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what's up with USA and Japan using reserve guys for the free skating? is that because they know they are almost guaranteed of silver and bronze and want to give their reserve guys a chance to win a medal too? (in this format no big change will happen after the end of short programs) which sucks IMO, teams should not be allowed to replace someone just for that reason. (only in case of injuries) everything is wrong with this team event this is so unnecessary (saying that as a figure skating fan) but at least if you are going to have a "mixed team event" do it right.

do they still score 10-9-8-7-6 for the free skating parts ? that's one of the dumbest scoring systems ever. it should be at very least 10-8-6-4-2. even though you always should give more value to a 1st place finish. in this format the difference between 1st and 2nd is exactly the same as the diff between 9th and 10th

thanks I remember I read something like that long time, I just thought it's a different method now and since you are too nice to answer the question what about the 1st run in Slalom, GS and AC ? the same format ?

how they determine the order in Downhill (and Super-G) ? I suppose top 20 from the ranking (which ranking?) are drawn randomly and from BIB 21 they will go based on their ranking , right ?

@thepharoah Congrats

no he has Afghan heritage. our names are a bit similar sometimes but that's obvious from his given name

and they missed two very great chances in last minutes of both matches against KSA. both match could easily ended in a draw. PS: the Croat coach of Oman Ivankovic used to work in Iran's most popular club during Queiroz era and they were enemies, real enemies. somehow divided all football fans here. for the same reason all media here follow Oman NT too whoever in Egypt or Oman say anything about these 2 guys that will end up in our media as well.

Australia threw away 2 valuable points by a last second penalty they have to beat both Japan (home) and KSA (away) to qualify. there is no other way for Australia . I guess most probably they have to prepare for the playoffs , they will be favorite against UAE but underdog against the SA team. and if they play like today they can't even beat Venezuela

South Korea becomes the 15th team officially qualified for the World Cup I have to say it turned out to be a very easy group. Iran and Korea are 22 and 20 while the next team has just 9 pts. in other group Japan beat KSA to make things more interesting for the last round. if Australia beats Oman (they are leading 1-0) it will be something like this KSA 19, Japan 18, Australia 17 but still KSA can qualify by just beating a very bad Chinese team (they just lost to Vietnam!!) and send the loser of JPN/AUS match the playoffs. I believe both Japan and Australia are capable of beating the South American team but still it will be a very tough task if it's against Uruguay or Chile for example.

yeah. I wrote something about it in flag bearers thread

@thepharoah what's the general situation of Queiroz there ? I think Egypt did OK reaching the semifinal so far. but here everyday I read news in our media about guy A and guy B in Egypt wants him to be fired do people, media and football experts in Egypt hate him this much already? (which is funny if true, because this is just his first tournament with Egypt A team and his team is not eliminated yet) (as I said before all of his steps anywhere in world will be followed carefully here)

one of our flag bearers tested positive for COVID and will miss the Games. I don't know what's the plan now.

and qualified from Asia

I was very wrong, , Korea managed to bring some new players to Saudi Arabia to replace their infected players and they beat Iraq for the 5th place feel sorry for Iraq they woke up a bit late during the match

we are getting close to the WOG and I seriously miss @Orangehair43 is he already focusing on Paris 2024 and its cancellation ? PS: I see some users try to be like him but no way. you can never beat this guy. he is my favorite troll

UWW made some minor changes in the rules, I think only wrestling fans will understand some of these changes. https://uww.org/article/uww-changes-rules-promote-active-wrestling-balance-brackets but they made a change i was hoping for several years! from now on we will have the same number of wrestlers in two sides of the draw. (until now the bottom half was often harder with more wrestlers) but from 2022 they will follow a new format something like Boxing and Taekwondo. also there will be 8 seeded wrestlers in Worlds and Olympics. 4 seeded wrestlers in continental events.

they got lucky with Japan's absence and this COVID thing in South Korea camp. also I have to say Kuwait's GK made a terrible mistake in last 10 seconds against Iraq but I think they deserve it after all, they are indeed the most improved team in Asia. I mean few years ago beating Iraq was a sure thing but this year for the first time we had a hard time against them, even Bahrain beat them by just 3 goals. I believe Iraq would beat Korea if they had to play. but I guess we will never know.

after narrowly surviving the first round, the final round was easy and Iran qualified for the World Cup today for the 3rd time in a row. have to admit that looked impossible a year ago but postponing everything because of COVID helped Iran. I believe South Korea will qualify too in few days. but the other group is still interesting with Japan, Australia and KSA all winning their matches. interestingly Saudis are not safe yet despite winning 6 out of 7 matches so far.

It seems and are going to represent Asia at the 2023 World Championships. it will be a huge achievement for Iraq. they managed to get a draw from Kuwait today in a dramatic comeback and qualified for the 5th place match because of having better GD. BUT South Korea who was supposed to play Qatar today has something like 11 infected players and couldn't play today. they have 3 days to somehow recover for 5th place match against Iraq. but I assume that's highly unlikely. Iraq is almost guaranteed the 5th place and WCh quota

in middle of the Asian Championships in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Bahrain are already qualified for the semifinal and therefore the 2023 World Championship. Qatar is 99.9999% qualified too. as well as Saudi Arabia. there will be one last spot available, it's between Korea, Iraq or Kuwait. as long as I remember Iran's fate at the Asian Championship always went to the last minute and the last shot. Iran missed the World Championships 4 or 5 times because of just one goal. but this time that last seconds goal happened in our favor.

yes but the thing is, it doesn't look like a start it's something like 0.001% progress . kudos to that girl though to go this far on her own, people here prefer to watch tennis and play for fun. nobody plays competitive Tennis seriously.

unfortunately it seems our NOC enjoys to follow the IOC's "advise" which means 67% of our small 3-man delegation will carry the flag ! it will be Sattar Seyd (CC skiing) and Atefeh Ahmadi (Alpine) 4 years ago our flagbearer crying during the parade of the nations even made it to the IOC's Olympic highlight. but now with this "advise" it's not really a special moment for anybody.

That more shows how bad we are in this sport, even winning a match in juniors tournament (which is absolutely nothing) is considered as an achievement

kind of interesting that commentator realized what just happened. I mean if I was the commentator I would be confused at least for few seconds to see what that whistle was about. but he knew it instantly and saying something like "oh my dear, oh my dear" in a very funny tune looks like something like that happened in Africa before. he wasn't really surprised.

It looks true, similar to what i heard here and there