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Iran athletes of the year
 
Male: Amin Mirzazadeh (Wrestling)
Female: Nahid Kiani (Taekwondo)
 
and if you wonder why now ? we have a different calendar

FIG finally updated the World Cup ranking. 
 
the 2nd Vault quota goes to  Olfati , he scored a zero in his last event (landed on his head !!) and finished last. needed a miracle to qualify and that happened. first ever quota in this sport. 

Greco-Roman quotas
 
60kg: 
67kg: 
77kg: 
87kg: 
97kg: 
130kg: 
 
I'm usually more confident in my freestyle predictions but this time it was the opposite.  I could be 100% correct, just one match in 97kg went the other way, where the Korean somehow stole a 7-7 win against China. 
 
we managed to win the two remaining quotas to have a full Greco team in Paris but it was very close. both of them had to come from behind. Kaviani was 5-0 down but somehow scored 6pts. still it was a poor performance. but I'm glad with two quotas. 

We had the US trials tonight/today with a big big surprise. Olympic Champion and 2022 and 2023 World Champion David Taylor is not going to defend his Olympic title, he lost twice to Aaron Brooks ! 
 
Freestyle
57: Spencer Lee (has to qualify)
65: Zain Retherford (has to qualify)
74: Kyle Dake
86: Aaron Brooks
97: Kyle Snyder
125: Mason Parris
 
Greco
60: Dalton Roberts (has to qualify)
67: Ellis Coleman (has to qualify)
77: Kamal Bey (has to qualify)
87: Payton Jacobson
97: Josef Rau
130: Adam Coon
 
interestingly all 3 guys won the quota in Pan-Am qualifiers lost here to the challenger ! 
 
Women
50: Sarah Hildebrandt
53: Dominique Parrish
57: Helen Maroulis
62: Kayla Miracle
68: Amit Elor
76: Kennedy Blades

They can qualify 2 because both of them won the gold medal. (which was necessary for them)
 
 
 
so I think this is it
 
M1X: 
W1X: 
LM2X: 
LW2X: 

Iran and  Taipei won gold and silver in MC1-1000 and two quotas
 
 UZB won gold in MK1-1000, KAZ finished 2nd but can't win another quota here, therefore that goes to the 3rd place  Iran

and now I missed the days when we couldn't watch this shit and just had the final result and I seriously mean it.
 
even the commentator(s) were surprised by the verdict of Shahbakhsh's fight. I know I am biased but the English commentator said it so many times that how the hell the bout is not finished after the 2nd round. 
 
I seriously hate watching this sport , even when I watch Rhythmic Gymnastics or freestyle skiing (sports i know nothing about) I can guess who is getting the better score but in boxing, you can think guy A completely dominated the match but then guy B gets all the scores from the refs.

Yeah, that's the problem. I understand and agree with 1 athlete per weight class rule. the current format says 2 (out of 4) per gender. you can have a full team only if all of them finish in top 5 (or in some cases 6) of the world ranking which is really hard. lots of athletes in top 10 of World ranking will miss the Olympic because their NOCs already qualified 2. 
 
Taekwondo entered the Olympics back in 2000, at the time it was all Korea, IOC made this rule to prevent Korea from winning easy 8 gold medals. but this is not the same anymore. Korea struggles to even qualify lots of athletes. 

Olfati won the silver in Vault here + 30 Olympic Ranking points. I think he just needs one more good result in next two World Cups to qualify. still nothing is guaranteed though.
 
which will be huge if happens, Iran never qualified anybody in this sport (had gymnasts long time ago in pre-qualification era) he is doing fantastic ,considering we don't even have a proper federation for 2 or 3 years. he is on his won without receiving any kind of support.

Beach soccer or futsal would be a lot more interesthing than normal Football at the Olympics.

what a pity  our guys did good in general but beating World #2 Germany was too much to ask. I really hope they don't end up #1 among non-qualified teams in the ranking. that would be really hard to swallow, being this close.
 
the key match was vs Portugal in the group round, If they had taken their chances, they would be in a different path, far from tier 1 teams. 
 
these guys made lots of fans here by beating Japan at the Asian Games few months ago. that was a miracle, unfortunately they couldn't repeat it here. 

OK, semifinal curse again . 7th semifinal defeat in a row. and I'm old enough to remember 4 of them. this is not suppose to happen and I'm sure it won't happen anytime soon, most probably never. 
 
that was 2004 all over again, Iran eliminated the best team of tournament, celebrated too much and choked against a not-so-good host team. today they missed so many chances when the score was 1-0 and again 2-2 but then lots of mistakes, some stupid subs. a very very bad day for some of our key players and here we go. we managed to lose to the weakest possible team we could face in the semifinal.
 
at the end Qatar won fair and square. congrats to their team and their fake fans in the stadium.

wow , that was unexpected  it's sometimes possible to get a lucky win but that was a well deserved win, Iran totally dominated the 2nd half and had so many chances. 
 
 
yeah this is football. nothing is impossible. our worst players in previous matches did great today, Mohebbi scored the first goal and Kanaani got the last minute penalty. 

