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Finals will be tomorrow morning. all of them. actually 5 (out of 6) of them will be Iran-China ! I think Iran will win one (70kg men) but I hope for maybe one more interesting note that our 70kg Sanda fighter will fight for the gold more or less at the same time as her wife competing for gold medal in Rowing.

to win a round you need to push the opponent out of the platform 2 times . but that doesn't count as a push if the fallen guy have a hold of you

we could easily win this 97kg Greco gold final which is the weakest weight in Asia but we wasted the chance by sending this piece of shit pathetic wrestler !! he didn't even a bronze ! Aliyari could beat all these guys easily the same goes to 130kg. how the hell they decided to send Mehdizadeh ?! he lost twice in Iranian national trials and finished 3rd. and today he showed that wasn't just an accident. being Asian Champion few months ago doesn't make you a good wrestler right now. btw watching Greco is not good for my heart , while the officiating was totally OK in freestyle (even we got lucky once), all dubious calls in Greco go against Iranian wrestlers. and we know this will be always like this when we wrestle against certain countries in Asian Games (Korea, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan)

this is 87kg. how many men in Thailand are at this weight ?! he is probably the only wrestler Thailand had

Geraei always makes things harder for himself but he usually ends up the winner he could easily finish the match in 1st period but threw the guy on himself

comeon, this Korean guy is an Olympic champion, Permanov is an OK wrestler just not in the same level as Kim HW. btw Permanov won Turkmenistan's first ever medal in wrestling 4 years ago, not this time

while our so-called big names (Khodabakhshi, Ashourzadeh) are falling like flies , Mirhashem Hosseini won our 2nd gold medal in Taekwondo he beat Korea in semifinal and the Olympic Champion Zhao in the final. well it seems we should throw the old team away and create a new one. interestingly out of our 5 gold medalists so far, 3 of them (Hadi, Rajabi and Hosseini) are ethnic Azeri ! so as they say "Yaşasın Azerbaycan" --------------------- looking forward for two more golds with two wrestlers in the final, even though I'm still upset about how the hell we lost two other semifinals

since both of them wrestled against Iran and I watched them, I can tell you there is not even 0.01% chance for him.

I knew guess why ? because there is an event with this name in Pecak Silat. btw. it just shows when they invented this sport the idea was playing only 3 vs 3. but then they got bored and tried to create more events. 2 vs 2 (as doubles) 4 vs 4 (as quad) and there is team doubles and maybe in future team quad

Yes. each team consisted of 12 players. 4 for each regu (3 main players and one reserve)

team regu is like 3 regu teams from each country playing against 3 regu teams from the opponent ! something like team event in Tennis or Badminton. since this is a knockout round. if someone wins the first two regu , there is no need for the 3rd one. stupid idea in general. just to create more events.

added by them indeed but they probably just didn't know the others are better than them.

And note that because of OCA rules . each country can enter only 2 cyclists. this is not a normal road race with team work etc. if I'm not wrong this time they made it 4 for the men's road race (even though only 2 of them can win medal even if a country finish 1-2-3)

That's Zurkhaneh sports. but that's not really a popular sport even in Iran. I'm sure those who practice it really enjoys it but that's a bit boring to watch. I change the channel immediately when I see that on TV. and while it exists in something like 20 countries in Asia but still Iran will dominate it heavily. beside that Iran doesn't have the majority vote in West Asia if they want to pick something and Afghanistan, Pakistan etc are in South Asia. only Iran and Iraq in West Asia. beside that, this sport is a bit religious, and someone has to sing in Persian during the show, I highly doubt our Arab neighbors like that. but we have so many crazy martial arts invented by the Iranians any sport with kicking and punching and throwing, we will be good at it

I thought you are making a joke so let's say Sepaktakraw for Southeast Asia, Wushu for East Asia, Kabaddi for South Asia. what about Central and West Asia ?! OK we can think about Kurash for Central Asia but still West Asia (which is our region) never had a specific sport in the Games and I can't think of any sport. edit: OK Jujitsu came to mind, the Brazilian Jujitsu which is insanely popular in UAE but UAE is not equal to West Asia.

China doesn't really need that. they can win medal at almost everything if I'm not wrong in current program they had won medal in all sports except only two, Kabaddi and Squash. but I think if China adding something to the Games, it's not really because they want to win more medals (like what Indonesia did) that's mostly because they want to develop some of their domestic sports in Asia.

oh yes I just forgot that.

