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to be accurate Iran was "disqualified" for not having enough players ! OCA knew the situation about those players and still gave them their ID cards for the event but later some countries apparently protested that , since Ice Hockey doesn't exist in Iran, that left Iran with only 9 eligible players ! (those are in fact inline hockey players) they are still in Sapporo playing according to the schedule but only their results count as friendlies ! with only 9 inline hockey players they lost 8-1 to Macau

yes and they are already in Iran, waiting for the start of the competition tomorrow. the problem is solved at least FOR NOW. the competition will start tomorrow Group A Iran, Turkey, India, Mongolia Group B Russia, USA, Azerbaijan, Gerogia easy group for Iran, while group B is tougher. Russia is sending a 2nd/3rd tier team (still strong though) I think it will be between USA and Azerbaijan, and I expect a Iran-USA final.

Nice job by UWW All Wrestling Action from the Olympic Games Rio 2016 Now Available to Fans for the First Time https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/all-wrestling-action-from-the-olympic-games-rio-2016-now-available-to-fans-for-the-first

Yes I was expecting the same, at least based on previous news. American wrestlers are usually quite popular here and always welcomed , I'm sure even our wrestling federation didn't expect such answer from the government but apparently since yesterday they will go as "an eye for an eye" policy against Trump. yesterday USA announced Iran Archery team can't go there for the World Cup in USA (they already had their visa) on 10 February. they are saying "we didn't start this, they did"

Iran will host the freestyle World Cup in two weeks, the best 8 teams from the 2016 Olympics including USA were invited to the event. but since dumbass Trump banned Iranians from entering the USA, Iran did the same. in past few days we were expecting them to make an exception for the US wrestling team but surprisingly today they said NO and US team can't enter Iran ! this is really disappointing, I won't surprise if UWW cancels the tournament since there is no time left to change the host.

Terrible accident today in the heart of Tehran. I went to that building so many times. R.i.p to the victims. specially firefighters watching pictures of firefighters (who are supposed to be tough) crying for their friends/colleagues were really heart breaking. The most annoying part was those stupid people blocking roads to take pics or film with their phones so that hospital personal cant get trough with injured people.

Rumors say UWW is into some revolutionary changes , if their board approves this we wlil have 3 major changes 1. Increasing the number of weights per style to 10. still only 6 will be at the Olympics. 2. 2 day tournaments, means semis and finals will be held on the second day 3. Same day weigh-in ! Specially the 3rd is a big big change, at the moment we have weight-in one day before the competition, which let wrestlers to cut huge weights. for example wrestlers at 65kg category are usually 70kg or more in the competition day.

well there were rumors about two wrestlers Taymazov (UZB) and Fedoryshin (UKR) ! since UWW officially denied rumors about Asgarov (AZE) and didn't say anything about these two cases , they are probably more than just rumors. Akkaev is a weightlifter. ironically he didn't even particpate in London 2012. came to the location but withdrew in the last day because of an "injury"

New list from IOC ! https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-eight-athletes-for-failing-anti-doping-test-at-beijing-2008-and-london-2012 Lei CAO - 2008 - Weightlifting (Women's 75kg) - Gold medal Xiexia CHEN - 2008 - Weightlifting (Women's 48kg) - Gold medal Chunhong LIU - 2008 - Weightlifting (Women's 69kg) - Gold medal Nadzeya OSTAPCHUK - 2008 - Athletics (Women's shot put) - Bronze medal Darya PCHELNIK - 2008 - Athletics (Women's hammer throw) Sibel SIMSEK - 2012 - Weightlifting (Women's 63kg) Intigam ZAIROV - 2012 - Weightlifting (Men's 94kg) Norayr VARDANYAN - 2012 - Weightlifting (Men's 94kg) if I'm not wrong IOC talked about 101 positive results in re-testing, (so far) now with this they already sanctioned 96 cases. which mean 5 more remaining.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani one of the most important persons in the history of Iran died yesterday at 82. He was number 2 (or maybe even the real number 1) for so many years, 30 maybe. he was a key person in 1979 revolution and that bloody 8 years Iran-Iraq war, actually the one who ended the war. so many secrets and stories die with him. for years he was the most hated person in Iran and since life is unpredictable (and so the politics in Iran) he eventually died as a "good man" and people are actually mourning for him. Good or bad, his death will be a big blow for Hassan Rohani

A member of Iran Greco-Roman wrestling team in Rio Bashir Babajanzadeh (130kg) tested positive for doping and received 4 years ban from UWW but not for the Olympics but the last event before the Olympics. ! (Greco World Cup in Iran) I guess this will disqualify his result in Rio as well (even though he was terrible and lost in QF) this makes him the 2nd Iranian ever at the Olympics to get his results disqualified for a doping violation. that was a shame, considering his age and this 4 years ban we will never see him again on the mat "hopefully"

UWW is considering a new qualification system for the 2020 Olympics, if confirmed they will use a ranking system, based on world and continental championship and few selected international tournaments. this is just a proposal for now but UWW is seriously working on it.

