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Final Entries http://m.worldtaekwondo.org/competition/view.html?nid=141210&mcd=L06 MKD took the women's 57kg wild card and not Sierra Leone. which means we will have another Kiani vs Alizadeh in the first round also our 49kg girl has to withdraw from the Games if they reinstate El-Bouchti's ranking points , she moved to 57kg (thinking she lost the quota) and therefore lost all her ranking points. for now she will be ranked last but they reinstate her points that will be trouble. but I assume they won't. I still can't understand how the hell they gave that +80kg quota to Uzbekistan, now they have 3 male athletes !! that shouldn't happen under current rules. Gurtsiev of BLR is also there, which means we have 18 athletes for men's 58kg.

remember that Afghan/refugee guy Alireza Abbasi ? today I read a story about him, the guy born and raised in Iran from Afghan parents and works full time with Iranian coaches. his coach (who is a very respected person) had an interview today about him, talking about Abbasi's story. apparently he lost his quota because someone in "Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrant Affairs of Iran" didn't do his job properly. after the Asian qualifiers, the IOC contacted them asking for more documents about Abbasi but nobody answered the email in time. he is now officially accepted by IOC/WT but since they didn't accept his documents in time of the tournament, he is not going to Paris. This is a short interview with himself. very upset about the officials in Iran, he also admits he once tried to participate under AFG's flag but since the situation was terrible there he came back to be a refugee again. https://www.etemadonline.com/بخش-ورزش-18/666687-عباسی-اداره-اتباع-ایران-المپیک

he is 42 years old and never wrestled a single official match since Tokyo. the normal answer is No but he proved before that he is not human . we are talking about the best Greco wrestler in history. we don't know about his current shape, but Cuba has another very good wrestler in Oscar Pino. if they are sending Lopez instead of him that means Lopez is ready. he had to cut something like 40-50 kilos to be 130kg though.

now we have the full list of wrestlers in Greco-Roman. it's easy to make the brackets for top 8 seeds. all of these guys have to beat an unseeded wrestler first to reach the QF. and some of unseeded wrestlers are much much better. 60kg: SHARSHENBEKOV (KGZ) vs ARNAUT (ROU) /// FUMITA (JPN) vs MOHSENNEJAD (IRI) CAO (CHN) vs RODRIGUEZ (VEN) /// CIOBANU (MDA) vs BAKHRAMOV (UZB) 67kg: JAFAROV (AZE) vs PETIC (MDA) /// NEMES (SRB) vs ISMAILOV (KGZ) ORTA (CUB) vs ESMAEILI (IRI) /// GALSTYAN (ARM) vs SYLLA (FRA) 77kg: KUSAKA (JPN) vs VARDANYAN (UZB) /// AMOYAN (ARM) vs PENA (CUB) SULEYMANOV (AZE) vs LEVAI (HUN) /// MAKHMUDOV (KGZ) vs ZHADRAYEV (KAZ) 87kg: CENGIZ (TUR) vs MUNOZ (COL) /// BELENIUK (UKR) vs TURSYNOV (KAZ) LOSONCZI (HUN) vs KOMAROV (SRB) /// NOVIKOV (BUL) vs SID AZARA (ALG) 97kg: ALEKSANYAN (ARM) vs MEJIA (HON) /// ROSILLO (CUB) vs OMAROV (CZE) KHASLAKHANAU (AIN) vs VENCKAITIS (LTU) /// SARAVI (IRI) vs SAVOLAINEN (FIN) 130kg: MIRZAZADEH (IRI) vs COON (USA) /// ALEXUC CIURARIU (ROU) vs NABI (EST) MOHAMED (EGY) vs LEE (KOR) /// MENG (CHN) vs ACOSTA (CHI)

remember this ? apparently Australian Gymnastics federation brought this to CAS, trying to take the 2nd Vault quota. but they lost it

They will send Lopez and we knew it for months.

