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actually they officially cancelled the U23 Worlds but kept things unclear for the senior worlds but yes I also read the source of your post. looks like right now there is more chance to have the World seniors. while health of the athletes is the top priority I really hope they find a way to have this competition, 7 months without wrestling is already too much !

Today was the first day of peace negotiations between Taliban and the Afghanistan government, while Taliban still refuses to call them the government. I know people there are extremely tired of 20 years of war and I wish them the best. but still I can't understand how they can make a deal with Taliban. Taliban is not going to give up an inch. to have a better idea about how Taliban think, in regions under their control, girls can't go to school more than 4-5 years. (for Taliban that's enough as long as they can read and write and a bit more) Taliban is already the winner even if nothing happens, 5000 of their soldiers got released (as a pre condition to start the negotiation) including dangerous murderers and rapers.

his treatment process faced more difficulties because of the coronavirus but a week ago he said he beat the cancer, probably a bit of exaggeration, cancer is not easy to beat but at least he is not in danger anymore, at least for now his pics before and after the cancer

yes I know , that's true about the western media, I don't care much about them but I can't remember the great clean lovely IOC ever publishes a statement like this about any other country. https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-statement-on-the-execution-of-wrestler-navid-afkari-in-iran next time they should ask IAAF/WA permission, since everybody runs at least once in a while. btw an Iranian kid, this time a real wrestler, youth Olympic medalist was facing death because of cancer and because of lack of special medicines in Iran, I can't remember if anybody cared. specially the great IOC. you can't even find a line in English about him.

actually that should be posted here not in the wrestling thread, as far as I know he was just a wrestler in youth level 11-12 years ago with no achievement even in his own town. but I was just watching BBC and they called him "the former national team member" !!! as I said in that thread this kind of "World support" wasn't helping him. actually made it worse. per unwritten rules they never execute someone in this month of the year ( for religious reasons) but they did this time ,quicker than usual. something like showing the middle finger . while his family was close to convince the victim's family to forgive him. (in Iran it's up to the victim's family to forgive or order the execution, and yes I know this is bad ) they were supposed to meet the victim's family today

that's true but then this guy is an ordinary person, this is like any other murder case. and it has nothing to do with IOC, FIFA (seriously, FIFA ?) and other non-clean organizations. even though even if he was an Olympic champion that still had nothing to do with the IOC. do they interfere in every single case in China, Saudi Arabia or any other country ? or it's always easier to act like a fake "hero" when it's about Iran ? I don't want to get into details, this is a sport forum, but from what I read, heard and watched, I think he is guilty, of course I don't trust the system though. but this is just a simple murder case, not a security/political matter. (where they feel they have to lie) the Iranian regime is notorious for dishonestly, so you always can say something against them and hope for people to believe it. that's what this guy's family is doing. but I don't think this is going to help him, his claim doesn't have much support inside the country (unlike another case a month ago about 3 other kids and they survived eventually) this is mostly twitter and naive western journalists trying to make a story

fortunately this is the internet age, and every results are archived, otherwise they would make this guy a former Olympic champion or something like that. "Champion wrestler" ! yes sure, he was a wrestler a decade ago in his town. by IOC standards that surely qualifies him to be a "Champion" since IOC/FIFA/ AAA/BBB/CCC are worried about the murderers, I wonder why they didn't defend Oscar Pistorius, he was an Olympian and a Paralympics champion after all, he had the right to kill people and walk free, they were cruel to deny him that right. #FreeOscarMurderious

quick question, what was the rule regarding sex verification before IAAF/WA applies this new rule to prevent Semenya ? or in another word, what's the rule in other sports ? where they draw the line that someone is a woman or not ?

so injuring people unintentionally is no different ? that was stupid and reckless but obviously that wasn't intentional not trying to defend him, I just want to learn the rules.

what's the rule here exactly ? players should not throw the ball to the air after the game ?

hopefully Egypt will be able to have the event with fans in the stadiums. I don't like to get used to watching important sport matches in empty stadiums !! oh yes, I think I'm getting old how come I forgot that match I remembered they beat Japan in the final (final for not finishing last)

Is it a sure thing that the tournament won't get cancelled ? and what about the stadiums ? behind the closed doors ? or there is still chance to see some fans in the stadiums ? btw I assume top 12 teams will earn extra quotas for their continent, almost all Asian teams will be in the same group in the 2nd round. so if one of them beats Argentina, Asia will have 5 spots in the next WCh. I assume Doctor Congo and Angola are no match at least for QAT and BRN.

