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more squads announced for Rio, Cycling and Volleyball. now we know 61 out of 63 athletes in Rio, the only remaining spots will be decided tomorrow in weightlifting. Cycling Samad Pourseyedi Ghader Mizbani Arvin Moazzami Goudarzi * one of these guys will ride in time trial event, they didn't announce that but it will be either Mizbani or Moazzami. Volleyball Setter: Saeid Marouf, Mehdi Mahdavi MB: Mohammad Mousavi, Adel Gholami, Mostafa Sharifat OP: Amir Ghafour, Shahram Mahmoudi OH: Farhad Ghaemi, Mojtaba Mirzajanpour, Milad Ebadipour, Hamzeh Zarini Libero: Mehdi Marandi

China also won't be favorite at all at 105kg. even if IWF banns Zaichikov. Bedzhanyan and etc still we have Nurudinov (UZB) who will win the gold probably.

for Iran, out of 12 medalists in London, 7 out of them will be in Rio Sadegh Goudarzi (Wrestling) - retired Ehsan Lashgari (Wrestling) - Lost in trials Sajjad Anoushiravani (Weightlifting) - retired (the current head coach) Navab Nasirshalal (Weightlifting) - retired because of injuries few weeks ago Mohammad Bagheri Motamed (Taekwondo) - lost his place in NT, Iran also failed to qualify the weight because his replacement got injured

wrestling ranking system is a bit different, you can lose in 2nd round but stll finish lower than someone who lost in 1st round. this guy will not finish in top 16 for sure. he is the weakest wrestler in this weight by a big margin.

Quite unfair , but this is their stupid rule, if they disqualify someone whoever wins bronze from his side of the draw will be upgraded to silver but the whole bracketing system is stupid ! the number of wrestlers in each half should be equal. with 6 wrestlers, we should have 3 in top half, 3 in bottom half.

the UWW link is working now and they wrote this: The Wrestling Federation of New Zealand, whose wrestler finished with bronze at the same tournament, has accepted the Olympic allocation.

UWW website is down now, but when it works you can read this link https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/vinod-kumar-receives-four-year-ban-olympic-spot-to-new-zealand the Australian wrestler Vinod Kumar failed the test, giving the spot to Craig Miller of New Zealand, I wonder if NZL accepts this, this guy Miller is winning the quota without winning a single match !

Iran Wrestling Team in Rio 59 Hamid Sourian - 1 Olympic Gold (2012) / 6 World Gold (2005,2006,2007,2009,2010,2014) 66 Omid Norouzi - 1 Olympic Gold (2012) / 1 World Gold (2011) / 1 World Silver (2014) 75 Saeid Abdevali - 1 World Gold (2011) 85 Habibollah Akhlaghi - 2 World Bronze (2009,2015) 98 Ghasem Rezaei - 1 Olympic Gold (2012) / 1 World Silver (2015) / 2 World Bronze (2007,2014) 130 Bashir Babajanzadeh - 1 World Bronze (2011) 57 Hassan Rahimi - 1 World Gold (2013) / 1 World Silver (2015) / 2 World Bronze (2011,2014) 65 Meisam Nassiri - - 74 Hassan Yazdani - 1 World Silver (2015) 86 Alireza Karimi - 1 World Bronze (2015) 97 Reza Yazdani - 2 World Gold (2011,2013) / 2 World Bronze (2006,2007) 125 Komeil Ghasemi - 1 Olympic Bronze (2012) / 1 World Silver (2014)

Iran Squad officially announced 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

I always wonder, is this really hard to take a complete decision ? will they award the bronze medal to the next athlete or not ?! can't they just announce it.

lol what a joke, everybody get quota ! what about those 5 additional quotas ? will IOC let UWW to have 5 more wrestlers in Rio ?!

Actually Sedov is banned for disciplinary reason, during Kazakh nationals he showed up with a T-shirt shoeing Alexander Ivanov's picture with something like this "The True Olympic Champion" referring to Ilyin as a cheater. (Ivanov from RUS finished 2nd behind Ilyin)

update about the delegation Iran will have one swimmer in Rio via Wild Card / Universality places , they give that to 17 years old Aria Nasimi-Shad ----------------- Iran Cycling federation announced a list ot 4 cyclists, 3 of them will go to Rio Arvin Moazzami Ghader Mizbani Mehdi Sohrabi Samad Pourseyedi ------------------ Iran Weightlifting federation officially announced the name of 3 weightlifters for Rio, no surprise at all Kianoush Rostami (85kg) Sohrab Moradi (94kg) Behdad Salimi (+105kg) they also dropped Ayoub Mousavi from the squad, whch means the last 2 spots will be between Hashemi, Barari and Molaei.

