Taekwondo WTA Asian Olympic Games Qualifier 2021

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I am a bit surprised that the Cambodian athlete who qualified in the +67 kg category at Rio is not participating in this qualifying tournament. 

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  On 5/21/2021 at 2:05 PM, Tigercub said:

Impressive showing as expected from the Taiwanese jins going 3 out of 3 possible quotas, looks like they’re the most prepared team in this tournament

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Chinese Taipei had a joint training camp with Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Kazakhstan in a quarantined camp in Uzbekistan for something like a month. apparently that worked pretty well for 3 of those 4 countries.

 

Jordan on other hand just had these 2 quotas guaranteed before the start. it will be much harder for them tomorrow.

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now we know why Afghanistan team wasn't here ! (they were in Jordan actually but not in the competition)

 

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Four Afghan athletes missed the Asian qualifying matches for the Tokyo Olympics after their colleagues tested positive for COVID-19.

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https://tolonews.com/sport-172303

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There are still wild cards available in the higher weights. Hopefully they will get one, they deserve something in this sport.

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Upset win by IRI Kiani over #1 seed Harnsujin of THA in Women’s -57kg

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Is this score correct?

 

Damn, that must have been a total beat-down.

 

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  On 5/22/2021 at 7:22 AM, Tigercub said:

Upset win by IRI Kiani over #1 seed Harnsujin of THA in Women’s -57kg

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It was really expected as I said on a good day the Iranian can get the quota. Thailand was never a huge favourite there were chances. 

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CAM Tubbs and PHI Lopez ? failed to

make it to the next round losing to JOR and LBN respectively. The Women’s -57kg has been unpredictable so far

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Semifinals for later this afternoon

 

Men's 58kg: vs //// vs

Men's +80kg: vs //// vs

Women's 57kg: vs //// vs

Women's +67kg: vs //// vs

 

hopefully someone stops Jordan from winning all 4 quotas   Uzbekistan and TPE are also one win away from that. (Uzbekistan had one 1 quota via ranking)

 

our Afghan refugee also made it to the SF, he will be underdog against Zhaaporv but that's not impossible.

 

Kiani did great by beating the Thai girl. (she had beaten Harnsujin before, long time ago in 2017) but still she has to beat Jordan to finish the job. nothing accomplished yet

 

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  On 5/22/2021 at 7:53 AM, Tigercub said:

PHI Lopez ? failed

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That's surprising. She's the SEA games champion. Maybe Injury or lack of practice.