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then you should hope Wushu never makes it to the Olympics (even as a temporary sport) because if that happens, we will have Taolu and not Sanda. the international wushu federation only tries to get Taolu into the Olympics. and btw I really don't think this is worst than Poomsae. Poomsae is simply the most boring thing I ever seen (well maybe 2nd, only after Ju jitsu)

Houston missed a golden opportunity to take the lead against Golden State after Durant's injury . I hate to see Golden State winning another title but they are on their way to the West Final.

Every day we hear about more "sanctions" I wonder if there is anything else for them to do in Washington beside threatening Iran ? but while you don't expect humanity from Trump, it's hard to believe how stupid those in charge here in Iran are , they can't see the opportunity here. the only move they have right now (beside waiting for Trump to not get re-elected) is to keep the whole country united for the upcoming war. and that won't happen unless the wounds from 2009 are healed. but they are too ignorant to understand this. but the worst and saddest part is whenever we have such news, if someone checks the social media , there are thousands of jokes about this. to me this is disgusting that our own people are making jokes about our/their own misery. I know social media suck in general but still ... I guess our biggest enemy is ourselves.

Rumors in wrestling world say Ismael Muskaev (Russian national Champion. Euro U23 Champion and Yarygin silver medalist) is now Hungarian citizen ! and will wrestle for Hungary in World Championship this year

I was checking some results and there is funny thing about Barcelona. for some "reasons" they always hosted the second leg in knockout round for so many years but that changed the recent years and they had to play the 2nd leg away sometimes and since 2011 there is just one time they managed to win the home/away series despite not hosting the 2nd leg ! which was against Bayern in 2015. so if UEFA still dreams of a Real Madrid - Barcelona final they have to make sure Barcelona always host the 2nd leg. no idea how they can bring this broken Real Madrid team to the final. I really hope Ajax doesn't choke tonight, because if that happens I have to listen to my friend (who is a Premiere League fan) for the rest of my life talking about this year with 2 English teams in UCL final and two other (most probably) in Europa League final

Happy for Higgins he was down 12-7 at some point and then 16-15 but he delivered in crucial moments. feel sorry for Gilbert though he has chance in the last frame. still a great tournament for him.

UWW announced the World Ranking in freestyle. there are still 2 ranking series tournaments left in the calendar before the World Championship. Sassari in Italy and Yasar Dogu in Turkey. but I can guess the final ranking will be more or less the same. I think most top wrestlers won't participate in these two tournaments. but I can be wrong. they even predicted the World Championship semifinalists here. of course we don't know if these guys make their own national teams https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/punia-and-atli-ascend-top-freestyle-world-rankings-after-continental-title-runs 57kg there is no clear favorite here. so the seeding doesn't matter that much. Atli (TUR), Uguev (RUS), Takahashi (JPN) and Sanayev (KAZ) are top 4. I only agree with top 2. 65kg: Bajrang being #1 is fair enough. Otoguro didn't wrestle at the Asian Champs. so he is 2nd. Chakaev is 3rd not sure if he makes the Russian team.that Turkish guy in 4th place isn't really good. we will have 1 or 3 "weak" seeded wrestler here. Haji Aliyev European Champion is 9th and most probably won't be seeded. 74kg: the top 3, Sidakov, Burroughs and Chamizo are separated until the semifinal. (still not a sure thing for Sidakov to make the Russian team but that's expected) Chamizo is 4th now but if he wins something in Sassari he will go to the 2nd or 3rd place to face Burroughs in semifinal instead of Sidakov. 86kg: this is funny to see Fatih Erdin as the top seed ! there are two huge favorites here, Taylor and Yazdani and the are currently 2nd and 3rd. it will be great if Yazdani drops a place and be in 4th place. on other hand it's possible for Taylor to win another tournament and finish 1st but I assume we won't see him in international competitions before the World Championships. whoever Russia sends will be unseeded most probably. no real treat to Taylor and Yazdani but that will be a nightmare to anybody else 97kg: good thing that Sadullaev and Snyder are #1 and #2 and will only meet each other in the final. I think from there it doesn't really matter who is 3rd or 4th. 125kg: Geno despite losing the Euro title is in 1st place and Akgul is 4th but Akgul needs just 1point to surpass Khizriev. I think it's just fair to not have Akgul and Geno in the same side of the draw. Deng in 2nd place is somehow funny. he lost to our 3rd wrestler in Asian Championship final but it seems he collected enough points to be seeded for sure.

