Matteo92

Serra dominated the bout, even the audience booed the outcome and they were obviously not all Italians.

Boxing should be excluded from the Olympics as soon as possible.

Well, it's one thing to 'know' a referee is corrupt and another thing to be able to prove that he is corrupt. You and I can watch a fight (or several fights) and conclude the referee is corrupt, but that's not how courts work or committees (fortunately, of course).

I haven't seen Charaabi's fight, so I don't know if she was robbed or not. Generally speaking, I don't think boxing refs and judges only make mistakes that could randomly help or hurt anyone. Many of them are outright dishonest and know exactly who they are helping and who they are hurting.

gets bronze and the quota

I think it's very clearly in, though I agree there were equally atrocious decisions throughout the match, and all of them in the same direction. The referee is awful (at best), but the main thing is Uefa willingly decided to go back to a time when referees had much more room to determine the outcome of a match.

That's a very brave assumption

Iapichino is a very pleasant surprise, she seemed to be stuck well below her 6.91 from two years ago (she's still 20, of course).

This quickly turned into a farce

Italy is out of it already. Nockler was unlucky in its fall, but I don't think the effort he made to get back in the chasing group justifies the four centuries he lost in the final 3 kilometers.

Gold for Bassino was a surprise, but gold for Italy was not. Brignone winning wouldn't have been a surprise at all (a lot of people considered her the pre-race favourite after she dominated the SG in the combined just a couple of days earlier), Curtoni and Goggia were also contenders for the podium. The only surprise gold was in the combined (though Brignone has multiple WC wins in the discipline and was probably the 3rd favourite after Shiffrin and Holdener), which makes up (just in terms of numbers, of course) for Goggia's disaster in the downhill.

JTB would have won even with Laegreid going 20/20, we are seeing something inhuman. He started with bib 11 and was the first the finish the race

You're way too optimistic, we had two sunny days at the beginning of the championship, that's already two more than the yearly average of Oberhof

Well they were close, the men's DH was in Val d'Isère on the Face de Bellevarde (probably the best olympic DH course in modern history).

Odermatt was supposed to get a medal in the SG, but he still has two events, including the GS which is his best. Goggia's WChs are over.

Bassino would be way too slow in the first half of the track to contend for a medal. The turns in the bottom half are not difficult enough for her to make up for that. Her only DH podium was in Bansko, which is an insanely technical course and had very difficult icy conditions that year.

Goggia is 100% the biggest disappointment of these World Championships.

Stuhec is so winning the downhill.

Thanks to the organizers and congratulations to the winners, this was a lot of fun Also, the video was phenomenal

I don't know the data, but it seems plausible.

Marte Roiseland already contending for the win

I think we can rule out Vittozzi for any World Cup consideration - or for anything big, really. In Le Grand Bornand, the signs of the old ghosts coming back to haunt her were already there for anyone who cared to see them.

Risultato inaspettato nello slalom di Garmisch, dove Gross e Sala, unici italiani qualificati per la seconda manche, hanno chiuso quinto e sesto. Risultato che alza quanto meno il morale della squadra e riscatta una prima manche che aveva visto uscire un Razzoli ancora legnosissimo per via dei soliti problemi fisici e un Vinatzer senza alcuna intenzione di sporcare la sua media di inforcate per gara. A costo di fare il solito guastafeste/tifoso italico da divano incontentabile, trovo giusto dire che il risultato va preso con le molle perché arrivato su una pista in condizioni impresentabili (per colpa del meteo proibitivo più che degli organizzatori, in questo caso). Va pur detto che davanti ai nostri c'era comunque il meglio dello slalom, quindi non si può neppure parlare di gara lotteria. A proposito di piste in condizioni impresentabili - ma qui con l'aggravante della recidiva plurima -, a Zagabria punti solo per Marta Rossetti, che senza un errore colossale nella seconda manche avrebbe anche potuto strappare un risultato pesante in chiave Wcsl. Nel fondo invece Pellegrino sta mettendo in mostra forse la migliore gamba della carriera, ha messo assieme altri due podi su distanza ed è a soli 12'' da Klaebo in classifica generale (senza avere la possibilità di scavalcarlo, ovviamente, visto che mancano una sprint in classico e una mass start in classico prima dell'inseguimento finale). Domani ripartono la combinata e soprattutto (per quanto mi riguarda) il biathlon.

I'd also support the three categories. It's already hard enough to choose between men's teams and women's teams that win similarly important events, it would be terribly hard to choose with a single category.

Ok, I've had to work all week, but I'm confident I'll be able to send the ballot in time