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today we lost everywhere but bronze medal in water polo made my day ! what a drama. Iran was leading 8-7 but lost the lead in last 30 seconds. and then in penalties they had to go far and Iran won 8-7 in penalties and 16-15 in general ! this bronze medal and Alamian's bronze in table tennis are very special for me. value much more than cheap medals in some of those nonsense sports.

and I already feel like I lost somebody this time I had this feeling 3-4 days before the end. mostly because our favorite sports were done early. now we have to wait 2 more years for the Olympics ! that was fun. as usual even though the official website was terrible and as usual certain things in favor of the host but still I enjoy it very much as I always do. I will write about my good and bad memories later. because there is still one day to go with couple of important finals ! btw. looks like we will finish 6th in the medal table with Uzbekistan being in all 7 men's boxing finals. and with that Uzbek guy in charge of AIBA. there is a big chance they win all 7 gold medals and surpass Iran in the medal table. Kazakhstan most probably can't do that anymore.

wow. medal in table tennis ! well done Noshad

I was about to write exactly the same thing. the winner of 2014 edition in Incheon didn't even make it to the Round 2 !

thanks. that was helpful. even in Iran after few minutes of being in shock they said the call wasn't wrong, of course Mollaei himself never accepted this. Mollaei's coach got rejected in another match and they had to put some random guy in place of the coach, I think having his coach would help him in last 20 seconds. this defeat still hurts me, it would be our first gold medal in Judo after 16 years ! and would be my 2nd best moment of the Games. that was really sad a big guy like him crying like a baby. even in Rio 2016 he lost to the eventual gold medalist by having one more shido just because he disposed his judogi without referee's permission ! to make things worse. our other Judoka today lost by ippon to An Chang-rim again in the last second !

I have a question for you guys , Judo experts. I used to know Judo rules better but IJF changes the rules almost every year and there are some unwritten rules . take a look at this match https://tamasha.com/v/Vl5md what do you think about the last Shido ?! I know it's not hard to justify that but is this a common thing to give 3rd Shido in last second for such a non-obvious situation ? in a gold medal match ? Personally I think Shido wasn't technically wrong but it wasn't just fair. I saw so many times Judokas go extremely defensive in last few seconds with no penalty, the Kazakh guy won the gold medal without doing anything special the entire 4 minutes.

oh my. 3rd shido AFTER the match !!! Mollaei even celebrated the gold medal for a minute or two. what the hell was that. how come an experienced judoka like him can't just kill 2-3 seconds when the Kazakh guy was worthless and couldn't do a thing. this is the worst moment of AG for me. this one is hard to swallow. of course if it was the opposite they would never give Iran the gold but I blame Mollaei first. what a pity. first Barimanloo losing with 1 second to go and now Mollaei with 0 second ! the Judo curse will never leave us.

pity there is no TV coverage for Canoeing. we had some interesting finals today morning. 3 medals for Iran but no gold as expected we are good in all events but not "very good" in any of them to win the gold. glad for Hedieh Kazemi, this is the first ever silver for Iranian girls in canoeing. but I'm so happy for Saeid Mollaei, despite being the top seed I had no hope for him but he showed me that he is not World #1 (or #2) for nothing. he secured our first medal in Judo, I hope for a gold later today. he is known in Iran as "bronze man" since he won a bag full of bronze from international competitions but seriously only Iranians are capable of losing a match with only and only 1 second to go ! Barimanloo was doing fine with the Korean and things were going into the extra time with Korean guy being more tired but then bang. Ippon with 1 second to go

I was checking some stats and Ehsan Haddadi is only the 2nd athlete in history of Asian Games to win the same event 4 times in a row ! (Shigenobu Murofushi won hammer throw 5 times in a row) and considering Haddadi's age, at least one more AG is possible for him. of course Svetlana Radizvil can makes it 4 next time. that was her 3rd title. but this was the first time Ehsan crying after winning the gold. which was a very easy win actually. he had tough situations in past 2-3 years. he almost went to jail before Rio Olympics. had so many surgeries. lost his coach etc. I lost respect for him because of those charges but maybe he was innocent after all . the final verdict never made it into the news. but he is a true patriot and that's why I like him. he had some nice Persian poems about Iran written on his shirt in today's competition.

