MHSN

17 minutes ago, dareza said:

Croatia WTF Chance for WC are now really small. Even with a win now, it will be too hard.

 

 

and probably the Olympics. this World Cup is the main qualifier for the Olympics and the Olympic qualifying tournaments.

Croatia still can gather a better team to beat Romania and Netherlands to at least make it to the second round.

7 hours ago, Gianlu33 said:

Maybe they will receive a wild card?

 

for the World Cup ? no wild card this time. all 32 teams (31 + host China) have to qualify themselves.

The 2020 Olympic Host Japan probably won't qualify for the 2019 World Cup. as we know FIBA has to approve the host team's level to let them participate automatically.

Japan lost to TPE at home today, they are last in the group and their chance is really slim to advance even to the next round !

the Belarus flag

Just now, DaniSRB said:

Looks like Korea is not popular in Asia at all

no because of blatant cheating they always do

still I support them (like other Asian countries)  when they don't host

6 minutes ago, DaniSRB said:

btw what happened for Korea?

Got hit by an invisible sniper

Wierer from 1st place to almost last place and then again the first place !

well done Wierer

1 minute ago, Gianlu33 said:

Bronze medal for Arianna, 3rd medal for her!

 

I would wait for the confirmation, you are dealing with Korea, remember.

edit: great. 3rd medal for Fontana 

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Oh well, he's not alone, considering he's only slightly slower than Breitfuss Kammerlander (who you might expect to make short work of any Iranian skier..)

unlike what you think , Iran has a long history in Alpine skiing (not any other winter sport, only this one) and there are so many Alpine skiing courses near Tehran. this is a popular sport here (but only for fun, not for a competitive sport) this is really shameful being still very weak in this sport the worst part is they are showing the competition live in TV and consider "finishing the race" as a great success.

Really shameful to see Iranian skiers going like this, he could go much faster but he raced like a coward. just wanted to finish it. almost all skiers after him are getting DNF but I give them more credit for at least trying to do their best.

watching Germany vs Sweden, both shirts look a bit similar ! (specially in front where the German shirt is also yellow) sometimes hard to say who is who

looks like at the end of the day 3 DNF and one gold medal for Italy

looks like the first no-medal for Canada in this sport

Korea, Sweden, GB and probably Japan made it to the semifinal. interesting to have both Asian teams in the semis

Just now, thepharoah said:

judges didn't favor Chinese Athletes in Beijing ? Come'on . Gymnastics is a great example , Chinese achieved results where they hadn't and won't achieve . btw for me this's among the least OG , we have seen judges favoring home athletes , i'm following Olympics regularly from 2004 except Vancouver 2010 which i doubt that there was no favoring for Canadian athletes in , i've always seen the host nation as the one to be favored and i can tell u this's among the least favoring host nations at least to my humble opinion and maybe this's because Korea doesn't have elite athletes in such sports like snowboarding , freestyle skiing and figure skating 

judges always help the host nation, and China is no innocent. but I can't compare any country to South Korea. whenever they host a tournament in Asia, we know are in trouble.

btw my comment about Chinese skaters getting disqualification wasn't only about this Olympics. whenever I see a Short Track competition and when an accident happens they disqualify China (and maybe rightfully I'm no expert in this sport)

2 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

Wait for 2022 , Chinese will revenge and Koreans will be the ones to disqualify 

Chinese are not notorious for cheating at home. at least not as much as Korea.

We know Korea a bit better since they compete in Asia, whenever they host a competition you know bad things will happen. 2002 and 2014 Asian Games were disastrous. I'm not talking about some few mistakes but blatant cheating. they even cheat in badminton, I still remember how they made Taufik Hidayat crying in the team final.

What China did wrong ?!

btw I have to read the rules. looks like disqualifying China is written there, because whatever happens they always disqualify the Chinese skater

I'm no expert in this and don't know the rules exactly but how come they didn't disqualify Korea ?! for few seconds they had two skaters on the track !

