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to lower the costs, UWW is having Continental Championships just one weak before the Olympic qualifiers. except for Europe of course. people in Europe always cared a lot about the European Champs. while I do understand their reasons but they could have done it another way, but they made a mess, and ruined the prestige of continental championships. what's the point of having them in the olympic year, just to fill up the calendar ? per rules. countries have to participate in Continental Championships to become eligible to participate in the OG qualifier with the same number of wrestlers. they don't necessarily have to send the same guys, but most countries don't have enough budget to send two different teams for the Continental Champs and the qualifier. so it's mostly the same team for two events. this led to something very weird and interesting tonight, Yasmani Acosta from Chile (he is Cuban) won the 130kg gold medal in Pan American Champs tonight without winning a single match and it wasn't like nobody else entered. there were 6 other guys, he had to win 3 matches to win the gold but all of them happened to be a walkover , he lost his first group match, but from there nobody else showed up on the mat to face him. he is a tough guy. can drain your energy, those wrestlers probably thought it doesn't worth wrestling him now, one week before the main event. (no idea why the final didn't happen Oscar Pino is already qualified and is not concerned about the next week event) here is the result. "VIN" means victory by injury https://arena.uww.org/weight-category/show/1eeb687a-ec52-6a1a-b325-370640f43f22/print/complete-results

what a pity our guys did good in general but beating World #2 Germany was too much to ask. I really hope they don't end up #1 among non-qualified teams in the ranking. that would be really hard to swallow, being this close. the key match was vs Portugal in the group round, If they had taken their chances, they would be in a different path, far from tier 1 teams. these guys made lots of fans here by beating Japan at the Asian Games few months ago. that was a miracle, unfortunately they couldn't repeat it here.

this might give you some good information https://atresults2.wixsite.com/attiming/acct2024

start of March ranking the next ranking they publish right after this competition

I think the World Cup ranking is a different thing than the Olympic ranking. those who qualified before (or their NOC is qualified before) won't be counted in the ranking. you have to remove them all and give 30 pts to the next best athlete

I don't think there is such a restriction. NOCs can qualify 1 in each apparatus, but in general they can qualify maximum 3 individually through different methods.

I believe it's not decided yet. there will be a draw

I had to open the link to see which one it is cuz Iranian GKs together scored 3 goals today I just hope they don't underestimate UAE in the QF, the last time one of our teams underestimated the host team, it ended up very badly in Doha couple weeks ago.

we do care, we even had our trials (parts of it) for non-Olympic weights already. some of our good (but not great) wrestlers decided to stay in their non-Olympic weights rather than moving up or down to Olympic weights (would be a desperate try most probably) and Albania becoming the host was a terrible and worrying news for them. and non-Olympic weights started to exist since 2016. that year UWW had a WCh only for those weights. 2021 was a special case because of COVID. they already signed the contract with Norway. My point is they never plan a full-fledged Worlds in the Olympic year. with only 6 weights in the Olympics and limited number of quotas (thanks to IOC) lots of good wrestlers will miss the Olympics. a World Championship in non-Olympic weights is just the right thing to do. of course it's hard to find a host for that.

it was a very heartbreaking defeat vs a strong Portugal. our guys had match points in first 3 matches but ended up losing 3-1 . with three 3-2 defeats Nima lost a 2-0 lead. Noshad lost a 2-1 lead. Hodaei had multiple match points on 10-7 fifth game.

According to UWW calendar we will have a World Championship this year for non-Olympic weights. Albania will host it right after the World U23 Championship also Zagreb in Croatia will host the 2025 World Champs Croatia is OK but Albania can be troublesome. last year they didn't let our team participate at World U23 and UWW rewarded them with another competition I understand that nobody wanted to host this non-Olympic weights World Champs and UWW had to settle for this terrible option but I hope no problem this time.

taking a look at the African Champs results. I can see only one change in the Olympic ranking top 10 AboKahla (EGY/89kg) moved up to #6 by lifting 381kg. he was already in top 10 though. https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2024/02/Final-results-egypt-pdf.pdf

Startlist https://www.cairoworldcup.com/_files/ugd/b4e22c_925e7875129645ff8b02694b523e6cd9.pdf https://www.cairoworldcup.com/_files/ugd/b4e22c_2596414b59fe48b2884bbfe7445c95c6.pdf

Turkey and Azerbaijan won most of the gold medals (half of it to be accurate) but I think it was a strong tournament for Russia winning 8 medals. they were TERRIBLE in Belgrade winning only 1 medal in a non-Olympic weight but here they proved they are still the boss , this isn't even their best team in some weights. this 97kg guy Murtazaliev was very impressive. he is a 87kg wrestler who had to move up weight and wrestle here in a short notice because apparently UWW denied Musa Evloev's entry. and this guy almost beat the great Aleksanyan if they participate in Euro Qualifiers, Russia will have a good chance to grab some quotas.

sorry I wasn't online and missed the morning session if you check this guy, he covers everything, but sometimes switches between mats (and might now show the match you want) https://vk.com/video/@sportwithoutborders

Kayaalp had 12 golds and 1 silver until today, he wanted to beat Alexander Karelin's record of 13 gold medals in Europe but in a moment of madness Semenov stopped him. (technically Kayaalp has 11 Euro golds, but most sources count 2015 European Games as the European Champs too) this is the famous throw. https://www.instagram.com/p/C3TLfhXxHbP/

wow. what a finish for the first day of finals. A fantastic throw from Semenov to pin the great Kayaalp. Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Komarov (SRB/RUS) won the remaining gold medals today.

Pakdaman was great in the individual event winning a silver medal but I knew whenever he does good he chokes the next day in the team event losing 45-44 to Egypt could be very costly. once again Pakdaman went for his trademark move at 44-44 (which he always does and he always loses ) but both Japan and China failed to score big points here which means Iran still has a good chance to qualify. JPN/CHN at least one podium finish performance in next two WCs. not impossible China almost beat KOR today in the QF. ps: some other teammates accuse Pakdaman of not really caring about the team quota since his individual quota is guaranteed. that's complete nonsense obviously but I think that puts extra pressure on him in the team event which resulted in his poor performance today. I hope they survive the next two WCs and qualify. then they have enough time to sort their problems out.

it's really stupid to have a 3rd place match! just because someone may withdraw later! nobody ever rejected a continental quota in Taekwondo and doping disqualification is also rare in this sport. these 3rd place matches are absolutely useless. last night GEQ girl even celebrated her 3rd place match win with the flag and more. I don't know what she was told but she looked like someone who doesn't know there are only 2 quotas available

and at the end Egypt and Nigeria grabbed the last two quotas at women's 67kg. both very very one-sided matches if we consider the top seeds. only two seed 1 athletes failed to qualify and both are from Morocco. Laaraj (W57) and Bassel (M+80) Tunisia is the only African country with 2+2 quotas. perfect tournament for them

+80kg quotas for Niger (former world champion Issoufou) and the Gambia (Obame lost 0-0 in the 3rd round)

68kg, Egypt and Burkina Faso qualified (both matches came to the very last second of the 3rd round) women's 57kg, Gabon and Tunisia qualified

Senegal and Niger also won 58kg quotas

Semifinals (Olympic qualification matches) already started