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I'm 99% sure they will play with reserves tomorrow since this is a long tournament. only if we could beat Canada today I think Iran was very lucky with the draw and also the order of the matches. but they played really bad in last 4-5 matches despite having several chances. it turned out sending the A team to the Asian Games was a costly decision. Iran missed the chance of playing decent friendlies. even in those 3 friendlies coach played mostly with reserves resting some main players. still not necessarily a wrong decision. at least they won a medal this summer.

well if Russia beat Italy tonight, you can't finish higher than 3rd place (assuming Russia will beat Finland) and even beating Italy won't be enough for you.

that was the story of the day for Iran. this is the 4th defeat in last 20 seconds. and the most painful one. obviously there is something wrong. they just can't focus in last 30 seconds. well we will have one wrestler in the final tomorrow and he already beat Russia. so maybe one gold. still a very bad tournament.

Finally after 4 matches we are playing against a non-host team (Poland and Finland were like hosts in Varna )

we had 3 matches vs Russia and none of them even went to the 2nd period ! I think this pretty much says everything about how pathetic our wrestlers are in this tournament in freestyle. Foroutan is a bit better than those guys but still I don't think there is a chance for him. ( didn't see the Russian wrestler though, don't know about his level)

That was quite an unexpected medal. I knew he is good but a world medal ? nah

the freestyle team is not just bad. this team is terrible. they lost so many matches in last 20 seconds. this is becoming the trademark of Iranian freestyle wrestlers. obviously there is something wrong with the whole freestyle program. because they keep losing like this. they can defend OK for 5:30 minutes but when it comes to the last attack they just collapse. it can't be just luck or one wrestler's mistake.

knowing there is a possible Israel draw for Barimanloo and considering his level I didn't even follow the competition today but I just got home checking the results and wow ! he is in semifinal ! a medal for him will be a big big surprise. now he has two chances for a medal this will be a the replay of Asian Games semifinal with him and An where he lost with exactly one second on the board !

both teams played great today . Italy only needs two sets to qualify , I have a feeling Russia is going to win 3-2. both will be happy at the end even though I think maybe Italy try to eliminate Russia (pre tournament huge favorite) when they have the chance. so maybe they try their best for the win. and not just for 2 sets.

I knew I can't expect the same results from our freestyle team but they were really bad today and I'm not talking about their results but mostly the way they wrestled. we had two matches with Russia today and both of them finished in 1st period our 70kg wrestler lost in a VERY stupid way. (he could be in the final because of his good draw) and our 57kg wrestler lost to someone much much weaker than himself. as expected Russia dominated the freestyle and only USA can challenge them for the team title. but interestingly the only defeat of the day for Russia was against Japan !! and not in a light weight ! but the biggest surprise of the day was in 57kg semifinal. that American kid Daton Fix was the defending World Junior Champion and in USA they consider him a great talent. didn't expect him anything less than gold. that was a great result for this kid Naveen from India !

Argentina I can swear I forgot our defeat after this match. . that was disgusting but at the end that was a well deserved win. never saw Velasco like this but I think he had every right for that. how come when Poland is serving they give the point to them in dubious situation but while Argentina is serving they call it a replay ?!

I think Skrimov had more aces today than his entire career including two lucky aces (thanks to net) in crucial points of 3rd set. this match was a nightmare , losing 24-22 lead in 2nd set thanks to Ebadipour for his stupid spike on set point and then coming back from 24-20 down in 3rd set to lose it 26-24 ! and of course Kolakovic failed big time today. he HAD to make some changes in crucial points of 2nd set. at least calling for a challenge (even if you know it's wrong , just to give more time ) when I look at our results. we actually did nothing special in this tournament so far. the only half-decent result we had was beating Bulgaria and now we lost to the same team. beating Puerto Rico, Cuba and Finland isn't a huge achievement.

Good bye third round. (OK I'm trying to do what Serbian users do and they usually end up winning so let's give it a try ) but seriously I never thought our libero Marani is such an important player. he got sick for two matches and our reception turned from average to terrible ! I know it's not done yet but it's hard to give the host team the momentum and expect them to make mistakes for you. we were down 11-2 at the start of the match !

