Taekwondo 2016 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 13,560]

4 minutes ago, MHSN said:

 

This is somehow a good news, which means he won't be the last athlete in the ranking and Farzan won't face him in the first round. still it's dangerous which means this guy can get good results in Rio and advances to further rounds ! Farzan most probably will face the Thai guy in the first round

How do you see Kimia Alizadeh's chances for gold? I know she's a huge talent, but it's impossible for me to say what kind of chances she has.. (asking because I just saw the first bookmaker betting odds for the taekwondo events) 

[MHSN 3,221]

32 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

How do you see Kimia Alizadeh's chances for gold? I know she's a huge talent, but it's impossible for me to say what kind of chances she has.. (asking because I just saw the first bookmaker betting odds for the taekwondo events) 

 

She has chance for medal, even Gold, she already beat both Jones and Calvo, she won one of Grand Prix events but she is still too young and winning Iran's first ever medal at the Olympics put a lot of pressure on her shoulder. beside that from what I noticed she gasses easily after few matches.

 

by my calculations, she will face either Hamada (JPN) and the host nation girl and the other one in quarterfinal, I will be happy with a bronze and expect a bronze for her, Gold is too much to ask,

[dcro 10,182]

17 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Mohamed Ketbi (BEL) is having huge troubles for months already to stay under the 58kg limit. Apparently he's growing quite a lot (he's still young) and it's causing more and more problems. Didn't have a fight in his weight class since December and it looks like it's a very realistic option that he won't be going to Rio. Salaheddine Bensaleh seems to be in sight as a possible replacement.. 

 

Or maybe he should eat less candy.

[heywoodu 13,560]

Just now, dcro said:

 

Or maybe he should eat less candy.

 

 

To be fair, I can imagine it is indeed hard to stay at your weight when you're a growing teenager, I doubt he's the first one with this problem..

[dareza 911]

Day 2 medalists:

 

Men's 63kg:

Gold:   Achab, Jaouad

Silver:   Mecmajer, Jarosla

Bronze:   Barclais, Steven and    Gonzalez Bonilla, Joe

 

Men's 68kg:

Gold:   Tazegul, Servet

Silver:   Adnan-Karim, Hamza

Bronze:   Vardazaryan, Sergey and   Minin, Konstantin

 

Women's 53kg:

Gold:  Kudashova, Tatiana

Silver:   Abakarova, Patimat

Bronze:   Agris, Zeliha and   Liborio, Floriane

 

Women's 57kg:

Gold:   Jones, Jade

Silver:   Glasnovic, Nikita

Bronze:    Asemani, Raheleh and   Zubcic, Martina

[dareza 911]

Day 3 medalists:

 

Men's 74kg:

Gold:   Ferreira, Julio

Silver:   Kanaet, Toni

Bronze:  Treviso, Claudio and Corten, Nicholas

Men's 80kg:

Gold:    Beigi Harchegani, Milad

Silver:    Sari, Yunus

Bronze:   Cook, Aaron and   Pazinski, Piotr

 

Women's 63kg:

Gold:  Yaman, Irem

Silver:    Wiet Henin, Magda

Bronze:   Gulec, Rabia and Rotolo, Daniela

 

Women's 67kg:

Gold:   Williams, Lauren

Silver:    Tatar, Nur

Bronze:    Niare, Haby and   Jelic, Matea

[dareza 911]

This guy from Iran Beigi is too strong for other European competitors. He has good chance for medal in Rio.

[dareza 911]

two medals for Iran on EC

[Gianlu33 3,574]

Great day for us, we have a very young team and we must rebuild our team for Tokyo 2020

[MHSN 3,221]

5 hours ago, dareza said:

This guy from Iran Beigi is too strong for other European competitors. He has good chance for medal in Rio.

 

His chance is more than good ! Actually I consider him the second (or even maybe the number 1) favorite for the gold in Rio. he is just destroying everybody, he was in much better shape than Khodabakhshi in past few months but still we have 2-3 months left and I expect our guy to peak at the right time. I just hope Iranian coaches know few tricks about how to beat him , btw on other hand his coach is also Iranian (former coach of Iran NT) which makes things even !

 

also I have to name this CIV guy Cisse, he is as dangerous as Beigi. actually Iranian coaches are very concerned about him.