Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games 2017

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TV producer was not showing the leading group in the last half of tempo race.

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Well, this is an interesting format. Apparently everyone starts with 0 penalties in the final round.

 

Iranian rider didn't jump clear in any of the previous round (he got eliminated in one of them, in fact). And yet, he jumped clear here and has secured gold medal jump-off in the worst case scenario!

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Winning a medal in equestrian was a bit surprising today but the biggest surprise came from Women's Alysh wrestling, the same girl who got robbed of a gold few days ago finally managed to win a gold in another event ( so many similar events !) Happy to see her smile finally

 

The highlight of the day was in weightlifting when our Olympic Champion broke the world record in total with 413kg. he could break the snatch record too, 185kg was too easy for him but apparently today his goal was only the total record.most of our top weightlifters are training for the World Champs in USA but Moradi wanted to test himself in an official competition after the Olympics.

 

we will have freestyle wrestling starting from tomorrow. our A team sucked big time in Paris and this is our B/C team. but still I expect them few gold medals here. based on the draw, 97kg gold looks safe but can't say the same for other 3 wrestlers.

 

I also hope they win the snooker gold medal tomorrow, that would be fun since I became interested in snooker recently

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22 minutes ago, MHSN said:

Winning a medal in equestrian was a bit surprising today

 

More than a bit. He must be the first rider ever that got eliminated in a qualifying round (2 refusals at the water) and won an individual medal afterwards! In fact, this is the first time I saw a competition where riders that got eliminated were allowed to compete in the following individual rounds. They can usually only continue to compete for a team, if the team competition hasn't been completed at that point.

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Our wrestling is in trouble ,they can't dominate even such a not-high-level competition. even though Uzbekistan and few other Central Asia countries brought their A team here but still ... ! today's result was disappointing but expected. I knew only Goleij (97) is a sure gold medal. 74kg final and the way Eliasi lost to Abdurakhmanov was shameful.

 

and happy for the gold medal in team Snooker. Vafaei gave up a good money in his pro Snooker tour to compete here , at least he won't leave the competition empty-handed (and there is still Snooker Singles compettion left)

 

looks like a close battle for the 2nd place in medal table  and a gold medal for Fiji !

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This is very interesting that China sent a bunch of new wrestlers to the World Championships but here in Turkmenistan they brought their experienced wrestlers and winning few medals. Did they really saved their best wrestlers for this ?!

 

Uzbekistan also brought all of their stars to this competition, India and Kyrgyzstan also somehow took the wrestling competition seriously, stlil no Korea and we can say The Japanese team here isn't that good. despite this, Iran won 8 medals in all freestyle weight classes. but to be honest none of them, even those 3 gold medalists convinced me.

 

we will have the whole Greco competition tomorrow. on paper our Greco team here isn't that great but when I check the draws, the level is a bit lower than freestyle and our Greco team is getting better results recently. so maybe they can get a better result than freestyle here

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We had 13 finals today afternoon  , Iranians won 9 out of those 13 possible gold medals, 6 of them in Greco-Roman wrestling ! positive surprise here, because while this is our B team (2nd placers in our national trials). some of our Asian rivals like Uzbekistan, China, India, Kyrgyzstan etc. brought their top wrestlers. this is unbelievable that this year our Greco wrestlers got better results than freestyle in almost every competitions ! hard to believe since our depth in freestyle in 10 times bigger and better !

 

Iran also won the futsal gold today in style. no surprise we brought our very best team here ! but Hossein Vafaei lost the snooker final to China with only few events left for tomorrow, Iran will finish 3rd in medal table for sure. with 35 gold medals : 31 for men and 4 for women

 

Wrestling 9

Pahlavani wrestling 3

Alysh 1

Snooker 1

Futsal 1

Athletics 1

Ju-Jitsu 1

Kickboxing 5

Muaythai 3

Kurash 1

Taekwondo 7

Weightlifting 1

Cycling 1

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So yesterday we won gold (and silver) in women's singles tennis and our gold medalist Beatrice Gumulya was booed on the third set because she can't finish the game (she was leading 5-1 and then 40-15 on 5-3) by the crowd. Guess they want to go home ASAP

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The creative director of the Closing Ceremony of the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games has promised a spectacular show for the attendees and viewers worldwide when the curtain comes down on the multi-sport event at the Ashgabat Olympic Stadium here tomorrow.

Good luck Balich