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Iraq shooting federation claims this girl Zainab JUMAAH received a wild card for the Paris Olympics

The is list is getting updated everyday One more big name is being added into 74kg (which was already loaded) Cherman Valiev is apparently cleared to wrestle for his "new country" another big change is Edmond Nazaryan being removed from the list, apparently still injured

actually that's a long/funny/sad/weird story after losing to Taylor badly last year in World Championship final and winning the Asian Games title it was revealed that he had a serious shoulder injury. he decided to not wait and therefore undergo a shoulder surgery. he is not recovered yet to train on the mat. our wrestling federation announced a very very complicated trial system for each weight. giving the advantage to the quota winners but each one of them had to meet certain criteria to make the Olympic team. in most weights everybody else had to wrestle at the nationals and the winner (I call it the challenger) facing the last year world team member at some point. for Yazdani since he was recovering there was no direct match scheduled. the challenger had to win the gold at the Asian Championship to stand a chance, he didn't and settled for bronze. therefore per "rules" Yazdani is already selected. but few months ago our federation decided to bend its own rules, we had another very good wrestler in this weight in Kamran Ghasempour. he is great but simply couldn't beat Yazdani. he moved up to 92kg and despite being undersized he won two World titles in 2021 and 2022. from 2023 he decided to move up to 97kg, after a year he didn't gain much weight and despite being great technically he couldn't handle guys 10kg heavier than himself. after losing to Kyle Snyder at 97kg in Zagreb Open semifinal he said enough is enough and our federation (realizing/fearing Yazdani might not be recover) accepted his request and therefore unofficially announced there will be a trial match between him and Yazdani for the 86kg spot. I have to tell you both these guys are extremely popular and just one 6 minutes match between them would fill a 12,000 seat stadium. people were so excited to see this match again after a while. but then Taylor losing in US trials apparently changed everything , our Wrestling Fed just announced couple days ago (this time officially) that there will be no direct match between them, Yazdani is going to the Hungarian Raking Series event. if he shows he is physically ready and his shoulder is fully working he is going to Paris, if NOT they will think about another solution (aka Ghasempour) I'm sure Yazdani now regrets having that surgery before the Olympics. he could manage the pain and beat everybody else in the world. his style works perfectly against everybody not named David Taylor. now we have to wait another month for Hungarian event to see if Yazdani still has the same quality or not.

despite having the best team of the competition and playing against the weakest possible opponent in the semifinal, Uzbeks were about to choke once again, Indonesia scored few minutes before Uzbekistan's first goal. but the VAR cancelled it for a bogus offside call. that would have changed everything

that was their first ever AFC Asian Cup. so yes that will be their first World Cup too anyway interestingly out of 5 AFC teams in World Cup, 4 of them belong to CAFA (Central Asia) and the next team KGZ also finished 6th. quite an achievement for a region with just 6 teams (TKM didn't make it) Iran won the title for the 13th time, which is good, but they can't dominate other AFC teams anymore. Iran even struggled against Bahrain in the group stage beat Uzbekistan only on penalties I believe they played two "good" matches, QF vs Kyrgyzstan and the final vs Thailand. they were shaky the rest of the tournament.

ah, losing like that sucks nobody expected a quota here but Esmaeil was very close. leading 14-13 against the 1st seed with just 5 seconds to go. that could be huge for other weapons since our fencing is just Sabre for so many years.

That was the most entertaining penalty shootout ever Indonesia GK was terrible in most of his moves against easier kicks but then he saved two very hard kicks and also scored his own penalty who would have thought that Indonesia of all teams can end Korea's brilliant U23 run from 1992. the last time Korea failed to qualify for men's football most of this forum's member weren't even born

This is probably the worst U23 team I ever seen for both Japan and Korea. Japan managed to beat Qatar only because of a dumb mistake by Qatar GK which made his team to play with 10 men for 80-90 minutes and now Korea is struggling ! interestingly Korea never failed to qualify in Olympic football U23 era. that's an unbelievable achievement

Iran athletes of the year Male: Amin Mirzazadeh (Wrestling) Female: Nahid Kiani (Taekwondo) and if you wonder why now ? we have a different calendar

I have no idea about Guinea's quality to compare them but this is football, anybody can beat anybody Iraq can even end up winning the AFC tournament

They are making Chamizo #1 seed for the last chance qualifier, somehow to make up for this I took a look at the entry list and I think it's not that bad for him. at least he will avoid both #2 and #3 seeds Salkaznov and Demirtas. (that can change if China sends a different wrestler who has a better seed than both of these guys) Salkazanov is the worst possible matchup for Chamizo. not facing him is the best news for the Italian

well I think they are going to beat Vietnam, but still needs one more win to qualify. but if you get into the semifinal you will have 3 chances to qualify. that's pretty good. apparently Iraq rested some starters in the opening game and that's why they lost to low-level Thailand.

