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Russian coaches are great in finding solutions like this. I mean Jordan Burroughs was unbeatable for years until they solved the puzzle in Rio. we usually blame our coaches for not being good enough in term of finding the best tactics. Salkazanov is physically tough, Chamizo simply couldnt get through his hands. he usually relies on his big throws but big throws happen when your opponent makes a mistake and Salkazanov doesn't. he wrestled Frank so many times. but Chamizo is Chamizo, he is unique in his own way, I don't think you can adjust any tactic on him. it's also about matchups. for example I think our 74kg guy (assuming Emami wins our 74kg trial) will do better against Salkazanov, I really don't want him in Chamizo's side of draw during the Worlds/Olympics. Italian coaches didn't look experienced to me, Piroddu could win the bronze (or even going to the final) with a better plan. Conyedo also could do better against the Georgian/Azeri.

Chamizo simply can't score against Salkazanov even if they wrestle 10 more times, he just needs one big mistake from the Russian to throw him . that's the only way he can score and Salkazanov is well aware of that.

got injured yesterday, didn't show up today.

Kurugliev easily cruised into the final in his international debut for Greece. I highly doubt he loses to Amine in the final but we will see. as I said earlier he is easily #3 in the world behind Yazdani and Taylor (and #4 if his nightmare Naifonov participates someday) Chamizo and Salkazanov will be interesting in 74kg final. they both looked in a better shape. Chamizo had a great comeback against Demirtas earlier today

well that was fun session of wrestling. very impressive comeback by our Greek friend with a long name Kougioumtsidis, right ? he was down 10-2 with less than 2 minutes to go but he beat the Armenian 12-10. Azerbaijan sent 3 to the final and will be huge favourite for the team title. I was mostly impressed by Mikhaylov (79kg UKR) and Magomedov (97kg AZE) they both won bronze at the worlds last year but looked much improved this year.

this Piroddu guy is good , he lost here mostly because Azerbaijan has MUCH better coaches and they made the necessary adjustment in Rzazade's strategy to win the match. not sure if Piroddu can beat Lehr for bronze but considering his age I won't be surprised to see him in podium in bigger stages. he surely has the potential.

Hossein didn't waste any time to say some dumb things about O'Sullivan once again. I mean O'Sullivan is probably a jerk but you won't say things like that about the best player in the world, it just makes the life harder for yourself. he was great today, if the plays like this (which is a big big if) he can beat anybody but he just puts a lot of pressure on himself. still it was great to win his first ever Crucible match. even if he loses 13-0 the next round.

Freestyle Brackets are out. the competition starts tomorrow. even though the best of the best is absent, still I see lots of high quality wrestlers, unlike Asia, people take the European Champs very seriously.

hi Donald, I thought you left this world since Tokyo Olympics didn't get cancelled what else you can see or can't see in the future. tell us more. you are the only one capable of seeing what's ahead of us

Kazakhstan already secured the team title for the first time ever. this is only the 7th time in history that Iran doesn't win the freestyle team title. This is a tournament to forget for our freestyle team. or maybe not, a tournament to learn from. the same team with these wrestlers can win 5-6 gold medals in any other day but here in Astana we lost lots of matches in an unbelievable way. Masoumi losing to the Mongolian in the last 2 seconds was the last nail. youngster Masoumi did great (despite the defeat) dominated the world silver medalist but just made a rookie mistake in the last seconds. I think he can be world #1 in a year or two. but the rest of the team was simply terrible. this is probably one of the worst tournaments I ever seen. nothing is working. two of our wrestlers lost by 10pts margin to Japan (I assume it never happened before) at least the Japanese 92kg guy has Iranian blood his father is Iranian and he looks very good.

wow. I watched her play just yesterday in the Champions League semifinal

Japan dominated the women's wrestling as expected winning the team title + 5 individual gold medals but today was the start of the men's freestyle competition, and I have to say it was one of the worst wrestling days I ever seen from the Iranian point of view. before the day when I looked at the brackets, I thought we will 4 in the final at least with 3 golds in the bag for sure but at the end we ended up with just 1 gold and 2 bronze. technically this is almost our 2nd/3rd tier squad but not really. World Champion Amouzad (who wasn't supposed to wrestle here but got in because the 2nd guy got injured) won the gold and even he was far from convincing. Goleij at 97 lost to a guy he can beat 99 out of 100 matches. the Russian mercenary of Bahrain was dead after 2 minutes yet he managed to throw Goleij few times Sarlak at 57kg is #1 and yet he got schooled by Japan #2 by 11 points margin there is something wrong with this team, I have some guesses but I think in general they weren't mentally ready. looked very confused and lost on the mat. it's highly possible to even lose the team title, Kazakhstan is already too far ahead and they got some easy draws tomorrow. I think Aman of India was the star of the day, I think I said that before but have to repeat myself that to me he is better than Ravi Kumar. I don't know how things work in India and if they will wrestle in a trial match but I would pick Aman without hesitation. he is a medal favorite this year, even the gold medal is not out of his reach.

Thanks, I don't follow WWE , didn't know there are some problems there, (never understand why people might be interested in such a thing, they can watch movies if they want fake fights) US wrestling is actually paying pretty good to its successful wrestlers. it's good news to watch him in action once again. he never met our top guy (only trash talking between them lol) 125kg will be very interesting in Belgrade with him, Akgul, Geno, that Mongolian tough guy and our wrestler (Zare or the new guy Masoumi) I still can't forget how Geno lost to him in the very last second in Tokyo

Olympic superheavy weight champion Gable Steveson announced the will wrestle at the US open later this month which means he is coming back he left the real wrestling after winning the gold in Tokyo for the fake wrestling WWE, but for whatever reason he is leaving that shit for the real deal.

