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You can say exactly the same thing about most of Hosseinkhani's matches. he is always close to win but ends up being the loser ! unless he is leading by more than 3-4 pts otherwise this is a sure thing he is going to lose in last 30 seconds. being a fan of him is like being masochist . even though this time I was fully prepared to see him losing like that. even though I wasn't expecting to wrestle this good against Burroughs. I was expecting a blowout but he just enjoys to always lose like this

I can't believe this. how this is even possible !! Hosseinkhani once again lost in last 30 seconds. no matter who is his opponent. this time against Jordan Burroughs ! no matter how good or bad is his opponent. he always losses in last 30 seconds. this is happening for the 10th time in his career. only if wrestling time was 5:30 instead of 6 minutes he would be World Champion

that Tajik guy is acually Russian. not a piece of cake. but still. I think Chamizo has easy path to the semifinal against Burroughs or Sidakov. personally I hope he wins the gold and I think he will.

perfect coverage from UWW. no sound for some mats. no scoreboard for some mats. you just have to pray for them to go to the left corner of the mat and maybe you can see the scoreboard. even though it's hard for me to even watch the rest of the competition after Yazdani's defeat.

and btw. the officiating was also bad. I have to watch the match again but as far as I see. Taylor had step out of the mat before one of his takedowns. that could be 3pts difference and also in first period. Yazdnai had him under control for 2pts before Taylor took his leg and made a takedown. instead of 2-0 for Taylor it should be 2-1 for Yazdani. it could be 8-1 instead of 6-2 in first period and 9-7 in favor of Yazdani instead of 9-6 for Taylor before that desperate attempt from Yazdani in last seconds which gave up 2 more pts but it doesn't matter . we had seen much worse officiating in wrestling but that step out was very clear to me . shame our coach didn't notice that to challenge.

well he was our only chance for gold medal in freestyle and he is considered something like a big champion here. that will be a terrible news. and this is worse because I also hate Taylor as well and I hope he doesn't make it to the final. (even though that will eliminate Yazdani but for him I don't care about the bronze) the first match is always tricky because the body is not ready yet. Yazdani gassed after just 2 minutes. at some point he has to learn to use his brain as well. you don't have to push at maximum from the start. he usually finishes his match in 2-3 minutes but that's not always possible , you have to have a plan B.

in Iran, he is just known as Amir Hoghoughi. the rest should be ignored btw according to iran federation. they sent a list of 10+2 (reserve) weightlifters to IWF but only 9 of them are here in this list. they already contacted IWF to fix the mistake. Mohammad Zareei, Homayoun Teymouri and Alireza Soleimani are missing here. maybe there is such a mistake for other countries as well.

that's not the only reason. there is another reason . more important. they announced the new weight classes only few months ago. not a year ago and bodyweight matters a lot in this sport. before that we had 90kg and 75kg. huge difference between those weights and 81kg , all 75kg weightlifters now go to 76kg and all 90kg athletes try 87kg (even 90kg was new itself. they made that only a year ago) it's probably hard to fine a high level weightlifter in this weight in such a short time and since results from here will be counted for the Olympic ranking. I guess none of top 75kg weightlifters wanted to try 81 and lost this opportunity of course they probably didn't know the level will be this low ! maybe only the host nation had the preliminary list before being published and that's why they have a weightlifter here in this weight.

I hope Hosseini is fine. I know he had a history of overreacting and sometimes acting about injuries but this one looked a bit serious. I mean he was down by just 4 with still enough time left. he wouldn't withdraw unless that was serious. still no report about it in Iran Taekwondo federation website and they are usually very fast with updates , and Lee Dae-hoon remains undefeated for one more tournament against Iranians. I lost count how many times he beat our athletes not a bad day. silver and bronze. for Mardani I don't expect anything. even bronze is good for him. the problem with Grand Prix is you can't send whoever you want. only top 32 in ranking can participate. and our #1 athletes at 68 and +80 are not in top 32 at the moment ! and we are losing opportunities for qualifying more than 2 athletes for Tokyo.

not really a surprise. this is a non-Olympic weight. a new one and we never had competition around this body weight. it will take time to have some athletes in this weight. and I think non-Olympic weights for women is a very bad idea. at least the number of weightlifters for non-Olympic weights in men's is reasonable.

check here https://unitedworldwrestling.org/event/world-championships-33

just one. UWW website

in wrestling we used to have the draw at the same time as weight-in. so we rarely had first round walkover , but since they changed the rules. now that's possible but since we had some walkovers in past tournaments this year. as far as I know all teams must have a representative during the draw. to make sure they are going to participate

oh yes. I mean the entry record doesn't matter. the list matters actually they can't add a new name to the list (or at least it will be very hard) but this list is not final for example there are 3 Iranians listed at 96kg. obviously only 2 of them will partcipiate very weak team from Iran. we just lost all of our World medalists for different reasons. I think only Moradi and Hashemi are medal favorites here

this Entry list doesn't matter. nothing at all. they will apply their "real" entry record one day before the competition in general meeting.

