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I was checking Pan American Championships results and wow, USA won all 10 gold medals in men's freestyle ! I know they are always the best team in that continent but still Cuba (and sometimes Canada or Venezuela) always win some of gold medals. this is for the first time in history. I wonder if it happened before in any other continent. probably not . this USA team is as good as Russia. I have to say right now Russia and USA are much much stronger than the rest in the world in freestyle. and it seems Oscar Pino is now totally committed to freestyle. he won a bronze here but Cuba sent someone else (and not Mijain Lopez) in Greco who also won a bronze. I was hoping to see Lopez here

Finally an interview with Mollaei about his future he says he was a bit injured and a bit out of shape but he didn't go to the Asian Champs because the federation president didn't call him directly ! he says he has some "conditions" and he doesn't care who is the president. he claims he has no problem with anybody ! he bashed the current coach though, it seems he wants to work with his own coach. and he has some other conditions like that. one of them is Miresmaeili himself calling him and not anybody else ! (how stupid is that ) but when they asked him about going to another country, he answered "I never thought about it, I always think positive, but if I can't work with the national team I will take other decisions for my life and my Judo career"

for the first time after 25 years Iran will leave the Asian Championship empty handed nobody made it to the medal round today, only yesterday Mohammadi-Barimanloo was in bronze medal match which he lost by a stupid mistake near the end (despite leading by a wazaari) . I'm not surprised. without Mollaei it was obvious that only Barimanloo is a realistic medal favorite. of course the current federation won't take responsibility because they are very "new" but it doesn't change the fact that our Judo is back to the stone age again. last year was very good with 2 medals at the World Championship but now that feels like million years ago.

first day was a bit disappointing with Hossein Keyhani's poor performance in 3000m steeplechase. he was the Asian Champion and the Asian Games Champion but finished 4th here but at least Iran finished 1-2 in Discus throw. with Ehsan Haddadi winning his 10th Asian title (6 Asian Champs + 4 Asian Games) he won all Asian titles since 2005 except 2013 and 2015 when he didn't participate. there is nobody in Asia at the moment even close to him. 2nd place Behnam Shiri barely even made it to 60metres. I winder if we can win any other medal in upcoming days. highly possible for Iran to finish just with these two medals

I wonder how many people will be in the audience for the World Championship later this year. right now the stadium looks quite empty ! Bahrain won the first gold medal of the competition. finishing 1-2 in women's 5000m. bronze to India, I think Bahrain (and Qatar) naturalizing athletes hurt India more than any other country. I was checking the Asian Games results and they somehow stole more than 4-5 gold medals from India.

live stream http://www.alkass.net/alkass/live.aspx?ch=two

if you want Asian "Athletics" championship you can check this http://www.alkass.net/alkass/live.aspx?ch=two

this is interesting that we have so many Asian Championships at the same time ! Weightlifting, Judo, Boxing and Athletics are already started, and we will have Wrestling and Badminton in next few days. anything else ?

here is the start list in case http://www.awfederation.com/news/download/41/358/29.html

Thanks and keep sending screenshots from the results. it will take centuries for IWF to post the results. btw. interesting to see Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka winning medals in an Asian Championships. thanks to low level non-Olympic weight, I wonder if it happened before. but at least I'm quite sure this is Saudi Arabia's first ever gold medal in this sport. probably first ever medal.

that's good from IOC. he will lose the next Olympics for sure if he doesn't solve his problems here. he is 27 now, he will be 32 for Paris 2024. this will be his best chance in Tokyo and of course I know it's highly possible for him to run into that Israeli guy and lose everything. that's probably a huge motivation for him thinking about going to another country. (in this case I completely understand him, this is really hard to swallow if you lose your lifetime chance because of that) ironically that happened to Miresmaeili in peak of his career too when he was two time world champion and hot favorite for the gold in Athens 2004 and he was the flagbearer but the night before the opening ceremony they had the draw in Judo and he got Israel right in the first round. he cried the whole night but still carried the flag in the opening ceremony. I really believe our judo is cursed since that day. we were one win away from the first Olympic medal in Judo so many times but they lost it all (semifinals and bronze medal matches) , IJF changed the rules exactly because of Iranian judokas using wrestling techniques, and a plane crash killed the entire youth/junior teams few years ago, and lots of NT members leaving Iran (even though none of them achieved anything) also so many scandals inside the judo federation. they had something like 10 presidents in past 10 years. and just when things were getting better, the previous president had to resign, I have to repeat it again, all I said here is just my own guess based on my previous experiences. I think he is considering all his options now, probably didn't decide anything yet, and where he is right now (Germany) already has a good judoka in his weight. I just hope he doesn't do something that he will regret later. once he opens his mouth talking about this there is no turning back from there.

