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Russia usually dominates the freestyle and this time they are the host. no surprise. and these new rules are strongly in favor of them. actually UWW made them because of Russia's influence. some other big wrestling nations are against them (I know Iran, USA and Japan). during the Asian Champs. all Asian countries sent a joint letter to UWW asking them to change the weight-in system because this is not good for health but of course they didn't give a shit. if you notice they still followed the one-day format for the Asian Championship. Russian wrestleres are technically great, everybody knows that, but they usually gas after 3-4 minutes. that's how you can beat them if you are not technically as good as them. now with this rule they have more time to recover in long tournaments. I believe in current Russian squad, they have very good chance (almost certain) to win the gold in the world at 61kg. 92kg. but 74kg. 125kg and 86kg are almost impossible for them. this year Asian countries will focus more on the Asian Games, good chance for Russia to make up for last year's poor results. I guess they will win 4-5 gold medals in World Championship only in freestyle. and the big question is. which weight the great Sadulaev will pick for Tokyo 2020 ! will he challenge Snyder for 97kg gold or he will cut weight back to challenge our Yazdani for 86kg gold ? of course I hope he picks Snyder to take revenge

Turkey has a history of buying Russian wrestlers and changing their names. I can name 4-5 right now. Bereket, Shahin, Yashar, both Erdogans, but I believe Demirtas is a true Turk !

I think Conyedo is OK. losing 5-4 to Odikadze in his first serious international competition is not a bad result. even though he is no Chamizo. speaking of Chamizo. he really impressed me by beating Tsabalov. not long ago he won a world medal at 57kg and now he is wrestling almost 20 kilograms up ! I would like to watch his matchup with Burroughs. life will be harder for Burroughs with this new weight-in system. while Chamizo has no problem in his new weight.

After such a bad start. losing to Kazakhstan and almost losing to USA. all of a sudden Iran changed gear and beat everybody to advance to the 1st division for the 1st time ever ! Noshad Alamian beat some good players on the way. he beat Kou Lei in last match to finish the job. PS: I think Iran even had a top 8 finish but that was long long time ago when Table tennis wasn't an Olympic sport.

2019 AFC Asian Cup draW A: B: C: D: E: F: there is no group of death but I believe group B and E are a bit tougher and then group F. even tough with 24 teams format all top teams will advance to the next round.

Some interesting matches for the 1st day of freestyle competition. 65kg will be very interesting with Aliyev, Khinchegashvili and Bekbulatov 97kg as well. with Baitsaev vs Conyevdo in 1st round. interesting to see Pavlo Oliinik representing Hungary ! Top half looks not that hard for the Caucasus bear Ketoev here is my prediction about the finals. 57; Uguev vs Edisherashvili 65; Aliyev vs Khinchegashvili 70; Kurbanaliev vs Gadzhiev 79, Shabanov vs Gadzhimagomedov 97, Ketoev vs Baitsaev

what the hell ! How could this happen in the middle of an international competition ？ this is great if they want to have peace but can't they just start from somewhere else ? and not with this stupid unified team idea in sports competition ? they can have their unified team when they merge their countries into ONE. not now. I also heard they want to have a unified team for the Asian Games later this year !

Vlasov is master in big throws like this, he was waiting for that chance and took it. but I'm not agree with the caution, Nemes was not passive at the time. I would give a second caution to Vlasov to be honest. not a robbery because it was a close decision which usually goes in favor of Russia.

Yep. new rule since 2018. because they want one day to "promote" the finalists for the 2nd day. we saw how they promote today by having such a great website.

my first day preview turned out to be no good btw I couldn't watch a single minute today. thanks to UWW website 60; The level looks low in this weight. no big name. bunch of new wrestlers. I expect another AZE-RUS final but everything is possible I watched that Emelin guy before. nothing special 67; we have Mukhtarov, Surkov and Daurov in top half, I go with Surkov of Russia, I see Bolkvadze as the main favorite in bottom half, can't see anybody close to him. maybe Turkey. 72; interesting match between Kurak and Korpasi in first round. probably will determine the top half finalist. bottom half also looks interesting with Chunayev and Cataraga. we also have Lomadze and Cojocari . pretty interesting level for a non-Olympic weight. 82; another interesting competition in a non-Olympic weight. so many good wrestlers in top half including the world champion Manukyan. we have Szabo, Abacharaev, Aleksandrov and the Turkish guy Kus. in bottom half I give more chance to Huseynov. but he has to beat Datunashvili in 2nd round. slim chance for Sasounovski. 97; no doubt Aleksanyan is my pick for the gold. we may have the world final replay in SF between Aleksanyan and Evloev. we also have the veteran Noumonvi but I don't think he can beat either any of these two guys.. bottom half looks more competitive. we have Ildem. Azizsir, the Georgian guy, Kajaia and even Nuriyev. we also have Balasz Kiss . he surprised me big time by winning bronze in the world last year.

