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in Wintersports, Natural Track Luge doubles are an "open" competition (and has already happened that a few actual pairs were male + female* even at the highest level -talking of world championships)...
 
*the last one, it was Slovenia 3/4 years ago, if I remember well (but the Country might be wrong, I should check)...

With tears in mu eyes.
Filippo Mondelli, rowing,  dies at 26. 
Former world championship 2018 4x.
 

Mixed trap, because you know.. I'm Italian

World Championships Park Cancelled
 
https://www.lequipe.fr/Adrenaline/Skateboard/Actualites/Les-championnats-du-monde-de-skateboard-park-2021-sont-annules/1247353
 

Return to the shocking 7-1 win of over
 
Dmitri Kuzmin delivered this beauty
 

 
Highlights of the match
 

 
and if anyone interested.
 
the goal fest - 12-1 highlights
 

 
and remaining night games highlights
-   5-3 + -   4-3 after PSO
 
 

None of the French fencers was, of course, bought with a check - all of them are French born.
Have a read on Guadelupe and fencing: https://tokyo2020.org/en/news/amp/guadeloupe-a-small-island-of-great-fencers
And if Guadeloupeans are too black for anyone's taste, try adjusting the color settings on your tv 
 

And Japan announced the list. They gave up women’s epee and chose to form other 5 teams.

Extraliga, Finals, Game #5
 
HC Oceláři Třinec are the Extraliga champions 2020/2021! 
 
Another undisputable home win by the Steelers completed the job and allowed them to start the party for their 3rd title, 2nd in a row...
 
Liberec did never show to have any chance through the entire series, Třinec's superiority was clear from the start to the end of the series in any aspect of the game...
 
HC Oceláři Třinec - Bílí Tygři Liberec 3-0 (series score: 4-1)
 
Game #5 stats: https://hokej.cz/zapas/2894223
 
Highlights
 

2nd period scoreboard read from bottom
 

Crazy and epic comeback of the young Russians against the host USA.
 
USA was leading 5-1 at the 25th minute but did not win the match. The biggest comeback in the U18 Top division history.
 
Highlights
 

anything but Gold for Italy would be a huge disappointment (even if light wind and flat sea could make a lot of damage to our sailors, but this is not what people expect from the Olympic Sailing area in Summer)...
 
our main rivals should be the Australians...
 
Bronze should go to GBR or ARG, I picked GBR this time...
 
the rest of the crews would need a lot of luck (and unexpected weather conditions) to end up ahead of the top 4...
 
all this, according to the results of the last 3/4 years in this class...

yeah, she's Russian (actually, she only switched to AZE in 2018)...
she was born in Togliatti in 1996...

they called it the leg foul. it was a close call but I would give it 4 to Kamal. he was the better wrestler clearly. even without that 4pts throw still they could give Emelin another passivity caution.
 
the way they give cautions is terrible. no consistency at all. nobody knows when they are going to give a 3rd caution. in that match Kamal worked really hard for a 3rd caution but they didn't give it. probably because they knew Kamal may score something and win the match, (and they didn't want to make the big Mamiashvili angry) but then for example in Italy-Austria 97kg bronze medal match, they gave a nonsense 3rd caution against Nikoloz. most probably because they knew the Austrian can't move him an inch. in that POL-SRB match I explain above, they didn't even give the 2nd caution despite absolutely no activity in the 2nd period.
 
whenever I see a tournament with relatively "good officiating" they come back strongly the next tournament with some terrible officiating (not necessarily on purpose, sometimes simply because they are stupid) to make sure nobody forgets how bad they are. I couldn't watch the preliminaries since Iam busy these days but I watched yesterday and tonight finals and saw so many calls I consider them questionable.

"Big dog" ?
 

The good thing about wrestling is that the refs never stop to surprise you they didn't give Mate Nemes the passivity caution the entire match but then they gave him 2pts caution for being extremely passive in the last minute so he wasn't passive (according to the refs) but then they realized he is VERY passive to be penalized by 2pts negative wrestling caution
 
at first this sounds like more punishment but in fact passivity caution with a chance on top in parterre position was what the Polish wrestler was looking for. not a sure thing he could make up for that nice 4 pts throw of Nemes. Nemes most probably could still win the match though but that officiating was hilarious.

wow! that's an amazing job! the best I've ever seen...
 
thank you, guys!

I'm of the opinion that all Olympic events should have at least 12 entrants (especially if you are going to give continental quotas). If the quality of the field isn't strong enough to justify this then it shouldn't be in the Olympics.
 
Fencing team events have enough depth to justify 12 entrants.

A more detailed Day by Day schedule has been posted and you can all find the links in the navigation bar:
 

 
Thanks to @Matejand @Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo who contributed to realize that!
 
 

no, never... 
 
rather, throw Fencing out of the Olympics in full...
 
there's no need to ruin another sport because of the idiots running the IOC, thanks...
 
better alone that with bad company...  

KHL, Finals, Game #4
 
Very exciting game #4 of the Gagarin Cup Series...
CSKA Moscow started strong on the wings of the last 2 games' wins and earned a 2-goal lead after just 12 mins of play...
But Avangard this time didn't surrender and fought back 1, 2, 3 times until they got a 3-2 lead with only 5 mins left in regulation...
and then came the CSKA fireworks...finally, after 5 mins of sustained pressure, in pure desperation mode, the men from the Capital scored the tying goal thanks to Matt Robinson in power play with only 1 second left on the clock! 
But when everybody started to think that momentum was going all towards CSKA, after only 5 mins into the OT, Pavel Dedunov scored an amazing and unbelievable short-handed goal to give Avangard the win in this amazing match, tying the series at 2 apiece...
 
Game #5 is scheduled for next Monday, April 26th, at 7.30 p.m. Moscow time (6.30 p.m. CET) in Moscow...
 
Avangard Omsk - CSKA Moscow 4-3 after OT (series score: 2-2)
 
Game #4 stats: https://en.khl.ru/game/1046/877124/protocol/
 
Highlights:
 

Extraliga, Finals, Game #4
 
A lone goal by Matej Stransky about 9 mins into the OT decided the 4th episode of the Czech Final Series...
Once again, actually, more than ever, it was a close, tactical battle, but to be honest, also a rather boring match, where really few exciting plays happened...
Now HC Oceláři Třinec are leading the series 3-1 and next Monday they have the chance to close things down in a home clash...
 
Game #4 in fact is scheduled for next Monday, April 26th, at 5 p.m. local time (CET) in Třinec...
 
Bílí Tygři Liberec - HC Oceláři Třinec 0-1 after OT (series score: 1-3)
 
Game #4 stats: https://hokej.cz/zapas/2894222
 
Highlights
 

Because mixed weapon team events are a joke, and it’s literally impossible to do a mixed gender fencing event in a way that is fair (same problem the mixed judo team event is running into).

I honestly believe that with this idiotic quota reduction it´s time for team competitions to abandon the program.
 
When you actually see that between 5-8 fencers in each weapon and gender will only be in Tokyo because they´re needed to fill a quota for a team (the one's with continental / host  places in particular), and some very competent individuals being left out because of that ridiculous 8 team "competition", then you should left space for more countries to send their best, respecting the 3 per country for those powerhouses that can actually qualify them.
 
 

Right, the team events severely limit participation in Fencing. If the FIE/IOC wanted to increase participation, they’d have to reform how quotas are distributed for teams events, or drop the team events all together.

yes, it's wrong...
 
this is the official qualification sheet by IWF (paragraph B5):
 
https://www.iwf.net/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2020/05/FINAL-2020-05-26-Tokyo-2020-Revised-Qualification-system-Weightlifting-eng.pdf