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Iran NOC already announced the flagbearers Neda Shahsavari (Table tennis) and Mehdi Olfati (Gymnastics) Shahsavari was OK, 3 times Olympian, oldest member of the delegation at the age of almost 38 but Olfati was a terrible and surprising choice. first there are lots of more experienced guys in the list and second (and most importantly) he is going to compete the next day but I suppose wining a quota in Gymnastics made them too excited. back in Tokyo the male flagbearer was almost twice the age of the female flagbearer. it will be the opposite this time.

Finally something useful from the InsideTheGames https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1145623/australia-taekwondo-three-athletes-paris

we always had at least one boxer in the Olympics since 1992, this is the last chance to keep that record going, even though I'm not hopeful but some of our better boxers got OK draws which means if they do their own job they can advance few rounds and maybe win something at the end. but tomorrow will be a nervous day for Ali Habibinejad, not because of his own bout, but because his fate is not in his own hands . he needs some help from the Spaniard to stay in the draw.

IWF published the final ranking https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2024/05/Paris-2024_Olympic-Qualification-Ranking_FINAL_24052024.pdf but yet it's not really final. there is a note in the document "Following the relevant Anti-Doping Result Management processes are concluded, the Olympic Qualification Ranking may be updated further. With special regards to cases of Member Federations with multiple Anti-Doping Rule Violations referred to the Independent Member Federations Sanctioning Panel as per art. 12.3.2 of IWF Anti-Doping Rules."

ITTF awarded the East Asian quotas based on 21 May ranking. Wong Chun Ting and Pyon Song-Gyong source https://www.ittf.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Paris_2024_WS21May24.pdf https://www.ittf.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Paris_2024_MS21May24-2.pdf

The Green movement, the first time the IR saw millions of people in the streets against itself, most importantly those protests were completely peaceful (unlike the recent protests) yet they didn't tolerate it. used brutal force to end things. obviously the elections were never totally fair here. but it was OK within the regime. I mean they would disqualify whoever they didn't want before the race. but the race itself was usually OK. I believe 2009 was the first time they completely threw away the votes and published some fake numbers to keep that monkey (you know him as Ahmadinejad) in charge. The monkey is not part of the regime now but at the time he was supposed to be loyal. The guy who could win the election Mirhossein Mousavi is still under house arrest.

one person celebrating something in his private is always possible but I'm pretty sure it's not safe to go out celebrating this very loudly. it's not humane to celebrate someone's death and I try hard not doing it myself. but since 2022 we passed a point of no return, for some people it happened in 2009 and for some others in 2019 but it feels like 2022 was really the end of that "let's hope things get better" era. I don't think like that myself, being radical is always a bad idea. but for lots of people, specially the younger generations, this is a war and they are the enemy. so they will indeed celebrate such a thing. even exaggerating to piss off the enemy

no fireworks certainly those are old videos. it's early morning here. (could be some street celebrations if it was evening or night) but I think it's fair to say the majority of people are "happy" (or at very least not upset) to hear the news. of course the regime has its own shrinking group of supporters. they will try to control the narrative as usual. since yesterday I saw/heard hundreds of jokes about him, lots of photoshopped pics of him with a bear (there were supposed to be wild animals in that era "greeting" them) that pretty much shows the general reaction specially among the younger generations.

Calling that guy the ayatollah is a common mistake. that's a title you get when you finish some religious school (of whatever else they call it) and no he never boards anything remotely unsafe

Hend Zaza made history last time by going to the Olympics at the age of 11 (12 because of COVID) pity she couldn't repeat the success the Lebanese lady is 47 years old ! it was 47 vs 15 in the final

