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Is that even possible ? I can't see South Korea in the Olympic Ranking. that seems unlikely to me. if happens that will be a huge surprise. I'm sure nobody even thought about qualification in women's road cycling. our cycling is almost dead these days.

Today was a historical day for Iranian Cycling. while our men's cycling still sucks , an Iranian girl won Iran's first ever medal in Asian Road Cycling Championships. Somayyeh Yazdani won bronze in Women's Elite Road Race event. if my memory works well, Iran only won medal in Mountain Bike before in women's events. never a medal in track and road events. this is also very surprising, I didn't even know she is this good to challenge for a medal. She won the bronze behind Olga Zablinskaya (UZB) and Na Ahreum (KOR)

There is a facebook user broadcasting the whole competition live. https://www.facebook.com/A.THAI.Weightlifting

Kang from South Korea won the gold medal in women's 81kg , her result is 220kg in total . this is funny that gold medalist in 76kg, 71kg, 64kg, 59kg and even 55kg lifted more than her !!! and 49kg gold medalist could win a silver in this weight probably the weakest weight class in history of the Asian Championships.

they both did great specially Gurpreet Singh, even though both of them will face world medalists in the final. but to be honest your 130kg guy was one of the worst Indian wrestlers I ever seen. don't count on him at all

Greco 1st day finalists 55 Bakhromov vs Katagiri 63 Tasmuradov vs Tuo 77 Kim vs Gurpreet 87 Nouri vs Sunil 130 Ghasemi-Monjazi vs Abdullaev the level is much better in Greco-Roman comparing to freestyle. we had lots of World medalists here. as for Iran, we could have 4 in the final. now we have 2 and also 3 in bronze medal match. Saman Abdevali dominated the Chinese wrestler for the entire 6 minutes but had two stupid mistakes gave up 6 pts and lost it 6-4. Khedri at 55 also lost a comfortable 4-0 lead to Bakhromov 4-4 by a dubious caution in 2nd period. at 77 Geraei lost 8-0 to Olympic Champion Kim HW. of course the match wasn't one-sided as the final score indicates but Geraei really has to learn to respect his opponents sometimes. his open defense sometimes costs him a lot. but the best result of the day belongs to Ghasem-Monjazi, he teched the world bronze medalist from Korea in 30 seconds. Nouri also made it to the final despite being a bit out of shape. he beat Assakalov in process. so far the team title is between Iran, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan will have 5 wrestlers in bronze medal match ! also impressive day for India, both of their finalists came from behind and pinned their Kazakhstani opponents in semifinal. both of them will be heavily underdog in the final though . also great day for Uzbekistan. 3 in the final and Assakalov for the bronze.

two World Records for Rim Jong-sim today in women's 76kg. and Iran won the gold and silver in men's 102kg. but Beiralvand's result was 12kg lighter than Tian Tao at 96kg that wasn't surprising and actually nobody pushed Beiralvand for more , I still think this non-Olympic weights idea wasn't good at all for weightlifting. in this sport you can compare the result and the level is much much lower in non-Olympic weights. if IWF doesn't change the Standards, those WR's will remain unbeaten forever.

Yep. here https://jcf.or.jp/2019　アジア選手権　ジュニア男女個人タイムトラ/?category=road Kazakhstan gold. UZB sliver and HKG bronze. you can find top 3 in each event in JCF website

I wrote the medalists in order, South Korea.

Asian Qualifiers draw, Doha will host the event 17-27 October Group A: Group B: Group A is a joke, Qatar and KSA are already in semifinal. Kuwait is back after few years of suspension.

That's a good point from someone outside of the middle east. here we are doomed to know Bahrain exists (which was a part of Iran not long time ago) but that's still confusing, this way people learn about Bahrain in a bad way ! I'm sure you are not in love with Bahrain I was joking about the moral code obviously. actually Qatar is more "moderate" comparing to other Persian Gulf countries. specially Bahrain. but the difference is , in recent years, Qatar didn't buy these athletes. they go to Qatar in young age because they have better chance to improve in Qatar. that's still bad but at least you can give credit a bit to Qatar because they were nobodies when they started in Qatar. but Bahrain buy already established athletes. or simply whatever possible. honestly I don't know if there is a policy about not-buying women in Qatar or that's simply because women are less interested in sports (athletics in particular) in north African countries (where most of Qatari athletes come from) Qatar was also like Bahrain, they had athletes like Said Saeed Shaheen or their whole handball NT, their Bulgarian weightlifters and there are lots of examples but I'm talking about the recent years after creating the ASPIRE academy

Ilyin only came out once in CJ, lifting 185kg and finishing 5th with 345kg. he is not going to qualify for the Olympics with such results but here he just wanted to have a result otherwise he had no chance for the Olympics. Tian Tao tried the World Record of 231kg twice but failed. poor guy Fares El Bakh bombed out on 220/222 while even 15kg lower could give him the silver medal which went to Ayoub Mousavi of Iran. Korea won the bronze.

