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Spain was always the favorite, maybe only slightly behind Brazil, I think the winner of Russia/Spain match will win the title. here is the ranking, giving you a better idea about strength of teams http://www.futsalworldranking.be/rank.htm btw congrats to Egypt, I didn't see that coming, last night I watched Thailand-"Brazil B/C" , crazy game, Thailand could win if they were smarter. I believe 3 of those guys got their 2nd yellows against Thailand, making the match easier for Portugal in QF.

Ladies and Gentlemen Iran just kicked Brazil out of the competition !! they improved match by match but still it was impossible to think they can knock out Brazil ! what a great match against the best team in the world. I was pretty much convinced that this was going to be an early exit and this would be the last day of the competition for Iran.

not anymore, he passed away at the hospital for a broken neck, RIP

Disappointing tournament so far for Iran now they have to beat that international team called "Azerbaijan" to finish 2nd in the group, otherwise even if they qualify as one of the best 3rd placers they have to play either Brazil or Italy in Round of 16 !

Yesterday was good for Iran, winning 2 gold medals (and 5 medals in general) , and also advancing to football 7 final after beating Brazil 5 to 0 !

so this is possible to give the gold medal to Saeid Mohammadpour who finished 5th in London, still not a sure thing, maybe they just leave the medals blank but if they want to give them to the next athlete, Mohammadpour will win the gold, and I think he deserved it, with that record he could win the silver this year only 1kg behind gold medal winner Moradi.

Only if you had dignity or you knew jack-shit about the rules, you would not say such thing about a poor guy who got robbed big time of his gold medal and celebrate that undeserved gold medal in silence, but you lack both. glad there is a ignore bottom here in new totallympics

Which sports have TV coverage here ? is there a list ? I know Athletics, Swimming, Football 7-side and Wheelchair basketball have it, but what about the others ?

We had a great first day in freestyle competition, winning two gold and one silver which means a very good chance for winning the team title again (Iran won the team title back in 2014 and 2015) BUT then we saw the draw for tomorrow, one of our wrestlers got Israel in first round which means we are down to 3 wrestlers for tomorrow and most probably the team title is gone. btw while our Greco-Roman is going down, it seems our freestyle has a bright future.

first, people should remember this is not a sure thing if IOC award those medals to the next athlete. but if they want to do that, I think they will either give shared gold or shared silver. or maybe the best idea is leaving Dutt and Scott with bronze medals they already won ! complicated situation, this is not in their rules to do what if both finalists fail the test.

Actually we won a gold this time in freestyle wrestling after 16 years. as for Taekwondo, Iran won two medals in 2004 , in fact winning 1 medal out of 2 athletes in 2008 and 2012 wasn't also a bad result even though we always expect 100% medals in taekwondo. but this time because of new rules we had 3 athletes. two of them clear favorite for the gold but we ended up with nothing , for the first time ever our male taekwondo team finished empty-handed. PS: we judge our men's team and women's team separately, as they have separate coaches and separate preparation system. Alizadeh won a bronze this time, but this has nothing to do with complete failure of our men's team.

so many injuries (or fake injuries) but actually we had a long fight after Iran's 1st goal.

what a lucky win ! scoring two goals at 90+4 and 90+11 !!! thanks to Qatari GK for that blunder we have to play much much better than this, we didn't deserve the win today but I take it, it was just the first match and a win is a win.

UAE beating Japan in Japan was a big surprise for the 1st day, they also eliminated Japan in Asian Cup last year ! hope our guys don't let Qatar surprise us tonight.

If you check the World Junior Championship you can't see any wrestler from Mongolia ! I heard about it but I wasn't sure , apparently UWW banned Mongolian wrestling federation until further announcement ! what those coaches did was stupid and they deserve heavy punishment but banning an entire nation for that is unbelievable .

well I read a news about him on our local media, then googled his name and found so many Romanian websites writing about this. sad news. he was impressive in Rio, the worst part is they are giving his medal to a proved cheater.

According to Romanian sources, 85kg bronze medalist in weightlifting Gabriel Sincraian tested positive and will lose his medal to Ulanov (KAZ)

the law is only about traveling to Israel but Iranian athletes never face Israelis even though there is no written low against it. they won't be jailed if they do but I suppose they won't be in the national team anymore. in this case Alireza Jahanbakhsh is not representing Iran but a Dutch club so I think it will be fine for him to play the home match even though I'm not sure, one of our former NT player once played an Israeli team while he was in Sturm Graz (Austria) and nothing bad happened to him, it was 16 years ago though. After the 1979 revolution I can remember 3 times Iran and Israel had to face in team sports (twice in Paralympics) but Iran always found a way to refuse.

They need him, he is a starter there but He won't go to Israel, he will be jailed in Iran if he go. this is officially illegal and considered a crime. (I'm not even sure if Israel give him visa) I think his club understands this otherwise he is in trouble. the only question is the home match in the Netherlands, since he is not representing Iran that's probably possible for him to play but I'm not sure.

well, it means our Iranian player in AZ is in big big trouble, he won't go to Israel that's for sure. I don't know what he will do with the home match in the Netherlands. He is the 3rd Iranian player facing this problem.

So if IWF wants to stand on what they announced about banning countries wth 3 or more positive tests ,they have to ban Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia and Turkey for at least one year !!!

While I found Rugby Union very interesting, I think Rugby Sevens is kind of a joke, when they were inventing Rugby 7s. why they didn't create it with for example 10 players ?! I mean something more serious

Well said

Letting host nation adding sports is a stupid idea, I understand if it happens in Universiade or some continental Games to make the host nation happy, but Olympics is bigger than this.

whatever you want was it just a bad Olympic or you were expecting such results ?