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It was supposed to be like that but they made a change few months ago.

no, Best Asian team + top 3. which means simply top 4 btw, Didn't really enjoy the way our team played here in this tournament but YEAH we finally made it to the Olympics in Volleyball !

and again according to Tamas Ajan one of those 10 doped weightlifters in London is from Iran (never thought one of our athletes can do drugs in this level that IOC can't find it at time !!!) we had 6 in London, Salimi, Rostami and Moradi just competed in Fajr Cup , which means they are clean, Anoushiravani who won silver in London is now head coach of the team and since he still has his job this is not him either, which means it will be either Nasirshalal (silver medalist 105kg) or Mohammadpour (5th place 94kg) and I can guess this is Nasirshalal which means we will probably lose a silver medal

Kianoush Rostami just broke the oldest world record in Fajr Cup in Tehran , with 175+220=395 he broke both CJ and total records at 85kg.

here is the link to the whole Interview which is obviously in Persian http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=13950310001330

apparently not the whole competition but some weight classes. but you never can be sure about these things in Iran Check these 2 links in time of the Group A competitions http://www.telewebion.com/#!/live/tv3/ http://www.telewebion.com/#!/live/varzesh/

Tamas Ajan (IWF president) is in Iran right now for Iran Grand Prix, he had a little chat with Iranian journalists and according to him 20 weightlifters tested positive in IOC new re-testing, 10 from Beijing and 10 from London, including 5 gold medalists ! (1 Beijing, 4 London)

oh yeah, thanks god someone else also remembers that dirty match, Asbaghi was leading by a big margin and this Achab guy (knowing he can't catch Asbaghi) tried his dirty tricks giving Asbaghi 9 cautions, one more was enough for disqualification. Asbaghi managed to survive that match though but poor guy he missed most of 2015 because of a surgery and therefore finished 7th in world ranking and missed the Olympics Achab uses his dirty tactics very often , I saw him doing it more than ten times. specially against good opponents. but that one against Asbaghi was something unbelievable.

well, you can't ignore him but all of his achievements were in 63kg, and not the Olympic wight of 68 ! he only qualified by points he collected in 63kg events, he is a very dirty fighter, very disgusting. ALWAYS try to show fake injuries and give penalties to his opponents. I don't follow this weight as much as the rest (since Iran didn't qualify narrowly) but I think Lee Dae-hoon is top favorite here, with Tazegul and Denisenko behind him. I think the real competition in this weight will be between those 6 who qualified through ranking. I think considering him among 4-5 favorites is more logical even though I don't give him so much chance for gold.

He is really tall and dangerous, he has chance for medal, actually this weight is more unpredictable among men's weights, there are something like 8=9 guys with good chances for medal. Silla is one of them. his height is his biggest advantage. but watch out for this guy from Niger is probably the biggest treat in this weight. I'm glad our Mardani won't face him in early rounds. (msot probably he has to face Kazakhstan)

3 now ! Payam Ghobadi beat Mbar and Sansum to make the semifinal and win a bronze medal

His chance is more than good ! Actually I consider him the second (or even maybe the number 1) favorite for the gold in Rio. he is just destroying everybody, he was in much better shape than Khodabakhshi in past few months but still we have 2-3 months left and I expect our guy to peak at the right time. I just hope Iranian coaches know few tricks about how to beat him , btw on other hand his coach is also Iranian (former coach of Iran NT) which makes things even ! also I have to name this CIV guy Cisse, he is as dangerous as Beigi. actually Iranian coaches are very concerned about him.

We had the Greco-Roman World Cup in Iran yesterday and Today, which won by Iran quite easily since other teams didn't send their top wrestlers (Iran would win the even after all) still beating Russia 8-0 is something. even if it wasn't even their B team. but most importantly in 3 or 4 weights this tournament was supposed to act as the Olympic qualifier at 66kg, both Noroozi and Zeidvand dominated their opponents , It's hard to pick one of them, I guess they will send both of them to Poland, it's also possible to pick Noroozi because of his past. at 85kg: Nouri won the trials was terrible here and this gives a great chance to Akhlaghi to make it to Rio. Nouri is only good for local competitions, I think they will probably pick Akhlaghi but sending both of them Poland is also an option. at 98kg: Rezaei and Aliyari were supposed to wrestle each other after the World Cup but Aliyari losing to a below average Turkish wrestler will probably cancel that match, Rezaei himself wasn't that convincing in the final but still he is the Olympic Champion ! I highly doubt they give Aliyari another chance. at 130kg: Bashir BBJZ was good here, they were supposed to evaluate his situation here, Ghasemi-Monjazi won the quota for Iran and he was absent here. with good performance of Bashir, I think the best decision is sending both of them to an international competition to determine the better wrestler Sourian (59) and Abdevali (75) are already selected.