Yeah we have par-terre but it's a bit different this time. only maximum two. one per period. which means only two passivity cautions per match, not necessarily one for each wrestler.

well hard to say. wrestling is a different sport with this new weight-in rules. I don't know how much these guys cut to make the weight, that's a big big factor. 55; I only know the Azeri guy Azizli. even the Russian guy is new for me ( a bit lazy to check their junior records) so I guess Azizli is my pick here 63, again I'm going with the Azeri guy Mammadov. even though he has Russia in 2nd round. we have Olympic medalist Berge from Norway on top half but I don't really consider him a great wrestler. he is just a tough guy. 77; the great Roman Vlasov is back. he has his dark horse Mursaliyev in top half but I think Vlasov will beat him this time. the bottom half will be between Lorincz and Nemes. Lorincz is good in par-terre (which is a new addition per new rules) Nemes has to be careful not getting a caution, Lorincz can score big if you give him the chance being on top. Nemes has a tough draw actually he has to beat Etlinger and then Kilov before even meeting Lorincz 87; I think the 1st round match between Abdesalam and Kobliashvili is the key match for the top half. the bottom half looks much tougher with both last year world medalists Kudla and Basar. the Russian guy. and also Lorincz. for whatever reason Kudla had full support of the referes in 2016 Olympics and 2017 worlds gifting him an Olympic bronze and world silver. he won medals by doing actually nothing. the world champion Basar is also not a great wrestler. he just took his chance last year. I believe Russia and Hungary will go to the final from the bottom half. The Egyptian guy Abdusalam is my pick for the gold. that's a bold prediction I know. 130; Kayaalp will win the gold 90%, I'm surprised Georgia didn't send their World Junior Champion Phartanidze. even though Kajaia is still favorite for making to the final and have the honor of losing to Kayaalp in the final. and thanks God. no Heiki Nabi after zillion years of watching him boring everybody to death and winning matches by doing NOTHING.

Yep. check the UWW website. only 8 wrestlers for 55kg !! maybe having that weight wasn't really a good idea. PS: UWW's new version is a bit hard to work with. not user friendly. I would like to have a PDF version

I thought this year we have a good chance to advance to the 1st division with two players around 70th in world ranking but then I looked at the rosters. Denmark, Ukraine, even Kazakhstan have players lower than 50th place. good luck in 2020 in second devision

UNITED STATES 12 ROMANIA 11 IRELAND 10 BULGARIA 9 POLAND 8 NORWAY 7 TUNISIA 6 AUSTRIA 5 MOLDOVA 4 SLOVAKIA 3 KAZAKHSTAN 2 ESTONIA 1 These were the votes of Iran. Thank you all!

ROMANIA 11 IRELAND 10 BULGARIA 9 POLAND 8 NORWAY 7 TUNISIA 6 AUSTRIA 5 MOLDOVA 4 SLOVAKIA 3 KAZAKHSTAN 2 ESTONIA 1

Good morning Totallympics, this is Iran calling! These are the results of the votes of the Iranian National Jury: IRELAND 10 BULGARIA 9 POLAND 8 NORWAY 7 TUNISIA 6 AUSTRIA 5 MOLDOVA 4 SLOVAKIA 3 KAZAKHSTAN 2 ESTONIA 1

Happy Birthday Rodrigo lol yeah I became 34 few months sooner than you

two more medals for Iran in the last day. gold and bronze. 1) this was worst ever result for Iranian girls at the world Juniors with only one bronze medal 2) this was best ever result for Iranian boys with 7 gold and 2 bronze medals only one failed to win a medal

wow. what a great tournament for Iran so far only one bronze so far for the girl's team but the boys completely dominated the competition. winning 6 gold (and a bronze) out of 8 weights so far is quite an achievement. specially in this sport where everybody is competitive.

Yeah, exactly. the same for me. but after all. certain teams always benefit from the refs. well done Juve. but they should go for the 4th goal with shitty Real defense instead of parking the bus and waiting for the extra time.

I don't follow Cycling that much. but I think the Petrochimi Tabriz team doesn't exist anymore, the city of Tabriz also has another team "Shahrdari" though. no idea. maybe they lost interest, and obviously Iran is getting weaker in cycling after some of those veterans finally retired after million years ! btw Iran used to host so many Continental tours per year. but only one of them is still alive. I guess that shows the level of interest of Cycling here. Cycling only making the headlines here after the doping cases.

nope, Russia and Iran btw we only got bad and worse results since the "Rio disaster" but this was a good result here in Tunisia. good too see our TKD is still alive. even though winning only one gold medal is a bit disappointing.

The article says each country can qualify 1 per gender and then 2 more with 10-19 doping cases . means 3+3, for Iran just 3 Edit OMG ! I made a mistake. you are right. we can't qualify more than 2. that's much worse. I could live with 3 but now just 2 ??!!! I wonder if IWF counted those numbers before making the rules. why 10 ? and not 12 for example ? I wonder if it had something to do with our federation not backing Ajan during the IWF election and trying to support his rival.

oh Great, there are only THREE sports we can win medal at the Olympics and they are making our chance less and less first IOC dropped a weight class, then IWF made the limit of max 4 per NOC and now this doping rule means we can't qualify more than 3 weightlifters right now we have FOUR former or current Olympic champions in our squad plus 3-4 more world medalists and only 3 of them can go to Tokyo I took a look and damn we have exactly 10 doping cases since 2009 we will lose a very important Olympic quota just because some stupid kids took drugs few years ago during the Asian Juniors thanks to one corrupt coach Iran had no positive cases since 2014 but well... Kazakhstan already has more than 20 and Russia also will surpass that number when they announce the sanctions for re-analysis , same goes to Belarus and Azerbaijan. they can qualify only ONE weightlifter ! I'm a bit lazy to count for the rest. but it seems Armenia is also in danger.