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actually he is now a bronze medalist. the Russian gold medalist failed the drug test. btw I watched a quick match of him. now I don't think he can win the gold. but he is definitely better than the Algerian kid. PS: Iran also qualified in this weight but since the kid lost the final to this Russian kid in a very stupid way in last seconds and pissed off the coaches. they decided to pick up 65kg instead which was a mistake IMO.

damn that's really a bad news for me. our friends in UWW doesn't know that apparently https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/greco-roman-draws-schedule-and-how-watch

Of course, anything else will be a huge surprise and btw your wrestler is a world bronze medalist. he even has a chance for the gold

that happens with blind draw without seeding. but at least they are trying to have some kind of seeding for major tournaments (Olympics and World Champs) according to current UWW rules since 2017 in case of 6 or 7 wrestlers , we will have 2 groups and top 2 advance to the semifinal. but since YOG is a unique competition they just removed that semifinal part.

where I can find the Olympic channel schedule ? I want to know if there is TV coverage for wrestling or not .I was counting on UWW but it seems unlike all other tournaments UWW won't have a live feed. probably because here the organizer is the IOC.

Wrestling draws are out. like previous YOG, they use a unique format here. 2 groups of 3 wrestlers and the group winner advances to the final (Runner up for the bronze medal match) Greco 45kg draw is funny. there are 3 better wrestlers and all of them in the same group (Iran, Bulgaria and Egypt) while we have Turkmenistan, Honduras and Ecuador in other group ! our other Greco wrestler (flagbearer Nosrati) got Russia in first round . but draw looks better in freestyle. both of them are supposed to go to the final. Zare will be huge favorite for the gold even against Russia. but Karimi will be underdog against Azerbaijan.

no TV coverage and even the official website didn't work during the men's final and also the last part of women's final Hemmati lost by golden score (can't complain she won her semifinal by golden score) but Khosravi won the gold in a close low-scoring match. 3 gold and 1 silver in taekwondo. great result and after watching those two other athletes I have to say they both deserved medal 100% and they faced unbelievably bad officiating . and not in middle of the match when u have time to recover. but in last 10-20 seconds. this is shame. even at the YOG we have to count on Taekwondo, Wrestling (and this time Karate) to win medal but this is it.

Yeah both won by golden score. specially Hemmati she was down by 7-8 pts most of the match . that's a shame there is no TV coverage. we only can see the scoreboard even yesterday both of them had great/unbelievable comebacks . I just wonder where is this spirit in the senior team

two more medals for Iran. AGAIN in taekwondo . obviously we will know the color later today. that's shame there is no TV Coverage today. in past few days we had TV coverage even for the preliminaries. but today nothing even for the finals Iran TKD federation put some clips from the other fights on its instagram account and I have to say both of Iranian kids whom lost in QF by 1point deserved to win actually. specially Momenzadeh she had a kick to the face of her Korean opponent and almost knocked her out. ref even started to count for a knockdown but she stopped counting after 1 ! in current rules only center ref can gives score for face kicks . that was 4pts for Momenzadeh in less than 20 seconds . that's OK this is just the youth Olympics but that would be brilliant to win 6 medals out of 6 athletes. only if we can get such results in senior level

and as I said they won't unless they change they mindset we used to have unlimited weight class in men's wrestling (same as Judo) and at that time we had some huge huge wrestlers with big bellies ! they made a limit for that just to prevent such athletes to wrestle ! wrestling is probably the only fighting sport without unlimited weight class. a funny story. we had a famous American Wrestler Chris Taylor he was almost 200kg !!! at the time they wouldn't award points for stepping out of the mat. otherwise this guy could be multiple World Champion he still won an Olympic bronze because of his size. but there is a moment when German wrestler Wilfried Dietrich threw him and pinned him at the Olympics and the picture of that throw is something wrestling fans always remember. only because of this guy FILA (now UWW) made 130kg as max weight limit

Yeah. you are right this looks stupid to have 10 weight classes for women's wrestling. specially because there is only 26kg difference between lowest and highest weight , this is unbelievably stupid. they made it clear before they don't want women with big bellies on the mat because that's ugly on a singlet ! they won't go heavier than 76 (or something like that) 26kg difference and 10 classes. of course there will be only 2kg difference between some weights but remember we used to had 10 weight classes at the olympics, to me it's OK for men's wrestling there are 70-80 kg difference between lowest and highest weight here. the problem is this stupid gender equality idea. I don't really think women's wrestling needs non-Olympic weights. personally 8 weights for men's wrestling (FS and GR) and 6 weights for women's wrestling looks perfect for me. and that will cover everything. but UWW/IOC doesn't ask for my opinion

Japan came back from 22-17 down to win the set and making sure of the final six spot but I wonder if they know that they didn't celebrate much after the first set.

