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he received a yellow card for excessive celebration after his 5th throw and then again another yellow card for showing that stupid religious flag/slogan. (which was about his love/believe in Muhammad's daughter) and therefore got disqualified with 2 yellow cards. it's really hard to lose a gold medal like this, but he deserved it for being very stupid.

interesting start for Australia, losing at home to Bahrain 1-0 ! with Japan and KSA in the same group. it looks like another trip to the playoff for Australia but yes it's tooo early. and Japan is spanking China badly. 6-0 and counting

of course I know things can happen in life unfortunately and Olympic athletes can become eligible for the Paralympics. but in this specific case, nothing really happened to this guy, no accident, no illnesses, apparently he was using contact lenses in his career. he is a well known athlete here, I just checked and even late 2022 he was still #1 in 400m in Iran winning a league competition without any eyesight problem. rumors say he wanted to compete in Paralympics for Iran but our NPC doctors rejected him. then he found somewhere else for his Paralympics project. this is near the end of his career and he wanted to make some money anyway (Turkey pays very good apparently for Paralympic medalists) I feel sorry for him but cheating is cheating. ps: I have to say there are some rumors about one or two of Iranian Paralympics Judo gold medalists in Tokyo doing the same thing, that probably gave the idea to Mr Hashemi.

Matt Stutzman is just fantastic finally winning the Paralympic gold

something interesting for you guys this guy who won a gold medal yesterday and will probably win another one in next few days https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024-paralympics/athlete/serkan-yildirim_2000715 is in fact the same person as this guy https://worldathletics.org/athletes/islamic-republic-of-iran/sajjad-hashemiahangari-14422407 and he is not blind, he is a national record holder in Iran in 400m and 2012 Olympian I'm no doctor but I highly doubt he is qualified to participate in Paralympics in T12 class. he probably has a better eyesight than some of us here. there are other Iranians in Paralympics, paid to compete for Turkiye but only this one completely changed his name, guess why ? probably to not get identified. didn't work well.

Yeah I was watching the match, they could be in the final though, they just threw away a 5pts lead in the 2nd set (after winning the 1st) in the semifinal yesterday but still bronze is a great result. beach volley isn't much active here

don't know the exact detail but our NPC claims they protested about his equipment which was successful (they also protested about the 2nd throw of Polish athlete which was annulled and decreased his result)

Women's Club Throw - F32 and Men's Shot Put - F55

at the end of national teams season (Euro Qualifiers was the last event of the year) we know the name of 32 qualified teams, the draw will be held on 14 September Host: WC 2022: Asia 2023: South America 2023: North America 2023: Africa 2023: Europe 2023: World Ranking: Croatia was on the last spot but they lost two matches badly in EQ, 3-1 and 3-0 to weaker teams and lost the place by only 2pts !

I can confirm that's not a software mistake. protests (and therefore changing results) like this happen all the time in Para athletics. I don't know if a counter-protest works or not but as of now she is disqualified unfortunately. based on our NPC's report someone else (Brazil or Tunisia) protested probably about her equipment.

Paralympics is a bit weird, results can easily change after protests Iran finished the day with 1 bronze in throwing events but then all of sudden that bronze is now upgraded to silver and another 4th place finish is also upgraded to silver medal position ! so that's 2 silver medals instead of 1 bronze. I'm afraid that was mostly at Poland's expense , which lost a gold medal and downgraded from silver to bronze in another event.

yeah I was watching, good for her, she is just 15.

Iran sent a 65-member delegation to Paris, because of their nonsense policies they rejected lots of quotas in different sports which shows they don't even know what's the real purpose of Paralympics and it's not about winning medals they only sent medal favorites, that was the criteria even for the team sports , there are only few exceptions like the Goalball team, which is not a medal favorite but somehow managed to convince the NPC to let them participate. not a huge fan of Para sports, but will follow this as much as I can and wish everybody the best of luck

This time here in Iran the sport ministry and the NOC decided to have separate prizes ! but if we add them together considering the current exchange rate (this changes minute by minute ) Gold medalists received ~300,000$ silver medalists received ~135,000$ bronze medalists received ~67,000$ beside that wrestling federation paid extra 100,000$ to gold, 23,000$ to silver and 12,000$ to bronze medalists Taekwondo federation will also pay something which is only 20% of what wrestling fed pays. (they will get bankrupted for that they weren't expecting 4 medals out of 4 athletes) those were official numbers, (probably they already received it) but they will receive something from their state/province and probably even their own town. I'm afraid athletes from Tehran don't have that kind of privilege but in other provinces they usually supports their champions much better. and there are some other companies, sponsors and some rich guys paying some prize, etc. I assume at the end of the day our gold medalists made at least 500,000$, that's still nothing compared to what local footballers earn for doing almost nothing but still not that bad.

finally https://oca.asia/news/5416-oca-press-release-oca-cancels-bangkok-chonburi-aimag.html

Karate obviously has lots of problems with officiating. and WKF itself is not a great organization either (most of their rule changes are dumb) but the scoring basic is very simple with only 1 or 2 rare situations. I know in past IOC (under previous IOC presidents not the current dictator) asked WKF to find a solution, using helmets or something like that to avoid situation like the last Olympic final. and I remember WKF used it for few tournaments around 2000 (1998 Asian Games for example) but nobody (specially the athletes) didn't like it, they dropped the idea. I totally understand Kata looks very very boring, (as boring as Surfing in my opinion) but that's the heart of karate. even if WKF is allowed to pick 1 event for the Olympics, they will pick Kata (team kata is much better though)

That was never a controversy for anybody who has watched this sport for an hour. in Judo you can win by strangulation or something but you can't break the neck I assume. that's the same with kicking (or punching) to the head in Karate, you can kick but you can't kick with maximum force. that's the first thing they teach you in Karate. the very first thing.

looks like Thailand wants to drop 14 out of 36 sports due to funding issues Badminton, Baseball 5s, Billiard sports, Cheerleading, Fencing, Indoor hockey, Netball, Aquatics (Short course Swimming and Water polo 4s), Indoor athletics, Indoor rowing, Shooting, Volleyball, Weightlifting and Wrestling why the hell they added this huge number of Olympic sports in first place? must of them don't need to be here. still no confirmation from OCA but I won't be surprised if they cancel it finally. the whole thing about this event was terrible.

