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I don't think they don't understand. They send the document but they're wrong in writing their federal email, with all those letter. So the invitation is lost in the web.

Netherlands is going quite well, I think they will have some real chances, although difficult.

I just realized that Italy will never be able to qualify a team for WCH/Olympics because we don't like to bring our high-weight category athletes to main competitions

But they are nearly 400 km far away. The idea of a "national" olympics is not bad, but for summer olympic games, where a lot of team sport are in the programme and you can split them all-around the nation where locally they can involve the people because some local teams are in the best national league (and this would finally mean 16 teams tournament). But it honestly makes no sense for the winter games. Especially in Italy, where three quarters of people are excluded from winter sports. I would definitely support a summer olympic games split all over Italy, with team sports played all around the country and, in that case, some sport played in specific places in Italy for historical purposes. In theory, something like this could also result into an upgrading of old venues in almost the whole country, but this is another story.

Some are guiltier than other, but at the moment it is not a matter of 5-star or not. The bid now should be retired, or at least the government must support whatever is CONI decision. And it looks like it is not going this way. I don't like the government too, definitely, but at the moment, in Italy, we just need normality, not superheroes.

And the Italian bid is gone down

[hide] First Round September 29th - October 4th, 2018 24 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Nations from each Group will qualify for the Second Round Group A Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 29th 2018, h. 13:10 Mexico 3 0 Cameroon September 29th 2018, h. 15:40 Germany 1 3 Netherlands September 29th 2018, h. 19:20 Argentina 0 3 Japan September 30th 2018, h. 13:40 Cameroon 0 3 Germany September 30th 2018, h. 16:10 Argentina 3 1 Mexico September 30th 2018, h. 19:20 Japan 1 3 Netherlands October 1st 2018, h. 13:40 Germany 3 1 Argentina October 1st 2018, h. 16:10 Netherlands 3 0 Cameroon October 1st 2018, h. 19:20 Mexico 0 3 Japan October 3rd 2018, h. 13:40 Argentina 0 3 Netherlands October 3rd 2018, h. 16:10 Mexico 0 3 Germany October 3rd 2018, h. 19:20 Japan 3 0 Cameroon October 4th 2018, h. 13:40 Netherlands 3 0 Mexico October 4th 2018, h. 16:10 Cameroon 0 3 Argentina October 4th 2018, h. 19:20 Germany 1 3 Japan Group B Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 29th 2018, h. 13:40 Bulgaria 1 3 Italy September 29th 2018, h. 16:10 Turkey 3 1 Canada September 29th 2018, h. 19:20 China 3 0 Cuba September 30th 2018, h. 13:40 Canada 0 3 Italy September 30th 2018, h. 16:10 Cuba 2 3 Bulgaria September 30th 2018, h. 19:20 Turkey 1 3 China October 2nd 2018, h. 13:40 Italy 3 0 Cuba October 2nd 2018, h. 16:10 Bulgaria 2 3 Turkey October 2nd 2018, h. 19:20 China 3 0 Canada October 3rd 2018, h. 13:40 Turkey 1 3 Italy October 3rd 2018, h. 16:10 Canada 3 1 Cuba October 3rd 2018, h. 19:20 China 3 0 Bulgaria October 4th 2018, h. 13:40 Bulgaria 3 1 Canada October 4th 2018, h. 16:10 Cuba 0 3 Turkey October 4th 2018, h. 19:20 Italy 1 3 China Group C Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 29th 2018, h. 13:40 Russia 3 0 Trinidad and Tobago September 29th 2018, h. 16:10 Azerbaijan 0 3 United States September 29th 2018, h. 19:20 South Korea 3 1 Thailand September 30th 2018, h. 13:40 United States 3 0 Trinidad and Tobago September 30th 2018, h. 16:10 Azerbaijan 1 3 South Korea September 30th 2018, h. 19:20 Thailand 0 3 Russia October 2nd 2018, h. 13:40 Russia 3 0 Azerbaijan October 2nd 2018, h. 16:10 Trinidad and Tobago 0 3 Thailand October 2nd 2018, h. 19:20 United States 3 1 South Korea October 3rd 2018, h. 13:40 Azerbaijan 3 0 Trinidad and Tobago October 3rd 2018, h. 16:10 South Korea 2 3 Russia October 3rd 2018, h. 19:20 Thailand 1 3 United States October 4th 2018, h. 13:40 Trinidad and Tobago 0 3 South Korea October 4th 2018, h. 16:10 Thailand 3 2 Azerbaijan October 4th 2018, h. 19:20 Russia 2 3 United States Group D Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 29th 2018, h. 13:40 Puerto Rico 0 3 Brazil September 29th 2018, h. 16:10 Dominican Republic 0 3 Serbia September 29th 2018, h. 19:20 Kazakhstan 3 0 Kenya September 30th 2018, h. 13:40 Brazil 3 0 Dominican Republic September 30th 2018, h. 16:10 Kazakhstan 3 2 Puerto Rico September 30th 2018, h. 19:20 Kenya 0 3 Serbia October 1st 2018, h. 13:40 Dominican Republic 3 1 Kazakhstan October 1st 2018, h. 16:10 Puerto Rico 3 0 Kenya October 1st 2018, h. 19:20 Serbia 1 3 Brazil October 3rd 2018, h. 13:40 Puerto Rico 1 3 Dominican Republic October 3rd 2018, h. 16:10 Kazakhstan 0 3 Serbia October 3rd 2018, h. 19:20 Kenya 0 3 Brazil October 4th 2018, h. 13:40 Serbia 3 0 Puerto Rico October 4th 2018, h. 16:10 Dominican Republic 3 0 Kenya October 4th 2018, h. 19:20 Brazil 3 0 Kazakhstan [/hide]