well I watched most of the competition, all of the medal matches and most of the preliminary rounds (of course you can't watch 3 mats at the same time) first I have to say winning 4 medals is a great result for India. but I have to say luck also played a little factor here. at least for some of them. for example 60kg guy only had to beat Chinese Taipei and Jordan to win the bronze. and he lost 9-0 in semifinal in less than 2 minutes to Bakhromov. if you check the results , most of your defeats were quick 8-0 in first period. why ? because they can't defend well in par terre. and one caution is usually enough for the opponent to score big points in par terre and finish the match quickly. all of those 3 finalists had to come back from being down (2 of them being down 5-6 points) to win the match. because they "survived" the parterre and then destroyed the opponent by being physically tough. I can't remember the last time India beat Iran in Greco-Roman in senior level. (I'm sure it happened before but no match comes to my mind right now) not because we have the best Greco wrestlers in the world. mostly because our wrestlers have more or less the same style as yours and a bit better. you can't beat Iranian wrestlers by "being tough" and tiring them down. we have problem with Kazakh and Kyrgyz wrestlers for example because they are technical. they can score big throws . Indian wrestlers are less technical but if you don't score big early in the match they will beat you in second period. just an example. we have a wrestler world bronze medalist Mohammad Ali Geraei his style is different than the rest of our team. he is much more technical and less "physically strong" he dominated everybody at the Asian Games, but his only close match (which he almost lost) was against your wrestler Gurpreet. he was very close to finish the match 8-0 in 2 minutes but then he only won the match narrowly 8-6. and he would lose the match if there were 1 minute more left. and then Gurpreet lost easily in repechage to the Chinese wrestler Geraei teched easily. two of your 3 finalists lost easily, no surprised they faced World and Olympic medalists in the final. your 87kg guy (I didn't know him before) made it really hard for our Hossein Nouri (we consider him an Olympic medal candidate) he was impressive. even though I can say Gurpreet Singh is the best Greco wrestler you have right now. my point is. your wrestlers still have certain weaknesses. mostly in defending parterre. that's what they have to work on if they want to improve to another level. but still this was a very high level competition, and winning 4 medals was a great result. you have chance to qualify 1-2 wrestlers for the Olympics. but of course that will depend on the draw and also how many Asian wrestlers qualify in the World Championship to make room for the others. with only 16 spots available in each weight, it will be harder for everybody to qualify.

3rd place and Olympic quota for Haddadi, not bad

having lots of big football stadiums don't help much to host the Asian Games ! Qatar had other problems hosting multi spot events , I remember during the 2006 Asian Games, they didn't have enough hotels (or whatever) for the athletes. they asked the countries to not bring their whole delegation from the start. bring them in pieces and send some home before bringing the rest. and you don't need such big stadiums to host the Asian Cup. they will be empty after all.

This Ajax beating Tottenham is nowhere near being a miracle how come this team is not dominating their own league with 20pts difference or something I know PSV is also very good this season, actually they are the only reason Tottenham is still here by not losing to Inter in San Siro.

Well, that was quite an episode !

Results Book http://www.awfederation.com/news/download/54/375/29.html

lol I never saw people bring "dancers" to their wedding. they just dance themselves. and no belly dancing is not a Persian tradition, never existed in main part of Iran except the Arab provinces in south west. never attended a wedding there, so I have no idea and speaking of customs, nobody except the bride wears anything unusual. people wear what they wear in any other party.

Regarding the main topic of "wedding" I don't know where to start, the whole thing is completely different here and even each region has its own tradition and people are also different, depends on how religious they are. even though nowadays tradition is getting weaker and weaker and people usually just do what they want. but nobody brings cake that's the host's duty. obviously no church (and of course no mosque)

then you are lucky to have her staying at home for the big events is a must thing for me. but sometimes that's hard. for example during the Rio Olympics, for some reasons I could not take personal days for the first week (except one day, not sure it was either Sunday or Saturday). but the work time in Iran is midnight in Brazil, and the last competitions (usually volleyball/basketball) was finishing 6-7 in the morning here and I had to go to work almost without sleeping. doing that for 3-4 days I was like a zombie on Wednesday. (Wednesday here is like your Friday) and when I met my mom that day, her reaction was "you are the craziest stupidest person I ever know"

Does she really consider marrying you ? kidding aside, people here including my own family usually have hard time understanding my love for this (this = following sport competitions, watching etc which takes most of my free time) and from what I see you have the same craziness as me.

for a simple reason, i didn't watch and follow the women's competition.

