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This is interesting/funny. we are having first continental championships while IWF still didn't finalize doping cases for the 2015 worlds.

Is there any livescore (or at least results link) for the Asian Qualifier (and Asian Championships) in Wuxi, China ? I can't find any

lol if Denmark wanted to do Norway a favor, they could lose by 3 goals. which was still enough for them, in that case Croatia needed a 3-goal win to qualify, now they just need a win.

Oops, you are right if Spain beat Sweden by 2 goals, then both teams will have a GD of -1. let's say Spain beat Sweden X to X-2. then: SLO +2 GD SWE -1 GD / Goals 22+X ESP -1 GD / Goals 21+X SWE advances virtue of scoring more goals.

Nope. they will be out if they lose to Spain, even by 1 goal. on other hand Slovenia is 99% qualified,

GD among those teams, then Goals scored among those teams. Overall GD is highly unlikely to be considered for a 3 way tiebreak.

Really impressed by Bahrain, They just show everybody that Asian teams can at least compete (and lost respectfully) with the bests of the world. shame on our handball to send such a weak team, a better Iran (still not complete) beat Bahrain in Doha. but Bahrain looks improved.

Nope, he won the gold at the African Championship in Egypt , while in Olympic qualifier he won silver. btw these guys most probably tested positive for the African Champs, which still disqualifies them for all tournaments after that including the Olympic Qualifier.

Interesting/sad news ! I checked the link and since I know a bit Arabic, this link says two Egyptian wrestlers failed the drug test, the other one "Maghawri" won bronze in 57kg but didn't qualify. per UWW usual rules, if they disqualify Ali Hamdy, his silver medal will go to the bronze medalist from his side, Buassat of GBS ! Lucky him to take the bronze medal match serious, most wrestlers didn't .

Yes indeed, but we always had/have this problem in handball, these group of players boycotted the NT before, Iman Jamali even switched nationality to play for Hungary ! having problem with the coach is just an excuse, they simply don't care about the national team, Handball is the only sport we have such problem, as you said Iranians are patriots. no, Bahrain is good in handball (in Asian level of course) , as far as I know they don't have any foreign players.

lol yeah, I already posted the PDF book about the tie breaking rules earlier in this thread. first they determine the top team (Italy), then, 2nd and 3rd and since we have a tie for 4th place (they tied each other so no head to head match) then their results against the top team (Italy) determine the 4th place,

Just for Info, Germany advanced to the quarterfinal over Kazakhstan, not because of their better GD. just because they lost by 6 goals to Italy and Kazakhstan by 11. just a reminder about weird tie breaking rules in this sport

This is the wide roster, they waited for him until the last day, (actually his name is still in their 16-man list) but he claims he can't make it. Mousavi who plays in Romani (according to the list ) also won't be there. They didn't bother to come and play for their national team. The federation suspended the other Esteki (who plays in France) for the same reason as he didn't come to play in the Asian Championship.

Not the whole A team but all of players who are playing outside of Iran. in fact all important players, and this is not the first time, it happens almost every time ! long story, but this time they don't like the current Croat coach and don't want to play for him, beside that they probably know there is no chance for Iran, they don't bother to play. even though officially our best player (Sajjad Esteki) claims his Qatari club didn't release him which is not true. btw, if it wasn't for World Selection team (aka Qatar) Iran would qualify for the Olympics from Asia.

Iran will be punching bag of Group B. Our complete team could compete at least to get respectful results but now ... this team is as bad as the team they sent to Asian Championship. (probably much weaker without Sajjad Esteki) they will probably lose by more than 20 goals, maybe even more I don't think I ever see peace in our handball community in my lifetime ! only in handball I see our top players refuse to play for the national team.

I checked their website once again and her name is still there so she is lucky. I watched so many wrestling competitions and such behaviour means disqualification but they showed her mercy

Per start list of Asian Taekwondo Qualifiers, Cambodia has a very good chance to qualify in +67kg, their athlete only has to beat one match against Tajikistan to qualify ! beside that Afghanistan has chance in both men's weights, their 58kg entry is also a former world medalist, Mahmood Haidari. he was banned from WTF for age shaving Augusto Midana most probably will qualify in wrestling for GBS tomorrow.

DId anybody here watch 63kg final ?! This Nigerian girl Oborududu is probably the stupidest person ever !! she got into the final and secured the quota then she lost the final 7-7 to a controversial call (but I believe the call was correct) and then the way she was protesting and crying and doing stupid moves after the match was quite weird. they could EASILY disqualify her, she didn't get an automatic disqualification since the center referee after all managed to raised her opponent's hand (mandatory in wrestling) but I won't surprise if they disqualify her later (a bit unlikely though)

We already know 11 out of 12 4 NGR 2 EGY 2 TUN 2 CMR 1 SEN CMR most probably will get the last spot 100% record for Egypt ! 8 out of 8 so far. They had only 2 female wrestlers today

Start list of the Asian Qualifiers http://www.ma-regonline.com/tournaments/823/Asian-Qualification-Tournament-2016-for-the-Games-of-the-XXXI-Olympiad with this, it will be disaster if Iran don't qualify both girls for Rio. their opponents are even below average in Asian standards. Khodabandeh needs just one win (against probably Philippines) while Kimia needs two wins against unknown athletes, they are both top seeds here. interesting to see Nikpai for Afghanistan once again, they also have Haidari in 58kg who is a former world medalist, 58kg is in a very high level.

Egypt won 6 quotas (means a full Greco team) while Australia, Morocco and Algeria won two each. I could watch some matches today, I think the only wrestler here who has a chance to make noise in Rio is Haithem Mahmoud Fahmy of Egypt. Both Australian wrestlers (Kumar and Popov) are extremely weak, I think everybody want them for the 1st round draw in Rio. Women's competition looks more competitive with Nigeria, Cameroon and Senegal.

Those who qualified can't participate in 2nd stage, (even their country can enter 1 instead of 2) so no more condition, top 6 will qualify,

Those who qualified can't participate in 2nd stage, (even their country can enter 1 instead of 2) so no more condition, top 6 will qualify,

in first stage, we have separate tournaments for each zone, winners qualify (each country can enter max 4 here) after that, in second stage we have another tournament to determine other 6 quotas. here each country can enter max 2 (those who qualified in 1st stage can enter only 1) except for 1st stage of South Asia , the rest of the tournament will be direct elimination. in south Asia since there are only 4 players, thy will play in round robin

It seems India already qualified 1 male and 1 female player for Rio ! here is the start list for the Asian Qualifiers http://ittf.com/Ol_Qual/2016AS/2016_AQT_Entries.pdf per rules, in first stage we will have separate tournaments for each zone and the winner qualifies for Rio, India is the only country registered from South Asia, so it will be a competition between those 4 Indian players in each gender.