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Brackets are up in all Greco-Roman weights https://unitedworldwrestling.org/event/individual-world-cup and guess what, we will have the most interesting match of the competition right in the first round! Evloev vs Aleksanyan tough draw for both Iranians here but that's OK, this is more like a preparation tournament, so it's actually better to wrestle more top guys.

this will be probably the first wrestling competition with TV coverage in Italy and without one in Iran has it anything to do with Chamizo's recent results ? or just some random decision because there was nothing else to show at the time I wonder if Chamizo and other guys can improve the popularity of wrestling there. I'm not a big fan of Minguzzi's success in Beijing (for obvious reasons) but I remember Giovanni Schillaci for example. even Vincenzo Maenza. Italy has some history in this sport. I'm really disappointed we don't have a big team here but still I'm really glad that wrestling is back. even limited. we had our own league matches + the trials but international wrestling is always more "fun".

Entry list for the "individual world cup", of course it's not guaranteed if all of these guys show up. https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/individual-world-cup-entries much more than what I was expecting. actually they could make it a World Championship. pity. obviously we would have more wrestlers if they didn't change the competition title. for example Iran is only sending a 4-man team just to satisfy UWW. they wanted to send a full team if it was a World Champs, we even had our trials in middle of the pandemic. 3 of these 4 wrestlers are our possible candidates for the Asian Olympic qualifier. from big wrestling nations, are absent, is sending a reserve team, as well as are sending limited number of wrestlers. from what I see the most interesting weight is 97kg Greco with both Aleksanyan and Evloev in the list plus some other good guys. btw I see some more Russian wrestlers for Bulgaria. interesting, Bulgaria itself was a victim of other countries stealing its athletes, but now they are importing instead of exporting! this is kind of disappointing for a historically great wrestling nation. and none of these guys are in the highest level as far as I know.

good luck to have a big event like this only in 5 months ! but who knows this is Thailand, they love to host big events like this. apparently things are free there, and they don't have to worry about the costs but let's imagine COVID will disappear before May, it seems they throw everything they had to the program. Wai Kru, really ?! that's a dance before the Muaythai competitions ! ASEAN chess ?! Drone racing ?! (that's demonstration though) Mixed sepaktakraw ?! this is new , IOC will love the idea! the selection of weights for combat sports is also funny, doesn't make sense in most sports. I assume they only pick weights where there is a "decent" Thai fighter. Wrestling (excluding traditional wrestling) has only 4 events, 2 FS, 1 GR and 1 Women I never heard of such thing in my life. and why exactly 67kg GR and why not another weight ? I really hope we will have this competition in May but that's really unlikely. Asia is in trouble to find hosts for its Olympic qualifiers. nobody in Asia (except our rich friends in Persian Gulf) is interested to host anything these days.

as far as I know they cancelled the competition. and the Asian quota will be decided by the World Championships results but I'm not sure about this part ! but I'm sure there will be no competition tomorrow, I would know about it.

thanks now I have a better idea about it. I have to repeat that I know almost nothing about Sailing the sport almost doesn't even exist here.

Thanks, I will have hard time to find an equal word in Persian for that. it sounds like something expensive and beside that how come something like this can have TV coverage ? TV guys are going to race with them the entire weekend ?

Can someone explain what's the difference between offshore sailing and normal sailing ? this is one sport that I know almost nothing about.

I was kidding actually I just wanted to say that such thing is not really popular in Asia. and yes I totally agree with you. these events should have decent World Championships for so many years in first place (with at least 40-50 NOCs participating) before even asking to be in the Olympic program.

Yep

it's not popular in Asia, and it's not in the Asian Games program. only in the minor multi-sport events and almost only whenever Thailand hosts it ! as of today BMX freestyle had never been in the AG program. even Skateboarding only made it to the AG after IOC approved it for Tokyo 2020. don't blame Asia for IOC's delusions

what's the procedure for 2028 LA Olympics sports programme ? as far as I know all "core sports" were in the Olympics program until the 2024 Paris. when and how they are going to decide about it ? do we already know that ?

Today is 9/9/99 in the Persian calendar. to me it doesn't mean anything special. but believe it or not there are "so many" people trying to have their babies exactly today. and that means early C-section https://ifpnews.com/luxury-birth-date-tragedy-happening-again-in-iran-as-9-9-99-looms in middle of a pandemic and all other disasters we are facing nowadays I don't know what you will gain in your life by having a "Luxury Birth Date" , there is no limit for stupidity

I wonder how much money the host will save by having less 12 athletes in the games village! 10 billion dollars I assume or maybe 20 billions

yes, 99%. but IWF has to finalize it too. we knew about these guys from months ago since IWF (unlike all other federations) publishes the list of doppers very soon, even before IOC finishes the process. ---------------- oops, this is a different matter, doping from 2012 Olympics won't be counted here, (I mean that rule about 3 doping inside the Q period = disqualification from the Olympics) but Romania has 3 other guys waiting for their verdict, once that's finalized, Romania will be banned too.

