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Yes he did, there are videos of him on the net lifting 200 + 240 . (probably few kg heavier than 94kg and that was in training but still this record is 35kg higher than 94kg gold medalist. I have to say, with the exception of Salimi, Rostami and Nasirshalal (London silver medalist) the rest are OK, they were 5 but one of them Anoushiravani (who is now the head coach) rarely participated in their coup and Mohammadpour was just a kid (poor guy had a serious elbow injury which can even end his career) I can name Molaei (2013 world silver) or Taghian, even Moradi or Babari if you count dopers lol they didn't get into all these stories and stay out of them. btw it will be hard for Iran to find 5 competitive weightlifters this time (back in Rio we had 6 medal favorites and won 4 medals) Rostami will take one of the spots, Moradi too if he gets cleared by IWF, I hope for Molaei but he also had a surgery back in 2014 and I'm not aware of his current shape.as for Salimi we have to wait couple of months to know his new situation. I think they will also send someone in 105kg, maybe Barari. or Nasirshalal or Kourosh Bagheri's nephew Emad Bagheri.

here are possible pots for the next round per FIFA future World Ranking Pot 1: Iran, Australia Pot 2: South Korea, Japan Pot 3: Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan Pot 4: UAE, China Pot 5: Qatar, Iraq Pot 6: Syria, Thailand I think we won't have a group of death. and once again we can't play Australia !!! the last time we played them was 18 years ago ! Personally I prefer Japan, Uzbekistan, China, Iraq and Thailand. in our group. Japan is stronger than Korea for sure but all football fans here are sick of playing Korea everytime ! even though we have a very good record against them recently. KSA and Uzbekistan are almost in the same level but I prefer Uzbekistan since KSA plays dirty. beside that they will make a story about playing in Iran once again. UAE is definitely stronger than China, so I have no doubt I prefer China as for Qatar and Iraq, I think we prefer Iraq to take revenge for that unfair 2015 Asian Cup defeat on penalties. I wonder if Iraq continue to play its home games in Iran if they group with us !? Syria and Thailand are almost the same, Thailand is more predictable while Syria (despite all troubles they are facing) is a hard fighting team.

what about Kuwait's situation ? will they disqualify Kuwait to annul their results ? because in this case Lebanon can finish 2nd with 12pts (if they beat MYA today) ! otherwise there is no chance for 2nd placed team in this group

Yep indeed he was, he got seriously injured weeks before 2015 Worlds, (video of his injury is available on the net) under training program of his favorite coach Tavakoli, he is back after a knee surgery and started his training only yesterday, it's not clear if he can recover to his old shape in time for Rio or not. at the moment I don't count on him. at the moment Iran has only 1+1 medal chances, Kianoush Rostami and Sohrab Moradi (and i know you won't like him as a former doper !). Moradi is back after a 2 years (and plus) suspension. since the previous federation announced his retirement to IWF , he could not particpiate even after the suspension, he is supposed to be clear to compete in couple of months but the problem is he has to compete in two IWF sanctioned event before Rio to become eligible. he will miss the Asian Champs, but can participate in IWF Grand Prix in Tehran . still needs one more tournament which apparently IWF will invite him for Pan-American Championship in Colombia ! that's what Tamas Ajan (IWF president) promised to the Iran federation. ps, Moradi's training record was something +20kg more than Gold medalists record in World Championship.

That's a LONG story. we had 4 different coaches in past 4 years. Kourosh Bagheri led the team to win 4 medals in London, before that Coup d'état in 2013. he had to send a very young team which still finished 3rd with a silver medal and four 4th-place finishes. he resigned later, he had a heart attack and could not handle all those pressure on him anymore. they appointed another coach "Bahman Zare" who was NOT successful in 2014 Asian Games and 2014 Worlds then they replaced him with the mastermind of that Coup d'état 2000 Olympic Champion "Hossein Tavakkoli" !! Tavakkoli was junior team coach when some of these athletes were junior and provoked them against his former teammate Bagheri. Those weightlifters love Tavakkoli because he gave them so much freedom ! they could stay for the night, playing play station etc. later we had some changes inside the federation and the new president probably didn't want to work with Tavakkoli but had no other option since they had only limitted time before the 2015 worlds which turned out to be disastrous for Iran ! thanks to his training, we got so many injured weightlifters. most importantly Mohammadpour and Salimi, Ironically they didn't fire Tavakoli after his poor results in USA, but they fired him few months later, only few months before Rio ! even though they appointed Anoushiravani as the head coach but they also hired a Bulgarian coach probably to supervise him.

