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Swimming World Championships in Barcelona Results Day 2 :
Men 100 m Breaststroke : 1st Christian Sprenger AUS 58'' 79 2nd Cameron van der Burgh RSA 58'' 97 3rd Felipe Lima BRA 59'' 65 5th Fabio Scozzoli ITA 59'' 70 Women 100 m Butterfly : 1st Sarah Sjostrom SWE 56'' 63 2nd Alicia Coutts AUS 56'' 97 3rd Dana Wollmer USA 57''24 6th Ilaria Bianchi ITA 58'' 11 Men 50 m Butterfly : 1st Cesar Cielo Filho BRA 23'' 01 2nd Eugene Godsoe USA 23'' 05 3rd Frederick Bousquet FRA 23'' 11 Women 200 m Medley : 1st Katinka Hosszu HUN 2' 07'' 92 2nd Alicia Coutts AUS 2' 09'' 39 3rd Mirela Belmonte Garcia ESP 2' 09'' 45 NEW WORLD RECORD: Ruta Meilutyte in the second semifinal of Women's 100 m Breaststroke 1' 04'' 35 ( previous Jessica Hardy USA 1' 04'' 45) |
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Swimming World Championship in Barcelona Results 1st Day:
Men 400 m Freestyle: 1st Sun Yang CHN 3' 41''59 2nd Kosuke Hagino JPN 3' 44'' 82 3rd Connor Jaeger USA 3' 44'' 85 Women 400 m Freestyle 1st Katie Ledecky USA 3' 59'' 82 2nd Melanie Costa Schmid ESP 4' 02'' 47 3rd Lauren Boyle NZL 4' 03'' 89 4 x 100 Freestyle Women 1st USA 3' 32'' 31 2nd Australia 3' 32'' 43 3rd Netherlands 3' 35'' 72 4 x100 Freestyle Men 1st France 3' 11'' 18 2nd USA 3' 11'' 42 3rd Russia 3' 11'' 44 5th Italy 3' 12'' 62 |
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After 13 consecutive victories with only three sets lost and two tournament won
this evening Fabio Fognini lost ATP Umag final against Tommy Robredo 6-0.6-3  Fognini had no chance tonight and even if he was two times a break up in second set, he seemed very tired,mentally and phisically  Anyway thanks to him, from tomorrow Italy will have a male tennis player in world's top 16 after 34 years 
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Many emotions this evening in the semifinals of ATP Umag, specially
in the first, where Fabio Fognini, after winning easily the first set 6-0 against Gael Monfils, lost 6-3 the second and went 5-0 in the third: but started to feel the pressure and became nervous, so Monfils ,after saving 2 consecutive matchpoints on 5-3, jumped 6-5 and had 3 matchpoints; Fognini then kept the cool blood and won 7-3 the tiebreak This is his 13th victory in a row in the last 3 weeks  Tomorrow he will face in the final Spanish Tommy Robredo, who won the battle with Andreas Seppi 6-3,2-6,6-4
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Serbian tennis player Viktor Troicki, world's N° 53, has been suspended
for 18 months by ITF for refusing to give a sample of his blood for anti- doping analysys during Monte Carlo Master in April. Now he announced he will appeal against this decision |
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Dejalma Pereira Dias dos Santos, better known as Djalma Santos,
Brazilian former defensive player, died yesterday at the age of 84  He won two times (1958 & 1962) the Rimet Cup with Brazil In all his career he never received a red card, may he rest in peace
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At the age of 75 Emile Griffith passed away
He was former Welter and Middleweight Boxing World Champion His record was 85 win,24 lost,2 drawn and 1 no contest R.I.P. great champion
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Too hard rain, race should never start.
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A tragedy for Italy: Supersport pilot Andrea Antonelli died this afternoon
in Moscow, after falling down in first lap and after Lorenzo Zanetti run over him, probably for the eccessive rain on the track The race and second manche of Superbike was immediately annulled So said Marco Melandri(who won 1st manche in Superbike):"There was too much water on the track the circuit was impracticable, we saw nothing, we must stop" Now it's too late to talk, R.I.P. Andrea
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A good news for Italy: Fabio Fognini won his second ATP title in 2 weeks:
this afternoon he defeated Argentinian Federico Delbonis 4-6,7-6(8),6-2 in Hamburg final ;he was down 4-1 in second set and saved 3 matchpointsin the tiebreak: well done Fabio Congratulations also to Serena Williams, who won WTA of Bastad (6-4,6-1 with Joanna Larsson) and Yvonne Meusburger, winner of WTA Bad Gastein (7-5,6-2 with Andrea Hlavackova)  Regards, Italianfan |
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Today 3 Italian tennis players were playing semi-finals in ATP & WTA
tournament :after winning last week his first title in Stuttgart, Fabio Fognini wasable to reach the final in ATP 500 of Hamburg , defeating N°3 seeded NicolasAlmagro 6-4,7-6(1) and tomorrow he'll find Argentinian Federico del Bonis, who beated The King Roger Federer 7-6(7),7-6(4).Bad luck in WTA for Italians :Flavia Pennetta was defeated in Bastad 2-6, 6-3,6-4 bySwedish Joanna Larsson and Karin Knapp lost in Bad Gastein to Swiss Yvonne Meusburger 6-4,6-3; anyway a good tournament for both So tomorrow's finals will be: Fognini-Del Bonis in ATP Hamburg, S. Williams-Larsson in WTA Bastad and Meusburger-Hlavackova.in WTA Bad Gastein Regards,Italianfan |
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What can happen in the Pitlane
:Kind Regards Shaky-Schumi |
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LeahLuv wrote:eigentor wrote:blabla Wow, respect Highest ascent I ever did on a bike went 800m up, and life wasnt so beautiful for me after that  Good thing is (in this case): once you reached the top, the way ahead is always downhill, otherwise I would have had to be carried back to the car!  But Baguette and wine I can agree to.
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eigentor wrote:Tour de France I did this several times my friend.With my bike up hills to Mont Ventoux or the Col du Tourmalet.After hours of pain and suffers it was a sense of pleasure to be on the top. And after that sitting and enjoying the Panorama with a good wine and a Baguette. Life can be beautifull Ps. I did see Mr.Froome going up like hell, like someone did before.........(Armstrong ).But hey, it´s a great sport for free and I hope some day it will be total clean!! |
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