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Semifinals 57kg: Tigreros vs Oliveira Ramirez vs Gilman 65kg: Williams vs Valdes Retherford vs Destribats 74kg: Gomez vs Tafur Montero vs Garzon 86kg: Torreblanca vs Taylor Arthur vs Ambrocio 97kg: Salas vs Ramos Perez vs Steen 125kg: Dhesi vs Merrill Gwiazdowski vs Vivenes another terrible day for Venezuela, they won't qualify a wrestler for Tokyo. Mejias at 57kg despite dominating most of the match lost because of a trapped arm and gave up something like 10pts in one action ! and Diaz got injured in his 2nd match and was very weak in his last group match vs Steen, even though I think Steen still could beat him even if he wasn't injured. we were expecting 2 big matches today, both CUB/USA . one of them happened at 57kg with Gilman narrowly beating Andreu. waiting for Taylor vs Cuba. again USA is huge favorite. other American wrestlers will qualify easily, if Taylor qualifies they will have a full team in men's freestyle

that looks like a free quota for Peru ! Arthur got injured seriously during his match vs Baez, he managed to finish the match which was very ugly but I highly doubt that knee will let him wrestle properly in the semifinal. Baez could beat him by DSQ if he had 20 or 30 more seconds left. maybe even 10 more seconds

Phulka had a huge opportunity to upset top seed former world medalist Gomez. Gomez was leading 9-0 but then ran out of gas and gave up lots of points still managed to win it 10-7. I think 30 more seconds was enough for Phulka to win it. if Gomez gets tried like this I won't be surprised if he loses his SF to Colombia

I'm quire sure this guy from Barbados at 74kg never wrestled before. I wonder if he even watched wrestling before he was the worst wrestler I ever seen the other wrestler is no better, I wonder if Barbados knew which sport is participating. but I believe quota is possible for Jamaica from that part, first time in wrestling maybe ? that guy is American and relatively good. will be interesting to see who between Argentina, Jamaica or Peru wins the quota.

maybe Argentina has a chance for quota after all but at 86kg, Baez just dominated Canadian Pye, he needs 2 more wins and both of them are winnable matches IMO, I still wonder how come Canada didn't enter Alex Moore lost the trials ? but how come he lost to this guy ? Moore beat Russia at Worlds U23. that's no joke meanwhile no Olympics for Oscar Pino. as I was expecting Pacheco never wrestled freestyle before he just gave his leg easily to that PUR guy so many times. Pan American Champion in Greco-Roman is a joke in freestyle and some people think freestyle and Greco are similar !

people here exactly think the opposite. something like how these guys do that without water. oooogghhh

hmmm, empty streets, what a lovely sight ! I have to say in my neighborhood it's more or less the same, streets are almost empty but when you go some parts of the city it's like any other normal day. Tehran reported Saturday as "the most crowded" day since the start of Coronavirus !, it seems even some of those people who were careful got bored of staying at home and went back to the streets

Last night we had only 3 withdrawals if I'm not wrong but tonight the second session was one of the most bizarre wrestling sessions, we had no real gold medal match at all ! out of 14 matches listed for second session, (6 finals and 8 bronze medal matches) 9 of them didn't happen and someone won by walkover I guess only Canadian wrestlers showed up completely mostly because they were the host. I wonder what happened since last night that the number of withdrawals increased massively this is interesting because in wrestling you can't simply withdraw ! you need medical proof that you are injured. of course everybody knows the real reason and it's mostly UWW's fault for even having these senseless finals but still rules are rules. I assume since UWW wasn't strict last night with 3 withdrawals, everybody decided to not show up tonight imagine what will happen if UWW decides to act seriously and disqualify all of these fake injured wrestlers all 4 American wrestlers withdrew from the final, Team USA doctor had a busy afternoon making fake excuses or fake injuries

only probably ? I assume we have a bit more than 2 hours left ? ---- oops my computer shows today is 15 March but I didn't notice that's only because we are past midnight here, so nevermind, 24 hours is more than enough for me

UK ambassador in Tehran he probably doesn't know we don't use toilet papers, we have another "technology" but joking aside, nobody raids supermarkets here, they are still full like other days, I don't know what does that mean, to me that shows how people didn't take it seriously yet. I mean at least some of them.

