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today we had a competition between weightlifters to determine the national team for the Olympics, coach will announce the team soon but here is the result , not impressing at all. Ayoub Mousavi (85) 165+200=365 (162X 162X 165 / 200 210X 211X) Ali Hashemi (94) 175+no mark ! (172X 175 180X / 212X 212X 215X) Sohrab Moradi (94) 180+234=414 (180 185X 188X / 220 234 -) Mohammad Reza Barari (105) 180+220=400 (180 185X 185X / 220 225X 225X ) Bahador Molaei (+105) 190+240=430 (190 195X 195X / 240 252X -) Kianoush Rostami (85) is training separately in another city (in Tehran) and wasn't even there to compete and Behdad Salimi decided to not. Moradi's 234kg rcord is 1kg higher than Ilya Ilyin current world record. still his snatch wasn't impressing by his standards, still he will be clear favorite for gold in Rio. others didn't impress at all. specially Barari and Hashemi they lifted even less than their Fajr Cup results ! Bahador has improved by 20kg which is a good sign, still he needs 10 more kilos to compete for a medal in Rio. I think they will drop Mousavi for sure, Rostami, Moradi and Salimi are already selected. the last 2 spots are between Hashemi, Barari and Molaei

Chinese team according to some rumors, not official 56 Long Qingquan 62 Chen Lijun 69 Shi Zhiyong 77 Lu Xiaojun 85 Tian Tao 105 Yang Zhe 48 Zou Zhihui 53 Li Yajun 63 Deng Wei 69 Xiang Yangmei interesting if they send someone at 105 ! it seems they also want to benefit from possible ban on RUS/KAZ/BLR athletes.

Yes of course. in wrestling and taekwondo anybody from Iran is a medal treat. History tells us to count on everybody in wrestling, sometimes when our bigger names fail, the others come and win medals, back in London , Komeil Ghasemi was a nobody who barely made the team in last days but he won bronze after losing to the gold medalist narrowly (by ball draw) but realistically our chance is very slim to win medal in some weights , 130kg Greco, 65kg freestyle. in general we will have a better team in Greco-Roman, they are all experienced, all of them have won world/olympic medals before, 4 of them World/Olympic Champion but the thing is Greco-Roman is much more unpredictable, while in freestyle we know there are only 4-5 wrestlers to worry about in each weight. in Greco everybody can be dangerous. even though we still have to wait for the coach to announce the team , but this is most probably our Greco team, this is interesting we exactly send the same 6 guys to London and they won 3 gold medals for us ! 59: Hamid Sourian 66: Omid Norouzi 75: Saeid Abdevali 85: Habibollah Akhlaghi 98: Ghasem Rezaei 130: Bashir Babajanzadeh only Sourian and Abdevali are officially selected. and I can say Akhlaghi as well, because his rival Nouri was TERRIBLE in international competitions. he beat Akhlaghi 3 times this year but he is only good against Akhlaghi apparently !! Norouzi has a rival in Zeidvand, who won Polish tourney recently beating the World Champion from South Korea. still I think coach Bana will pick Norouzi 90%. the same goes to Rezaei at 98, Mehdi Aliyari won the Polish tourney (even though nto in a convincing way), the only serious question is in 130kg, Ghasemi-Monjazi won the quota but he lost to Babajanzadeh in Poland, but narrowly. it's really hard to pick any of them, even though I think this is our weakest weight, I believe Bana will pick BBJZ eventually but Ghasemi-Monjazi would be my pick, at least he can do crazy things sometimes.

now we almost know our squad in freestyle wrestling, yesterday we had trials in the last weight 125kg, which was controversial, 57: Hassan Rahimi 65: Meisam Nassiri 74: Hassan Yazdani 86: Alireza Karimi 97: Reza Yazdani 125: Komeil Ghasemi That was really sad to lose Ahmad Mohammadi at 65, probably our best chance for gold in freestyle wrestling after his injury they forced him to wrestle in trials ,he lost, he was terrible at the World Cup and Armenia tourney was his last chance, again he lost to a random Armenian guy. Nasiri is just average, I highly doubt he can medal in Rio. even though he has his chances, there is no clear favorite in this weight. realistically, Hassan Rahimi is our best chance for gold now but even for him nothing is guaranteed, we know he chokes sometime, I would also consider Reza Yazdani a gold medal favorite but we don't know about his shape after his injury, he didn't wrestle anywhere since then. if he is healthy he indeed has a good chance. we have good chance at 74 and 86 for medal, our wrestlers are good , very good but the thing is there are some legendary wrestlers in those weights, like Burroughs and Sadulaev, almost impossible to beat. I don't know what to expect from Komeil, he is unpredictable, he almost lost the spot to Hadi but they made him wrestle once again , this time Komeil won narrowly. gold medal is almost impossible for him but he can medal at least

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