceyco Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold: Ayaka Saito Silver: Maria Torres Garcia Bronze #1: Clio Ferracuti Bronze #2: Shaaban Okila Menna Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold: Mamduh Abdelaziz Abdalla Silver: Karoly Gabor Harspataki Bronze #1: Ernest Sharafutdinov Bronze #2: Andrii Zaplitnyi Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold: Youssef Badawy Silver: Mahdi Khodabakhshi Bronze #1: Valerii Chobotar Bronze #2: Mohammad Aljafari Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold: Mehdi Filali Silver: Tarek Mahmud Taha Bronze #1: Djorde Tesanovic Bronze #2: Sajad Ganjzadeh

never...

after Tonight game #1 of the MLB World Series goes on stage, Tomorrow (11.30 a.m. CET) it's time also for the NPB to start their finals, the Japan Series 2023 after dominating their respective league in the Regular Season and in the Climax Series (the LCS, to use the same name of the MLB), this year's showdown is the highly anticipated Kansai Derby, where the reigning champions, Osaka Orix Buffaloes face the Hanshin Tigers from Nishinomiya like all the major leagues' final series, it's a best-of-7 series with the classic 2-3-2 format

almost, but not quite! saved their ass vs earlier Today in a match that was apparently locked for them, but suddenly became a real thriller in the last 10 overs of the 2nd inning, when the South Africans got short of wickets and the Asians went so close as nobody thought to an amazing "remuntada" game #26, edged out by just 1 wicket scored 270/all out in 46.4 overs in the 1st inning, then was comfortably on their way to easily complete the chase, but when the last pure hitter, Aiden Markram, went out in the 41st over, a dripping began for them, as the last batsmen couldn't hit a boundary helped also by a few "wide" and by a controversial "umpire call", finally could finish their job thanks to most unexpected hero with a bat in his hands, Keshav Maharaj, who found the last runs to complete the chase and take the victory home the final score is 271/9 in 47.2 overs game details https://www.cricketworldcup.com/match/102742 Tomorrow, games #27 and #28 are on stage: first, the great Oceanian Derby, the highly anticipated clash between and at 7 a.m. CET in Dharamsala; then, faces at 10.30 a.m. CET in Kolkata

Day #4 Medal Matches Women's Team Kumite Gold Medal Match: Japan vs Spain Bronze Medal Match #1: Kazakhstan vs Kosovo Bronze Medal Match #2: Croatia vs Hungary Men's Team Kumite Gold Medal Match: Egypt vs Jordan Bronze Medal Match #1: Italy vs Azerbaijan Bronze Medal Match #2: Kazakhstan vs France

*I think it's difficult to get this one right, as the guy is suspended for doping

I mean that forcing a young talent like him to retire not to compromise his mental health because he feels that he's not being treated like he deserves by an institution that's supposed to protect their "assets" rather than getting them so uncomfortable is absolutely an awful story (I didn't even read the whole article, I was just thinking of this situation in general terms)

and the disaster continues... both the women and men's teams (the boys are the reigning champions) in Kumite have already been eliminated in the early rounds (even if the men could still enter the repechage for bronze if make it through to the GMM -currently they are playing their semifinal match vs )

I think so, as they've already been reinstated

some details (awful story) https://www.eurosport.com/alpine-skiing/solden/2023-2024/lucas-braathen-norwegian-world-cup-slalom-champion-announces-retirement-from-skiing-aged-23_sto9855135/story.shtml

yeah, I know all the drama behind Oscar's situation...it was just to remark how he represents a true exception for Today's standard I'm really a fan of him and I hope he can somehow get the chance to win an Olympic medal

naaa, the "judogi" is the full set of jacket, pants and belt (and for the women, the white t-shirt under the jacket is also mandatory)

Kata* is just like watching Rhythmic Gymnastics and Artistic Swimming...it goes from boring to farcical...it's not even a sport, just entertainment...and not the kind I usually like *and it's the same for all the Martial Arts, not only in Karate

except for our Cuban friend, Oscar Pino Hinds OK, in Freestyle he only won medals at Panamerican level, but still...it was a great achievement, I think

yeah, but this isn't the question they used to have the same weight classes for Freestyle and Greco-Roman Wrestling until a few years ago (2012, if I remember correctly), but then a brilliant mind came up with the decision to have different weight in the 2 disciplines, as if it would make any difference basically, they used the excusation that GR is more a European affair and the average weight of European people is heavier than for instance the average Asians, where most Freestyle Nations come from even if it's true that FR is more widely spread outside Europe than GR, I still think it's just cosmetics and also a mess that might cause problems to the occasional fans to identify the categories of this sport however, now it's quite some time (since Rio 2016 at the Olympic Games) that we have this difference and I don't think we'll get back to the old situation