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already started but apparently doesn't apply to previous nation switches at least for men's freestyle it's still the Russian Championships + some invitees. maybe after 10 years we see some actual European wrestlers on the mat

all Russian wrestlers made it to the final in the first day. none of them was in real trouble. I think 4 of them will win the gold tomorrow but Kurbanov looked really bad and I think he will lose to Matcharashvili. of course that's not a surprise. Kurbanov wasn't supposed to wrestler here, he was a last minute replacement for the great Sadulaev.

well, there is no perfect solution, sometimes nobody can score in a Greco match and someone has to win. they could leave it to the referees to decide who is more "active" but we had this before, that usually means corruption and double standards and lots of protests, another option was having overtime until somebody scores but that could mean endless matches which I still prefer but I understand why UWW doesn't want that. as I said this is not perfect but at least with this new change nobody will be passive intentionally. in Paris we had some matches where both guys wanted to be passive and that was really ugly.

it took two Olympics (and 4 years) for UWW to finally realize there is a big big flaw in their current rules (we have this since early 2021) in Greco-Roman, in high level specially in heavier weights it's just hard to score. in this case sometimes the match ends up 1-1. (1 pt for passivity caution for each) under current rules lots of wrestlers decide to be intentionally passive in first 2 minutes to receive the first caution. this created lots of ugly scenes in Olympics. for example Yasmani Acosta won an Olympic silver in Paris without doing a thing! he was passive in his 3 pre-final matches and won all of them 1-1 UWW will test a new rule at the European Championship next week, only in case of 1-1 and only in Greco-Roman whoever gets the first point wins. I believe this will become an official rule soon, they should make this change long time ago but yet late is better than never https://uww.org/article/uww-test-new-greco-rule-2025-european-championships

it's probably the first time the NT plays a home match on Nowruz (technically 7 hours after the Nowruz) but no that had nothing to do with the accident. that was power failure or something like that. and Iran scored the first goal on 45+27 minute btw this win 99.99% made Iran qualify for the World Cup.

watching the IOC session yesterday it was like Chinese communist party, everybody praising the dictator and trying to kiss a part of his body. it was like he invented the Olympic himself. very disgusting. of course such result was expected after that.

Say hello to the mixed eight event https://worldrowing.com/2025/03/17/rowing-enters-a-new-era-with-key-innovations-for-the-classic-rowing-discipline/ does it mean they are going to drop M8+ and W8+ or what ? looks like we are having another mixed event in beach sprint rowing so I assume it makes sense to drop those 2 events to keep the same number of 14 events for 2028.

3 out of 6 50% accuracy that's Ali Momeni, Amir Hossein Zare and Alireza Mohmadi. this is how we know them

Really shocking news apparently from the heart attack at the age of 49 he was a 3 time Olympic Champion. couple of wrestlers have more/better medals but he was always considered as the most technical wrestler of all time. always fun to watch

that was just OK, some good results mixed with some disappointing results. our top wrestlers (2024 Olympic/World medalists) were exempt here but still it was an important part of our trials for the 2025 World Championships and this tournament made it clear that we are weak in certain weights. our trial system is so complicated, something like rocket science , very hard to understand

11th actually and now

no it wasn't they must really hate this sport in China

maybe just having fun ? not just them, Afghan and Qatari athletes did the same. but yeah at least these NOCs sent just 1 tourist to be in the list. weird to send 4 tourists

The slopestyle event looks very competitive half the snowboarders simply go to the finish line without a single jump or something

IHF should ban Denmark for the next World Championship , playing against this team is not a fair fight. they are just too good