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I'm a bit (more than a bit) tired but if I have to write something short 60kg draw is very unbalanced (we already knew it based on the seedings) I expect Sharshenbekov vs Mammadov in the final . the bottom half is much easier with 3 relatively weak wrestlers. I think Mammadov only has Ciobanu as a serious threat. on the top half, everybody expects KGZ vs JPN semifinal. the winner of Basar vs Tibilov might be able to change that. I don't expect too much from our guy. he can beat Fumita but I don't think he will. in 130kg we will have the early final in the 2nd round. Mirzazadeh vs Lopez. I think only Mirza has a chance to challenge the Cuban monster. he is 42 and we didn't see him wrestle for a while. still I think he will be clear favorite. no chance for anybody else in that half to even win a bronze everybody in bottom half can consider himself lucky. 4 or 5 wrestlers are capable of winning bronze and silver. TUR, EGY, CHN and maybe LTU (he was a late addition and probably not ready)

maybe it was different because today was not a competition day 13:30 is weird though, that's in middle of the competition and some team staffs probably have to leave the competition to attend this ! this is the whole "schedule" https://cdn.uww.org/2024-06/infos_08_paris.pdf

nope , sooner 13:30 each day

they just finished the draw. which had a live stream our 130kg world champion will meet Mijain Lopez in the 2nd round. WTF

that was really sad. really hard to watch hopefully this is nothing very serious. at least she already has an Olympic gold

Yes that's correct but any last minute withdrawal/change can change this for example 74kg bracket is wrong, because Tsabalov is added now and he will be seed #7

Sorry if this is a silly question but did they change something about the false start rule ? I saw some FS in the heats and the athlete was allowed to run . they are not disqualifying for the 1st false start anymore?

well, blowing up 8pts lead mostly against the reserve guy. this will be really hard to swallow. 2021 Tokyo quarterfinal and now this. if I remember correctly we always had problems with this evil Bulgarian ref. never mind, what's done is done not sure if they can pull it together for the bronze medal match, which will be another uphill task against the refs. I expect a big loss, it's near impossible to come back from this. looks like another 4th place in fencing and we have to wait another week for a medal.

This is probably the last chance for these guys to win a major medal. they are all 30 or older if Abedini didn't retire earlier we could have a better shot, our 3rd guy is simply not in this level and Pakdaman/Rahbari have to make up for him too. 4th place is already a great result but hopefully they can go one step further this time

Babulfath certainly inherited something from her father because protesting to the referee is simply in our blood but that was too much, she was really lucky to not get DQed. btw what a talented kid

once again whoever beat Pakdaman went all the way to win the gold medal

somewhere between 6 to 9 anything less than 6 will be hugely disappointing

I think the last part is not correct, he is getting the quota because he is the best ranked eligible wrestler at the 2023 World Championship. he finished 9th and everybody above him is already qualified. Czech could send someone else but I assume they don't have anybody. this means there is still time for changes, we will probably see Lithuania at 130kg Greco too. they just removed the Tunisian from the start list.

I'm not a Rugby expert like most of you guys. I watch some matches every World Cup and the Olympics. know the basic rules etc from my uneducated view, as a random fan, I think Rugby 7s needs some changes. we rarely see drop goals or penalties in this version (at some point I thought that's not even in the 7s rules ) isn't it better to give 1 pt to each try and make it more understandable for amateur fans? and about the time, it's really annoying that in a 14-minutes match they do NOT stop the clock when the match is stopped. I would also suggest a smaller field. You probably hate my ideas but that's just what I thought after watching 2 days of rugby sevens

this explains a bit doping DSQ for Erdemir https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/BOX/OG2024_BOX_C67_BOXM71KG--------------------------1.pdf and no show for Leta https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/BOX/OG2024_BOX_C67_BOXM57KG--------------------------2.pdf

Tunisia still can send someone else , the quota belongs to the NOC, not the wrestler. but if they don't, there is nobody else in African qualifier to replace him. only 2 wrestlers finished the competition in that weight. (2 more guys were there but they got disqualified for not finishing the round robin competition) per rules, this should become a universality quota but I think it's impossible to go through that process in such a short time. therefore this goes to the next best ranked wrestler at the 2023 World Championships which is Lithuania. but I also think it's possible if they do it with 15 wrestlers. (which means seed #1 will get a bye in the first round)

his name is not on ITA's list either https://ita.sport/sanction/united-world-wrestling-uww/ but sometimes they are a bit slow, if this is true, his name will appear in this list some time soon. (unless this is a local test thing)

some sources here report that "possible" drug cheat Khetag Tsabolov won something in the court and he is going to the Olympics after all (they were supposed to send a Greco wrestler Ali Arsalan instead of him) I just checked and Tsabolov's name had been removed from ITA's list which confirms the reports.

Our possible gold medalists will receive something around 300,000$, wrestlers will get an extra ~100,000$ from their own federation Dollar/Rial exchange rate changes daily and hourly , so it might be different when they actually receive the money few months later.

and time to break the Olympic curse I remember the days when Italy dominating the World Champs (and World League) with Velasco and the coach before him but still always failed the tie break against the Netherlands at the Olympics ! actually I just re-watched the 1996 final recently. have to say volleyball looked like a completely different sport back then.

Belarus sources announced that Mahamedkhabib Kadzimahamedau is invited by IOC to participate at the Olympics. and I just checked his name is back on AIN list of IOC. https://olympics.com/ioc/paris-2024-individual-neutral-athletes they took his quota and gave it to Chamizo, obviously they are not going to deny Chamizo now, this means we will have 18 wrestlers at 74kg.

another victim of flagbearer curse before even the start of the games? but no I highly doubt that will be a problem, as you said that's more an issue for head-to-head sports. but you never can be sure, the previous government and their guys are still at office. back in 2008 they withdrew a swimmer last minute (for the first time in a non-head-to-head sport) which wasn't supposed to happen and they probably won't be competing in the same apparatus anyway. just have to sit next to each other for an hour or more. I'm more worried about the fact that Olfati is drawn in subdivision 1 and has to be the flagbearer only few hours before his competition . that was a dumb pick anyway

ITA banned Wesley Kitts for 1 month and disqualified his results since April 2024 which means his World Cup results is nullified now. participating at World Cup was mandatory to be eligible, not sure if a DSQ counts as legal participation btw IWF was supposed to possibly ban countries with 3 or more doping cases from the Olympics. 3 NOCs fall in the criteria, Ukraine, Turkey and Turkmenistan and it looks like they can walk free after paying some money as penalty.

Is this a common thing to ban someone for just 1 month, and picking up the dates carefully to make sure he doesn't miss the Olympics ?