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I assume they weren't interested. Olympic Qualification is different than continental Championships. those without chance aren't usually interested there is also possible for Iran to withdraw. PS: in the men's tournament, they replaced Pakistan with the next team Kazakhstan, so I think they offered that to the next team here too.

This is a very good news but I didn't like this part "Watanabe said the taskforce is considering whether the screen should be visible by the audience as well as judges and referees" unbelievable if they are even thinking about not showing the score to the audience, TV or even the boxers ! and btw it's not clear if they want to use this for the Olympic Qualifiers too or not. I hope they do.

Protests are about the whole system which is terrible not sure if you guys are familiar with politics in Lebanon. but there are 3 big groups in Lebanon. Sunnis, Shias, and Christians, they had bloody civil war for years and to make "peace" they created a unique political system. they have election , which is probably fair and democratic but per rules. the prime minister should be a sunni, the president should be a christian and the parliament speaker should be a Shia. and it doesn't matter who has the majority in the parliament , that rule never changes. and if I'm not wrong (I'm not sure about this part) people only can vote for their own groups. I mean christian people only vote for christian members of the parliament and etc. it seems people don't like it anymore. this is a terrible system to be honest but there is no alternative right now, any other system may lead them again to another civil war. PS: what I wrote here is probably not 100% accurate about the political system in Lebanon ( there should be more details and ifs) but you can consider it almost correct.

of course I'm not complaining, more competition, more fun for me my point is, this is not as prestigious as World Juniors (U20) because at the juniors we have all best U20 wrestlers in the world. not the same here. and the level is relative, very good in some weights and very poor in some other weights. btw your 61kg Ravinder is the biggest surprise of the competition, he dominated the Russian wrestler 11-0 and then pinned the European Senior Champion Harutynyan in the semis considering he didn't medal in World Juniors this year, that's quite an improvement for such a short time, I have to say 61kg was one of those weights in a very high level. the same goes to our 74kg, he didn't medal at World Juniors but he was impressive here, beating the Russian wrestler of Hungary (who was very good in World Seniors this year)

As a wrestling fan I love to have more competitions, I enjoy watching it but this tournament really looks unnecessary, if you are good enough after the 20 you will make the main team of your country. some of these guys here aren't the best U23 wrestlers in their own country, because their U23 wrestler already participated at the World Seniors this year and need rest. instead we have lots of U20 wrestlers won medal here, for example 65kg gold medalist only won a bronze at World juniors !!! but the tournament still exists , so there is the list of medalists 57kg: 1. Andreu 2. Askarov 3. Sarlak & Khashalov 65kg: 1. Bayramov 2. Taniyama 3. Nykyforuk & Sacultan 70kg: 1. Skhulukhia 2. Valiev 3. Ibragimov & Seno 79kg: 1. Gaphrindashvili 2. Abakarov 3. Valiev & Sari 97kg: 1. Goleij 2. Musaev 3. Stasiuk & Khramiankou

First day Semifinalists: 57: vs / vs 65: vs / vs 70: vs / vs 79: vs / vs 97: vs / vs

Asian Qualifiers Draw Group A) Group B) It was supposed to be 8, but India withdrew, even tough the draw doesn't really matter, it will be Thailand-South Korea in the final after all

oh man, Ireland that was really cruel

I'm no expert in Hockey , but it looked like a dive to me

the match is not done yet. they are reviewing for a last second penalty for Canada

Brackets are available for the first day of freestyle, I can't see any World Senior Championship caliber wrestler in brackets but it will be interesting. Iran team already lost a wrestler before the competition. the 79kg guy denied visa. not Hungary's fault though. the wrestler himself made a mistake.

I was looking for results of "Galeb Belgrade Trophy" in Serbia because the whole Iranian squad is there, while watching the live results I saw something very surprising, a familiar name, former World and Asian Games champion Mehdi Khodabakhshi but not for Iran, he is representing Serbia ! he was off the radar in past few months, so after a little search it seems he is married to a Serbian girl ! (former Serbia NT member Tanackovic) I'm not sure if he can represents Serbia in official tournaments anytime soon because he was participating for Iran a year ago. and if I'm not wrong he even tried his chance in Iranian nationals few months ago but he got injured and withdrew (and he was upset our coach didn't give him a second chance) this is kind of funny because Milad Beigi left Iran because of him !! even though I know this is a different case and this is not for money. I wonder if this is a permanent change for Khodabakhshi or this is just temporary for this tournament ?!