According to Iran NOC, they received a letter from IOC, informing them to return Kianoush Rostami's bronze medal and diploma from 2012 Olympics, apparently they officially awarded him the silver medal

I thnk they should seriously change the name of "Greco-Roman wrestling" into "Caution wrestling" or something like that. this is terrible, absolutely terrible. if they bring this into the Olympics with these rules, Greco-Roman will be out of the Olympics for sure. these rules are only good for age group or minor events, while in highest level it's really hard to score. in these 2 days most matches were decided by cautions. if you check the results you can see a lot of "1-1" or "2-1" scores. means nobody actually scored and all those points were from cautions. for example tonight in 3 medal round matches, 2 of them decided purely by cautions, and in the final we had only ONE takedown ! which means only one scoring technique in 3 matches, 18 minutes !! and obviously with rules like this, the host nation will benefit the most ! Hungary won nothing in Rio but here with two average wrestlers they finished with 1 gold and 1 bronze !! (btw UWW had to make up for them, Lorincz got robbed blatantly in Rio)

We will have World Championships for non-Olympic weights starting from tomorrow, the brackets are out. tough draw for Biaboongard in Greco but it's not that bad for our Ehsanpour in freestyle. I think the level is quite good, interestingly wrestlers from the 2016 Olympics are NOT allowed to compete here. beside that we had World Club Championships in the same venue yesterday and today, important competition because that was the first senior tournament with these new rules in Greco-Roman. I have to admit matches are more interesting and more active because of these rules but yet we had so many matches decided by the referees !! it's hard to score in standing position in Greco in high level matches and then refs will decide the winner. I still think the forced par-terre should be a part of Greco-Roman wrestling.

I'm sure you know better than me but if you read IOC reports they say The IWF is requested to modify the results of the above-mentioned event accordingly and to consider any further action within its own competence. Doesn't it mean that IOC will accept IWF's decision no matter what ? it's like they are saying they have done their part and it's now an IWF matter

Yeah , not only Aukhadov, they redistributed few more medals.they closed the case and officially dsiqualified few more athletes like Chinshanlo, Maneza, Podobedova and Rybakov. 2008 http://www.iwf.net/results/results-by-events/?event=21 2012 http://www.iwf.net/results/results-by-events/?event=214

The mastermind of Kazakhstan Dopinglifting is now resigned ! this is his interview . you probably remember this guy "Alexey Ni" with his celebrations "Kazakhstan Number 1" !! http://www.inform.kz/en/alexey-ni-my-resignation-is-a-sign-of-solidarity-with-my-team_a2973588 I still can't believe how come they let Kazakhstan participate in Rio in this sport ! almost their whole squad from 2008 and 2012 failed the test and they also had a big number of positive tests from 2015 Worlds ! beside that almost their whole 2016 squad had a history of doping suspension ! you can't find a country with a doping record worse than this in any sport ! Kazakhstan is indeed "number one" but in doping.

and finally Ilyin ! They disqualified 7 athletes but two of them got it twice for both 2008 and 2012 ! https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-seven-athletes-for-failing-anti-doping-tests-at-beijing-2008-and-london-2012 Ilya ILIN - 2008 - Weightlifting (Men's 94kg) - Gold medal Pavel LYZHYN - 2008 - Athletics (Men's shot put) Aksana MIANKOVA - 2008 - Athletics (Women's hammer throw) - Gold medal Natallia MIKHNEVICH - 2008 - Athletics (Women's shot put) - Silver medal Sviatlana USOVICH - 2008 - Athletics (Women's 800m) Ilya ILIN - 2012 - Weightlifting (Men's 94kg) - Gold medal Aksana MIANKOVA - 2012 - Athletics (Women's hammer throw) Boyanka KOSTOVA - 2012 - Weightlifting (Women's 58kg) Nastassia MIRONCHYK-IVANOVA - 2012 - Athletics (Women's long jump)

oh no ! another "brilliant" idea by IOC. looks like they don't understand the importance of the Olympics !

I wonder when IOC will announce it officially. with Ilyin's suspension we most probably will have our 5th gold medal (13th medal overall) from London 2012 !!! I think London 2012 will remain our best Olympic ever for a while ! maybe ever. hard to match those results with current financial issues.

