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at the end of the day he came all the way to Bogota to just register and lift nothing several athletes did the same for Olympic qualification purposes but you have to participate in 3 events (out of 5) to eligible ( didn't count two mandatory events in KSA and Thailand) isn't it cheaper to participate in two continental champs in your continent + Grand Prix in Qatar ? or maybe those federations are very rich and can afford sending someone to other side of the world in Colombia just for that reason

good for her, nobody will never know that she finished last in a World Cup race. she probably lives in Europe at the moment (or permanently) Iran Ski Fed would never send anybody to a World Cup and there is not a single line in their website about it.

Ismail Musukaev just pulled out of "UWW World Team" at the Wrestling World Cup few days ago. just saying.

@Sindo you have 2023 World Shooting Championships as host TBD but Baku (AZE) will host the event from 14 AUG - 3 SEP also I posted dates and host of AQT events in Handball in Handball Qualification threads. QAT will host the men's event and women's event will be held in JPN

Japan will host the Asian Qualification tournament for women, 17-26 August 2023

Qatar will host the Asian Qualification tournament 18-28 October 2023 unlike other continents, Asian Championship is not an Olympic qualifier AHF has a separate tournament for the OQT.

yeah I just noticed that and removed that part of my comment but that was too late

Belgrade will host the 2023 World Wrestling Championship instead of Russia (two years in a row in the same city ? surprise surprise) they still didn't change the dates but UWW said they are considering it since it will be at the same time as the Asian Games

that was a crazy night, Carlos Nasar bombed out at Snatch and then broke the World Record by3kg at CJ !!! Tian Tao and Shi Zhiyong just made fun by entering big weights in the table but never even entering the competition. (they just entered here to fulfill one of their Olympic Qualification events) it was a bad night for Iran, Javadi was totally out of shape and Rostami lost the gold medal once again to losing his focus and ended up with nothing !! (finishing 4th) that was his best and maybe last chance to win a world title without Nasar and Tian.

USA won the title 6-4. I was expecting the same final result but we had lots of surprising results. Jordan Burroughs finally lost to an Iranian wrestler, he was apparently 14-0 against our wrestlers until last night. our reserve 74kg who got manhandled by Salkazanov the other day also surprised everybody by beating Jason Nolf but on other hand we were expecting much more at 70 and 86. 70kg Yazdani (not that Yazdani) lost to a controversial last second challenge) and our coach made a gamble sending our 92kg World Champion to 97kg to face 97kg World Champion Kyle Snyder. with this Iran lost both matches because our reserve 92kg guy made lots of mistakes and Ghasempour at 97kg couldn't stand against Snyder who was 10kg heavier than him. overall it was a good competition, entertaining matches. I think if both teams had their full squads A team USA still could win the dual 5-5 or 6-4. but we have some brilliant youngsters like 18 years old Masoumi who is beating everybody at 125kg. and Ukraine won the women's title for the first time after beating China

The freestyle World Cup (men and women) started last night in Iowa, USA. after some interesting duals, China and Ukraine made it to the women's final and it will be Iran vs USA in freestyle final (after the midnight CET time) USA won both of its group matches easily while Iran had a hard time against "All World Team" but yet won the dual 6-4. Iran/USA is always interesting in wrestling BUT both teams are missing some big names. we have our #1 guy at 65, 79 and 92 while USA has its #1 wrestler at 61, 65, 97 and 125. I can't see how Iran can win this dual because USA is almost guaranteed 5 wins (at least couple of them by superiority) and even by some miracle Iran wins all other 5 matches, that will still end 5-5 in favor of team USA. but Iran won the Greco World Cup title against all odds let's see what they can do tonight.