Moradi only lifted a total of 200kg in Switzerland !!! 80+120, it was TOOOO easy for him but he didn't want to push for more. I'm not sure if he is aware of the situation and didn't want to risk more OR he was told even 200kg will be enough for him. that means only 100 ROBI points ! now he needs to lift something like 400/405 in his next two competitions. 400kg is usually not a big deal for him but considering his shoulder I'm not so sure if he recovers in time to lift 400kg. he has only 4-5 months left for that. the idiot Rostami also participated, it's not clear if IWF accepts his results or not, even if they do, that was a very poor performance, he even tried to jump something like 40kg !!! (from 190 to 232) to break the WR and probably forces IWF to accept his results but he miserably failed.

Congrats to Bahrain, they deserved it more than anybody else here. I don't like some of Bahrain teams (in other sports, specially football) but their handball team is great for such a small nation. Bahrain's population is smaller than the city I live ! Korea had the lead for something like 40-45 minutes but Bahrain finally took the lead and never gave it back to Korea. I hope they play good at the Olympics and don't make a joke of Asian Handball and South Korea has no chance in the qualification tournament, if it was Qatar (or even Bahrain) yes maybe but Korea no way.

I'm not worried about his record, I'm worried about his health condition. one more injury on that shoulder and his career is done. but because of this stupid qualification format he has no other option. and he still needs 2 more results in the 3rd period, actually 3 but 1 of them can be a zero.

yes he is but since he is recovering from a surgery he had last month, his record will be very low here. Kianoush Rostami also traveled to Switzerland hoping for a miracle to participate here (which was denied) since he bombed out in Pattaya, his only result in this period is a zero. he didn't register in time

in case you are deeply in love with Rowing, you can watch the Asian Championship finals tomorrow and the day after tomorrow with these links This is NOT the Olympic qualifier.

Iran is not participating at all no money to send a full team the other side of world ! our federation is spending all they have on the senior team and Karate-1 competitions for the Olympic quotas. and Chile is really far, they didn't send a team to Serie A event in Chile as well.

I know. that's obvious but still they had to consider everything, HKG and India are much much weaker than other 6 teams. beside that in Asia the seeding is usually based on the latest competition, and in the last Olympic Qualifier, Iran, Bahrain and Korea was 2nd, 3rd and 4th, doesn't make sense to put all 3 of them in the same group. it seems they considered the last Asian Championship for the seeding, this is something new

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surprise surprise, Bahrain just beat Qatar to face South Korea in the final. Bahrain played great from start to finish and if it wasn't for some miraculous saves from Qatar GK Saric the gap could be 7-8 goals. well I guess it was just our bad luck Bahrain had a bad day against South Korea to eliminate Iran (folks here think Bahrain lost intentionally which is nonsense I watched the match) and that big mistake from the refs in IRN-KUW match also changed lots of things here, they did a favor to all those teams in intercontinental Qualification group by letting Qatar and Bahrain play in the semifinal and not the final. I'm sure in Asia only Bahrain can beat Qatar, they are just a bad matchup for Qatar. Bahrain-Korea will be close but I think Bahrain will win this time. and special thanks to whoever made the seeding for the draw, Qatar and KSA only had to beat Hong Kong and India in the group round !!!

I know almost nothing about Equestrian (well obviously more than nothing but still nothing comparing to you.) is there any chance for Miss Sohi ?! I just read an interview with Iran Eqestrian Federation president and he was very positive about it. but I learned to not trust them. I can see the current World Ranking where she is not in a good position though.

So the only Iranian cyclist in Tokyo can start both in Road Race and ITT ? what's the point, I would reject the quota and stick with one event to at least finish the road race. and btw when they were writing the rules. they didn't expect much difference between 30th in the ranking and the replacement (in this case Iran) Luxembourg could easily finish 29th instead of 30th if they were good enough. I would be happy if South Korea could qualify in women's Road race (either through ranking or individual ranking) that could let Iran to qualify a female cyclist for the first time ever. unfortunately didn't happen

They are still 'Qatar' but some of their naturalized players are getting old. so maybe not strong as before. still Bahrain almost beat the same 'Qatar' at the Asian Games final. (Qatar won in overtime eventually) I think Bahrain's chance isn't completely zero . for some reasons they always challenge Qatar. but Bahrain didn't look great in this tournament so far. they lost to Korea and almost lost to Iran. still I think the only team in Asia capable of beating Qatar is Bahrain.

Bahrain lost to Korea by 1 goal which eliminated Iran even before the last game. in battle of already eliminated teams Iran almost won the match by a last second goal but those European referees (who were supposed to be good) made a stupid mistake and annulled Iran's goal. TV replay clearly shows the ball went into the net at 29:59. that wasn't important for Iran or Kuwait but very important for Bahrain. now they have to face Qatar in the semis Semifinals: vs vs