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Taliban at its best https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/23/taliban-orders-girls-schools-shut-hours-after-reopening not that anybody cares. Afghanistan is yesterday's news

the finest moment of Madeleine Albright I hope she indeed rest in "peace" beside those half a million "worthless" children

Today is 1/1/1 in Iranian calendar. (1/1/1401 to be accurate) these last 5 years were extremely tough, lots of lives lost. hopefully the new year and the new century brings good things to the country first and our sport second. it was hard/impossible to improve in anything considering the situation, but still last year was OKish in term of sports results, specially the Olympics. hopefully this year will be better with Asian Games and some other important events.

we will have some new rules in Taekwondo effective from 1 June 2022. some of them are big changes and some fighters have to change their style completely. this video explains them I'm just not sure if "best of 3 format" is mandatory. in their official document they explained both formats. (normal current one and this new one) I don't know what format we will have at the World Championships and other major tournaments but I assume we still go with the old one. they are still testing this crazy "best of 3" format. wrestling tried that format for so many years and that was terrible

based on the recent actions and recent posts here @Sindo you should also start banning Russian users or users from countries those didn't condemn Russia. since we are at it. you should start having a morale police. I recently learned that in "free world" even being quiet about this matter is a crime. you should start interrogating users one by one. you always can start with me.

that's not Taliban's vote. the guy from the Ashraf Ghani's government voted himself Taliban would probably vote for Abstention based on their official statement few days ago

even the great Riza Kayaalp can lose like this https://www.instagram.com/p/CaW-iEGF8bC/

FIBA officially disqualified South Korea from the Asian qualifiers. they failed to show up in the Philippines for their games without consulting with FIBA. they just said one of our players is tested positive for COVID and we are not coming! I totally understand how much people in East Asia care about this Covid thing but this is too much. the rest of the continent can't wait for them. but this is a big news, with this NZ, Philippines and India are already in the 2nd round and that gives Lebanon and Jordan a very good chance to qualify for the World Cup together. they only have to beat KSA and India. KSA is a good team and they already beat Jordan once but they can't beat anybody else (except India) from the other group. as for Iran, World Cup Qualification looked easy on paper but it's not easy anymore. we somehow considered ourselves as good as Lithuania and Serbia and stupidly didn't gather all of our best players for this window. Kazakhstan gave us a bitter lesson. even today's game against Syria was scary until the 4th quarter. we need all we have for the next window to beat Kazakhstan away and make up for that defeat.

my friend can I ask you to change your mind ? I exactly have the same problem with these double standards. I left the forum so many times in past . you can ask Sindo . he will tell you try this "ignore option" that's great. that's the only reason I'm still here. I simply don't see people I don't like.

nobody, really ? you should read some comments in the forum, US bombs are nice. only Russian bombs are ugly if we want to talk about history, here in Iran unfortunately we have experiences with all those powerhouses (US, UK and the Soviets) attacking and killing our people. sometimes directly. sometimes indirectly. (you will be surprised to learn who gave chemical weapons to the dear old Saddam to whip out some of our cities) I wrote what I really feel about this madness in another comment. nothing can justify a war. and I hate all warmongers, eastern or western and I wake up everyday hoping to hear some news about a ceasefire or something like that. right now I only wish and pray this war ends as soon as possible to not lose more lives, that's the most important thing right now. btw if someone watches CNN for 2 hours he may end up cheering for Putin. US media can be this bad sometimes.

sure, always glad to help in this case if you want to go with Olympic champions what would be easy but some of those "Olympic Champions" aren't really the best of their era. 2008 and 2012 gold medalists didn't actually win the gold on the competition's day. if I had to name 5 biggest super heavyweight wrestlers I would name Baumgartner, Musulbes, Akgul and Petriashvili. Artur Taymazov is surely there but he lost 2 of his 3 Olympic golds because of doping and everybody knew he was using drugs in 2004 too. he just didn't get caught.

I'm new to these polls. do you want to compare athletes from different Olympics? that will be a bit hard since they changed weights in wrestling so many times. but in men's freestyle I would suggest a middle weight, 74-76kg. or you can go for the super heavyweight (if it was Greco-Roman I would surely suggest the supper heavyweight)

my friend. in this case just be careful to not get too close to the American troops. they usually don't consider local people as human. things like this can happen too which wasn't even against the "law" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59157089

I wish you, your family and your country the best of luck. I know how it feels to live in a situation like that. I just hope this madness, this meaningless war ends soon. with as less causality as possible

my reaction to this question is we had 3 athletes, one of them tested positive for doping, another one tested positive for COVID and the last one scored a DNF. that summarizes our performance in winter sports. I follow winter sports for a bit less than 2 decades (thanks to Eurosport) and I always hoped one day some of them develop in my country but I just know it will never happen. nobody takes wintersports serious here. we had TV coverage this year. mostly because there was nothing else to show in the morning/afternoon but that's it. absolutely no coverage in news websites. newspapers etc (except that our flag bearer doping scandal)

she also lost by just 0.10 to Duerr. in the whole competition she was the only one who was close to win a race from the red course. nobody else was Shiffrin will never forget this Olympics. even when she was doing great, someone else messed up her chance.

I highly doubt that. she was the only one on the red course getting very close to win a race let me show you guys some statstics , if we don't count CHN vs SUI . we had only and only one win from the red course (beside DNF wins) and that solitary win belongs to Shiffrin against Slovakia. I somehow think she was the best skier today

looks like the only team who reazlied how to deal with this is Germany . the rest simply threw their skiers into the competition. there is one simply strategy in a sitution like this. put your best male and best female skiers on the blue course to achieve the best possible time

US team once again will put Shiffrin on the red course. she did great against Bassino and Duerr but still lost narrowly. (maybe she wins this time) she deserves a medal today but it seems whoever makes decision for team USA can't understand simple logic.

yep. turned out to be a stupid strategy as expected. I mean that was obvious

out of 16 QF races. 14 of them had won by the skier on the blue course and those other 2 races finished by DNF. teams should put their best skiers for the blue course. Switzerland made a big mistake here by not using Holdner first.

almost everybody in blow course wins (except Aliprandini who always DNFs)

I can do that. just need one more accident to be eligible for the Paralympic competition

I think you guys have higher standards in Poland your sister would be considered very tall for a woman here I'm couple centimeters shorter than 195 and my friends consider me the tallest person in the town yeah I know 170 is still short but I thought he is 160 or something by his look. so 170 was taller than my expectation at least.

I assume you are partying right now. but congrats @hckošicewhenever you read this