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12 November summary of medals Men's 50m Pistol 1. Park Dae-Hun 2. Gaurav Rana 3. Arjun Singh Cheema Men's 50m Pistol Team 1. South Korea 2. China 3. India Men's 10m Running Target Mixed 1. Pak Myong-Won 2. Kwon Kwang-Il 3. Bakhtiyar Ibrayev Men's 10m Running Target Mixed Team 1. North Korea 2. China 3. Kazakhstan Women's 10m Running Target Mixed 1. Yang Zeng 2. Alexandra Saduakassova 3. Ri Ji-Ye Women's 10m Running Target Mixed Team 1. North Korea 2. China 3. Kazakhstan Mixed Skeet Team 1. China 2. India 3. Japan ----------------------------------------------------- Women's 25m Pistol Junior 1. Zhou Hui 2. Chen Jing 3. Feng Sixuan Women's 25m Pistol Team Junior 1. China 2. South Korea 3. India Women's 10m Air Rifle Junior 1. Yan Jinjing 2. Shreya Agrawal 3. Khushi Saini Women's 10m Air Rifle Team Junior 1. China 2. India 3. Iran Men's 10m Air Rifle Junior 1. Srikanth Dhanush 2. Jiang Xuanle 3. Shahu Tushar Mane Men's 10m Air Rifle Team Junior 1. India 2. China 3. South Korea

I think we never had a '100% sure winner' as much as him. he is something like 40kg ahead of the rest and another thing is he never does anything crazy, even if 250kg is peace of cake for him. he starts from 230 just to confirm the gold. I think only injuries (and I mean heavy injuries) can stop him from winning the gold any other scenario is simply impossible. it;s mentioned here we had no positive cases in World Champs this year https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1086891/weightlifting Jaloud said his quest was to have zero doping at Tokyo 2020, and he took heart from the fact that there had been no positives at the 2019 IWF World Championships in Thailand in September.

I'm sure they didn't want to sneak them into the plane that wasn't their first time boarding a plane, it seems the Brazilian police didn't like the usual paperwork they do everywhere else.

Asian Qualification Tournament Draw: Group A: Group B:

I'm 100% sure he will confirm the gold in his 1st attempt. probably before that , before even waking up the competition day as I explained above, none of medalists in past few years will compete in Tokyo to even giggle him. but watching him is no fun. he is very predictable. he never misses !

Funding is also important and still an issue here but at least for those top shooters in the national team that's not the main problem. whenever they go to a competition, they bring bullets with themselves, and they have to be careful to not finish them so early. and it's not always easy, I remember during one of the World Cups in Brazil, the Brazilian police detained the entire Iranian squad for few hours (or maybe a day) because of "bringing guns and bullets" to the plane !!! as far as I know they shoot something like maximum 15 per day. sometimes less. and I'm talking about our Olympians, the situation is much worse for the others. they can train Air pistol/rifle events, those bullets are available in Iran (not probably iSSF standards but still) but training other events with real bullets is simply impossible for anybody outside of the national team. and people only blame Iran for mixing politics and sports, this is just a small example. there are other examples in other sports how much Iranian athletes are getting hurt because of the "politics"

if I had to call two sports that Iran have a stronger female squad (comparing to the male squad) one of them is Shooting for sure (the other one is Rowing) there is a simple reason behind it, Shooting was the first sport to re-start for women after the "Revolution" something like 25 years ago. and for Rowing, the sport simply started in Iran for both men and women in 2006, so the men's squad didn't have the head start here unlike all other sports ! beside that there are obvious reasons why Shooting is a better choice for women in Iran, because they don't have to move and wearing extra things won't limit their moves but it's still hard for me to imagine Iran winning an Olympic medal in shooting (I know some of these guys are capable of that and we had a 5th place finish before) but beside that bullet issue which is the biggest obstacle , there are other problems as well, I mean it's easy to become a top wrestler in Iran, there are good coaches, good wrestlers to train with, in most of the cities but in shooting if they want to train seriously they have to move to Tehran because the only standard shooting range in Iran is based in Tehran. they have to make sacrifices and from what I see none of these girls (who qualified for the Olympics) are from Tehran ! other sports also more or less face the same problems. you have to move to Tehran if you want to become something in that specific sport, and this is not something most people want to do. Shooting is probably worse because unlike Table Tennis you can't practice it anywhere you want.