^^ Iran has to lose 8-0 to Oman to get eliminated. I think they are pretty safe. the real competition is the next round

It seems we have to consider one quota for China in each weight they are unbeatable so far and even their unknown boxers are beating former world medalists. no stream but we know how things work in boxing so I think Navi and Gholami are already out as they have to face China in next round.

After losing few times in quarterfinals (mostly 15-14) Abedini finally made it to the semifinal (and later to the final) in a Grand Prix (or World Cup) event and with this he made history to win Iran's first ever medal in this level of competition. he also qualified himself and his teammate Pakdaman for Rio

nope, per this ranking (which is stupid IMO) he is the 3rd seed http://d152tffy3gbaeg.cloudfront.net/2015/09/1-mens-7.pdf btw, we already lost one boxer ! and another one barely beat Papua New Guinea !! I think even one quota will be a good result for such a weak team. I hope Mehrabi makes it at least.

The only new sport for Iran can be Volleyball, if they qualify in Japan ! we could debut in Handball if it wasn't a world selection team called Qatar they are trying their chance in Slalom Canoeing and Beach Volleyball but no realistic chance.

here https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1145253698826763&id=608788485806623

no I mean the same ! after months, finally they are releasing their final verdict, this guy was the first one check here for the sanctions http://www.iwf.net/anti-doping/sanctions/ and this for the updated results http://www.iwf.net/results/results-by-events/?event=341

And finally we have the first confirmed positive test from 2015 WC. BAZARBAYEV Umurbek of Turkmenistan.

Draws are out for Asian Boxing Qualification tourney. you can find them on ASBC facebook account. none of our boxers will face Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan before the semifinal which means they can't complain ! but since the whole team is in terrible situation I will be happy with two quotas. best chances are in 75, +91.and maybe 91.

if I understand the rules correctly, if RUS and ITA finish tied with less than 8 goals, NED will top the group btw, in general tie breaking is a bit complicated in this sport if they finish 9-9, their match against the winner of FRA/GER match determine the group winner lol Page 60, here http://www.fina.org/sites/default/files/fina_wp_referees_manual.pdf

Serbia might get a gold medal after all, rumor says Islambek Albiev is also in the list, actually almost the whole Greco-Roman team. but again these are still rumors, even though very serious rumors.

Usually, Amoyan will take the gold, Islamov the silver and Fris the bronze medal bust still remember these news are still unofficial

based on my researches so far, here is the list of Russian wrestlers who failed the drug test to far, all of them accomplished wrestlers in Greco-Roman 1) Artem Surkov 2) Mingiyan Semenov 3) Davit Chakvetadze 4) Evgeny Saleev 5) Stepan Maryanyan 6) Sergey Semenov except the last name, the rest are famous, Surkov, M, Semenov and Saleev are World or Olympic medalists while Maryanyan and Chakvetadze are European champions

now it comes to wrestling ! http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sport-doping-wrestling-russia-idUSKCN0WO0ZG

A bit about selection process: in Athletics and Boxing, whoever wins the quota should to go Rio without any question in Archery, Shooting, whoever wins the quota most probably will be sent to Rio, in Taekwondo, those who qualified through ranking can only be replaced by someone in top 20, in this case Iran has athletes in top 20 in all 3 weights but coaches made it clear than Ashourzadeh, Khodabakhshi and Mardani will go to Rio unless they get injured. in Cycling, they will announce them after the Cycling season in Iran, in Weightlifting, they will announce the team few weeks before the games, right now they have 15 weightlifters in the camp but likes of Rostami and Moradi are already safe. in Wrestling, they had series of trial events and after that they announced a very short list of wrestlers for the final trials in April. in freestyle it will be mostly between two wrestlers in each weight except for 86kg where 4 wrestlers are in the list. also in 125kg they won the quota just today, I'm 99% sure it will be a wrestle-off between Hadi and Ghasemi. in Greco-Roman Abdevali is already selected, we will have a wrestle-off in 98kg and in 85kg, there are 6 wrestlers in the list to wrestle for the spot. beside that they won the 66kg quota just today, I will wait to know their decision about it.

