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no idea. I just repeated what I read but I won't be surprised if they make a mistake like this. the officials here are usually terrible in reading the rules. if I remember correctly they sent an Ice hockey team to the Games back in 2017 but most of the players were ineligible to play per IIHF rules and they played some friendlies instead btw there is a federation, but not an ISU member. Ice Skating (which has a very very limited activity here) was a part of Skating (roller sports) federation but now moved to Skiing federation which officially changed its name to Skiing and Winter Sports Federation.

yeah I know I mean it wasn't a different team specific for that sport. it was the same CC team participating in both sports.

from what I heard , Iran has registered to participate in Alpine, CC skiing, SkiMo, Skating (they didn't mention which discipline ) and ... (this one will be surprising ) ... Curling Curling is not a sure thing yet, the NOC has to approve it. the team is very new. I mean very very new, only few months ago they gathered few people to start the sport you can't lose 100-0 in Curling, right ? anyway it will be first time ever Iran participating outside of FIS disciplines. ( I didn't count Ski orienteering in 2011 which was the same as CC) nobody cares about winter sports here. therefore finishing last won't have consequences. they can afford sending very weak teams. (which is not the case for the main Asian Games)

11 medals out of 15 athletes. for whatever reason we sent an incomplete team of 16 athletes (only 1 left for tomorrow) I wish I knew why I can guess though the result is indeed very good in such a competitive sport but lack of talent was never our problem in taekwondo. it was always there probably much more than any other country. but the problem is the transition to the senior team. most of previous junior world champions never even made the senior team. (the new federation is doing better in this regard though)

preliminary entry list for the World Championships (non-Olympic weights) 2024 https://uww.org/article/world-championships-non-olympic-weights-2024-entries Abdulrashid Sadulaev won the Russian trials yesterday (he didn't look good though) and therefore his name is here, as well as another Olympic Champion Zaur Uguev. with David Taylor, Jordan Burroughs and Reza Geraei we have at least 5 Olympic Champions in the list also interesting to see lots of guys (Berdimuratov, Ganbaatar, Tsakulov, Kaipanov etc) cut weight massively from their usual Olympic weight to wrestle here. which shows the importance of a World Championship title ps: 2024 Olympians are not allowed to wrestle here.

it happens when you think too much ahead about the next match (vs Brazil) while you have a tough opponent ahead. they gave up 4 silly goals in the first half and then it was a mountain to climb. Iran had a last penalty exactly in the last second which hit the bar have to admit Iran played terrible the entire match and didn't deserve the win but Morocco is also a very ugly team. lots of acting, deceiving, diving and protesting in the 2nd half. putting Iran in 5 fouls very early which made the team playing cautious

not really, there are some guys here and there still keeping the embassy in this and that country or the UN but there is nothing left of that previous government which was weak and corrupt and gave up everything easily to Taleban savages Taleban run everything inside the country, yet nobody officially recognizes them. sport organizations still recognize the old flag and the old national anthem etc. but unfortunately this is a lost cause, the world sooner of later has no choice but to accept these savages. so far Taleban is OK with this, they are busy with their own stupid/weird things inside the country. but I think at some point in future they will ban Afghan athletes inside Afghanistan to compete under this flag. IOC always can find some Afghan refugees in Europe to compete under the old Afghan flag though. this futsal team almost has no tie with the Taleban, most of these guys were/are refugees in Iran, they are from Hazara ethnic. (Talebans are mostly Pashtun) but even the Cricket team which consist of Pashtun people still compete under the old Afghan flag, as I said Talebs are OK with this FOR NOW. btw they had a great tournament. they lost to Paraguay only in extra time

UWW changes few things for Russian/Belarus wrestlers https://uww.org/article/uww-updates-eligibility-criteria-russia-belarus-wrestlers I assume with the new criteria almost all (if not all) of them will be eligible for UWW competitions. I'm talking about top Russian wrestlers. which means we will most probably see Sadulaev in Albania next month. Uguev too, from what I heard he has to wrestle AbbasGadzhi Magomedov first to make the team.

we had the first huge huge upset of the tournament, Venezuela knocked out one of the favorites Spain by a late goal. VEN advanced to the KO round as the 4th third-place team with -6 GD

both Iran and France wanted to lose. the match was very very ugly. the first half finished 0-0. France had zero shot on goal. Iran tried couple of shots . one of them was serious but then this happened at the start of 2nd half and after that our coach said OK I give up Frenchies are better actors. and then it was a serious match for something like 15 minutes Iran has a tough match vs Morocco first to meet the very strong Brazil in the QF. let's hope we see the repeat of 2016 match

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This is really disgusting France is even more determined to "not win" . they have a zero shot policy

secured a place in the knockout round by two big wins BUT based on what I saw in last two minutes (our key players intentionally receiving yellow cards to be suspended for the next match) I can imagine what's the plan for the last group match, losing intentionally to finish 2nd in the group (to avoid Brazil in possible QF) ironically they did the same last World Cup against Argentina, not trying to win, to finish 2nd in the group and that didn't turn out well. they got eliminated against Kazakhstan (Brazil B) in the QF it will be a shame repeating the same ugly tactic. and it will be harder this time. it was easy to lose to a top team like Argentina but losing to France ? that will be tough.

