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apparently there were serious rumors about it during the last K1 event in Austria. but it seems almost a done deal now. if WKF won't replace it with any other event. the following athletes are already qualified, of course I assumed the European Championships is still on Vinicius Figueira Stanislav Horuna Sajjad Ganjzadeh Ivan Kvesic Sara Bahmanyar Wen Tzu-Yun Merva Coban Jovana Prekovic

I watched something like 10 bouts and in all of them the winner was as expected but still it was several dubious round results by some judges. the first (or maybe second) bout of the day between INA and SRI, those commentators were thinking if it should be 10-8 for SRI but then 2 judges gave it 10-9 to INA ! but yes, this is just the start. the real thing starts when we get close to the quarterfinals.

maybe you should bet on someone else. I'm trying to be very careful (mostly because of my parents, I'm living with them for now to make sure they have no reason to leave the house) even though that's not necessarily enough at least here the situation is not that bad, where I live is a big city with 2 millions population and checking today reports we had 45 confirmed cases with 6 deaths so far. and 135 more are suspected and hospitalized but then we are 20-30 minutes away from Tehran and 2 hours from Qom. that's why everybody is panicking here. because usually whatever happens in Tehran, will happen here too.

wearing mask doesn't help much if you are healthy. but that brings up another risk. you usually touch your mask with your hands and they are not always clean. since my office in Tehran is closed for 1.5 months, I only had to go to supermarket in past 2 weeks but today morning I had to go to a public place for the first time since the spread of coronavirus,insurance company actually for fixing some errors in a previous project we finished there and I think something like 40 or 50 percents of visitors were wearing masks. 70% (including myself) were wearing gloves. most people take this very seriously, I assume the numbers will drop in Iran after a week or so. but still it was a very sad image, people almost don't talk to each other (which is very non-Iranian) this time of the year couple weeks before our "new year" you always could see people shopping etc. hopefully things will get better before the new year celebration we had +500 new cases yesterday and +800 today, total number is 2336 and 77 deaths two cities are in critical condition, Qom and Rasht .

I think I can't complain much about the draw, our 4 "better boxers" are facing winnable bouts. I think we are already out at 91kg and +91kg because after China they have to face Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in QF and there is no repechage in these weights. even though they were both weak and only could qualify with a dream draw. 63kg also looks hard for our guy to survive. but I can see chances for other 5, I hope at least 1 or 2 of them qualify. the draw looks very good for Shahbakhsh (57kg) but I just don't know how good he is himself ! Kazemzadeh and Rouzbahani are facing tough opponents but that's better than KAZ/UZB

there will be box-offs when they need 5, there will be SF and F between 4 QF losers and when they need 6, only SF and both winners will qualify

First day schedule http://boxing.athlete365.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/C58D0303.pdf I assume they will publish the brackets too, very soon

Well nothing about the seeding, as I said I only know first round opponents for our boxers and I can tell you none of your male boxers will qualify with one win ! because both of your heavier boxers will face Iran in Round of 16. and there will be another Iran-China in Round of 32 tomorrow at 81kg.

it seems I was very optimistic when I said then will post the draw in 2 hours. I don't know when that IOC task force will publish it. Iranian boxing federation only published first round opponents for Iranian boxers, we will have lots of IRN/CHN in the first round none of them will face KAZ or UZB in the first round which is a good thing. even though considering our current level any boxer will be considered "tough" for our boxers.

because that's not happened yet, it will start in half an hour. I think we will have the brackets in 2 hours.

I wonder if Paralympic athletes count. today we heard a tragic news in middle of all these disasters Siamand Rahman, two time Paralympics Champion in Powerlifting, (2012 and 2016) current World record holder died today from heart attack at the age of 31 he was the most famous Paralympics athlete in Iran and maybe one of the best in the world . RIP

25-29 March in Baku, Azerbaijan and yes I think the only way Quirici stays ahead of her in the ranking is cancelling both events, I highly doubt she can defend her points from 2019. but in fact that's more important for our Karateka Rozita Alipour ! because even right now Gong Li is almost guaranteed the Asian quota (she is the best ranked Asian athlete) but if she qualifies directly, that quota goes to Alipour at 61kg. of course it's not 100% guaranteed because some weird things may happen at the Last chance qualifier in Paris, they will award continental quotas after the Paris tournament.