Saudis most probably will regret losing to Iraq with that weird goal. Vietnam was a much much weaker opponent. but they still can count on Uzbekistan's choking ability it should be easy for JPN and KOR despite their not-so-good performance so far. but of course Japan should watch out for the refs. Qatar had LOTS of helps from them in group stage matches.

Actually that's correct, if they do that, that opens a can of worms. but wait a minute, the same organization modified 87kg World Championship final result just few months ago wasn't that against Article 53? I checked the nationality of the refs. the center ref from Ukraine and the challenge guy (the famous Cicioglu of Turkey) received the biggest ban until the end of 2024, they will miss the Olympics. the judge from Iraq will be banned til September and will miss Paris as well. the Mat Chairman (from Russia) and the other two guys reviewing the challenge (from Tunisia and USA) will be banned only for 2 months.

Asian Champion Japan got eliminated in group stage of AFC Asian Cup and therefore will miss the World Cup ! they lost to KGZ and tied with TJK to finish 3rd behind them.

FIG finally updated the World Cup ranking. the 2nd Vault quota goes to Olfati , he scored a zero in his last event (landed on his head !!) and finished last. needed a miracle to qualify and that happened. first ever quota in this sport.

he is registered for this event. https://wtt.ittf.link/index.php?option=com_fabrik&view=list&listid=77&Itemid=224&fab_list_able_28_repeat___tournament_raw=170&fab_list_able_28_repeat___singles_raw=MS&resetfilters=1&fabrik_incsessionfilters=0 maybe just to "help" his teammate. beating Alamian brothers and then withdraw in the final if the other guys makes it this far ?

Greco-Roman quotas 60kg: 67kg: 77kg: 87kg: 97kg: 130kg: I'm usually more confident in my freestyle predictions but this time it was the opposite. I could be 100% correct, just one match in 97kg went the other way, where the Korean somehow stole a 7-7 win against China. we managed to win the two remaining quotas to have a full Greco team in Paris but it was very close. both of them had to come from behind. Kaviani was 5-0 down but somehow scored 6pts. still it was a poor performance. but I'm glad with two quotas.

semifinals in Greco-Roman 60kg: vs / vs 67kg: vs / vs 77kg: vs / vs 87kg: vs / vs 97kg: vs / vs 130kg: vs / vs both of our guys made it to the SF but that was a very poor performance , I just hope they do better in the afternoon (like what the freestyle team did) don't get too excited to see likes of KSA, TPE or JOR in the SF. they were just lucky with the draw

We had the US trials tonight/today with a big big surprise. Olympic Champion and 2022 and 2023 World Champion David Taylor is not going to defend his Olympic title, he lost twice to Aaron Brooks ! Freestyle 57: Spencer Lee (has to qualify) 65: Zain Retherford (has to qualify) 74: Kyle Dake 86: Aaron Brooks 97: Kyle Snyder 125: Mason Parris Greco 60: Dalton Roberts (has to qualify) 67: Ellis Coleman (has to qualify) 77: Kamal Bey (has to qualify) 87: Payton Jacobson 97: Josef Rau 130: Adam Coon interestingly all 3 guys won the quota in Pan-Am qualifiers lost here to the challenger ! Women 50: Sarah Hildebrandt 53: Dominique Parrish 57: Helen Maroulis 62: Kayla Miracle 68: Amit Elor 76: Kennedy Blades

They can qualify 2 because both of them won the gold medal. (which was necessary for them) so I think this is it M1X: W1X: LM2X: LW2X:

Iran and Taipei won gold and silver in MC1-1000 and two quotas UZB won gold in MK1-1000, KAZ finished 2nd but can't win another quota here, therefore that goes to the 3rd place Iran

Zokirova and Nguyen won gold and silver in women's C1-200 and qualify two more finals left

no this is his only World Cup participation, for him it's just a preparation tournament but his result matters a lot for those two other guys I mentioned. Shek takes the first quota. that's for sure if they count Reyes in the ranking, that will reduce 5pts from the Australian which means Olfati will take the quota.

This is UWW after all, you shouldn't ask for logic I wrote something about it during the African qualifiers. they want to have a true 3rd place finisher in case something happens to top 2. they do it only for weights with 6 or 7 entries (two groups format) but this is funny because per rules. if less than 8 wrestlers participate. there will be no reallocation and if someone withdraws (or something else) the quota transfers to become a wild card.