in Iran. they usually care about Para sports or at least they pretend to care. so the media usually cover such events like this . but since the official website sucks big time they lost the count of number of medals Iran have won. the official website sometimes is very slow in updating the results. this is interesting that the TV coverage isn't that bad (I mean comparing to what you expect) I saw Iranian channels showing Powerlifting, sitting volleyball. wheelchair basketball. swimming and athletics. but the TV graphics almost doesn't exist ! in some sports they just show the result. and in some sports they just don't show anything ! sometimes they just show the big scoreboard in the stadium to see who is who. we were always bad in swimming at any level. but here an Iranian swimmer already won 5 gold medals and he is looking for 2 more. now I see how it feels to win easy medals just by one "very good" athlete. which is not fair. in some sports you have to work hard to win just one medal (even if you are the best of the best) while in swimming just one athlete can win more gold than half of the countries in the Games !

Two back to back gold medals for Iran in taekwondo Ashkevarian's gold medal was expected even though he won the final by the narrowest possible margin but Valinejad surprised me big time. she was underdog in both semifinal and final but somehow found a way to win both matches with a unique technique I NEVER saw from Iranians before. in final she scored 5 spinning kicks which means 20pts and she won it 23-17 !! this Serbian girl beat her twice this year in World Juniors and Olympic Qualifiers but she just didn't know how to stop the spinning kicks. the last time (and only time) an Iranian girl won the Youth Olympics she went to win an Olympic medal as well (Iran's only medal for women at the Olympics) of course I don't see Kimia Alizadeh's potential in Valinejad but who knows. this is only the 2nd medal for Iranian girls at the Youth Olympics (which is also the 2nd gold) btw and that was funny they played a silly (but fun) Persian music at the stadium after the 2nd gold

Finally medal for Iran. two actually. in Taekwondo. we will know the medal color later. shooting was unlucky, both of them had the highest score in qualification but failed badly in the final . we had the same problem at the Asian Games. so many finalists but only 1 medal

Well we lost another taekwondo QF again by 1 point. my stream was working well for 2 hours but then it started to freeze right when Iranian was fighting in 3rd period didn't see what happened to the end. Asghari was up by good margin of points , then it was tied with 5 seconds to go. then freeze. and then I see our kid on the ground almost crying. and his coach telling him "that was your fault letting the ref made you losing" ! but the funny/annoying part was the commentator , she mentioned like 1000000 times that the Azeri guy is World Junior Champion. he is huge favorite here and nobody expects the Iranian to do anything, and blah blah. while in reality both of them were 2018 World Junior Champion (in different weight classes) and Asghari won the Olympic Qualifier and he was the top seed. it doesn't hurt to just google a bit when you are supposed to be the expert commentator.

Russia won all 4 Taekwondo gold medals so far. pretty impressive.

That was quite a match full of passion that's what I enjoy to watch. the celebration of Argentinian players (and also fans) after the equalizer was like winning a World Cup or something like that. this was the best competition of today for me. only if FIFA seriously develops the women's futsal , then this sport can deserve a place in the Olympics.

what's the qualification rule in Artistic Gymnastics ? they finished the Pommel Horse competition but the PDF document says we will know the finalists after the end of all qualification events !! I assume there is something like one gymnast can't qualify for more 2-3 finals, right ? btw surprisingly for me. our gymnast finished 5th in Pommel Horse so I assume no matter what he will be in the final. huge surprise for me !

no medal for Iran today, our taekwondo girl lost by just 1 to Korea she was supposed to be the weakest member of the team here though. I don't think we have a medal chance tomorrow. btw I'm watching Thailand-TTO futsal match, I can bet these TTO girls never played futsal before. they are OK in playing football but futsal is a bit different. in futsal everybody attacks and everybody defends , but two of them usually stay in other half just watching those two poor other girls to stop four Thai attackers

watching this break dance competition, now I have a nightmare thinking about what if this thing makes it to the Olympics ?!

after finishing 1st in the qualification 4pts clear the rest, our boy started the Air rifle final with 9.2. 9.3 and 8,7 and things like this ! already securing the 8th place for himself.

losing 22-0 in basketball ! how the hell they sent such a bad team ! but at least Zolfagharian topped the qualification in air rifle with a very good record which is probably good enough to even bring him to the Olympic final.

well this is how IWF explaining it https://www.iwf.net/2018/01/23/iwf-sanction-ilya-ilyin-maximum-allowed-world-anti-doping-code/ and funny that he didn't lose any other medal except only 2 Olympic gold medals.he didn't lose his world records as well. I admit he is a cool guy. and a great weightlifter (despite his doping story) but everybody knew there is something wrong about him. in 2015 he didn't go to USA for the World Championships instead he went to a low level competition in Russia (only few days after the Worlds) and broke the World Record there ! if he was that ready why not breaking the World Record in the World Championship ?! the answer was easy, he didn't want to take a test in USA.

what else you can say about a country in less than 5 seconds ? I give them credit for non-stop speaking.