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watching Iran-Malaysia match in handball. after few minutes Malaysian coach changed their tactic and their master plan is to keep the ball as long as possible, killing the time to avoid the heavy scoreline.

The official website. I still hope for a miracle to see a better version when the competition officially starts. no PDF section. for example in basketball results you only can see the number of points scored for each players. to know the number of assists rebounds. percentages etc you have to click on every single player. I never saw such thing for a basketball report. and that was just an example. or if someone from China wanted to know which Chinese athletes are going to compete tomorrow. he has to check every single single link for each sport because there is no NOC section.

They won a bronze medal in 2007 SEA Games . maybe first ever competitive match for this group of players though. that was a very entertaining match, you never see such things in a normal handball match

was that a record ? is even possible to have a more one-sided scoreline ? If I'm not wrong I was checking on some of those Maldives girls and some of them were even in their national basketball team Indonesia women's team once lost 73-2 to North Korean back in 2012. so maybe they have the potential to set a new record. their men's team is probably a bit better. when Qatar hosted the Games back in 2006 they didn't participate in some of team sports like Baseball and Kabaddi, maybe the host nation should not compete in all sports when the sport almost doesn't exist there.

I don't think that sattelite is available here. I have to check if there is enough sport channels on Arabsat . I want to make some changes but I'm just not sure which sattelite has more sport channels specially for the AG. Hotbird is easy to get here. unlike Nilesat I used to even have nilesat but then some of our neighbors decided to build big buildings and then ...

Is that still on Arabsat ? I know it used to be but I didn't have that for a while , so I'm not sure. Nilesat is a bit hard to access because of some big building next to our place it's always good to have so many options for Olympics/AG, I already know Iranian channels won't show much of events without any Iranian athletes involved.

I knew Handball is not popular in Indonesia and they even wanted to drop Handball from the competition but I wonder if Handball even exists in Indonesia ?! I mean even in amateur level. because you must be VERY bad to lose 40-17 to Hong Kong !! Hong Kong itself will get massacred by better teams here. that KSA-INA match will be very ugly. prepare for something like 70-2 scoreline ! unless Saudis show mercy and Qatar also beat Malaysia 64-16 and unlike what our coach thinks. Qataris bring everything they have to Indonesia to win the gold. they have have their legendary GK Saric here ! so it will be incomplete Iran vs a very complete Qatar ! I just hope they don't get humiliated. even though finishing 2nd in group isn't that bad next round we will be in the same group with Hong Kong, Bahrain and the winner of KOR-JPN match. we need one big win to enter the semifinal. Asian Handball is very predictable. there are 7 teams much much better than the rest. (and Qatar much better than anybody else ) and now 6 with Kuwait being suspended. out of the favorites for medal looks like the only team missing key players is Iran we have so many players in 2nd/3rd tier European leagues and unfortunately their clubs didn't release them for the competition. they were supposed to join the team in middle of the 2nd round but our coach decided to not use them at all thinking this is not "fair" for other players.

unlikely through the ranking. but he will have his chance in European qualifiers. here he lost to the eventual gold medalist from Korea.

yeah since the 2nd period he was telling to his coach something like things like this "coach I can't walk. I can't even stand" they told him to withdraw if he can't but he told them he wants to finish this . well the curse of not winning gold in GP events continues ! even though I accept the fact we are not a powerhouse in Taekwondo anymore but like other Asian countries (specially Korea) we saved our A team for the Asian Games. even though there were 3 world championship medalists in this team. so still something like A team. so no excuse not winning a single gold. funny note. if we don't consider this as a defeat. the other 4 Iranian athletes lost to Russia !

Wrong. Chung is already an Asian Games gold medalist. he is here because his country wants more gold medals. but yeah everybody knows about Son's military service story. it's just impossible to gather best football teams for such competition at this time of the year. obviously there should be other reasons involved. even about Son. he is coming only because his country cares A LOT about one more gold in football. otherwise they should not even use averaged players which gives that option to Son. as I said before some countries use their U21 squad here preparing for the Olympic qualifiers.

yeah and that was great coverage but I said the main Asian Games. nobody really follows the AIMAG. but Asian Games is something different. no free streaming anymore ! most Asian countries care A LOT about this. you can see Korea even bring Son Heung-min or their Tennis star Chung Hyeon to the competition. btw even though I didn't like all those "fake" fans in stadium in Turkmenistan but they were a much better host than Indonesia. I hope Indonesia proves me wrong when the competition officially starts.

