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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

medal for Macedonia in karate !

commentators for Karate have no clue about the rules JPN-THA match ended up 3-3 and the Japanese won the match by the Senshu rule ! but since they didn't know what the hell is this. they thought she won the match by "superiority" PS: Senshou means whoever scores first will have advantage in case of tie at the end. (senshu gets cancelled if you pick up a penalty in last 15 seconds)

I think in Karate (unlike wrestling for example) all qualified athletes are pretty good. there are only 2-3 weak athletes in general. they wanted the best here not all continents represented probably they had their own reason. they have few chances to show Karate to the world and IOC and they didn't want one-sided matches here. I believe they will use the same format in Tokyo but except we will have a bronze medal match there. even though I'm not sure. that's just my guess based on the format they have for the World Games

4th place in canoeing. still good but a medal would be much better draws are also available in Karate which is our last chance for medal. we have two groups of 4. top 2 advance to the semifinal and there is no bronze medal match. both SF losers will receive bronze.

at least he can get a bye in first round (unless there are exactly 32 wrestlers) this year's seeding is a joke because they didn't consider last year WCh results (since UWW changed weight classes this year) where is Kudiamagomedov ? still not eligible ?

because of daddy Trump. the whole economy of Iran is in crisis now. but hosting competitions is not a big issue yet. the problem is sending teams abroad. they have to pay 3-4 times more than a year ago for plane tickets etc.

Freestyle 57: Reza Atri 61: Mohammad Bagher Yakhkeshi 65: Amir Hossein Maghsoudi 70: Younes Emami 74: Mostafa Hosseinkhani 79: Ezzatollah Akbari 86: Hassan Yazdani 92: Alireza Karimi 97: Mojtaba Goleij 125: Parviz Hadi Greco-Roman 55: Moslem Naderi-Khadem 60: Mehrdad Mardani 63: Mohsen Hajipour 67: Mohammad Reza Geraei 72: Mohammad Ali Geraei 77: Pejman Poshtam 82: Saeid Abdevali 87: Hossein Nouri 97: Mehdi Aliyari 130: Shahab Ghourehjili

what a match the atmosphere was like watching the FIFA Futsal World Cup final I really enjoyed watching futsal here. so many interesting matches (mostly Argentina included)

that was indeed a penalty

that was a textbook goal. experienced teams always score "easy goals" like this. btw if refs were better (and to me they are not) we should have 2nd penalty already in 2nd half . both teams play aggressive. so many fouls. I still think we will see second penalty here.

I'm watching Futsal and surprisingly this is Argentina that dominating Brazil !

Egypt just made it very easy for Russia. how the hell they didn't use the flying GK ?! when you are down by just 2 and you are in knockout round where GD doesn't matter and of course you can't create any major chances with 4 players you have to try something new. and damn, Russia shouldn't even be here if it wasn't for that last minute corner kick

they are different actually. Beach wrestling now has official registered rules. we just had World Beach Wrestling Championship few days ago. but traditional wrestling means any kind of nonsense include grabbing someone's leg or throwing him.

thanks that makes sense because we are doomed to always somehow get Poland in our group. but that group with Canada and Argentina looks easier, there is no "big team" there. (by big team I mean USA, BRA, ITA. SRB. POL, RUS and FRA) that's not a good news for European countries. with this I see only 4 European teams in Tokyo. and we have "at least" 5 very good European teams.

2 years ago I would care about this and already tried to calculate and find out our possible opponents in this OQT . but considering our current situation there is no way Iran can beat a top 6 team (most probably at its home) and qualify directly. so we have to focus on beating China and Australia in AVC QT. but still I would like to see our possible group to see which teams are going to beat us in the OQT.

Or maybe they are just waiting till the end of Women's competition to publish both rankings together. just saying

Portugal's 13th goal was just wow !