Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Beijing Summer Olympics are just over and Italy has once again a better medal ranking than France. Special thanks to Roberto Cammarelle for winning the last boxing gold of Beijing 2008 in the super heavyweight category!

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	51	21	28	100
2	United States (USA)	36	38	36	110
3	Russia (RUS)	23	21	28	72
4	Great Britain (GBR)	19	13	15	47
5	Germany (GER)	16	10	15	41
6	Australia (AUS)	14	15	17	46
7	South Korea (KOR)	13	10	8	31
8	Japan (JPN)	9	6	10	25
9	Italy (ITA)	8	10	10	28
10	France (FRA)	7	16	17	40

For Italy (8 gold medals) :

• Boxe - Men's Super Heavy (+91kg) - Roberto Cammarelle (ITALY)
• Fencing - Men's Individual Epee - Matteo Tagliarol (ITALY)
• Fencing - Women's Individual Foil - Maria Valentina Vezzali (ITALY)
• Judo - Women's 57 kg - Giulia Quintavalle (ITALY)
• Shooting - Women's Skeet - Chiara Cainero (ITALY)
• Greco-Roman Wrestling - Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg - Andrea Minguzzi (ITALY)
• Athletics - 50km walk - Alex Schwazer (ITALY)
• Swimming - Women's 200m freestyle - Federica Pellegrini (ITALY)

For France (7 gold medals):

• Fencing - Men's Team Epee - Fabrice Jeannet, Jerome Jeannet, Ulrich Robeiri (FRANCE)
• Swimming - Men's 100m Freestyle - Alain Bernard (FRANCE)
• Handball - Men's Team (FRANCE)
• Canoeing/Kayaking - Men's Slalom/Whitewater - Two-person canoe- Cedric Forgit, Martin Braud (FRANCE)
• BMX Cycling - Women's Individual - Anne-Caroline Chausson (FRANCE)
• Mountain Biking - Men's Individual Cross Country - Julien Absalon (FRANCE)
• Fencing - Men's Team Sabre - Boris Sanson, Nicolas Lopez, Julien Pillet (FRANCE)
• Greco-Roman Wrestling - Men's Greco-Roman 66 kg - Steve Guenot (FRANCE)

Broken Records : Italy

Men’s 50km Race Walk – Alex Schwazer, Italy, 3:37:09, Aug. 22, 2008. Previous record: 3:38:29, Vyacheslav Ivanenko, Soviet Union, Sept. 30, 1988, Seoul.

Women’s 400 Freestyle - Qualification – Federica Pellegrini, Italy, 4:02.19, Aug. 10, 2008. Previous record: 4:03.85, Janet Evans, United States, Sept. 21, 1988, Seoul.

Broken Records: France

Men’s 50 Freestyle - Qualification – Amaury Leveaux, France, 21.46, Aug. 14, 2008. Previous record: 21.91, Alexander Popov, Unified Team, 21.91, July 30, 1992, Barcelona.

Women’s 4x200 Freestyle - Qualification – France (Alena Popchanka, Celine Couderc, Camille Muffat, Coralie Balmy), 7:50.37. Previous record: 7:53.42, United States, Aug. 18, 2004, Athens.

PS One last question: where is Laure Manaudou? Ah ah ah

Football = Italy 2 - France 0

Euro 2008 = Italy 2 - France 0

[In the photo] Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon showing the way home to the French coach Raymond Domenech...

Too good!

Berlusconi's back...

Lost for words... Who the hell voted for him? Now the Berluska-Sarko duo puts Italy and France on the same level in terms of Banana Republics of the world: the higher one...

Sad Italy...

Ferrari wins

Felipe Massa has won the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix! "After a bad start to the season, we have proved we know how to react with our actions, as usual" Ferrari sporting director Stefano Domenicali said. "Now we have to continue down this road, without allowing our absolute concentration to slip for a moment ... "

So, for now, in the general ranking,Italian Ferrari is far ahead French Renault. In fact Alonso came just tenth in the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Poor Alonso, driving such a slow car as the French one...

Results from 2008 Bahrain F1 GP

• Felipe Massa (BRA/Ferrari) 1hr31min06.970
• Kimi Raikkonen (FIN/Ferrari) +3.339
• Robert Kubica (POL/BMW Sauber) +4.998

Constructors' points standings

• BMW Sauber - 30
• Ferrari - 29
• McLaren - 28
• Williams - 10
• Toyota - 8
• Renault - 6
• Red Bull - 4
• Toro Rosso - 2

Beautiful Ferrari!!!

Dirty French car deals

Dirty deal behind the backs of offish people...

The heads of France and Germany are about to conclude a bilateral deal, which threatens to water down (already weak!) European legislation tackling CO2 emissions from cars. Greenpeace has made a petition for the European Council's current President, demanding that he and other heads of state stand up for the climate.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION NOW.

Greenpeace will deliver the petition to the President of the European Council on Monday, and every day before 12 April.
The German government is driving this--putting the immediate commercial interests of German luxury car-makers before the safety of the planet. Sarkozy is riding along with Merkel because he needs Germany's support for his grand plans for a Mediterranean Union.

Source: GREENPEACE

The French keyboard

I have just found a blog that is very funny. It's called 'The French baguette'. There is a post which is very interesting to me about the French keyboard.

As you can read on that post, the author asks himself why the hell those Frenchies have to use a non standard 'occidental' keyboard.

I don't have a technical answer to his question. What I know is that, in general, French don't like sharing other peoples' ways of doing, so, I suppose, they wanted to swap around some keys (A and Q, for instance) just to look different.

How pretentious they are... don't you agree with me?

Why AirFrance?

Of all the companies of the world, why it has to be AirFrance that wants to takeover Alitalia? The Italians don't want them. They don't want this French takeover on our flagship carrier. You see them quitting takeover talks with their very French pompous attitude? Let them go then. They know very well that buying Alitalia they would win access to one of Europe's biggest passenger markets. They are pompous, but not stupid.
Apperently Berlusconi is the only one defending Italian interests, but, please, don't forget the past, don't vote for him, or our future will be doomed at an even higher degree.


No to AirFrance-KLM. No to Silvio Berlusconi.


There's must be a better solution...