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Yes and if they reach in semis. it will be 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3. another important thing is they will most probably receive a bye in the first round. unless for example 32 wrestlers enter, then nobody will get a bye.

UWW announced the seeded wrestlers for the World Championship based on the preliminary entry list. only top 4 will be seeded and unlike the previous year if one of top 4 doesn't make it, they will move up the next ranked wrestler into top 4. top seeds in freestyle, this is based on UWW list, they just had a mistake in 61kg which I fixed but you can't count on this 100% because for example I'm pretty sure Batirov will enter one of the Olympic weights. so in short, this is most probably accurate for Olympic weights but not that much for non-Olympic weights. only 3 seeded wrestlers for Russia. not because they are weak. but because they are sending different wrestlers. USA leads with 5. 57kg: 1. Atli 2. Uguev 3. Takahashi 4. Sanayev 61kg: 1. Bonne 2. Aware 3. Lomtadze 4. Okhlopkov 65kg: 1. Bajrang 2. Otoguro 3. Kilicsalayan 4. Okassov 70kg: 1. Batirov 2. Kaipanov 3. Emami 4. Safaryan 74kg: 1. Chamizo 2. Burroughs 3. Sidakov 4. Kentchadze 79kg: 1. Dake 2. Hasanov 3. Kotanoglu 4. Teymouri 86kg: 1. Erdin 2. Makoev 3. Yazdani 4. Punia 92kg: 1. Cox 2. Karimi 3. Yankouski 4. Mtsituri 97kg: 1. Snyder 2. Sadulaev 3. Batzul 4. Conyedo 125kg: 1. Petriashvili 2. Deng 3. Akgul 4. Gwiazdowski

Yesterday was the anniversary or 28 Mordad coup d'état , as someone who read a lot about the Iranian history (which is very long and complicated) I can say that day was probably the most important day in modern history of the country. 63 years ago USA (and UK) overthrew the democratically elected prime minister since they wanted their puppet dictator to stay with maximum power. at the time the new Shah was weak (and already left Iran) and the prime minister Mosaddegh was trying to use the situation to weaken the Shah's position and give more power to the parliament. but of course western powers didn't like that mostly because of Iran's oil. they arranged the coup, captured Mosaddegh (later died in exile) gave maximum power to Mohammad Reza Shah (who came back after the coup) and he later created a much more brutal dictatorship, few years later people after losing hopes on politicians turned into someone else Rouhollah Khomeini who took the opportunity (still a big question mark for me how the hell people thought something good will come from this guy, he never really tried to show himself as a good person) made a revolution and overthrow the whole system and created a new one which is indeed a mess. probably even worse than the previous dictatorship. I always think that day was the turning point of Iran, the country was moving into less dictatorship but since then everything has changed. and USA (and lesser degree UK) is responsible for that. @Olympian1010 I wonder if people in USA are aware of such things. or they always were told Iran is the bad guy and we are the good one.

looks like this format gives something to cheer about to Speed specialists. they can be happy but not too much ! you can't win a medal by winning the speed and finishing last in two other events but you can still qualify for the Olympics and have a respectable place.

Today's first session was disastrous for Iran, only one made it to the semifinal and he also lost badly there. so no final tomorrow. maximum 2 bronze medal chances which is terrible. but at least we won most of medal matches from yesterday, 2 gold and 2 bronze is good result but to be honest none of these guys impressed me. winning gold medal just by passivity caution isn't that great. I was expecting much more from our 130kg guy. but he decided to win this match in Heiki Nabi's style. (doing nothing and waiting for cautions coming your way) I was checking last year results. from last year Greco team there is a possibility to see 4 of them in 2019 World Senior Champs. (2 for sure, 3 highly possible and maybe even 4) but I'm quite sure none of these guys will make the senior team next year for the Olympics.

