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Great result for Switzerland

They announced but you know... RAI is RAI. Let's hope that they will show fencing and no some match of the Primavera Serie A or something of unless like this  

finally a global medal for her...let's hope she doeasn't stop right now, when things get more "tasty"...
p.s. we also have RAISport HD live for the finals (at least they announced it)...

I told you we're gonna have a Navarria-Popescu final 

no, I think he's been injured for quite a while right now...
I guess (I hope) we'll see him again in the next season...

Tonight at 19.30 CET (men) and 21 CET (women) the Finals of the Briançon World Cup stage (Lead)...
 
Live free here:
 

3 failures at 1.94 (not sure if the good result was 1.90 or 1.91)...
 
here you can watch all the Russian championships live and/or on-demand (women's HJ is in day #1, вечерняя сессия...Chicherova's attempts at 1.94 are at about 3h30mins of that video):
http://eng.rusathletics.com/sor/calendar.4337.htm

Just like in Rio. That was awesome, on the major Dutch forum the only people watching and posting were people actually interested in the sports instead of people who don't care and just come to troll (which happens a lot when it's during daytime)
 
Still hate the fact that I'm being mocked for the 200m breaststroke though. One guy asked "who's the favourite for this race?", I answered "Everyone but Balandin."......couple minutes later, Balandin won the gold.

Morning is fine too, like Pyeongchang  
 
I mean, I like when it starts anywhere between 23:00 and 01:00, generally speaking, because then most of the sports day is in a time when at least here there won't be people awake asking for your attention  Plus when it's over halfway in the afternoon, that leaves plenty of time for stuff like stocking up in the supermarket, which is hard when the Olympics are in Europe (since then the supermarkets are closed outside of the sports hours  )

unfortunately Ten's death is confirmed...
https://bnews.kz/en/news/25_year_old_denis_ten_has_died
R.I.P.

well, I'm not that old (I'm gonna turn 44 in 9 days) to remember foil and epee before wiring (my first really clear memories are about the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and those weapons were already wired)...
meanwhile sabre became like the others only after the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games...and I remember that before that, all assaults lasted more than a foil match because there were always a lot of complaints and so many fencers arguing with the refs at every hit...
and actually many times the fencers also had a lot of discussions even between themselves during the assault, reciprocally complaining about opponent's unfair attemps to manipulate the ref...
what I liked, it was the rule that after 3 calls of "simultanèe" priority was assigned to one of the 2 athletes (the 1st was by draw, then it was 1 left and 1 right according to the natural sequence), so in case of a 4th call "simultanèe" the hit was going to someone in any case...I'd rather apply that rule also to today's sabre, because I can't stand those coward refs who always call that even 10 or more times in a row every time they do not have a really evident "winner" of the hit...
I couldn't find anything about the epic mess of the team bronze medal match in Seoul 1988 (guess who were involved? yes, you're right...the Italians were there ), but here is part of the Los Angeles 1984 Team Gold Medal match between ITA and FRA...that's a good expample of how sabre was at the time...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQjDT6ORMyk
 

What's a world fencing contest without atletes from Congo, Botswana and Togo? I think the WCH should be stopped immediately

sure...if you think that even "the Donald" is better than Hitler and Stalin...

no, here in Europe it's not like that...
it's not a question of being sexist...it's really like @dcro wrote...
most girls here are not really interested in sports (especially some not so popular disciplines not seen as "female oriented"), even when they're given the same exact opportunities as the boys...

Right it´s +7 not +9.
never been brilliant in maths..

why don't you take a tour to the Roller Sports (Rink Hockey Euro 2018) thread?

sure...if you think that even "the Donald" is better than Hitler and Stalin...

for what I see, the men's 50km race walk starts at 6 a.m. Tokyo time, which means 11 p.m. of the previous day here in Central Europe (and not 9 p.m. CET)...
and also the Slalom Canoeing races start at 6 a.m. (qualifications) and 7 a.m. (semis & finals) CET...
in Summer, Tokyo time is UTC+9, which means CET+7...
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/japan/tokyo
 
p.s. I guess the schedule has been compiled by the same genious that made the Pyeongchang one...almost all the finals are locked in the 6 to 10 p.m. local time (and a few in the morning and in the 2 - 4 p.m. slots)...

I'm happy you've taken it so light...

I'm happy you've taken it so light...

I'm happy you've taken it so light...

I am pretty sure Totallympics collectively could create a better sports program. 
 
 

and here comes out your poor knowledge of the game (and the fact that you've never tried to play it in an organized situation)...