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that's unbelievable. losing to a guy you can beat 10-0. stupid strategy when we know we are weak in defense . another match we lost in last 10 seconds

he is an average American wrestler , he is good but not that good. he was close to win the bronze last year if I'm not wrong but I don't think he can beat Tevanyan

he is surely an upgrade comparing to that piece of crap Martinetti (who was as corrupt as Tamas Ajan) there are some improvements, and I can give him credit for that. the officiating is better in general. but there are still lots of problems. for example everybody know 2019 World Championship draw was rigged by the host nation, they fixed that problem but never acknowledged it, there are still some other ways to cheat, I'm not going to tell more because I have no proof

The German is a tough guy, very hard to score on. from what I heard he won 2-0. which means 2 cautions probably Magomedov is a very good wrestler. so indeed surprising I'm not sure but looks the semifinals in Olypic weights are something like this 65kg Iran vs Hungary Armenia vs Puerto Rico 97kg Bahrain vs Russia/AIN Germany vs Georgia

apparently he won. but UWW site sucks and has no update and I was too excited during our own match and I forgot to watch other mats.

Goleij made a mistake. he had to take 1-2 steps back instead of facing Sadualev. there is a reason he is called "the tank" he is as strong as a tank. he wins these kind of positions 99 out of 100. but it's easier said than done, under that pressure your brain doesn't work properly. Goleij has a history of losing like that. he lost 2 years ago to Snyder despite leading 2-1 with less than 5 seconds on the clock

yep he was in Sydney too. not a great wrestler in his time. he is the head coach for the whole team but sometimes he sits in the corner to coach himself too. (I think only for Yazdani and Goleij) that's Magomed Isagadzhiev, 2002 World Silver medalist, one of the few people in the world who beat the great Saitiev. yes this is the first time ever to have a Russian coach. (or a foreign coach at all) as assistant though.

Pejman Dorostkar, 4th place World 1998 (the 2nd coach is a Russian, and yes we have a Russian coach this time !!!)

wow, just wow Goleij was 15 seconds away from beating the best wrestler of all time. f..ing 15 seconds and then that happened , the Russian Tank did what he always does. he has only 1 or 2 defeats in his entire career and after so many years he was an inch away from a defeat. now with Snyder out of the picture I hope Goleij can take the bronze and the quota at least. Amouzad also gave us a scare, a heart attack even. was leading 7-0 comfortably and then bang, he almost got pinned, hopefully he learns from this and dominate the "new" Musukaev like what he did last year. he is our last chance for another gold

it's hard to stay calm after these kind of officiating, fortunately Olympic well be held somewhere else and not in Lalovic's house.

that means 81kg will be pretty weak in Hangzhou, no China, and no Rahmat Erwin but unfortunately our guy was terrible at the world champion, so it doesn't matter we are not going to win that gold btw the competition unofficially starts in something like 30-35 hours and still no results/schedule section. booo

tough question our TV commentator went crazy with that call and some people still think Yazdani got robbed of a gold medal with that call but if you ask me, those kind of situations are tricky, that was a 50/50 call, I wish they would called in our favor but I understand why they didn't. I would probably do the same if I was the judge. so in short, to me that was correct but 4pts for Yazdani was also correct too. they have to make rules more clear for situations like this. btw just to tell you guys how important Yazdani is here. when our 125kg guy Zare won the gold in a dominant fashion and left the mat, the first question Iranian journalists asked him in the mixed zone was "what do you think about that call in Yazdani's match?" imagine winning a world title and the first thinh you are asked about is someone else's match!

the last quota also goes to Kurbanov , with a 8-3 win. as the UWW commentator said, he "won" the quota but has to wait for IOC's final decision

since I'm not sure UWW's result system software post the results let me tell you that Shapiev (UZB) wins 3-1 and gets the last 86kg quota, 3 for Asia, 1 for Europe and 1 for America

Yazdani's defeat was really sad but expeceted. he is a 9 time World and Silver medalist but he just can't beat this Taylor guy but Zare saved the day by his dominating gold medal. at least we are guaranteed to not leave this competition withtout a gold medal. now time for 5th place matches

I think it's very simple, wherever AIN athletes participate in direct qualification events and "win" a quota. that quota will be on standby pending IOC's final decision actually it's IOC's fault, not UWW. and I'm 100% sure they wouldn't do a thing without consulting with the IOC. IOC is fully aware of everything. they just have to make their mind about this. Yes or No.

as @ChandlerMne said there will be a 5th place match at the end of the day, I mean after the medal ceremonies

no Man Asaad was in Group D and just participated in weight-in without lifting a thing he is either injured or saving himself for the Asian Games, same as Djangabaev. I know Asian Games matters a lot for most of Asian countries (including us) but still it's not a good sign for a sport when people prefer an Asian Games title over a World title ! (and yes I know it's about prize moneys too)