I think they considered the overall result . not the qualification. but they removed the other athletes from the list. (for example speed specialists who didn't enter other events)

and it's not good for heart if you are watching . speed will be in 2024 Olympic program. I really hope they change the format by then. a best of 3 run won't take too much time.

his cousin I always hated this one-run format for speed finals. all top 4 are out now. including Alipour

well I don't think there is a chance for your speed specialists in combined event. but here they could have a very good chance for medal. A world championship medal is important itself. I can't understand the logic behind this

no Indonesia ?! how come they participate for the World Cups but don't care about the World Championship ?! specially when they have a good chance for medal !? I assume Japan isn't that far from them

impressive for Russia to have 4 in the final. even though their 55kg wrestler was lucky twice. both in QF and SF. for Iran I think it was better than freestyle, 2 in the final. 1 for bronze and 2 more in repechage (I expect both of them to reach the bronze medal match) looks like we finally have a good super heavyweight wrestler in Yousefi. his style is boring but efficient. but I was paying attention to Estonian wrestlers today, they had 4 (out of 5 weight classes) and all of them lost in the first round ! only one of them will be back tomorrow for the repechage and I'm almost sure he will lose that to India. looks like they didn't learn anything from Heiki "lucky" Nabi. he has to teach younger wrestlers there how to win medals without doing anything

thanks but I have a question, is this is a sure thing that they will not consider Pan African Games instead of the ranking for Africa ? and another thing, Khaksar still will have the spot if the deadline was today, per rules. only first 2 American athletes will be picked before Asia. the 3rd one will be the last. also first they will pick 1 for each gender before going to the "at least 2 different NOCs" rule here is the order per my understanding Oceania : 2 athletes (one per gender) (M 75) (W Kata) Africa : 2 athletes (one per gender) (M 75) (W 55) Pan-America : 2 athletes (one per gender) (M +75) (W 61) Asia : 2 athletes (one per gender) (M 67) (W 55) Europe : 2 athletes (one per gender) (M +75) (W +61) Africa : 1 athlete (one per gender) (W 61) Pan-America : 1 athlete (gender depends on Africa selection) (M 67) possible if I missed something. way too complicated. for some cases athletes were even tied in the ranking and I had to consider their points and even if one of them changes. that will change the rest too. so this list is far from over. nobody will be picked for men's Kata for now, so If this stands it will be 2 wild cards for this event.

terrible day, we had 3 matches vs USA on 3 mats at the same time in QF and they lost all 3 of them ! also the 92kg guy was supposed to be the next big star but lost the 1st round to Russia. 2 of them will be back in action in repechage. 2 of them eliminated. but at least the 5th guy. Amir Hossein Zare destroyed his Russian opponent in the SF 11-1. we will have a finalist in the last FS day. but the team title is gone. it will be between USA and Russia. USA will have 3 finalists tomorrow. and 2 more in bronze medal match.

Iranian athletes always have this problem, but only in some countries (USA and UK for example) it's intentional just to make a statement , to show they are the boss or stupid things like that. most of the time it's just matter of paperwork . there is no political relationship between Iran and Estonia (not bcz there is a problem. but because those countries have nothing in common) they had to go through Finland embassy and that took time. actually the whole team almost missed the competition but some phone calls from high rank government officials made it happen. but it didn't turn out bad for Iran, the reserve guy just won the gold and for the second time in this competition he received favorable calls. the Russian can complain that he got pinned early in first period but well you can't challenge the fall. so he was lucky.

I was expecting a bit more from the first day, we lost a match to Algeria !! probably first time ever in freestyle. but that kid had a tragedy in his family few days ago. that was a mistake sending him here. Parasteh was also terrible losing to Kazakhstan, Firouzpour at 70kg was very close to the final. gave up a 5-0 lead early and had to come back, lost it 5-5 with couple of controversial calls against him. Maghsoudi at 65 wasn't even supposed to be here, he was the last minute replacement because the main guy Amir Mohammad Yazdani denied visa. he is in the final but he was very lucky in QF against Azerbaijan, won the match by a last second caution which was indeed controversial. I have to say the Azeri kid got robbed. btw @phelps great job you recognized our 97kg guy surname which is indeed just Foroutan, but his name is Abbas. not Ali. UWW for some weird reasons always put the father's name for the Iranian wrestlers which is never part of the name. Ali is his father.

