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Venezuela and Mexico are also now limited to max 2 weightlifters in each gender https://www.iwf.net/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2021/06/Number-of-ADRV_10062021.pdf as for Venezuela they have 3 female athletes inside the qualification zone , 59, 87 and +87 . now they have to pick 2 on the men's side they were guaranteed in 73 and 96 and might have a chance in 109kg. I assume it's only 73 and 96 now. Mexico had 4 female quotas 55, 59, 76 and 87, will be a big blow for them. have to give up 2. they will have 67 and 73 quotas in men's weights. no change here.

not without wrestling but it has to be 3 years time between your last official competition (World and Continental Championships) before you are allowed to wrestle for another country in the Olympics. Hemida is a 2018 world U23 silver medalist for USA. normally he wouldn't be able to wrestle at the Olympics (since he wrestled for USA in November 2018) but IOC gave him special permission.

I believe he knew, his last attempt in World Juniors was calculated to surpass the Israeli athlete. and if I remember correctly he and his coach were very happy after the last lift (while he secured the gold medal already) without these 2 Spanish and Austrian weightlifters he was 90% guaranteed an Olympic spot. this is different now. I totally agree with that bold part, as someone who loves sport I have respect for all athletes around the world (except few cheaters). I can never wish for someone's injury. I feel guilty even thinking about that

not sure if you are aware but Egypt NOC asked IOC's special permission to let Hemeida wrestle for Egypt. (before his 3 years inactivity period ) I don't think they did that for nothing. but I understand he did nothing special yesterday (beside making Iranian fans happy) and they probably send the original guy. this is the same in Iran in most sports. sending the guy who won the quota. but wrestling is a different story. you can make a comedic movie from our wrestling trial process

Yes that's true but I have to say both BLR and ARM are likely to NOT send someone in this weight. this is weightlifting, not table tennis, injuries happen and happen a lot. also you never know with doping disqualifications. it can happen to anybody.

adding 2 Europeans to the ranking hurt his chance big time. since there is no eligible weightlifters from Africa there will be one reallocated quota for the best weightlifter (from a NOC with 0 quotas) but I assume that goes to Hungary. even if BLR, RUS and ARM decide to not use their lone quota here. we still have GEO, IRN, BRA, SYR, TKM, ALG, ESP and AUT as top 8. CZE will take the European quota and that reallocated one is for HUN. Kuworge goes to Tokyo only if one of these guys get hurt. (assuming BLR and ARM don't send anybody in this weight)

I don't think so, rules were completely different back then. this year they award the quotas to the athletes, not the NOCs. even if someone gets hurt, the next weightlifter in the world ranking will go.

@thepharoah do you have any idea who is going to represent Egypt in 125kg ? I assume this was Egypt's trial in this weight as well. both your guys finished 5th. so who is going ?! but I have to say most of Iranian wrestling fans thank Youssif Hemida for what he did here we sent two wrestlers here for our own trials. A) a very young talented wrestler who might even have chance for the Olympic gold and B ) a guy who is just a bad matchup for wrestler A and beat him twice recently. thankfully Hemida did great and beat Amin Taheri (wrestler B) in the QF and cleaned the way for the other guy Amir-Hossein Zare to win the gold in a dominant way and confirmed his place in Tokyo. that was one of the rare moments I had to cheer against the Iranian athlete btw it seems Chamizo really made a mess in our trials. our 74kg wrestler is not confirmed yet. Hosseinkhani won the gold but that didn't convince our "technical committee" apparently. they are considering having extra trials. (still nothing confirmed, they are just thinking) that will affect the seeding as well. Hosseinkhani will be the 4th seed if he goes to Tokyo. personally I was cheering for the other guy. pity they didn't face each other but he lost to the guy who lost to Hosseinkhani. end of discussion. Hosseinkhani is the most hated wrestler here. for the reason I explained ( so many heart breaking defeats in last 15 seconds) but he is the best we have in this weight at the moment.

