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EY Irawan won Indonesia's first ever gold in Weightlifting at the Asian Games couple months ago in Jakarta. let's see if he can win Indonesia's first ever gold in men's weightlifting . I was hoping for a WR attempt , he was definitely capable of that in snatch but well medals come first always.

wow they did the same mistake again !! Vietnam 2nd attempt should be before Georgia's 3rd attempt ! both of the same weight and this time they didn't give another chance to Georgia and didn't annul his attempt which he failed !! yesterday they did that for Turkmenistani athlete and somehow didn't let her to win the silver.

Yeah I read about that. when Junpim Kuntatean changed her name to Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon to get luck and she won the Olympic gold after that even though I prefer to not make fun of other country's culture and respect them all but this one is a bit funny.

hmmm, Martirosyan's entry is much better but then we know Armenians usually post entries much higher than their capabilities. and on other hand Nurudinov usually doesn't show his cards and post low entries. if you ask me I still pick Nurudinov. Armenians are good but they rarely win the whole thing. (actually only one gold in whole history !!)

how come Chayuttra Pramongkhol can easily become Sirivimon Pramongkhol . they change name very easly and frequently. looks like whenever they get bored

maybe they are not alone in this there is a "Bobby Sands" street next to British embassy in Tehran and btw there is no political relationship between Iran and Egypt for something like 40 years for the same reason. A street's name !

feel sorry for the Bulgarian kid. he was sure about winning a CJ medal after his lift. too much celebration but it seems he is going home empty handed unless Om bombs out. Thailand and Vietnam both bombed out in Snatch but won CJ medals

so the only possible World Record for tonight is CJ. with only 120kg in snatch, he needs more than miracle to break the total WR and I don't think he is capable of that tonight. I hope at least he breaks that one WR. I was expecting more . only 1 out of 6 possible WR for the first day and if Om moves up to 61kg for the Olympics as he will for sure. I think these World Standards will remain for a long long time.

yeah I'm glad nothing bad happened. but this guy was too fast, can't remember anybody as fast as him. he is World Junior Champion ,so I guess we will hear more about him in future. he just has to not kill himself. and btw his record in 2018 World Junior champs was 122kg ! that would give him the gold medal in snatch

Damn. that was very dangerous. he was lucky you have to learn how to escape it first when you are dropping the weight.. his 2nd attempt was dangerous too. someone has to stop this guy before the 3rd try.

Good point. yes true. I usually have that problem when I watch basketball and since I also like to watch the stats at the same times. spoiler sometimes. btw I'm watching this on an Iranian channel and when the Bulgarian came the commentator talked about the history of Bulgaria in weightlifting and how they had a champion Ivanov !! I'm a bit lazy to check but I somehow think the guy didn't really know what he is talking about, (as most Iranian commentators do) Ivanov is a common name in Bulgaria. there is a big chance we have a World Champion with this name Ivanov

you always keep this link open and you don't need TV graphics they should also the NOC code or at least a flag near the name https://www.iwf.net/scoreboard/scoreboard3.php I didn't get it how much but those who are very expert in weightlifting can notice that by color of those weights on the barbel. that's how probably someone in the jury found out that. (who knows maybe that wasn't just a mistake !?? intentional maybe) one thing is for sure it was definitely not 104kg.

yeah I remember that , and also North Korea didn't participate because of visa issues. so many countries won their first ever WL medal last year. that was a "special competition" specially for lighter divisions. which won't happen again. for example an average Iranian weightlifter Ali Hashemi won the gold medal at 105kg, with a record 13kg lower than 94kg gold medalist Moradi !

This is most probably their first and last medal. and only because China didn't care about non-Olympic weights and didn't enter anybody. they should host the last year's competition if they wanted to win more medals this year is no joke. we were missing 9 (most of them strong) countries last year.

unlucky for Turkmenistani weightlifter, she had to try her 2nd attempt "again" because the weight was wrong ! (whatever it was, it was good enough for silver medal) looks like someone got too much excited and forgot to load the correct weight no senior WR attempt , I know IWF set these records somehow "breakable" the last time they set World Standards nobody could even touch some of them for a while. imagine if we hadn't World Standards, almost every single attempt in group C or D was a "World Record attempt" I hope only few World Standards remain after this competition.

the TV graphic shows a summary of what's happening , which is a good thing because mostly in middle of the competition you forget who is leading or things like that but then they show athletes with only 3 first letters of their names for example PAG is first, NGU second and ECH second and you have to know PAG means Pagliaro

here https://www.iwf.net/protocols/

this explains why those 3 Iranian weightlifters were rejected by IWF. apparently they were not alone ! more than 70 weightlifters had the same problems ! https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1071531/more-than-70-athletes-barred-from-weightlifting-world-championships-in-ashgabat and as usual our federation president is first in useless protests https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1071698/iran-and-philippines-among-countries-to-express-reservations-about-adams-at-iwf-congress

