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out of curiosity, what if Wennemars put a time worse than his original time (which gave him the 5th place) which one will be counted for him ? the better time or re-run race result no matter what ?

is Fontana the only athlete in history to win medals in two home Olympics ?! how many athlete even participated in two home Olympics, let alone winning medals

Weightlifting formula is more or less similar to 2020 which was considered terrible by everybody! this is a tough sport, you can't be in your best shape for too many events. there will be risks of serious injuries this way. with these rules you need 5 good results to qualify. if you bomb out in an event to score a zero you are out of the Olympics unless you replace it with another event. which means most of these poor guys have to participate in 7-8 events (and not just 5) to make up for possible bomb outs. most importantly if you get injured anytime during this period (almost 2 years) you are out of the Olympics! that's how Sohrab Moradi missed the Tokyo Olympics despite breaking the WR during the qualification period. you can miss the Olympics in 2028 if you get injured late 2026 ! Karlos Nasar couldn't win the Olympic title if we had these rules in 2024 I understand 2024 qualification formula wasn't great either, it had its own flaws but this one is much worse for threatening athletes' health.

UWW announced they are going to review the ranking points allocation. we will see if they come up with something good. the current system is terrible terrible and unfair. they also made few other little changes to make the ranking more relevant I gave it a little thought, something like 50-55 NOCs will qualify at least one wrestlers before the last chance qualifier. they won't be allowed to participate in this event. we usually have something like 60-70 countries in a World Championships, around 80-90 the year before the Olympics. NOCs without quota can send max 2 wrestlers to the last tournament. by my count something like 30-40 NOCs with active wrestling program will be left without a quota. if all of them send 2 wrestlers we will have 70-80 wrestlers across 18 events. that's average of 3 or 4 wrestlers per event. we may end up with only 1 wrestler in some events. I don't know maybe this isn't that bad. this will encourage some weaker non-active countries to take the last chance qualifier seriously. everybody has a chance there. it will be a super weak event. unless countries start buying Russian mercenaries also there is a loophole here. if you are a NOC with 2 good/solid wrestlers, it's better if both of them fail to qualify, therefore you can have two near 100% chances in the last event. but if one of them qualifies earlier the other one is out of the Olympics already.

Wrestling will have a completely new format, I do not like the changes. ranking isn't really a good idea in this sport, this will force wrestlers to compete in so many events to collect points. which is not good for their health. specially with the current UWW ranking points distribution system which is plain stupid they are also gifting 18 quotas to very weak countries by that last qualification event. but I understand their point of view. can't wait to see lots of Russian wrestlers compete for weak countries for that 1 available quota.

the ranking lasts for 24 months but unlike all other sports they reset the ranking in June of even years, 2026, 2026 etc. current scores will be deleted on June 2026 and they start a new ranking from zero. so for the Olympic qualification, results from 1 June 2026 until 1 January 2028 will be counted. a period of 19 months

apparently the Japanese organizers rejected OCA's nice request now OCA is ordering them to do so in a not-so-nice language https://oca.asia/media/attachments/memberships_subcommittee/5/Decision_-_103rd_OCA_EB_Meeting_5ypY8y4.pdf the last line is very interesting I knew this for a while, for example that's why Jujjtsu is included in all of OCA events (despite being the worst sport to watch) but good to see OCA admit this. so with the corrupt OCA you can buy your way in. how much they paid the OCA officials for this ? OK I know Qatar is financially supporting Padel (and UAE is paying everything for Jujitsu) but who is behind Teqball? ! I don't think Thailand can do that.

don't know if we are supposed to have a refugee team in 2026 WOG but FIS RT lost its only member Atefeh Ahmadi (Iran's flagbearer 2022 WOG) all of a sudden decided to go back to her former country and take back whatever she did and said in past 2 years !!

WT made some adjustment on its rules, (starting 2026) few minor changes in scoring system, for turning kicks, punches, video review rules etc but they also announced a new set of bodyweights, 6 for men and 6 for women. for now the old bodyweights are still valid too. but they are going to test these new weights in some tournaments, actually they already did that, we had them at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Riyadh which confused everybody. it seems WT is hoping to have all these weights in the next Olympics in 2032. and if that happens they are going to remove the current bodyweights, which means having 6 weights per gender in all competitions, no more non-Olympic weights.

whatever you heard is just speculation. no one knows at the moment, probably even the orange himself. and Iranian athletes failed to get visa so many times before. even female athletes. there is no pattern, it's just too random. and yes Iran has a system of compulsory military service for men, and there is 50% chance for anybody to be randomly drafted by IRGC affiliated organizations. that's the case for Taremi and few others in the current team.

FIFA announced the stadium and time for each match for Iran, it will be 2 matches in LA (and not just 1) and 1 in Seattle and luckily we avoided playing in Canada. absolutely nothing against the country, but there are just too many douchebag Iranian groups in Vancouver trying to mix everything with their stupid politics. it's better to stay away from them. that can happen in US too but less likely. playing in LA is more like playing at home, at least I hope so. 2022 Qatar was a disaster from our point of view, hopefully this one remains only about football.

I think I can live with the draw , not a bad group at all. just a week ago our mafia coach said his dream group is Belgium, Egypt and Haiti, he almost got that ! but it's really hard for me (and so many others) to cheer for this team, A mafia boss coach, disgusting group of players. I never had this feeling about any NT in any sport before but still the national team is the national team. you have to like it coaches and players come and go, the team is what matters. if the team makes it to the competition, I'm sure there will be lots of Iranians in the stadium despite the orange's ban, that will never be a problem.

you are right partially but it's not exactly like that for non-athletes they can't even ask for visa, will be rejected immediately but it doesn't mean that athletes can get their visa smoothly, hell no. they usually reject half of the team for no reason just to show they can do that. and that was even before the orange baboon, obviously I don't expect things to get better with the current administration. USA Wrestling guys are nice and respectful, I'm sure they will work hard to prevent that. but well it's not up to them. again 2 years is a long time. lots of things can change. we will see.

everybody knew this for couple of months but UWW officially confirmed that Bahrain will host the 2026 World Championships. if I'm not wrong Slovakia was the other candidate but I assume the UWW won't host major senior competitions inside the Schengen area until Sadulaev's ban expires. it's also almost a sure thing that Las Vegas will host the 2027 Worlds (which is also the main Olympic Qualifier) which is a terrible news for our team two years is a long time though. Vegas will host the 2026 U23 Worlds too, we will see how they will deal with the visa thing one year before the senior event. another important thing is that they also moved the dates for the next year Worlds, it was supposed to be in early September but now it listed in UWW website from 24 October to 1 November it probably has something to do with the Asian Games in late September. but I think this is even worse having the AG before the Worlds. will be a tough decision for our federation, is it wise to send the A team to both events ? will we see Japanese top wrestlers in this home Asian Games ? most of them wanted to participate but now this will ruin their World Champs chance. it's easier to go the Worlds first and then recover your body for AG (which is a mini tournament with few very good wrestlers in each weight)

I think I can live with 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze , even though Abazari losing the last final with the smallest possible margin hurt big time, it was 2-2 (without senshou), again even 2-2 on Hantei from the side refs but then the center ref decided the winner. Atousa Golshadnejad became the first Iranian woman to win the world title in Karate and she really deserved it. I think our karate was cursed since 2021, lots of bad/terrible things happened since then, doping, career-ending injuries, missing 2021 Worlds for mysterious reasons ... hopefully this gold medal lifts the curse finally