checking the lists. that wasn't just dirty. that was also stupid for Marcos Ruiz. he would qualify in his own weight and maybe even stand a slim chance for medal. he would be #12 in 109kg ranking which was good enough for the European quota. (after removing Yang Zhe, all Europeans above him would be in top 8) same goes to Martirosjan, of course only one of them would qualify, but without Ruiz he could have the best European quota. now it goes to Roman Zaitsev (Ukraine's replacement for Chumak)

and the other guys ate him alive later that was so sweet when the Uzbek guy pinned him to the Tatami. the last time he participated in a World Championship he claimed he was forced to lose. (which was a lie) I wonder what's his excuse today.

Olympic seeding in 3 remaning weights 65kg: 1. Rashidov - 60 2. Bajrang - 59 3. Niyazbekov - 56 4. Muszukajev - 41 74kg: 1. Chamizo - 76 2. Kaisanov - 69 3. Sidakov - 60 4. Hosseinkhani - 32 125kg: 1. Petriashvili - 80 2. Batirmurzaev - 42 3. Akgul - 40 4. Khotsianivskyi - 39

is this official ? I mean did he or his coaches said something ? btw you don't know Hosseinkhani he gave heart attack to Iranian wrestling fans so many times before. he is master in losing close matches. and by my count he will be 4th seed in Tokyo. even though I doubt he can go that far to meet Chamizo in the SF. but I hope so! kind of interesting, as far as I remember despite being active in so many tournaments Chamizo never wrestled Iranian wrestlers in this Olympic cycle. I would love a Chamizo-Hosseinkhani semifinal in Tokyo (even though technically Hosseinkhani is not confirmed yet, not sure if winning the gold like that is enough)

well we are talking about IWF, they might want to play along with those countries. (bribe or something) we will see if IOC does something here

only countries in this list are officially suspended https://www.iwf.net/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2021/06/Number-of-ADRV_08062021.pdf this is a long process, I believe the rest (Romania, Vietnam and maybe Colombia) are somehow wasting time by making the process longer (CAS, etc) to not get suspended before the Olympics. they want to serve the suspension after Tokyo. (which I think will hurt their chances for 2024 Olympics qualifiers) Vietnam and Romania are still likely to be suspended. but they are not until it's official.

this document says 11 June https://www.iwf.net/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2021/05/T2020-Revised-QS_Application-Process-FINAL-04052021.pdf I assume IWF will publish the last the next day, 12 June.

this list is not final. they just removed other weightlifters from the same country and forced weightlifters to pick one weight and as expected Martirosjan and Ruiz did the dirty job and picked +109kg just to go to Tokyo. that's kind of disgusting

@phelps Chamizo didn't show up in the final. any reason ? just tired ? he just ruined our trials. boooooo we were supposed to "watch" Hosseinkhani against one of the favorites in this weight. I don't know if winning gold that way is enough. he beat the guy who beat our other wrestler Emami though but that wasn't convincing.

actually the format is two pools of five athletes , top 2 advance to the semis

he collected good points because ranking system is terrible. he is surely not that good to be ranked 3. lots of wrestlers in Iran, Russia and USA will beat him easily but since they can send just 1 wrestler to Tokyo, yes he has a chance for medal. the thing is 3 wrestlers will eat the rest alive in this weight. Yazdani (IRN), Naifonov (RUS) and Taylor (USA) I highly doubt anybody touches them in Tokyo. thanks to this ranking system. Yazdani and Naifonov will be in the same side. and there is a 50% chance for Taylor to fall in the same side as well. after these 3 guys everybody has a chance for medal. (bronze or maybe even silver) I believe Amine, Shabanov, Gocen and Makoev are better than the rest. Amine has a better chance because he is guaranteed not facing Yazdani and Naifonov before the final.

