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by taking a quick look at the ranking, it seems these athletes are "safe" to qualify. or at least it looked obvious to me, only for 68kg I considered 6 because it's already a sure thing nobody can mathematically win the Grand Slam quota. @prso1000 correct me if I was wrong anywhere Men's 58kg: Men's 68kg: Men's 80kg: Men's +80kg: Women's 49kg: Women's 57kg: Women's 67kg: Women's +67kg:

Mardani keeps his hope alive by that last second punch, he also beat Sansores by a last second kick !! this is just his way and he will never change it. I think 70% of his matches come to the last 10 seconds ! but still he needs to win the gold and it will be against In Kyo-don !! it will be really hard. by my count, Larin (RUS), In (KOR) and Bachmann (GER) are safe. Trajkovic is currently less than a point behind Issoufou and needs to win the bronze tomorrow to make sure about his quota. of course both Trajkovic and Issoufou will qualify if Mardani fails to win the gold tomorrow. Mahamo Cho will qualify only if Mardani fails to win the gold here and also fails to win the Grand Slam quota.

wow that's unbelievable ! I'm sure your federation should protest about it, because at the end maybe those 20 pts make a big difference. does it mean we can't trust the ranking in other weights too ?! at least on those weights i was monitoring most favorites already had full 40pts so I assume no big mistake there.

yes more than that here people are making lots of jokes in social media about them. some former athletes are making jokes like "thanks god I'm retired and I don't have to wear this" I really hope they drop the idea after this, white for women are less ugly but this idea of making men wearing all black is TERRIBLE.

Yes I was looking at the wrong column "Points From Previous Years in Ranking Cycle" maybe they participated in another "Olympic weight" if I'm not wrong when you register yourself for men's 68kg for example you will get points only if you participate one weight up or one weight down. 63kg, 68kg and 74kg

These new uniforms look ugly. extremely bad idea IMO . apparently it's not mandatory here, some athletes don't wear them.

I just checked that, they are both in the ranking but with 0 pts in their second weight, probably just a software mistake. as you know one athlete can't be in two different Olympic weights, they have to notify WT if they want to switch weight at the start of the season. but do you mean they also calculated points wrongly ? how is that possible ?!

5 or 6 will be decided by "Grand Slam" in 2 weeks. for now only top 5 are 100% guaranteed. but I can say in most (if not all) weights the 6th rank athlete will qualify too I can't answer your question about Wiet-Henin. because all of her opponents also made it to the semifinal. I assume she at least needs a silver. but it needs more calculations . it's just complicated because there will be points reduction

Hosseini yes by my calculations , (actually all 6 qualified athletes are already decided in that weight) even though our federation thinks he still needs silver or gold but Mardani only has to win the gold to qualify. even silver won't be enough for him.

most probably for most athletes and but someone has to make the calculations I only did it for 3 weights involving the Iranians

Semifinals are set for the Grand Prix final "the last ranking event for the Olympic qualification" Men's 58kg: Jang vs Hadipour Dell'Aquila vs Popov Men's 68kg: Lee vs Hosseini Zhao vs Sinden Men's 80kg: Khramtsov vs Eissa Rafalovich vs Beigi Men's +80kg: Isaev vs Mardani Trajkovic vs In Women's 49kg: Sim vs Bogdanovic Yildrim vs Wu Women's 57kg: Zolotic vs Ilgun Park vs Luo Women's 67kg: Wiet Henin vs Jelic McPherson vs Gbagbi Women's +67kg: Walkden vs Mandic Gao vs Zheng

we have the same rule at the Asian Games, they just don't want Thailand winning all gold medals ! (and yes I know this is stupid) btw these events are all unnecessary , at first it was just Regu (regu means "team") then they got bored and created other events like doubles, quad, team doubles etc ! and they are all similar ! at least hoop takraw is different, yes it's long and boring but at least different. in a normal world there should be only 2 events for this sport, Men's Regu and Women's Regu.

if you check the results in poomsae World Champs. they have it for different age categories. technically there is no open age event ! even at the Asian Games it was open to athletes from 18 to 30 ! this is how they created Poomsae in first place. training poomsae is good for health but it's terrible to watch

wow. for a moment I thought it's a kind of April Fools' Day but then I noticed we are nowhere near April he is a real pro (and I don't mean professional). first he offered himself to Azerbaijan, then for some reasons it didn't work, next was Germany and he probably found out Germany is not a country you can obtain the citizenship overnight , so next option, Mongolia ! seriously who would expect that. as @phelps said he can't legally participate in Tokyo but I agree with you, IJF will find a way for him. but then it's also an IOC matter. IJF already created a new profile for him https://www.ijf.org/judoka/59210

