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we got "lucky" once again in the draw. we got Iraq (the best team in pot 2) and Bahrain (best team in pot 3), only Hong Kong and Cambodia are easy. we could get Kuwait for example. Iraq is always the toughest opponent for Iran , they play against Iran like their lives are depend on that. and Bahrain !? our worst football memory came from Bahrain.and the last time we played in Manama it was hostile situation and we only survived by a last minute goal . our new coach will be tested very soon , this first round won't be easy for Iran. have to be careful.

you should read posts above about how this Korean team is formed , they are not waterpolo players and they are only here as host. and Pakistan don't have a women's water polo team (I wonder if they even have a men's team)

we will have the AFC draw for 2nd Round of qualification in two hours

oh thanks a lot. I was going to change my tomorrow plans to watch that. you just saved my day I forgot World Championships follow a different program comparing to the World Cups.

I hope one of these Iranian guys do something tomorrow. they are all in the main draw but facing tough opponents mostly in 2nd round. based on the draw Abedini's chance looks better.

Tabriz is a city lol yes. that team was Petrochimi Tabriz, for whatever reason they translated their name in English to "Tabriz Petrochemical" yeah they used to have all of remaining good cyclists in Asia (outside of Kazakh cyclists in UCI Pro tour) and Asia tour was piece of cake for them.

the Iranian cycling was dead for a long time. there used to be several tours each year in Iran. I think there is none now. we used to have several Iranian continental teams in Asia tour. how many left ? none. I don't even follow Cycling news that much anymore. no need to say Sohrabi claims he is innocent, (never had anybody here accepting his guilt in doping cases) he hold a press conference brought million pages of "evidences" to prove his case. but his career is pretty much done, even without this doping story he was done anyway.

yeah I was expecting more but the quality and also the quantity isn't impressive at all. I guess most big countries are busy with their own trial system and those "already selected" athletes are focusing on the main tournament. beside that we had European Games few days ago. after all those ranking points is not THAT important. the only good thing in being top 4 is you most probably will get a bye in first round. no more. there are so many unseeded great wrestlers much better than top seeds. as for Iran, we have a small team here. only 79kg here is our main guy.

I didn't know Algeria won the trophy just once ! with having African Cup every two years and Algeria being traditionally a strong team in Africa, it's actually a bad result ! maybe this is their chance after surviving Ivory Coast . I like teams playing with such passion

3rd gold for Iran in Taekwondo, this time Amir Mohammad Bakhshi, so far 3 out of 4 won the gold. not surprising this is our national team here I expect at least one more tomorrow in the last day. also one bronze on the women's side made it 14 medals for Iran only in 2 sports.

this is unfair and extremely stupid . I already feel sorry for 7th CONCACAF team in the World Ranking.

another gold in taekwondo, for Armin Hadipour (his 3rd Universiade gold !!) the final was very intense , the Mongolian scored lots of turning kicks and made it close. also important 20pts for him in the Olympic ranking. interesting thing here that we have only 6 weights in the program !!! no 54kg and no +87kg?! I can't see any special reason for that ! instead we have mixed pair poomsae and team Kyorugi event for both genders !?

on behalf of other users here (yeah I gave myself that permission ) I want to thank @hckosice for his hard work here. I usually check all results in all sports in multi sport events like this but since this website is TERRIBLE, I gave up doing that and only check the results involving Iranian athletes. this is good to see medalists name here and a direct link to the results without torturing yourself and checking that terrible website.

Mirhashem Hosseini destroyed everybody on his way to the gold medal. this is his second major gold medal after missing the World Championship in UK because of visa denial . 20 more points for him. still he needs to win 2-3 more G2/G4 tournaments to make up for that. and put himself in qualification position. but this is not impossible anymore. we had two more competitors today. Barkhordari lost to TPE in golden round, how come this guy is our #1 !? on the women's side Zahra Sheidaei had a decent tournament lost only by 1point in QF to the eventual gold medalist from South Korea.

Iran won 3 more bronze medals in Poomsae. which means Iran won "bronze medal" in all 5 poomsae events bronze is traditionally our color in poomsae but we never had a clean sweep before and 3 of them finished "4th" and still received the bronze medal thanks for that stupid rule. I guess I can't complain at all about the rule on another note, Iran won two "mixed" medals today. Iran and mixed events usually don't fit together but looks like the sky is falling (just kidding, Iran participate in mixed events in sports like shooting and archery when there is no physical contact between the competitors, and in poomsae you can set your routine in a way to avoid contact)

another gold medal for Iran in shooting ! in mixed air rifle. this one wasn't completely unexpected but still.

Poomsae was always like this. even in their PDF results or TV graphics they show the 4th place as just "4th" . only people who watched Poomsae before know about this stupid rule they are trying everything to make poomsae "interesting" (probably stupidly thinking about adding it into the Olympics). they used a weird knockout system for the Asian Games. with both athletes performing at the same time together , it was funny to watch . here they came back to the old scoring system but per new rules we have "new poomsae" which is mixed with some Gymnastics elements. (floor exercise) but still I had hard time to understand how the hell they are giving points. for example someone lost his balance twice and still walked away with the silver medal ! btw the Indonesian girl who won the gold in Jakarta Asian Games and "surprised" everybody just finished 7th here, it shows you are guaranteed a win in Poomsae if your country's president is in the stadium . no matter how you perform

Russian nationals winners 57, Ramiz Gamzatov 61, Magomedrasul Idrisov 65, Gadzhimurad Rashidov 70, David Baev 74, Magomed Kurbanaliev 79, Gadzhi Nabiev 86, Artur Naifonov 92, Alikhan Zhabrailov 97, Vladislav Baitsaev 125, Alan Khugaev winners in non-Olympic weights are most probably selected for the World Championships. in Olympic weights they have to challenge European Games medalists for the spot.

two Bronze medals for Iran in start of Taekwondo competition in men's and women's poomsae . one of them finished 4th but since they are genius they award two bronze medals lol even 4th place finisher ends up with a bronze

Olympic test event in Tokyo with 3 new world records https://www.iwf.net/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2019/07/T2020-Final-Results.pdf

just came home and checked the results I had to google the gold medalists name , can't even find her in ISSF database . this is her first international competition

really feel bad for Egypt and Mo Salah didn't watch most of the match (as I was watching Copa America bronze medal fight) except the last 10 minutes African football is the hardest thing to predict. it seems everybody can beat everybody

Yeah awarding medals only for two team events (so far) is just weird. both air rifle events and I also see a mixed air rile team event in the program lol Iran started to take Universiade a bit serious and win medals only when Taekwondo became a core sport in 2003 before that nobody knew what's even Universiade ! this year Taekwondo is supposed to give us lots of medals. of course hard to predict I have to see other teams too but for Iran at least on the men's side this is our national team (without a single change) and they are here to also collect points for the Olympic ranking.

how come they are awarding team medals only for selected events ?! not that I'm complaining that was Iran's second medal here.

in case anybody interested , we had the first day of Russian nationals today, that's their main trials. here is the finals: 57: Ramiz Gamzatov vs Muslim Sadulaev 65: Nachyn Kuular vs Gadzhimurad Rashidov 74: Magomed Kurbanaliev vs Khetag Tsabolov 86: Vladislav Valiev vs Artur Naifonov 97: Vladislav Baitsaev vs Igor Ovsyannikov and I have to add all those wrestlers in European Games are not here. in Olympic weights the winner of Russian nationals and those 6 guys will go to another tournament (most probably in Poland) to decide their World team.