Aftertwo weeks, the FINA Aquatics Worlds competition wraps up today in Budapest,Hungary, with a day which promises lots of exciting action. Today, the following competitions will beheld: Men’s 400m IM Final, Men’s 50mBackstroke Final, Men’s 1500m Freestyle Final, and the Men’s 4x100m MedleyRelay Final, as well as the men's high dive competition. A surprising duo at this Budapest Worlds havebeen the Italian "twins" Gabriele Detti and GabrielePaltrinieri. They have both beenswimming strong during this week of intense competitive swimming, taking goldand bronze in the 800 m. They will bothcompete in the 1500 m today. The two are not, of course, twins, but theItalian press have dubbed them so, given their shared first name, and strikingmodel like resemblance to each other.
Instartling news, in the men's water polo finals last night, Croatia edged hostnation Hungary to win men's water polo world title. Croatia ended host nation Hungary's hopes ofa fourth world title in men's water polo with an 8-6 victory in the final onSaturday. Captain Sandro Sukno, alreadyknown to readers of this space, scored ahat trick for Croatia, which raced into a 4-0 lead as it kept the Hungariansscoreless for a whole quarter for the first time in the tournament. The stands, packed with fans of the hometeam, fell into stunned silence until Hungary pulled two goals back throughBela Tarok and Marton Vamos in the second quarter, and more from Balazs Erdelyiand Krisztian Peter Manhercz to tie the match in the third period. However, Javier Garcia Gadea replied with twoquick-fire goals for Croatia, and Sukno added another. Martin Vamos, who has appeared in this spacefrequently, scored another two for anexciting finale to the world championships, but Sukno sealed it with his third goalof the game. Croatia had, earlier in thetournament, already taken a shock win over archrivals Serbia, and now reigns asworld champions. Maybe their win earliershould not have been considered a shock. All Hail Croatia! InternationalSoccer fans look towards Foxboro, Massachusetts, today, for the final game ofthe International Champions Cup. The ICCis a series of exhibition matches in three countries played in large stadiums.It began on July 18 and ends today, getting everyone back in Europe by thestart of August as the competitive campaign looms. Yesterday, and extra Iberian El Clasico took place in Miami, with Barcelona beating Real Madrid 3-2. Today fierce Italian rivals Roma and Juventusface each other in Boston. The crowningmatch of the ICC will be held today, the final day of the Cup, at the GilletteStadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. The Cupis a pre-season tournament that has been held every summer since 2013. For thepast two years, the ICC has been split into three different regions; the UnitedStates, China and Australia. In the two years prior to that, it was heldexclusively in the USA. This year,Australia was replaced by Singapore. China and Singapore hosted seven games intotal, while the USA has 12 games on the schedule. Technically, the tournament is a"friendly" tournament, including this last game between Roma andJuventus, but when was a game between these two teams friendly? Even Patriots fans may sit up and takenotice. AussieRules Footy fans have any of three matches to follow today, none of which thisspace cares to comment. -- Posted By Rex to SR at 7/30/2017 01:33:00 AM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
