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A bit early to predict, we still even don't know our squad in important sports. if IOC/IWF bans Russia/Kazakhstan and Belarus this will benefit Iran a lot. but I expect 5-6 in wrestling, 3 in Taekwondo and 3-4 in weightlifting. which means something around 11 plus one more in another sport. (hopefully) so I would say 12. the exact number of 2012. even though I have to admit this is a bit optimistic.

I think UWW still has some problems with wrestlers they disqualified so quick , some of those wrestlers who "qualified" through qualifiers and later got disqualified by UWW are participating in international competition ! which means they are not banned.apparently they had less than enough meldonium to be banned and they turned to CAS to overturn UWW's decision. in this case UWW will probably give them those "wild cards"

IWF disqualified more names from 2015 worlds. out of all positive A samples only one of them (Al-Saleem, KSA) is still undecided. the rest already got disqualified from the results list. In this new list, they disqualified all positives from Kazakhstan, North Korea and Belarus including Kydyrbayev, Uteshov and both Kims from PRK

Quota number 60 for Iran. Mohammad Arzandeh, High Jump once again Kazakhstan track did magic

the number will be less if they disqualify RUS/BLR/KAZ completely even though on other hand I think we will have unused quota for individual ranking qualifiers as well

That's a different story, those countries lost those 1-2 quotas because of their positive samples after "2015 Worlds" which is confirmed now, IWF had to announce it since that case is apparently closed now. but KAZ/BLR/RUS will be banned if they have more than 3 doped weightlifters in 2008/2012 Olympics. this case is still not finalized. by saying that I'm not sure if they will be banned after or before Rio, just saying these are two different stories

Well the main source for that was an Iranian news website which I translated here. they also said there is an Iranian among them which was wrong, so I say let's not fully trust Iranian sites, they suck when they translate something.

IWF added more names to the list of "confirmed" bans from 2015 worlds , they are all from Moldova except Lovchev, who lost his gold medal and his world record LOVCHEV Aleksei BULAT Iurie PIPA Artiom DUDOGLO Ghenadie

And IWF now published the list of 2008 positives. again Ilyin ! KHURSHUDYAN, Hripsime (ARM) – Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents) DUDOGLO, Alexandru (MDA) – Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents) EVSTYUKHINA, Nadezda (RUS) – dehydrochlormethyltestosterone metabolites (S1.1 Anabolic agents) TAYLAN, Nurcan (TUR) – Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents) SHAINOVA, Marina (RUS) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone metabolites and stanozolol metabolites (S1.1 Anabolic agents) ZAIROV, Intigam (AZE) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (S1.1 Anabolic agents) – Remains suspended due to previous IWF sanction until 21.12.2023 ILYIN, Ilya (KAZ) – Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents) – Remains provisionally suspended only 3 of them finished on podium, Ilyin, Shainova and Evstyukhina.

And Syrian boxer didn't show up against Israel at 81kg. no surprise.

whoever loses to the gold medalist in quarterfinal will be considered as 5th placer and so on !

Again the same stupid live scoring system, if you miss a match , you have to wait till the end of the session (or even the day) to have the result in PDF ! I highly doubt we can win a quota here. but Golara won his first bout against Tunisia. btw when I look at the schedule I can't see matches for 5th placers. I wonder how they are going to determine the 5th placers ?! using the same format as 2012 ?!!

here is the new medal distribution if IWF/IOC officially disqualify all of them Aukhadov (Silver 85) Rostami (IRN) Bronze ==> Silver Yehia (EGY) 4th ==> Bronze Ilyin (Gold 94) Ivanov (RUS) Silver ==> Gold Ciricu (MDA) Bronze ==> Silver Demanov (RUS) 4th ==> Bronze Chinshanlo (Gold 53) Hsu (TPE) Silver ==> Gold Iovu (MDA) Bronze ==> Silver Febrianti (INA) 4th ==> Bronze Kalina (Bronze 58) Gulnoi (THA) 4th ==> Bronze Maneza (Gold 63) Tsarukaeva (RUS) Silver ==> Gold Girard (CAN) Bronze ==> Silver Simsek (TUR) 4th ==> Bronze Shkermankova (Bronze 69) Nurmukhambetova (KAZ) 5th ==> Bronze Podobedova (Gold 75) Zabolotnaya (RUS) Silver ==> Gold Kulesha (BLR) Bronze ==> Silver Valentin (ESP) 4th ==> Bronze * Some of these athletes who are supposed to get a better medal later tested positive for doping. so I have a feeling IOC/IWF will leave some (or even all) of those medals blank and won't give them to anybody.