UWW suspended Abdulrashid Sadulaev for 4 months for wearing a T-shirt kind of nothing since there is no competition for him in next couple of months and the suspension will end on January 2020. but checking the UWW website, the date is listed as 21 January 2019 !! seriously ?! https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-11/191126_list_of_disciplinary_sanctions_uww_website.pdf They suspended the most famous wrestler in the world and put down the wrong date !!! well done

Yeah I noticed your relation with Kazakhstan but I have to say it was a great tournament for them, 5 in the final ! more than anybody else btw I have to say this girl Berultseva is very talented, I think we will hear more from her, I think she has a good chance to take the last +68kg spot away from our Abbasali she is still below Abbasali in the ranking (and will remain that way after this event) I also follow this Semeraro/Ferracuti race, Ferracuti actually has a very good chance to qualify, she almost won nothing in 2019 European Champs which means she will gain lots of points from the next year Euro Champs. but I hope Semeraro beat her and qualifies instead I'm sure you know why. we had some better results today, but Abbasali lost the most important match to her direct rival Chatzialiadou, even if she wins the bronze tomorrow, this tournament will make things harder for her. Alipour (after winning the last PL event) lost in the first round despite leading the Japanese girl until the very last second ! things are less complicated on the men's side, we are almost sure about 2 quotas and 67kg is completely out of reach. but the battle between Ganjzadeh and Poursheib for the +75kg quota continues with Ganjzadeh getting a better result this time. he will fight for the gold while Zabih can win a bronze at max. ps: it seems they banned Jonathan Horne because of what happened in Moscow , didn't hear anything about it. does anybody know about the ban and its length ? it was ugly what happened in Moscow but I think just disqualifying him from that event was enough punishment.

while UAE failed to qualify through World Cups but they didn't participate at the Asian Shooting Championships ! probably because of boycotting Qatar ! which was stupid because it was never a strict policy, and they changed it few days later, their football team is in Qatar right now. ps: this is just what I assumed, maybe there are another reasons behind their absence.

Busa lost to the French guy Da Costa, I know that because he also beat our guy Asiabari who will meet Busa for the bronze Askari isn't in a good shape recently. but losing convincingly to someone "relatively unknown" was surprising. I think most of big names here aren't in good shape and that's why we had more surprises (more than usual) today. this tournament is in a bad time, if you check the schedule there will be back to back events in January, February and March next year. if someone wanted to "rest" or take training a bit lightly for a while this is probably the best time. some of these guys can afford losing in a K1 event. but prepared or not, still it was a really bad day for our women's team. Khaksar lost in the first round and Bahmanyar lost in the 3rd round (after winning two K1 PL events in a row) still it won't be disastrous for her, her main opponents also lost early. at least we will have one guy in the final. surprisingly this is Amir Mehdizadeh ! first time he is getting a result in his new weight of 67kg. he is very low in the ranking and even winning the gold on Sunday won't change much for him. but still it will be good for his confidence because I believe he will be our representative in the last chance qualifier in France at 67kg. our 2018 World bronze medalist Derafshipour just moved to Canada and we don't know what he is going to do or if he wants to still represent Iran or not

I wonder what happened to Korea, they were supposed to be better than this. Chon Jongwon won the Asian Games over two Japanese climbers and Kim Jain is a big name in this sport. (apparently she past her prime days) it was also a very disappointing day for Elnaz Rekabi. she underperformed big time in all 3 disciplines and now with only 3 Asian climbers qualified already (2 JPN and 1 CHN) there is almost no chance in the Asian Championships. it will be between Korea and China. btw with this format, if you finish 1st in speed you are 99% guaranteed a place in the final. maybe if Alipour was committed to this combined event, there was a chance for him. but that won't work in continental qualifiers, because there is only 1 quota up for grab and speed specialists can't win the competition.

Nope , the last quota goes to Song Yiling of China

this is kind of funny, Zhang Yuetong ruined her compatriot's chance , she sent Gibert to the last Olympic spot for now instead of Song. it will be up to the last climber , it will be between Gibert and Song 5 quotas are already decided I think Slovenia Italy France Russia USA

They still have to decide about Ghisfoli and Gines but since Ondra topped the wall that doesn't matter anymore. Quotas for: Ondra Pan Gines Hojer Mawem Coleman

what the hell was that !? was it "made in China" ?!

very disappointed with women's results, but at least we will have an archer in Tokyo. both Vaziri and Pirali made it to the SF. in Iran they usually send the same guy, so it's not still over for these two guys. but who is going to win the 3rd quota ? Mongolia as 5th placer ? or we will have an extra round between 4 QF losers ?!

Yes I think so