before or after the qualifier ? yes if she got caught after the qualifier, Morocco can send someone else

since Belarus federation approved the results, both Mousavi and Ghalehnoei are now officially qualified for Rio, Iran will get one more quota in Swimming through wild card or universality places or whatever. which means we will send 63 athletes (including 9 women) to Rio, unless someone gets injured or something, this is our final number. Wrestling 12 Volleyball 12 Athletics 10 Shooting 5 Weightlifting 5 Taekwondo 4 Judo 3 Table Tennis 3 Cycling 3 Fencing 2 Rowing 1 Boxing 1 Swimming 1 Archery 1

Apparently we will have two more athletes in Rio ! two Iranian hammer thrower competed in an age group tourney in Belarus as invitee and both reached the Olympic standard (and broke the national record), even though they believe they are qualified for Rio but our federation is not sure yet and they are contacting the Belarus federation to know about the validation of this tournament ! here is a link for the results, page 8. I think it was an official competition and they are qualified but better to wait for official announcement from the federation. http://bfla.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/turnir-tichona-2016.pdf they are Kaveh Mousavi and Pejman Ghalehnoei

UWW had 4 more quotas to use, and now they gave 5 ! does it mean we will have 345 wrestlers in Rio instead of 344 ? will IOC let it happen ?

UWW official announcement https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/united-world-wrestling-announces-reinstatement-of-olympic-qualifiers CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY (July 9) -- United World Wrestling, following recent meldonium guidelines outlined by the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency, has announced the reinstatement of National Olympic Committee qualification spots for the 2016 Olympic Games based on the performances of the following athletes: Magomedmurat GADZHIEV (POL - FS 65kg) Yanarbek KENZHEEV (KGZ - GR 85kg) Sumiya ERDENCHIMEG (MGL - FW 53kg) Andriy KZIATKOVSKY (UKR - FS 65kg) Oksana HERHEL (UKR - FW 58kg) Ukraine’s 125kg wrestler Alen ZASIEIEV -- the only other athlete peviously disqualified based on meldonium results – is not included in the above list as Ukraine qualified for an Olympic allocation during the 2nd World Qualifier in Istanbul. All National Olympic Committees previously granted Olympic qualification spots will not be impacted by this adjustment.

and apparently even Ukraine will take back the quota at 65kg and probably other disqualified wrestlers will get it back as well, terrible terrible decision by UWW , they could wait a bit before taking a decison

according to some Russian websites, Magomedmurad Gadzhiev (Poland) is cleared to wrestle in Rio ! we have to wait for the official announcement but as far as I know consider it a done thing. just for info, Gadzhiev won his quota in European qualifier but got disqualified for meldonium. now the question is, he will go to Rio in place of who ? Savid Safaryan (who got his spot after the ban) ? or he will take one of those re-allocation quotas won be the host Brazil.

Not sure if this is already posted http://en.mastkd.com/2016/06/maroccan-taekwondo-qualified-athlete-banned-olympics-rio2016-doping/ with this her quota most probably goes to Chinazum Nwosu (NGR)

now it makes sense, Ajan said 10 positive tests from Beijing and now we have all 10 names

Gold in weightlifting ?? I don't think so with all those Chinese weightlifters around, medal yes but gold no even though I would be happy if somebody (beside North Korea) breaks Chinese monopoly in lighter weights here.

This is interesting that countries announce official target for the Olympics, they never do such things in Iran, predication maybe but promised goals no. this time they are talking about winning 4-6 medals !!! back in London they were talking about the same number of medals but we ended up winning 12 they always just want to lower the expectations.

of course I know him very well, he used to wrestle in Iranian league as well. I would rank him 7 or 8 behind those top 4, Ketoev (ARM), Odikadze (GEO) and whoever Ukraine sends. this is a tough weight with so many Russian wrestlers wrestling for other countries , beside Saritov, we have Gazyumov (AZE), Musaev (KGZ), Ibragimov (UZB), another bragimov (KAZ) and Ketoev (ARM), they are all from Russia !!!! with these 6 and Boltukaev we will have 7 Russian wrestlers in the competition ! if you ask me he has a chance for medal, specially with this random draw but he is small for this weight, I don't give him chance for the gold but a medal is possible for him with a good draw.