Yes and No not exactly that term but I heard the word butcher about him before . but that was mostly before his presidency term. before that he was more an unknown person, with a dangerous background. but when he became "so called president" he was more like a stupid funny dumb guy people mock in a daily basis. I doubt anybody remember that nickname anymore I have to give you guys a history lesson , I try to make it short back in 1980s there was a very extremist group, in English called MEK (the remaining of them are living in Albania now, somehow the Iranian version of ISIS) at some point they sided with Iraq's dictator Saddam during the Iran/Iraq war and directly attacked Iran with a large group of soldiers. they got trapped and killed in "Operation Mersad". but because of that Khomeini decided to "end" this group once for all. there were lots of MEK prisoners back in Iran ,most of them sanctioned with a short term, 2 or 3 years in jail. all of them had a re-trial. a very short one. 2 or 3 minutes with few questions and one wrong answer led you to receiving death penalty. (and they didn't know that, they thought it's just routine questioning) keep in mind they had nothing to do with the attack, they were in jail already. most of them were just supporting that group, not being part of their military actions. while being there, they also dealt with some other communist/leftist groups too with the same way. those re-trials administered by a group of 4 judges (nowadays being called the "death committee") and Raeisi was one of them, he was young at the time and knowing his dumb personality, I don't think he had a big say in that group but still a part of it. so nobody is going to miss him (if he is really dead), except his stupid dumb mistakes.

Actually the weather itself is great in that part of the country. just too much fog. , that's in middle of a jungle though. hard to reach nothing official yet but it's hard to believe they know nothing after 5 hours. the way they are handling the news it feels like we lost the dumbest politician ever. he was stupid funny sometimes and completely irrelevant

no surprise Nima won the match (not really a match, just some warming up) 4-1 to qualify and Neda Shahsavari won the women's quota beating Mirkadirova 4-3 in a very close match. she will be the first Iranian woman to participate in 3 Olympics ! 2012, 2016 and now 2024.

you would do something different if you had to play your own brother for the quota you don't need ? and btw the match is scheduled for tomorrow, not done yet

Finals Men: Noshad Alamian vs Nima Alamian Women: Shahsavari vs Mirkadirova I assume Noshad will let his younger brother take the quota. he is very safe in the ranking. 99% guaranteed the quota. Nima started the tournament with a 4-0 defeat but luckily survived the group stage and beat #1 seed Gerassimenko

oh no that's not correct they won nothing today btw all results are available on Asian TKD federation website now

our federation (and media in general) only follow our own athletes. I have results only in some weights, (where Iranians advanced to the final rounds) which weight you are interested to know ?

NZL declined Dela Pena's quota. that will return to the World Ranking https://www.ittf.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Paris_2024_MS15May24.pdf OK, I understand they have a policy, but if they want to reject a quota why bother to participate in a "qualifier" !? that wasn't a continental championships, just the Olympic Qualifier.

updated list on 15 May, only 3 athletes per gender are in the list for each NOC. the rest are removed https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2024/05/P2O7G29.pdf China's list is updated after removing those other weights.

Abdullo Azimov won the Asian Olympic quota he finished 3rd behind Carlos Yulo and Milad Karimi (both had the quota already) in men's individual all-around

new update from ICF https://www.canoeicf.com/sites/default/files/paris_2024_csp_quota_allocation_as_of_16052024.pdf some expected updates from other continents but looks like Australia rejected a quota in favor of Guam or something like that

details of men's freestyle quotas there were 96+1 quotas, ( 96 + a refugee) we have 39 NOCs (RUS and BLR separated) here 6 5 4 3 2 1 38 from Europe, 27 Asia, 19 Pan-Am, 9 Africa and 3 Oceania by my count beside those 6 Russian wrestlers, 17 more Russians won quotas for other countries. (it doesn't mean the same number goes to Paris, NOCs can change their entries)

Quota matches 57: vs 65: vs 74: vs 86: vs 97: vs 125: vs this guy Diaz is a giant killer he beat Baran and now Sharipov !! I know Sharipov is in a terrible shape. but he was Russia #1 at some point ffs. RUS #1 losing to VEN feels like the end of the world

I was OK with passivity calls but Demirtas deserved a "Caution and 1" for fleeing the hold (and running) in last 20-30 seconds. but obviously India wouldn't get a favorable call in Turkey against a Turkish wrestler. still surprised why the Indian coach didn't push that damn challenge button, he had nothing to lose.