I'm a little disappointed for Golnoush, Pourhosseini, Nekounam and of course Elaheh Ahmadi, specially for Golnoush, she was close so many times. but after all 6 quotas in shooting considering the situation is a very good result. we will have competitors in 9 out of 15 events in Tokyo. Actually this is not just good but great result, because of the sanctions, Iran can't import anything related to weapons, including guns and bullets for sport shooting, there is no company in Iran making standard bullets for most of ISSF events and because of that reason they have to train with empty guns most of the time. it seems they call it "dry training". the only way for them to train properly is to train outside of Iran in a foreign camp, and unfortunately because of the financial situation our shooting federation can't afford that for a long period time. they only could train 2 weeks in Hanover, Germany prior to this tournament and that probably helped them a lot. I wonder what for example Chinese shooters can achieve if they had to train 90% of the year with empty guns,

11 November medals Men's 10m Air Pistol 1. Kim Song-Guk 2. Saurabh Chaudhary 3. Javad Foroughi Men's 10m Air Pistol Team 1. China 2. South Korea 3. India ----------------------------------------------------- Men's 10m Air Pistol Junior 1. Kim Woo-Jong 2. Wang Zhehao 3. Chin Li-Wei-Hua Men's 10m Air Pistol Team Junior 1. South Korea 2. China 3. India Men's Skeet Junior 1. Eduard Yechshenko 2. Gurnihal Singh Garcha 3. Wu Liangliang Men's Skeet Team Junior 1. India 2. China 3. Kuwait Women's Skeet Junior 1. Song Zhengyi 2. Sun Yashu 3. Zoya Kravchenko Women's Skeet Team Junior 1. China 2. India 3. Qatar Mixed 10m Air Rifle Team Junior 1. India 2. China 3. Iran

and quotas in final event, Men's 10m Air Pistol

10 November summary of medals Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions 1. Kim Jong-Hyun 2. Zhao Zhonghao 3. Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Team 1. China 2. South Korea 3. India Men's 10m Running Target 1. Jo Yong-Chol 2. Gan Yu 3. Pak Myong-Won Men's 10m Running Target Team 1. North Korea 2. China 3. Kazakhstan Women's 10m Running Target 1. Fatima Irnazarova 2. Yang Zeng 3. Ri Ji-Ye Women's 10m Running Target Team 1. China 2. North Korea 3. Qatar Mixed 10m Air Pistol Team 1. India 2. India 3. Iran Men's Skeet 1. Angad Vir Singh Bajwa 2. Mairaj Ahmad Khan 3. Saud Habib Men's Skeet Team 1. Qatar 2. Kuwait 3. Kazakhstan Women's Skeet 1. Wei Meng 2. Zhang Donglian 3. Kim Min-Ji Women's Skeet Team 1. China 2. Thailand 3. India ----------------------------------------------------- Mixed 10m Air Pistol Team Junior 1. India 2. South Korea 3. China

he sounds like a nice guy. and everybody liked him during the Worlds. and nobody knew him before the World Championship and he was a 96kg weightlifter but had to move up weight because of the stupid Rostami because 96kg was already "full" and that turned out to be a good chance and he won a medal at 102kg !

9 November summary of medals Men's 25m Center Fire Pistol 1. Han Dae-Yoon 2. Gurpreet Singh 3. Kim Jun-Hong Men's 25m Center Fire Pistol Team 1. China 2. South Korea 3. India Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions 1. Shi Mengyao 2. Yesugen Oyunbat 3. Shiori Hirata Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Team 1. China 2. Iran 3. India ----------------------------------------------------- Men's 25m Pistol Junior 1. Nikita Chiryukin 2. Cao Jiahao 3. Youn Jae-Yeon Men's 25m Pistol Team Junior 1. South Korea 2. India 3. China Women's 10m Air Pistol Youth 1. Aadhya Tayal 2. Shikha Narwal 3. Gong Xinyuan Women's 10m Air Pistol Team Youth 1. India 2. China 3. South Korea Women's 10m Air Rifle Youth 1. Jasmeen Kaur 2. Nie Wenqi 3. Kim Seon-Ja Women's 10m Air Rifle Team Youth 1. China 2. South Korea 3. India

I was hoping for Ahmadi or Jambozorg but surprisingly the reserve girl Karamzadeh made it. unless Iran makes a change (which they usually don't) this will be the end of the road for Elaheh Ahmadi she was 5th and 6th in previous Olympics. Ahmadi herself choked big time in the last round, she should be in the final. I believe she is going to retire now I would replace either Sadeghian or Karamzadeh with Ahmadi but then that will be unfair for those young girls.

8 November summary of medals Men's 25m Standard Pistol 1. Yao Zhaonan 2. Udhayveer Sidhu 3. Han Dae-Yoon Men's 25m Standard Pistol Team 1. India 2. China 3. South Korea Men's 50m Rifle Prone 1. Konstantin Malinovskiy 2. Liu Gang 3. Li Xinmiao Men's 50m Rifle Prone Team 1. China 2. India 3. South Korea Women's 50m Rifle Prone 1. Wan Xiangyan 2. Lee Eun-Seo 3. Nur Suryani Taibi Women's 50m Rifle Prone Team 1. India 2. China 3. South Korea Women's 25m Pistol 1. Naphaswan Yangpaiboon 2. Gundegmaa Otryad 3. Zhang Jingjing Women's 25m Pistol Team 1. South Korea 2. China 3. Thailand Mixed Trap Team 1. Kuwait 2. China 3. Chinese Taipei ----------------------------------------------------- Men's 25m Standard Pistol Junior 1. Nikita Chiryukin 2. Lee Gun-Hyeok 3. Harsh Gupta Men's 25m Standard Pistol Team Junior 1. South Korea 2. India 3. China Men's 10m Air Pistol Youth 1. Naveen 2. Kim Jun-Hyun 3. Yang Shuqiang Men's 10m Air Pistol Team Youth 1. India 2. Thailand 3. China Men's 10m Air Rifle Youth 1. Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil 2. T. R. Srijay 3. Liu Xiyang Men's 10m Air Rifle Team Youth 1. India 2. China 3. Thailand

no they don't but when someone qualifies from his/her continent, she will make herself and her country ineligible to qualify in that event. that was my point

Yeah that's obvious. you can't qualify twice. from what I see Viktoriya Chaika (Belarus) is the first eligible shooter in the list for that event. still we have European Championship left and it's early to analyze the ranking.

