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Today was a really sad day. both Iran and Saudi Arabia tried their best to avoid South Korea. losing to Myanmar was shameful and ironically one more goal from Myanmar could eliminate Iran ! and Iranian players were wasting time in last minutes scared of a possible 3rd goal. I think Iran played with mostly reserve players probably wanting a 0-0 draw but Saudis let North Korea score two early goals which probably confused Iranian coaches , they didn't know what to do. the first goal oh yes. but second goal wasn't intentional , it happened because Myanmar had no idea about "fair play" when an Iranian player was on the ground and Iranian players were waiting for them to kick the ball out and after that, our scared Croat coach was just yelling to his players to just "pass the ball forever" ! I think the table is quite unbalanced and we will have two not-so-good teams in semifinal. but that's it. we have the toughest possible road (and we deserved it for unfair play) South Korea and then Uzbekistan (the current U23 Asian Champion)

tthis is weird. they used the qualification results for the men's all-around "final result" but then we will have the separate "team final" ! it's usually the opposite of that.

what a day Pakdaman threw away a 13-10 and later 14-13 lead to Oh. I'm sure they are going to complain about the refs but I'm no expert in this. so much delay after that so called injury at 14-14 meanwhile we lost a match to Indonesia in Sanda wushu as well ! probably for the first time ever in this sport in an important competition. no surprise I guess.

Today was a bit disappointing with Taekwondo and Shooting but let's see if we can win the last freestyle gold. and what I can say about Ashourzadeh ?! 2 years ago he was dominating the world. beating everybody most of the time by more than 10pts margin and since the "Olympic disaster" he is just an average player. even though that's not just him. our taekondo as whole became average all of a sudden ! I will be happy if we win one gold in taekwondo. (and we won 4 last time in Incheon) Keikha made it to the Pommel Horse final. a medal in Gymnastics will be great even though he needs a miracle and a lot of luck for that.

This is China B. cuz we will have the World Championship right after the Games. still a good result for Vietnam but not a big big surprise IMO.

both Iran and Saudi Arabia wanted to finish 2nd in the group and avoid South Korea (and later Uzbekistan in QF) Iran lost 2-0 to Myanmar but Saudis beat us in this ! they lost even bigger 3-0 to North Korea ! North Korea is the BIGGEST winner here . now they finish 2nd and will play Bangladesh in next round

Iran-Pakistan looks serious so far. even though it doesn't mean the winner will win the group. because head to head match is no the first tie breaker in this sport. the winner still can lose in another match by a big score and finishes second.

India lost to the same Korea in Kabaddi World Cup 2 years ago. then Iran lost intentionally to Poland (if I;m not wrong) to avoid India. they beat Korea but lost to India in the final. now Iran-Pakistan match will be interesting. I assume both teams don't want to win

two of their athletes were already out before the "problem" starts and 3rd one is actually good enough for a bronze medal I see they started some matches with real time score. so at least I hope they don't use "papers"

of course

looks like we will back to stone age in Taekwondo ! million years ago when Taekwondo wasn't an Olympic sport. after each round, refs should write their scores on a piece of "paper" ! and the center ref should calculate them after each round. and it seems they will resume the Taekwondo competition like that. well I can say 3 gold medals is guaranteed for Korea with this.

and in case you guys are curious what happened in Taekwondo competitions. their whole software for scoring failed and showed some crazy scores. they postponed the whole competition until "further notice" to fix that.

looks like we should have chance for few medals in Paragliding. but we sent only 3 Pilots and they will get 1000pts penalties for each round for not having two more pilots ! even though it's just the 1st round and still a long way to go but Iran could be #1 by a good margin we had 2 more pilots more or less in the same level. now we have 1075 penalty points ! China the first team has 189. I know our NOC had no idea about the level of this sport in Iran so they sent only 3 male pilots but that's VERY stupid because only two of them can register for individual event and the 3rd guy is actually just wasting his time here. because even if they score a perfect zero. Iran can't win a team medal with only 3 pilots ! Iran was supposed to send 2 male and 1 female pilots but they changed it to 3 male pilots to "according to themselves" stand a chance for a team medal !! looks like as usual our stupid officials didn't read the rule clearly. and i still can't understand how come we are sending Tennis players ! one of our girls lost 6-0 6-0 yesterday !! and today another one lost 6-0 6-4 and according to our Tennis federation website "she played good and made her opponent angry during the match" ! OK making someone rank 300 in the world angry ! quite an achievement ! well done !

Looks like Indonesia will win both gold medals in Downhill today in Cycling MTB. I'm no expert in this sport but I think "home court advantage" matters a lot in this sport when you train a lot in the course you have more chance. beside that Downhill is not that developed in Asia. I think Indonesia will challenge China for the first place in medal table. why not.

well Bekzod Abdurakhmonov has the same situation. he is from Boston. so actually 3rd medal since Bekzod won two Asiad golds before him. I don't think this Domenic guy is something special. he won few matches mostly because he was "unknown" and his opponents probably had no clue about him. we will see if he can continue to win medals in Asia or not.

start list in weightlifting https://www.iwf.net/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2018/08/WLF_Startlist_Package.pdf Askari is in Group B ! wow he had no chance but still .group B. seriously ?! looks like 85kg is wide open, all 7 weightlifters in Group A have more or less the same entries ! I hope Makvandi shows something special 94kg gold and silver belong to Iran unless Rostami does something stupid and bombs out trying to challenge Moradi ! that Qatari/Egyptian kid is good though. 105kg looks like a tough battle between 5-6 weightlifters. mostly Nurudinov and two Iranians, even though we can't underestimate the Korean guy. that Iraqi guy usually have big entries but doesn't perform well in the competition. again +105kg gold and silver probably will go to Iran but that's not a sure thing. Djungabaev has the same entry

well this is it. not a bad opening day, 2 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze. Yazdani's gold medal was a sure thing but Karimi was a nice surprise. didn't expect him to beat guys much heavier than himself. I'm still mad at Hosseinkhani. this guy should be banned from wrestling forever. same goes to Nassiri. I think Atri also did good (considering his low potential) to win a bronze. 57kg in Asia is always tough.

try that Varzesh link I gave you earlier

Yes our wrestling results were not-good until the last match of the afternoon session ! Magomed Ibragimov is not going to retire without tasting the defeat in hands of an Iranian wrestler Karimi despite being 10-12kg lighter took his chance and pinned Ibragimov. so we will have two wrestlers in the final and two in the bronze medal match. what a pity if Hosseinkhani was a bit smarter we could have 3. Atri had no chance against Bekhbayar and Nassiri was just pathetic. 4 or 8 years ago this would considered a bad result but considering our current situation I will be happy with 2 gold medals after today, Finals: 57: vs 65: vs 74: vs 86: vs 97: vs interesting that we will have 9 different countries in the final ! I think India (65), Uzbekistan (74) and Iran (86) will win the gold most probably. but the other two finals will be interesting. I expect Mongolia and Iran to win the other two golds. even though it will be another tough task for Karimi against someone 10kg heavier than him.

so we will have first ever wrestling medal for Lebanon ! but well the guy is Lebanese-American and raised and trained wrestling in USA but still in other hand the Russian guy Batirov failed to win Bahrain's first ever medal in wrestling.

only last night I was talking about Hosseinkhani's history of losing in last seconds and the idiot repeated that once again ! and to the same wrestler ! he is losing exactly the same way for four years. he was the better wrestler as usual but when it comes to the last 30 seconds his brain stops working.

Sandeep Tomar was terrible in his first match so I go with Atri but then Atri sucks himself and he is a big choker. so who knows ...

haha and Indonesia beat Korea in Poomsae !! never underestimate the power of being the "host country" ! Salahshouri beat this girl in Asian Indoor Games last year but this is in Indonesia now and apparently Indonesian president is in stadium , so ...

OK I'm officially envy of you guys I'm sick of listening to these stupid guys in Iranian channels knowing nothing about what the hell they are talking about.

haha of course, as I said two hours ago poomsae is stupid and boring but you know this will be our first medal in the Games, I have to care for that