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YES YES YES ! like 2012 the Olympics starts for us with Rostami. but only this time he finished the job. now finally after a week, I can have a good sleep PS: Congrats to Romania for kicking that Kazakh cheater out of the podium.

no, as far as I know, Czech is qualified because of having more X. there is no shoot-off in Shooting in Rifle/Pistol events in preliminary rounds

well, 4 years ago it was impossible to imagine we will be this close to a medal in Rio in Fencing. well done Abedini, he was just one touch away from the final, that was heartbreaking

haha, not for me, this is 4:30 am here and I have to go to work in 2:30 hours (I saved using my off-days for the 2nd week obviously)

since there is a Kazakh in top 3, the 4th placer guy from Japan should be ready to receive his bronze medal in 2020

another 6th place finish for Ahmadi

Very sad for Khedmati, she missed the final for only 0.2 on other hand Ahmadi will participate in her second Olympic final, even though Khedmati was my favorite (as Asian Games winner) Ahmadi has more experience in the finals as she won two world cups last year. let's hope she makes history here

no this is the final list these entries are important because they determined the groups (A or B) with them. but for example if you post 450kg as your entry, the total number of your first Snatch and CJ attempts must not be lesser than 430kg. means 20kg less than the entry (15kg for women) countries have different strategies here, some post their 1st attempts + 20. some of them just give big numbers to scare the rest. China simply only enters something to be in Group A.

Weightlifting Start list http://www.iwf.net/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2016/08/StarListPackage_GT.pdf I'm a bit surprised by some very high entries.

haha, what a crazy match, I'm ready to go sleeping but they just keep scoring

With this seeding system you have to beat one of top 8 to advance to the quarterfinal. so I think we can't complain about the draw, but of them have winnable matches before the quarterfinal but still they will be underdog.

well, obviously there is no chance for our Rouzbahani with this draw, Mullenberg (NED) in 1st round, UKR/AZE in 2nd round and then Kazakhstan in QF. the same guy who beat him in London quarterfinal.

No, Mollaei is already in Rio preparing for his competition, they probably gave Khojasteh's spot to someone in another weight, re-allocation in Judo works this way, they give the spot to the next eligible Judoka, no matter from which weight

Today and the whole Russian team in weightlifting is officially out

Weightlifting : CAS upholds ban on Russians http://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-rio-weightlifting-russians-idUSKCN10E2GQ

I think the only one who deserved to be in the Olympics was Climbing, A true sport, but similar to any of current program sports. not corrupted Karate can give us more medals so I'm OK with this one as well even though we will have so many people here complaining about the officiating in this sport, even more than boxing

Records in nationals or other internal competitions mean nothing for the real competition , most athletes lift around 10kg less,

the thing is , if they get the Israel athlete in 1st round he has to withdraw, and then IOC will investigate the situation and by not sending him, they already solved the problem. weightlifting is not a problem , not a head-to-head sport. the only problem is men's 58kg Taekwondo and the Iranian there is the top favorite for the gold.

Iran withdrew the spot on men's 66kg. not sure if they notify IJF in time to replace him with someone else. officially the guy Alireza Khojasted had "family issues" and didn't go to Rio but the truth is they made him withdraw because there is Israel is his weight. the same thing happened to Javad Mahjoub 4 years ago. and yes I know this is extremely stupid

Usually One day before the competition, in general meeting. yes the Chinese girl was a medal contender, actually the top contender for the gold but now they traded a possible gold with a sure gold medal ! China wants all 4 female gold medals and they will probably win it. I think only China is capable of such changes, other countries already sent their bests .

1) if nobody bombs out, Salimi and Talakhadze will challenge for the gold and silver but then we have few athletes fighting for the bronze. Velagic is not among them, his chance is less than 5% in my opinion. 2) Of course, it's just harder ! much harder 3) Good question, I'm not sure about the answer. I think they have to notify WADA about their whereabouts but WADA probably doesn't test already banned athletes too much. our 94kg weightlifter Sohrab Moradi who is a clear gold medal favorite here had to sit out for 8-9 months more because someone mistakenly registered him as "retired" for IWF. they don't test "retired" weightlifters. and since they didn't test him during his suspension period he had to weight few months to be tested few times to finally be eligible to compete.

Alireza Khojasteh withdrew from the Olympics because of "family reasons" !!! PS: this is nonsense, they made him withdraw because there is an Israeli athlete in his weight. the same happened for Javad Mahjoub 4 years ago. Khojasteh is just 19 and he had no chance but still this is stupid to deny him his right for such reason.

Updated start list http://www.iwf.net/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2016/08/Rio2016_List-of-Athletes-by-Event_Updated_01082016.pdf no Russia and there are few changes, most important China added Meng Suping (instead of their 48kg weightlifter) when they saw Kasherina is gone !

I just read that our athletes are neighbours to Norway and the Philippines

their weightlifting prediction is a complete joke, it seems they just wrote some names randomly.