I can't remember a weightlifting competition when two guys from Group B end up winning total medals. one medal happens sometimes but two ? maybe this is the first time in history Rahmat EA intentionally puts himself in Group B, everybody knows it, he broke CJ world record too but I think the Kazakh guy wasn't there intentionally . it just happened because some other guys gave unnecessarily high entry records. this time entries were available online the whole time and you could see what entry record is good enough to put you in Group A. and you rarely see average weightlifters from China. one or two maybe but there are 5 or 6 average athletes from China already what's up with Chinese weightlifting ? @Vic Liu is this just not the A team ? or the new generation is not as good as the old one ? (probably because of COVID and the problem it created)

the whole format is OK with giving 3 chances to each boxer to qualify. I was complaining about how they distributed the continental quotas

you rarely see two Chinese weightlifters in a women's World Championship both fail to win a total medal and also someone else won the gold medal for Colombia. the clear favorite Kuo wasn't even in her best shape. it will be even harder to win the gold when she is ready (and Diaz of PHI will probably join the party in this weight too) I think one thing is clear. 59kg is one of two weights that China has to ignore for the 2024 Olympics. (unless something super crazy happens in future)

people should notice that this is the new boxing qualification formula. not just some font change I found it very unfair for some continents Asia wasn't "this" behind Europe to get almost half those number of quotas. and how the hell Oceania has the same number as the much bigger Africa. yeah I understand the smart IOC doesn't want to have 3rd place playoffs between bronze medal winners at the continental Games, it should be 2 or 4 quotas for each continent. but if 3 is not possible. it should be 2 for Europe too.

is there any livestream for Group B/C competitions ? I know we have copyright issues for Group A. but IWF usually provides free livestream for lower groups. can't see that on their website this time

I highly doubt Chamizo has a realistic chance to win the gold even if Russian wrestlers don't participate. (either for Russia, ROC or even as a paid mercenary for another country) Kyle Dake is not going to lose to him or Salkazanov. I think Chamizo had his best chance to win the gold in 2016, but yes you never can write him off completely. in 2022 Worlds he could lose to Demirtas and Tsabalov but found a moment of magic to win both matches. that's always possible with him but with Dake you need to do that more than once.

Congrats to Australia , that was a well-deserved win. I still think this is the less-talented Australian team I ever seen but that doesn't matter. they achieved what the better Australian teams didn't.

that's the dumb Taremi I talked about, he is usually good in forcing defenders to give him cheap penalties. but not in last minute of a very match like this. obviously that wasn't a penalty but even if it was, the ref wouldn't called it. 4 years ago it was Taremi again who missed the last chance in last seconds of match against Portugal. I assume he will be remembered by goals he didn't score.

Queiroz took over only 2-3 months ago. he didn't follow Iranian football in past 4 years and he had no other choice to bring his old players. Iran was the oldest team of the competition because of that reason. Jalali was the only new player he brought with himself and that was his first or second match with the NT. as for Taremi, I said this before he is very dumb and very smart at the same time. unfortunately tonight was the bad side of him. he is still a great player but just not tonight and not in this tournament. or maybe we were asking too much from him. lots of guys will retire for sure and to be honest 5-6 of them couldn't even dream of playing at the World Cup 3 months ago but Queiroz called them up since he had no time to test new players. our league is more like gladiator battles. no idea how our team will look like in future. not even sure if there is a future.

ppff, it was a huge mistake to start with Azmoun. he is a 50 minutes player now and Queiroz had to save him for the last 20-30 minutes. and what about Taremi ? who was supposed to be our best player in this tournament but except that goal in England he was just a shadow of himself. and what he was thinking diving for a penalty while he had a chance to score. no referee will call a penalty in favor of Iran against USA in 100th minute of a WC knockout match. USA deserved the win because of their first half performance. as usual they suck in 2nd half. but Iran didn't create enough chances to score. there were some chances here and there but in all of them the ball went to the wrong player, nobody excepts Karimi or PAG to score. yeah it feels terrible now but still I'm proud of the team considering all problems they had to get here. they faced lots of enemies inside and outside. changing the coach only few months before the cup, friendly matches being cancelled. and that humiliating defeat against England. they still did good after that.

yep, he is our Neymar I mean not only in acting. but in other negative things.

OK this is another England match, once again they forgot how to play football. it could be easily 3-0 . on the positive side, at least no more stress.

USA is going to score sooner or later, we can't hold it forever.

they didn't sing it in the first match but were forced to do so in 2nd and 3rd matches. it was mostly just moving the lips instead of really singing anything. they were pressured to do so for sure but not like that for sure. that's a fantasy story by CNN.