4 defeats and we have nobody in the semifinals 57 and 75 defeats were execpted but really disappointed with 79 and 92kg defeats, Nokhodi simply fell into the Russian's trap. when you are facing a Russian you have to push from the start because if you are leading by 1 point there is 90% chance that you lose the match. they know how to score in the last 30 seconds and Azarpira was a total disaster, he lost despite leading 9-4 at some point. 3 of 4 semifinalists lost so many times to our 2nd/3rd tier wrestlers in past couple of years speaking of Olympic weights, Emami did nothing special against Sidakov, losing 6-0. Sidakov almost lost his 1st match but he is a snake, he always finds a way to win. I think he will beat Bayramov in SF easily but still it will be a long road ahead in the repechage for Emami. 57kg was a different story, we gave up on our so-called experienced wrestlers and sent a 18 years nobody kid instead. surprisingly he won 2 matches before losing to the defending champion Abakarov. I hope Aba makes to the final and brings back our kid to the repechage but even in that case he has to beat Aman good day for Azerbaijan, they have 3 in the semifinal. USA also received 3 defeats and even Kyle Dake barely survived in his matches. but star of the day was Kougioumtsidis, beating Kadi and Salkazanov also Micic surprised everybody by beating the Olympic Champ Uguev

back to back surprises at 74kg Chamizo is out, so is Kadimagomedov !

as said above we don't know that yet but I watched UWW commentators during the afternoon session and they never said anything about AIN wrestlers not being eligible to qualify. I will pay more attention tomorrow during the finals to see if they say anything about it. personally I think they won't get the quota for now but that will be reserved for them until IOC takes the final decision in this matter. they have plenty of time before the continental qualifiers to do that.

sure but two of them had their competitions today 61kg Abbasgazhi Magomedov was the clear favorite before the event and he proved that on the mat too. easily making it to the final dominating everybody including the Ukrainian. (no shake hands after the match and UWW didn't care again) from the other side I was expecting the Kyrgyz guy to qualify but Vito Arujau was great. I think Magomedov will win the final too 70kg Zain Retherford was the clear favorite IMO and he made it to the final. I believe your guy has a realistic shot for the bronze. I didn't know him before today but like most of your lighter guys he is not giving up easily A.M. Yazdani is a talented wrestler but he lost to almost everybody this year, so him being in the final is surprising. I don't think he will win the final but I hope I'm wrong and for tomorrow weights 79kg I think two big favorites are going to meet in the QF and that's Nokhodi (IRN) and Usmanov (RUS/AIN) I believe Usmanov has the upper hand. Nokhodi has a unique style comparing to our other wrestlers, more similar to Russian style. bottom half looks easier to me, I think Mykhailov (UKR) is the favorite with Gamkrelidze to win the bronze. Mykhailov tried his luck at 86kg mostly this year, I don't know how he is doing one weight down, but if he making weight properly he will be very dangerous. 92kg the draw is unbalanced, most of favorites are in the bottom half. Valiev, Azarpira, Valencia and Nurmagomedov and I can add the Japanese kid Yoshida to the mix too, we know him very well because of his Iranian father, he won the Asian title this year and to me he has a chance for medal. unfortunately our World Champion Ghasempour got injured and we had to replace him with Azarpira who is good but Ghasempour was something else. I think Akturk can win the top half, he is the clear favorite. but the bronze medal is up for grab,

Ligeti has some tricks up his sleeves and almost gave us a scare when he scored that 4pts against Zare but he is not young and after that Zare easily scored tons of points on him. that guy Khramiankov has couple of wins against our 2nd/3rd tier wrestlers, so I know his potential probably better. of course Ligeti can take the win with one of his nasty throws , winner of that match will finish 5th though but will be one win away from the quota. of course, it's important to win the quota early, because then you can prepare yourself better. but in this specific sport winning the quota doesn't mean the same guy will to the Olympics. they still have to go through our own trial process (even though by wining a medal they will have a huge advantage over the rest) it's also about matchups and different styles. for example that Uzbek guy was great until the SF but Yazdani handled him quite easily, he usually does that against Russian (and ex-Soviet) wrestlers but he struggled against Amine (SMR) who is American in fact. anyway it was a good day, 2 quotas, 3 in the final (2 expected 1 surprise ) we are in a race with team USA for the team title and they are leading after the 1st day. Yazdani-Taylor is probably the most anticipated sporting event here (I mean outside of football) people will get very upset if/when he loses. and unfortunately I can't see him winning. Taylor was just better today

so here are the quotas for tonight 86: 125: these guys in repechage will try for the remaining 3 quotas tomorrow 86: needs one win needs couple wins at least / I think it's fair to say that 3 quotas will be between KAZ/UZB/SMR/BRN, only the Mongolian can change that 125: needs one win needs couple wins at least / no chance for PUR and I think BLR will beat Ligeti (HUN) or at least he has a better chance. that CAM wrestler is actually Iranian so it won't be walk in the park. last night I would considered Baran (POL) as favorite but Kurbanov (AIN) was better than my expectation so I say 3 quotas will be between RUS/BLR/TUR/USA but POL and HUN can change that

Geno is not the same great Champion we knew. he almost lost to the Russian, had problems even against Cambodia (which is a 10th tier Iranian wrestler) in the first round Parris did good specially in his first match. I think it will be 50/50. if Geno gets a chance on top . he can still beat anybody in the world 10-0 by his fantastic gut-wrenches. but he is physically in a terrible shape.