We had few early red cards in today's AFC qualifier matches. PRK managed to get a draw from so-called Asian Champion Qatar despite playing almost the whole match with 10 men! Saudis despite one man down saved themselves by a very late goal and beat China
Iraq also played the entire match with 10 players and managed to not lose to Kuwait. I believe they have a good chance to qualify behind South Korea which will qualify anyway
Japan destroyed Bahrain too, 12 goals in 2 matches they are clearly a head and shoulder above everybody else. the rest have to fight for the 2nd spot in that group. Australia is in big trouble now with 1 point after 2 "easy" matches.
as for Iran, despite playing not-so-good they still found a way to win matches 1-0. this reminds me of 2022 qualification campaign, when the team was playing no good yet managed to win matches mostly 1-0.
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Tug of war world championships has ended.
Results in World Games categories:
640 kg men:
500 kg women:
580 kg mixed:
Interesting is that Basque Country grabbed bronze medal in women's division. I don't know how quotas will be decided in this case. As for now nothing is official about quota places in this sport. Info from official website of World Championships.
The fully Swiss format is awful, as Heywoody says. I would prefer a 4-vs-4 cross-pool format.
But adding more matches at the group phase is a big problem too, the calendar was already too congested.
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