well you never can be 100% sure about anything in sports but I can tell you that's 99% not possible. he has Retherford in his bracket , Retherford most probably will run over him. men's freestyle is more predictable but I somehow think Bermudez got robbed today, I was looking both mats at the same time and I really didn't understand what happened, Bermudez threw Castillo for 4 and was about to pin her but the center ref stopped the match for a reason I'm not sure if I understood. a second before the throw mat chairman told the center ref to "stop" to probably warn one of the wrestlers for passivity but the match is stopped only when the center ref below the whistle so to me that throw was legit and they should let her continue the action which was most probably pinning Castillo.

Cuba winning more quotas than Canada in women's wrestling is really surprising , and honestly I think right now in a dual Canada most probably will beat Cuba 6-0 (or 5-1 at least) , Cuba only entered 4 female wrestlers and 3 of them qualified ! and I can say none of them are in top 2 in those weights, they just managed to be smart and took the opportunities . also a very good day for Brazil, both of Brazilian girls won their semifinals 2-1 (one of them 3-1 after a desperate challenge) with almost no real score, only cautions and maybe just 1 pushout. that's the advantage of being very good defensively . women's wrestling used to be much more high scoring but now they are learning from men's freestyle to be more conservative and not give up easy points.

indeed they really should won at least 2 quotas. I don't know what happened to Valverde , Cuban girl was weaker than her but she woke up very late, also very bad tournament for Venezuela and also Colombia (despite winning 1 quota) not a good weekend for countries with similar flags

WOW. what a surprising quota for Mexico Morais did the same mistake 3 times, she escaped twice but finally Valencia pinned her. that probably made up for Romero's heart breaking defeat in last 2 seconds,

Semifinals 50kg: Castillo vs Guzman MacDonald vs Hildebrandt 53kg: Valverde vs Montero Winchester vs Stewart 57kg: Maroulis vs Rodriguez Valencia vs Morais 62kg: Miracle vs Fazzari Nunes vs Griman 68kg: Lappage vs Ayovi Sovero vs Sanchez 76kg: Wiebe vs Reasco Olaya vs Ferreira We will have 3 CAN/USA in the semifinal, one because of the draw, 2 because Canadian wrestlers lost a match in the group stage.

Just noticed the Cuban guy for 125kg freestyle is NOT Oscar Pino but that guy Pacheco who won the PanAms Greco Championships few days ago. I wasn't wrong when I said one wrestler can't qualify in two different events. Pino won the quota for Lopez and now he needs someone else to win quota for him ! I'm almost sure Cuba didn't know that and that's why they brought Pino to Canada. this guy Pacheco probably never wrestled freestyle before. he is super strong but still freestyle is different.

wow. what a match 97kg final I'm glad they didn't cancel the finals. you rarely see such high scoring match in this level between two World level wrestlers specially at heavyweight. Cuba won 11-8 but Hancock threw him for 4 to win it 12-11 which later annulled because it was a moment after 0:00

to give you an answer, I refer to an interview I heard from one of Afghan top health officials. he was worried that people in Afghanistan don't take those advises seriously. that they are in big trouble but still nobody knows that. he said Iran has a "very very strong" health system and look how much trouble they have right now. if they consider our health system very very strong. you can imagine how good they are. as far as I know so many people from Iraq and Afghanistan come to Iran for medical treatment. even though in this case I believe this is more about management rather than having very good doctors. but mismanagement in Afghanistan is pretty common. they are even worse than us. I guess you guys don't follow the news (who does these days) but Afghanistan is deeply in trouble politically, two guys announced themselves president at the same day !! and the president "had" to sign an order releasing 5000 Taliban members (against people's wish) just because USA ordered them to do. right now Corona is not really their concern, and that's very dangerous.

what's interesting for me is almost all of our neighbors are almost Corona-free ! I know if someone checks the map all central and Northern provinces are deeply involved with this. not borderline provinces but still so many people traveled to those neighbor countries directly from Tehran before any of them close the borders, Afghanistan border is still open (not that so many Iranians travel to Afghanistan, but there are so many Afghan workers here coming and going regularly). I guess our neighbors are either very lucky, have super strong genes or simply don't test anybody ! here most provinces are closing everything one by one, still no "nationwide" rule about it. but apparently we are suppose to hear something "very important" tomorrow or at least in next couple of days. that's probably shutting down everything completely in Tehran. but according to some military officials they have order to make everywhere "less crowded" starting from next 24 hours.

