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I'm a bit confused here, Asian Championship (which is also an Olympic qualifier) is a different event than the Asian OQT ? the Asian OQT will be held right after this one Asian Champs is about the team quota and Asian OQT is about the individual quota so what if South Korea wins the gold in men's team recurve (which they will anyway) the Asian quota will go the next best team or will be reallocated to the final OQT ?

Our shooting is in disastrous situation and our shooters can't even make it to the finals, let alone winning quotas (the only girl who went to the final and eventually won the silver already had the quota ) and our Olympic Champion can't even make the team ! but we had a surprise today, winning two bronze medals in Trap ! (team and individual) our NOC didn't even send the Trap team to the Asian Games because they were considered "weak" it's weird to make your international competition final debut at the age of 53! I believe it's our first ever medal in Shotgun events. but still finishing 3rd (despite being a great result) is disappointing with only 2 quotas available.

actually that wasn't his decision just because he is good in both styles he was forced to do that because of the great Lopez. that was a desperate try to just be in the Olympics, he knew top FS guys will beat him quite easily poor guy tried FS for few months and when he went to the Pan-Am qualifiers he was told "no sorry you can't wrestle because you won a quota for Cuba before" I don't know what's in his mind this time, will he try to beat Lopez ? I mean he is 100 years old and Pino is like a giant, he has to beat Lopez but yeah Lopez is not human aging doesn't apply to him. ps: same as 2020, Pino can't qualify in FS because he already won a quota for Cuba in GR.

let me give you a detailed answer people who know nothing about this sport usually can't understand the difference between GR and FS. I even remember some "wise" people even in totallympics suggested having 3 GR weights and 3 FS weights, like a wrestler can easily switch between styles. 50 years ago? maybe but nowadays you can't find a single wrestler in high level who tries both styles (yeah Taishi Narikuni tried Greco after winning the world title in FS but failed miserably) kids switch styles when they are younger to find what they can do better. but when they settle into one of those two styles that never changes. those genius guys in UWW (previously FILA) tried to find a way to show the world these styles are different. as far as I know they came up with two solutions. (there were other solutions like having different mat colors but that was costly) 1) let the Greco guys wrestle naked ! obviously I mean just the upper body I remember I heard one of their officials saying that's more "attractive" 2) having different weight classes they eventually went for #2. this way they just want to show the world these styles are different. and yes I know this is extremely stupid but UWW/FILA officials were never smart

Japan easily manhandled Korea to join Bahrain in the final I think it's fair to say that QAT-BRN and JPN are in tier 1 in this continent. with IRN, KOR, KSA and KUW in tier 2 and while surprises happen sometimes but there is a big gap between tier 1 and 2. Qatar is still the better team but their top guys are aging. today Frankis Marzo singlehandedly gifted the win to Bahrain by his two dumb attempts in last 2 minutes . he used to be their top scorer. both of their Cuban guys had a terrible day, Capote also missed lost of shots. Cubans don't work anymore. maybe it's time to naturalize some Danish players

big big surprise. Bahrain beat Qatar in the semifinal and they did it without two of their best players (one got injured early and the other one received a direct red card in the 1st half) history repeated once again, 4 years ago Bahrain also defeated Qatar in the SF. if I'm not wrong that was the only defeat of this Qatar team (World selection team) under Valero Rivera in an Asian competition.

This is officially the worst Karate competition ever, maybe after all IOC has some valid reasons to not keep Karate in the Olympic program with this kind of terrible organization They are trying a new scoring system, refs are apparently not familiar with it and BIG BIG mistakes happen a lot. I mean something like Blue lands a punch but they give a point to the red I already saw two matches being replayed because of those kind of mistakes (that's what I'm aware of, the number is probably much more)

The World U23 Championship starts this Monday but without Iran, why ? because Albania denied visa the entire team. simply and Iran was supposed to send a strong team including some of our senior team members Finland was supposed to host this event, but UWW took it away from them and gave it to Albania because they wouldn't allow Russians to participate. how funny there must be severe consequences for countries doing this. but there isn't and even tiny little Albania allow itself to do what it's daddy does all the time. lesson 1: if you don't want certain team to participate, don't say that out loud months before the event (like what Finland did)

because they are morons ? most continents use their continental Champs for the Olympic Qualifier (except Pan-Am for obvious reason of having 2 confederations) but in Asia we always had a separate qualification tournament which is totally unnecessary . but this all started with that West vs East war in Asian Handball. things look cool now but at some point 20-25 years ago every match including a west Asian team vs an East Asian team was a war with biased officiating, fights etc. people probably still remember what happened in 2008 Olympic qualifiers. where IHF finally stepped in and ordered a re-match. so I guess nobody ever realized "we don't need this separate qualifier anymore" yet Asian Championship at the start of 2024 could be the Olympic qualifier too. Asian Games was in a bad time, some teams didn't have their full squads. (we still don't have ours, some of our Euro-based players didn't show up again)

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two more medalists on the doping list https://ita.sport/sanction/asian-games-hangzhou/ one guy from Pakistan Kabaddi team (probably that only disqualifies him, not the whole team) but ... 63.5kg boxing gold medalist Baatarsukh, Chinzorig from Mongolia is here too. that's something ps: I really thank ITA for making a list. in past few editions it was impossible to have a full list of doping cheaters. and OCA never even cared to fix the medals. for example I know some guys in Kurash and Jujitsu tested positive in Jakarta 2018 but OCA never said anything about medal reallocation or even disqualification of those cheaters.