Aactually less than 9 seconds. he was down by 5. and since he AbuGhash was on 9 penalties. his coach yelled several times at him "don't try to score, try for a kyunggo" but he was lucky he didn't listen to the coach and scored 5 pts in 8 seconds and when the were going for the break before the Golden Score. I heard coach's voice telling him "see, I told you"

brackets are out for tomorrow. only 61kg bracket looks balanced. unbelievably one sided draw in other 3 weights. we will have lots of "lucky medalists" 61kg draw looks OK. Bowne-Rashidov final is more possible. our young wrestler has to deal with Bowne in 2nd round. 74kg, top half is VERY hard. Burroughs and Chamizo are both there and to make things worse we also have Sidakov ! no chance for any other wrestler in top half including our Hosseinkhani, in bottom half things look good for Demirtas. probably Abdurakhmanov is the favorite for the bronze medal. 86kg. the whole year UWW tried to promote a possible Yazdani-Taylor match for possible 86kg final but guess what they got each other right in the first round Kurugliev of Russia is also there !! plus Aminashvili and the Cuban wrestler. couldn't be worse . top half looks empty . good chance for another silver for Makoev of Slovakia or maybe Turkish wrestler. or maybe a lucky bronze for the host nation. 125kg. I barely remember a draw worse than this ! unbelievable . just unbelievable. if I had to name top 8 wrestlers in this weight. 7 of them are in bottom half. and with both Akgul and Geno there. all other wrestlers have no chance for medal already. (including our wrestler Hadi) the American Gwiazdowski will walk into the final easily. and we will have a very lucky bronze medalist there. maybe first ever freestyle medal for China ! or Mongolia.

second set was quite dramatic. Netherlands lost 24-21 lead and Serbia even had a set point but Netherlands took the lead again and won it but the funny part was at 24-23. everybody including Serbian players thought the ball was in and they almost went for changing the court (thinking they lost the set) but the ball was way out and everybody came back to play again

after picking up so many bronze. finally a gold medal in Karate. the last one actually . interestingly all 3 Iranian girls finished with bronze. all of them lost to eventual champion in semifinal ! so we finished the competition with 7 gold medals. 3 silver and 4 bronze. and if I'm not wrong 7th place in the medal table which is great for a country like Iran. I know this is not really serious competition but still

2 more medals in Karate in last day of competition. I just hope they don't end up with 2 bronze medals ! which means Iran will finish the Games with 14 medals. our best performance in YOG for Iran by far. there is a good chance for Iran to finish in top 10 with only few events left. but on other hand that's not good that we won 13 medals in our 4 favorite sports plus one surprising medal in Gymnastics ! we had 17 athletes in our 4 favorite sports and 13 of them won medal ! only 2 in Taekwondo, 1 in Weightlifting and 1 in Karate failed to medal. even though both of them in Taekwondo deserved medal without doubt.

in Karate Refs look very determined to give all gold medals to Japan today. they are great indeed but they have outside help as well. they disqualified the Macedonian athlete in boys 61kg semifinal and girl's 59kg semifinal between Iran and Japan finished 0-0 went to Hantei and of course 3 refs (out of 5) gave it to Japan. to me Iranian girl deserved it more but well I'm very much biased here. 2 bronze medals in first day of Karate. pretty disappointing PS: and I never understood what's wrong with having extra time in karate ?!

yes, I think I wrote about that in another thread. of course this came from their passports. most of these athletes ask for passport when they are teenager (or even before that) and they give them a form to write their name in English. and some people make mistakes like this. they don't think putting a space is necessary. there should be autocorrect system or something like that. beside that. most people would officially drop these long 2nd parts if it wasn't a long process . still I know some people do that. the 2nd part is usually an uncommon word. for example I never heard the word "Karkaragh" before knowing this guy ! but I see some more professional international federations fix Iranian names themselves. for example IJF, they always use the "correct name" for our Judokas.

if I'm not wrong he made the headlines at the time for having the longest surname ever at the Olympics. as I said before there is not a single report in Iran naming him anything beside Mohammadpour . again they forgot a space. btw now he is famous for something else beside his name. he became Olympic Champion few years later ! while finished 5th in actual tournament. but top 4 tested positive for drugs. he will receive his medal after 6 years .and 2 years ago I was the first person contacting him telling him that. even though he didn't believe me in first place

I think there is a mistake here, as far as I know FIVB didn't give the same rank to teams from WCh, for example Italy finished 5th and Russia 6th. no joint 5th place. ranking will be a bit different.

all 3 Iranians today in Karate had forgotten to add a "space" between two parts of their names. poor commentators have hard time to spell their names. even for me that's hard to pronounce let alone for an English speaking commentator what the hell is Ozomcheloei ! HEYDARIOZOMCHELOEI Mobina is just Mobina Heydari FARAJIKOUHIKHEILI Alireza is just Alireza Faraji KHONAKDARTARSI Fatemeh is Fatemeh Khonakdar both girls (Heydari and Khonakdar) made it to the semifinal and secured a bronze medal at least (first ever medal for Iranian girls in any other sport beside Taekwondo) but Faraji really ashamed Iranian Karate ! 3 matches, 3 defeats (including one against Guatemala), not a single point scored