Taekwondo WTF World Championships 2017

[heywoodu 15,141]

Just now, dcro said:

 

The other possibility being that they came all the way to South Korea just to get humiliated in the first round?

At least then they got to compete  

[heywoodu 15,141]

Here we go

[dareza 911]

I just noticed that Stankovic was born same year like Tijana Bogdanovic. And Tijana was great in 49kg like now Vanja. They are from same club nd also have same coach, and he is coach of Milica Mandic as well. That guy Dragan Jovic is special

 

And he said that in club have one girl Serdja Stevic who is the greatest Serbian talent ever in this sport. Better than Bogdanovic lol  

Edited June 25, 2017 by dareza

[heywoodu 15,141]

RIP Thailand

 

 

 

[Quasit 865]

What is Dell'Aquila doing? He's only collecting penalties.

[Gianlu33 4,559]

1 hour ago, Quasit said:

What is Dell'Aquila doing? He's only collecting penalties.

I haven't idea and i wont know it 

[dareza 911]

But you can expect that kid from Italy beat one of the best athlete in taekwondo right now  

[MHSN 3,619]

Our federation just confirmed that Hajj-Z. can't compete tomorrow and will settle for bronze, at least the good news is he is fine, no health issue. but that's a shame he can't defend his title.

 

with this I doubt we can match 3 gold medals of 2015 Worlds, both Hadipour and Hajji-Zavareh were our gold medal chances.

 

we never had won the gold medal in 54kg (the lowest weight) Hadipour had his chance today even though Kim TH was simply better but I believe Hadipour was also tired after that hard semifinal against Thailand. while Kim had it very easy against the Italian kid.

 

we will have 68kg tomorrow which is probably the most interesting weight in this sport. I consider Yaghoubi as our most entertaining fighter, but he has to face the face of Korean Taekwondo Lee Dae-Hoon in quarterfinal. and we have that Jordanian Olympic gold medalist in other side of the draw, he came from nowhere to win the gold in Rio in a brilliant way, now he is not new anymore and his opponents are more prepared, this is interesting to see what he wll do here.

 

 

[MHSN 3,619]

11 hours ago, heywoodu said:

 

And another big  for politics, yet another epic fail.

 

 

 

 

Did you really expect the Syrian athlete to compete ? but this is funny he participated in weight-in and was in the competition weight and didn't get DQ, then withdrew !

 

Certain countries will never compete with the Israelis, at least for now, Syria is one of them, Afghanistan two time Olympic medalist Nikpai wll have to fight an Israeli in 2nd round, I highly doubt he shows up on the mat as well.

[heywoodu 15,141]

14 minutes ago, MHSN said:

 

Did you really expect the Syrian athlete to compete ? but this is funny he participated in weight-in and was in the competition weight and didn't get DQ, then withdrew !

 

Certain countries will never compete with the Israelis, at least for now, Syria is one of them, Afghanistan two time Olympic medalist Nikpai wll have to fight an Israeli in 2nd round, I highly doubt he shows up on the mat as well.

Not necessarily, I didn't know they were drawn against each other. These stupid, stupid, stupid governments... these are almost more legit reasons to ban a nation from the Olympics than for example Russia's doping stuff.