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why not Botswana, too?

it would work this way only if the 2006 venues were still there...but the Ski Jumping Hills in Pragelato and also the Cesana Sliding Sports Track have been totally dismissed...basically they should be rebuilt from 0, therefore there wouldn't be any cost cutting nor any efficient management of the venues...
not to mention that the 2006 Olympic Village now is just an abandoned block occupied by homeless, criminals, drug dealers and such kind of people...
 
 
OMG!!!! there's an earthquake!!! ah, no...it's just the FC Inter that scored the go-ahead-goal in the Soccer Champions League Game against Tottenham FC...
ah, my neighbours...

Yeah I know. it's hard to believe for me someone can wrestle in both weights at the same day. but since i heard about that crazy rule few days ago (and didn't pay attention much to read the details) I was just wondering if that's possible specially because the Indian 60kg guy looked a bit small for that weight. (didn't see the 55kg Vijay today to compare them, watched him yesterday but can't remember the face)
 
still wait for our Indian friends to confirm that. even though I know that's very unlikely
 
 

The problem is that in South Tyrol the citizens take care of the territory as if it were their home meanwhile in the rest of Italy it doesn't happen.
I live in Cava de'Tirreni, in the deep south of the country, very near the Costiera Amalfitana... My heart breaks when I see my territory being devastated

I don't have any sort of problem with their website...I can see the proper page...

Never say never, 2102 is also 'ever'  

I am afraid what will happen to Collalbo if the Winter Olympics ever come to South Tyrol. Collalbo is one of the most special and beautiful speed skating tracks in the world right now (just like for example Medeo in Kazakhstan and like Inzell used to be), but I'm 99,99% certain they'd destroy all that, throw an arena on top of it and make it one of many many completely generic and anonymous tracks.. 

naaa...
they didn't change and will never change...
anything else, it's just illusion...
 
to see any change (in general, not only from the Russians), we should get back to real amateur sport...because until there's an economical interest on it, there will always be cheaters all around...

Vontae Davis of the Bills pissed off his team....by retiring from American football at half-time
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/american-football/45544961

And if it becomes Mixed BMX Marathon it will be a shoe in for the Olympics

as posted in the Baseball thread...
the tournament between the top 6 teams of the last European Championships named Super Six starts tomorrow also for what concerns Softball...
 
infos and online coverage are reported in the Baseball thread linked above...
 
the Softball teams taking part into this tournament are:
 
Czech Republic
Great Britain
Greece
Italy
Netherlands
Russia

There's a 24 hour+ time difference with China nowadays?  

I know and I agree, but I only said that where's money all around, there will be also always someone not playing "fair"...
it's the human nature, I guess...

sorry, mate! it didn't go the right way (your right way, at least)...

I know and I agree, but I only said that where's money all around, there will be also always someone not playing "fair"...
it's the human nature, I guess...

I think he's still recovering from an old injury...
Chiara Soldi (commentating the finals on PMG/Youtube stream) said she's talked with him and he promised to be on the mat for the Premier League Final in Tokyo, but she didn't say anything about the reason why he's not in Berlin this week...

Finally some good news for Italy after the disaster the rowing world's have been (I am totally kidding) lol.

Karate 1 Premier League
 
Stage #6 (Berlin, GER)
 
Medal Matches Results
 
Women's Kata
Gold Medal Match: Kiyou Shimizu b. Sandra Sanchez Jaime
Bronze Medal Match #1: Emiri Iwamoto b. Natsuki Shimizu
Bronze Medal Match #2: Viviana Bottaro b. Mirisa Ohuchi
 
Men's Kata
Gold Medal Match: Ryo Kiyuna vs Issei Shimbaba
Bronze Medal Match #1: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila b. Kazumasa Moto
Bronze Medal Match #2: Alì Sofuoglu b. Yuta Hibi
 
Women's Kumite, -50kg
Gold Medal Match: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu b. Ayaka Tadano
Bronze Medal Match #1: Radwa Sayed b. Shara Hubrich
Bronze Medal Match #2: Kinatsu Endo b. Alexandra Recchia