Rio 2016 Olympic Team Archery (1) Women's Individual - Zahra Nemati Athletics (10) Men's 100m - Hassan Taftian Men's 100m - Reza Ghasemi Men's Marathon - Mohammad Jafar Moradi Men's 20km Walk - Hamid Reza Zouravand Men's Long Jump - Mohammad Arzandeh Men's Discus Throw - Ehsan Haddadi Men's Discus Throw - Mahmoud Samimi Men's Hammer Throw - Pejman Ghalehnoei Men's Hammer Throw - Kaveh Mousavi Women's Shot Put - Leila Rajabi Boxing (1) Men's 81kg - Ehsan Rouzbahani Canoeing Sprint (1) Men's C1 200m - Adel Mojallali Cycling Road (3) Men's Road Race and Individual Time Trial - Ghader Mizbani Men's Road Race - Arvin Moazzami Men's Road Race - Samad Pourseyedi Fencing (2) Men's Individual Sabre - Mojtaba Abedini Men's Individual Sabre - Ali Pakdaman Judo (3) Men's 66kg - Alireza Khojasteh Men's 81kg - Saeid Mollaei Men's 100kg - Javad Mahjoub Rowing (1) Women's Single Sculls - Mahsa Javar Shooting (5) Men's 10m Air Rifle, Men's 50m Rifle Prone and Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions - Pouria Norouzian Women's 10m Air Rifle - Elaheh Ahmadi Women's 10m Air Rifle and Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions - Najmeh Khedmati Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions - Mahlagha Jambozorg Women's 10m Air Pistol, Women's 25m Pistol - Golnoush Sebghatollahi Swimming (1) Men's 200m Breaststroke - Aria Nasimi Shad Table Tennis (3) Men's Singles - Nima Alamian Men's Singles - Noshad Alamian Women's Singles - Neda Shahsavari Taekwondo (4) Men's 58kg - Farzan Ashourzadeh Men's 80kg - Mehdi Khodabakhshi Men's +80kg - Sajjad Mardani Women's 57kg - Kimia Alizadeh Volleyball (12) Men's Team Weightlifting (5) Men's 85kg - Kianoush Rostami Men's 94kg - Ali Hashemi Men's 94kg - Sohrab Moradi Men's 105kg - Mohammad Reza Barari Men's +105kg - Behdad Salimi Wrestling (12) Men's 57kg Freestyle - Hassan Rahimi Men's 65kg Freestyle - Meisam Nassiri Men's 74kg Freestyle - Hassan Yazdani Men's 86kg Freestyle - Alireza Karimi Men's 97kg Freestyle - Reza Yazdani Men's 125kg Freestyle - Komeil Ghasemi Men's 59kg Greco-Roman - Hamid Sourian Men's 66kg Greco-Roman - Omid Norouzi Men's 75kg Greco-Roman - Saeid Abdevali Men's 85kg Greco-Roman - Habibollah Akhlaghi Men's 98kg Greco-Roman - Ghasem Rezaei Men's 130kg Greco-Roman - Bashir Babajanzadeh

Satyawart wasn't supposed to beat Musaev but yes he was one second away from the quota and only has himself to blame, what the hell was that Musaev was deadly tired. btw I watched almost the whole tournament, your Greco wrestlers are no pushover anymore, I see great improvement here, still not that technical but very strong physically and now they can compete with the best in Asia. except for your 59kg and 130kg wrestlers, the rest was really good, that guy Ravinver would qualify if he wasn't in Norouzi's side of draw. btw where is Amit Kumar ? injured probably ? that would be pity if he doesn't qualify.

At the and, Iran won two quotas here, both Noroozi and K. Ghasemi made it to the final later today. now we have a complete freestyle team. while in Greco, Noroozi just won the quota , he was down 6-0 against the Chinese wrestler but had a great comeback. he is still far from his 2012 shape when he won the gold in London but still he has months left to prepare. Bahrain despite naturalizing two big names failed to qualify, Abdelfatah (world champion from Egypt 10 years ago) lost to China in semifinal North Korea also didn't win a single quota, which is indeed surprising. their last chance So Sim-Hyang lost to Vietnam ! here is the list of notable and world level male Asian wrestlers who failed to qualify (or didn't participate) Freestyle 57: Amit Kumar (IND) 65: Adam Batirov (BRN) 74: Rashid Kurbanov (UZB) Greco 59: Hamid Sourian (IRN), Elmurat Tasmuradov (UZB) 98: Mohamed Abdelfatah (BRN) 130: Bashir Babajanzadeh (IRN)

Congrats to India for qualifying in Greco-Roman probably after a long time well-deserved quota, this guy Hardeep completely destroyed the host wrestler Assembekov .