Final medal table 1. 11-0-6 2. 5-5-6 3. 4-7-6 4. 2-3-5 5. 2-2-12 6. 2-1-5 7. 2-1-3 8. 1-6-9 9. 1-3-2 10. 0-2-5 11. 0-0-1 You always see those top 10 in all wrestling medal tables in Asia, the only addition was Chinese Taipei winning a bronze in women's wrestling.

2nd day Greco medalists 60 1. Bakhramov 2. Ri 3. Gyanender & Fumita 67: 1. Ryu 2. Shermakhanbet 3. Zhang & Takahashi 72: 1. Geraei 2. Zhang 3. Zhadrayev & Tsarev 82: 1. Abdevali 2. Harpreet 3. Qian & Yerezhepov 97: 1. Dzhuzupbekov 2. Turdiev 3. Aliyari & Xiao Iran somehow miraculously won the team title, after 60kg final winning by Uzbekistan there was only one way for Iran to win the title. winning all 3 medal matches and Uzbekistan losing all 4 remaining medal matches and that's what happened ! winning 4 gold and 3 bronze is an OK result. those 3 who failed to medal also lost very narrowly. interesting point that in both Greco and freestyle Iran had 11 finalists and won all of them !

Greco 2nd day finalists 60 Bakhramov vs Ri 67 Ryu vs Shermakhanbet 72 Geraei vs Zhang 82 Abdevali vs Harpreet 97 Dzhuzupbekov vs Turdiev what a disastrous day. losing is OK but losing to someone 10 times weaker than yourself is unbelievable. and that was the case for Aliyari and Tab (both of his defeats) if Aliyari wrestles this Kyrgyz guy 100 times, he will win 99 of them ! Iran had two eliminated wrestlers today.and with 2 in the final and 3 in bronze medal match, I think Uzbekistan will win the team title. they were also very lucky with the draw in some weights. I think they only have to win 2 of those 5 finals to secure the team title.

Interesting, I didn't know if she was a favorite, this is first time I'm hearing this. I just know she pulled out because of a late injury and her replacement Dehghan finished 6th or something and our cycling federation president said something like "Yazdani is usually 2-3 minutes faster than Dehghan in time trial and Deghahn was 45 seconds away from the medal" but my reaction was "yeah right , medal in women's cycling " I'm really surprised that wasn't just nonsense.

A summary of medalists so far Men's Elite Team Time Trial 1. Kazakhstan 2. South Korea 3. Hong Kong Women's Elite Team Time Trial 1. South Korea 2. Kazakhstan 3. Hong Kong Women's Junior Individual Time Trial 1. Ulyana SUKHOREBRIK 2. Yanina KUSKOVA 3. LEE Sze Wing Men's Junior Individual Time Trial 1. Maxim POPUGAYEV 2. Tullatorn SOSALAM 3. Behzodbek RAKHIMBAEV Men's U23 Individual Time Trial 1. Yevgeniy FEDOROV 2. TU Chih Hao 3. Amirhossein JAMSHIDIAN Women's U23 Individual Time Trial 1. CHANG Ting Ting 2. Yumi KAJIHARA 3. Renata BAYMETOVA Women's Elite Individual Time Trial 1. Olga ZABELINSKAYA 2. LEE Yumi 3. HUANG Ting Ying Men's Elite Individual Time Trial 1. Daniil FOMINYKH 2. FENG Chun Kai 3. CHEUNG King Lok Men's U23 Road Race 1. Mohammad GANJKHANLOU 2. Yevgeniy FEDOROV 3. Daniil MARUKHIN Men's Junior Road Race 1. Tullatorn SOSALAM 2. Behzodbek RAKHIMBAEV 3. Orken SLAMZHANOV Women's Junior Road Race 1. LEE Sze Wing 2. Anna IWAMOTO 3. Tsuyaka UCHINO Women's Elite Road Race 1. Olga ZABELINSKAYA 2. NA Ahreum 3. Somayeh YAZDANI

First day Greco medalists 55: 1. Bakhromov 2. Katagiri 3. Sulaimanov & Zhakansha 63: 1. Tuo 2. Tasmuradov 3. Jung & Abdevali 77: 1. Kim 2. Gurpreet 3. Shadukayev & Geraei 87: 1. Nouri 2. Sunil 3. Assakalov & Kustubayev 130: 1. Ghasemi-Monjazi 2. Abdullaev 3. Ramonov & Kuzembayev Tasmuradov's injury in the final was the worst moment of the first day. he couldn't even attend the medal ceremony. that gave China the first Greco medal which was a gold. Iran, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan won 4 medals each. Iran is leading with 90 points, Uzbekistan with 88 and Kazakhstan 70.