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2 quotas for China 

Gold and WR for Apurvi Chandela 

I follow some Italian Twitter accounts. Sadly the livestream didn't works

Broadcasting is really horrible , it's like watching live scores 

hopefully Chinese lifters are also among this target group by IWF 

It would have been much better if they added more quotas to existing sports. 

oh, by the way...on the trend topic in general...I'm totally disgusted and I wish IOC and Paris 2024 an epic fail...
 
I'm really tired of this sh*t...if they go on like that, my uninterrupted true and deep 36-year love for the Games is going to end once and forever...
 
fu*k them all...Paris organizers, French NOC and IOC as well...

Results and Rankings:
http://www.fencingworldwide.com/en/competition/17377-2018/tournament/

Actually the main problem for me while pronouncing the name is that i always forget the H 

yes that's ذبیح الله . I understand in Arabic they use different letter for ذ or ض and ظ but in Iran, we spell them all the same. same as "ز" so they are all "Z" for us.
 
 

Bronze Medal match #2:  Russia vs Algeria
at what time this match , any chance for the bronze , are the russian clean ?

Rikako Ikee was diagnosed with leukemia, according to her twitter account.

Fazza 2019 para powerlifting  
 
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Individual General Standing
Updated as of February 2nd, 2019
 
Rank User Nation +/- # Avg. Points 1 chrischi08 0 2 850.0 1700 2 wumo26 0 2 505.0 1010 3 LDOG +1 2 400.0 800 4 amen09 -1 2 395.0 790 5 Speedy +18 2 392.0 784 6 hckosice +7 2 387.5 775 7 toulousain +1 2 352.5 705 8 Monzanator -1 2 350.0 700 9 Henry_Leon +6 2 347.5 695 10 dcro -4 2 315.0 630 11 africaboy -6 2 301.0 602 12 juliosilva 0 2 250.0 500 12 thepharoah +4 2 250.0 500 14 ady48 +4 2 230.0 460 15 Wanderer +2 2 215.0 430 16 Ufilov -6 2 211.5 423 17 vinipereira NEW 1 410.0 410 18 bestmen +8 2 204.0 408 19 tuniscof +6 2 197.5 395 20 Pablita -1 2 178.0 356 20 Vojthas +2 2 178.0 356 22 heywoodu +6 2 162.0 324 23 AlFHg +4 2 155.5 311 24 sami-eg -15 1 310.0 310 25 vlad -1 2 138.0 276 26 Agger -15 1 275.0 275 27 Dolby +3 2 134.5 269 28 Bearas +1 2 131.0 262 29 crovitlaci -15 1 245.0 245 30 Herberth Nelson B. S. +1 2 111.0 222 31 RiSeGwangFan +1 2 102.5 205 32 titicow -12 1 185.0 185 33 hoversaBR -12 1 178.0 178 34 Federer91 NEW 1 168.0 168 35 Fly_like_a_don NEW 1 126.0 126 36 sounak NEW 1 105.0 105  
 
Team General Standing
Updated as of February 2nd, 2019
 
Rank Nation Points +/- User 1 Pt. User 2 Pt. User 3 Pt. 1 Poland 1907 +2 Speedy 784 Monzanator 700 Ufilov 423 2 Germany 1700 0 chrischi08 1700 - - - - 3 Italy 1362 +5 Henry_Leon 695 Pablita 356 AlFHg 311 4 Romania 1338 0 africaboy 602 ady48 460 vlad 276 5 Denmark 1285 -4 wumo26 1010 Agger 275 - - 6 Tunisia 1185 -1 amen09 790 tuniscof 395 - - 7 Brazil 1132 0 juliosilva 500 vinipereira 410 Herberth N. B. S 222 8 Croatia 875 -2 dcro 630 crovitlaci 245 - - 9 Egypt 810 0 thepharoah 500 sami-eg 310 - - 10 Argentina 800 0 LDOG 800 - - - - 11 Slovakia 775 +1 hckosice 775 - - - - 12 France 705 -1 toulousain 705 - - - - 13 India 500 +4 Dolby 269 Fly_like_a_don 126 sounak 105 14 New Zealand 430 -1 Wanderer 430 - - - - 15 Algeria 408 -1 bestmen 408 - - - - 16 Netherlands 324 -1 heywoodu 324 - - - - 17 Lithuania 262 -1 Bearas 262 - - - - 18 Mexico 205 0 RiSeGwangFan 205 - - - - 19 Bulgaria 168 0 Federer91 168 - - - -  
 
Individual Medal Count
Updated as of February 2nd, 2019
 
Rank User Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 chrischi08 2 0 0 2 2 Speedy 0 1 0 1 2 wumo26 0 1 0 1 4 amen09 0 0 1 1 4 hckosice 0 0 1 1 Total 2 2 2 6  
 
Team Medal Count
Updated as of February 2nd, 2019
 
Rank User Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Germany 2 0 0 2 2 Denmark 0 1 0 1 2 Poland 0 1 0 1 4 Slovakia 0 0 1 1 4 Tunisia 0 0 1 1 Total 2 2 2 6

They just defeated Japan, so who knows.