OCA usually doesn't allow the official website having live stream for the main Asian Games. or at least I can't remember such things. Qatari channels (Alkass and Al Jazeera which is now bein sport) have a history of monopolizing the broadcasting rights for the AG

indeed I am but I think all of us here more or less have the same addiction. just in different ways

and in case you didn't believe me ! here we have Diving 3m Springboard results Men's 3m Springboard.pdf

Yes. but 2010 AG also didn't have pdf official results. I still I saved the html page for every single event.

by all competitions I don't mean really "all competitions" ! that's simply impossible. I mean all OCA/IOC multisport events.

I don't remember 2000 Olympics website but 2004 Athens Olympics website was definitely better than this ! I still hope they improve and change it big time when the official competition starts. (too much to ask , no ?) I mean so far no PDF report section which is unbelievable ! I keep all PDF results from all competitions since I remember . I don't want to miss this one.

interesting that China registered a full team for the Weightlifting competition https://en.asiangames2018.id/athletes/sport/wl/country/CHN/page/1/ They are supposed to be banned like Kazakhstan ! how come they have a team here ?! (even though registering doesn't necessarily mean they are going to participate)

well the official website is indeed terrible but I'm not surprised at all. I just hope it works during the games. at least I can see the participants list in the athletes section.

well we knew about this guy. he is definitely good but he was wrestling at 125kg until few months ago ! cutting weight at this age is good to win few Junior medals because he is probably bigger and heavier than his opponents. but in long term that will ruin his career. he has to move up to 125kg because of his age and then he has to challenge Geno Petriashvili for the spot ! I don't know how but Georgia always produce great wrestlers in superheavyweight. some of them are already wrestling for other countries since they can't beat Geno

This is the final list of Iranian athletes for the 2018 Asian Games, 378 athletes in total. 280 male and 98 female M W Total Aquatics - Swimming 4 4 Aquatics - Diving 2 2 Aquatics - Water Polo 13 13 Archery 8 5 13 Athletics 10 2 12 Basketball 12 12 Basketball 3x3 4 4 8 Boxing 3 3 Canoeing - Sprint 11 6 17 Canoeing - Slalom 2 2 4 Cycling - Track 6 1 7 Cycling - Road 4 1 5 Cycling - Mountain Bike 3 1 4 Equestrian 5 1 6 Fencing 7 4 11 Football 20 20 Gymnastics - Artistic 4 4 Handball 16 16 Judo 4 2 6 Kabaddi 12 12 24 Karate 4 4 8 Martial Arts - Jujitsu 8 2 10 Martial Arts - Kurash 8 4 12 Martial Arts - Pencak Silat 6 3 9 Martial Arts - Sambo 2 2 4 Martial Arts - Wushu 4 5 9 Paragliding 3 3 Rowing 9 6 15 Sailing 2 2 Sepak Takraw 12 12 Shooting 10 9 19 Sport Climbing 4 4 8 Squash 2 3 5 Table Tennis 4 4 8 Taekwondo 8 8 16 Tennis 3 3 6 Triathlon 1 1 Volleyball - Indoor 14 14 Volleyball - Beach 4 4 Weightlifting 8 8 Wrestling 12 12 TOTAL 280 98 378

Due to current economical situation in Iran (the collapse of Rial) the sport ministry ordered all Sports federation to cancel all their abroad camps or competitions unless it's highly necessary I expect most foreign coaches to leave Iran after the Asian Games. the Iranian federations have to pay them twice of what they had to pay two months ago !

we also have cold (that's a relative word I know) winters here. -10 is pretty normal at night in winter but nah I'm not perfectly fine with that I need 20kg clothes to be able to leave the house. not sure which one I prefer +40 or -10 ?! probably none of them. by "here" I mean where I live. north and south of Iran are two completely different stories.

and 40 is considered too high ? I just checked the temperature right now where I live. it says 38 and I'm fine with that comparing to what we had 2 weeks ago which was impossible to leave the house. this is a bit old video but in some cities in South of Iran you can cook egg in the street under the sun in something around 55C ! and that's few years ago. this year was much worse.

Yes in all sports. winning the Gold medal in Asian Games or winning a medal of any color in the Olympics + winning gold or silver in World Championships will allow them to skip the military service. I believe that World Championship part only applies to Olympic sports. so only AG, Olympics and the World Championship count and in this case in Jakarta only gold medalists will have that privilege . but this mostly helps younger athletes. because when you are 26-27 or older you already had to deal with the military service. last time in Incheon Iran won 21 gold medals by 32 athletes (20 individual + 12 volleyball team member) but only 3 of 4 of them used the rule. for the rest that was already late.