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one person celebrating something in his private is always possible but I'm pretty sure it's not safe to go out celebrating this very loudly. it's not humane to celebrate someone's death and I try hard not doing it myself. but since 2022 we passed a point of no return, for some people it happened in 2009 and for some others in 2019 but it feels like 2022 was really the end of that "let's hope things get better" era. I don't think like that myself, being radical is always a bad idea. but for lots of people, specially the younger generations, this is a war and they are the enemy. so they will indeed celebrate such a thing. even exaggerating to piss off the enemy

no fireworks certainly those are old videos. it's early morning here. (could be some street celebrations if it was evening or night) but I think it's fair to say the majority of people are "happy" (or at very least not upset) to hear the news. of course the regime has its own shrinking group of supporters. they will try to control the narrative as usual. since yesterday I saw/heard hundreds of jokes about him, lots of photoshopped pics of him with a bear (there were supposed to be wild animals in that era "greeting" them) that pretty much shows the general reaction specially among the younger generations.

Calling that guy the ayatollah is a common mistake. that's a title you get when you finish some religious school (of whatever else they call it) and no he never boards anything remotely unsafe

Hend Zaza made history last time by going to the Olympics at the age of 11 (12 because of COVID) pity she couldn't repeat the success the Lebanese lady is 47 years old ! it was 47 vs 15 in the final

Yes and No not exactly that term but I heard the word butcher about him before . but that was mostly before his presidency term. before that he was more an unknown person, with a dangerous background. but when he became "so called president" he was more like a stupid funny dumb guy people mock in a daily basis. I doubt anybody remember that nickname anymore I have to give you guys a history lesson , I try to make it short back in 1980s there was a very extremist group, in English called MEK (the remaining of them are living in Albania now, somehow the Iranian version of ISIS) at some point they sided with Iraq's dictator Saddam during the Iran/Iraq war and directly attacked Iran with a large group of soldiers. they got trapped and killed in "Operation Mersad". but because of that Khomeini decided to "end" this group once for all. there were lots of MEK prisoners back in Iran ,most of them sanctioned with a short term, 2 or 3 years in jail. all of them had a re-trial. a very short one. 2 or 3 minutes with few questions and one wrong answer led you to receiving death penalty. (and they didn't know that, they thought it's just routine questioning) keep in mind they had nothing to do with the attack, they were in jail already. most of them were just supporting that group, not being part of their military actions. while being there, they also dealt with some other communist/leftist groups too with the same way. those re-trials administered by a group of 4 judges (nowadays being called the "death committee") and Raeisi was one of them, he was young at the time and knowing his dumb personality, I don't think he had a big say in that group but still a part of it. so nobody is going to miss him (if he is really dead), except his stupid dumb mistakes.

Actually the weather itself is great in that part of the country. just too much fog. , that's in middle of a jungle though. hard to reach nothing official yet but it's hard to believe they know nothing after 5 hours. the way they are handling the news it feels like we lost the dumbest politician ever. he was stupid funny sometimes and completely irrelevant

no surprise Nima won the match (not really a match, just some warming up) 4-1 to qualify and Neda Shahsavari won the women's quota beating Mirkadirova 4-3 in a very close match. she will be the first Iranian woman to participate in 3 Olympics ! 2012, 2016 and now 2024.

you would do something different if you had to play your own brother for the quota you don't need ? and btw the match is scheduled for tomorrow, not done yet

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