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well I think we in Iran know a bit more about him as far as I know there are some similarities between Egypt and Iran in general so I believe he will do well in Egypt if he can survive the early storm. he had a bad start here, I remember we lost to Uzbekistan (our first defeat ever against this team) and Lebanon during the 2014 WCQ but we finally made it by some miracles in last 3 matches. but from then he started to create his own team with players loyal to the NT (and not anything else) I don't know how much time he will have in Egypt but I believe he is a good coach. I was really happy when Iraq finally didn't sign with him (they were close apparently) and signed with Advocaat instead (therefore they lost 3-0 yesterday) the most important thing about him, people either love him or hate him. that's because of his character. and people here still follow him very closely, so I'm sure from now on lots of people from here (millions actually) will follow every single news about Egypt NT

is this your complete team ? (I mean the best team possible) I watched the 5th set and it was really surprising. I remember Egypt beating our team not long ago (2 years ago actually) credit to Kenya, they really played 10 times better than what I was expecting

after just surviving the first round, things look better for Iran in the 2nd round. can't remember the last time we beat Iraq this easily. 3-0 against Iraq was much better than my expectations South Korea narrowly beat Lebanon and UAE tied with Syria in other matches of this group. in other group it looks like KSA, Australia and Japan will battle for top 2 places. KSA was lucky Oman missed an empty goal in 93rd minute today.

it was a boring day for Group A in AFC qualifiers, only 1 goal in 3 matches and that was a lucky deflection goal Iran played terrible against Syria. I can't remember any serious chance, and even the goal was a lucky one. it seems everybody feels relaxed after surviving the first round like that. while the real competition is just started. after watching this, I will be happy with 1 pt against Iraq. I believe we will be in a better situation for the next window all of our coaches were COVID positive for this match and some random guy was managing the team today

Iranian judo federation is suspended (for 4 years) and since everybody knows this suspension actually will last forever (even after that 4 years Iran won't participate in non-Asian tournaments) all Judokas are switching to other sports (Kurash, Jujitsu or Sambo) or simply quitting the sport. this has nothing to do with Paralympic Judo but still they have to train with normal judokas. this is what everybody wanted. (inside or outside the country, IJF, the government here, everybody) so I assume everybody is happy now. except those poor judokas but who cares about them.

this sounds a bit positive https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1112328/weightlifting-congress-vote

interestingly Iran won two gold medals in Judo (I assume first gold medal ever in this sport in Paralympics) reading their interview, they both had hard time to find a training partner because nobody trains Judo in the country anymore because of the suspension. which is great, that's what everybody wanted. no more Judo.

it seems everything is going according to plan in Afghanistan https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/western-nations-race-complete-afghan-evacuation-deadline-looms-2021-08-25/

looks like after all 18 teams are participating here, Guatemala and Dominican Republic had to withdraw because half of their squads tested positive for COVID before even boarding the plane.

Russia finished the Greco-Roman comeptition with 5 gold medals, Iran, Azerbaijan, Netherlands, Belarus and Turkey also won 1 gold medal Russia obviously won the team title, Iran finished 2nd before Azerbaijan for Iran it was an OK tournament with 1 gold, 1 silver and 5 bronze medals but I was hoping/expecting for more gold medals.

and gold for Marcel Sterkenburg that was a well deserved gold medal . one step better than his brother

Russia dominated the first day of Greco finals. winning 3 gold medals by beating our Norwegian friend and also one of Sterkenburg brothers. Iran and Turkey won the remaining gold medals. not a bad day for Iran, 1 gold and 3 bronze but still nothing compared to our freestyle team's results

ask UWW maybe for the same reason that bodyweights are different in FS and GR. this is their desperate try to show the world these are two completely different things ! former UWW president once suggested having Greco wrestlers being naked on upper body to "attract" the audience also scoring is harder in Greco in general (specially in higher senior levels) maybe that was another reason

@heywoodu the other Sterkenburg also made it to the final probably even better than his brother

looks like a very good day for Sterkenburg brothers, the other one Marcel beat Iran and Russia and makes it to the semifinal from what I saw so far, they both can go home with the gold medal

our wrestler managed to last a bit longer I will definitely follow this guy in future events. his performance in SF and QF was too good to be true but in junior level coaches are not into scouting or analyzing the opponents. now Russian coaches have one day to have a plan for him. we will see if he can execute his throwing techniques tomorrow or not. but he is surely a possible future star.

I saw him winning an international senior event in Poland last year. so that wasn't a huge huge surprise for me yes tomorrow. finals will start 6pm (local time in Ufa) it will be the 4th final of the day. so we will have 3 finals + 4 bronze medal matches + 2 medal ceremony before this one. probably somewhere around 7:30 pm local time. and I have to add the star of the day was from Norway, Exauce Mukubu, he dominated and destroyed all of his opponents (including an Iranian) . a very fun wrestler to watch

maybe a brother ? it's Tyrone Sterkenburg

@heywoodu will have a finalist in Greco-Roman wrestling. that's a bit surprising I guess. and he had a tough draw. beating Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan on his way to the final

in absence of Japan, USA dominated the first day of women's finals winning 3 gold medals, Russia and Belarus won the remaining 2 gold medals

yes he already won some international notable senior medals. he was also 30 seconds away from making the Olympic team at the age of 18 but lost our 57 trials in the last seconds. we will see what he can do in the World Championship in Norway. lots of expectations I was curious to see what he can do against Ravinder. our lower weights wrestlers usually struggle against the toughness of Indian wrestlers. even Amouzad struggled at first but then changed tactic and scored few points.

the Iranian Firouzpour is considered the next best thing here. (he and our 61kg guy), he is a senior level wrestler already, he would probably win a medal in Tokyo. unlucky for him we have our best senior wrestler in this weight. I don't want to get into technical details but the way Firouzpour wrestles. (by controlling hands and using his underhook) he can dominate certain type of wrestlers. it doesn't mean they are weak, this is just a very bad matchup for guys like Magamadov.

just watched the race, yeah that looked very painful. that was a mistake trying to continue while feeling pain. I know nothing more, they only reported his injury.

3 out of 4 in today finals for Iran. which means 5 gold medals in total. US won 3 and Russia won the remaining 2. can't remember the last time Iran winning half gold medals in a junior world championship (if it ever happened) BUT it was an experienced team, 4 of these gold medals were totally expected. only 125kg was a complete surprise.

I don't think they are in danger "right now" (and by right now, I mean NOW, nobody knows about tomorrow) Taliban tries to look nice, they won't do anything super crazy for now. one of their guys even had an interview with a female host in a local TV. (this probably sounds pretty normal to you but this is way above Taliban's standards) I try to think positive, maybe they are smarter this time but still from what I hear from people who knows Taliban better than me (I mean people with first hand experiences), most of them believe this is just the start, they will do their normal Taliban thing when they settle. so yes if I was a female athlete in Afghanistan I would leave the country when I still have the chance. but it's not as easy as that. Yousufi was probably in a big danger, she was their only female athlete in past 2 Olympics, and they knew her very well but she was born in Iran, she had a "home" to go. most of them don't. this probably explains how Afghan female athletes feel right now, the "world" told them to be brave and the same world abandoned them. most athletes wish to be famous, to become famous. but right now I guess nobody wants to be a famous athlete in Afghanistan. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/afghanistan-soccer-cry-for-help-amid-government-collapse-1.6142728