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That was the most entertaining penalty shootout ever Indonesia GK was terrible in most of his moves against easier kicks but then he saved two very hard kicks and also scored his own penalty who would have thought that Indonesia of all teams can end Korea's brilliant U23 run from 1992. the last time Korea failed to qualify for men's football most of this forum's member weren't even born

This is probably the worst U23 team I ever seen for both Japan and Korea. Japan managed to beat Qatar only because of a dumb mistake by Qatar GK which made his team to play with 10 men for 80-90 minutes and now Korea is struggling ! interestingly Korea never failed to qualify in Olympic football U23 era. that's an unbelievable achievement

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

I have no idea about Guinea's quality to compare them but this is football, anybody can beat anybody Iraq can even end up winning the AFC tournament

They are making Chamizo #1 seed for the last chance qualifier, somehow to make up for this I took a look at the entry list and I think it's not that bad for him. at least he will avoid both #2 and #3 seeds Salkaznov and Demirtas. (that can change if China sends a different wrestler who has a better seed than both of these guys) Salkazanov is the worst possible matchup for Chamizo. not facing him is the best news for the Italian

well I think they are going to beat Vietnam, but still needs one more win to qualify. but if you get into the semifinal you will have 3 chances to qualify. that's pretty good. apparently Iraq rested some starters in the opening game and that's why they lost to low-level Thailand.

Saudis most probably will regret losing to Iraq with that weird goal. Vietnam was a much much weaker opponent. but they still can count on Uzbekistan's choking ability it should be easy for JPN and KOR despite their not-so-good performance so far. but of course Japan should watch out for the refs. Qatar had LOTS of helps from them in group stage matches.

Actually that's correct, if they do that, that opens a can of worms. but wait a minute, the same organization modified 87kg World Championship final result just few months ago wasn't that against Article 53? I checked the nationality of the refs. the center ref from Ukraine and the challenge guy (the famous Cicioglu of Turkey) received the biggest ban until the end of 2024, they will miss the Olympics. the judge from Iraq will be banned til September and will miss Paris as well. the Mat Chairman (from Russia) and the other two guys reviewing the challenge (from Tunisia and USA) will be banned only for 2 months.

Asian Champion Japan got eliminated in group stage of AFC Asian Cup and therefore will miss the World Cup ! they lost to KGZ and tied with TJK to finish 3rd behind them.

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.

he is registered for this event. https://wtt.ittf.link/index.php?option=com_fabrik&view=list&listid=77&Itemid=224&fab_list_able_28_repeat___tournament_raw=170&fab_list_able_28_repeat___singles_raw=MS&resetfilters=1&fabrik_incsessionfilters=0 maybe just to "help" his teammate. beating Alamian brothers and then withdraw in the final if the other guys makes it this far ?

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.

semifinals in Greco-Roman 60kg: vs / vs 67kg: vs / vs 77kg: vs / vs 87kg: vs / vs 97kg: vs / vs 130kg: vs / vs both of our guys made it to the SF but that was a very poor performance , I just hope they do better in the afternoon (like what the freestyle team did) don't get too excited to see likes of KSA, TPE or JOR in the SF. they were just lucky with the draw

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: