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I wish the best of luck for you, your family, your friends and your country. that's all I can say this is an unbelievable disaster , watching the news (which we do closely here) is really heartbreaking.

just a little bit ? I couldn't recognize half of them immediately . even wrestling

Albania now has a hired mercenary Russian wrestler who won the World Championship gold medal last year in Zelimkhan Abakarov and will be a favorite for medal in Paris. still he is not a clear top 3 in the world, nothing is guaranteed for him, he can easily lose to another solid wrestler in the first round but I believe he has a good chance to at least win a medal, even gold is within his reach. what a proud moment for Albania if he wins a medal. years of hard work will finally be rewarded.

Thanks OK thanks we had some teenagers in our senior team at the World Championship, this guy for example, you can see his senior results are counted since few months ago but no sign of his junior results (he won World and Asian gold) I was confused because some other junior medalists (for example one of our girls) already had those 70+20 points https://worldtkd.simplycompete.com/playerProfileV2?month=0&year=2023&subCategory1=11ea9376-4530-2b19-aefb-0af9674366aa&rankingTypeId=11ea9376-1b54-af01-aefb-0af9674366aa&countryId=null&searchQuery=null&userId=11ecf5e9-0033-2695-88a4-023cb924a069 I think I know the answer now, those points will be counted from February ranking.

yeah almost it should be Dadmarz and Mohsennejad (the 2nd part is just a suffix, not a separate word) but it's their own fault to write there names this way about the competition, winning 4G, 4S and 5 B out of 18 wrestlers sounds good but only 1 or 2 wrestlers really satisfied me. except 4 more wrestlers (our biggest names) who didn't wrestle here and I think will wrestle in Egypt later this month, this is all we got. some performances here were really worrisome. it was part of our trial system this year and they had to be in a good shape, this is just beginning of the season excuse doesn't apply here. I also wanted to write something about Oscar Pino. he is probably the 2nd best wrestler in the world in this weight, I have no idea why he didn't wrestle at 2021 and 2022 Worlds but from what I saw today he will be clear favorite for the gold in Belgrade, even in front of Kayaalp. he ate everybody alive here. from what I heard Mijain Lopez is preparing for the 2024 Olympics, it will be a shame if one of these 2 guys have to sit out. actually I'm surprised nobody tried to "buy" him yet. he is 99% guaranteed medal

Yeah I know there is no clear formula to follow. this is just how we know these guys. Iranian naming system is completely similar to yours, givenname + surname. that's it. but the problem is some names are consisted of more than just one part which confuses non-Iranian readers. there is no clear formula. some people use just one part, some use the whole thing. when it comes to the surname, 99% people only use the first part but there are lots of exceptions for example the current dictator who is in a mission to burn the country to the ground is known by the 2nd part of his surname) UWW makes it worse and more confusing by adding the father name right after the givenname. (probably to avoid confusion when two wrestlers share exactly the same name)

I know it's almost impossible for non-Iranians to find the "correct" name of Iranian wrestlers, since UWW messes all names by adding father names. it's probably impossible to know which part is "his" name and which part should be dropped. but the 79kg guy is just Ali (the other part is his father's name) and 125kg is the opposite! his name is Amir Hossein (not just Amir) for whatever reason UWW commentators enjoy to call him simply "Amir Zare" it's quite normal for people with a two-part name to use just one of them but Zare doesn't. as for the competition, all 6 Iranians made it to the final and Iran finished with 4 golds and 2 silvers, but before getting too excited those results were expected because of the level of competition, Yazdani and Zare can beat these guys 100 out of 100 matches. this tournament was too easy for them. Atri is still Atri, watching him is not good for people with heart issues. I know he is a nice guy but I just hate watching him on the mat. Savadkouhi had some great wins over big names like Kadimagomedov, Sidakov and Burroughs recently but then his final was disappointing, winning only 2-1 by a caution. Azarpira lost to Snyder in the final, I wasn't expecting more, he is still far behind the best of the world in this weight, his 10-0 win over Tsakulov in World Cup couple months ago was a fluke IMO. but Emami losing the final to Nolf was the biggest disappointment here, he dominated Salkazanov earlier and it looked finally he is becoming World Champion material but then nope, not yet. still he is our best chance at 74kg. we have great wrestlers at 65kg, 86kg, 97kg and 125kg. I think 57kg is already lost and we can't find a solid wrestler for Paris. which leaves 74kg as the only question mark. Emami lost only 2-2 to Kyle Dake in Belgrade which made lots of people think he can beat Dake next time but I still don't think so.

Olympic Champions Uguev and Sidakov won the gold. G. Rashidov lost the final to Mammedov. A. Magomedov also lost to someone called "Mekhtikhanov" and settled for bronze. ---------------- in another news, Brackets are out for the freestyle competition of Zagreb Open. not as good as the original entry list. some big names like G. Petriashvili, Ravi Kumar and J. Cox didn't travel to Croatia after all. we have a very big team in Greco, I will get to that later but in freestyle Iran sent a small team of 6 wrestlers but they are all our #1 or #2. I think 2 or 3 of them should win the gold easily. but there are two matches I'm mostly interested to see. Emami vs Salkazanov (which will happen in the 2nd round) and a possible Azarpira/Snyder final at 97kg. UWW is awarding some prize money for the first time but that's almost nothing, I think you can earn 10 times more by just one match in Russia PWL league.

I can assure you this is wrong, it was supposed to be on 19 December but FIVB postponed it. probably because they still didn't find the hosts (or maybe it has something to do with Russia's participation or non-participation)

that's the thing, the majority of the world doesn't support it. (blaming and condemning Russia for the unnecessary war is another thing)

This will be great for Asian sports in general if they stay in Asia (which I highly doubt) because that will help lots of sports in the continent to develop, same as Australia joining Asia in some other sports and with Russia we (in west Asia) don't have to travel half the world (which is the main problem with Australia) BUT this is most probably a temporary thing that's why I do not really like the idea. and if they participate at the Asian Games in full force they (alongside BLR) will steal lots of our medals they are very strong exactly in our strong sports. but I can't understand how this is supposed to work, they can't participate in World-wide Olympic qualifiers but can only participate in Asian qualifiers ? how the hell that's even possible?!

I wonder how I missed Uguev's name he was in top of the table and also made it to the final against Akhmed Idrisov. Russia tried to keep its top wrestlers in good shape by having several competitions, specially PWL league with good prize money (also invited some of our top wrestlers, some of them went, some didn't) but for whatever reason the great Sadulaev is still missing, probably not interested in minor competitions. he was on his way to break all records, nobody could beat him except Putin

Ivan Yarygin tournament will start in Russia tomorrow. this used to be the toughest international wrestling competition. you had to beat several top Russian wrestlers to win a medal. but now it's mostly a local competition between them. but I also see a limited number of non-Russian wrestlers in the list, mostly from Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Moldova, KGZ etc. Iran also sent a small team of 3rd-4th tier wrestlers. I was checking the brackets and it's still a very high level competition with likes of Rashidov, Sidakov, A. Magomedov. from their tier 1 wrestlers I can't see Olympic Champions Zaur Uguev and the great Sadulaev in the list. Uguev wrestled in a league competition in Iran few weeks ago and also wrestled in PWL League so we know he is OK but what about the Tank ? where is him exactly ? when was the last time he wrestled.

you also got a very good Ukrainian wrestler, Semen Novikov is listed for Bulgaria in Zagreb Open https://uww.org/article/zagreb-open-ranking-series-entry-list he is a two time World U23 Champion + European Senior Champion but had to sit out for main events because of the Olympic Champion Zhan Beleniuk I also see lots of Russian names representing other countries but they are all average or below average wrestlers, I still doubt Russian tier 1 wrestlers switch country.

if Egypt doesn't win the whole thing, Europe will be Continent 1, Africa will be Continent 2, Asia will be 3 and America will be 4 so it's 1) WCH 2, WCH 7, Asia 2, America 2 2) WCH 3, WCH 6, Africa 2, Europe 3 3) WCH 4, WCH 5, Europe 2, Africa 3

yeah exactly the same that's in the qualification criteria, I mean the PDF file Page 3 https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Paris-2024/Paris2024-QS-Handball.pdf?_ga=2.259933514.1900549743.1674497797-2027373162.1619905599

1st and 6th WCH teams (I mean among non-qualified teams) will get Asia 2nd and America 2nd which is a very easy group for those 2 European teams, at least comparing to other 2 groups with 1 more European team

Palicka is possessed by something tonight, can't be a human having all those saves. not possible

I believe that wasn't a direct red-card, that was his 3rd 2-minutes suspension. if I'm not wrong you only can review direct red cards, right ? those Bosnian refs should be in jail for what they did in the whole match but as I said before that was blessing in disguise. hopefully IHF bans him for the next match or the entire tournament. or even a life ban

best 3rd placed teams in main round groups. based on points, GD etc.

That was blessing in disguise that guy Afshin Sadeghi was the weak link of the team, missed so many shoots selfishly, had so many turnovers and hurt the team big team with two 2-minute suspensions earlier in the 2nd half. when the ref "wrongly" showed him the red-card, finally the rest of the team played some handball and won the match but have to say Chile was the better team overall, only our GK had a fantastic night we had lots of players in European leagues, but all of them are either retired, injured or simply not interested to play for the NT. Iran is a very weak and inexperienced team this time, our coach probably thought he "has" to play experienced guys like Sadeghi even when they are playing extremely bad. but this time those terrible Bosnian refs forced him to play someone else and that someone else scored the winning goal

it depends on what you consider "popular". he is popular among those who follow this sport but that's not a big group. so let's say he is well known inside the sport community but if he walks on the streets (anywhere outside of his hometown) most probably nobody will recognize him.

Today Taliban ban women from universities https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-64045497 surprised that it took them a year, they banned girls from the school (6th grade and higher) immediately. they restored almost all of their old "rules" I assume only few more are left,which is probably just a matter of time.

if we had this qualification system for Tokyo Sohrab Moradi had his 2nd Olympic gold around his neck, he broke the WR by a huge margin inside the qualification period yet that wasn't enough for him since he got injured later, that super weird complicated system forced to come back despite not being fully recovered, he re-injured himself and then again re-injured himself. (still he would had been in Tokyo after some late withdrawals but our federation wasn't smart enough to leave a place vacant for him just in case) now for 2024 the path is clear for Iran Weightlifting, the goal is to qualify in heavier 3 weights and 3 Iranians are already in top 4 in these weights. I think those records are probably enough to qualify at the end. it's mostly internal competitions to see who will get the quota. I believe Rostami and Davoudi will go to Paris eventually but Dehdar (who won silver in Bogota) is probably #3 behind Motamedi and Moradi. Moradi didn't feel he is ready for competition yet and Motamedi (2021 World Champion) got injured in a stupid league competition 2-3 weeks before the World Championship I wonder how many countries have a "Weightlifting league" that's stupid. that's too many unnecessary competitions in such a tough sport. that's probably why half of our team is always injured.

based on this, we were supposed to have the OQT groups (hosts, draw etc) today, 19 December but still nothing from FIVB and it seems they postponed it.