I don't know anything about requirement for switching nationality in Judo. one thing is for sure, Iranian federations never ever give permission for that. but I know you still can do that without permission, it will just take more time. but we had a bad record in Judo. I can name 4-5 national team members doing that in past. the last one was the 2017 Asian silver medalist "Mohammad Rashnonejad" who is (as far as I know) still waiting for his papers to represent his new country the Netherlands. but none of them was as important as Mollaei. right after what happened in Paris (the Israel story) Mollaei said something about "if they don't consider him he has options from other countries" I assume by considering he was talking about the prize money. and now with Miresmaeili in office I think he is really considering it. (that's just my guess but I knew from the previous experience when someone goes completely silent he has a plan that people won't like it ) and in his instagram he posted a pic with his fiance/girlfriend who is obviously not Iranian. it seems it will be somewhere in Western Europe

I don't know. the logo says "Asian Pacific Championship" ! http://www.ippon.org/jua_oju_sen2019.php

if you don't know already ASBC website has links for the results. draw and even live stream for the whole competition.

for the first time, we will have Asia Pacific Judo Championships !! I didn't know that until today when I was checking the draw !! I don't know if it was just for this year or more. and for Iran, the sad news is World Champion and World Rank 1 Saeid Mollaei is not participating here. he is disappeared in past month, never talked to media. and nobody knows what's his plan. I'm not going into details, our judo was always like a circus and now his biggest enemy (Arash Miresmaeili, two time world champion, Mollaei is only the 2nd Iranian world judo champion after him) is elected as the Iran Judo Federation president last month and 10 minutes after the election, the national team coach and manager announced their resignation. right after winning the World title, Mollaei bashed MIresmaeili in TV (who was the national team manager for few years and Mollaei had serious problems with him) and now Miresmaeili is the president, Mollaei apparently doesn't want to participate for "him" ! as I said I don't know what's his plan, Miresmaeili is not going anywhere for the next 4 years. I see only 3 options for him, solving his problems, retiring from Judo or representing another country he was quiet since the election, that makes me believe he is probably thinking about the 3rd option

rumors in wrestling world say the 6 time World and Olympic Champion Khajimurad Gatsalov is going to wrestle for Armenia at the World Championship later this year !! this is weird, first we don't know which weight he is going to wrestle, 97 or 125 ?! if that's 125 why not Russia ?! this is their weakest weight. but still if that's true it will be fun watching him again. he is 36 now.

I assume there are lots of Iranian-born athletes representing other countries in those new sport. that doesn't count to me. like this one. you can say Iranian women competing when they represent Iran and be recognized by Iranian federation. btw there are talks about starting women's boxing in Iran though and they were talking with AIBA for a dress code for that. even though considering current huge budget cut, I assume our boxing federation postponed those plans for now.

this is 99% nonsense (I can't say 100% but in Iran you never can be really sure) she is just someone desperate for attention. not much media attention about her inside Iran, (of course Persian media outside of Iran as usual take these kind of news seriously) because nobody knew her at all until few days ago. just some announcement denying that bold part . of course she can't be representing the IR Iran without Hejab but doing something "without Hejab in another country" is not illegal and she won't have any problem traveling back to Iran. but of course she has other reasons spreading such news. we will see her getting French citizenship (or somewhere else) soon just because of that. and after that she will travel back to Iran happily to see her family that's usually the plan.

