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according to Iranian journalists, he is in Nur-Sultan. they even talked to him. his answer was something like "I will wrestle in Tokyo for sure. here I just didn't want to wrestle, I'm here to support my teammates" yeah that looks good on paper but to be honest 5 or 6 of them were obvious picks

of course. NOC wins the quota. not the athlete himself. but Pino was supposed to wrestle in freestyle competition. I don't know why they changed the plan.

disappointing news, no Mijain Lopez I see Oscar Pino in the draw instead of him. I was waiting long time to see another Lopez - Kayaalp. where is he !? he wrestled at the Pan-American Games and won the gold.

I got 7 of 12 semifinalists correctly. we had more surprises at 67kg (as usual lighter wights , more surprises) even though I can't consider Borrero as a surprise, looks like he is finally fit into this new weight. he was simply amazing. he destroyed Stabler which was just wow !! the Egyptian Elsayed was also great, his QF vs Poland was the best match of the session IMO. and Denmark ?! seriously !!? he was lucky with the draw but he also wrestled very well. Surkov should be careful. he also has to thank the American Collman to beat the Kazakh guy. no more comment about Kudla. I knew he will have supports from the refs, but I was expecting Abbasov to beat our Taheri and then him. but I simply forgot a fact. Azerbaijan don't spend money as much as before. their wrestlers don't receive favorable calls anymore. and that snake Assakalov !! you always have to be worried about him, he always can throw you and pin you. he pinned the Russian despite being 4-5 pts down. he also pinned the defending World Champion Basar.

Congrats, I simply forgot about him when I was reviewing the draw last night, to be honest most of your wrestlers have similar names but he was amazing the whole day, winning 3 tough matches, his SF was epic. with both wrestlers falling on the mat after the final whistle. probably the best match of the morning session.

just finished watching the 2nd period, yes they considered it a leg foul. but from that camera angel I saw nothing . if you see the reaction of your coach he was very upset and accepted losing 2pts. even Kajaia didn't protest anything. both simply accepted it. I'm not sure because of the camera angel but if you ask my opinion I wouldn't considered it a leg foul. still I'm not sure about this one. and beside that. the 3rd caution was really harsh on Omarov. really harsh. not a fair decision IMO. Omarov has lots of reasons to be angry.

I was watching the other QF and was very angry about the match before. I had an eye on Kajaia match too I know he won the match by 3rd caution. but for judging cautions you have to watch the entire 6 minutes. so I can't answer your question. but I assume Omarov feels robbed right now. but this is the shitty rules of UWW, this is up to the refs if they want to give the 3rd caution or not. rules are not clear. as I said in 87kg QF, our wrestler did everything he could in last 2 minutes and still no caution.

I think I'm proud of our very young wrestlers today, they did all they could , all 3 of them are still alive in the repechage. even though Tab has no chance even if Borrero makes it to the final. he still has to go through Stabler and Ryu ! Saravi did great at 97, losing only 4-3 to the great Aleksanyan. he had 3 tough matches before this. I'm almost sure Aleksanyan will bring him back into the repechage. but what can I say about 87kg quarterfinal ? why always this guy ? this is the 3rd time this guy Kudla is beating our wrestlers without actually doing anything offensively. Olympics 2016, Worlds 2017 and now this. I give him credit for being great defensively , he is really tough to score on. almost impossible in standing position, but this is not fair. he didn't deserve the win today. he did absolutely nothing. Taheri was much more active, I saw so many times in this tournament they gave a 3rd caution to finish the match 2-1. but of course when it comes to an Iranian wrestler, we can never expect a 3rd caution in favor of us. nothing wrong with Taheri, he did everything in his power to win the watch, they always arrange the cautions in a way Kudla ends up the winner.

