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UWW website's section for the World Championship is finally working. you can see all the brackets here https://uww.org/event/world-championships-49/brackets I will write my predictions later today

Hey guys, I will be in Ningbo working with the Czech team 🙂 Does anybody all squads for the tournament, for me hard to find. I got only Czech squad 😃

I believe people here are more interested in the Olympic weights so I drop the non-Olympic weights even though based on the number of wrestlers you can see they are still matter and we see something like 25-30 wrestlers in each one of them. keep in mind Russian wrestlers are out of competition for a while. they had their own tournaments but I know some of them didn't train 100% since they weren't sure if they are coming or not. so they might underperform badly. 57kg to me Higuchi is the #1 favorite and he is in the top half alongside Harutyunyan, both of them have some problems with cutting weight. if they do that properly I believe Higuchi is going to win the whole thing. Atli is there too the bottom half is much much tougher, with Uguev Micic, Aman, Abakarov and couple more guys like Abdullaev, Richards, Rzazade and the Mongolian. our wrestler is here too but he is just a kid and most probably will lose in the 1st or 2nd round. if Uguev is in a good shape (which I doubt) he is my pick for the silver medal. I also can't wait to see IND/ALB match in the 2nd round. Abakarov is technically great but Aman can beat everybody by making them dead tired. if Abakarov really makes it to the SF he will be really tired against Uguev. my picks for the quota: 65kg the top half is just brutal with our World Champion Amouzad, Olympic Champ Otoguro and Russian new sensation Mamedov (they consider him VERY good) I don't give a chance to everybody else but still we have some other big names like Lee (USA) and Musukaev (the best wrestler in the world if it was just 2 minutes ) Otoguro and Mamedov will meet first and the winner will get Amouzad. so if Amouzad wins that will eliminate one of those guys which is a great news for the rest. because I believe they are top 3 of this weight. in bottom half we will have an interesting match between Haji Aliyev and Tulga (MGL) in the 3rd round. and the winner will get Tevanyan. I'm going to drop the great Aliyev because he is aging but he is a great wrestler and he can always beat anybody. the 4th quarter looks too easy and we will have one lucky semifinalist. my picks for the quota: 74kg top and bottom halves look equal but you can see some big names next to each other in the 2nd quarter. Olympic Champ Sidakov has to win 3 back to back matches against former world medalists to make it to the SF. I have a feeling he is not that physically prepared for that. so I hope our guy Emami can beat him in the 1/8 final. and the winner will get former World Champ Tsabolov Sidakov couldn't ask for a more difficult draw. still you can't underestimate an Olympic Champion, I believe he will go to the final but it's highly possible if he loses to one of these guys (hopefully to ours ) bottom half is no easy too. we have less big names but there are 4 very big names there! I believe we will see two very interesting quarterfinals between Salkazanov/Kadimagomedov and Chamizo/Dake. great matches, but Dake is my favorite to win the whole thing. he lost badly to this Kadi guy at the Olympics and I'm sure he is waiting for a re-match. Salkazanov is a tough guy, I don't know how his match up will work with Kadi. Salkazanov is stronger, Kadi is more technically gifted. I go with Salkazanov simply because Kadi didn't wrestle much recently. maybe out of shape a bit ? my picks for the quota: 86kg this weight is always easier, Yazdani and Taylor will meet in the final and only a miracle (or an injury) can change that. it's hard to pick the bronze medal winner from the top half. I can't see a favorite , even for the 5th quota. I think that will be between Makoev and someone from the top half (Gocen maybe ?) which will be a close match. Makoev is lucky that he can lose to Taylor early, if he was in the 3rd quarter (which is more balanced) he could lose to KAZ or AZE and I won't be surprised if any of these 2 guys upset the new Russian guy. he wasn't impressive from what I saw my picks for the quota: 97kg top 3 medal favorites are in the same half! our guy Goleij has to beat Sadulaev in the 3rd round to stand a chance. personally I consider Sadulaev the best wrestler of all time but he looked completely out of shape in his recent matches. but I think underestimating him is a crime. he is always #1 favorite unless proven otherwise. Sadulaev has to beat Baitsaev first and then Goleij to meet his old rival Snyder in the semis. I hope he wins and brings back our guy to the repechage but I have a feeling Snyder has the upper hand this time, yet I can't predict Sadulaev losing, just can't bottom half is indeed easier, we have both European finalists from AZE and GEO and I believe Magomedov will win this time. hard to see anybody beating these two guys, but BLR maybe ? or Yergali (moving back from 125kg) or maybe slim chance for Nurov. my picks for the quota: 125kg we have 3 favorites and I think all 3 of them will easily make it to the SF. I'm a bit biased so I pick our guy Zare to win the whole thing. Zare and Akgul are in the top half and the loser will take the bronze medal but their match is also important to determine who is going to finish 5th from the top half. at the bottom half Geno lost to this big Mongolian guy last year but I believe it won't happen again. he is going to win the semifinal against no matter who. 3rd quarter is more balanced, I think it will be between the Mongolian and Parris. I go with the experience 5th place match will be interesting too. if Geno goes to the final the winner of POL/RUS match most probably will finish 5th and has to face probably either UKR or BLR (depends on the semifinal result) my picks for the quota:

Am I the only one who thinks the new website looks awful and not user friendly 🤔

You can find all team rosters below. Group A Canada China Czechia Dominican Republic Mexico Netherlands Serbia Ukraine Group B Argentina Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Japan Peru Puerto Rico Türkiye Group C Colombia Germany Italy Republic of Korea Poland Slovenia Thailand USA

there is but not really available for those who are not familiar with UWW's secret system here we go https://arena.uww.org/sport-event/show/1ee3cbae-f1ff-6c1c-96f1-d54d04edeeec/live

Yes it was quite serious , lost his bearings after a KO blow by Patrick. Referee did well to call the medics urgently.

**Exaxtly** same time in Men's semifinals They'll have a re-run.

Women’s 75kg (Only 1 quota available) Kadiija El- Mardi qualifies for Olympics with a dominant display against Liz Andiego Men’s 57kg Dolapo Omole qualifies for Olympics by winning in split decision (3-2) against Leta Men’s 71 Kg Omar Elawady qualifies for Olympics by winning in split decision (3-1) against Mbiya Men’s 92 Kg Olaitan Olaore qualifies for Olympics by winning 4-0 against Houmri

Whole UWW is awful and not user friendly )

yes, I just took Adiletuly away and I didn't count nothing less than Liu now I'm gonna fix that

Netherlands and Japan played three friendly matches. Two 3-0 wins for Japan, one 3-2 win for The Netherlands. Other results from friendly matches?

Yesterday, the exactly 100 years of Basketball in Czechia/Slovakia were celebrated. And it was symbolically a vs 3x3 game played, at the border crossing Lazy pod Makytou (SK) / Čertov – Kohútka (CZ)

If I really wanted to stay current, I’d pull a Victoria 2026 and say, “see you later.” Thankfully, my plans are (hopefully) a bit more grounded than Australia’s Anyway…the time is right, and I’m ready to welcome y’all (virtually) to California

TISC Returns to the USA! It is my great pleasure to formally announce the United States as the host of TISC Open 2023! . @Olympian1010 was the sole bid this time and it means TISC will return to the USA for a second time, 5 years after they first hosted TISC Open 2018. We are all excited to see what America has in store for us and we wish our hosts the very best of luck on their organisation of what will surely be another great contest!

There is no info on who's fault was this accident, just that it had happened, when he was on his way to the airport to fly out to the WC. You are right about Redzhep, though he was a wrestler His car had hit a hole on the road, the tire punctured and went of the road. What can i say, there is long standing opinion, that weightlifting is cursed here. I can't remember a time, where there isn't some kind of scandal, or issues, or plain stupidity that's happening. At least people aren't dying currently like they did 15-20 years ago. Though the current crop of athletes are with the same level of WTF, either it's Fischerov's car crash, Nasar's bizarre home incident, Andreev's ongoing mental lapses, or Hristov being thrown out of the team for bad behavior, awful training regime and his attempts to be a rapper... Still none of them have reached the peak of worldwide weightlifting legend Galabin Boevski, who was caught in Brazil for cocaine trafficking, sentenced to 9 years in prison and then mysteriously released after 2 years without any explanation.