nobody, they will send another wrestler I know Turkey has a couple of decent super heavyweight Greco wrestler. and as I said in another thread Serbia is going to send Ali Arsalan 72kg World Champion in Greco-Roman, since last week he started training freestyle in his hometown in Iran (edit: I just heard that Arsalan was a freestyle wrestler first before switching to Greco, maybe he is not that bad )

no, The Olympic Champion lost the trials in Hungary to youngster Saeid Esmaeili, he lost twice actually. both matches are available on UWW youtube channel

former World Champion Khetag Tsabolov who won a bronze for Serbia last year failed a drug test recently and will miss the Olympics Serbia has no freestyle wrestling. absolutely nobody to replace him. according to some sources here they told their Iranian Greco wrestler Ali Arsalan to prepare himself for the Olympics watching Arsalan trying freestyle will be funny

big big news two big names are suspended for doping now and will miss the Olympics. Riza Kayaalp and Khetag Tsabolov

Iran delegation, 29 men and 11 women, smallest delegation since 2004 Swimming (1+0) Abdoli (100m Freestyle) Archery (0+1) Fallah Athletics (1+1) Taftian (100m) and Fasihi (100m) Canoe Sprint (2+0) Rezaei (C1) and Aghamirzaei (K1) Cycling Road (1+0) Labib (Road Race) Fencing (4+0) Pakdaman, Rahbari, Fotouhi and Baher (all in Sabre) Gymnastics Artistic (1+0) Olfati (Vault) Rowing (0+3) Mojallal (W1X), Javar and Norouzi (LW2X) Shooting (1+3) Beiranvand (Trap), Rostamian (Pistol), Amirani and Amini (Rifle) Sport Climbing (1+0) Alipour (Speed) Table Tennis (2+1) No. Alamian, Ni. Alamian and Shahsavari Taekwondo (2+2) Barkhordari (80kg), Salimi (+80kg), Nematzadeh (49kg) and Kiani (57kg) Weightlifting (2+0) Javadi (89kg) and Davoudi (+102kg) Wrestling (11+0) freestyle: Amouzad (65kg), Emami (74kg), Yazdani (86kg), Azarpira (97kg) and Zare (125kg) Greco-Roman: Mohsennejad (60kg), Esmaeili (67kg), Kavianinejad (77kg), Mohmadi (87kg), Saravi (97kg) and Mirzazadeh (130kg) ============================ 15 years old Mohammad Beiranvand in men's trap is the youngest member and Neda Shahsavari in women's table tennis is the oldest with 37 years old. there are 23 debutantes here , 6 are experiencing their 3rd Olympics while for 11 it will be their 2nd Olympics.

yeah but it's a bit different. I assume there are plenty of Dicks in international politics and you have the same alphabet as English. nobody has to invent anything while writing the name. and most importantly there are cultural deference here. in English that's totally OK to write the word while in Persian it's not. no news website will write the word penis on its headline so far all media (including BBC Persian) are inventing a new name for him and that's Ki-Yer

Persian speaking media are having a hard time writing the new UK prime minister's name, I mean his given name Keir. if you translate/transliterate his name to Persian and then translate back the result to English. what you get is penis

oh you are right, I wrote that post very quickly and I knew I most probably made a mistake somewhere The Russian won the quota in Turkey. not in Baku (European Qualifier) and of course the quota goes to Germany as you said. thanks for correcting me.

thanks to google translate, here Mikhail Mamiashvili says they don't send a team. but their wrestlers are allowed to participate individually if they want but if you read it carefully if doesn't feel like he is giving them an option but at least on paper it means we shouldn't count all Russian wrestlers out yet. better to wait couple more days. https://m.sports.ru/wrestling/1116210159-mixail-mamiashvili-esli-kto-to-iz-sportsmenov-do-ponedelnika-vyneset-o.html?

that was still a bloody dictatorship with his notorious secret police SAVAK, but it wasn't religious, it wasn't anti-western and the economy was better. so in short, The Shah regime was bad, the current regime is much worse. actually Iran was going into the right direction (or at least a better path) before the 1953 coup which was administrated and managed by USA and UK. I still think 1979 revolution was a huge mistake, but that was inevitable unfortunately.

