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  On 2/22/2020 at 8:30 AM, MHSN said:

1st day of freestyle finalists

 

57: Vokhidov vs Ravi

65: Otoguro vs Bajrang

70: Hosseini vs Bekbulatov

79: Gourav vs Budazhapov

97: Kadian vs Goleij

 

I predicted 7 of the finalists correctly (7 out of 9 actually) , I forgot that Vokhidov guy at 57kg and of course I didn't know this guy Budazhapov who is a very good Russian wrestler. it was quite a day for India, 4 in the final, only Hosseini spoiled their party in the last semifinal.

 

as for Iran, the results are disappointing but expected. it was exactly my prediction to see Hosseini and Goleij in the final. Savadkouhi had gold medal in his pocket IMO but made some stupid mistakes and had a terrible strategy in his semifinal. hearing the conversation our coach was ready to slap him after the match, he was extremely angry ! Sarlak lost narrowly to Sanayev and got eliminated when Ravi Kumar ran over The Kazakh guy. I really think this guy Ravi Kumar is now a gold medal candidate for the Olympics, he keeps improving ! and Maghsoudi was the biggest disappointment of the day ! I didn't expect him to beat Bajrang but what the hell was that ! he beat that Russian kid Kurban Shiraev in World Juniors final few months ago and now Shiraev is the European Champion while Maghsoudi got destroyed by Bajrang.

 

I think Ravi, Bekbulatov, Budzhapov and Goleij will win the gold later today, to me they are all easy predictions. the most interesting match is 65kg final with those 2 guys repeat of  that amazing 2018 World Champs final. Goleij was the same as usual. only pushing and pushing. that will bring him gold in Asia but that doesn't help against better wrestlers. I would consider him #5 in Iran but since Mohammadian is preparing for the AQT and the other guys were unavailable they had to send him. but this is a waste of time, he is not going to improve.

 

India will be in the lead after the first day with probably a good margin over Iran but I think we have better wrestlers for the 2nd day, except for 61kg the other guys will be favorite for the gold. at least 3 of them.

 

and one last thing, Kazakhstan finished 2nd in World Championship only behind Russia, with getting some helps from that magical draw software ! now they are bringing almost the same squad here, only their 70kg guy was different, but none of them made it to the final today ! speaking of cheating with no shame

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