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They reinstated Ress as gold in the 50m backstroke after the podium ceremony was done and dusted. 

Yay, they really did those nordic combined girls dirty, lots of false hopes thrown around for years and probably the sport will be chopped before they get to compete. 

And so much for the hosts having much influence...3 races in ski-mountaineering (with the main event excluded) instead of the 5 everyone was saying and not even a parallel slalom, or a mixed parallel event since they like them, in snowboard.

The clock is not the score... 

They were streaming live on the olympic channel in 2018...not sure why they couldn't do the same...

 

19 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Beinsport isn't available in Italy. 

In before: 
 

3 covid cases among Canadian players according to the Italian federation.

 - 1 hour to what, if the opening ceremony is on Saturday, and competitions start tomorrow? 

8 minutes ago, dcro said:

Africa will take one of the spots. Means 16 starters minimum.

But also likely there will be a nation or two with better omnium ranking than some team pursuit nations, also some team pursuit nations will choose to select an omnium rider from their team.

Right, Africa makes it 16. As for the rest, imo it won't happen - better to enter 4+1 and then decide.

Dressel confirmed out for the rest of the WCh...

Those 7 spots in the omnium being taken by 7 of the 10 NOCs qualified in team pursuit seems the most likely outcome. that would mean only 15 starters in the omnium.

As for road cycling, next time they would do better by reducing the field to 50 with only 1 cyclist per NOCs, sigh. 

8 hours ago, dullard said:

She missed tests after she'd already stopped training and competing. I don't see anything suspect about her at all.

not exactly...the first two missed tests where in April and August 2018  - and she did compete at the Euros in August

And here sports fan are bashing RAI because they cut the live broadcast on Rai 2 just after Pilato's win, without showing live on tv interviews etc - not the first time it happens  when they are on Rai 1/2 instead of the sports channel- ...by saying that "This never happens to broadcasters with sports culture like the BBC and German TV!"

38 minutes ago, Vektor said:

Two of our strongest opponents 

By ranking and tradition yes, but not with the team that was present here, I doubt they would have been a challenge for Hungary...although we should still have beaten Turkey 

Any link to the full policy document mentioned by the BBC article?

5 silver medals out of 6 individual events for Italy ...the gold curse only broken because there were two Italians in the men's foil final.

Summary of the football qualfication system: everything TBD

3 hours ago, bestmen said:

lol what if some athletes give up ?? they are not in before registration ...this is a shadow list 

It's a schedule...there are no athletes listed

Detailed schedule (in Italian) by day and by sport at least can be found at https://orano2022.coni.it/programma-gare.html

Sallai, Szalai and Szoboszlai>>> Hidegkuti, Puskas and Kocsis.

I hope I have seen it wrong - very pixelated stream - but I think the Peruvian won the coin toss and chose to go second..that alone would be stupid enough to deserve to lose in 2022.

She's Italian, from near Rome, but has been representing Slovakia for a few years...I think her mother's family side is Slovakian. I doubt that entry list is correct though 

7 minutes ago, bestmen said:

no , Hungary will beat italy in fencing/swimming to equilibrate 

Slovakia will insist to add icehokey , then you will play the final vs Russia 

See, they listened to you and let a Slovakian enter in fencing https://fie.org/competition/2022/1140/entry/pdf?lang=en . And also Moldova, Venezuela, etc. https://fie.org/competition/2022/1142/entry/pdf?lang=en

4 hours ago, phelps said:

 

 

Going to Albania??? (I mean, I could understand if she goes to Austria, Switzerland or another skiing powerhouse in search of a better and more competitive team, but c'mon, man! Albania???!!!)

 

I knew there's something wrong in our Wintersports Federation, but that's really scary (and humiliating)...

So the whole family seemingly was given a passport today (some Albanian politician is announcing the girl as a chance for Albania to get an Olympic champion) and Ceccarelli is the new boss of the Albanian alpine skiing team -  money, a private team for her girl with her family running the whole show and to make her compete among seniors immediately are the reasons, I don't see why the Italian federation, which is not exactly the worst of the world in term of current results, should let a 15yo (even a possible future champion) and her megalomaniac family dictate the conditions to compete as Italian.

1 hour ago, Swewi said:

And appearently 88% of the WC women are against 

And what distances would they prefer? 

First cyclist to be taken to the hospital after he injured himself while trying to open the bottle on the podium I guess 

Did the poster of that video really circle the hand in the attempt to show that it was not an handball