my ranking after removing 2019 European results Men's Kata Damian Quintero - 9247.5 Q Ali Sofuoglu - 6202.5 Q Antonio Diaz - 5205 Q Mattia Busato - 4140 Q Men's 60kg Darkhan Assadilov - 10387.5 Q Angelo Crescenzo - 8100 Eray Samdan - 7342.5 Men's 67kg Steven Dacosta - 7950 Q Vinicius Figueira - 6832.5 Ali El-Sawy - 6472.5 Men's 75kg Bahman Askari - 9262.5 Q Luigi Busa - 6750 Q Rafael Aghayev - 6255 Q Stanislav Horuna - 5137.5 Thomas Scott - 5047.5 Erman Eltemur - 3712.5 Gabor Harspataki - 3232.5 Men's 84kg Ugur Aktas - 9382.5 Q Zabihollah Poursheib - 9225 Ivan Kvesic - 6517.5 Men's +84kg Sajjad Ganjzadeh - 8617.5 Jonathan Horne - 7072.5 Gogita Arkania - 6630 Women's Kata Sandra Sanchez - 11452.5 Q Viviana Bottaro - 7275 Q Grace Lau - 6300 Q Sakura Kokumai - 5887.5 Q Women's 50kg Serap Ozcelik - 10792.5 Q Sara Bahmanyar - 5647.5 Bettina Plank - 4507.5 Shara Hubrich - 4267.5 Women's 55kg Anzhelika Terliuga - 9022.5 Q Wen Tzu-Yun - 7080 Jana Messerschmidt - 5677.5 Women's 61kg Yin Xiaoyan - 10545 Q Giana Lotfy - 7710 Q Merva Coban - 6037.5 Jovana Prekovic - 5452.5 Haya Jumaa - 5137.5 Rozita Alipour - 5107.5 Leila Heurtault - 4515 Gwendoline Philippe - 4440 Women's 68kg Irina Zaretska - 9217.5 Q Gong Li - 6412.5 Feryal Abdelaziz - 6075 Elena Quirici - 5775 Silvia Semeraro - 5160 Women's +68kg Hamideh Abbasali - 6997.5 Q Sofya Berultseva - 5467.5 Meltem Hocaoglu - 5107.5 Clio Ferracuti - 4987.5 Eleni Chatziliadou - 4905

yes I wanted to write the same. just wow ! there are so many bad things about WKF but I really respect them alot only because of this ! and remember this can be the final ranking. apparently there were rumors in the arena today that the next K1 event will be cancelled. but still I will calculate my ranking assuming we will have both Morocco event and the Europeans.

not complaining , I like Poursheib a lot , he is such a great person but still I prefer Ganjzadeh to qualify.

ooff, that looked like a serious knee injury for Abbasali with only 4-5 seconds left. she managed to finish it while barely standing but I just hope that's nothing serious. the good thing is she qualified for the Olympics with this and she doesn't need that final trip to Morocco.

Kvesic withdrew from the final. obviously he (or his coaches) knows the rules very well

394 new cases + 11 deaths in last 24 hours 66% increase in just one day but that was expected, unfortunately I think we will see the same percentage in the rest of the week. and now Tehran is way ahead of Qom , almost half of the number is from Tehran.

well you have to learn to keep your distance from everybody. that's what I'm doing in past few days. I'm somehow getting obsessed with it, "don't touch anything, don't get close to anybody" even when I watch people shaking hands or hugging in a movie, I feel something wrong is happening (no kidding I really feel like that before I realize it's just a movie) but yet you coughed on me here still that little distance between us (not much, just 12000km) helped me btw I have to tell you from first hand experience that fear itself is worse than any virus

South Korea is not going to host Asian Championships + Asian Zonal Olympic Qualifiers in April. they will most probably postpone the event for couple of months , Kuwait and Uzbekistan are considering hosting the event.

well it's a complicated situation, if I was from Afghanistan I wouldn't want American troops in my country at all. but then I also would't want Taliban ! Taliban is not a political party that you can make "peace" with them by giving them some power. they don't believe in women's rights and this is not something they negotiate about. I was just listening to one of Taliban's leader in Doha and they don't even call the Afghan government as "government" they call it "Kabul's ruler" or something like that. they were really happy after the deal, they think they won. well I think we will see after a year who is the real winner here. I just wish the best of luck for the people of Afghanistan, I know they suffered a lot. I know they badly want peace, but they also don't want Taliban.