Yes that's exactly why I asked the question. because of Golnoush S. 25m pistol looks impossible for her while she could be #1 candidate in 10m Air Pistol. looks like she is not supposed to qualify after all. a series of back luck (and poor performances) happened for her during these qualification events. another question. how many events left for the ranking ? I assume only 1 World Cup in Delhi next year (and Shotgun in Cyprus). right ? and another one, I see two kinds of ranking in ISSF website, "World Ranking" and "2019 Ranking" is it right the only major difference between these 2 ranking (specially for Pistol/Rifle events) is 2018 World Champs in Korea ?

Question about the ranking. the document says The highest ranked athlete not yet qualified in any event and provided that the athlete’s NOC does not have a quota place in that specific event, then theathlete will obtain one (1) quota place. These quota places are allocated to the athletes by name. Does it mean if a NOC qualifies one shooter in an event, that's not possible for them to receive a second quota through ranking ?

Quotas in Women's 25m Pistol

7 November summary of medals, only junior events today Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Junior 1. Yu Hao 2. Niraj Kumar 3. Sheng Lihao Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Team Junior 1. China 2. India 3. South Korea Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Junior 1. Bhakti Bhaskar Khamkar 2. Yu Jianuan 3. Ma Yuting Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Team Junior 1. China 2. India 3. South Korea Men's Trap Junior 1. Vivaan Kapoor 2. Bhowneesh Mendiratta 3. Li Siwei Men's Trap Team Junior 1. India 2. China 3. Kuwait Women's Trap Junior 1. Zhang Ting 2. Yang Haiyan 3. Lea Korban Women's Trap Team Junior 1. China 2. India 3. No third team Women's 10m Air Pistol Junior 1. Esha Singh 2. Jeong Hyo 3. Priya Raghav Women's 10 Air Pistol Team Junior 1. India 2. China 3. Chinese Taipei

6 November summary of medals Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol 1. Lin Junmin 2. Li Yuehong 3. Yao Zhaonan Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Team 1. China 2. South Korea 3. India Men's Trap 1. Talal Al-Rashidi 2. Khaled Al-Mudhaf 3. Naser Meqlad Men's Trap Team 1. Kuwait 2. India 3. Qatar Women's Trap 1. Ray Bassil 2. Sarsenkul Rysbekova 3. Yukie Nakayama Women's Trap Team 1. Kazakhstan 2. China 3. Chinese Taipei Mixed 10m Air Rifle Team 1. South Korea 2. China 3. China ----------------------------------------------------- Men's 50m Rifle Prone Junior 1. Yu Hao 2. Niraj Kumar 3. Abid Ali Khan Men's 50m Rifle Prone Team Junior 1. India 2. China 3. South Korea Women's 50m Rifle Prone Junior 1. Ma Yuting 2. Nischal 3. Bhakti Bhaskar Khamkar Women's 50m Rifle Prone Team Junior 1. India 2. China 3. South Korea Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Junior 1. Zhu Haojie 2. Cao Jiahao 3. Shin Hyeon-Jin Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Team Junior 1. China 2. South Korea 3. India

I wonder how many times a female athlete from Kuwait qualified for the Olympics before , I mean not wild card , probably not too many times she is an Asian Champion. not a surprise at all. edit: it seems she failed to qualify after all !!

In general yes specially between the governments, but currently people in Iraq are tired of other countries meddling in their business and they are angry at everybody (including Iran and USA and Saudi Arabia). The Iranian government even forbid the Iranians to travel to Iraq these days because of security concerns but then they had no problem sending a whole football team (which could be a very good target for angry people and also the terrorists there) to Iraq !!! I still don't know how the hell they had no problem sending the team to Iraq !

FIFA decided both games Iraq-Iran and Iraq-Bahrain will be played on neutral ground! I'm sure our players and their families will feel better when they hear the news tomorrow. considering the current situation in Iraq and specially how they act against Iran these days that was very dangerous to play there, and no exaggerating it was life threatening. it seems our foreign coach didn't want to go there at all. Ironically our federation never asked for it. which was dubious and surprising. they sent someone to check the empty stadium and say everything is OK ! yeah the empty stadium is safe ,everybody knows ! but fortunately FIFA acted itself and took this decision. rumors say both matches will be held in Jordan. I feel sorry for Iraqi football fans but that was the right decision.