first rule in volleyball, never count Brazil out, they always can come back . from anywhere. feel really bad for Argentina, they were playing flawless (it wasn't like Brazil was playing bad IMO) I think that red card in the 3rd set was the turning point of the match, they still had 1 point lead and had to receive the next serve. btw there were several crucial mistakes from the refs. I can't tell which team benefited more. it was for both sides. but it was one of the worst officiating I ever seen in volleyball. they really needed the video challenge system here. most of the calls were random. 1 for yellow team. 1 for blue team I had to shorten my sleep time because of this but it worthed it . I love watching matches like this where both teams play like their lives depend on it. and Leal probably never imagined he will win a "South American Championship" medal someday

anybody watching the South American Championship final ? I'm sure I'm not the only one in this forum watching this a bit info for other users to know why this match is special, Brazil won this tournament 31 out of 32 times !! and the only time they didn't win, because they didn't participate !! both teams are here almost with A team , but both of them missing 2-3 star players (Bruno, Lucarelli, Wallace, De Checco, Conte, Sole). still this is a GREAT match, Argentina was leading 2-0 and something like 16-10 in 3rd set. they had 4-5 match points but Brazil came back somehow and stole the 3rd set 31-29. there was also a red card against Argentina at 22-21. from 22-20 to 23-20 it turned into 22-22 because of a dubious call. Argentina was flawless until some point in the 3rd set, but I think it will be like Brazil-Bulgaria in OQT.

in men's wrestling I think yes even though Noumonvi has a chance as I said. even though for other events I prefer to wait until i receive the draw. what I said was only about tomorrow events. but I'm no expert in women's wrestling. but if I'm not wrong you have some good wrestlers there.

nope no luck. I think your only realistic chance is Noumonvi. something like 10-20%.

draw looks unbelievably unfair for all 3 Olympic weights tomorrow, the main problem is UWW stupid format, for example if we have 40 wrestlers in the list, there will be 8 wrestlers in each quarter draw, except the last one with 16 !!! obviously the last one is supposed to be much tougher. since all semifinalists will win the quota, I will break into each quarterdraw 67 1) Artem Surkov couldn't even dream about such easy draw, from the rest I only recognize Mete Nemes and even Nemes is no match for Surkov. I think Surkov will win this quarter and the semifinal. therfore one of those guys will climb through repechage to the bronze medal match and we will have a lucky Olympian from this part. I think Nemes is much better than the rest. 2) the second part isn't any better. but at least there will be some kind of competition, I think the Kazakh guy Shermakhambet who will have some supports from the refs will be the favorite. I think you never can underestimate Japanese wrestlers in lighter weights. 3) obviously this part is harder than the top half combined (even though still nothing compared to the last quarter) Sahakyan from Poland is the clear favorite. I think he won't have much problems entering the quarterfinal. there is some good wrestlers here to challenge him, Bolkvadze, Ismailov or Aslanyan. 4) just wow, you can see almost everybody here. Stabler, the Olympic champion Borrero, Chunayev, Euro Champion Yuksel, 2018 Euro Champ Mihut, twice world champion Ryu and few other good wrestlers like Islamov. I feel sorry for our youngster Tab, no chance for him here. it's hard to pick someone but if Stabler makes the weight properly to me he is the favorite. my picks for Olympic quotas: 87 1) looks very easy for Beleniuk, he is the gold medal favorite with any draw but since I expect him to make it to the final, one of the other guys from this quarter will win the quota !! I think there is a chance for all other 7 wrestlers, but I think it will be between Belarus or Croatia 2) we have 8 good or very good wrestlers in this quarter, much harder than the first one, I can give almost equal chances to 5 of them, Kudla, Abbasov, Abdusalam, the Georgian guy and our Taheri. only one of these guys will make it to the Olympics because of the draw (unless the winner surprises Beleniuk in the semifinal) I give more chance to Abbasov and Kudla. somehow Kudla always gets help from the refs. 3) Viktor Lorincz is probably very happy now with his Olympic quota almost secured. this is a VERY easy draw for him. maybe his second round match KGZ/LTU will be a bit hard. just that one. it will be funny if Lorincz makes it to the final. one of these guys will win a quota through repechage ! 4) this one is harder, we have Basar, Komarov, Assakalov, Shahinyan, Hietaniemi and couple more. I think Russia struggles more in this weight to win the quota. my picks for Olympic quotas: 97 1) Evloev didn't need an easy draw but he got one. and again one of the other guys will luckily win a quota. 2) this one is even easier than Evloev !! I think this is for Kajaia unless he wrestles very poor. the top half is much much easier . both quarters look like a joke to me. 3) I think there are 7 wrestlers with good chance here, even that Honduras wrestler isn't that bad. I had to think a lot to find a pick here. this is wide open 4) my reaction when I saw our wrestler in this quarter "are you kidding me ? " out of 3 wrestlers why none of ours got something easier. all 3 of them are in the toughest quarter !! (Taheri at 87 is in the 2nd toughest) obviously with baby giant Aleksanyan, he is the clear favorite for the quota. I had a hard time to pick the other guy. because Aleksanyan most probably will go to the final. my picks for Olympic quotas: and I have to admit some of picks were really random. I see I give 3 to Turkey but I'm sure they are not going to win all 3 possible quotas.