Men’s 51 Kg Patrick Chinyemba qualifies for Olympics winning by KO against Zidi Men’s 63.5 KG Jugurtha Ait Bekka qualifies for Olympics by winning in split decision (4-1) against Colin Men’s 80 KG Abdelrahman Oraby qualifies for Olympics by winning convincingly 5-0 against Yusuf Men’s +92 KG Mourad Kadi qualifies for Olympics by winning in split decision (4-1) against Balde

OK 57kg 65kg 74kg 86kg 97kg 125kg too much Turkish flag even at 65kg I wasn't sure between GEO and TUR

I think this topic is the best for this news. Members of the Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) have approved the final steps in the liquidation of the organisation https://gaisf.sport/extraordinary-general-assembly-approves-the-final-liquidation-of-gaisf/

has qualified its first athlete for Paris Olympics. Patrick Chinyemba achieved qualification in Boxing (Men’s 51 KG ) at the ongoing African Boxing Olympic Qualifiers

With the last session of boxing left 14/18 quota places have been awarded The following countries have won quotas in this African qualifiers: -3 -3 -3 -2 -1 -1 (Qualifies first athlete for Paris) -1 ( Qualifies first athlete for Paris)

Time to submit visas requests to yuesey

Yeah, the coverage is terrible, I assume they did not find an agreement with the public TV (which was expected to cover the entire race, it was even in the TV schedule 2 days before the start), so there no professional broadcast of the race, sadly. The only one is the stream of the race organizers on their youtube channel, which is, yeah at absolute hobby-amateurish level I would say (only last 20km or so... and limited cameras..., so yes, definitely not-watchable).

Brackets are out. you can't see them on UWW website but I have some of them most of our guys are getting Russia early in the draw. 97kg and 65kg draws are brutal. 74kg too. we have one potential ISR draw at 61kg but that's unlikely too. at 65 and 97 all favorites are in the same part of the draw. we will see some lucky finalists/medalists

https://wwos.nine.com.au/swimming/news-2023-ariarne-titmus-reveals-tumour-removal-surgery/2f293a11-d4b2-4828-877b-13978dd3e136

There's another 3 in the current top 20 women that set my antennae flashing, another two I have my doubts about. So, yeah, my shortlist is 4, 6 at a stretch, but 4. And if you think I'm going to publically defame them on the basis of my hunches, you're a loon!

https://ifsc.results.info/#/event/1309

I am slightly surprised there is a world outside of (ancient) Rome, to be honest.

I do little else.

Squash draws for Asian Games http://www.asiansquash.org/major_games.php

Ultimately, the Victorian Government defaulted on a validly entered contract, so it was always likely that they were going to have to pay substantial compensation when they decided to cancel. The compensation is actually to be paid across 3 organisations - Commonwealth Games Federation, Commonwealth Games Federation Partnerships and Commonwealth Games Australia. Although the breakdown is not being made public right now, the assumption is that the lion's share will go to CGF and CGFP. This will be to compensate from the loss of revenue/sponsorship etc. from the cancellation but there would be no reason why this money could not be used to support a new host. With regards to India - there were initial suggestions that they could be interested in stepping in as replacement and that may yet happen. Despite the points you raise, ironically the biggest factor in favour of India stepping in as hosts would be to maintain those key Indian sports on the schedule and in particular, ensuring that shooting remains in the Commonwealth schedule. As you say, Indian officials were not happy that shooting was not on the programme for Birmingham but it shouldn't really have been a surprise to anyone that this was going to be the case - the pistols used in shooting events have been banned in the UK since the Dunblane school massacre. As for Canada, they're not on the hook for any compensation because they didn't drop out of hosting - Alberta, after exploring whether or not to bid decided not to proceed. Now that the question of compensation has been settled, the CGF focus will turn to finding an alternate host. They will be making the argument that hosting a games does not have to cost billions of dollars but it does need "mature" hosts to come forward i.e cities that have existing facilities in place, don't need major infrastructure upgrades to be made and are willing to make pragmatic decisions.

Gold Medal Match v. Bronze Medal Match v.

Finally we beat Slovenia in European Championships and we are in final!!!

