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Russia (3-0 against Argentina) and  Italy (amazing comeback from 0-2 to 3-2 against Poland) will play for the gold medal tomorrow...

not going to post the relays' results, but here are the Sprint races'...
 
Women's Sprint

1. Irina Kazakevich (Sverdlovsk region) - 21: 20.4 (2)
2. Kristina Reztsova (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra) +6.7 (0)
3. Natalya Gerbulova (Krasnoyarsk province) +23.1 (1)
4. Uliana Nigmatullina (Udmurtia) + 30.9 (0)
5. Ekaterina Noskova (KhMAO-Yugra) +36,9 (1)
6. Larisa Kuklina (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) +37,1 (0)

Men's Sprint

1. Eduard Latypov (Bashkortostan) - 24: 34.2 (2)
2. Daniil Serokhvostov (Novosibirsk region) +4.6 (1)
3. Denis Tashtimerov (Tyumen region) +17.5 (0)
4. Semyon Suchilov (KhMAO-Yugra) + 26,6 (1)
5. Ilnaz Mukhamedzyanov (Udmurtia) +33,1 (1)
6. Evgeny Sidorov (St.Petersburg region) +49,1 (1)

not going to post the relays' results, but here are the Sprint races'...
 
Women's Sprint

1. Irina Kazakevich (Sverdlovsk region) - 21: 20.4 (2)
2. Kristina Reztsova (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra) +6.7 (0)
3. Natalya Gerbulova (Krasnoyarsk province) +23.1 (1)
4. Uliana Nigmatullina (Udmurtia) + 30.9 (0)
5. Ekaterina Noskova (KhMAO-Yugra) +36,9 (1)
6. Larisa Kuklina (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) +37,1 (0)

Men's Sprint

1. Eduard Latypov (Bashkortostan) - 24: 34.2 (2)
2. Daniil Serokhvostov (Novosibirsk region) +4.6 (1)
3. Denis Tashtimerov (Tyumen region) +17.5 (0)
4. Semyon Suchilov (KhMAO-Yugra) + 26,6 (1)
5. Ilnaz Mukhamedzyanov (Udmurtia) +33,1 (1)
6. Evgeny Sidorov (St.Petersburg region) +49,1 (1)

not going to post the relays' results, but here are the Sprint races'...
 
Women's Sprint

1. Irina Kazakevich (Sverdlovsk region) - 21: 20.4 (2)
2. Kristina Reztsova (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra) +6.7 (0)
3. Natalya Gerbulova (Krasnoyarsk province) +23.1 (1)
4. Uliana Nigmatullina (Udmurtia) + 30.9 (0)
5. Ekaterina Noskova (KhMAO-Yugra) +36,9 (1)
6. Larisa Kuklina (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) +37,1 (0)

Men's Sprint

1. Eduard Latypov (Bashkortostan) - 24: 34.2 (2)
2. Daniil Serokhvostov (Novosibirsk region) +4.6 (1)
3. Denis Tashtimerov (Tyumen region) +17.5 (0)
4. Semyon Suchilov (KhMAO-Yugra) + 26,6 (1)
5. Ilnaz Mukhamedzyanov (Udmurtia) +33,1 (1)
6. Evgeny Sidorov (St.Petersburg region) +49,1 (1)

not going to post the relays' results, but here are the Sprint races'...
 
Women's Sprint

1. Irina Kazakevich (Sverdlovsk region) - 21: 20.4 (2)
2. Kristina Reztsova (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra) +6.7 (0)
3. Natalya Gerbulova (Krasnoyarsk province) +23.1 (1)
4. Uliana Nigmatullina (Udmurtia) + 30.9 (0)
5. Ekaterina Noskova (KhMAO-Yugra) +36,9 (1)
6. Larisa Kuklina (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) +37,1 (0)

Men's Sprint

1. Eduard Latypov (Bashkortostan) - 24: 34.2 (2)
2. Daniil Serokhvostov (Novosibirsk region) +4.6 (1)
3. Denis Tashtimerov (Tyumen region) +17.5 (0)
4. Semyon Suchilov (KhMAO-Yugra) + 26,6 (1)
5. Ilnaz Mukhamedzyanov (Udmurtia) +33,1 (1)
6. Evgeny Sidorov (St.Petersburg region) +49,1 (1)

Russia just too good to be stopped...
 
however, very good result for our girls...

yeah, but that's not the only reason...
 
I've never liked Joshua as a fighter, even before London 2012 and I think he's way overestimated and he achieved all of his success (amateur & pro) only because of the rich and powerful organization behind him and not because he's a big talent nor an example of will and determination...
 
on the other hand, I've always been a fan of those Ukranian fighters who had well deserved success first among the amateurs and then among the pros (Lomachenko, Dereviyanchenko, the Klitschko's and many more, now Usyk)...

like an orgasm! 

like an orgasm! 

Oleksandr Usyk beats Anthony Joshua on points (117:112, 116:112, 115:113) and becomes new WBO, IBF & WBA heavyweight world champion. Really impressive and well deserved victory.