Nope that's not fake. exaggerated yes but not fake . but you should not follow that twitter account, I checked it and that belongs to some anti IR groups. they are even worse in term of having no shame in spreading lies and rumors. they are supporting the son of former Iranian dictator Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi and they want to bring "democracy" by installing another dictator. they use every single opportunity to create chaos. apparently there were rumors in the town that they are transferring patients directly from Qom to Bandar-Abbas and into that clinic, some people stupidly believed that and got angry, they threw few things and set a fire, it's not like they burned down the building . but if someone checks the map, Qom and Bandar-Abbas are more than 1000km away from each other ! you have to be extremely stupid to believe such rumor. yes of course Qom is running out of hospitals but first they are creating mobile hospitals and even if they want to transfer patients, they will send them to Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan, there are LOTS of big towns closer than Bandar-Abbas. but yes that's true, people are panicking and obviously people don't trust the government and believe rumors easily (specially after that Ukrainian plane story) and I guess some of those stupid guys didn't want somebody sick from Qom in their town ! even though their beloved city is already infected. but no matter what, that was obviously disgusting

2020 IWF Junior World Championships, Bucharest, ROU – cancelled! https://www.iwf.net/2020/02/29/2020-iwf-junior-world-championships-bucharest-rou-cancelled/

yes obviously and that's what scared some people in Afghanistan, specially women. as we know how Taliban thinks of women. USA will withdraw all troops from Afghanistan and Taliban will guarantee not doing terrorist attacks in USA soil (or on USA citizens) problem solved for USA, disaster starts for the people of Afghanistan.

2nd day review Men's Kata we knew about , now Mattia Busato is also qualified which means the end of qualification in this event. Men's 84kg Ugur Aktas guaranteed an Olympic spot today, Ivan Kvesic also made sure he will be 3rd in the final ranking. he can't go up or down, it's not in his hands anymore. ironically it's better for him to lose the final to Aktas ! he needs some help from Aktas and also another Iranian Ganjzadeh at +84kg Men's +84kg 3 athletes left for 2 quotas, Ganjzadeh, Horne and Arkania. none of them made it to the final and only Arkania will be in bronze medal match. Ganjzadeh will have something like 1500pts advantage over both Horne and Arkania which means he will have a good chance to finish 1st, still that won't be enough if Poursheib tops 84kg. Arkania is also closing the gap with Horne, in case Ganjzadeh qualifies, Arkania needs to beat Horne to qualify himself. complicated situation for all 5 athletes involved ! Women's 61kg it was a big day for Coban and Jumaa the both made it to the final, Merve Coban is very close to qualify now. Haya Jumaa also moved up the ranking, if she wins the gold she will be next to Prekovic. but since there will be 1 more event for the Europeans, Coban and Prekovic are still big favorites for the quotas to join and . there is still slim chance for Alipour and two French girls. Women's 68kg we knew is already qualified, Gong Li and Feryal made it to the final only 100 pts separate these 2 girls, so whoever wins the gold tomorrow will be in 2nd place . that final can act like a direct Olympic qualification at the end of the day. there is still chance for Quirici (and also very slim chance for Semeraro) Women's +68kg It was a great day for Hamided Abbasali, she is not mathematically qualified yet but I can say it's 95% safe for her, she will qualify if she wins the gold tomorrow. but after her there is a close battle between Berultseva, Ferracuti, Hocaoglu and Chatziliadou. right now Berultseva is leading and she can add more points if she wins the bronze tomorrow but all other girls are European and have one more chance. Ferracuti is in the final and winning the gold will be very important for her. but still less than 400pts separate those 4 girls.