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Artur Taymazov loses his second Olympic gold medal ! IOC already took his 2008 gold medal. and now they are taking his 2012. https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-one-athlete-for-failing-anti-doping-tests-at-london-2012-3 now this is interesting because the silver medalist Modzmanashvili from Georgia is also disqualified. the question is who is going to receive the gold medal now ? nobody ? one of those bronze medalists ? both of them ? there is nothing in UWW rules for situations like this when both gold and silver medalists get disqualified. in London, Komeil Ghasemi (Iran) and Bilyal Makhov (Russia) won bronze. Ghasemi lost to Taymazov and Makhov lost to Modzmanashvili. if they want to follow their usual pattern, Ghasemi should receive the gold because he lost to the gold medalist (even though that sounds stupid) but then on other hand if they count "classification points" Makhov has more. but I guess it will be either both of them or none of them. it doesn't make sense to give the gold medal to just one of them.

Hi, I assume you guys already heard about the disqualification of Bahraini sprinter Kemi Adekoya which potentially can give India one gold (and a bronze) at the 2018 Asian Games. I checked couple of pages and I see nobody mentioned it here, perhaps you guys don't care about that I wonder if there are news about this in India media about the re-allocation of medals. I'm talking about "actual re-allocation" not possible. or maybe it's just too early for that because the decision is new and still open for appeal

Iran won both kumite events, both of them had unbelievable comeback in their matches against Japan. men's team was down 2 defeats and 1 draw but they dominated the last two individual matches, and the women's team was down against Japan until the very last second where Taravat Khaksar scored the winning point. here is the final medal table Japan - 6 / 3 / 4 Iran - 5 / 2 / 4 Uzbekistan - 3 / 1 / 3 Saudi Arabia - 1 / 3 / 0 Kazakhstan - 1 / 2 / 0 China - 1 / 0 / 3 Indonesia - 0 / 2 / 1 Jordan - 0 / 1 / 2 Hong Kong - 0 / 1 / 1 Kyrgyzstan - 0 / 1 / 1 Malaysia - 0 / 1 / 1 Kuwait - 0 / 0 / 5 Vietnam - 0 / 0 / 3 Chinese Taipei - 0 / 0 / 2 Macau - 0 / 0 / 1 South Korea - 0 / 0 / 1 Thailand - 0 / 0 / 1 United Arab Emirates - 0 / 0 / 1

Gold medalists Men's 55kg: Andrey Aktauov 60kg: Sadriddin Saymatov 67kg: Hiroto Shinohara 75kg: Ken Nishimura 84kg: Zabihollah Poursheib +84kg: Tareg Hamedi Kata: Ryo Kiyuna Team Kata: Japan Women's 50kg: Bakhriniso Babaeva 55kg: Taravat Khaksar 61kg: Yin Xiaoyan 68kg: Nodira Djumaniyazova +68kg: Hamideh Abbasali Kata: Kiyou Shimizu Team Kata: Japan --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- with only team kumite events left for tomorrow, Japan has 6 gold medals. for Iran it's 3 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze. while this is not really a good result but in term of Olympic qualification I'm almost happy with them. Abbasali won the gold and she needed this more than anybody else. Khaksar also put herself in race for Olympic quota with gold medal here. even though I think at the end we have realistic chance for 3 direct quotas but right now the chance still exists for women's 55 and 61, it's funny the only weight we have absolutely no chance to qualify is men's 67kg ! both Ganjzadeh and Askari managed to win bronze. very bad result for high quality athletes like them but I think they are exhausted with too many competitions in a short period. i think it's time to rest at least for some Serie A events. they can afford not to participate in couple competitions

Bahrain Sport Channel once again is broadcasting all matches in the main stadium live except for Iran matches how pathetic they are but bad news for them, Iran beat Czech Republic and advanced to the 2nd round, and if Bahrain loses to China tonight (which is very likely to happen) they will be grouped with Iran. I wonder if they boycott that match too

not "now" because it was an hour ago. and it was a bit scary since China had 5-6 pts lead at some point because of Abedini's poor performance but Pakdaman saved the day. yeah I think it's safe to say the Olympic spot is secured now.

