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Draws are out for Asian Boxing Qualification tourney. you can find them on ASBC facebook account. none of our boxers will face Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan before the semifinal which means they can't complain ! but since the whole team is in terrible situation I will be happy with two quotas. best chances are in 75, +91.and maybe 91.

if I understand the rules correctly, if RUS and ITA finish tied with less than 8 goals, NED will top the group btw, in general tie breaking is a bit complicated in this sport if they finish 9-9, their match against the winner of FRA/GER match determine the group winner lol Page 60, here http://www.fina.org/sites/default/files/fina_wp_referees_manual.pdf

Serbia might get a gold medal after all, rumor says Islambek Albiev is also in the list, actually almost the whole Greco-Roman team. but again these are still rumors, even though very serious rumors.

Usually, Amoyan will take the gold, Islamov the silver and Fris the bronze medal bust still remember these news are still unofficial

based on my researches so far, here is the list of Russian wrestlers who failed the drug test to far, all of them accomplished wrestlers in Greco-Roman 1) Artem Surkov 2) Mingiyan Semenov 3) Davit Chakvetadze 4) Evgeny Saleev 5) Stepan Maryanyan 6) Sergey Semenov except the last name, the rest are famous, Surkov, M, Semenov and Saleev are World or Olympic medalists while Maryanyan and Chakvetadze are European champions

now it comes to wrestling ! http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sport-doping-wrestling-russia-idUSKCN0WO0ZG

A bit about selection process: in Athletics and Boxing, whoever wins the quota should to go Rio without any question in Archery, Shooting, whoever wins the quota most probably will be sent to Rio, in Taekwondo, those who qualified through ranking can only be replaced by someone in top 20, in this case Iran has athletes in top 20 in all 3 weights but coaches made it clear than Ashourzadeh, Khodabakhshi and Mardani will go to Rio unless they get injured. in Cycling, they will announce them after the Cycling season in Iran, in Weightlifting, they will announce the team few weeks before the games, right now they have 15 weightlifters in the camp but likes of Rostami and Moradi are already safe. in Wrestling, they had series of trial events and after that they announced a very short list of wrestlers for the final trials in April. in freestyle it will be mostly between two wrestlers in each weight except for 86kg where 4 wrestlers are in the list. also in 125kg they won the quota just today, I'm 99% sure it will be a wrestle-off between Hadi and Ghasemi. in Greco-Roman Abdevali is already selected, we will have a wrestle-off in 98kg and in 85kg, there are 6 wrestlers in the list to wrestle for the spot. beside that they won the 66kg quota just today, I will wait to know their decision about it.

