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Taekwondo 2018 Discussion Thread


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9 minutes ago, phelps said:

personally, I really hate it...I find it unfair...you can score the grand total of 2 points in the whole match and your opponent can score 20 points and you still have a chance to win it...it sucks big time! :facepalm::wall:

 

Means the opponent was not exactly smart with their energy distribution :p 

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2 minuti fa, heywoodu ha scritto:

Means the opponent was not exactly smart with their energy distribution :p 

 

not necessarily...if you win a very close 1st round, then you can give up the second and take more than a short breathe, so to have quite an advantage in the 3rd and decisive stint...

and this would eventually lead to many matches decided by the 1st round score and the consequential opportunistic tactics...

to me, that's unfair and moreover it makes watching the sport less enjoyable...:facepalm:

Wrestling (with all the difference of the case) should have given quite a lesson about that, but it looks that nobody went to school at the time...:whistle:

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2018 WT Grand Slam Champions Series (Wuxi, CHN)

 

Day #3 (Quarterfinals) Results

http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/results-day-3-wuxi-2018-wt-grand-slam-champions-series/

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2018 WT Grand Slam Champions Series (Wuxi, CHN)

 

Day #4 (Semifinals) Results

 

women's -49kg
:THA Panipak Wongpattanakit b. :KOR Kang Bo Ra
:KOR Ha Min-Ah b. :CHN Tan Xueqin


women's -57kg
:GBR Jade Jones b. :CRO Marija Stetic
:CHN Zhou Lijun b. :KOR Lee Ah-Reum


women's -67kg
:GBR Lauren Williams b. :CIV Ruth Gbagbi
:TUR Nur Tatar Askari b. :CHN Guo Yunfei


women's +67kg
:GBR Bianca Walkden b. :POL Aleksandra Kowalczuk
:USA Madelynn Gorman-Shore b. :GBR Rebecca McGowan


men's -58kg
:CHN Liu Yushuai b. :KOR Kim Tae-Hun
:KOR Jang Jun b. :IRI Armin Hadipour


men's -68kg
:GBR Bradly Sinden b. :KOR Lee Dae-Hoon (1st loss of the entire season for him...and it came with a spectacular kick to the head at the last second of round #2 by Sinden...top hit of the year, for sure)
:CHN Zhao Shuai b. :ESP Javier Perez Polo


men's -80kg
:RUS Maksim Khramtcov b. :CHN Chen Linglong
:KOR Hwan Nam Goong b. :AZE Milad Beigi


men's +80kg
:KOR In Kyo-Don b. :CHN Sun Hongyi
:IRI Sajjad Mardani b. :CHN Song Zhaoxiang

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wow so many surprising results. Kim Tae-hun and Lee Dae-hoon losing in the same day :yikes: (not to even great opponents) Lee DH losing to Sindon is indeed the biggest surprise of the year. also Milad Beigi lost to a guy from Korea. Beigi used to destroy everybody a year ago but he is just another good athlete these days.

 

we had a small team here. only 2. Hadipour will fight for bronze (unfortunately for him that will be against Kim TH) but Mardani !! will be in gold medal match. :yikes:  this guy Mardani is in national team program for few years. and I never liked him. I hate his conservative style and I can't understand how he get some good results sometimes.

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there's a chance Kim Tae-Hun won't show up tomorrow in the Bronze Medal match (in Fujarah he gave up once he wasn't in the big final, as it looks he's not 100% healthy)...

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3 hours ago, phelps said:

there's a chance Kim Tae-Hun won't show up tomorrow in the Bronze Medal match (in Fujarah he gave up once he wasn't in the big final, as it looks he's not 100% healthy)...

 

I see, Hadipour beat him once in Manchester GP final but he lost more to this guy (including 2017 World Champs final). so he will be underdog if Kim TH shows up. Kim lost here and there to Iranians before but the guy who never lost to our athletes is Lee Dae-hoon :d he won every single match he had vs the Iranians. I remember Yaghoubi, Asbaghi, Hosseini, Bakhshi and Naderian losing to him. (probably there are more names in the list) they are all very good fighters, almost all of them World medalists, but none of them could find a solution for this guy :d he is a nice guy and also he is VERY popular in East Asia ! they consider him very handsome. :d

 

but with WT increasing the number of competitions, there are more chances top athletes participating when they are not 100% and pick up some defeats. maybe losing sometimes is not that big surprise. but the money prize for this event is bigger than other competitions, that's quite a motivation

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Hadipour beat Kim TH for bronze :thumbup: he was lucky the format is different in medal round. this is best of 5 instead of best of 3 for men. Kim won first 2 rounds narrowly 3-2 and 6-3 but Hadipour came back strongly to win next 3 rounds. with some great advises from his coach. both were deadly tired in last 2 rounds . Hadipour was smart listening to his coach changing his style entirely. funny that since Grand Slam is not a part of NT program. both Hadipour and Mardani are here on their own with their own coach. (and not the national coach Askari) turned out to be a good thing for them :d

 

I'm heading out and will miss Mardani's final . as much as I don't like him still I hope he  wins a gold somewhere finally :d

 

I watched few matches in past few days. I think this format is not a total disaster as it was in wrestling. still I prefer the current format.

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2018 WT Grand Slam Champions Series (Wuxi, CHN)

 

Day #5 (Finals) Results

 

women's -49kg
Gold: :THA Panipak Wongpattanakit
Silver: :KOR Ha Min-Ah
Bronze: :CHN Tan Xueqin


women's -57kg
Gold: :CHN Zhou Lijun
Silver: :GBR Jade Jones
Bronze: :KOR Lee Ah-Reum


women's -67kg
Gold: :GBR Lauren Williams
Silver: :TUR Nur Tatar Askari
Bronze: :CIV Ruth Gbagbi


women's +67kg
Gold: :GBR Bianca Walkden
Silver: :USA Madelynn Gorman-Shore
Bronze: :POL Aleksandra Kowalczuk


men's -58kg
Gold: :KOR Jang Jun
Silver: :CHN Liu Yushuai
Bronze: :IRI Armin Hadipour


men's -68kg
Gold: :CHN Zhao Shuai
Silver: :GBR Bradly Sinden
Bronze: :KOR Lee Dae-Hoon


men's -80kg
Gold: :RUS Maksim Khramtcov
Silver: :KOR Hwan Nam Goong
Bronze: :AZE Milad Beigi


men's +80kg
Gold: :IRI Sajjad Mardani
Silver: :KOR In Kyo-Don
Bronze: :CHN Song Zhaoxiang

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