And you jinxed France with this who would expect them to miss back to back spikes at the end of the set. btw France is a GREAT team but they are very unpredictable.

well another disappointing GP for Iran. the last time Iran won a gold medal in GP was 2016 ! our veteran athletes are losing to almost everybody ! even though out of our 4 AG medalists only 1 of them was here and he won our only medal after losing to Korean legend Lee DH. Bakhshi and Rajabi are not in good place in World Ranking to be eligible for the GP yet. and they gave rest to Ashourzadeh.

for whatever reason UWW/FILA uses the father name of Iranian wrestlers as well. I know in most Arab countries they use only the father name (alongside with the givenname) but in Iran the naming system is similar to western countries. plus no middle name here. it's only given name + surname. some names are more than one part though. but father name is nowhere mentioned in the passport as part of their own name that's just a UWW thing. by saying that. 60kg guy is just Ali Reza (or Alireza) Nejati, 67kg guy is Yousef Hosseinvand (you can drop that Fathi part as well) and 72kg gold medalist is Amin Kavianinejad.

looks like we only have to bring our wrestlers in to the medal round. they know how to win the last match we had 6 wrestlers in medal matches, 4 in the final and 2 in bronze medal match. and all 6 of them won their matches . all of them convincingly. which means Iran finished the Greco competition with 4 gold and 2 bronze and most importantly with the team title (for the 2nd consecutive year) we could have two more in the finals. feel sorry for Foruzandeh, he could win the gold but instead he went home empty handed. Nejati also was great but just made a dumb mistake against our friend Vijay and got pinned. (not a sure thing winning the gold, the Turkish guy Kamal who manhandled Vijay in the final was pretty good) The Greco team did great, same as last year. looks like our future in Greco looks good. Iran also won the team title in World Youth Champs couple months ago but unfortunately I don't have the same confidence about the freestyle. let's see what they can do here. last year was disastrous. but they claim this year we have a better team.

That was true. that was the original plan. I remember reading that somewhere in FIVB website but they changed it long time ago. now all their documents just say two best 2nd placed teams.

the Asian Youth Handball Champs is ongoing in Jordan and we had something interesting yesterday both South Korea and Iraq played to lose yesterday ref stopped the match in last 10 minutes and called off the match. now AHF decided to disqualify both teams the winner would get Japan, Jordan and Bahrain in the next round while the loser would get Iran, Chinese Taipei and Saudi Arabia. not a big difference , I don't know what the hell they were thinking ! now India as 3rd placed team qualifies as group winner and the place for group runner-up will be vacant. we will have 7 teams in 2nd round.

this is the complete list of qualified athletes in Karate https://www.wkf.net/news-center-new/list-of-karatekas-for-buenos-aires-2018-confirmed/794/ they gave one more quota to Iran I don't know based on what ?! re-allocation ? which means Iran can have 5 (out of 6 possible) athletes. only Japan has more.

Just finished watching the match, no that was the correct call and that was easily a 4pts throw. no need to challenge such obvious thing and lose one more point . at 5-5 he still had the chance for one point pushout to win the match but if it was 5-4 he had to score two since even 5-5 wasn't enough for your wrestler. when the action starts on standing position and not on the ground. that's a 4pts throw. but yes he could easily avoid that throw. or at least go down for a 2pts takedown instead he landed on his back and gave up 4pts.

Guys all videos are available on youtube and these Vijay guys don't look similar at all. both of them have Vijay on back of their singlets . well I was looking for an unbelievable story here. but no kidding I found the article there is a rule about it. wrestlers can wrestle in two weights if they want !

Argentina beat USA 4 years ago in the same situation and eliminated USA (and sent Iran to final six instead) so I'm not so sure . but this is a bad thing that some teams with 3 defeats are already eliminated even before 2nd round starts. I know this format is no good but at least all teams had to take all matches seriously . and we had some very interesting matches only because of that.

I like the way Italian players celebrating after each point I love playing with passion but from when Zaytsev became buddy buddy with Juantorena

from whatching Poland-Bulgaria match it was hard to say who is the host and who is the guest Polish volleyball fans are the best in the world. no question about that. as much as I prefer Bulgaria over Poland at any time. this time it was for our benefit to cheer for Poland. but that was a very interesting match and the innocent angel Kubiak once again showed his jerk side at the end. btw this kid Kochanowski has ice in his veins, he serves better in crucial points ! OK now we know our group already USA 5-0 (13pts) Iran 4-1 (11pts) Bulgaria 3-2 (9pts) Canada 3-2 (9pts)