6 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Then you are ignoring the facts... Their doubles haven't been bad at different track in the recent times, and apart from them it's just the German that achieved the unusual result...

 

Most importantly, everyone here has to acknowledge a fact that Yun wouldn't have won a gold medal if these Olympics have been held anywhere else. He is not really an athlete who already had a good career and the home Olympics came as a bonus. No, he was created for the home Olympics. Fact.

That was my point, I know he is talented and deserves the gold for sure. but I mean why Korea couldn't create someone like him in Alpine or CC or Biathlon or even Ski Jumping. I'm sure they tried them too but eventually forced to buy foreign athletes to be at least a bit competitive.

Out of all these sports, Iran sport channel picked up Skeleton for live coverage today morning I wonder how many people woke up 5 am to watch Skeleton ! maybe zero (can't count myself, I was watching Alpine)

Korea winning the gold here makes me think if Skeleton is easy to learn and improve ?! Korea probably was nobody in this sport 10 years ago. I'm sure they invested money in all winter sports , not just this one.

1 minute ago, Gianlu33 said:

Not a good run for Paris

 

I guess you said the same for Moelgg ,she ended up first hope the same for Paris

This team event format looks very stupid, why not giving 10-8-6-4-2 points for the free skating. with this format short programs mostly determine the medal winners.

Iran beat Japan 4-0 for the 12th Asian title. but the match wasn't really easy, for whatever reason our players sometimes lose confidence against Japan. Japan was even a bit better before the 1st goal but when Iran scored in the last minute of the 1st half that was easy from then.

winning Asia is nothing new for Iran but this time they won it much easier, they are improved a lot since last tournament . interesting that one match changed our futsal , I'm talking about that Brazil match in World Cup 1/8 final.

This is really disgusting

https://gizmodo.com/north-korean-and-iranian-athletes-at-the-olympics-wont-1822821900

but yeah they are "western countries" they are always right . they can mix sports with politics , that's OK for them.

btw Iranian sport officials took it insulting , the government already summon the South Korean ambassador in Tehran for this. and even a boycott is not off the table (which is not going to happen IMO)

2 hours ago, Dragon said:

Case #97  Iran#1
 Athlete: Omid Abolhassani
Sport: Football
Duration: 48 months
Expiration: October 2021
Substance: higenamine.
Source: http://www.iranado.ir/index.aspx?siteid=1&pageid=141&newsview=1567

Case #98  Iran#2
 Athlete: Mostafa Ghiasi Cheka
Sport: Wrestling
Duration: : 48 months
Expiration: August 2021
Substance: Clenbuterol
Source: http://www.iranado.ir/index.aspx?siteid=1&pageid=141&newsview=1567

Case #99  Iran#3
 Athlete: Hadis Sharifi
Sport: Athletics
Duration: 48 months
Expiration: October 2021
Substance: Stanozolol
Source: http://www.iranado.ir/index.aspx?siteid=1&pageid=141&newsview=1567

Case #100  Iran#4
 Athlete: Leyla Koohkan
Sport: Athletics
Duration: 48 months
Expiration: October 2021
Substance: higenamine., Stanozolol and Morphine
Source: http://www.iranado.ir/index.aspx?siteid=1&pageid=141&newsview=1569

Case #101  Iran#5
 Athlete: Amir Hossein Shafiei
Sport: Cycling - Track
Duration: 48 months
Expiration: August 2021
Substance: Testosterone
Source: http://www.iranado.ir/index.aspx?siteid=1&pageid=141&newsview=1569

Case #102  Iran#6
 Athlete: Negar Alimohammadi
Sport: Canoeing Sprint
Duration: 48 months
Expiration: September 2021
Substance: Stanozolol, Mesterolone and Metenolone

Source: http://www.iranado.ir/index.aspx?siteid=1&pageid=141&newsview=1569

As you can see I have had problems with google translating Persian.
I would be grateful if anyone can fill in missing details before I update the main lists
 

Done, I also fixed few names.