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this is Greco-Roman, and it will be a close match, I'm almost sure at least one of us will be angry about the officiating and how they awarded the cautions , I just don't want to be that one

there are some unwritten rules about how award passivity cautions. in first period they give it to the passive wrestler, that's simple. but things get complicated in 2nd period. the unwritten rule is in case of 50/50 situation you have to penalize the other wrestler to create some kind of parity . but again when a match is one-sided they can penalize one wrestler twice. but it's up to those non-smart (and sometimes corrupt) referees to decide if it's 50/50 (or even 60/40) or it's one-sided. I was watcing 2 or 3 mats at the same time. I didn't miss actions but for judging cautions you have to watch the entire period. I watched Lorincz/Japan match but since I was watching another match at the same I can't judge here. but when you are up against the host wrestler you have to be "very active" otherwise you are going to get cautions. unfortunately the main thing is there is no consistency in awarding cautions. it's just up to the refs. which is terrible

Michalik can't beat Evloev in his wildest dreams, but Szoke has a tough job against Melia in the repechage which I believe is his real bronze medal match.

well you weren't the only one looking forward to this match, the refs were waiting for this one to use their magic once again. annulling Lopez's 2pts gut wrench was nothing short of magic. Lopez looked great today, probably even better than before. if he really wants I believe he may even win the gold in Paris. he is probably the best Greco wrestler of all time. even better than the great Karelin. Lopez won the gold in 3 Olympics with 3 different set of rules. I mean completely different rules. and he is going to win his 4th , no male wrestler could ever do that. the only bad thing in his career is his intentional defeats, people question 3 of his defeats against Kayaalp and Baroev, I'm almost sure in two of them he wanted to lose.

you give up 2pts if you "flee" the mat. going out without a fight. and to be honest I think that was just 1. Starcevic was somehow resisting, it wasn't fleeing. Geraei got lucky here. and the last action was 4 or 2 for Geraei, this is ridiculous if anybody thinks another way. but there were other problems in this match, Geraei was all attack in the 2nd period, he was attacking the whole time, the center ref asked for passivity caution against red (CRO) twice but other refs ignored it. I mean Starcevic was very passive he didn't deserve a chance in parterre. and surely he didn't deserve 1 whole minute to perform two gut-wrenches, that's usually 20-30 seconds. but this is Greco-Roman wrestling where rules are not clear. there are lots of grey areas. it usually works in favor of certain countries. I'm just glad Geraei survived this match hopefully Geraei can pull Starcevic back into the repechage but he is too inconsistent , you never know what to expect with him.

what if after one jump (which is usually easy) all 12 athletes in the final decide to not continue and share the gold medal altogether ? I'm genuinely asking. is there any rule against it ?

kind of funny to beat the best team of the world (or at least one of the best teams in the world) and then lose 3 matches in a row and got eliminated. but nothing bad in this Olympics surprises me anymore. congrats to Japan. they brought their best to this match.

two reasons for that. first I'm just busy somewhere else (a Persian website where I have to explain rules in 30 sports for everybody lol) and second I'm just not in a great mood. it was a terrible Olympic from the first day for non-sport related reasons and those non-sport reasons also affected our delegation's performance and we are getting poor results everywhere from the 2nd day. and volleyball's elimination was the last nail to the coffin. even our wrestlers didn't do good today. tomorrow we will have our "better" wrestlers but Nejati lost to some random guy because of his own mistakes. that can happen again tomorrow.

Mexico really choked at the end

thanks and Congrats for the gold , I was thinking of you while watching the final

looks like he is going to finish a bit higher than 6th place

why scores are lower in the final ? using smaller target ? or they are faster ? I assumed there should be a reason

They show top 3 from B group on the big screen in the stadium. you don't have to check anywhere else for that. and on that screen they show the current rank of everybody. I mean if you want to beat the 3rd guy (to win the bronze) you can find who is 3rd on that big scoreboard. so it's really hard to miss Group B results. but still it looked like they didn't know. it just doesn't make sense to lift 1kg below the bronze medal result and be happy about it!

that's a double headed sword, with this you give your opponents a very good idea of what exactly they have to lift to beat you. I have a feeling Calja (ALB) had no idea about Group B, he was "happy" after his last lift which would only secure him a 4th place finish. he only needed 2kg more for the bronze. any normal person with a normal brain would try 2kg more to win a medal (unless he knows something about one of these 3 guys will fail a drug test later ) people are different, Iranian coaches try their best to register an entry to put all of our weightlifters in Group A, because they usually lift very very unmotivated and very poor when they are in Group B. we even had our Olympic Champion withdrawing from a World Championship (back in 2003) as a sign of protest because he was pissed off his coach for not registering a better entry. and you know if you register a high entry that will also put your weightlifter in risk of bombing out. your first attempts can't be 20kg lower than your entry.

sometimes it's intentional. some weightlifters fail under pressure so their coaches put them in Group B to simply lift whatever they can without being worried about anything else. it happened few times before.

Egypt did great actually beating Russia and Iran for the 5th place. even though those matches weren't "normal" I mean our sabre team came here to win a medal. not much motivation left. but still Egyptian fencer also did good in individual event. can be a top 8 team in the world easily.

looks like we need to write a fucking MGL or EOR on the back of our shirt to get some calls. that was heartbreaking, really heartbreaking. same as Rio where Abedini lost 15-14 and he also made the same mistake at 14-14. Pakdaman deserved a medal here, both in individual (where he just ran into the best player in the competition early) and team events.

this is why I never care about social media and almost never use it. too many stupid kids out there. and unlike what you guys may think this is not a serious thing for them. some kinds of trolling. most of comments are jokes. they try to beat each other in writing stupid jokes. it's just wasting time for them, nothing serious. even if Kubiak comes to Iran tomorrow most of these kids will line up taking photograph with him. this is not out of anger. this is just stupidity. I think this "culture" started with Messi and 2014 World Cup draw. (while he is extremely popular here like every other place in the world) I remember when Dimitri Payet injured C. Ronaldo in Euro 2016 final, the same thing happened to his social media pages. and you can see both Payet and Ronaldo have nothing to do with Iran. some kids do this and invite their stupid friends to follow and like a snowball it gets bigger and bigger. bottom line. don't take what's happening in social media seriously

with two positive tests, he is officially out of the Olympics.

finally first positive case in our delegation, Mehdi Pirjahan, 400m Hurdless , they are still hoping to send him to Tokyo if he tests negative in next 2 days. I hope this ends here

I thought our team will lose all 3 games by at least 20-30pts margin but they did good today , and it seems with 2 or 3 more minutes they could even win the game. so USA will probably try to make up for this defeat in the next game and guess who is their next opponent

oh well, for the first time in history we are going to leave the TKD competition without a medal. our TKD hit the rock bottom here. lots of changes are needed. and the problem is everything but having talents.

today is our bad luck. Sedaghat finished 9th with just 0.1 behind the qualification zone both our shooters did good today, 9th and 10th, both missed the final by the narrowest possible margin

Are they going to give a medal to Mandy Bujold because she was pregnant a million years ago ?

Rostamian missed the final by just 1pt and finished 10th. I know this is normal in shooting but still it sucks to lose by such a small margin