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Yeah you are probably right, Kyrgyzstan probably can't afford that, I wonder if even Bahrain pays Batirov and Abdelfatah for just wrestling under Bahraini flag !? or they will get paid when they win something. btw it's not like these wrestlers are something special, they are just good to qualify for Rio. except Batirov, none of them can win medal in the Olympics.

Yeerlanbieke Katai of China made the biggest surprise of the day by beating Adam Batirov and winning the quota and I have to say this Chinese guy is really good, i give him chance to win medal in Rio. (China never won a men's freestyle medal) He is already my favorite non-Iranian wrestler btw Batirov is good but he cuts a lot of weight it won't be easy for him in Mongolia and Turkey. as for Iran we had our second defeats today this one was expected though, we got better draw for tomorrow, I really hope they win both quotas otherwise it will be catastrophic (even though it's already VERY bad to lose two quotas out of just 4 here) and we can't complain about the draw this time. also, Kyrgyzstan just bought another Russian wrestler ! Aligadzhi Gamidgadzhiev I wonder how many Russian wrestlers we had here, Batirov, Musaev, Mamed Ibragimov, Magomed Ibragimov, the Qatari guy Ibrahim, Manyurova and there are probably few more I'm not aware of.

Seriously if I wanted to pick the worst possible draw I could not pick anything worse than this for 1st two days ! after Sourian, now Bashir BBJZ has to start with his most serious opponent Tinaliyev from KAZ in super heavyweight it's really hard to score in close matches and when it comes to the cautions, those refs will give the match to Kazakhstan, so his chance is slim. in fact we have all 4 Asian Games medalists in top half of the draw ! how is that possible ?! I hope for better draw in last day of competition. btw Bahrain will qualify probably tomorrow, they have former European Champion Adam Batirov in 65kg.

wow, Sourian lost to Japan ! now I see why Japan didn't send Hasegawa instead of this guy, he was good but Sourian was just poor today. even though he usually had problems with Japanese wrestlers. I hope I'm wrong but I don't think he goes to the next two tournaments. I have a feeling he will retire I think they will try Abdevali junior in next tournament.

There must be some rules against this, this is unbelievable to participate to an Olympic qualification tournament (which is not a world or continental championship) win the quota but withdraw later ! this is not like rowing when they can easily pick the next best athlete, this is quite unfair for those who lost to South African boxers.

Brackets are up for the 1st day in Kazakhstan and as usual we have some unbalanced brackets because of this blind draw We have only one wrestler tomorrow, Sourian got the worst possible draw ! all of his main opponents are in his half while we have only China, India, Iraq and Thailand in the top half ! for whatever reasons his archrivals Tasmuradov (UZB) and Hasegawa (JPN) are not here ! if Sourian beats Ota in 1st round he has to beat Kim of Korea in semifinal. which won't be easy at all.

First defeat for Artur Aleksanyan since September 2013 ! guess who beat him last time, again Melnikov. who beat him twice in 2013. obviously Melnikov is a terrible matchup for King Artur.

4 pm in Mexico, almost 100 minutes from now

for those who qualified through ranking, you can replace them ONLY if you have someone in top 20. those who qualified through continental qualifiers, qualified their nations, not themselves.

Not possible, no way the only solution is sending Armin Hadipour (rank 16) instead of Farzan. but I'm not sure where is the deadline for registration. before knowing the July Ranking or after ?! let's hope Guatemala and Aruba qualify here

Exactly Only those 3 guys are higher than Attias of Israel in the world ranking, at the moment out of qualified athletes only two of them are lower than him and one of them is behind by only 4 points, if Farzan losses his top spot (which I'm afraid will happen since he won't compete at the Asian Championship) and this Israeli guy losses another spot in the ranking ,then ....

58kg is really important for me ! I hope all those top 3 seeds fail to qualify (at least only one of them qualifies) but this is very unlikely, Guzman from top half and either Pie or Oviedo from the bottom half will qualify , still I hope for a miracle here. do anybody here know why I have such a weird wish ?

Hello everybody again I didn't want to write here anymore for some reasons and I didn't for more than half a year and I usually don't change my mind but then I saw this new version of forum and the first post here in this thread which was really sad, I hope Sindo gets his motivation back, even though there are few things I don't like about the forum but in general Totallympics was a great forum, thanks to Sindo and his sacrifices. I really appreciate his hard work. PS: I like this "Ignore user" button, I hope it works !