This is my quick answer, I hope I didn't miss anything 57kg FS: Kartbay (most probably will send someone better) 65kg FS: Sacultan 86kg FS: Mykhailov 125kg FS: Khotsianivsky 87kg GR: Bisultanov 96kg GR: Kajaia (sorry I made a mistake. this goes to ) 53 W: Wendle 62 W: Douarre 68 W: Skobelska

Yes sure that was hopeful but just a tiny bit. it was more like avoiding a disaster rather than making things better. while all hardliners are bad IMO, that guy Jalili belongs to their worst group, the worst you can imagine within the Iranian society. his idea was more similar to Taliban, nobody knows how his wife looks like (which is a sign of how he thinks of women) . actually I'm somehow still upset that he has 13.5 millions vote. that's very disappointing. Jalili and his monstrous idea was the reason 6 millions more people showed up yesterday. still more than 30 millions (more than 50%) didn't which is also a bad sign. the wounds of 2022 have not healed yet I don't fool myself. this is not going to change things dramatically, Khameneyi still call the shots in important matters (he doesn't interfere in everything but still), the IRGC is still there, the hardliners still control the parliament.

not sure how accurate this is but I read a report in our media saying Russia will not send a single wrestler to Paris !

it looks like we have dodged the bullet for now, 6 millions more people decided to come out, increasing the turnout from 40% to 50% and that was good enough doesn't mean this cult is gone, they already have the parliament and will try everything to sabotage the new government. but at least this gives the country (which is in critical situation) 4 more years to breath. sorry for the pilots but that helicopter crash turned out to be a good thing after all.

well it's hard to explain things in short but let me try there is a simple formula for elections here. low turnout = hardliner's win, big turnout = hardliner's defeat (except 2009 which was completely rigged) first round of 2024 was the lowest turnout ever with 39%. people are still very angry about what happened in 2022 and most of them simply don't want anything to do with the regime. they don't want to vote which will legitimate the regime in their minds. they have every right for that but this time it's not about picking up the right guy. it's not about making things better, it's about survival. Iran as a country is already very weak (in all aspects) I don't think we can afford another catastrophe. hardliners have something like 8-9-10 millions vote here, some of them are simply brainwashed, some are just opportunists, some are just uneducated people. no matter what. they simply vote like a sheep without thinking twice. this time hardliner's representative comes from their worst group. the most extreme. his idea is loosely based on this group (not completely but the origin is the same) as everybody knows the president won't have the complete power in Iran, someone else (Ali Khameneyi) does. yet the president is still the 2nd powerful person and can do lots of things. it doesn't mean the election will change everything tomorrow, I believe Khameneyi will control them at some degree. but this group is taking over everything slowly. Khameneyi is 85 years old and nobody knows how long he will last, he is extreme and a bloody dictator himself but still nothing compared to this cult. they somehow believe in something like North Korea's system. probably even worse when you mix that with religion. I tried to make it short and easy to understand. obviously the situation is not as black and white as I explained.

We are only few hours away from a catastrophe , probably one of the worst in the very long history of this country. after the lowest turnout ever in the first round, things don't look better for the runoff, of course there is no reliable poll and I'm still hoping for a surprise when I wake up Saturday morning but it doesn't feel like that. this time it's not about just one "bad guy" but a very dangerous cult with weird delusional apocalyptic idea.

as much as humanly possible ! I will stop everything else in my life and reduce my sleep time too. I usually get weak and sick near the end of the Olympics because of lack of sleep. but this one is in Europe, that's much better time difference for me. no more waking up 4 am in the morning

Iran is going to send 40 athletes (29 male, 11 female) in 14 sports to Paris. that's the smallest delegation since 2004. not a surprise. that was expected. that's the result of a mixture of lack of money, bad luck in couple of sports, poor management and IOC's idea of shrinking our favorite sports.

Lithuania is tying hard to lose this one you can't see this amount of silly turnovers in a Nepalese league match, 3 offensive unsportsmanlike fouls only in 4th quarter just to avoid misunderstanding, I don't mean this is intentional