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Second day semifinals: 60kg: vs vs 67kg: vs vs 72kg: vs vs 82kg: vs vs 97kg: vs vs Iran started the day the same as yesterday, losing two wrestlers right in the first round but everything was good since then until the 82kg quarterfinal. that still hurts me ! Forouzandeh was leading the Russian 2-0 comfortably but slipped on the mat in last 2 seconds and lost it by a caution (since he touched opponent's leg in a defensive way) how come our wrestlers doing this kind of mistakes again and again. Our remaining two wrestlers look good so far. Kavininejad is a last year World Junior Champion who is knocking the door in senior level and narrowly missed the senior team this year. anything less than gold will be a very bad result for him. and Nejati also dominated his matches so far.

Anybody read this without knowing Kubiak might think he is such an innocent angel. while everybody knows he is a jerk , same as Marouf (that's why I never liked him and consider him cancer of Iranian volleyball) and when they face each other such ugly things happen. and when you appoint someone like Haynen as coach you can't complain about fairplay or anything like that. that made you sad ? when this happened Iran was up 22-19 and Poland won the set 22-25. six points in a row and series of stupid mistakes. Don't you think that hurt Iran a little bit Iran more ? no complain, when you start such thing you can expect anything to happen, Marouf is a great setter but he sometimes ruins his own team as he did yesterday.

yeah I watched some of his matches, he is pretty good. very technical. still our wrestler is not without hope, he is tough and strong (less technical though) , we usually do well against Armenians btw I saw some wrestlers were already balding ! at 20 ?! seriously some countries should stop sending overaged wrestlers

well that was very disappointing. I think that just killed any hope we could have for the 3rd round. we will probably get USA, Bulgaria and 4th placed team in Group B (France or Canada) in next round and we have to win all 3 matches (plus Finland tomorrow) to qualify for the 3rd round which is mission impossible. beating Poland was a much easier mission which they failed.

Finals are set for tomorrow 55kg: vs 63kg: vs 77kg: vs 87kg: vs 130kg: vs Switzerland in the final !? what about that ?! great day for Iran. the day started with 2 defeats but no more defeat since then ! I think those two guys were unlucky facing the best wrestlers in their weights right in the first round ! (I know Akzhol lost later but he is much better than that boring Russian wrestler) I think Saravi and Mirzazadeh will be favorite for the gold tomorrow but Nasserpour will have a tough match against that Armenian guy. he was very good. btw the idea of having semifinals in afternoon was to promote them ! what the hell was that ? having semifinals at the same time on two mats ?! I tried to keep eyes on both mats though.

Semifinals are set 55kg: vs vs 63kg: vs vs 77kg: vs vs 87kg: vs vs 130kg: vs vs 3 for Iran and Russia each and also for India ! pretty impressive. Kyrgyzstan also has two despite their star Akzhol losing !!

this Kyrgyz kid Akzhol is something special. he is Asian "senior" champion. he won silver in Asian Games in Jakarta beating Olympic Champion Kim Hyeon-woo. and he is winning his matches quite easily here. he just ate our wrestler Afifi alive let's see what he can do against Russia in 3rd round. so far Nasserpour, Saravi and Mirzazadeh look good in the draw. let's see how far they can go. Afifi most probably will get another chance in repechage. and Maroufkhani also lost to Egypt and Egyptian guy is in semifinal already and has a good chance to go further. Edit: looks like I cursed the poor guy he lost 1-1 by caution to Russia and therefore eliminated our wrestler too !

prediction about World Junior Championship ? you are really overestimating my knowledge about wrestling here. I even don't know half of Iranian wrestlers here. specially in Greco

wow. I thought yesterday result was just an accident (since i didn't watch the match) but this Netherlands team plays amazing. that was a well deserved win and actually they deserved more than 2 points from this match !! now France is in big trouble with 2 defeats and still have to play Canada. at this point I don't know which team from Group B I prefer to play against ! they are all very good

yeah sure that's why I was watching the game. turned out to be a super crazy interesting game. we also had another crazy game in Georgia which Greece won by a last second layup and secured its qualification

Yeah. one of the craziest thing I ever seen in basketball. he just had to hit the rim !! but he totally missed it. that was a violation. out of band ball for Germany and you know the rest

Yes, lead and boulder competitions will be the same as a normal lead and boulder competitions. only in speed they make it a bit shorter.

no. sets ratio comes first and not points ratio. Netherlands just needs one set to qualify.