Rio 2016 Olympic Team Archery (1) Women's Individual - Zahra Nemati Athletics (10) Men's 100m - Hassan Taftian Men's 100m - Reza Ghasemi Men's Marathon - Mohammad Jafar Moradi Men's 20km Walk - Hamid Reza Zouravand Men's Long Jump - Mohammad Arzandeh Men's Discus Throw - Ehsan Haddadi Men's Discus Throw - Mahmoud Samimi Men's Hammer Throw - Pejman Ghalehnoei Men's Hammer Throw - Kaveh Mousavi Women's Shot Put - Leila Rajabi Boxing (1) Men's 81kg - Ehsan Rouzbahani Canoeing Sprint (1) Men's C1 200m - Adel Mojallali Cycling Road (3) Men's Road Race and Individual Time Trial - Ghader Mizbani Men's Road Race - Arvin Moazzami Men's Road Race - Samad Pourseyedi Fencing (2) Men's Individual Sabre - Mojtaba Abedini Men's Individual Sabre - Ali Pakdaman Judo (3) Men's 66kg - Alireza Khojasteh Men's 81kg - Saeid Mollaei Men's 100kg - Javad Mahjoub Rowing (1) Women's Single Sculls - Mahsa Javar Shooting (5) Men's 10m Air Rifle, Men's 50m Rifle Prone and Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions - Pouria Norouzian Women's 10m Air Rifle - Elaheh Ahmadi Women's 10m Air Rifle and Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions - Najmeh Khedmati Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions - Mahlagha Jambozorg Women's 10m Air Pistol, Women's 25m Pistol - Golnoush Sebghatollahi Swimming (1) Men's 200m Breaststroke - Aria Nasimi Shad Table Tennis (3) Men's Singles - Nima Alamian Men's Singles - Noshad Alamian Women's Singles - Neda Shahsavari Taekwondo (4) Men's 58kg - Farzan Ashourzadeh Men's 80kg - Mehdi Khodabakhshi Men's +80kg - Sajjad Mardani Women's 57kg - Kimia Alizadeh Volleyball (12) Men's Team Weightlifting (5) Men's 85kg - Kianoush Rostami Men's 94kg - Ali Hashemi Men's 94kg - Sohrab Moradi Men's 105kg - Mohammad Reza Barari Men's +105kg - Behdad Salimi Wrestling (12) Men's 57kg Freestyle - Hassan Rahimi Men's 65kg Freestyle - Meisam Nassiri Men's 74kg Freestyle - Hassan Yazdani Men's 86kg Freestyle - Alireza Karimi Men's 97kg Freestyle - Reza Yazdani Men's 125kg Freestyle - Komeil Ghasemi Men's 59kg Greco-Roman - Hamid Sourian Men's 66kg Greco-Roman - Omid Norouzi Men's 75kg Greco-Roman - Saeid Abdevali Men's 85kg Greco-Roman - Habibollah Akhlaghi Men's 98kg Greco-Roman - Ghasem Rezaei Men's 130kg Greco-Roman - Bashir Babajanzadeh

Satyawart wasn't supposed to beat Musaev but yes he was one second away from the quota and only has himself to blame, what the hell was that Musaev was deadly tired. btw I watched almost the whole tournament, your Greco wrestlers are no pushover anymore, I see great improvement here, still not that technical but very strong physically and now they can compete with the best in Asia. except for your 59kg and 130kg wrestlers, the rest was really good, that guy Ravinver would qualify if he wasn't in Norouzi's side of draw. btw where is Amit Kumar ? injured probably ? that would be pity if he doesn't qualify.

At the and, Iran won two quotas here, both Noroozi and K. Ghasemi made it to the final later today. now we have a complete freestyle team. while in Greco, Noroozi just won the quota , he was down 6-0 against the Chinese wrestler but had a great comeback. he is still far from his 2012 shape when he won the gold in London but still he has months left to prepare. Bahrain despite naturalizing two big names failed to qualify, Abdelfatah (world champion from Egypt 10 years ago) lost to China in semifinal North Korea also didn't win a single quota, which is indeed surprising. their last chance So Sim-Hyang lost to Vietnam ! here is the list of notable and world level male Asian wrestlers who failed to qualify (or didn't participate) Freestyle 57: Amit Kumar (IND) 65: Adam Batirov (BRN) 74: Rashid Kurbanov (UZB) Greco 59: Hamid Sourian (IRN), Elmurat Tasmuradov (UZB) 98: Mohamed Abdelfatah (BRN) 130: Bashir Babajanzadeh (IRN)

Congrats to India for qualifying in Greco-Roman probably after a long time well-deserved quota, this guy Hardeep completely destroyed the host wrestler Assembekov .

Yeah you are probably right, Kyrgyzstan probably can't afford that, I wonder if even Bahrain pays Batirov and Abdelfatah for just wrestling under Bahraini flag !? or they will get paid when they win something. btw it's not like these wrestlers are something special, they are just good to qualify for Rio. except Batirov, none of them can win medal in the Olympics.

