Islamic Solidarity Games 2017

[Quasit 869]

How is it possible Malaysia is still without medal?

[bestmen 2,906]

tomorrow the match vs  

we will see the level of this new team

[DaniSRB 899]

How many naturalized athletes compete here?

 

wow, even some from Serbia 

Edited May 18, 2017 by DaniSRB

[Griff88 2,009]

58 minutes ago, DaniSRB said:

How many naturalized athletes compete here?

 

wow, even some from Serbia 

Oh a lot because almost all of those famous 'buyers' are here

 

Indonesia could get a few more gold if those bought people didn't play

[Griff88 2,009]

21 hours ago, Quasit said:

How is it possible Malaysia is still without medal?

Most of their best athletes are doing intensive training in Malaysia for SEA Games.

Edited May 18, 2017 by Griff88

[Griff88 2,009]

On 17/5/2017 at 04:40, MHSN said:

There is a big big gap between Azerbaijan / Turkey and the rest, I wonder if they are this good ? or they just took this even more serious ?! or maybe because they set the event for their benefit, because for example there are some Paralympics event here, only events with possibility of gold medals for Azerbaijan !

 

today was a better day for Iran with 5 gold medals, I think Iran will most probably finish 3rd place. some results so far were a bit disappointing specially in Karate and Shooting. they won 4 gold medals in shooting but there were few more events that Iranians topped the qualifiers by a margin but were terrible in the final ! and in Karate our men's kumittee team was disastrous with only 2 medals and 1 gold !

 

looking forward for the wrestling competition, Azerbaijan didn't send A team to Euro and saved them for here. this will be an interesting battle between Iran and Azerbaijan and they are not alone, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are also sending some of their A wrestlers.

I have to say that the future of ISG is already dark..

 

2021 in Turkey will be same pattern and same thing. Less countries will be interested, the naturalized athletes smash the countries which are serious, competition only limited to 5-6 countries and in the end no one really cares in hosting them anymore...

[dcro 10,210]

9 minutes ago, Griff88 said:

Most of their best athletes are doing intensive training in Malaysia for SEA Games.

 

I always get surprised how much SEA nations care about SEA Games. Considering that it is a sandbox competition for the hosts basically.

 

Thailand (and Malaysia to some extent) have continued their tradition of appearing at European equestrian competitions out of nowhere, in the run-up towards the SEA Games.

[bestmen 2,906]

the naturalized

Just now, Griff88 said:

Oh a lot because almost all of those famous 'buyers' are here

 

Indonesia could get a few more gold if those bought people didn't play

the naturalized athletes are not much

 

AZE/TUR dominated because  / / /    sent the teams B /juniors of few sports

 

[MHSN 3,782]

36 minutes ago, Griff88 said:

Most of their best athletes are doing intensive training in Malaysia for SEA Games.

 

yep true, still they sent a good team in Karate, and won nothing surprisingly !

 

and without Malaysia in the list, Iran just won a gold medal in Diving !

[Griff88 2,009]

23 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

I always get surprised how much SEA nations care about SEA Games. Considering that it is a sandbox competition for the hosts basically.

 

Thailand (and Malaysia to some extent) have continued their tradition of appearing at European equestrian competitions out of nowhere, in the run-up towards the SEA Games.

No surprise, because Southeast Asian nations considered the Games as a source of pride.

 

Before the "host-must-be-first" virus started and no strange sports pushed to the program, many top athletes are not competing in other bigger championships in order to win medals. It still happens but only in a few sports.. Many countries see this as an opportunity to test their young talents nowadays (except the host nation) and the Big 5 didn't want to lose face..