Hassan Yazdani after his shoulder surgery in France yesterday (he had another shoulder surgery last year which wasn't great and we saw what happened in the Olympic final ) most people thought the Olympic final was the last match of his career but that's not his plan. he still wants to come back to win that 2nd Olympic gold after losing two Olympic finals in 2021 and 2024 in dramatic ways even if everything goes well he will be out for 2025 season and will come back to the mat in 2026. he won World/Olympic medals from 2015 to 2024 and this means his 10-year streak will be broken

I think they (or the generation before them) also won few medals in previous World Skate Games (maybe in 2019 ?) in this discipline. they usually battle with Taiwanese girls/boys for the title in world and asian competitions. this time they won but it's usually a very narrow margin. and they lost it when it mattered the most in Hangzhou Asian Games. that was their only chance to make a name for themselves.

why that's surprising ? we are supposed to be only good in fighting sports ? one guy/girl probably started something and the rest followed. that's how a sport develops everywhere, right? almost all of these guys are from the same town (Isfahan) that probably explains it. lots of kids play/train different disciplines of skating here. (I mean for fun) unfortunately we have a very lousy skating federation which never capitalizes on this potential. only this discipline has some success. still no popularity for the so-called urban and youthful Olympic discipline of skateboarding. speed slalom was in 2022 Asian Games program, therefore some of these guys had a chance to be on TV for couple of days and the new world champion Taraneh Ahmadi is a little bit famous for winning a silver medal there. (first even Asian Games roller sports medal for Iran)

This is the knockout round bracket, teams from the same group will meet again in the QF so no matter what, France and Italy can't be in the semifinal together.

Group A is super easy !

I remember I read an interview with WL federation president who heard something from the Iraqi president of IWF. they are hopeful they can get back the same status as 2020 with 7 weight classes . maybe that's the case I didn't take it serious, to me it was just wishful thinking.

2024 World Championships. primary entry list https://mf.iwf.sport/entry_list/ I think only Chinese Olympic medalists are missing, but beside that everybody else is in the list, even likes of Talakhadze or Nasar there is one very interesting name here too, former Olympic Champion Kianoush Rostami under the name of Kosovo does he even know where is this place ? he is upset with our WL federation, this is his way of revenge

David Taylor surprisingly came out of retirement to try his chance in US trials at 92kg for 2024 World Championships (non-Olympic weights) this weekend there are some rumors that the great Abdulrashid Sadulev also wants to try his chance at 92kg to add another world title to his resume, personally I think that's not correct but we will see. but if this is true and if Taylor wins the US trials and again if Albania don't act shit like last year it will be a hell of a competition between Taylor, Sadulaev and Ghasempour. much more interesting than anything we saw in Paris. ps: the great Jordan Burroughs will wrestle in US trials too, probably for his last hurrah

Indonesia did great so far, but if they want to achieve something they also have to beat weaker teams (Bahrain, China) which is probably even a tougher task for a team like Indonesia. about Iran, under the current coach (who is a mafia boss IMO and I hate him more than any other sportspeople in the world) we only played one great match which was against Japan in Asia Cup QF and unfortunately that single win will keep him in this position for a long time I also think Iran came to this NT window completely unprepared. we were lucky to collect all 6pts. I believe we will do better next window.

We had few early red cards in today's AFC qualifier matches. PRK managed to get a draw from so-called Asian Champion Qatar despite playing almost the whole match with 10 men! Saudis despite one man down saved themselves by a very late goal and beat China Iraq also played the entire match with 10 players and managed to not lose to Kuwait. I believe they have a good chance to qualify behind South Korea which will qualify anyway Japan destroyed Bahrain too, 12 goals in 2 matches they are clearly a head and shoulder above everybody else. the rest have to fight for the 2nd spot in that group. Australia is in big trouble now with 1 point after 2 "easy" matches. as for Iran, despite playing not-so-good they still found a way to win matches 1-0. this reminds me of 2022 qualification campaign, when the team was playing no good yet managed to win matches mostly 1-0.

Thanks @phelps for gathering information but World Skate is an Olympic federation now, yet they can't provide a basic result system for their main event. OK I'm not asking for a live score system, but how hard it is to post results in PDF after each event ? not talking about the sport but this IF doesn't deserve to be in the Olympics.

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