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When shotgun competitions start having more team than individual events.
 

Men's Skeet
 
Gold:  Mykola Milchev
Silver:  Jesper Hansen
Bronze:  Rashid Hamad

in Oberstdorf, they should  hire the Cortina snow crew...
 
despite those temperatures, they've been able to keep the tracks working perfectly (and yesterday's top time in the 2nd run by Liensberger and today's Vinatzer's 2nd time in the 1st run with no.17 are there to show that, before someone is going to say something)...

it's not unprecedented...
 
however, what FIS thought yesterday before taking this decision is irrelevant...today's results (and all of the previous days' too) are there to show the great job of the snow crew, by far the MVP of the championships (because if we look at the organizers choosing the slopes and at FIS making the course design for the speed events and that farce named parallel slalom...well, they have been the true disaster of these 2 weeks)...

so at the end they managed to finish the game, even if they had to wait until the night came to save them from the embarassement
 
 
 
 

Italy are going to Budapest with almost a full squad (despite the chances to qualify somebody are very slim, maybe just Abraham Conyedo in the men's Freestyle -97kg class)...
 
what's interesting, we are launching at senior level our (very) young hope Simone Piroddu in the men's Freestyle -57kg class, which is very unusual for us...
 
this is the full list of our wrestlers flying to Hungary next month:
 
women's wrestling
 
Carmen Di Dio (-53kg) Aurora Russo (-57kg) Sara Dacol (-62kg) Dalma Caneva (-68kg) Eleni Pjollaj (-76kg)  
men's Freestyle
 
Simone Vincenzo Piroddu (-57kg) Simone Iannattoni (-86kg) Abraham Conyedo (-97kg)  
men's Greco-Roman
 
Jacopo Sandron (-60kg) Ruben Marvice (-67kg) Luca Dariozzi (-77kg) Fabio Parisi (-87kg) Nikoloz Kakhelashvili (-97kg) Luca Godino (-130kg)

Larissa Iapichino (Fiona May's daughter) strikes again! 
 
At the Italian indoor Nationals, earlier today she jumped 6.91m long, new senior Italian indoor record (tied with her mom), new World Limit in 2021, qualifying standard for Tokyo 2020 also for the Italian federation (we usually have higher standards than the WA qualifying marks) and above all, new Junior (U20) World Record, improving Heike Drechsler 6.88m from 1983...  
 
all this, at the age of 18 (she turns 19 next July)...

Hooking ?

they do really fear to be sued by the athletes not making the cut if they don't give them theoretical chances to qualify...
 
actually, they fear many probable protests in all the disciplines using rankings when not stated at the beginning of the qualifying process...
 
if the Games go on, it's gonna be fun...there will be a lot complaints from many sides and many sports by all those who miss out on qualification...

and I want Britons to be cancelled, instead...
 
you should stop trolling around...
 
this is a sport forum, made mainly of true sport lovers who want the Games to go on...so, it really looks that this is not the right place for you...

they do really fear to be sued by the athletes not making the cut if they don't give them theoretical chances to qualify...
 
actually, they fear many probable protests in all the disciplines using rankings when not stated at the beginning of the qualifying process...
 
if the Games go on, it's gonna be fun...there will be a lot complaints from many sides and many sports by all those who miss out on qualification...

and I want Britons to be cancelled, instead...
 
you should stop trolling around...
 
this is a sport forum, made mainly of true sport lovers who want the Games to go on...so, it really looks that this is not the right place for you...

and I want Britons to be cancelled, instead...
 
you should stop trolling around...
 
this is a sport forum, made mainly of true sport lovers who want the Games to go on...so, it really looks that this is not the right place for you...

and I want Britons to be cancelled, instead...
 
you should stop trolling around...
 
this is a sport forum, made mainly of true sport lovers who want the Games to go on...so, it really looks that this is not the right place for you...

not so unexpected...
 
De Aliprandini was our secret weapon, we've been good at keeping him hidden enough until today...
 
jokes, aside...obviously he wasn't among the favourites today, but he has shown more than once that on a given day he's capable of being a top GS specialist...
 
unfortunately for him, he was never capable of doing it for 2 consecutive runs in the same day...but today finally it was the good one, he kept his heart rate at a reasonable level between the 2 runs and eventually got the podium he was only close to more than once in the last few seasons...
 
luckily, it happened at the home worlds (and even more after his teammates have summed up epic fails in series so far)...
 
p.s this is the 1st ever Silver medal in the men's GS for Italy (after 4 Gold and 3 Bronze medals)...

betrayed...I just feel betrayed...  

Liensberger maybe. Almost went to sleep there on the snow.
 
 

and congrats to Faivre...he deserves today's gold...he's been basically the only one having decent runs also on the blue course...well done...

no way...
 
let's start the party!  

when they're tied, the fastest in the 2nd run goes through to the next round...

because their opponents inherited the advantage by beating the higher seed...
 
so, actually it's not always the lower bib, but the skier filling the space of the supposed lower bib at the start of the knockout stage (if the no.16 beats the no., then it's like he gets the no.1 for the rest of the event, for instance)...

no, it's about the lower bib starting always on the red course...the skiers can't choose where to run first...

Leon Spinks, Montreal 1976 Boxing Olympic Champion in the Light Heavyweight class and former Pro Heavyweight undisputed world champion, dies at 67 because of a cancer...
 
https://www.cbssports.com/boxing/news/former-heavyweight-champion-leon-spinks-dies-at-67-after-lengthy-cancer-battle/
 
R.I.P.

Since there are so many "Italians" all around the world (especially in the American continent and Australia, but not only there) and so many "foreigners" adopted by Italy, I think it would be almost impossible to make a list for my Country...

Since there are so many "Italians" all around the world (especially in the American continent and Australia, but not only there) and so many "foreigners" adopted by Italy, I think it would be almost impossible to make a list for my Country...