I can guess running in mud or things like that what's underwater hockey whenever you think you "know" all existing sports, another new sport "happens"

thanks. google translate didn't help with this and obviously I can't read a single Chinese character. anything else I missed ? google translate is far from accurate. btw that's a terrible idea, dropping a sport like Karate with 40 nations participating and adding Chinese Chess !! which is not even a sport to have TV coverage etc. I like the real Chess though but only the blitz competition which is possible for TV broadcasting.

it seems the organizers finalized the list of sports for the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou it will be all "core" Olympic sports plus few selected non-Olympic sports, Sepaktakraw, Kabaddi, Cricket, Chess, Roller Skating, Jujitsu, Kurash, Wushu and Squash and per Hangzhou 2022 official website Dragon Boat will be a part of Canoeing competition. but they said nothing about Soft Tennis (which is usually a part of tennis competition) or 3x3 basketball. and beside that it's not clear if Chess is just Chess or will include some weird Chinese Chess competition too. with this, Cricket and Chess are the new sports comparing to 2018 but they dropped Baseball/Softball, Bridge, Bowling, Jet Ski, Paragliding, Pencak Silat, Sambo, Karate and Sport Climbing from the 2018 program. of course nobody is upset about dropping JetSki, Pencak Silat or Bridge or Paragliding or Sambo, but dropping some old sports like Karate, Bowling and Baseball/Softball is a very bad idea. even Sport Climbing should be in the program. especially Karate which is a popular sport in Asia and we usually have something like 40 nations participating at the Asian Games (OCA has something like 45 members) even though after this Iran Karate federation president claimed he contacted the AKF officials and he was told to not worry, OCA president (Sheikh Ahmad from Kuwait) is a fan of Karate and he will never let the organizers to drop Karate. he will force the Chinese organizers to put back Karate in next OCA meeting. which means this list is not final as far as OCA concerns and small changes can happen.

I knew that, European tournaments are usually much easier to follow. that was just an example of IWF's new speed in updating. in past we had each weight class result few minutes after the competition.

IWF was always a corrupt organization but at least they were better in updating their websites. we always had live score for major tournaments plus start list for continental championships etc. but now even after a day still no sign of European Champs results. and for example they put Fajr Cup tournament in Tehran (which happened a month ago) just few days ago ! quite an improvement specially this year where all these results matter for the Olympic qualification while there is no official start list for the Asian Championship in China, there are news that king of doping Ilya Ilyin is back (this time to really participate) but at 96kg !!!!!! he had two "no marks" already and this is his last chance in this window. if he doesn't show up or bombs out there will be no chance for him to qualify. this could be a hell of a competition in this weight in Asia with him, Tian Tao (assuming he will participate at home), Moradi and Rostami from Iran. but Moradi is still injured. (good news he doesn't need a surgery and will recover soon) and the biggest jerk ever Rostami just pulled out of the team couple days ago claiming he is not happy with the support he is receiving !!! I'm not going to write all of his super stupid comments but this guy is simply unbelievable. for couple months he was more committed into training, knowing Moradi is injured and with a back surgery he will most probably miss the Olympics but now Moradi is back on his feet he started his stupid games again. another important weightlifter for Iran is Saeid Alihosseini, (the only man in the world who can giggle Talakhadze at least) he was also injured in past few months but despite not "being ready" he is still going to this competition just to have a result and keep his chance alive. if he bombs out this will be the end of his career.

in Iran, beside the ID (like every other country) people have something else which is more like a booklet, I can't find an English word for that apparently that's unique for Iran and Afghanistan, some sources use the word "birth certificate" but this is much more than just that. the last page of this is for the elections, whenever you vote they stump (which is unique for each election) on that. you can't vote again in the same election. another "unique" thing about Iran is there is no ticket or registration, you just have to show up anywhere you want bring your "thing" and your ID and vote. this is always on a Friday (holiday in Iran) and since everything is political in Iran even "voting" (I mean just the act of voting, not voting for who) so many people only decide to vote or not during the Friday or half an hour before the end of it.