1. Rate the performance on a scale of 1-10 7 maybe, 7.5 the number of medals were good, much better than my expectations plus 2 medals for women for the first time was great but we lost 4-5 more gold medals wrestling because of some small/stupid mistakes. also winning medals in only 2 sports is a very bad sign 2. What were the suprises and heartbreaks ? Taekwondo 4 out of 4 with 100% medal success was a huge surprise. we knew they are all good enough but our taekwondo always underperformed massively in Olympics so the expectations were quite low this time. losing 3 finals in freestyle wrestling was really sad. Amouzad lost to a good wrestler but other two gold medals were 99% guaranteed before the final Yazdani's injury in the final was the most heartbreaking moment, not in this Olympics but all time. looks like the universe doesn't want him to win the 2nd gold medal. he tried to win the final with just 1 hand and almost managed to pull a miracle for 5 minutes. he dislocated his shoulder 4 times in the final and again while we were recovering from that, we had another heartbreaking moment the next day with Zare losing to someone he could beat 10-0 any day. 3.Was your country's goal achieved? They never set a goal, this way they can consider any result as success 4. Which are the sports that will be invested more in future? Current / Upcoming sports This is really sad that we are winning medals (even though lots of medals) in only 2 sports. right now I don't think there is any money to invest in something else. but personally I like to see more investment in Shooting, Archery, Athletics, Gymnastics, Canoeing and few more sports while we have talents in Judo and Boxing, not sure if they worth wasting money on. 5. Who could be some the potential star for your country in LA? I don't want to name any athlete, I know we have lots of talents in our main 3 sports. (actually 2, weightlifting is half dead) who knows what will happen in 4 years time. 2 of our gold medalists are 19 or 20. nobody knew them 2 years ago. even our top wrestlers may lose their spot to a youngster.

looking at my pre-game prediction, I don't know why I'm upset/not-happy about winning 12 medals which was twice my prediction in June my latest prediction before the games was 9 medals though. still 12>9

Italy winning gold in women's volleyball was the best non-domestic moment of this Olympic for me I remember 1996 Olympic final, where Velasco with Italy men's team (with that golden generation) lost dramatically to the Netherlands in the final. 28 years later, Velasco finished his unfinished business from Atlanta, this time with the women's team. the first person Julio jumped to was Lorenzo Bernardi, his player 28 years ago. I still think Italians should put Mazzanti in jail for all his crimes last year any random person from the streets could get better results with this team

some media here reported a comment from Nenad Lalovic saying they are trying to make changing nationality harder . I couldn't find the English source for that interview so I'm not 100% sure if that's correct but this is certainly what they should do. with the exception of Akgul and Aman, nobody else won a medal in men's freestyle except Ex-Soviet countries or Russian mercenary wrestlers. women's freestyle and Greco are better in this matter. they are not totally ruined yet.

Cherman Valiev (ALB) beat the eventual gold medalist Jamalov (UZB) but a late challenge after the final whistle changed the final score I believe 9 out of 10 (or maybe 10 out of 10) wrestling fans will tell you that was nonsense.

leaving the freestyle (which is the dominant style here) without gold medal is very very disappointing, for years and years Iran and USA were the best freestyle teams in the world behind Russia and now without Russia (well half of the FS medalists are still Russian!), both of them failed to win a single gold! and both had strong teams on paper 8 medals out of 11 wrestlers in 12 events is nothing to be sorry about. that's great result but losing 4 very very winnable finals suck big time. not sure why all of our finalists (except one) underperformed massively in the 2nd day. celebrating too much maybe ? we seriously had a shot for 4 freestyle golds but lost them all for different reasons, Yazdani's injury, Amouzad's terrible gameplan, Zare's stupid mistake etc. anyway it was a great week of wrestling, while it hurt sometimes but still I enjoyed every single minute of it. even though you can't have a complete wrestling competition without Russia. on the positive note, this time we had less officiating problems. I only witnessed one big big robbery in MFS 74kg (that couldn't be just a mistake, that was intentional)

not in a celebration mood because of what happened in other sports, but this is Iran's first gold medal in this sport in 16 years and we have to thank some very special organization for this. the UK government ! few months ago for the last ranking tournament (GP final), the UK denied visa for the entire Iranian team. our 58kg guy Haji-Mousaei was VERY close to the quota but lost it because of that. the WT did nothing about it, just giving some promises about this won't happen again. with max 2 quotas per country rule , if Iran had won that quota, we wouldn't be able to send anybody to the Asian qualifiers. our TKD federation had a tough decision to make about who to send to the AQT. they picked up +80kg (and not 58kg) and, Arian Salimi, the +80kg guy won the gold tonight, ironically beating a British fighter in the final. (while the rest of the British team went home empty handed) pure justice, isn't it ?