I think many things would eventually change in 3 years time...
 
becoming a standalone discipline, I guess there will be a major development and the results could be quite different from nowadays'...
 
however, speed doesn't really anything to do with boulder and lead, reason why it was time to leave it apart and stop adding to the Olympic Combined (which is still a nonsense, but at least now it's better than the Tokyo version)...

naaa, we're only missing Janja Garnbret and a couple of the top Japanese climbers, but the level is very good...
 
actually, Grossman and Moroni put on a show earlier today in the women's boulder final, completing in style all the 4 sections to the top...

I want men's K1 and K2 200m back in the Olympic program...
 
immediately!!!  

here's better...
 
https://info.ianseo.net/?tourid=519

Junior Europeans running this week in Luxembourg...
 
here's the results' recap...
 
https://live.ijf.org/eju_jun2021/results
 
on day 1,  France dominated the men's side by winning both -60kg and -66kg gold medals, meanwhile  Russia were the most successful among the women, winning both the -48kg and the -52kg classes...
 Israel won the last gold medal of the day in the women's -57kg class...
 
today, the men's -73kg and -81kg and the women's -63kg and -70kg classes are on stage...
 
by the way, all the action is live for free on Youtube...

well, considering that the game was broadcasted on rai3 (which is a minor channel, with an average share of 6/7% in primetime) and started at 8 p.m. (when our primetime normally starts at 9.15/9.30 p.m.) on a saturday night still in Summer (and that it was available also online on dazn, which has its own decent number of viewers, especially now that they broadcast the serie A football), I think it's a very, very good result...
 
there's no chance for sports other than football, F1, Valentino Rossi and sometimes the big cycling classics to make big numbers in Italy...
 
the Olympic Games are always an exception because they grab a lot of occasional viewers that would never watch any other sport on regular basis...

and it is official. Best on best tournament woohoo !!!
 
 

you can add 1 more viewer from Italy! 

it's not that simple...
 
it was closed in 2017 because the roof had major damages after a storm (it was raining down inside, just on the track)...
 
then a fight between the local authorities (owner of the velodrome), the Italian Cycling Federation (those who were using the velodrome) and our NOC (the supervisor of all of our sports federations, the institution where formally the money given to those federations comes from -even if it all starts from the government, making funds available) started because nobody wanted to paid for renovation work...
 
and since the track was dangerous because of the water coming down on it, a judge decided to put the velodrome under judicial seizure until all the required works were completed...
 
as usual when the judges are part of the fight here in Italy, it took almost 3 and a half years to find an agreement between all the acting parts and 6 more months to complete the required work on the velodrome, but finally it became available for our NT to train just before the Olympics...
 
now it should undergo some more renovation work in the coming months, so to be fully available also for some international competitions next Spring (knowing how things work here in Italy, I'm happy if the job is done by the end of the year 2022)...
 
however, from next year on we should have a full time 250m track indoor velodrome available to our NT to develop some youngsters, hopefully not only in the endurance event...we need to get back to good level also in the sprint event sooner or later...

Montichiari, near Brescia, eastern part of Lombardy (which actually is a 250m indoor velodrome, but it was closed for a couple of years until last spring because it was raining down the roof and because of some burocratic issues on permissions to adjust that problem...usual Italian troubles when it comes to construction work)...
 
otherwise Wien in the cold months and on the many 400m outdoor tracks we have in Summer (mainly in Fiorenzuola d'Arda, near Piacenza, just a few kms south of Milan)...

as lovely as it looks, it doesn't fit the "modern track cycling" anymore, I fear... 
in fact, it's used mainly (if not exclusively) as an american football stadium nowadays...

it's on the Egyptian TV network On Time Sports (I saw some highlights on YT coming from OTS 3)...
 
I saw quite a few links to their broadcast, but I fear they were all somehow illegal stuff...
 
I don't know if they have some kind of official website/app where man can watch live and ondemand pictures from their channels? 
maybe our friend @thepharoah can tell us something more...

the IOC didn't want anymore a double standard tournament, with the first part played only by the second tier teams (without the NHL players) and a very short second round + playoffs with only 8 teams playing with the NHLers (what happened to the Slovaks in SLC 2002 still hurts the IIHF)...
 
at the same time, the NHL didn't want a 16-day tournament as it was before with 12 teams taking part to the olympics, so they came to an agreement...only 12 teams, NHL players playing the whole tournament, but at the same time a shorter tournament with that stupid format we have right now (in order to have a shorter break of the NHL regular season)...
 
common interests, I guess...

the IOC didn't want anymore a double standard tournament, with the first part played only by the second tier teams (without the NHL players) and a very short second round + playoffs with only 8 teams playing with the NHLers (what happened to the Slovaks in SLC 2002 still hurts the IIHF)...
 
at the same time, the NHL didn't want a 16-day tournament as it was before with 12 teams taking part to the olympics, so they came to an agreement...only 12 teams, NHL players playing the whole tournament, but at the same time a shorter tournament with that stupid format we have right now (in order to have a shorter break of the NHL regular season)...
 
common interests, I guess...

The world famous winter resorts of Beijing and Milano obviously.