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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.

it seems the King of doping, ilya Ilyin will comeback to the competition for the World Championship this year ! he will participate at the non-Olympic weight of 102kg ! Speaking of the World Championship, Iran will have a very weak team this time. out of our World/Olympic Champions. Salimi announced retirement (at the age of 29) after the Asian Games, the idiot genius Rostami will take a break, Saeid Mohammadpour was injured the whole year (I think he is done with weightlifting after back to back injuries) and Saeid Alihosseini is a bit injured. so looks like Sohrab Moradi is the only big name remaining. we were VERY upset when IWF announced the new Olympic qualification system which limits Iran to only 2 weightlifters ! (even though IWF is going to review that later this year but probably no change) but it seems after all we won't have more than two competitive weightlifters when it comes to Tokyo

Yep exactly the only interesting part of opening ceremony for me. and they ruined it. that was like a sprint with flag competition

Iran's squad for 2018 World Wrestling Championships in Hungary 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 4 wrestlers are making their debut, (Yakhkeshi, Maghsoudi, Emami and Goleij) Atri and Hadi once represented Iran at the World Championship and won nothing but the remaining 4 wrestlers are former or current World medalist. but only Yazdani (the current World and Olympic Champion) had won a gold medal before. beside Yazdani who has a great chance for gold again. I think Karimi has a very good chance for medal at least. I expect 2 or 3 medals unfortunately. last year Iran won just one ! 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 3 debutantes, (Naderi, Reza Geraei and Poshtam) and only 3 former or current world medalists, Abdevali, Nouri and Ali Geraei , they all won bronze last year ! (Abdevali had some other medals as well including a gold) I think these 3 guys will be our chance for medal. specially Abdevali and Nouri. doesn't look like a great team, we have to wait 2-3 more years to see some of our great junior wrestlers in the senior team.

It's hard to predict, most athletes are unknown but for no big change Iran as usual we expect medal in certain sports. this time mostly Wrestling, Taekwondo and Karate. in wrestling, all 4 wrestlers should win a medal. because there are only 3 or max 4 good wrestlers in each weight. in taekwondo, we have a full 6 athlete team. all of them are favorites for a medal , I expect 4 at least. and in Karate, again all 5 of them will have a chance for medal. but the level is higher here. all qualified athletes are pretty good. so I expect 2 here. and in weightlifting, our team doesn't look good but based on entries I think one medal is a a sure thing. I'm not sure if I can expect anything else from other sports. there is a chance in futsal but they are in the same group with Brazil and Russia ! I expect something like 10-11 medals. including at least 4 gold medals.

the award ceremony is really stupid. you already can see all award winners since they are in line to receive it ! we had the same for the VNL this year.

looks like a quick 3-0 for Poland. it seems USA was their real final but with Brazil you never can be 100% sure. they always can come back.

I don't think Italy played that bad. I think they did OK but Serbia was just flawless . one of the best performances I ever seen from any team in the world ! they don't even need a set tomorrow. with this points difference. Italy just has to pray Serbia takes the tomorrow match seriously

Serbia is serving unbelievably well. out of this world. not just one player but the whole team. if they win the 3rd set they just need one set tomorrow. I wonder if they give Poland another gift. they have no reason not to.

Does it mean we will have TV coverage for that ? not that I'm "very interested" in Asian Para Games but still impressive job from the organizers. I have to admit despite all other problems the TV coverage was pretty good during the Asian Games comparing to Incheon and Guangzhou (except no TV coverage for Rowing and Canoeing) I'm quite sure we won't see any of this YOG in Iranian sport channels. they are now very busy with European football (and also our stupid football league) but if there is TV coverage for Asian Para Games which will be at the morning (and no conflict with European Football Leagues) , that's more possible.

I had no hope for medal today since Mahjoub had Japan in his way but now I see he lost to Tajikistan ! and the Tajik guy also beat Japan and then he lost to Uzbekistan ! weird results interesting to see both Ulziibayar and Oltiboev in semifinal, Mahjoub lost to both of them in Asian Games while both matches could gone another way . and we thought he was underperforming very much

I highly doubt that happened on purpose. actually I'm quite sure about that. I watched the entire game, nothing suspicious. if they wanted that they could easily miss those free throws at the end. but they made both. of course that was stupid to let Belgium to score in only 1 second to go but that was just a stupid defensive mistake. they were down by more than 10pts most of the 2nd half if they wanted to lose by +8 intentionally that was no problem for them, they didn't need that last basket from Belgium.

This week was perfect for Iran 's Judo winning two medals in the World Championship. I made a list of all Iran's medals in a World Judo Championships. unfortunately not a very long list ! 2001: Gold Medal - Arash Miresmaeili 2001: Bronze Medal - Mahmoud Miran 2003: Gold Medal - Arash Miresmaeili 2005: Bronze Medal - Arash Miresmaeili 2007: Bronze Medal - Arash Miresmaeili 2017: Bronze Medal - Saeid Mollaei 2018: Bronze Medal - Mohammad Mohammadi-Barimanloo 2018: Gold Medal - Saeid Mollaei beside those medals we had some 5th place finishes in the World Championship. Miran (1997), Fallah (2005), Sarlak (2009), Roudaki (2011) and regarding to the Olympics, we never won a medal but we had been in bronze medal match several times losing all of them ! Miresmaeili (2000), Haji-Akhondzadeh (2004), Miran (2004), Maloumat (2008) and Roudaki (2008) We had our "golden period" in judo from 2000 to 2008 even though we didn't win an Olympic medal in that period, we had been in bronze medal match 5 times ! and our best chance Arash Miresmaeili in 2004 (when he was the defending World Champion) got Israel draw in the first round. but since 2008 IJF changed the rules and made touching the leg forbidden which had huge huge affect on Iran's judo. beside that we had some bad management for several years and also a plane crash killed the entire Iran junior team it took 10 years for Iran to win another World medal which happened last year with Mollaei.

since you asked me once about the Iranian names Sayed (or Seyed) is a title not a part of the name, even though officially part of the name but not in a daily life. something like "Sir" in English. this guy's name is Seyed Abolfazl (or simply Abolfazl) the word Seyed alone is never a given name. (there is a name Saeid different than this word Seyed) and for the other guy. Ali is his father name. he is just Abbas Foroutan (as you dropped the 2nd part of his surname correctly)

so we finish the freestyle competition with 3 medals (with 3 different colors) and 3rd place in team ranking. 3rd place is OK as I knew USA and Russia are much stronger but winning 3 medals is indeed a bad result. but at least they are not going home without a gold medal. at least better than last year. Russia dominated the FS competition with 5 gold medals ! USA, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey and Japan won one gold medal each

just because they were absent for just "one serious tournament" doesn't mean the are done, all 3 of them wrestled for Turkey in other International tournaments this year. poor guy Kortoev won an Olympic medal for you only 2 years ago. and you are treating him like a piece of trash.

so you think these wrestlers Open Sat (Cengiz Erdogan), Merey Kortoev (Selim Yasar) and Shamil Akhmedov (Shamil Erdogan) are not in the medal winning level ? because I don't think so

wow . this is rare to see an Iranian not being afraid of Japan. he was obviously the better Judoka and took his chance at the end. he became only the 2nd Iranian to win a World title in Judo . and 3rd gold medal for Iran overall. when he started his early celebration (after that first waza-ari) it was all over the Asian Games tragedy again but only this time thing finished in a different way.