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First day draw https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=959000332455010&set=pcb.959000479121662 only 5 competitors in women's +67kg and men's 80kg in Africa some athletes always withdraw before the draw. there are only 5 athletes registered for women's 67kg (will be held on Sunday) I won't be surprised if couple of them withdraw and someone qualifies for the Olympics without throwing a kick

IWF will probably update its website with Asian and African Championship results after few days (or weeks) lots of World Records had been broken by PRK weightlifters, also Rahmat Erwin did great and broke the WR once again. but from what I can see there are not much changes in the Olympic ranking. in the women's side Kim Su-hyeon made a big move into top ten (Women's 81kg) by 254kg record yesterday but today in men's 102kg we had a new sheriff in town. Akbar Djuraev made his debut at 102kg and moved up to the 3rd place in the ranking by a 400kg record. he is a very good weightlifter, an Olympic Champion but a year ago he participated at the Asian Champs weighted almost 130kg. hard to imagine he can cut 30kg "normally" and still lifts great. it will be interesting to learn what they eat in Uzbekistan

Yes you are right. my comment was mostly refereeing to the freestyle wrestling. and to be honest I added Tuskaev later to that list. he wasn't in the list when I wrote the leading line I should had edited that line

OK, semifinal curse again . 7th semifinal defeat in a row. and I'm old enough to remember 4 of them. this is not suppose to happen and I'm sure it won't happen anytime soon, most probably never. that was 2004 all over again, Iran eliminated the best team of tournament, celebrated too much and choked against a not-so-good host team. today they missed so many chances when the score was 1-0 and again 2-2 but then lots of mistakes, some stupid subs. a very very bad day for some of our key players and here we go. we managed to lose to the weakest possible team we could face in the semifinal. at the end Qatar won fair and square. congrats to their team and their fake fans in the stadium.

actually he wasn't excluded by the AFC. they even supported his red card decision (which was technically correct but wrong from a football fans point of view) he left the tournament himself because of some security threats for his family in Australia. some guys in Iraq published his phone number and home address in Australia. (obviously not for sending him flowers) but you are right he won't get big matches in Asia for the reason you explained. having dual nationality isn't probably a great idea for a football referee.

more mercenary Russians transferring to non-freestyle wrestling countries 2020 World Cup Champion Shamil Sharipov (125kg FS) will represent Bahrain World U23 Champion Chermen Valiev (74kg FS) will wrestle for the the great Albania former European Champion Azamat Tuskaev (57kg FS) is now from Serbia

wow. what a match by Jordan it will be interesting if they win the Asian Cup but fail to qualify for the 2nd round of World Cup qualifiers. I wonder how many times in history a team loses a group match on purpose and ended up winning the trophy ?

so Uzbekistan choked once again , what a familiar story it will be Qatar vs Iran in the semifinal. I feel more confident against Qatar. but you never know. hopefully we break the semifinal curse after 48 years and after losing 6 semifinals in a row in past 11 editions ! ps: Qatar's GK saved 3 PKs today, it's interesting to know he is Olympic Champion Mutaz Eisa Barsham's brother

wow , that was unexpected it's sometimes possible to get a lucky win but that was a well deserved win, Iran totally dominated the 2nd half and had so many chances. yeah this is football. nothing is impossible. our worst players in previous matches did great today, Mohebbi scored the first goal and Kanaani got the last minute penalty.

another dramatic win for South Korea. this time they tied the match in 90+6 minute I think this is the 4th match in a row they are doing this. it feels like this is their destiny to win the title after soooo many years. Jordan also beat Tajikistan 1-0. they lost intentionally to Bahrain to have this path which worked for them.

well our coach is really dumb his subs are always the same (no matter what's the score and who is the opponent) he used different squads in previous matches only because he was forced to do so (because of injuries and suspensions) I believe Azmoun is not fit for 90 minutes (or even worse, 120 minutes) but still it's hard to ignore his good record with the NT, it's a hard decision to bench him in important matches but still he is not effective as the only striker. I would start with a big and tall striker to tire the Japanese defense. but to answer your question with Taremi I think he would start with the same squad (only changing the CB who was suspended today) but now without Taremi ... I think our only option is to park the bus waiting for penalties or another blunder from Japanese GK. our team is too old, having only 2 days rest will favor Japan too. I really don't give too much chance to Iran. but this is football, everything is possible

well, it could be a much much easier match, Iran missed so many big chances before Syria's goal and also this is Iran's first ever win on penalties at the Asian Cup in important matches (excluding non-important 3rd place matches) after losing 5 times in a row in the penalties in past 10 editions. but playing 120 minutes was terrible when you have to face Japan on Saturday (less than 72 hours from now) and losing Taremi . ... well it seems that's his destiny, 4 years ago he was also suspended against Japan in the SF.

Entry list for the African OQT https://worldtkd.simplycompete.com/eventDetails/11eeaad8-780d-4fb4-81c7-06e46637a485/5 the whole draw will be based on the ranking, so you can already predict the brackets. (of course late changes are always possible because of late injuries or specific reasons like this) men's 58 and 68 have the highest number with 19 and women's 67kg has the lowest with just 6 which means top 2 seeds only need 1 win to qualify.

from what I heard (but I'm not 100% sure if that's correct) that was KSA's first ever defeat on penalties at least that was their first defeat in AFC Asian Cup. and for the fourth time in a row they failed to reach the top 8 !!! that was indeed a crazy match, I think Korea deserved it after all but next time won't be easy for them. AUS has 2 more days rest + Korea played an extra time. and that was really ugly from Mancini, leaving his team and going to the dressing room with still one penalty kick left

hmm , this is very early because I believe those lists are not final, for example in US they will have some kind of trials for the qualifiers. US is obviously the top favorite to complete its freestyle quotas, they will also win few Greco quotas as well. I see some American wrestlers (mostly NCAA wrestlers) representing other countries, making the prediction a bit harder. for example Mexico has Anthony Valencia and Roman Bravo-Young. Cuba has some new guys here but when you talk about Cuba, they are always dangerous. but they are losing in freestyle and most of their new guys are very weak. in men's freestyle (which I'm much more familiar) Canada will be top favorite for 125kg quota, I believe 86kg quota is also possible depends on the draw. same as 57kg. I think 74kg field is wide open, same as 97kg. I don't think 65kg is possible. there are 3 much better wrestlers in the draw. seeding will play a big role here. the Pan-Am Champs will be helf few days before this. we will see how many of these guys will show up in both events.

I wrote something about Japan Olympic team earlier I just have to add that Nonoka Ozaki beat Ami Ishii 5-4 in their playoff match and qualified for Paris 2024.

Aymen Hossein received his 2nd yellow for this, apparently he shows size of something to Jordanian fans Iraqi fans are all over the net cursing the "Iranian" ref but seriously this guy is Australian now . curse Australia

yeah that match is a hot topic here, specially because the ref is Iranian (I mean was Iranian, Faghani now represents Australia) he probably tried to mock the Jordanians, trying the same goal celebration they did but some of his actions might be considered offensive. I wouldn't gave him a second yellow but Faghani is known for these kind of decisions. once he even changed the Iranian league Champion by a similar red card. well that was like 2015 Iran-Iraq match, Iran was leading 1-0 comfortably but the Australian ref sent off a player (I say wrongly) and that changed the match, Iran had to play 90 minutes with one man down and the match ended 3-3 (Iraq won on penalties) what goes around comes around, Iraqis can't complain about this.

the whole start list was announced few days ago (and it was also available earlier in their "Arena" section) https://uww.org/article/european-championships-2024-entry-list that's not surprising at all. he is cutting few kilos, the time gap between the Euro Champs and Euro Qualifier is not that much. Euro Champ is still important, so wrestling one weight up (and most probably winning a medal) was the best solution.

Entry list for the Pan-Am qualifiers I believe the seeding is not accurate because there will be the Pan-Am Championship few days before this event and that will change the ranking.

another missed opportunity for Handball. but that's OK. I'm getting used to it we lost a crucial game in the first round to this not-so-strong South Korean team which put Iran in a tough group. they played good against both JPN and QAT and the match was close until 50-55 minute. I really think even the gold medal wasn't out of reach this year. but again the team chokes in crucial moments. that's happening over and over in past 20 years. the players change, the coach changes but the outcome is always the same

but he is still the same guy who got caught for doping in 2018, right ? per IWF database he was supposed to be banned from 2018 to 2022. so you are saying both 2021 results (in his profile) do NOT belong to him but the other guy. right ?

so, now we know the bracket vs vs vs vs vs vs vs vs AFC 5 big teams are in two quarters which means only 2 of them can advance to the semifinal. KSA/KOR is the biggest match here.

what a crazy match, Korea tried hard to score two late goals and took the lead but then Malaysia tied the match in minute 90+15 which wasn't that bad for KOR, they avoided Japan but got KSA (most probably) instead sooo if we beat Syria (which won't be easy at all) we will get Japan in the QF. and btw, ugly match from Jordan they lost intentionally, the 2nd half was hard to watch

no, as far as I know