Pan-American Wrestling Olympic Qualification tournament, probably the last wrestling event for a while

while I agree with you that finals are unnecessary but UWW is not really open minded about trying new formats. they have a fixed format which they use for every single competition and OQTs are no exceptions. I expect lots of walkovers in the finals. even though for some of these wrestlers this is just another opportunity to wrestle one more and test themselves. kind of a preparation match.

By cancelling the European Championships, WKF will count 2019 results which means the current ranking will remain the same, even though it's really hard to imagine they can have that last K1 event in Madrid but I still consider that as a possibility, this is how ranking looks like and this is the list of 100% qualified athletes. Men's Kata Damian Quintero - 10117.5 Q Ali Sofuoglu - 6892.5 Q Antonio Diaz - 5205 Q Mattia Busato - 4650 Q Men's 60kg Darkhan Assadilov - 10387.5 Q Angelo Crescenzo - 8850 Eray Samdan - 7912.5 Crescenzo is 100% qualified if less than 32 athletes register which is really possible considering the situation, Samdan needs to win the gold, Creszenzo losing the first round and also needs at least 33 athletes in the draw. looks almost impossible Men's 67kg Steven Dacosta - 8940 Q Vinicius Figueira - 6832.5 Ali El-Sawy - 6472.5 Men's 75kg Bahman Askari - 9262.5 Q Luigi Busa - 7740 Q Rafael Aghayev - 7005 Q Stanislav Horuna - 5707.5 Thomas Scott - 5047.5 Men's 84kg Ugur Aktas - 10372.5 Q Zabihollah Poursheib - 9225 Ivan Kvesic - 7087.5 Men's +84kg Sajjad Ganjzadeh - 8617.5 Jonathan Horne - 8062.5 Gogita Arkania - 7080 Horne only has to participate in Madrid to qualify, even not participating most probably won't hurt him. but if Horne makes up for almost 600pts difference with Ganjzadeh that will change so many things. Kevsic and Arkania can't do anything themselves, their fates depend on Horne and Ganjzadeh. Women's Kata Sandra Sanchez - 12322.5 Q Viviana Bottaro - 7275 Q Grace Lau - 6300 Q Sakura Kokumai - 5887.5 Q Women's 50kg Serap Ozcelik - 11302.5 Q Sara Bahmanyar - 5647.5 Bettina Plank - 5197.5 Women's 55kg Anzhelika Terliuga - 9472.5 Q Wen Tzu-Yun - 7080 Q Women's 61kg Yin Xiaoyan - 10545 Q Giana Lotfy - 7710 Q Merva Coban - 7027.5 Q Jovana Prekovic - 5482.5 Haya Jumaa - 5137.5 Rozita Alipour - 5107.5 Gwendoline Philippe - 4890 Leila Heurtault - 4515 Women's 68kg Irina Zaretska - 9247.5 Q Elena Quirici - 6525 Gong Li - 6412.5 Feryal Abdelaziz - 6075 Silvia Semeraro - 5730 Women's +68kg Hamideh Abbasali - 6997.5 Q Meltem Hocaoglu - 5677.5 Eleni Chatziliadou - 5655 Sofya Berultseva - 5467.5 Clio Ferracuti - 5017.5 ----------------- so in short I can say 2 athletes qualified tonight with this decision Wen Tzu-Yun Merva Coban

EKF Senior Championships cancelled over coronavirus outbreak https://www.wkf.net/news-center-new/ekf-senior-championships-cancelled-over-coronavirus-outbreak/1252

You mean the final tomorrow ? wow I thought you are talking about the final World Cup event. cancelling the event in middle of it is nonsense, it doesn't change anything,

that's a good news but then as you said Japan will most probably take that quota. I was hoping/expecting Japan to win the Vault quota but their guy failed to even reach the final. and High Bar quota also will go the Netherlands and not Japan. so I guess no Olympics for Keikha unless he does something extraordinary tomorrow. even winning the gold is probably not enough.