AKF uses a different program comparing to WKF, we have all the finalists for kumite events today, all finals and kata events will be held tomorrow. also only in Asia we have a 55kg competition for men ! here is the finalists Men's 55kg: Andrey Aktauov vs Abdullah Al-Harbi 60kg: Rafael Akbarov vs Sadriddin Saymatov 67kg: Hiroto Shinohara vs Didar Amirali 75kg: Abdulaziz Al-Hakami vs Ken Nishimura 84kg: Zabihollah Poursheib vs Mahmoud Sajan +84kg: Tareg Hamedi vs Hideyoshi Kagawa Women's 50kg: Miho Miyahara vs Bakhriniso Babaeva 55kg: Taravat Khaksar vs Sevinch Rakhimova 61kg: Yin Xiaoyan vs Rozita Alipour 68kg: Ceyco Georgia Zefanya vs Nodira Djumaniyazova +68kg: Sofya Berultseva vs Hamideh Abbasali --------------------------------------------- terrible terrible tournament for the men's team ! Ganjzadeh lost to that Saudi guy again ! Askari lost to Nishimura, the good news is they are almost safe in Olympic ranking. but this is extremely disappointing. this is the second time Sajjad is losing to this guy. Saudi Arabia has 3 in the final and we have just 1 ! on other hand great result for the women's team to have 3 in the final. specially Abbasali needs the gold medal to keep herself in top 4. interestingly all of the Iranians here lost to eventual finalists, all of them will be alive for the bronze medal. (except 67kg where we had no competitor because of Mehdizadeh's suspension)

of course on purpose, they showed every single match except Iran. for example China - PUR is live now. I was expecting much more, but Iran lost 3-2 to Russia, so tomorrow match vs Czech Republic will be a direct knockout match. disappointing because Iran had big leads in all first 4 sets and but lost two of them. but it's hard to judge when you can't see the match. but half of these guys were in our senior team this summer I was expecting more.

you mean here ? but you are in Group B. I assume there is TV coverage only for matches in the main stadium which for the first round only hosts matches from Group A and C. I might be wrong though the only thing i can do right now is checking the scoreboard and Iran just choked big time in 2nd set

I have this channel on satellite , yesterday they broadcasted all matches in the main stadium (Pool A and C are in the main stadium), except the first match between Iran and Tunisia, (at first I thought that was only because of the time since it was the first match of the day) today they showed the first match (CZE-TUN) but then again right now they are showing some stupid things while Iran-Russia match is ongoing (which is supposed to be a big match) co-incidence ? I wonder what they are going to do if Iran advances to further rounds

when they were writing that qualification rules, they didn't know there will be no "continental games" in Asia in 2019 ?! they could simply write that. is it even possible to count 2018 Asian Games for this ? guess not. as you said it will most probably go to the OQR.

The Iranian officials claimed they tried until the last hours to solve the problem but the competition started today without him. it seems AKF officials in Jakarta told the Iranians that he is banned for a year. no letter, no email. and in time, the Iranian officials claimed they solved the problem and there will be no suspension for him, in past year we had change in Iran Karate federation, and the "new officials" had no idea about that. they even accepted his name, gave him ID card ! Iranians even tried to get WKF president into it and solve the problem with his help but no avail. since he changed his body weight from 60 and 67 and had some injuries, his results weren't any good last year and his chance was very slim to qualify through the ranking. but then I can't understand how the hell they can ban someone for a year for such protest !! that wasn't such a big deal btw, do you know if this is the Asian Qualifier ? beside ranking points I mean for the best gold medalists to qualify. it should be, there is no other Asian competition. the document says "If Continental Games are not approved as a qualification event on a specific continent, then the highest ranked athlete not yet qualified from the Olympic Standing on 6 April 2020 from that specific continent, will obtain the quota place, respecting the maximum quota per NOC." this is amazing we still don't know that !

shocking news for Iran one day before the competition , AKF didn't let two time World Champion Amir Mehdizadeh to participate, saying he is banned for a year !! because of his protest after the Asian Games final where he clearly got robbed against the Indonesian guy. he attended the medal ceremony but removed the silver medal from his neck very quickly and left the podium early (still, after the Indonesian anthem but before the photography) seriously 1 year ban for that ?!!! interestingly nobody knew that in Iran, as he participated in WKF events. if they knew at least they could send someone else, it's not like we don't have any other medal caliber Karateka.

no. he was 7-8 years ago, in past 6-7 years we had an Iranian coach Peyman Fakhri.

YES first ever World Championship medal for Iran in fencing. one of the sports I always loved to watch and few years ago it was impossible to think Iran can win a WCH medal someday. well done Moji we are lucky he changed his mind because he retired last year after the Asian Games. only his coach talked him to change his mind.

