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both freestyle wrestlers made it to the final medal number 9th and 10th for Iran. Zare had easy draw and teched both of his opponents. no surprise he will be favorite for the gold in final against Russia but Karimi surprised me first negatively then positively ! first he almost lost the Egyptian kid. beat him only by 1pt ! and since the American wrestler beat Egypt easily I thought there is no chance for Karimi but then he teched the American guy 10-0 in first period these kids are indeed unpredictable. he will be up in the final against Azerbaijan. he lost to the same wrestler at the World Champs few months ago. I expect 1 gold and 1 silver for today. but I hope for 2 gold obviously

watching the freestyle draw. there are 3 better wrestlers almost in each weight , guaranteed to win the 3 medals. only at 55kg the draw is very unbalanced. we have Japan, USA and Ukraine in the same group !! while Algeria or Argentina will win a silver from other group. freestyle is usually more technical than Greco and therefore more predictable.

actually they did the right thing (as I was suggesting that before) continuing that. this is working for them. why stopping that ? unlike Iraq, Panama simply has no experience playing against power-play. now they feel safer with the 9th goal. I think they will sit back if they score one more.

Argentina played the whole 1st half with empty net (I missed the first 5 minutes though)

a day ago Argentina was TERRIBLE in power play against Iraq but they played brilliant tonight. almost the whole time with flying GK which worked for them. they conceded a stupid goal at the end of 1st half but I think they can score 2 more in 2nd half. Panama simply doesn't know how to defend a 5-man team I wonder if Argentina continues to play like that if/when they reach their goal. I would do that if I was the coach.

and gold for our baby giant his entry was way below two other athletes. this is really surprising. he made all 6 attempts ! considering the fact he is 2 years younger than the rest. he is indeed talented as they were claiming ! 2 very surprising medals in less than 10 minutes I can't ask for more. this completely made up for disappointment in futsal and shooting.

bronze in Gymnastics of all sports ! just wow. that made the day for me.

those 3 had the worst scores in the qualification. no big deal. other 4 matter and I don't think two more will fall 5th place is still a very good result.

I head about a very talented super heavyweight weightlifter that we will see here and he is 15 . two years younger than his opponents. he will most probably win a bronze tonight (unless he bombs out in CJ) but I didn't know he is 163kg ! at the age of 15 ! I could not find a picture of him to see if this is just a mistake by the website (very unlikely) https://www.buenosaires2018.com/results/en/weightlifting/athlete-profile-n1002320-yousefi-alireza.htm

well I would prefer to be good in more than just 2-3 sports. because when you rely on only 2-3 sports and when they get weak sometimes (which happens) that will affect the whole delegation . like 2008 Olympics which was a nighmare with only 2 medals. wrestling was in worst situation ever and our weightlifting got hit by a doping scandal. only Taekwondo won a gold medal that time

I found this on Olympic Channel https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/original-series/detail/land-of-legends-asia-pacific/land-of-legends-asia-pacific-season-season-1/episodes/why-iran-s-pride-and-prowess-in-wrestling-is-unsurpassed/ while the whole clip is interesting but I'm mostly amazed by the short clip at the start of the video. whoever made this video did a FANTASTIC job. if I had to describe Iranian wrestling in few memorable frames almost all of them are here in this video. unfortunately I can't recognize some of those old (black and white) frames except Takhti and Habibi but there are some memorable since 1990. from Alireza Soleimani's gold medal podium in Martigny 1989 (Iran's first gold medal after the Islamic revolution and also first and so far the only gold medal for Iran in Super heavyweight) specially with US and USSR flags under IR's flag (extremists in Iran used that image for their propaganda for a long while) , Majid Torkan's childish celebration after his gold medal in Tokyo 1990, Askari Mohammadian carrying the American legend John Smith on his shoulder after losing to him at the 1992 Olympics final, Alireza Heidari throwing Melvyn Douglas in Takhti Cup in Tehran (first time any American sport team visiting Iran after the revolution), Amir Reza Khadem's famous gut-wrench on Kenny Monday in 1991 Varna, Rasoul Khadem's golden moment in 1996 Olympics with his famous ankle pickup on Makharbek Khadartsev in the final (Iran's first Olympic gold after 28 years), Alireza Dabir and his famous singlet at the 2000 Olympics and of course the legendary Sourian and his gut-wrench on Bayramov in London 2012. they only used "positive" frames. only victories , I only would add Norouzi's famous throw on his coach after the Olympic gold. otherwise the video is just perfect. brought back some memories for me.

This is really sad Iran completely missed this round of Karate 1. and unfortunately we will hear news like this A LOT in future. financial situation looks terrible for most of sports federation in Iran. outside of multisport evens (which will get direct financial support from the government) why will rarely participate in international competitions.