Yes that would hit Iran badly. which it did in boxing. for the first time in history we will most probably leave the Asian Games with no medal in boxing. in Karate and Weightlifting, that was Asian Federation who prevent such disaster to happen. I mean in weightlifting the super heavyweight is always the highlight of the competition how come they can even think about dropping that ! I blame other Asian countries for letting such a disaster to happen. if you check the news. they made some changes at the end when some Asian countries (and therefore some Asian sports federations) stood against them. even though to be honest while they cut some of our favorite events in Taekwondo. Wrestling, Archery etc. they also added Kurash and Sport climbing (we expect gold in both sports) I also can't believe how come we have Kurash, Jujitsu and Sambo altogether in the Games ! they are quite similar and similar to Judo ! this is not Indonesia's fault though. that was kind of a deal between OCA and Indonesia. when Indonesia was sabotaging the program. some other Asian countries (Uzbekistan, Kazkhastan and UAE) took advantage of it and added their own sports.

Speaking of the program. this is the way I like it all Olympic events. plus full program in Taekwondo, Wrestling and Weightlifting, even though with Wrestling and Weightlifting having so many non-Olympic weights it will be hard to have all of them. 10 weights in wrestling is probably too much. but Taekwondo should have all 8 weights and NO poomsae. I also prefer a bigger program in shooting. and compound events in Archery. I also like the full program in Tennis, Table Tennis, Badminton and Squash. having "team event" in those sports is something traditional for the AG. they also can expend Track Cycling or Canoeing program. Sepaktakraw (only regu event, not some crazy new events like Quad or doubles) Kabaddi Wushu Bowling (only 4 events, no more) Baseball/Softball (I don't like it myself but it has enough popularity in some Asian countries) I like Sport Climbing as a core sport. with full program, not that weird combined event. I like cue sports back in the Games, with 4 or 6 events only. not a big program. about Cricket. only if top nations like India, Pakistan etc bring their best players, otherwise NO no Soft tennis. that's a stupid idea no Kurash, no Jujitsu, no Sambo, no paragliding and other Indonesian sports. no Dragon boat, NEVER ! no bodybuilding I know some countries (including Iran) are pushing for that. and no E-sports.

and you know they dropped the whole compound program but after some protests they let the team event back to the Games. which I still can't udnerstand ! how come we have the team event ! and not the individual event . usually it should be the opposite of that !

lol actually this is the first time that host nation is sabotaging the events at this scale. which is unbelievable and terrible but I think it has something to do with the fact hat Indonesia wasn't the original host. that was Vietnam but when they withdrew they couldn't find another host in such a short time and when Indonesia accepted this they probably had some conditions. OCA had a strict program until 2010 (host nation could not add even one sport to the Games) , in Guangzhou China added Dragon Boat, Dancesport and Roller sports. (I don't know if we can consider Go and Xiangqi as new since they were part of the Chess program) but that was 24 events in total. but after that OCA made a rule that number of events can't be changed by the host nation and we had nothing new for the 2014 Incheon program , but then they had to make some change for the reason I explained. by saying that OCA is no way a great organization. at best they should let Indonesia add one sport. no more. and it seems we will be back to the normal situation for 2022. Olympics sports + 6 non-Olympic sports (not picked up by the host) I'm OK if OCA itself decides to add anything but "not because of host nation's request"

yeah I watched the game. very entertaining game. Clarkson missed a jump shot in last 30 seconds, they still had the last ball but went for a stupid 3. that would secure at least a silver medal for them. now I can say China is already in the final. because there are only 4 "good" teams here and 3 of them are on the other side of the draw. Philippines have to play South Korea in quarterfinal and the winner will get Iran in the semis.

no it wasn't like she conceded the last point because of her celebration. they both scored at the same time on the last second , KOR scored one point punch while China scored two points body kick. the scoreboard showed Chinese score just a moment later. punch scores and body kick scores come from two different systems, that's why the delay. but yeah that was quite a dramatic ending. and I think a well deserved gold for China.

Yeah in a blind draw and knockout system. Korean guy just took a round from invincible China, still lost 2-1 and will go home empty handed. one of our Sanda players are already out, but from what I see we will have 5 (out of 6) Iran-China finals. at least this time luck separates Iran and China in all (but one) weights till the final.

Afghanistan secured a bronze medal in Wushu. I wasn't sure if they can win a medal in the whole Games since their taekwondo isn't good anymore and Cricket is not in the program.. good for them.