I never heard about this , Bahrain's main football stadium is also in Riffa and our players never had such problems. if there was mistreatment we would hear about this. and this is the 3rd time in 2 years for this group of players to play in Bahrain. Bahrain also hosted 2017 Worlds U19 and 2018 Asian U20 !! they never had problems (and actually won both tournaments) Bahrain was a state of Iran not long time ago, the majority of people there are kind to Iranians (actually most people there have Iranian heritage) but they make it hostile situation sometimes. mostly for football matches (and again we got Bahrain for FIFA WCQ in yesterday draw)

Brazil vs Luxembourg in quarterfinal. it will be first ever WCh medal for either country

only Abedini left for Round of 16 and it will be very hard for him vs Ibragimov. with Szilagyi and Homer out, it was like a dream draw for Pakdaman but he lost it in first round. he is not doing good recently. Rahbari had a good start but then once against he froze at some point in the match against Curatoli giving up 9 points in a row. Fotouhi also lost a 13-11 lead to Anstett. I know they are more focused on the team event, where they most probably will face China in Round of 16 which is something like a direct Olympic qualification match. but still the individual results also matter a lot. both Abedini and Pakdaman are now out of top 16 in the World.

yeah I know but the word Persia is confusing, as it confused some of you guys here already Persia/Persian is the name for the country, the race and the language !!! but ironically the word "Persian" is not Persian . it's English and it probably comes from "Parsi" which is the old version of Farsi. we call the language "Farsi" and the race as just "Fars" and as I said the name Persia for the country is a bit problematic. other races here don't prefer to use that word for the whole country. for example when they picked the slogan "Princes of Persia" for our football NT for one of the World Cups (2014 if I'm not wrong), some people here didn't like it AT ALL. PS: by using an example from previous World Cups I just tried to make it a bit on-topic

Iran and it was always Iran (and not Persia) the official name was always Iran while in other countries they enjoyed to use "Persia" before 1935, at the time the Iranian government asked all countries to use Iran because Persia was actually wrong. Persian is a race and it's not all people in this country are Persian. btw, you may find it interesting that we call your country "Lahestan" !!

Farsi = Persian . this is amazing people don't know that. Farsi is the Persian word for "Persian" in Iran ! we don't use the word Persian or Persia in Iran, in Kabul they call it something else but it's exactly the same. there are other languages in Afghanistan too. same as Iran, half of Iran population speak a second language (Turkish/Azeri, Arabic, Kurdish, Turkmen, etc) of course there are small differences, some common words in Iran are different in Afghanistan. (and Tajikistan, they also speak Persian)

oh no way, the situation is even worse (comparing to few years ago) these days. this probably got boring for western media to report about Afghanistan but since we share the same language, whenever I listen the news there is always one explosion in Afghanistan per day among them. specially right now in middle of these "so called" negotiations. (even though I don't know how you can make a deal with them, they will never give up an inch about what they believe) and remember football was somehow banned in Afghanistan in Taliban era, they don't like such things. an international football match in Afghanistan is a potential target for them. btw looks like they are not happy with having their matches in Iran, they can have packed stadium here (even 100,000 big Azadi stadium was packed once for U23 match !!!) but it seems they are not happy with their financial agreement with Iranian football federation last time. they wanted Qatar but now they can't because Qatar is in the same group with them.

as far as I know the current Yemen NT is founded by the Saudis. (hard to believe I know) of course some players probably "don't like" Saudi Arabia but it's not like they will boycott the match. the last time Syria played its home matches in Malaysia. so maybe they even play their home matches in East Asia again. obviously Yemen and Afghanistan also can't "host" their matches. but Iraq will host its WCQ matches after a while. I think the last time was in 2002. and from what I heard we have to play Iraq in Basra , not a really good choice. hope they take the security very seriously.

I think Group E anf F are the easiest, Group A is also easy, it will be between Syria and China. if we consider AFC teams in 2018 WC as the main contender here I think only Iran and maybe Saudi Arabia are in a bit of danger in the first round. Saudi Arabia and Palestine in the same group will cause problems. Saudi nationals can't/don't travel to Palestine, they will probably force FIFA/AFC to play Palestine's home match somewhere else. assuming Qatar winning group E, we will have 5 runner-ups in the second round, I think group G won't be one of them. those SEA teams will take points from each other. Group H is also balanced after South Korea. will be hard for runner-up from that group to qualify. hard to pick the last one, but I guess it will be either C or D. maybe B. so here is my prediction : A: B: C: D: E: F: G: H:

per previous tournaments, it will be the 5th best runner-up. this is the method AFC used in its previous tournaments. of course it will be better to see the official document about it but I'm 90% sure about what I said.