Ilyin finished 5th in Snatch with just 160kg this is facebook livestream, better than nothing

well I don't know. Iranian sources only focus on this story I just know Kazakhstan, South Korea and Hong Kong finished in top 3 of the team time trial competition. and in women's team title trial, Korea, Kazakhstan and Hong Kong.

looks like they have a moral code in Qatar, they never naturalized a female athlete. (at least as far as I remember) but Bahrain naturalizes everything available I wonder really why ? I'm sure nobody in Bahrain cares about these results. they are not even "that rich" comparing to Qatar.

Yep. just two medals and couple of 4th place finishes. we usually get better results in Asian Champs (comparing to the Asian Games) obviously because the level is higher at the AG but this time was different. mostly because our Asian Games medalists weren't "motivated" enough.

Finally I could watch something live thanks to a facebook livestream Olympic champion Nijat Rahimov bombed out and the Korean Yu Dongju won the 89kg gold medal in his last CJ attempt. Ali Miri won the silver for Iran 1kg behind Yu. another Iranian Chatraei only won a silver in Snatch. I think our best chance for gold is 102kg and there are also chances in 109kg and +109kg. no chance for gold tomorrow with Tian Tao and Ilyin.

Something funny happened during the team time trial event here, the Iranian team started the race 8 minutes later ! (thanks to the team manager) therefore Iran finished 9th out of 9 teams. but less than 8 minutes after the 2nd team which means they could win the silver medal behind Kazakhstan

Second day medalists 61: 1. Ehsanpour 2. Liu 3. Aware & Fujita 74: 1. Kaisanov 2. Dhankar 3. Otgonbayar & Nokhodi 86: 1. Ghasempour 2. Gamidgadzhiev 3. Punia & Gankhuyag 92: 1. Karimi 2. Viky 3. Sun & Matsumoto 125: 1. Mohebbi 2. Deng 3. Sumit & Kim

2nd day finalists 61 Ehsanpour vs Liu 74 Dhankar vs Kaisanov 86 Ghasempour vs Gamidgadzhiev 92 Karimi vs Vicky 125 Mohebbi vs Deng we had only one close match today and youngster Nokhodi lost that one in last 30 seconds to India Ehsanpour, Ghasempour, Karimi and Mohebbi they all won all of their matches either by superiority or fall. Ghasempour and Karimi will win the gold for sure, this is really a shame that all of our best wrestlers are in the same weight ! (Karimi is a 86kg wrestler) both Karimi and Ghasempour will miss the Olympics because of Hassan Yazdani. it won't be that easy for Ehsanpour and Mohebbi they both will face China. this chinese guy Liu impressed me before in Worlds U23 and Deng is a world silver medalist but still I believe Ehsanpour and Mohebbi will be the favorite here.

Iran didn't win the title last year not even in Greco PS: I have to say it was wrong saying Uzbekistan is a B team here. they had Novruzov and Khasanov today (both didn't medal) I think they are only missing Abdurakhmanov and Ibragimov. also their big guy Modzmanashvili is now suspended for his doping back in 2012 Olympics..

with Ghasempour and Karimi highly favorite for the gold tomorrow, I think Iran will win the team title for sure. the biggest surprise today was Atri winning the gold. this guy is unpredictable. sometimes he makes you think he is the next world champion and then few minutes later he loses to someone random. winning gold in 57kg in Asia is a huge achievement. I hope that improves his confidence. Yazdani has some shaky moments but he came back strongly in the final against tough Mongolian wrestler. and for Teymouri it wasn't that hard. I can say Uzbekistan is here with almost B team (with few exceptions like Shavkatov) but the rest are here more or less with A teams. of course they all are missing 1-2 big names. for Iran we obviously didn't send our best in 3 weights but this is almost our best available team. in 65, 70 and 74 our coaches are trying different wrestlers in different tournaments to find out who is the best. I'm afraid none of them are convincing so far.

First day medalists 57: 1. Atri 2. Kang 3. Shavkatov & Takahashi 65: 1. Bajrang 2. Okassov 3. Kim & Biabani 70: 1. Kaipanov 2. Shiga 3. Yuan & Emami 79: 1. Teymouri 2. Rana 3. Nasirov & Usserbayev 97: 1. Yazdani 2. Batzul 3. Kadian & Yergali

First day finalists 57 Atri vs Kang 65 Bajrang vs Okassov 70 Kaipanov vs Shiga 79 Teymouri vs Rana 97 Yazdani vs Batzul UWW is just terrible. they had a livestream for the competition but that wasn't in their website. only people like me could find that less than 10 people were watching that thanks to UWW ! and that live stream stopped working right before the semifinals . Iran will have 3 in the final and 2 in bronze medal match. 3 finalists is a good result but they really didn't impress me. Yazdani and Teymouri were huge gold medal favorites before the start and Atri had a very easy draw, still he won his semifinal just 2-1 ! Biabani losing to Bajrang was expected. still he was terrible. and I don't know how the hell Emami managed to lose 12-2 to some Kazakh wrestler I never heard of him before. I have to watch this one again when they upload the whole competition on youtube. Iran is very weak in 65-70-74 and they are trying so many new wrestlers in different tournaments and they are all failing. I'm afraid we won't even qualify for the Olympics in these two Olympic weights.

that was lucky going to the final alongside with 6 already qualified shooters. I guess she probably will know that only after the final. this is the first 2020 Olympic quota for Iran. at least one good news these days