ITG confirms what I wrote about Vietnam, they will most probably be banned from the Olympics https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1101033/vietnam-weightlifters-caught-doping

Here I see two new Vietnamese weightlifters being added to the suspended list https://www.iwf.net/anti-doping/sanctions/ there is another guy TRINH Van Vinh in 2018. from what I googled he tested positive on November 2018 after the start of the qualification period. if I'm not wrong 3 dopers during the qualification period means being banned from the Olympics. they already banned Egypt, Thailand and Malaysia because of this rule. is Vietnam next or I missed something ? Colombia and Romania also have open cases (to make it 3 or more), if confirms, they will be banned too. meanwhile IWF updates the list of ADRVs (from 2008 to 2020) Romania now has 20 and will be reduced to 1 male and 1 female (of course if IWF doesn't ban the nation entirely) NOCs limited to 1 male and 1 female NOCs limited to 2 males and 2 females no need to say that some NOCs in the list are banned completely, but IWF still keeps them in the list.

That was quite a week for Hungary, qualification for Euro and now this.

Yes I think so, our wrestling federation usually publishes all letter they receive from UWW and they have some guys inside UWW, I assume they would know about it if UWW has another plan. they started the training camp for this WCh and tested everybody before the start but apparently one of the wrestlers was infected (and we know tests are not 100% accurate) and almost the whole Greco squad plus some freestylers got infected. as far as I know they are all OK and showing minor symptoms, only the Greco head coach had to be hospitalized for couple days. Iran won't send a full team to this World Cup in Belgrade but they said it's possible to send some few wrestlers. since this is not a World Championship anymore, I assume most countries will do the same. even though I read on Russian websites that Russia will send the A team.

no as far as I know. in Iran they sent everybody home and closed the training camp (also because almost everybody inside the camp got the virus ! ) you heard something about it ?

he is a pretty good wrestler actually also a bronze medalist in CISM Games few years ago. but with this limited quotas remaining I highly doubt he can qualify for the Olympics. but yes I think if they meet, Kesho (I didn't know that's his nickname ) will beat him relatively easily. he is one of the guys I'm looking forward to see in Tokyo. I know there are some very good wrestlers like Borrero at 67kg but I expect "Kesho" to win a medal in Tokyo. and maybe something better than bronze or silver he got robbed a medal last year against Stabler. hopefully the officiating will be better in Tokyo. even though with this coronavirus it's really hard to predict anything. I don't know how they are training nowadays. we had some unbelievable surprises in our own trials last week.

UWW just cancels the 2020 Worlds there will be a nonsense event called "Individual World Cup" instead . which is just another international tournament in my opinion. https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/wrestling-organize-individual-world-cup-lieu-2020-world-championships

Last weekend we had 3 international competitions in Croatia, Russia and Poland, they are the first international competitions since March ! I was checking the list and in total 22 countries sent wrestlers to these 3 events. I consider it as a sign that they will most probably participate at the 2020 World Championships (if UWW doesn't cancel it) 18 of them are from Europe ! on other hand we know USA and Japan officially withdrew, apparently Kazakhstan and Cuba did the same. and most probably Canada. I also heard Germany is considering withdrawal too 18 countries finished in top 10 (at least in one of those 3 styles) in last World Championship, 6 of them are in the list above, 4 of them most probably will withdraw, (still not sure about Germany) I know Iran and India will participate for sure, Armenia is not a sure thing because of the war, GEO, MGL and UKR are likely to participate, and I have no idea about China. Serbia just hosted the World Sambo Championship in past few days ! so I guess unless some huge changes happen they are OK to host the competition. UWW claims something like 70 NOCs registered to participate but I think we won't see more than 40-50. probably even less. it will be a weak World Champs specially in women's wrestling without Japan and USA. but as long as Russia sends A team (which they will) this is still a prestigious World Championship.

so you are saying Conyedo are Nikoloz are 100% confirmed. but Kudiamagomedov is still injured ? and won't recover in time ? what was their chance (I mean all 3 of them) if IOC wouldn't postpone the Olympics ?

@phelps can you give us any update on the current citizenship of naturalized Italian wrestlers ? beside Chamizo, we know Kakhelashvili also received his citizenship, what about Conyedo and Kudiamagomedov ?