don't worry we are almost done with our gold medal chances. I'm only confident about one more , we also have some small chances here and there but I expect only one more. max 2. we had our chances to win more gold earlier in Karate and wrestling, specially in Karate. I really think we could 3-4 more golds. North Korea won 8 gold medals in weightlifting ! they took advantage of China's suspension very good. I think they would lose more than half of these gold medals to China in a normal situation.

very low level competition in discus throw. Haddadi easily won his 4th back to back AG gold medal. with one more gold in Kurash, now we have 19. we need two more to equal 21 what we had last time in Incheon.

India was really impressive in Table tennis with two medals so far TT is one of my favorite sports. this is great to see a different name in medal table beside all those East Asian countries btw you also finished 2nd in Asian Junior Championships a week ago in team event. looks like a very successful program in Table tennis.

Isn't this the biggest surprise of the games ? China losing a game to Nepal in Table tennis ! https://en.asiangames2018.id/sport/table-tennis/event/table-tennis-mixed-doubles/match/ttx002501/

lol Indonesia is only 6 gold medals behind South Korea with more Pencak Silat medals and more help from the refs, why not ! since 1978 this is the first time in history that somebody else is threatening the big 3 in Asia. and since 1998 we always had Korea in 2nd place and Japan in 3rd. this is apparently going to change this time

I still have a feeling they will find their way into the 5th place. don't forget Sambo. they are supposed to win all 4 gold medals. I think this is still very much possible for both Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to surpass Iran in the medal table. I'm more surprised negatively by Thailand. they are also good in most of those weird sports Indonesia added into the program, out of 9 gold medals for Thailand. 4 of them are in new events (Poomsae, 2 in Paragliding and Jet Ski) and if you remove 3 gold medals in their sport sepaktakraw, they won only 2 gold medals in other sports ! shooting and taekwondo.

Afghanistan secured another medal in Kurash ! and actually the Afghan guy beat some tough opponents including one from Iran to make it to the semifinals. so it wasn't just a lucky medal.

I said it months ago. that Iran FF was told by AFC to pick one team and they picked the boys team just because they believe they have more chance for medal there.

what a dramatic final in men's compound. feel sorry for India , they lost it in a way they will never forget !

I just watched the race again, without commentator this time. right after winning the race he talks to camera "this is Asia, there is no place for Africans here"

and that was the biggest surprise for me ! he is the current Asian Champion but in a weaker field. nobody expected this ! what a pleasant surprise ! he even broke the GR despite his long and early celebration. I'm quite sure even himself didn't believe that.

looks like we can't reach the 20 gold medal mark. we have 16 and I'm almost sure about two more. but all of our favorite sports Karate, Wrestling, Wushu, Weightlifting and Taekwondo are already done. today was good, but Salimi announced retirement after winning his 3rd back to back AG title. I would like Alihosseini to win the gold since I like him more. I was hoping for medal in sport climbing speed relay. but with Indonesia and China entering two teams both of our teams are outsiders. how the hell they let them entering two teams in a team event ?!

well another "fantastic job" by refs in Karate. Poursheib got robbed big time in semifinal. of course we know the rules in AG. "when you win 2 gold medals, you can't win more" they never let Iran win more than 2 gold medals in men's karate. PS: Kuwait never did ANYTHING in international competition in Karate, but they always win gold in Asian Games. guess why

Bronze for Iran in mixed compound. this is interesting because for Iran "mixed" medals rarely happen. for obvious reasons this is only our second mixed medal in history of Asian Games. the other one was Chess. still no contact between teammates

looks like no medal for Jordan Clarkson even though he had a good game himself I think it's also better for Iran, (if we beat Japan of course) Korea is probably a better matchup . even though we have to play much better than the 1st game.

watching show jumping competition. the Thai girl Limpichati is very lucky to be still alive. that was a nasty fall. for a moment I thought something is going to happen but fortunately the horse didn't ride over her. we still remember what happened to that Korean guy in 2006. btw one of our riders had refusal in his first jump ! well I never saw such thing (of course it's not like I watch show jumping everyday but still refusal in first jump ?!)