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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

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)

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 !

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.

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)

Done, I also fixed few names.

We already have quarterfinals in the 2018 Asian Championships Lebanon vs Iraq Iran vs Thailand Japan vs Bahrain Vietnam vs Uzbekistan today was very surprising that Iran beat Iraq today only 5-3 after two one-sided matches ! now I'm a bit worried about the Thailand match . they lost to Lebanon but that was just an accident. they are still a very very tricky opponent for Iran. for winning the title Iran has to go through all 3 main rivals. Thailand (QF), Uzbekistan (SF) and Japan !

Is Futsal changing in Europe or favorites are not just in good shapes ? hard to believe Spain can't beat debutante France ! and Russia not beating Poland. Italy also .

on paper Macedonia still can beat Denmark tomorrow and eliminates you. you need Macedonia not getting more than 1 point in next two matches.

This is the 2nd time Albania winning its first ever world championship medal and then losing it for doping violation !! Didzbalis failing doping means a bronze medal for Qatar and our Mousavi will be upgraded to silver from bronze. Begaj won silver over USA and Colombia, they will get silver and bronze. and I hope for no more doping violation.

I'm sure you know more about Handball in general but I don't think he is a good friend of Asian Handball president. he is from Kuwait and IHF always looking for a reason to ban Kuwait (rightfully though) . you guys probably still remember what happened in 2008 Olympics qualifier. and I have to say Asian Handball was a joke until few years ago 2009/2010 when IHF finally forced them to use European referees for crucial matches. of course half of Asian countries are happy with this and support the current IHF.

not a big surprise Actually South Korea not beating Bangladesh with the same margin surprised me more ! they lost only 46-20 and how the hell Bangladesh managed to score 20 goals on them ?! the 1st round is quite useless and shameful, look at the tomorrow matches. all 6 matches will be heavily one-sided. with at least 10-20 goals difference, probably much more. I think 6 teams are competing for 4 World Cup slots, Qatar, Bahrain, Iran, Korea, Japan and Saudi Arabia.

nah, that's not true. even though he deserves to be in jail for life more than any other person in Iran but he has nothing to do with the protests. he just shot his big mouth up when things got serious .

Iran is ready for what ? this is funny how people/foreign media think something big is happening in Iran, this is not even 5% of what happened in 2009, 3 millions were at the streets of Tehran at the time and yet the regime survived that. yeah people are not happy about so many things here but most of the protests are about the financial situations . nothing big is going to happen. personally I wish to see regime change in Iran in my life time (only peacefully though) but this is not going to happen, I lost hope on that long time ago.

well not really, there was a vote in a popular football show in Iran (show about European football) about the best player in 2017-2018 half season in European football and Salah came second behind Messi.

Congrats, I would vote him the best player in the world. and I'm not kidding, (Ronaldo/Messi are boring lol) he is winning matches for Liverpool which is an average team without him.

Yeah but you have to beat South Korea for the gold, they are master of cheating in sports and they won't give up gold medals easily. btw I remember Indonesia included Poomsae for the 2013 Islamic Games program and Iran won 4 out of 5 gold medals Are u telling me that Indonesia can't win 20-30 gold medals in Pencak Silat, Jet Ski, Paragliding, Bridge, Dragon Boat and Sport Climbing ? and of course Badminton, beside that you have Weightlifting and Wushu. any other sport with realistic "gold" medal chances for you ? Rowing or Karate maybe ? I just saw the Rowing program, so many lightweight events . no surprise for a top 6 finish , even 15 gold medals will be enough most probably. even though we have so many big changes in the program, so the medal table might be very different this time. hard to say which countries will gain from this. Sambo and Kurash will be good for our rivals Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. even though we also can expect gold in Kurash. no idea about Ju-jitsu, they didn't mention if it's Brazilian JJ (ne-waza) or simple fighting system. fighting system would be perfect for Iran but I assume they will go with the Ne-waza system which will give few gold medals to UAE ! I'm quite sure Indonesia is innocent in adding these new martial arts sports. OCA wanted to satisfy few west/central Asian countries .

yeah Indonesia won the gold medal in men's team Poomsae event at the AIMAG 2017 but they beat Iran by a very small margin and South Korea didn't participate. they most probably will win all 4 Poomsae gold medals. but winning silver/bronze is better than winning nothing I guess. well OCA website is publishing more details about the events and I'm getting more and more upset and disappointed . I thught we will have 17 Canoe sprint events but nope . 5 of them will be traditional boat race (Dragon boat right ?) in boxing they dropped 3 heaviest weights !!!!!!! which means 75kg will be heaviest weight there, in wegihtlifting they dropped the most prestigious class ! the supper heavyweight !! another sure gold for Iran is gone ! even though I think IWF will change the weight classes completely because of 7+7 rules for Tokyo Olympics. so I assume this is not final in shooting they changed the whole program. we will have 15 Olympic events plus few more . guess what ? 10m running target and running target mixed !!! plus 300m rifle ! I was wrong about table tennis, we will have team events actually but they dropped both men and women double ! (mixed doubles will be there ) ------------ with this program, Indonesia won't finish worst than 4th , I think there is even a chance for catching Japan for the 3rd place. as for Iran, we are losing so many gold medal chances, I'm not saying we are without chance in these new events . we will win silver and bronze medals but I care more about gold medals at the Asian Games. the only good news is this time we will have the Asian Games two months before the World Champs in Wrestling (which is always our best sport to win multiple gold medals), which means we can send our top team to Jakarta. in past editions that was mostly a mixture of A and B teams. and they were mostly very tired after the World Champs. if we want to win something around 20 gold medals. we need wrestling to win at least 6-7 gold medals.

Looks like the Asian Games organizers finally confirmed 462 events for Jakarta 2018. even though it's really hard to find the details . but this pic shows the initial list and we had few changes this week . they dropped 3 events from Boxing, 2 from Sambo and Cycling, 1 from Kurash, Wushu, Karate and Ju-jitsu instead they added 2 events in Taekwondo and Shooting, 4 in Sport Climbing and 3 in Archery. the Taekwondo program is really funny, they dropped non-Olympic events to have boring stupid Poomsae competition !! later they added two more non-Olympic events. (63kg men, 53kg women), probably because Indonesia is good in these two weights ?! in all other sports they dropped the heaviest weight. again because people in East Asia are not that heavy ! in Cycling they dropped the both BMX freestyle events. they added 3 in Archery, we were supposed to have full Recurve program (individual, team, mixed team) now we have 3 compound events ! Iranian sources claim they will be team compound (me and women and mixed) but that doesn't make sense, probably both individual events and mixed team. they didn't change their initial proposal to drop team events in Table tennis, tennis and soft tennis but not in badminton ! guess why ? the only "positive" is to see 17 events for Sprint Canoeing, their original plan was 12 Olympic events