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Everybody who had any doubts that there is systematic corruption in Wrestling and that certain countries always benefit from that should read this.

Using this criteria will be very difficult in the asian games since we have hardly 8 competitive nations in Swimming in asia. Surely we have not 8 competitive nations in sports like baseball, Water Polo, Rugby etc.

Yeah I know what you mean. On the other side we have already not very developed sports in asian games like Wushu, Sepak taktaw or Kabaddi. But I get your point. This time we will have so many redundant martial Art sports. If I could I would remove some of them immediately. Also this time we will have bridge in the asian games . Amyhow I like that the asian games include non olympic sports, but this time it will be too many.

I think you are right, but if you send a full team in Muay Thai why not sending full teams in Ju-jitsu, Kurash etc. I think they clearly didn't want to send a big Delegation and thus every exotic federation was allowed to send max. 3 or 4 athletes. I think they introduce these new sports to please Indonesia. I don't think this will destroy asian games. At least Iran should benefit from these changes.

Talking about the rules in wrestling. What is your opinion about the new rules in GR-Wrestling. Apparently they removed the par-terre position, but referees can still give caution points whenever they want. I think GR-wrestling will surely remain a corrupted sport with this rules.

To me it looks like they want to give athletes from exotic sports a chance (sports that are not in the asian games). On the other hand they clearly followed a low budget policy and thus they send only small groups of athletes and no teams. So this might be just a rotten compromise.

RIP to our cyclist Bahman Golbarnejad. Very sad story

By the way he lifter 310 kg in his 4th attempt

This is really insane. 305 kg . 70 kg more than the Silver medalist.

Thank you

Any livestreams?

Thank you! I am also following Indian sport results very closely. BTW what happened with your freestyle wrestling? I remember in 2012 two of our medal contenders lost against Amt Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt. Actually we won one gold in Rio in wrestling (Hassan Yazdani). Freestyle wrestling results were ok in Rio. We got better results compared to London. GR wrestling results were disappointing this time. We had 3 gold medals in London, but tbh I knew we couldn't repeat these results in Rio. But Taekwondo was the biggest Disappointment. We won 3 gold medals in last year WCH . Our men also dominated the asian games. I was excepting 2 gold medals for Rio. You have to keep in mind that we could have only two athletes qualifying per gender before Rio and our Women weren't medal contender before Rio. But this time we had 4 athletes and all were good enough to win the gold medal. Two of them were favourites for the gold (khodabakhshi and Ashourzadeh).

It looks like Japan got robbed against UAE http://footballitarin.com/video_page.php?id=24246

Group B will be a very exciting Group. It's not such a big surprise, since we knew that UAE has a very strong team. Can't wait for the match tonight

Worst performance: 1. Farzan Ashourzadeh (Taekwondo): I like this kid and he has a great future, but the way he lost his match in the first round was beyond stupid. 2. Bashir Babajanzadeh (wrestling): Didn't except anything from Babajanzadeh, but if you are in the Olympics you should at least try to win the match. Another iranian Sabah Shariati won the bronze medal in the same weight category for Azerbadischan! 3. Meissam Nassiri (wrestling): Loosing in the first round against an average wrestler. 4. Alireza Karimi (wrestling): He is very talented, but since World Cup it was clear that he was not in good shape. Maybe I am wrong but I have the feeling that Jokar would have destroyed this American guy. Actually you can add many athletes in this list like Ehsan Haddadi, Ehsan Rouzbehani, Javad Mahjoub etc. We had so many bad performances in this olympics.

I would like to post a little review about our performance in Rio. Top performances: 1. Hassan Yazdani (wrestling): I was excepting a medal from him, but not gold. The way he came back in the final was superb. 2. Kianoush Rostami (weightlifting): He had to break WR for this gold medal and he kept his nerves. 3. Mojtaba Abedini (Fencing): We knew he was able to get a medal in Rio, but it is a different thing to actually perform like this in the Olympics. Sadly he lost the semifinal 15-14, but I believe Fencing is now much more popular in Iran. 4. Kimia Alizadeh (Taekwondo): She could also be Nr. 1 in this List. Considering that she is the first iranian Women to win an olympic medal and her great Comeback on that Repechage match. 5. Komeil Ghasemi (wrestling): One of the few athletes who overperformed in Rio. Good for him.

We still got 5 medals in wrestling. That is not bad at all. You can hardly compare asian level with world level. Plus at least two of our wrestlers Reza Yazdani and Omid Nourouzi got robbed. I am much more disappointed with Taekwondo.

Are you sure there will be 5 weight divisions per gender in Kumite? Didn't they talk about 3 weight divisions?

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the very last second

I was thinking exactly the same thing. A bronze medal for Khodabakhshi wouldn`t satisfy me anyway.

I knew this guy has the potential to be a legendary wrestler. Just look at my profil

Yazdani won Gold after beeing 6-0 behind. The Russians used every dirty trick in the book, but Yazdani was much better. Kudos to him

Is there any livestream?

Gold for Jordan