Iran defeats Japan 2-1 with a very late penalty , very deserved victory 

I love Australia, but their team is really too big. For example, in Rhythmic Gymnastics at the Paris Olympics we will have an Australian group, which has a very low technical level compared to groups that were possibly left out, such as Azerbaijan, Greece or Poland, with a very high technical level, wouldn't it make more sense to give Oceania individual quotas instead a full group? The same thing in artistic swimming, the groups from Canada and the United States are possibly out, but we will have a place for Oceania, couldn't this place be a duet and Australia try to win a place per group like all the other countries? In Boxing, Brazil achieved 9 Olympic places through the very difficult continental competition in the Americas, while Australia managed 12 Olympic places in a continental championship with a low technical level. My opinion, no hate on Australia, but I think the Australian team is inflated and gets quotas very easily compared to countries on other continents. But of course this is not the fault of the Australians, their geographical location. But couldn't Olympic quotas be a little more meritocratic?

this one was quite unexpected. Gold medal and quota for Beiranvand who is just 15 years old 
 
I assume (or I can say pretty sure) he is the youngest ever Iranian qualifies for the Olympics , we had younger competitors but that was long time ago when qualifications didn't exist

well I was hoping for someone else to win a quota but OK it's better than nothing, Amini broke the curse at least 
 
Iran has a history of sending the exact same shooter to the Olympics but I really hope they change the tradition this time

WT published the new ranking for January 2024 (which is being used for the Olympic qualification purpose) and that confirms what we already knew about the qualified athletes. no change at all 
 
 

have to correct myself. they received the visa last night, Saturday evening. after their competition
 
by my count H-Mousaei is only 6pts behind the 6th guy from Ireland. so only 10pts of participation would be enough for him to at least be in 6th place position which I believe in this weight might be enough for the quota. if WT was even half decent they had to give at least those 10pts to the Iranians. but of course I know only certain countries can have those kind of privileges.

past few days had been stressful, I was checking the news so many times during the day to see the updates on this fucking visa thing. and at the end nothing, no answer, no visa. as simple as that. those bastards simply did what they always do and a shitty organization like WT can't and won't do anything about it. this is the 3rd time in this sport in past 4 years. and this time in the most important tournament. there is only one way to deal with the fucking bully and WT is toooo weak for that. 
 
feel very very angry, we have this problem whenever US and it's colonies host something, they clearly started a war with our athletes. looks like sanctioning everything (including medicine which hurt lots of people directly) wasn't enough. 
 
damn, I'm so tired of this, this is too much, fucking criminals

You sure ? because I hear complete different things whenever I turn on my TV and watch western leaders speeches. for my own mental health I prefer to stay away from all kind of war related news, it's just hard to watch children suffer like that everyday. but it's also impossible to stay away and call yourself human. 
 
Western countries are always proud of being 100% democratic. I believe that but that also means the guy in charge speak for the entire population of that specific country. (unless you tell me this democracy is a joke which I don't want to believe) so I think you are probably wrong. the majority loves it and probably even orders popcorn to watch this bloodshed everyday on TV. 
 
  
 
You speak about the whole thing like Palestinians were living in a Paradise and all of a sudden some of them decided to kill some "Jews" to have fun.
 
their lives were terrible already, they had been treated like animals for so many years. when you treat people like animals, they will react like animals. of course nothing justifies killing children. but they were like some animals out of a 50 years old cage. 
 
I don't like Hamas for my own reasons and that doesn't surprise me if the majority of people in Gaza doesn't support them (or better I should say didn't support them) but Hamas is not the root of the problems
Hamas didn't exist in first place. maybe you should check why it's even created. and there will be another Hamas even if this one completely gets destroyed.
they went to Lebanon and massacred people in 1982 (or let them be massacred by their friends) and another group (far more dangerous) emerged. I can guess the same will happen in Gaza unless the ultimate solution happens (which is only the two states idea)
 
like most places in the world, even in Palestine most people just want to live in peace and have a normal life, but they didn't have a normal life. this current situation can't stay forever. 
 
@thepharoah I seriously suggest you to use this ignore button , I used that on so many so-called users here and that makes your life much easier. that's the only way I could stay in this forum.

Miracles don't happen twice, I wasn't expecting Alipour to win the gold/quota here, he had his run in Hangzhou instead a month ago.
 
but he looked a bit out of shape here. he didn't slip in KO rounds but never got close to his AG records. if he wants to qualify next year he has to be faster than this. most of his opponents are from Asia though.
 
He won everything possible in this sport, World title, World Games title, Asian title, Asian Games title (twice). I know he can't win the Olympics but I hope at least he qualifies. he deserves that for all of his hard work which he did mostly alone without a coach , etc.

Great, 3 in the semifinals in total but 0 quotas.  most probably nobody in Archery for the first time since 2004. this 2024 Olympics is just getting better and better.

The World U23 Championship starts this Monday but without Iran, why ? because Albania denied visa the entire team. simply and Iran was supposed to send a strong team including some of our senior team members
 
Finland was supposed to host this event, but UWW took it away from them and gave it to Albania because they wouldn't allow Russians to participate. how funny 
 
there must be severe consequences for countries doing this. but there isn't and even tiny little Albania allow itself to do what it's daddy does all the time.
 
lesson 1: if you don't want certain team to participate, don't say that out loud months before the event (like what Finland did) 

it only favors the sport's powehouses, that basically can do whatever they want and the others can only hope that their class is the one left behind by the big names/teams
 
it also makes some classes heavily unbalanced, which is a shame for the neutral viewers (just think of the Olympic and non-Olympic classes in weightlifting, wrestling, the same taekwondo at the world champs...there are A-level medals and B-level medals...and that's not good for the sport at all)
 
I'm totally against any limited chance of qualification in all sports...if there are X categories, a Nation must be always allowed to try and fill a full team in all of them