not a single surprise in 12 IOQTs (men and women). I think Argentina-Canada was 50/50 so that doesn't count as a surprise congrats to all qualified teams, specially Italy

what a match. Olympic quota for Brazil and most probably Chile. moral victory + broken heart for Bulgaria. they really had the spot in their pocket. it will hurt for a while.

based on first 2 set results I thought Brazil is giving the match to Bulgaria (for money for example) but then I started watching the 3rd set. oh no way. what a great match. everything is great in this match, except the loud speaker and his terrible voice

best comment ever.

Mijain Lopez is officially back. https://wrsd.lima2019.pe/PAG2019/en/results/wrestling/result-men-s-greco-roman-130-kg-qfnl-000400-.htm we knew that for a while when they transferred the other guy to freestyle but now he is back on the mat officially.

Polo national sport in Iran ?! no way. Polo is apparently "invented" in Iran. but nothing more. I wonder if there are more than 40 Polo players here. Varzesh-e-Bastani ? (or better you call it Zurkhaneh Sports) again no . this is pretty much dead right now. yeah they try to promote it sometimes as it has religious elements but absolutely no attraction for the younger generation. there is no "official national sport" (don't trust wikipedia) but I hear sometimes they call wrestling as the national sport in media. even though obviously the only "very popular" sport here is football and by a huge huge huge margin.

it seems FIFA didn't approve Iraq to host its home matches, I read different news about it. first says they just can't host it in Basra, 2nd says they can't host at all and it seems Iraq Football federation threatened to withdraw. this is kind of interesting because right now Iraq is hosting the West Asian Championship !! personally I believe Iraq deserves to host if they can guarantee safety. I just don't think Iran playing in Basra is a good idea. they can play anywhere in Iraq, just not Basra. that will be dangerous for our players. Basra was battleground during the Iran-Iraq war not long ago.

medalists last day of Greco-Roman 45kg: 1) Izimgali, 2) Bakhramov, 3) Sadikhli & Glonti 51kg: 1) Esmaeili, 2) Aliyev, 3) Voitovych & Nazaryan 60kg: 1) Skuratov, 2) Ilbars, 3) Vardanyan & Broladze 71kg: 1) Saki, 2) Starodubtsev, 3) Tas & Gutu 92kg: 1) Valiyev, 2) Evloev, 3) Demir & Karelson Team ranking 1) Iran 148 2) Azerbaijan 123 3) Russia 99 Iran won the team title by a good margin, and also won 2 more gold medalist. interestingly in Greco we had 4 wrestlers in the final. all of them ended up winning gold medal and 4 more in bronze medal match and all of them lost it. mostly in dramatic way. in general that was a good tournament. always to win a team title over mighty Russia the Kazakh kid at 45kg Izimgali was the most impressive wrestler in my opinion

I wonder how Dominican players were feeling if they were watching this USA-Bulgaria match. from almost beating Brazil and securing the spot to watching USA almost losing to Bulgaria which could make the qualification VERY hard for them in NORCECA. Bulgarian players were having the match of their life they had their chances in 2nd set (they had 4-5 pts). 4th and also the 5th set. so far we had some 5-set matches in these qualifiers but all of them ended up in favor of the "favorite team" . still no surprise at all.

not necessarily. even if I was supporting the system in general I wouldn't support such stupid policy as a sport fan (and a crazy one). which is like shooting yourself in the foot. this only hurts the Iranian athletes and nobody else. specially not Israel. but no in general I disagree with 90% of their policies. and of course i don't support the current system which is terrible. but I also don't support those so called "opposition groups". but in my answers I usually try to show the other side of the story because I know western media always cover (and exaggerate) anything negative about Iran.