She has chance for medal, even Gold, she already beat both Jones and Calvo, she won one of Grand Prix events but she is still too young and winning Iran's first ever medal at the Olympics put a lot of pressure on her shoulder. beside that from what I noticed she gasses easily after few matches. by my calculations, she will face either Hamada (JPN) and the host nation girl and the other one in quarterfinal, I will be happy with a bronze and expect a bronze for her, Gold is too much to ask,

This is somehow a good news, which means he won't be the last athlete in the ranking and Farzan won't face him in the first round. still it's dangerous which means this guy can get good results in Rio and advances to further rounds ! Farzan most probably will face the Thai guy in the first round

Today was the last day of Kazakhstan Judo Grand Prix which is somehow the last qualification event before the deadline (we have masters later but only top 16 can participate) by my calculations Iran luckily qualified 3 athletes in Judo Javad Mahjoub (100kg) Saeid Mollaei (81kg) Alireza Khojasteh (66kg) as Continental Quota Mahjoub and Mollaei are by far the best Judokas in Iran and this kid Khojasteh was just lucky to win a silver in Asia and qualified for Rio only with one good result ! I just hope they send him to Rio , I have doubts because there is Israel in his weight and since he has no chance at all, they may not even send him to avoid future problems ! this is what they did to Javad Mahjoub 4 years ago when he was a youngster. they didn't send him to London by a fake injury.

Maybe because of the level of foreigners are better this time ? or maybe because Iranians are not good in sprint events. honestly I don't follow Cycling that much, I hear the same names for something like 10-15 years ! and they always accuse each other of using drugs.

Actually there are more in wrestling ! even though I don't consider some of those guys above as "naturalized " Espinal lived most of his live in Puerto Rico. or Dlagnev is much more American than Novachkov or Ivanov being Bulgarian (they raised in USA) Artas Sanaa from Ibragim Saidov from Amarhajy Mahamedau from Mamed Ibragimov from Magomed Ibragimov from Khetag Gazyumov from Magomedgadzhi Khatiyev from Aiaal Lazarev from Eduard Soghomonyan from

It was like that when I checked the page yesterday morning but now they also disqualified him and replaced him with Guinea Bissau https://unitedworldwrestling.org/rio-2016

Here are the draws for both men's Wrestling World Cups this year Greco-Roman Group A Russia Belarus Germany Kazakhstan Group B Azerbaijan Turkey Ukraine Iran Freestyle Group A Russia Georgia Turkey Mongolia Group B Iran Azerbaijan India United States ----------- I wonder which countries will take World Cup serious this year, Iran will send almost a full team to both Cups, I say almost because some stars will be missing, the legendary Sourian won't be there in this home World Cup in Shiraz. while in freestyle Reza Yazdani won't be there because of his injury and we may have few more stars missing. most countries were busy with Olympic qualifiers this year , I expect a weaker World Cup this year, in Greco it will be probably between Iran and Russia (Russia usually takes Greco World Cup serious unlike freestyle) while in freestyle like in past few year it will be between Iran and USA unless Russia sends a good team.

Yes that's true if you ask me. by my understanding IND will qualify only if Ukrainian guy Zaseev comes clean. You were right about the article, they finally published that without saying anything about 125kg qualifiers ! still you never can be sure with these guys. they can take any possible (or even impossible) decisions to surprise everybody !

I was thinking UWW also can solve this mess from another point of view. maybe they'll take the highest unqualified country from back at the Euro Qualifier where the crime took place in this case David Safaryan (ARM) is the other bronze medalist who can qualify in place of UKR at 66 but for 120kg, they need two unqualified wrestlers while one of bronze medalists qualified later, in this case Iliev (BUL) will take one of the spots. Gagloev (SVK) and Arzoumanidis (GRE) both finished 5th, Gagloev has 1 classification point while the Greek has zero. after all I don't think it makes sense to give those spots to bronze medalists from this last tournament ! that was European quota and European countries should get it but you never know, UWW can surprise everybody !

Yeah actually 8 out of 12. I didn't expect that myself, I would be happy even with half of that probably.

So far we have 5 positive drug tests in these qualifiers, all of them in freestyle which is surprising ! let's see what should happen here "Per Rules" even though rules are not clear about this . * that Egyptian guy in African qualifier won't be a big problem, they will most prbably give the quota to the bronze medalist from GBS * Ukraine quota in women's 58kg freestyle will most probably go to Moldova, bronze medalist But situation is more complicated for remaining 3 spots * Ukraine won quota in men's 65kg FS, if they disqualify him his quota will go to Georgia, but Georgia also qualified in Mongolia . if they want to go through the rules, his quota will go to Novachkov (BUL), who also qualified today !! bronze medalist today Molinaro (USA) will get his spot. * in 125kg , both Euro finalists tested positive, so both bronze medalists should qualify, Iliev (BUL) and Ligeti (HUN), but the problem is Ligeti also qualified in Mongolia. in Mongolia Iliev (BUL) finished 4th and if they considered him "Already qualified" we have to take a look at both 5th placers Greece and Kyrgyzstan to see which one has more classification points Arzoumanidis has 6 while Lazarev has 15 which means KGZ has to get the last quota. of course this is a weird situation and UWW can take any possible decision to surprise us but what I wrote is the most logical call.

This Chinese guy is just amazing, destroying everybody including former world champ Aldatov ! I knew him for a while but he was in another level today.