I'm starting to think Abdevali is a masochist, he just loves to lose dramatically and then protest like hell ! he had everything under control. Huyseynov was dead tired and then bang. this is happening every year for him. he will most probably win the bronze because the Kazakh guy got injured and the other guys in repechage are too weak. the first day was disappointing for Iran, only 1 wrestler for the bronze and another one in the repechage. I'm afraid we are not going to win any gold medal in Greco. none of the remaining guys are capable of that (at least that's my prediction and I hope I'm wrong of course) Azizli losing to the Kazakh guy was the biggest surprise of the evening session, he was counting on the refs to get the first point but when they awarded the first caution to the Kazakh guy (unfortunately that was an Iranian referee) that ruined his whole plan. he gave up some childish throws. and interestingly Mnatsakanian couldn't make it to the final even with that super draw.

Yes 14:00 CET.

but actually I had high hopes for our 72kg rep, secretly I was considering him a gold medal favorite but damn he was beyond terrible. just a shadow of himself and ruined my mood in the first match of the day. this kid is a multiple world junior champion. VERY talented but it seems talent is not enough in this stage, you need character too. maybe next time. but Abdevali beating Russia somehow made up for that. now he has gold medal to lose. none of these remaining guys are his match. our 63kg Delkhani will most probably have to wrestle for the bronze. he has a good chance, no excuse if he blows it. Maryanyan is too good for everybody. the biggest surprise in the semifinal is Khashimbekov, this guy used to lose to everybody. I remember even 4th tier Iranian wrestlers had beaten him before. I wonder if he improved amazingly or he just got lucky and beat the European Champion by accident (didn't watch this one but since it was a fall, it can be an accident) here is my prediction about the semifinals 55: Azizli vs Tsurtsumia 63: Maryanyan vs Ota 72: Mnat-lucky-ian vs Mantsigov 82: Gobadze vs Abdevali

This is just a software mistake, the weight-in isn't in the same time as the draw. but the next day morning. we will have 130kg draw tomorrow.