At the end of the Games we had 33 countries on the medal table (including COR) for Iran that was the best Games ever, 3rd place in medal table (Iran was 4th in 2010 and 2014) only 2 gold medals behind Korea in 2nd place. and Iran won gold medal for men in all 3 team sports (Goalball, Basketball and Volleyball) I could barely follow the Games but only watched the wheelchair basketball final today morning which was quite a match. Iran by a last seconds basket 68-66. one thing that makes APG/Paralympics less enjoyable is the number of events in athletics and swimming. even though this team we had huge number of events in badminton and chess as well ! I wonder how come they had 19 events in badminton ! for example Iran won 51 gold medals here but more than half of them, 27 in athletics !! 6 in swimming (all of them by one swimmer Shahin Izadyar), 4 in Chess, 4 in powerlifting, 3 in shooting, 2 in judo. 2 in archery plus 3 team sports. personally I value much more medals in shooting, Judo, archery and team sports.

this is already the best YOG for Iran in term of medals. we had 5 medals in 2010 (2 gold) and 6 in 2014 (3 gold) now we already have 5 gold and 1 silver. and I'm almost sure about one more gold in freestyle wrestling. and there is still Karate with 5 medal chances for Iran. (plus one possible medal in weightlifting) not a surprise Iran dominated 2018 World Youth Championship in Taekwondo and Wrestling (both Greco and freestyle) BUT I'm disappointed about other sports results. it looks like we will never improve in some sports this is really disappointing to win medals always in only 3 sports (this time 4 because of Karate) even at the YOG our swimmer finished 28th which is OK result for itself but the problem is this guy is a member of Iran senior team as well and participated at the Asian Games a month ago. in other word the best swimmer in Iran can't even make it to the semifinal at the Youth Olympics ! at least last time in Nanjing we had a gold medal in Judo. here It's almost a sure thing we won't win any medal outside of those 3+1 sports.

I never saw any team as bad as Argentina in term of playing power-play ! what the hell is this ?! they play long ball with flying GK ?!!! I wonder how come they scored twice in Egypt in Powerplay situation ?! I watched that match actually too but I don't know maybe Egypt was really bad in defending the PP situation.

what a wasted opportunity in futsal. Iran scored the first goal late in the second half then the ref gave a very dubious penalty (they never showed the replay) to Russia made it 1-1 and when both teams were OK with a draw (which could take everything to the last day) Russia all of a sudden scored from a corner in 40th minute, few seconds later Iran missed an empty goal. with this Brazil and Russia are in semifinal and Iran is eliminated with futsal being OUT. now this is almost a sure thing that we are not going to win any medal outside of our favorite sport. Askaridoun also finished 4th in weightlifting only 1kg behind the Saudi guy. but well he wasn't a medal chance. and Nosrati won our second gold medal in wrestling as expected. at least something to cheer about

Gold medal in wrestling surprisingly Iran's first ever gold medal in YOG in wrestling as expected all wrestlers from Group A teched (superiority win) their opponents from Group B ! unbalanced draw

I was checking results from 2010 YOG Wrestling conception to see if any of those wrestlers become something big (I assume it's still early for 2014 medalists) and of course I only checked men's wrestling. out of all medalists only one of them is a big name now Yuki Takahashi 2017 World Champion. Yousef Ghaderian from Iran also won a World Bronze in 2015 even though he is not something special. but I also see a VERY familiar name there. Geno Petriashvili !! surprisingly he finished 4th in YOG

and I can tell you 99.99% you will get your second medal in wrestling today with Armen Nazaryan's son. he had his early final in the first round

in women's weightlifting, while everybody else finished before 94kg the North Korean started with 100kg in snatch and bombed out she just threw away a 99% gold medal. why they are always stupid like this ?! this is not the first time such things happening for them.

They did that for 2016 Olympics so ... (even though few months/weeks later)

Both wrestlers made it to the final and they already beat their main rival for the gold Nosrati beat Russia and Dehbozorgi beat the Bulgarian Nazaryan (son of the great Armen Nazaryan who beat Dehbozorgi in World youth bronze medal match in a controversial way) Nosrati will wrestle Turkey in the final. and DB will face Ecuador ! both are supposed to win the gold but of course at this age level nothing is guaranteed. and I found no TV coverage ... I hope at least UWW uploads the matches later as they usually do

actually he is now a bronze medalist. the Russian gold medalist failed the drug test. btw I watched a quick match of him. now I don't think he can win the gold. but he is definitely better than the Algerian kid. PS: Iran also qualified in this weight but since the kid lost the final to this Russian kid in a very stupid way in last seconds and pissed off the coaches. they decided to pick up 65kg instead which was a mistake IMO.

damn that's really a bad news for me. our friends in UWW doesn't know that apparently https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/greco-roman-draws-schedule-and-how-watch

Of course, anything else will be a huge surprise and btw your wrestler is a world bronze medalist. he even has a chance for the gold