Yes

for each event, 1 one point for 1st place , 2 for 2nd place and the same for the rest. but for example in case of tie for 1st place they give 1.5 points to each one. and they multiply those points at the end and less points means better place

at least the final day was good winning all 3 matches in medal round but Poursheib is actually in the same weight as Ganjzadeh (-84 and +84 will be merged for Tokyo) and Mehdizadeh at 60kg doesn't have a good chance to shine one weight up. I know Asian Games was very important and I agree with that but I just hope not sending most of our top athletes into the Asian Championship doesn't hurt us at the end of the qualifiers. for example Ganjzadeh missed lots of "easy" points by not competing in Asian Champs and in +84 he doesn't cut weight . not sending him to Jordan one month before Jakarta was a mistake IMO. the reserve guy Abazari won the gold but what's the point!? he didn't even participate here in Berlin. considering the current economical crisis Iran we won't see much of Iranians in future Karate1 events, only those who can pay for their own trips.

Brazil's defeat was mother of all surprises ! but Russia losing to USA was also a big surprise. specially because USA wasn't impressive so far. There is a big chance Brazil finishing 3rd in Group B and Russia 2nd in Group C. which means whoever wins Group D will make life just harder for itself ! add Argentina (specially with the way they played tonight not the disastrous first match vs Belgium) to this group and then this will be the toughest possible group in 2nd round ! OK Poland you can take the group

Did they just give up trying after one defeat ? you know you may regret losing one set to Tunisia at the end. about the competition's format. this is somehow good to consider all results because we won't see a disgrace like Brazil-Bulgaria in 2010 but still all those 4th placed teams (with probably 3 defeats) have absolutely no chance in 2nd round even before the start !! I know there is no perfect format but this one is far from good.

what's up with Serbia ?! they play like they don't care about the result ! Do they know this result will be counted in next round too ? quite improvement from Tunisia after losing a set 25-6 yesterday !

I appreciate WKF at least having a live score system but they really have to upgrade their software. it just sucks. I see there are so many Iranians in the draw most of them losing 0-0 in the first round !! after a bit search that's just "no show" I don't know how that's possible to register something like 30-40 players and 70% of them don't show up and still no consequences from WKF for ruining the draw ! even for those Iranians in the competition this is a poor result . only Ganjzadeh made it to the final. Poursheib and Mehdizadeh in bronze medal match. maybe that's not a surprise since they had no time to rest after the Asian Games.

nah I wish so but that's not realistic. we could be in semifinal 4 years ago but we blew our chance against a team weaker than us (Germany) I'm glad with these two wins but I know our level. there are 5-6 teams much stronger in the competition. a top 6 finish will be fantastic. but let's finish the 1st round first.

That was a very good win for Iran even though Manavinejad's poor reception became our Achilles' heel but he was effective in attack. he was injured the whole summer he is not fit yet. that was risky starting with him but since we won the match that wasn't a bad decision. I really enjoyed the 4th set, that was the team I knew, full of fight, never giving up. it's not easy to play against the host team while they have the momentum after winning the 3rd set. Bulgaria had so many serve errors because they had to take the risk (which helped them in 3rd set though) since they knew our setter is too good for their blockers.

that's for the qualification, there is still a combined final left with probably top 6 athletes.

what a win for Alipour this guy is very unlucky he deserves much more than this. his gold medal in Asian Games was the only gold medal of Iran in the Games nobody never saw his competition in Iran. (only gold medal of Iran in Palembang with much much less TV and media coverage) and right now nobody in Iran (except probably me and his family ) he is the world champion. and I think tomorrow some news websites will just mention it this is tough sport. not a random martial arts sport with less than 6 competitors. being World Champion in this speed event is something . his interview was also funny after the win, his translator was terrible he didn't say I'm injured right now, he said I was injured at the start of the season and this wasn't a good season for me because of that. he is now current World Champion, current Asian Games Champion, Current World Games champion and current Asian Championships gold medalist. there is nothing more for him to win since speed specialists have no chance in combined event.

looks like we weren't that good last night, actually Puerto Rico was very bad