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Finals Men: Noshad Alamian vs Nima Alamian Women: Shahsavari vs Mirkadirova I assume Noshad will let his younger brother take the quota. he is very safe in the ranking. 99% guaranteed the quota. Nima started the tournament with a 4-0 defeat but luckily survived the group stage and beat #1 seed Gerassimenko

oh no that's not correct they won nothing today btw all results are available on Asian TKD federation website now

our federation (and media in general) only follow our own athletes. I have results only in some weights, (where Iranians advanced to the final rounds) which weight you are interested to know ?

NZL declined Dela Pena's quota. that will return to the World Ranking https://www.ittf.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Paris_2024_MS15May24.pdf OK, I understand they have a policy, but if they want to reject a quota why bother to participate in a "qualifier" !? that wasn't a continental championships, just the Olympic Qualifier.

updated list on 15 May, only 3 athletes per gender are in the list for each NOC. the rest are removed https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2024/05/P2O7G29.pdf China's list is updated after removing those other weights.

Abdullo Azimov won the Asian Olympic quota he finished 3rd behind Carlos Yulo and Milad Karimi (both had the quota already) in men's individual all-around

new update from ICF https://www.canoeicf.com/sites/default/files/paris_2024_csp_quota_allocation_as_of_16052024.pdf some expected updates from other continents but looks like Australia rejected a quota in favor of Guam or something like that

details of men's freestyle quotas there were 96+1 quotas, ( 96 + a refugee) we have 39 NOCs (RUS and BLR separated) here 6 5 4 3 2 1 38 from Europe, 27 Asia, 19 Pan-Am, 9 Africa and 3 Oceania by my count beside those 6 Russian wrestlers, 17 more Russians won quotas for other countries. (it doesn't mean the same number goes to Paris, NOCs can change their entries)

Quota matches 57: vs 65: vs 74: vs 86: vs 97: vs 125: vs this guy Diaz is a giant killer he beat Baran and now Sharipov !! I know Sharipov is in a terrible shape. but he was Russia #1 at some point ffs. RUS #1 losing to VEN feels like the end of the world

I was OK with passivity calls but Demirtas deserved a "Caution and 1" for fleeing the hold (and running) in last 20-30 seconds. but obviously India wouldn't get a favorable call in Turkey against a Turkish wrestler. still surprised why the Indian coach didn't push that damn challenge button, he had nothing to lose.

what a bad mistake by Sujeet he went for a cheap pushout and ended up giving up 2 pts. Retherford could never score on him even if he had 60 minutes instead of 6. USA is one win away from having a full team in Paris, the same as Russia and Azerbaijan

oh wow she pulled the hair again that should be the 3rd caution , will be a tough call for Mr Silvestri

The Italian coach only had to press that challenge button to win the quota that was really dumb, not to do it. (I mean not now, 30 seconds earlier)

Sujeet had his chances today, I mean for a moment I thought he threw the Mongolian and jumped from my chair (unfortunately the Mongolian escaped it) he has to win two matches tomorrow, the first one will be the hardest against Kudiev/Retherford , if he wins this, the next one will be 50/50 . Retherford will be the favorite IMO as for Jaideep, he wins the 1st match, I think he has a chance against Demirtas. something like 40% and then if it's Valiev he can try to tire him down. so in short I think they have a realastic chance but they are clearly not the favorite (or not even the 2nd favorite) to take it.

Poland deserved a bit of luck at the end, Baranowski won the quota exactly in the same way Baran lost it earlier today. and China keeps losing quota matches in men's wrestling. but I'm pretty confident they will win the next one

both 74kg quota winners and both 86kg quota winners are from ... Russia plus Dudaev. that's 5

He is surely a medal favorite in Paris but as I said so many times about him, he needs to survive the first period. some guys like Abakarov or Higuchi won't let that happen if they find a weakness. now we didn't qualify in this weight (that still hurts ) I will be certainly cheering for him in Paris

wow, just wow the officiating was terrible the entire match mostly in favor of Valiev, but then that last challenge changed everything, I wasn't even looking at my monitor, that was a desperation try from Rassadin, nobody expected anything from this. was it really a singlet grab ? I wasn't paying attention really feel sorry for Chamizo. very very unlucky

no way he is just great in first 2 minutes. if you survive that, he sucks the rest of the match, you should watch his 2nd round match against CHN when he won 10-9 and with 10 more seconds the Chinese could win it. likes of Higuchi, Abakarov, Uguev etc will watch his matches here and won't do these kind of mistakes.

yeah Kenchadze is a very good wrestler, if you ask me that will be his hardest match tomorrow. I expect Salkazanov and Valiev to win the quotas tonight. in this case Chamizo's biggest hurdle is Kenchadze but if Demirtas wins, I don't think Frank can beat Salkazanov, just a terrible matchup for him.

he is a snake, I think he will find a way Rassadin is also Russian. didn't shine today just stole couple of narrow wins. I mean in Russian standards, Valiev is a B level wrestler while Rassadin is C/D. Valiev clearly has the upper hand but these guys know each other very well, anything can happen

first, UWW is terrible in organizing, we are supposed to be in middle of men's semifinals by now. but yet women's BB matches are not started yet. we had something like 40 wrestlers in each weights, obviously it could take toooo long. it could be a 5-6 days tournament. anyway Chamizo had couple of very narrow wins but he lost when he was clearly better. Valiev is obviously in a bad shape physically, he knew he can't compete with Chamizo for 6 minutes. so he ran and ran and attacked only couple of times when he had to. that's surprising someone as experienced as Chamizo falling in his trap. I think he will get another chance in repechage but still he has to win 3 matches tomorrow. not sure if his body can manage that. 65kg QF was a clear robbery, but I think it's easy to steal something from PRK, they can't protest. Dudaev (ALB) didn't dseserve those late 2 pts at all. but looks like Albania is the new friend of UWW, so their mercenary Russians are getting favorable calls. Valiev also got some today. the biggest loser of the day was Baran (POL) he was easily leading the Venezuelan 2-0 but then just lost his focus in a second and lost it 2-2. he is not going to get a 2nd chance IMO.

quota matches 57: vs / vs 65: vs / vs 74: vs / vs 86: vs / vs 97: vs / vs 125: vs / vs

That was really hard to watch it sucks that we are this weak in one of the Olympic weights and they tried different guys and each one was worse than the previous one. I would send a different wrestler than Sarlak but the outcome was most probably the same, failure. this is only the 2nd time in history that we fail to qualify a full freestyle team. and the first time (back in 1996) was only because someone failed the weight-in.

of course I was but missed the early action, since I was looking at Mat A (another amazing match between CHN and UKR) the moment I turned my head the Chinese was completing his last turn. so no idea how he scored the first 4 pts