today was the first day of Polish Open. the ranking is now finalized for 3 weights but most importantly for us, this is our trials in 5 weights. one of them was today. 97kg freestyle. all 3 Iranian finished on the podium with gold, silver and bronze but MH Mohammadian booked his place in Tokyo by beating Karimi 2-2 and Shabani 1-1 ! I believe he is the only man on the planet who may have a small chance to beat the great Sadulaev. very unfortunate that 3 of our best wrestlers are in the same weight (while we are very weak in 65kg) but well whoever lost today can still call the great Tom Bach. IOC is ready to give refugee team status to any Iranian who fails to qualify. ------------ by my count Olympic seeding will be something like this 57kg: 1. Micic - 62pts 2. Uguev - 60 3. Atli - 58 4. Ravi - 45 86kg: 1. Yazdani - 60 2. Deepak - 54 3. Amine - 50 4. Naifonov - 47 * Deepak Punia was registered today and even participated in the weighin but all of a sudden withdrew before his match. guess what ? with just one win he could add 8 more points to his tally to become #1 in Tokyo but he didn't want that now he can avoid both Iran and Russia before the final. the bottom half is already weaker in this weight. and there is a 50% chance that the other favorite David Taylor falls in the top half means we will have a lucky silver medalist at least. 97kg: 1. Sadulaev - 80 2. Snyder - 57 3. Yergali - 48 4. Nurov - 47 interestingly our 2nd guy manhandled both #3 and #4 here. none of them are medal contender. but with RUS and USA being in different brackets the draw will be balanced.

https://worldtkd.simplycompete.com/playerRankingV2?limit=25&pageNo=1&month=5&year=2020&rankingCategoryId=11ea9376-9371-e3ef-aefb-0af9674366aa&subCategory1=11ea9376-4530-2b19-aefb-0af9674366aa&rankingTypeId=11ea9376-1b54-af01-aefb-0af9674366aa but this is not final. July Ranking will be counted for the Olympic seeding they have to add Pan-American and African Championship results (and Asian Champs later this month) to finalize the ranking. lots of changes still possible.

of course this is politics. this is no coincidence half these so called " refugees" are from Iran and Syria. seriously how many athletes qualified from Syria to be in their own delegation ? less than 9 for sure. but I understand there is a bloody war going on in Syria. all these 5 Iranian guys were former member of Iran national teams. all of them are relatively famous, all of them are at least Asian Championship medalists. none of them real refugees with a tough life and HAD to flee the country. no way. obviously the economy is beyond terrible in Iran. that's the reason people consider moving. at this rate in 2028 we will have more Iranians in the refugee team than the real Iran delegation. IOC is encouraging our athletes to leave the country this way. I'm OK if they represent another country (I don't like it but that's understandable) but this ? without even actually qualifying !

WTF ?! so Derafshipour and Mahjoub are refugees !!! I really need to learn what the word refugee means. these guys still travel to Iran regularly. Derafshipour is a world bronze medalist in Karate, he lost Iranian trials then moved to Canada. now he can go the Olympics without doing anything while the guy who beat him in the trials has to go through 80-man bracket in World Qualifiers to qualify. this is the most disgusting thing from IOC, if these guys could qualify themselves by merit that was at least OK but even when they lost in the qualifiers, IOC found a way to let them in. lots of athletes around the world had to kill themselves to qualify for the Olympics while these guys can just walk to Tokyo.

that's correct but before that they had a chance to remove anybody they want. for example Iran removed all three 96kg Iranian weightlifters above our main guy in the ranking.

yes I know about all those scenarios but some of them are unlikely. most of these matches will happen after Iran-Iraq Japan will beat KGZ. I'm not worried about that group. either Jordan or Kuwait will finish 2nd in that group. if Jordan beat Kuwait, will Australia play with maximum capacity to beat Jordan and help Iran advance ? will KSA try to beat Uzbekistan to help Iran ? (I highly doubt about this one) Lebanon losing to (already eliminated) TKM is a bit unlikely. and from what I saw UAE will be favorite against Vietnam. even a draw will be enough for them most probably. considering everything I think Iran's chance is something around 30% at best to qualify in case of drawing Iraq. of course Iraq has to beat HKG first.