It seems UWW officially re-awarded medals from 2008 and 2012 re-testing. even though all of them are from 2008. the only case from 2012 (so far) was Kudukhov, IOC decided to not disqualify him since he is not alive. https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/todo 2008 - Men's Greco-Roman 60kg Vitaliy Rahimov - Silver medal ==> Disqualification Nurbakyt Tengizbayev - Bronze medal ==> Silver medal Sheng Jiang - 5th place ==> Bronze medal 2008 - Men's Greco-Roman 96kg Asset Mambetov - Bronze medal ==> Disqualification Mark Svec - 5th place ==> Bronze medal 2008 - Men's Greco-Roman 120kg Khasan Baroev - Silver medal ==> Disqualification Mindaugas Mizgaitis - Bronze medal ==> Silver medal Yannick Szczepaniak - 5th place ==> Bronze medal 2008 - Men's Freestyle 74kg Soslan Tigiev - Silver medal ==> Disqualification Murad Gaidarov - Bronze medal ==> Silver medal Gheorghita Stefan - 5th place ==> Bronze medal 2008 - Men's Freestyle 96kg Taymuraz Tigiyev - Silver medal ==> Disqualification Giorgi Gogshelidze - Bronze medal ==> Silver medal Michel Batista - 5th place ==> Bronze medal

New list of 2012 disqualification mostly in weightlifting and mostly 94kg https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-12-athletes-for-failing-anti-doping-test-at-london-2012 They disqualified almost everybody but Ilyin !! I wonder if they are letting him get away with this. Andrey DEMANOV - 2012 - Weightlifting (Men's 94kg) Oleksandr DRYGOL - 2012 - Athletics (Men's hammer throw) Cristina IOVU - 2012 - Weightlifting (Women's 53kg) - Bronze medal Alexandr IVANOV - 2012 - Weightlifting (Men's 94kg) - Silver medal Hripsime KHURSHUDYAN - 2012 - Weightlifting (Women's +75kg) - Bronze medal Iryna KULESHA - 2012 - Weightlifting (Women's 75kg) - Bronze medal Rauli TSIREKIDZE - 2012 - Weightlifting (Men's 85kg) Margaryta TVERDOKHLIB - 2012 - Athletics (Women's long jump) Almas UTESHOV - 2012 - Weightlifting (Men's 94kg) Nataliya ZABOLOTNAYA - 2012 - Weightlifting (Women's 75kg) - Silver medal Yuliya Zaripova - 2012 - Athletics (3000m steeplechase) - Gold medal Anatoli CIRICU - 2012 - Weightlifting (Men's 94kg) - Bronze medal

Japan won the Asian Championship after beating Kazakhstan 7-6 in the final http://www.asc2016tokyo.org/download.php?id=50&file=2 but surprisingly Iran managed to bring China into the penalties , even though they lost the bronze medal ! http://www.asc2016tokyo.org/download.php?id=49&file=2 still it was a big surprise since 2002 we never were close to big 3 of Asian water polo. even though they lost big time to Japan and Kazakhstan. there is still a big gap. In the women's side, China won the gold as usual, Japan 2nd, Kazakhstan 3rd. http://www.asc2016tokyo.org/download.php?id=2&file=1

IOC disqualified a new list of athletes https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-16-athletes-for-failing-anti-doping-tests-at-beijing-2008 we already knew most of them but there are still some new names (some big names) in wrestling, including Khasan Baroev !!! we also have Asset Mambetov and Vitaliy Rahimov Khadzhimurat AKKAEV - 2008 - Weightlifting (Men's 94kg) - Bronze medal Khasan BAROEV - 2008 - Wrestling (Men's Greco-Roman 120kg) - Silver medal Natalya DAVYDOVA - 2008 - Weightlifting (Women's 69kg) - Bronze medal Chrysopigi DEVETZI - 2008 - Athletics (Women's triple jump) - Bronze medal Mariya GRABOVETSKAYA - 2008 - Weightlifting (Women's +75kg) - Bronze medal Iryna KULESHA - 2008 - Weightlifting (Women's 75kg) Dmitry LAPIKOV - 2008 - Weightlifting (Men's 105kg) - Bronze medal Asset MAMBETOV - 2008 - Wrestling (Men's Greco-Roman 96kg) - Bronze medal Maya MANEZA - 2008 - Weightlifting (Women's 63kg) Irina NEKRASSOVA - 2008 - Weightlifting (Women's 63kg) - Silver medal Vita PALAMAR - 2008 - Athletics (Women's high jump) Nizami PASHAYEV - 2008 - Weightlifting (Men's 94kg) Vitaliy RAHIMOV - 2008 - Wrestling (Men's Greco-Roman 60kg) - Silver medal Vladimir SEDOV - 2008 - Weightlifting (Men's 85kg) Elena SLESARENKO - 2008 - Athletics (Women's high jump) Denys YURCHENKO - 2008 - Athletics (Men's pole vault) - Bronze medal