I assume people here are less interested in non-Olympic weights. but 55 the top half is more like a joke, I think Azizli is already in the final, probably only the Kazakh wrestler can make problems for him. everybody in top half has a chance for bronze. bottom half is different, I see Kabaloev and Tsurtsumia as the favorites here, but we also have Asian Champion from UZB plus good wrestlers from TUR, JPN and ARM. I also want to give some small chances to our representative. last year World Junior champion but if he wants a medal he has to do something special. 63 Maryanyan is the clear favorite from the top half, but if you check the list, all other 7 wrestlers are more or less in the same level. it will be a very interesting battle for the bronze. Maryanyan's first opponent is Delkhani from Iran ! I don't think there is a chance for him. he better start thinking about the bronze. we have 3-4 favorites in the bottom half, Ota, Bilici, Kebispayev and the Chinese guy. I have a feeling Kebispayev will find his way into the final. he will have the home crowd and UWW referees on his side. 72 again the top half is a joke, I think Mnatsakanian will steal another world medal. this guy is the new Heiki Nabi ! this is the 3rd tournament in a row with dream draw for him. there are couple of better wrestlers in that side to surprise him. once again the Kazakhstani wrestler in the easier side. I think everybody in top half except PLW and TPE will have a chance for medal. but we have all the favorites in the bottom half. specially Mantsigov and Korpasi. before the competition I would consider our youngster Kavianinejad as a medal favorite. even a gold medal favorite, but he has an uphill task ahead of him. but I think he can at least make it to the semifinal. 82 this one is a bit more balanced, still the bottom half is harder. in top half I see Kus, Gobadze and the current Euro Champion Bisultanov as the favorites. but in the bottom half, the first quarter is really tough with our Abdevali, Manukyan and the Russian guy (you also can add Pascal Eisele to the list). I think whoever comes from that quarter will win the semis as well.

when UK denied visa for Mirhashem Hosseini, his Olympic dream looked impossible at the time but he came back strongly , he won two back to back GPs + the Universiade, now he is in top 6 (by my calculation) btw his QF against another Iranian wasn't a real match, Soroush Ahmadi was too nice and didn't try anything, it was more like a light training session for both of them. I understand that was a wise decision from our coach's point of view (because Mirhashem is a gold medal prospect) but I'm sure Ahmadi feels terrible right now. nobody counts on him but at least he was still thinking he has a chance for the Olympic quota. (even though he would lose to Mirhashem anyway but still)

I'm sure nobody expected this, Argentine didn't simply win those games by luck or something, they dominated both Serbia and France !!! Scola to me he is the God of basketball.

Congrats France , wow

I don't know if it's still the same but there used to be a funny rule in AIBA, if you lose a match by KO, you can't participate for something 6 months (or 3 ? can't remember) well at least in this sport we should not be worried about the Israelis, because they suck and we do too I was watching some matches today, 91kg first round between Iran and Iraq, after the 2nd round, our coach was telling the boxer "bro you lost both rounds, you are down, you have to do something special in the 3rd round, go for KO" and our boxer did exactly the same thing as the first two rounds and guess what, they announced him as the winner this is terrible, watching boxing is like watching basketball with no scoreboard and I don't mean the normal basketball. a new version when it's up to the refs if they give 1-2 or 3 points for a shoot, you will only know the score after the match

CEV ranking after the Euro Champs which is different than FIVB ranking.

well, we have two kind of football fans here. those who attend the stadiums aren't necessarily the best people in the country. personally I never attended a football match because the atmosphere is terrible. and it's getting worse and worse, we even had death in stadium last year. and that's the excuse the regime is using , they say the football stadiums are not good place for women !! and people like me always say, OK you are right then stop those guys from entering the stadiums !! this is not women's fault there is a thing in Iranian culture that people mostly don't curse in front of women, they simple "behave" ! I assume some of those stupid football fans don't prefer women in the stadium, so they can shout whatever they want about the referee's mother or the opponent coach or whatever. football is extremely popular here, the only sport that really matters, when our NT plays a world cup match, that's the only hour in the year you can see empty streets in Tehran. but still you rarely see huge attendance for local football matches, I think most people don't attend the stadiums for the same reason as me, if you ask those football fans, I'm sure most of them think the same as me. The government already said women can attend the national team matches. (we didn't have a home match in this NT window) but I'm sure women want more than just NT matches. that's probably just the start. the reaction to this accident was huge.

Only few hours before Iran's first 2022 WCQ match in Hong Kong, we heard a very sad news https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49646879 Reactions to this news about the "blue girl" is unbelievable here. top of the news everywhere, I assume changes are inevitable now