Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo

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
11
11
12
14
15
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15
21
23
30
31
31
31
...

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! 

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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.

Yes, but we won't know who gets it until after the world rankings are published and the qualification tournament has concluded, but basically one man and one woman will qualify to the Olympics from the European Games with priority going to the gold medalist with the highest world ranking.

for some reasons I don't know I always support Italy when they don't face Iranian teams. I even have a relatively good knowledge about the Italian sport in general (obviously not as good as Italian users but still)
 
beside that I usually support the underdog, I also mostly support other Asian countries except just one

Anybody who's had great past success, but he/she's not a medal candidate anymore and doesn't have any sort of "political intent" connected to his/her nomination...

by the way, the 4 shooters fighting for the Olympic spots finish in the last 4 places...what a coincidence! what a surprise!

Paolo Torlonia is the biggest surprise of the week  in the italian sport for me... I have no idea of who he is, I never read something about him, but he do a very nice result  

Standings after show jumping...
 
84.0
87.4
92.7
94.4
96.1
97.7
103.6
105.9
129.9

The "real" olympic ranking is here (you have to consider that points gained in previous years will be reduced by 25, 50, 75% at the end of 2019):
https://clasificacionolimpica2020.blogspot.com/search/label/Taekwondo?m=0