Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo

I'm happy too...
I didn't really expect him to climb that fast that fuc*in' wall...

looking at his speed results in theprevious world cup stages, the only good lead/boulder specialist who's really worse than him is Alex Megos...
 
and he's close but always behind a few others...normally he's slower than all of his rivals...
 
I'd be surprised if he can stay in the top 20 of the Combined event here in Hachioji...and however, he has no chance to make the top 7 and qualify directly this week (not even the top 15, tbh)...
 
simply, he's a (Lead) specialist...he's not the man to count on for the Olympic Combined...and I don't understand why our federation has not worked seriously with the only guy who has the talent to achieve an historic qualification...

Combined Provisional standings (Mecole is Canadian MCcoll, it's a joke)

Finally some joy for the italian flag with the amazing race of our best pair
 
Provisional Men's Yellow #1 Results:
1. Okada/Okazono
2. Ferrari/Calabró
3. Marchetti/Dantès
4. Belcher/Ryan
5. Fock/Dackhammer
 

Most easy group is for Russia. Russia isn't that good anymore, but because of the money they are still higher at the World Rankings. In all major competitions from August 2016 (Olympic Games, European Championships, World Championships and all Grand Prix/Nation Leagues) the team of The Netherlands ranked higher ... how is it still possible that Russia is higher on the World Rankings and has such an easy group? They must have paid for keeping their World Cup Results from 2015 ... otherwise they should have big trouble to qualify for the 2020 Olympics.
 
 

yes, because I do not know how many swimmers will be selected for relays, some will do several relays.

Good morning and thank you for this great work.
A question. It's a choice not to enter swimming's relays? 
 

by the way, today's decisive match between ITA and GBR has been rescheduled for 3 p.m. CET as the last match of the tournament (and not at noon CET, as previously determined by the organizers...sometimes it helps having the world federation's president being from 1 of the 2 Countries involved in the key matchup )...
 
p.s. I discovered that the entire tv/streaming production is made by an Italian service (after explicit request by the WBSC president, Riccardo Fraccari)...if it was for the Dutch TV, no pictures from this tournament would have been available (so, why they always award this kind of tournaments to the Dutch federation?)...

This is such a stupid, stupid, stupid addition to the Olympic Games. There are going to be like 5 nations represented in this sport, and a few other nations with one or two athletes. 

Japan. I'm a Japanophile: I love the culture, the language (I've taken classes for three years), the cuisine, and of course I love video games (total Sega fanboy). Not really a fan of anime and manga, though I've been a fan of Saint Seiya/The Knights of Zodiac since I was a child.
 
I also love it when smaller nations get medals in gymnastics.

My current profile pic also shows support for Palestine, so it's easy to assume which country I'm never rooting for. Also, I don't ever root for Iran, though the Iranians here are great people and I really enjoy Iranian films. But as a gay man I can never root for a country where gay people are killed by the government.

 

so, you're mostly for tax havens...

Gio, I put the new sports in the Surprise medal, i don't know why Basket 3x3 is included in basket,that's actually drop from maximum 2 to 1

New World Champion is Australian Tom Burton
1) Tom Burton (AUS)
2) MAttew Wearn (AUS)
3) George Gautrey (NZL).

All first four positions are for Oceania

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New World Champion is Australian Tom Burton
1) Tom Burton (AUS)
2) MAttew Wearn (AUS)
3) George Gautrey (NZL).

All first four positions are for Oceania

Olympic Pass for
SWE
ARG
RUS
HUN
GUA

Standings after Day 1...
 
Overall
Filip Jurišić - 4
George Gautrey - 4
Jean-Baptiste Bernaz - 5
Tonči Stipanović - 8
Benjanim Vadnai - 11
...
 
Olympic qualification
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30
31
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31
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IOC will vote today for the new sports to add in Paris. In december 2020 IOC will do a final check

As always, yes .
 
These games (and the 2015 Pan American Games) are what made me become a serious international sports fan. I’ve watched every single minute of the 4 daily 12 hour streams on YouTube from the 2015 edition up till day 8 (because it was the summer of 2016, and there wasn’t another small multi-sports event in Brazil that caught my attention).

It depends by the lunar calendar and the 
conjunction of the planets.

It's finally the time for one of the best event of the year  
Livescore: https://info.ianseo.net/?tourid=438

After 2 goal denied for off-side, 1 clear penalty not given.. Italy finally score the 2nd goal! 

Live from vivaro

Tomorrow i give you live score and live pictures...
 

Tomorrow i give you live score and live pictures...
 

Tomorrow i give you live score and live pictures...
 

That's what happens when you only have 10 athletes per event, but still want to guarantee continental representation. Combat sports should have a minimum of 16 athletes per event.