Men’ s Team SF V V ** (WR 14) & (WR 35) really pushed much higher ranked (WR 2) & (WR 5) all the way. They nearly caused major upsets. Well played to them. Will have their chance in world qualifiers early next year. Women’s Team SF V V

At least for Kalucka it shouldn't be too much trouble to qualify anyway I assume, just like for Miroslaw it wouldn't have been if she had not made it again here

Men's Individual 10m Air Pistol Gold: Nilo Federico Maldini Silver: Emils Vasermanis Bronze: Lauris Strautmanis Final Ranking and Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=18488

what's up with your weightlifters and car accidents !? if I'm not wrong back in 2008 one of your wrestlers Ismail Redzhep was involved in a car accident on his way to the airport for the Beijing Olympics. and people say we have the worst drivers in the world (that's surely correct though)

women's -81kg Gold: Liang Xiaomei 281kg Silver: Wang Zhouyu 277kg Bronze: Eileen Chikamatana 256kg Wang won the snatch gold with 122kg, meanwhile Liang won also the C&J gold with a world record mark of 159kg nothing changed in the OQR of this weight class, except for the absence (suspect doping violation) of Iryna Dekha, which means that Kim Su Hyeon is now 10th (she was 11th before Today) with 245kg women's -87kg Gold: Lo Ying-Yuan 245kg Silver: Yeinny Geles 244kg Bronze: Jung A-Ram 241kg last year's world champion, Solfrid Koanda bombed out in the snatch phase (3 faults @ 115kg), but won the C&J Gold medal with 156kg, 23 kilos more than the world champion from (who won the snatch gold with 112kg) we'll see Tomorrow how much influence these score will have on the super-Heavyweights category (I doubt they will have any, however, as they're already way lower than the -81kg class)

Olympic quota for Poland in women's speed, Aleksandra Kalucka vs Aleksandra Miroslaw in final.

@hckošice Did they mention anything about technical issues or something in terms of making the broadcasts? The official YouTube channel has a sort of stream, but it's mostly consisting of showing a few seconds of cyclists, then one or two guys in a studio talking for a while, and then a few seconds of some cyclists again (but no graphic at all, so no idea how far to go, differences, etc, basically no information at all and we can't get it from watching because most of the time no cyclists are being shown at all ). I presume there must be some sort of technical issue (Wednesday and yesterday at least, I didn't get to today's stream yet), but my Slovak is....well....yeah Mostly I'm happy with your reports here, so....gonna give it a try......hvala?

OQP awarded Yesterday (Part II) women's -50kg Roumaysa Boualam Yasmine Mouttaki women's -57kg Khouloud Hlimi Ep Moulahi Marcelat Sakobi Matshu women's -66kg Imane Khelif Alcinda Lucas Dos Santos Today's Finals (Part II) men's -51kg (will decide 1 OQP) Patrick Chinyemba vs Ala Eddine Zidi men's -63.5kg (will decide 1 OQP) Louis Richarno Colin vs Jugurtha Ait Bekka men's -80kg (will decide 1 OQP) Yusuf Lucasi Changalawe vs Abdelrahman Salah Orabi Abdelgawwad

Canada 6th (+9 places) in FIBA Ranking ! https://www.fiba.basketball/rankingmen

Miroslaw clocks a new WR during women's qualifications (6.24)

I'm so nervous about this event and Kałucka's sisters alongside Mirosław. Maybe they are the best or one of best in Europe and should qualified easily, but when just one place is available you can expect everything. Lets hope we will see tears of joy instead crying of sadness in our girls eyes like it was at WCH in Bern

No surprise they hadn't collected enough samples. Anti-doping is very poorly funded in tennis. I haven't read the whole report but I saw it mentioned elsewhere that they didn't pursue her in 2014 and 2017 because of a lack of data (AKA not enough samples collected). I wonder how many other athletes have been flagged in this manner but continue to compete because the anti-doping system is underfunded.

OK, I've now read the full ITIA decision on Halep and it really can't be much worse for her. There's a strong suggestion, although it can't be conclusively proved, that she was doping since 2014.

We Pan Americans keep it simple. No infighting like Jumbo-Visma

Es gibt einen deutschen Normerfüller über 400 Meter der Männer, und es ist noch nicht einmal Manuel Sanders. Jean-Paul Bredau ist beim ISTAF 44,96 gelaufen.

Very special evening for the Dutch! World champions in the 9.950m and 3x400m+1x350m!!