Iran won the team title in Greco for the 15th time in history but the 2nd day was a total disaster. Iran ended up with 3 more medals (1 G, 1 S and 1 B) but that gold medal was somehow a gift from the ref who fell for our guy's acting. winning half of the gold medals (5 out of 10) sounds good on paper but considering the fact that it was almost our A team (without 3 or 4 of our top guys) I'm not convinced at all. specially because this year we have to prepare two teams for the Worlds and the Asian Games. and in some weights we don't even have one solid wrestler I wonder how other Asian countries will do about this. sending the same team to the Worlds and to the AG (10 days later) ?

well actually Rupin was about to win the match 1-1 but gave up a cheap 2points caution for not listening to the ref. that was a rookie mistake, I can't say he will be a medal favorite at the Worlds, toooo early to say that but he can do some damage. the Kazakh guy he beat is no joke, he elimnated Dadmarz in last year Worlds. Iran finished the day with 4 golds and 1 silver without losing a single match on the mat, our 77kg was a bit injured and didn't bother facing Akzhol (he had no chance to win anyway) unlike freestyle we are sending most of our #1 guys in Greco so it was expected to win lots of gold medals. I don't expect the same result tomorrow, not confident about 67 and 72. and also I have to say in 60kg we have World Champion Sharshenbekov in the bracket too.

The first session was perfect for Iran with 5 out of 5 made it to the final but I have to admit all of them were on the easier side of the draw. still I think it wouldn't make a difference for 3 of our guys. I expect 3 or 4 gold medals today, 77kg gold is impossible Akzhol Makhmudov is simply the best in the world. really impressed by India's new guy at 55kg, never saw him before. he was down 7-0 in the first round and again 4-0 (if I'm not wrong) in the 1/4 final against the Kazakh wrestler, had two incredible combacks to qualify for the final. but I hope his run ends here

Is this a replacement for that mixed team race walk event or a new addition ? oops, got it, at first I thought it's a mixed Marathon event

RUS/BLR wrestlers are back in competition as "neutrals" https://uww.org/article/uww-decision-neutral-athlete-inclusion

China dominated the women's competition by winning all 4 gold medals. they are in good position to win all 4 female quotas. on the men's side Korea and Uzbekistan won the gold at 58kg and 80kg. unfortunate day for Iran losing some close matches in the 3rd round and our only finalist Barkhordari lost to the same guy he beat 3 days earlier in the qualifiers.

Yes I think so. they made it very clear in the IOC published qualification document. https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Paris-2024/Paris2024-QS-Taekwondo.pdf but then again this PDF on WT website says something different http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/viewer_pdf/external/pdfjs-2.1.266-dist/web/viewer.html?file=http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/att_file/documents/WT-Standing-Procedures-For-Grand-Slam-Champions-Series(01162023).pdf I assume the priority goes to the IOC pdf file but who knows

first day gold medals go to Zuo , Song, Rashitov and Salimi these guys will be in the front sit for the Olympic quota in December but still nothing is final yet. Rashitov doesn't even need it. Salimi's gold medal was a total surprise. I barely even knew him before this event. but 68kg final was really disappointing, Bozorgi was leading Rashitov 6-1 with 5 seconds to go but then bang, 5pts kick to the head I think our coach almost had a heart attack, almost the same happened in the +80kg final but Salimi somehow survived it. 2nd day draw with lots of new/big names http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/viewer_pdf/external/pdfjs-2.1.266-dist/web/viewer.html?file=http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/att_file/news/Darw sheet(3 APR 2023 day2).pdf

just checked again to make sure they didn't change the rule "The new national federation of a wrestler who wishes to change his/her sports nationality shall send a request in writing with complete file and payment(s) to United World Wrestling in the period between 1 and 31 December." https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-07/change_nationality_june_2022_final_eng.pdf?VersionId=J.DIBoIwL1TqZV1PmTcNu0NhOz0kQQqM but maybe Greek federation sent the request earlier but if they didn't he has to wait until 2024 to be eligible.

in wrestling there is a small window at the end of each year for transfers like this. as far as I know if he didn't transfer already, he has to wait until December. (but maybe they did the paperwork months ago) not competing in the Olympics doesn't make him a bad wrestler, he is a multiple Yarygin Champion. in 2016 he didn't go to Rio because the best wrestler in the history was representing Russia. and in 2020 he lost only 2-1 to Artur Naifonov (eventual Tokyo bronze medalist) in the Russian trials. he can be easily #3 in the world (if we consider just 1 for each country) 86kg is relatively weak. he finished 5th in Worlds 2018 only because #1 and #2 both were on his side of the draw. his uncle Magomed wrestled for Kazakhstan and won an Olympic medal, I wonder why he didn't go that path

1st day Grand Slam draw http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/viewer_pdf/external/pdfjs-2.1.266-dist/web/viewer.html?file=http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/att_file/news/Darw sheet(2 APR 2023 day1).pdf They gave wild card to some athletes didn't participate in the qualifiers. it's a bit different tournament now with these higher ranks guys. 49kg: Aydin, Semberg, Zuo 67kg: Castro, Perisic, Song 68kg: Recber, Rashitov, Liang, Cui +80kg: Soares, Song our 49kg girl Nassiri is already out because of the draw