But it looked like she was. And with her mind, she should.

I hope Eurosport will stream it

I've always wondered it. The only answer I could get is that they want to play everyday and in this way the world championships would be too short.

A BMX marathon may be an interesting idea, however

Yayyy, I totally failed

Thanks! So it is a direct final? No further team competition apart from the apparatus?

What is the format? Sorry but I couldn't follow it

That is a great loss... something similar happened in Naples years ago, it really break hearts

Do you think that some extra quotas will be given in case there is need to reallocate to composite teams? Because it looks quite difficult to qualify three riders if you are not part of a team

As usual. I cannot wait for the matches that will exclude me from the top 10 in the last day

[hide] Preliminary Round September 22nd - September 25th, 2018 16 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st Nation from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals, the 2nd and the 3rd Nations from each Group will qualify for Quarterfinals Play-Offs Group A Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 22nd 2018, h. 13:30 South Korea 15 France September 22nd 2018, h. 17:30 Greece 8 Canada September 23rd 2018, h. 11:30 Canada 20 South Korea September 23rd 2018, h. 17:30 France 6 Greece September 25th 2018, h. 13:30 South Korea 20 Greece September 25th 2018, h. 20:30 Canada 5 France Group B Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 22nd 2018, h. 11:30 Australia 25 Nigeria September 22nd 2018, h. 14:00 Turkey 10 Argentina September 23rd 2018, h. 11:00 Argentina 15 Australia September 23rd 2018, h. 20:30 Nigeria 10 Turkey September 25th 2018, h. 11:30 Australia 30 Turkey September 25th 2018, h. 17:30 Argentina 17 Nigeria Group C Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 22nd 2018, h. 20:00 Japan 25 Spain September 22nd 2018, h. 20:30 Puerto Rico 6 Belgium September 23rd 2018, h. 13:30 Belgium 14 Japan September 23rd 2018, h. 20:00 Spain 21 Puerto Rico September 25th 2018, h. 11:00 Japan 13 Puerto Rico September 25th 2018, h. 20:00 Belgium 18 Spain Group D Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 22nd 2018, h. 11:00 Latvia 4 China September 22nd 2018, h. 18:00 United States 45 Senegal September 23rd 2018, h. 14:00 Senegal 25 Latvia September 23rd 2018, h. 18:00 China 30 United States September 25th 2018, h. 14:00 Senegal 15 China September 25th 2018, h. 18:00 Latvia 21 United States [/hide]

Great results for our girls. Agiurgiuculese gold medal for music choice the organization gets a red card for the dance/house version of “Bella ciao”

the championships were streamed on youtube and I discovered it just now...

Very satisfying for Italy at the moment. I'm looking forward at team qualification hoping that we will obtain the olympic quota! And the day after maybe even a silver medal

@dcro how is calculated team ranking for the eventing? As far as I know, only the three best scores are considered for the final ranking, but I was wondering: only the three best scores in each of the three different disciplines or the three best combined score for each athlete at the end of the competition? Thanks

We love doing miracles

Thanks the thing I quoted is the only one i was already sure of, just I didn't know that they competed for the same round over two days. Quite weird, honestly, but that's it

I really don't get the competition format of dressage. Did only half of the participants exhibit yesterday? And so, if that is true, there is only one exhibition per team component counting for the team competition? I also don't get dressage in general, but this is another story