16 years ago some crazy guy stopped Vanderlei de Lima from (probably) winning the Olympic gold in Athens 2004 men's Marathon race. I was reading the story and couldn't understand what he was trying to say ? The Grand Prix priest. Israel fulfilment of prophecy, says the Bible. The second coming is near. what's the prophecy ? is this something anti-Israel ? what's the relation between Israel and Jesus's return ? pardon my ignorance but I never had to read the bible

The contract was something genius, people have to teach that in schools as the worst contract ever! if I'm not wrong there was a section about if Iran FF terminates the contract with legit reasons they have to pay 3 months of his salary and if Wilmots terminates the contract with legit reasons still IFF has to pay 3 months of his salary ! I'm sure nobody every saw such a thing but IFF couldn't pay him for 2 months because of the banking sanctions, (he had the right to terminate the contract if there was no payment in 2 months) he left the team right before Iraq match, they put 2 million euros in suitcases and send that to Turkey , convincing him to lead the team for that specific match, he came back 2 days before the match and he screwed up the team, but then he left, asking FIFA for the whole money because there is "no legit reason" here ! bottom line, he knew he will get the whole money the moment he singed the contract, he was a conman and tricked those idiots to sign such a thing, he was just looking for a reason to leave and ask for the whole money. this photo summarizes everything in this case

FIFA sanctioned Iran football federation to pay 6.5 million Euros to Marc Wilmots ! they already paid him 2 million euros for leading Iran NT for only 4 matches, and what happened ? beating Hong Kong and Cambodia and losing to Bahrain and Iraq ! I'm quite sure any human in the world wouldn't get worse results than him. and considering the fact we can't play at home with spectators for a very long time (thanks to COVID-19) Iran's chance to survive the WC qualifiers is very slim. (FIFA postponing those matches was the only good news) Iran FF will bring this to CAS but based on previous experiences most of those judges always (99.99%) rules against Iran. by default. those from Iran FF who signed his contract deserve a medal for being extremely stupid, they will never can pay such money, (unless the government helps) when they singed with that Belgian charlatan 1 Euro was something like 50,000 Rials. now it worth 4-5 times more ! and Iran is not going to qualify for the WC and they can't count on that money from FIFA too. paying that amount of money is simply impossible considering the current situation. btw, Wilmots is indeed a conman, he never cared about the team, I really hope nobody signs with him anymore, this is probably one of the most expensive contracts in history of the national teams. 8.5m Euros only for 4 matches !

wow. that was extremely scary.

My answer is always the same ! I'm looking forward for everything at the Olympics while our own athletes are my priority but I watch as much as I can ! as many sports as I can. I try to not miss a single final. (I know sometimes that's impossible)

five weeks, wow. I'm glad she is OK. I know it's really hard to deal with that when your loved ones are in danger. yes we had the same situation here, I know at least two cases among my relatives that someone got infected but people living with him didn't get it.

I moved in with my parents to make sure they don't have to leave the house that much since the start of the pandemic, I moved back to my own place the moment I heard the news today. but my sister had some contacts with my parents too (not much but still) and I had lots of contacts with them in past few days. that's my biggest concern. they are still completely fine though.

highest number of death for Iran with 235 today and it's just getting worse. finally after 5 months Tehran province is declared today as "red zone", my town is in red zone for more than a week though. I'm convinced that probably alongside USA and Brazil we will be the last countries to solve this virus thing. (unless a vaccine changes things) guess what Iran, USA and Brazil have in common ? and personally the worst news is my sister is showing symptoms, (still no confirmed test) and she was with me on Friday (probably the only mistake I made in past 5 months) and I'm coughing too. (well I cough a lot so it can be nothing but you know the power of mind) and I will quarantine myself completely to see what will happen.

why ? they will qualify one male quota (Fares El-Bakh) but that's it. per new rules athletes win quotas, not NOCS, but they also can't change their NOC in middle of the qualification.

I don't think so because she will miss the Olympics if she switches nationality, her Olympic points belong to Latvia.

Curling , really ? I think I'm the only person in this country maybe searching sometimes about the winter sports and I don't think I watched Curling that much that should be Alpine or Figure skating. btw is there any chance for Ice Climbing to be added anytime soon ? I mean somewhere in my life time ? that's the only "winter" sport we can be somehow competitive. and maybe in that case people here finally realize Winter Olympics even exist.

well I just went to the next block buying something wearing a mask, that's the longest distance I can go these days. does it count ?

sorry but this is stupid to even think/talk about boycotting the Olympics in 2020 ! and this is funny , it mostly comes from countries who claim nobody should mix sports with politics. well yes off course it's only bad when the others do that.