phelps 7,210 Posted June 24, 2017 #11 Share Posted June 24, 2017 1 hour ago, MHSN said: WTF just changed its name and logo. they are "World Taekwondo" from now on. they finally found out their name WTF was just funny meanwhile Korea and Thailand both qualified two athletes for the SF in the 1st day. no surprise as Thailand is always very good in lower weights. the biggest surprise was the Italian guy , never heard his name before. our lone representative today Armin Hadipour also made it to the semis, I predict silver medal for him, the Korea Kim TH looks very good and will have extra help at home. like previous editions we will have the finals in the next day. Vito Dell'Aquila is the youngest and brightest talent of the Italian Taekwondo...he's not even 17, but he already won quite a few titles and medals among elder ranks in the last 2 years (Cadets World Champion in 2014, Junior European Champion in 2015, European sub-21 Champion and Italian senior champion this year)... here some more data about him (I'm not sure at 100%, but I think he's from the same small village of Carlo Molfetta - for sure he fights for the same club in Mesagne, Puglia region, southern Italy)... http://www.taekwondodata.com/vito-dell-aquila.ambh.html#body MHSN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dareza 911 Posted June 24, 2017 #12 Share Posted June 24, 2017 (edited) 2 weights and already 6 nations with at least on medal. Only in taekwondo Edited June 24, 2017 by dareza Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,663 Posted June 24, 2017 #13 Share Posted June 24, 2017 (edited) Day 1 and the website doesn't work, wonderful Which is the best site to find draws and results? Edit: Nevermind, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_World_Taekwondo_Championships Edited June 24, 2017 by heywoodu If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,663 Posted June 24, 2017 #14 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Why so many DQ's and such extremely high scores? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_World_Taekwondo_Championships_–_Men's_finweight If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,192 Posted June 24, 2017 #15 Share Posted June 24, 2017 8 minutes ago, heywoodu said: Why so many DQ's and such extremely high scores? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_World_Taekwondo_Championships_–_Men's_finweight DQ probably means RSC or something. 37-17, not sure if taekwondo or handball. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quasit 849 Posted June 24, 2017 #16 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Some inexperienced fighters often get disqualified for not matching the weight sometimes, I think. Stopped watching sports, there are better things in life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHSN 3,347 Posted June 24, 2017 Author #17 Share Posted June 24, 2017 1 hour ago, heywoodu said: Why so many DQ's and such extremely high scores? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_World_Taekwondo_Championships_–_Men's_finweight We had the draw two days before the competition, most of these guys from poor countries didn't even make it to South Korea, and probably few of them didn't make weight in time. WTF once changed the rules to have the draw at the same time with weight-in (same as wrestling) to avoid situations like this but apparently that change didn't last long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHSN 3,347 Posted June 24, 2017 Author #18 Share Posted June 24, 2017 1 hour ago, dcro said: DQ probably means RSC or something. 37-17, not sure if taekwondo or handball. We are having new rules in Taekwondo, giving more points to body kicks and direct one point for the cautions, we have more high scoring matches as result Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,663 Posted June 24, 2017 #19 Share Posted June 24, 2017 10 minutes ago, MHSN said: We had the draw two days before the competition, most of these guys from poor countries didn't even make it to South Korea, and probably few of them didn't make weight in time. WTF once changed the rules to have the draw at the same time with weight-in (same as wrestling) to avoid situations like this but apparently that change didn't last long Oh come on, how on earth did they even get in the draw then? World Taekwondo really should have some sort of 'certainty' to know they'll show up.. Or maybe like in biathlon, punish nations in some way when they often enter the competitions but don't show up. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,192 Posted June 24, 2017 #20 Share Posted June 24, 2017 30 minutes ago, heywoodu said: Or maybe like in biathlon, punish nations in some way when they often enter the competitions but don't show up. Sure, let's punish Niger, South Sudan, Tanzania, because they don't already have enough problems. It's really not that big of deal if they didn't show up. In all of those matches there was a very clear favourite anyway. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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