I was hoping to see they crown Tommy B as the lifelong king of IOC. he shouldn't be just IOC's president, he should be the King. I mean he acts like a true dictator, why not giving him a throne

I can tell you 9 of them, no idea about the other 2 (sailing maybe ? I'm not familiar with that sport at all) 2 Kayak Cross events Group all-round Gymnastics rhythmic 2 surfing events maybe with 4 different weightlifting classes

oh well, this guy single handedly eliminated our team in the QF Iran finished 5th with just 1 defeat which was by just 1 point in a game this guy scored 36pts (including the last and winning basket) that's totally unfair I think our basketball team deserved a medal after all. a wooden one at least

They have some conditions to award a wild card but they are very very easy to achieve, technically if they can't allocate it based on universality places. that will come back to the next best athlete in the ranking but in Taekwondo they usually can find a suitable athlete in each weight for the Wild Card. or at least that's what I expect

Universality places, wild cards

I downloaded most of them before the "annihilation" (including shooting) still I miss few sports. mostly those alphabetically come after Table tennis.

UWW provisionally suspended multiple time World bronze medalist Mohammad Ali Geraei because of what happened in Belgrade during the World Championships. his brother M. Reza (World and Olympic Champion) was about to lose his lead in 1/8 final match against a Japanese wrestler until someone from the crowd (later revealed to be his brother) threw a bottle of water to the mat, stopped it for few minutes, giving his already-dead-brother some minutes to recover a bit and somehow survives the match 10-10 or 11-10. Reza lost his next match heavily (he was already dead) but came back the next day to win the bronze and the Olympic quota. that was a very shameful act and he deserves a long ban I would gladly give up that quota/medal. we were always proud of our wrestlers being fair and committed to sportsmanship

and it's already disappeared !! after just two days what the hell, they made it active after the start of the competition and now removed it completely in such a short time, so what ? they had to pay a billion dollars each day for having this online ? I hope it works again but I don't think so. I was expecting this (not this soon though) I started downloading all PDF files but couldn't finish it before they took it down @Olympian1010 any chance you guys downloaded everything before the total annihilation ?

am i the only one who hates this idea of having a sport only for 1 edition to satisfy the host country ?! to me this is a terrible idea and Tommy Bach should go to jail for crime against humanity for bringing that idea let's say a 15 years kid in Madagascar watches Squash in 2028 and falls in love with the sport, but when he gets 20/30 years old that sport is not on the Olympic program anymore! that was a lame example but I just wanted to say some people plan their whole lives around the Olympics. I wish fencing wasn't on the 1976 olympics program

I don't keep my hopes up these multisport games websites sometimes disappear quickly. I even remember for one event (not sure which one it was) it happened after less than a week. I guess I have to download the whole website before they make it disappear

looks like they are not going to release the results in a "result book" pdf format. guess I have to do it manually

@Laraja WT finally published the Grand Slam ranking , that's a bit different than our own calculation http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/competition/view.html?nid=140508&mcd=K13

The organizers also cancelled the women's Lead/Boulder final because of the weather and awarded medals based on the semifinal round which was totally unfair, some athletes don't use 100% of their energy in non-final rounds. first why the hell we needed both preliminary and semifinal rounds when we had only 23 athletes. and second some sports depend on the weather, just don't schedule them in the last day. it's easy

I didn't follow these qualifications that much mostly because I was too busy with the Asian Games but also because I gave up on this time few months ago. it's a pity we missed the Olympics but when you do a dumb mistake you have to pay the price. I think after the Olympic season (2021 year) 3 teams made a horrible mistake by appointing the very wrong coach. Iran, Canada and Slovenia. the other 2 realized it almost quickly and fixed it. Slovenia is safely qualified and Canada was/is about to qualify. but our federation insisted of supporting this dumb idiot ... (whatever bad word you want) guy who had a scorched-earth policy and just left nothing behind. it took 10-20 years for Iran to develop a team worthy of top-10 in the world but it took 2 years for this guy to destroy that completely. Iran is a 4th tier team in the world at the moment. just because he had some random good results in 2022 VNL (mostly because our reserve opposite all of a sudden played out of this world for few games) they decided to keep him (as a sign of supporting local coaches) hoping for another miracle like those few games which never happened. they had to fire him after losing 10 out of 12 matches in 2023 VNL but they gave him another chance, again they had to fire him after struggling China B and losing 3-0 to Japan in a one-sided final at home during the Asian Champs, yet they didn't. now he is gone after his team being manhandled by likes of Ukraine and Czech rep ! one thing is for sure we will never have an Iranian coach, at least not anytime soon. and new coach has to start from zero. PS: based on some interviews I believe our volleyball federation didn't understand the qualification rules correctly. they thought if Japan qualifies directly, Iran can grab the Asia quota no matter how many matches we lose.