Yeerlanbieke Katai of China made the biggest surprise of the day by beating Adam Batirov and winning the quota and I have to say this Chinese guy is really good, i give him chance to win medal in Rio. (China never won a men's freestyle medal) He is already my favorite non-Iranian wrestler btw Batirov is good but he cuts a lot of weight it won't be easy for him in Mongolia and Turkey. as for Iran we had our second defeats today this one was expected though, we got better draw for tomorrow, I really hope they win both quotas otherwise it will be catastrophic (even though it's already VERY bad to lose two quotas out of just 4 here) and we can't complain about the draw this time. also, Kyrgyzstan just bought another Russian wrestler ! Aligadzhi Gamidgadzhiev I wonder how many Russian wrestlers we had here, Batirov, Musaev, Mamed Ibragimov, Magomed Ibragimov, the Qatari guy Ibrahim, Manyurova and there are probably few more I'm not aware of.

Seriously if I wanted to pick the worst possible draw I could not pick anything worse than this for 1st two days ! after Sourian, now Bashir BBJZ has to start with his most serious opponent Tinaliyev from KAZ in super heavyweight it's really hard to score in close matches and when it comes to the cautions, those refs will give the match to Kazakhstan, so his chance is slim. in fact we have all 4 Asian Games medalists in top half of the draw ! how is that possible ?! I hope for better draw in last day of competition. btw Bahrain will qualify probably tomorrow, they have former European Champion Adam Batirov in 65kg.

wow, Sourian lost to Japan ! now I see why Japan didn't send Hasegawa instead of this guy, he was good but Sourian was just poor today. even though he usually had problems with Japanese wrestlers. I hope I'm wrong but I don't think he goes to the next two tournaments. I have a feeling he will retire I think they will try Abdevali junior in next tournament.

There must be some rules against this, this is unbelievable to participate to an Olympic qualification tournament (which is not a world or continental championship) win the quota but withdraw later ! this is not like rowing when they can easily pick the next best athlete, this is quite unfair for those who lost to South African boxers.

Brackets are up for the 1st day in Kazakhstan and as usual we have some unbalanced brackets because of this blind draw We have only one wrestler tomorrow, Sourian got the worst possible draw ! all of his main opponents are in his half while we have only China, India, Iraq and Thailand in the top half ! for whatever reasons his archrivals Tasmuradov (UZB) and Hasegawa (JPN) are not here ! if Sourian beats Ota in 1st round he has to beat Kim of Korea in semifinal. which won't be easy at all.

First defeat for Artur Aleksanyan since September 2013 ! guess who beat him last time, again Melnikov. who beat him twice in 2013. obviously Melnikov is a terrible matchup for King Artur.

4 pm in Mexico, almost 100 minutes from now

for those who qualified through ranking, you can replace them ONLY if you have someone in top 20. those who qualified through continental qualifiers, qualified their nations, not themselves.

Not possible, no way the only solution is sending Armin Hadipour (rank 16) instead of Farzan. but I'm not sure where is the deadline for registration. before knowing the July Ranking or after ?! let's hope Guatemala and Aruba qualify here

Exactly Only those 3 guys are higher than Attias of Israel in the world ranking, at the moment out of qualified athletes only two of them are lower than him and one of them is behind by only 4 points, if Farzan losses his top spot (which I'm afraid will happen since he won't compete at the Asian Championship) and this Israeli guy losses another spot in the ranking ,then ....

58kg is really important for me ! I hope all those top 3 seeds fail to qualify (at least only one of them qualifies) but this is very unlikely, Guzman from top half and either Pie or Oviedo from the bottom half will qualify , still I hope for a miracle here. do anybody here know why I have such a weird wish ?

Hello everybody again I didn't want to write here anymore for some reasons and I didn't for more than half a year and I usually don't change my mind but then I saw this new version of forum and the first post here in this thread which was really sad, I hope Sindo gets his motivation back, even though there are few things I don't like about the forum but in general Totallympics was a great forum, thanks to Sindo and his sacrifices. I really appreciate his hard work. PS: I like this "Ignore user" button, I hope it works !