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Thanks still interesting how they allow someone who didn't finish the race to qualify ! in most sports you have to finish the competition at least to qualify.

how the qualification race works in Alpine skiing ? how many athletes qualify for the main round? something like top 25 + another 25 (but limited to only 1 per country) ? is it optional to use whoever you want in the final ? I'm asking because I see the Iranian who had a DNF yesterday started the race today while there was another skier (from Iran I mean) with a result (and not DNF) above him. not that it really matters, but I was just curious

thanks, it seems that part about him wanting to wrestle for another country is confirmed, we just don't know which country (rumors say Serbia) and also if he is legally eligible to wrestle for another country since he represented Russia on May 2018 at Euro. as you probably know per IOC rules there should be 3 years of inactivity. interestingly he wrestled for Russia on 5 May 2018 and the last chance world qualifier will start on 6 May 2021 !

Hi guys, I wanted to ask a question there is a rumor in wrestling forums, that former World Champion Khetag Tsabolov is going to wrestle for Serbia ( or at least that's what he wants to do), is that true, did you hear anything about it ?

that was too fast, I was making my sandwich, getting ready to watch the match and missed the goal while he looks smart on the field, outside the field he is one of the dumbest person I know

well I'm no expert in winter sports but I think team event in figure skating is already lower than this or anything else.

If someone takes a look at the IWF calendar , there is no qualification event left in the calendar except the continental championships. (the last one was a tournament in Colombia which is cancelled/postponed now) https://www.iwf.net/competitions/calendar/ even those continental champs are not a sure thing considering the pandemic but if nothing else happens only 1 event is left for each athlete to collect more points! the calendar actually says the Oceania "senior" championships will be held in August !! (after the Olympics) , per new rules, particiatping in one event in 2021 is mandatory for everybody, so I don't know what Oceania athletes are going to do ! and some guys like Om Yun-chol needed to participate in 2 events to be eligible. so technically he is out of the Olympics. but I expect to see some major changes in the qualification rules. this is not going to work. PS: IWF sucks but we knew it for so many years.

I'm pretty sure the answer is nothing else I think the ranking is the combination of the latest continental championships, continental qualifiers and the last World Championship in Russia.

for obvious reasons I was more interested in Asia and as for Europe, you have to wait till the end of the Euro Qualifiers, they also count these qualifiers in the ranking.

this is terrible These are the best ranked Asian/Oceania athletes , obviously if they accept the quota it will be very interesting for Oceania athletes, specially Samoa having a separate continental championship helped them to have more ranking points. only 6 out of 63 quotas went to Oceania during the qualifiers. they will get 5 more here. but I assume there will be some withdrawals. two of these Samoan boxers didn't even participate at the qualifier in Jordan. 52: Carlo Paalam 57: Erdenebatyn Tsendbaatar 63: Harry Garside 69: Marion Ah Tong 75: Fanat Kakhramonov 81: Dilshodbek Ruzmetov 91: Ato Plodzicki-Faoagali +91: Filimaua Hala 51: Pang Chol-Mi 57: Nesthy Petecio 60: Wang Cong 69: Maftunakhon Melieva 75: Faasu Loia

technically that's awarding Russia, not punishing they got the main Olympic Qualification tournament (2023 Worlds) instead of a normal World Championship in 2022.

yep that's a bit old news, Iran usually don't have doping positive during the multi sport events, simply because they test everybody before the event to avoid such a thing. (getting cheaters inside the country is much better) but apparently they received the wild card quota only 10 days before the competition and they had no time to test this guy and wait for the result. the guy was looked like a monster during the competition, eating everybody alive. at the time I was thinking, how I never heard his name before? he was too good to "not be in the freestyle team" now I know why

I highly doubt Iran cares much about Yemen, yes they care about Iraq, Lebanon and Syria but Yemen is a different story. there are lots of exaggeration about Iran's influence in Yemen but whatever they are doing in Yemen is probably only to have more cards to play in future negotiations. they will sell these "Houthis" in a second if they have to. and unfortunately nobody cares about Yemen because there is no money. ending that war isn't that hard if there is a will. nobody is going to win this endless war. only innocent people suffer more and more. they can't eliminate each other and Saudis have no army to invade Yemen. so they will continue just bombing people. but why Russia ? have they any interest in Yemen ?

and another footballer from that generation just joined him today, Ali Ansarian died from COVID 19 at the age of 43. not a World Cup player but still very famous and popular because of his club achievements (and also his later career as an actor and a TV host). both guys were at the same TV/internet live show few weeks ago and both got infected there.

I'm afraid not, the original schedule confirms that wow

this is the olympic schedule http://www.fiba.basketball/olympics/men/2020/schedule1.pdf the document says the bronze medal match will be AFTER the gold medal match, wow ! this is new. probably never happened before anywhere.

Japan to host the Asian/Oceania qualifiers 5-7 May in Tokyo https://worldrowing.com/2021/02/01/tokyo-bid-for-2021-asia-and-oceania-continental-olympic-qualification-regatta-accepted-by-the-world-rowing-council/

FIBA they want to copy/paste everything from FIFA btw I think with this format everybody wants Iran in their group no secret that Iran is the weakest team of the competition and points difference matters here (to qualify even if you are 3rd in the group)

Denmark is the best team in the world right now and they were supposed to win the title but what a night for Landin, he is always good when it matters and Congrats to Sweden for having such a wonderful tournament. and also hats off to Egypt for organizing this competition and also having a great team. they were VERY close to beat Denmark and lost by only 1 goal to the other finalist Sweden. I think it's fair to say that Egypt deserved a medal here.

Mehrdad Minavand former Iran national football team player who played at the 1998 FIFA World Cup died today from COVID 19 at the age of 45. he was quite famous here like every other player from that 1998 team. he got married only 2 months ago

what a match and I know this is going to hurt a lot for Egyptian fans , that was really cruel. but they surely can be proud of their team. that was the most dramatic handball match I ever seen.

what a crazy match

now we know the top 12 teams, Quotas for the next World Champs: Hosts: Poland and Sweden Defending Champion: 1 Europe: 3+9 Asia: 4+1 Africa: 4+1 South America: 3+1 North America: 1 Wild Card: 1+1 (assuming Oceania teams won't finish in top 5 in Asia) it should be 4+9 for Europe but having two European teams as hosts, they will lose 1 quota, even though with hosts, defending Champion and 2 Wild cards, there will be 17 European teams in 2023. (unless COVID comes back and changes the whole thing like it did this time with late withdrawals) and Uruguay will be back again in 2023

how come 3 of the quarterfinals are the same time https://www.ihf.info/competitions/men/308/27th-ihf-mens-world-championship-2021/22415/stage-matches/22503 that's extremely stupid!

Croatia was the biggest disappointment of this tournament, they even struggled against Angola and couldn't beat Japan! if I remember correctly they beat Qatar only because their GK saved 5-6 7m throws. Almost the same team finished 2nd in the European Championship a year ago !