Susan de Klein, who came close to representing / at London 2012, started a crowdfunding campaign for her cancer treatment...
 
https://www.gofundme.com/help-mij-overleven?fbclid=IwAR1jiinyXjxkDCYJDIWgSblOFIkXoaHdP74hhadhisaNHqfZC_I_ExLQZ-E

Qatar and Japan in the final, Conmebol officials are wizards.

A few bits about Paris additionnal sports in today's l'Equipe.
 
5 sports max, IOC is pushing for less Domestic popularity is not a priority anymore First list will be sent by Paris 2024 next month (no more sports could be added after that), will be released during IOC next session (June). Only  ~10 sports really stand a chance : The five from Tokyo, wakeboarding, squash, wushu, bowling, pétanque and billard   
They also confirm that additional sports will have to fit with the Paris 2024 venues map and that the additional sports quotas will have to fit under the 10 500 overall athletes quotas (Baseball beeing )

hopefully Chinese lifters are also among this target group by IWF 

Congrats to Denmark , they absolutely deserved it , finally the luck has turned on their side after some heartbreak losses in the finals of past editions of World handball championship 

K1PL, Stage #1 (Paris, FRA)
 
Medallists Recap
 
women's Individual Kata
Gold: Kiyou Shimizu
Silver: Sandra Sanchez Jaime
Bronze: Viviana Bottaro & Hikaru Ono

men's Individual Kata
Gold: Ryo Kiyuna
Silver: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila
Bronze: Issei Shimbaba & Kazumasa Moto

women's Individual Kumite, -50kg
Gold: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu
Silver: Miho Miyahara
Bronze: Jessica De Paula & Shara Hubrich

men's Individual Kumite, -60kg
Gold: Majid Hassannia
Silver: Angelo Crescenzo
Bronze: Evgeny Plakhutin & Darkhan Assadilov

women's Individual Kumite, -55kg
Gold: Anzhelika Terliuga
Silver: Dorota Banaszcyk
Bronze: Lorena Busà & Shiori Nakamura

men's Individual Kumite, -67kg
Gold: Steven Dacosta
Silver: Luca Maresca
Bronze: Didar Amirali & Assylbek Muratov

women's Individual Kumite, -61kg
Gold: Gwendoline Philippe
Silver: Giana Lofty
Bronze: Laura Sivert & Merve Coban

men's Individual Kumite, -75kg
Gold: Ken Nishimura
Silver: Rafael Aghayev
Bronze: Alì Asiabari & Stanislav Horuna

women's Individual Kumite, -68kg
Gold: Elena Quirici
Silver: Kayo Someya
Bronze: Sachiko Paulina Ramos Akita & Johanna Kneer

men's Individual Kumite, -84kg
Gold: Anton Isakau
Silver: Mahdi Ghararizadeh
Bronze: Rikito Shimada & Mohamed Ahmed Ramadan

women's Individual Kumite, +68kg
Gold: Ayumi Uekusa
Silver: Nancy Garcia
Bronze: Shaaban Okila Menna & Ayaka Saito

men's Individual Kumite, +84kg
Gold: Gogita Arkania
Silver: Saleh Abazari
Bronze: Sajad Ganjzadeh & Mehdi Filali
 

the first one was clear...
the second one...well, the hit was there, but the whole action was a bit confused and it could have been evaluated differently...giving the 2 points to the French girl was not a scandal, however...
 
so far, I have to say the refereeing is pretty decent, compared to the standard of the past...
 
right now, today I only strongly disagree with 2 matches...the bronze medal bout gifted to Coban in the women's 61kg and the gold medal bout between the Frenchman Dacosta and the Italian Maresca, who was robbed big time of a deserved gold medal...
 
in all the other bouts I've watched I haven't seen any shameful and suspicious misdemeanor, just a few close calls that could easily have gone the other way round...but in those cases you can't call them scandals or robberies for sure...

Sascha Bajin must be one of the best coaches on the womens tour currently. He did an amazing job with Osaka and he told her that she would become number 1 when he took over. I guess he kept his promise. Personally i dont find Osaka very interesting, i would clearly prefer Bencic having results like that.
Osaka is the first player not named Serena Williams to win back to back slams since Clijsters did it in 2010/2011. I think in this century there are now 5 players who have done it: Serena, Venus, Clijsters, Henin and Osaka.

Osaka  she's simply writing new history for Japan and Asia in tennis and for herself ofc , 2nd GS in a row who could have thought about this 

I also have to mentioned that  Clara Tauson won the Girls Junior title by beating  Leylah Annie Fernandez 6-4, 6-3.