phelps

to explain...in Italian, Anguilla = Eel (since, this tasty dish of fried eels)...

to explain...in Italian, Anguilla = Eel (since, this tasty dish of fried eels)...

Well great to see Iceland with a medal , but this was a mediocre event at best and not worthy of a "European championship"
 

until they pretend to consider this "thing" a serious one meanwhile one of the 4 Major Tournaments of the year is running at the same time...

An egg and spoon race sounds way more fun and dynamic than that track'athlon nonsense.

At last Vito dell'Aquila is in semifinals, we'll see if he will be dsq... again  

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1065085/kiteboarding-set-to-appear-at-paris-2024-olympics
 
Urban sailing.

Panziera is not an average girl...she was expected to this kind of level for years...but she has been underperforming for quite a while for personal reasons...
p.s. for you is it more surprising a technically perfect swim like Panziera's bringing her to world excellence than the so funny and almost illegal swim by Burian getting so close to the Italian? c'mon!
 
the only "amazing" and surprising clocking by an Italian this week is Codia's 50.6...but still, sometimes it happens that you have a perfect race once in your life and get what you never expected before the race (and however, he had a PB of 51.0 and did make the final at the world and european champs -winning medals at the short course europeans, too- already earlier in his career...so, it's not that he improved more than 20 seconds in a year -any referral to Wellbroeck is not unintentional)...
 
p.p.s. of course 2 or 3 Italians having the meet of their life is a farce...
meanwhile teenagers like Milak, Kolesnikov, Chupkov, Chalmers or Freya Anderson coming out of nowhere -not necessarily this year, of course- and almost breaking world records or people like the Americans or Hosszu -not this time for obvious reasons, of course- winning multiple olympic gold medals in the most different disciplines is absolutely normal...
or watching people swimming a sprint race with 2 secs advantage on the rest of the field is also absolutely beyond any suspicion...
c'mon, man!
calm down and let your frustration out of your door...shouting at the bad Italians is not gonna make you live better...

with Codia swimming this morning's heats in the relay, he would have not won the individual race...that's sure...better like it's gone...
 
p.s. however, we could have used Restivo in the backstroke leg and Burdisso in the fly leg...in that case, we surely would have qualified for the final...and then, who knows?
 
p.p.s. in any case, nobody seems really caring about that fail, after the unexpected rain of gold medals we enjoyed earlier this afternoon...

I'm allergic to shellfish

Panziera is not an average girl...she was expected to this kind of level for years...but she has been underperforming for quite a while for personal reasons...
p.s. for you is it more surprising a technically perfect swim like Panziera's bringing her to world excellence than the so funny and almost illegal swim by Burian getting so close to the Italian? c'mon!
 
the only "amazing" and surprising clocking by an Italian this week is Codia's 50.6...but still, sometimes it happens that you have a perfect race once in your life and get what you never expected before the race (and however, he had a PB of 51.0 and did make the final at the world and european champs -winning medals at the short course europeans, too- already earlier in his career...so, it's not that he improved more than 20 seconds in a year -any referral to Wellbroeck is not unintentional)...
 
p.p.s. of course 2 or 3 Italians having the meet of their life is a farce...
meanwhile teenagers like Milak, Kolesnikov, Chupkov, Chalmers or Freya Anderson coming out of nowhere -not necessarily this year, of course- and almost breaking world records or people like the Americans or Hosszu -not this time for obvious reasons, of course- winning multiple olympic gold medals in the most different disciplines is absolutely normal...
or watching people swimming a sprint race with 2 secs advantage on the rest of the field is also absolutely beyond any suspicion...
c'mon, man!
calm down and let your frustration out of your door...shouting at the bad Italians is not gonna make you live better...

Panziera is not an average girl...she was expected to this kind of level for years...but she has been underperforming for quite a while for personal reasons...
p.s. for you is it more surprising a technically perfect swim like Panziera's bringing her to world excellence than the so funny and almost illegal swim by Burian getting so close to the Italian? c'mon!
 
the only "amazing" and surprising clocking by an Italian this week is Codia's 50.6...but still, sometimes it happens that you have a perfect race once in your life and get what you never expected before the race (and however, he had a PB of 51.0 and did make the final at the world and european champs -winning medals at the short course europeans, too- already earlier in his career...so, it's not that he improved more than 20 seconds in a year -any referral to Wellbroeck is not unintentional)...
 
p.p.s. of course 2 or 3 Italians having the meet of their life is a farce...
meanwhile teenagers like Milak, Kolesnikov, Chupkov, Chalmers or Freya Anderson coming out of nowhere -not necessarily this year, of course- and almost breaking world records or people like the Americans or Hosszu -not this time for obvious reasons, of course- winning multiple olympic gold medals in the most different disciplines is absolutely normal...
or watching people swimming a sprint race with 2 secs advantage on the rest of the field is also absolutely beyond any suspicion...
c'mon, man!
calm down and let your frustration out of your door...shouting at the bad Italians is not gonna make you live better...

Yes, it is definitely. We can eat very well and this preserve us from getting older. 
 
Now, let's assume for a second that you may be right: why did you said that you would like that all other countries should adopt the same system, instead of saying that doped athletes had to be punished? Did you get a violation while writing on some Italian monument?

Not sure if Europeans or Mediterranean Games...

il problema sono gli infortuni...non si vogliono correre troppi rischi buttando atleti in pieno carico pre-mondiali in una competizione potenzialmente difficile come un GP...
 
comunque io sono da sempre scettico sulle scelte dei nostri coach in fatto di partecipazione a questi tornei...secondo me i nostri ragazzi gareggiano troppo poco nelle gare più importanti...

Olympic Road Race courses revealed...and we're gonna have some tough, really tough races...especially the men's one...
https://tokyo2020.org/en/news/notice/20180809-01.html

Laser, Laser Radial and 49er FX standings are official now (and therefore also the Olympic Quota list)...

we need a perfect outing by our pitchers...that's always the key...
but I fear we played our jiker with yesterday's game, already...
in any case, this is our first QTF appearance in 12 years, so this tournament is a success for us even if we lose against MEX...

that's OK, since the 10th and last fleet race has been completed...
 
I only wrote to @Gianlu33 to wait for a while to post the Olympic quota, because the final result of the last race is not official yet, there could be an appeal that we don't know about it...I just want to make things official when they actually are official...

Nobody writes Gabbrielleschi's surname correctly, not even the official site and Italian people 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Phelps will not be happy.

let's start to recap the crews already qualified to the Tokyo Games after the 2018 World Championships...
 
Finn
Argentina Canada Hungary Great Britain New Zealand Sweden Turkey  
Men's 470
Australia France Great Britain Italy New Zealand Spain Sweden United States  
Women's 470
China France Great Britaon Greece Italy Israel Slovenia Spain

let's start to recap the crews already qualified to the Tokyo Games after the 2018 World Championships...
 
Finn
Argentina Canada Hungary Great Britain New Zealand Sweden Turkey  
Men's 470
Australia France Great Britain Italy New Zealand Spain Sweden United States  
Women's 470
China France Great Britaon Greece Italy Israel Slovenia Spain

Gudzius  
 
@Werloc has just exploded, rest in peace mate.