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watching show jumping competition. the Thai girl Limpichati is very lucky to be still alive. that was a nasty fall. for a moment I thought something is going to happen but fortunately the horse didn't ride over her. we still remember what happened to that Korean guy in 2006. btw one of our riders had refusal in his first jump ! well I never saw such thing (of course it's not like I watch show jumping everyday but still refusal in first jump ?!)

I'm quite sure I saw at least one girl who didn't cover her hair. from Vietnam I think.

first out of possible 8 ! and Indonesia is now a powerhouse in Asian sports. Japan and Korea must be watch out

the officiating is really funny in Karate, I was watching Iran-Kazkhastan in women's 68kg. the Iranian girl did absolutely nothing and the fight ended 0-0 and went to Hantei. and surprisingly still two of 5 refs gave it to Iran !! she should lose it 5-0 without doubt but it was 3-2 !

and looks like I was wrong about the volleyball draw. I said that based on the pre tournament schedule ! but the website shows KOR vs INA and JPN vs QAT ! and we don't know which one will play Iran in the semifinal !? even our coach doesn't know ! Kolakovic said we will know that when they give us the program ! as simple as that and TPE is luckily in the semifinal.

Taftian even though even his PB wasn't good enough for a medal. and today is the first day without a gold medal for Iran. while we could have two. Mehdizadeh in Karate and the 3x3 basketball team. we ended up with 3 silver and 3 bronze.

I can't believe we could win the gold in 3x3 basketball I never counted on them but after watching their games. I think they missed a golden chance in semifinal against China. they had the lead with 1 minute to go and instead of going for easy layups, they went for long range shots and missed it. still good to win a bronze. didn't expect that.

what a day for Kuwait ! two gold medals ! btw Ruslan Nurudinov looks in great shape. Hashemi at best can win a silver. looks like a "silver day" for us so far.

Rozita Alipour made it into the final. today 3 out of 3 in the final in Karate. I just hope it doesn't end up 3 silvers ! even though I know Alipour won't be favorite in the final.

I know it's not part of the Olympic ranking. but the "Continental representation" part considered PanAm Games and European Games as the qualification but didn't say anything about Asia !?

and he lost in repechage ! I still wonder how he beat Japan ! I know Japan is not completely dominating this the way they dominate Kata but still they are pretty strong and with AG rules limiting each country to 4 athletes per gender, they don't send a random guy ! btw since we are here. is AG a part of the Olympic qualification ? I think top 2 (or 3 can't remember) Asian athletes from the World Ranking based on AG results will qualify right ? even though Asian Games has no direct impact to the ranking.

of course he has to blame himself first. I think he probably underestimated his final opponent. he was celebrating too much after beating Saymatov in semifinal who was supposed to be his main rival. I also think he had to start better, I'm sure if he could score 1-2 at first things would be much easier for him. from what I see the whole day the Video review accepted almost all challenges from Indonesian coach (not in this match but all Indonesian matches) they probably wanted to show they are "fair" with only few seconds left . I also think that 3 pts didn't land.

while the skeet final is ongoing. Kuwait secured its first medal in Karate and Kazakhstani athlete beat the great Indonesia which means our Sri Lanka friend will be alive in repechage. I don't know how good is this guy but beating Japan like this you must be good at some level.

i can't believe in my eyes but Japan lost to Sri Lanka in Karate ! and the Sri Lanka guy lost 10-0 in next round ?! it seems the great Indonesia on its way for the 2nd gold in Karate.

and the great nation of Indonesia won gold medal in Karate , an unknown random guy from this great nation beat our two times world champion and defending AG champion by lots of imaginary points. of course they wanted a gold in Karate and since they can't rob Japan in other weights, why not here ! bad officiating happens in Karate but this time everytime that "great" athlete threw anything to the air they gave him point without hesitation even though Mehdizadeh has only himself to blame for losing his nerve. he was much better than his shitty Indonesian opponent. he should score high at the start and not let things get into the hands of those corrupt referees. you can't be conservative when you know you are up against the "host"

http://www.telewebion.com/live/varzesh but today morning they are showing karate and jujitsu (through skype !!!! since there is no tv coverage for other mat

well nothing surprises me anymore from this shitty website , the worst I ever seen

that was just a mistake. they fixed it now. of course Japan is leading not Pakistan

We have 45+1 (COR) NOCs in the competition. 33 of them already won a medal at least. 13 left without a medal surprising that Kuwait is still in this list ! I think they will win few medals. probably in Karate Tajikistan will win a medal by Nazarov tomorrow, and I think Syria stands a big chance in High jump (I assume that guy Ghazal is favorite for the gold since Barshim is not here) and I assume Sri Lanka will have some chances in athletics, right ? but what about the rest ?! Nepal blew a big chance today. for Oman the only notable athlete I know is Al-Harthi but he is just one of the favorites. I was expecting Brunei and East Timor to do something in Pencak silat but they didn't ! looks like there is no chance for Maldives, Palestine, Bangladesh and Bhutan , right ? I think Yemen has outside chance in Kurash. note: only 3 NOCs never won a medal in AG, Maldives, East Timor and Bhutan. we should have Palestine in this list too but they won a lucky bronze in boxing back in 2002 only because of his lucky draw.

well technically all those matches are eightfinals. and then the winner of those two mentioned matches will get bye in the quarterfinal. winners will be top 6 . for example if China loses to Iran they have to play for 7th to 12th places. they wanted to help Indonesia, so they gave that chance to Indonesia (host) and Iran (as seed 1, defending champion) but why China and Taipei are having that privilege ?! based on what they are getting such advantage ? they didn't win their groups. and you don't give bye in knockout rounds in team sports. AVC invented a super weird system this year and used it for all competitions. you can check Junior, Youth and Asian Club champs. and I will award you a PhD if you find a logic for that format. specially for AVC Cup with 9 teams. but the format they use here is ever more weird.

They use a very weird format for volleyball. but based on my understanding here is the bracket Saudi Arabia vs Chinese Taipei Thailand vs Indonesia Qatar vs Myanmar --------------------- Korea vs Pakistan Japan vs India Iran vs China winner of matches in bold will go directly to the semifinal and for example winner of KOR/PAK match will play the winner of JPN/IND match and winner will play the winner of IRN/CHN. so that's a sure thing we will have a new finalist in the history of Asian Games. Iran, China, Japan and Korea they are aill in bottom half ! (even though Japan and China are here with B teams) none of those teams in top half played in AG final before. Indonesia somehow invented this crazy format to find a way into the medal round. but they lost to Saudi Arabia and Saudis as Group A winner took their place . still Indonesia was lucky in the blind draw for 2nd placed teams and got into the top half.

maybe that was modesty from Indonesians maybe they thought winning all 16 gold medals won't be a good idea !

he won the gold in his first throw. the rest is just formality and our shot putters were unbelievably poor , Mehrdelan had 20m two weeks ago. here he rarely made it to 18m and even that was foul and didn't counted ! and Samari is the current Asian Champion for God sake. what the hell was that ! they could finish 2nd and 3rd.

Gold for Ganjzadeh even though that was almost guaranteed when Japan had no competitor in this weight (out of 6 events each country should pick 4 for each gender) I'm sure Ganjzadeh was waiting for this moment for 4 years, he got disqualified for protesting in Incheon 2014. but a sure gold medal wasted by Abbasali. she was leading 1-0 with 10 seconds to go and even 1-1 was enough for her since she had "Sansho" but she gave up a 2pts kick she beat this Japanese girl Uekusa a month ago in Asian Championship. but their matches are always close, this time Uekusa won.

there are usually 1kg allowance for local competitions here