Women's Kumite, -55kg
Gold Medal Match: Anzhelika Terliuga b. Li Lirisman
Bronze Medal Match #1: Jenna Brown b. Yassmin Attia
Bronze Medal Match #2: Sara Cardin b. Carlota Fernandez Osorio
 
Women's Kumite, -61kg
Gold Medal Match: Alexandra Grande* b. Leila Heurtault
Bronze Medal Match #1: Haya Jumaa b. Giana Lofty
Bronze Medal Match #2: Gwendoline Philippe b. Ayamai Moriguchi

Women's Kumite, -68kg
Gold Medal Match: Eda Eltemur b. Irina Zaretska
Bronze Medal Match #1: Silvia Semeraro b. Miroslava Kopunova
Bronze Medal Match #2: Kayo Someya b. Elena Quirici

Women's Kumite, +68kg
Gold Medal Match: Ayumi Uekusa b. Clio Ferracuti
Bronze Medal Match #1: Ayaka Saito b. Shymaa Abouelyazed
Bronze Medal Match #2: Laura Palacio Gonzalez b. Meltem Hocaoglu
 
Men's Kumite, -60kg
Gold Medal Match: Angelo Crescenzo b. Yugo Kozaki
Bronze Medal Match #1: Firdovsi Farzaliyev b. Kaisar Alpysbay
Bronze Medal Match #2: Amir Mehdizadeh b. Darkhan Assadilov

Men's Kumite, -67kg
Gold Medal Match: Luca Maresca b. Vinicius Figueira
Bronze Medal Match #1: Hiroto Shinoara b. Dionysios Xenos
Bronze Medal Match #2: Steven Da Costa b. Jordan Thomas

Men's Kumite, -75kg
Gold Medal Match: Yusei Sakiyama b. Rafael Aghayev
Bronze Medal Match #1: Ken Nishimura b. Noah Bitsch
Bronze Medal Match #2: Scott Thomas b. Erman Eltemur
 
Men's Kumite, -84kg
Gold Medal Match: Ryutaro Araga b. Daniyar Yuldashev
Bronze Medal Match #1:  Zabiollah Poorshab b. Ugur Aktas
Bronze Medal Match #2: Timothy Petersen b. Jessie Da Costa

Men's Kumite, +84kg
Gold Medal Match: Sajad Ganizadeh vs Gogita Arkania
Bronze Medal Match #1: Andjelo Kvesic b. Herolind Nishevci
Bronze Medal Match #2: Jonathan Horne b. Shahin Atamov
 
 
*= actually starting under the WKF Flag (I don't know what kind of troubles Peru have with the International Federation to not be able to show up with their own Flag )...
 

naaa...
they didn't change and will never change...
anything else, it's just illusion...
 
to see any change (in general, not only from the Russians), we should get back to real amateur sport...because until there's an economical interest on it, there will always be cheaters all around...

sure I am...and I also saw your success (at least for now) at the WEG...
earlier we had the Hockey girls doing some magic...
well, it looks quite a good period for Irish Oympic sport...

I understand. But be happy for us ...... if I tell you, yesterday was Ireland's first ever gold in an Olympic category at the rowing world championships, and less than 24 hours later, we got a second. So this is uncharted water for us (pun intended )

OMG!!!!! Ireland on fire!!! another Gold medal for them! Puspure destroyed the (former) world champion,  Jeannine Gmelin!
Bronze for Austria with Magdalena Lobnig, but once again well behind the top 2...

I'd say almost 0 for the men, quite slim for the girls (those who are so good in the speed event must improve a lot also in at least 1 of the other 2 disciplines to have a real shot at it)...
that's because I expect from now to the next couple of years that quite a lot of lead/boulder specialist to eventually start working also on speed to consolidate their chances...
and as you might have noticed from the results of these world champs, there are many girls with already a strong pedigree in both lead and boulder, which gives them a big advantage over the sprint specialists, who normally are good only in that event...

please, be serious!

No, unfortunately he´s still not retired, but he really should be fired...
 
I know off topic joke, but hey, can not help, I always immediately think about him when I read pellegrini.
 
 
Anyway to be sure, to not got me wrong, I´m a big fan of Federica and I always was