the final start list https://www.iwf.net/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2018/10/Start_Book_Ashgabat.pdf Ilya Ilyin is still there but apparently he is not going to actually lift anything here. and only 8 Iranians here. instead of 10 and those 3 weightlifters who were supposedly wasn't included in the original entry list are still absent. we will know the truth about it soon. but I believe our federation probably made a big big administrative mistake in registering them. interesting that Martirosyan put 440kg as entry ! which means he has to start at least with 420. he is either very dumb or in a very great shape. big challenge for Nurudinov. and guess who is back !!! Andrei Aramnau after 4 years ! out of our 8 weightlifters, one of them is in Group B. and from the rest I believe Moradi has a very good chance for the gold (unless he bombs out) Hashemi also will have a good chance for gold (or at least a medal) if Ilyin really doesn't show up.. in this weight Beiralvand has the 3rd entry behind Ilyin and Hashemi. still hard to believe he is a medal chance ! also a very slim chance for Barari. the rest are just here to make the numbers . one of the worst teams we sent in past few years. but at least most of them are young. and suppose to be talented. and this is one of the rare years in which we are not a medal chance in super heavyweight. last year we had 2 on the podium ... Salimi is retired now and Alihosseini is a bit injured and took a break. this is the list of weightlifters with the highest entry in each weight 55kg: OM Yun Chol, 285kg 61kg: QIN Fulin & MOSQUERA Francisco & THACH Kim Tuan, 310kg 67kg: CHEN Lijun, 330kg 73kg: SHI Zhiyong, 348kg 81kg: LYU Xiaojun & LI Dayin & ASAYONAK Petr & MAHMOUD Mohamed & KARAPETYAN Andranik, 370kg 89kg: KHADASEVICH Pavel, 373kg 96kg: MORADI Sohrab, 410kg 102kg: HASHEMI Ali & ILYIN Ilya, 400kg 109kg: MARTIROSYAN Simon, 440kg +109kg: TALAKHADZE Lasha, 460kg

not a Danish group actually. but a terrorist group which exists in Denmark to me it just doesn't make sense. why Iran wanted to do such thing specially at this time, they know the current situation. this is probably, in a strategic sense, the worst time possible to conduct this sort of thing, those terrorist groups have no support inside Iran and it's not like the Iran regime is afraid of them. and beside that killing one person doesn't make a change. but then I know politics is too much complicated in Iran, it's possible that some of the more confrontational elements of the regime have been authorized to pull this stuff off to undermine the moderate elements, the current government. but even for them it doesn't make sense, specially right now.

losing on purpose. doesn't make the weight intentionally. things like that. I mean they never officially say "I'm withdrawing because it's Israel" which they should do if they really believe in what they are doing and they should be proud and face the consequences but the thing is they don't really believe that. this is just a political play . nobody in Palestine never knows that some random Iranian athlete withdrew to "support the people of Palestine"

as I said before they always have a legitimate excuse for that. the only time it got out of hands was World U23 Wrestling when Israeli wrestler beat the American wrestler surprisingly and Iran had to wrestle Russia at the same time on another mat and his coaches shout to him to "Alireza lose" that was something they couldn't deny. and Iran is not the only country with that policy, at least right now, you hear that about Iran only because Iran is more active in sports comparing to other Islamic countries with the same policy. there were some hope after that wrestling accident that they will change that policy. lots of talks and discussion that this is a useless strategy and we gain nothing from this but then again the man who has the ultimate word in Iran made it clear that nothing is going to change about this. personally I hated this since the first day. this is disgusting and shameful . athletes have to try the entire year for one important moment of their career and have to give up that because of stupid politics. I know 2-3 athletes that their careers got ruined only because they had to miss their golden opportunities. sometimes you can't get a second chance. I don't know whey everybody else is complaining, the only one should complain is Iranian athlete who forced to do something he probably doesn't want to do. for example the Israeli guy here most probably could not beat our World Champion here. Mollaei by withdrawing just awarded him an easy gold medal. another example Israel had won only one medal in history of World Taekwondo Championship. that's because Iranian athlete withdrew in quarterfinal and gave a free medal to Israel. if someone someday wants to withdraw against Iranian athletes. I'm totally fine with that and will take that medal. I would be OK with a temporary suspension if this could actually change something but since I know it doesn't , i prefer our athletes participate and just hope for a no-israel draw. at least for now. but I'm thinking what will happen if one day Israel qualifies for the FIFA World Cup and gets Iran in the group stage ! football is the only sport that "matters" in Iran. that might make a change but we will never know.

looks like Ilyin is not going to actually participate in the competition. he is going to Turkmenistan just to register his name because of Olympic qualification process but it seems he is injured and will put a "no mark" there.

here is the match, fake injury. that's a shame a World champion has to perform such a silly show. I read a comment from Mollaei himself he claimed he withdrew from the bronze medal match cuz he didn't want to see Iran's flag behind Israeli ! but I assume when you withdraw a match because of injury, they automatically won't let you compete in the repechage. right ? .

Russia won the gold medal in 5 out of 6 Olympics weights. very impressive. and on Ozdeev only lost by caution to Basar. it could be 6 out of 6. we never had a country dominating Greco like this in past few years.