now it's official, fortunately no Iranians are among them The IWF reports that as a consequence of the IOC’s reanalyses of samples from the 2012 London Olympic Games, the samples of the following Athletes have returned Adverse Analytical Findings: AUKHADOV, Apti (RUS) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, Drostanolone (S1.1 Anabolic agents) KOSTOVA, Boyanka (AZE) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents) PODOBEDOVA, Svetlana (KAZ) – Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents) SAZANAVETS, Dzina (BLR) – Drostanolone, Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents) SHKERMANKOVA, Maryna (BLR) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents) KALINA, Yuliya (UKR) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone (S1.1 Anabolic agents) ZHARNASEK, Yauheni (BLR) – Dehydrochloromethytestosterone, Stanozolol, Oxandrolone (S1.1 Anabolic agents) MANEZA, Maiya (KAZ) – Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents) ILYIN, Ilya (KAZ) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents) CHINSHANLO, Zulfiya (KAZ) – Oxandrolone, Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents)

lol feel free to ask whenever you want The answer is A. his 205kg in snatch was surprising for me and he did it quite easily, but in CJ he just didn't push himself , his knee is still recovering and if you watch the video he simply didn't try his usual "Jerk" technique, he tried "squat jerk" which is really hard in heavier weights, he just didn't want to risk his knee right now. I think if he wanted he could Jerk 240 that day , 445-450 is a very good result for him right now and if he improves with the same rate I consider him a favorite even for the gold. to be honest I didn't expect him to be that good . 430 is a low record but as I said he could life 20kg more if he wanted to risk his knee.

IWF has a new rule, they just removed life time ban from their rules, now you will get 8 years ban for the 2nd time. they just convinced IWF to apply this new rule to the old case of Alihosseini. I hope he comes back soon, as far as I know he was innocent in both cases. he deserves a world or olympic medal after all.

IWF didn't announce them innocent, as I wrote in my first post, they only finalized 11 out of 24 cases. they only finalized cases about few countries with one exception Lovchev, which means his case is a bit complicated. for other counrtires like Kazakhstan, Moldova, Belarus and North Korea for reasons we don't know it takes too long.

This is the new rule, nobody gets a life ban, 4 years for the first time, 8 years for the second time ! (no idea about the 3rd time )

Kostova wasn't in original list. this is only about positive tests from 2015 worlds, I think her sample is suspicious for another event lol The remaning 13 weightlifters are mostly from Kazakhstan, Belarus, North Korea and Moldova (plus Lovchev of Russia and a guy from KSA)

Finally after MONTHS, IWF announced final decision about 10 more positive tests from 2015 World Championship, if we count the Turkmenistani guy who received his ban before, now 11 out of 24 cases are closed interestingly while they banned 3 other Russian weightlifters, still nothing about Lovchev ?! ALIGULIZADA Elkhan (m) AZE 14.12.2015 14.12.2023 IC Nandrolone ANGELOVA Silviya (w) AZE 10.12.2015 10.12.2023 IC Dehydrochloromethyl- testosterone, Nandrolone DADASHBAYLI Dadash (m) AZE 21.12.2015 21.12.2019 IC Nandrolone, Boldenone GULIYEV Firidun (m) AZE 21.12.2015 21.12.2023 IC Nandrolone HRISTOV Valentin (m) AZE 14.12.2015 14.12.2023 IC Nandrolone ZAIROV Intigam (m) AZE 21.12.2015 21.12.2023 IC Dehydrochloromethyl- testosterone, Nandrolone ANANIADOU Eftychia (w) GRE 21.12.2015 21.12.2023 IC Dehydrochloromethyl- testosterone AFANASEVA Olga (w) RUS 26.11.2015 26.11.2019 IC Dehydrochloromethyl- testosterone KOSOV Aleksei (m) RUS 26.11.2015 26.11.2019 IC Dehydrochloromethyl- testosterone ZUBOVA Olga (w) RUS 27.11.2015 27.11.2023 IC Methenolone

I know it doesn't make sense but actually IWF was a part of this "administrative mistake" , they had to let him participate to avoid another story. they also let Rybakov participate in Asia because he missed the European because of meldonium , later they said he was innocent and instead let him participate in Asia

lol I just wrote they hosted a tournament only because of him. he will go to Rio for sure unless he gets injured or something. he had some super crazy results in training, he just didn't participate anywhere to make those results official, in Iran Grand Prix , he came up only twice (1 in snatch and 1 in CJ) and finished with 400 which is enough for a medal. he can even go for 420 . Iran has chance for only 3 gold medals in Rio in weightlifting (actually 2 since Salimi is still injured) they can't afford losing one.

well that was obvious when he didn't participate in World Championship in Houston (in USA where they are serious about doping) to compete in President Cup in Moscow to break World Record ! it doesn't make sense at all unless you have something to hide.

This guy was banned for doping till October/November 2015 and because of some administrative mistakes (they wrongly announced him "retired" to WADA) he had to stay out of weightlifting until few days ago. and per IWF rules you have to compete in two tournaments to be eligible for Rio, that's why he is here, Ajan himself invited him. Actually Iran hosted a Grand Prix few days only and only because of him. he is a gold medal contender. btw we had Belarus in Asian Championship.

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