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what happened to her here was really really sad. I really feel sorry for her, nobody wants to be in her place right now. but I hope she changes her mind after a while.

oof, what a day, what a day ! our guys took down 3 Olympic Champions to make it a perfect day. but have to say Esmaeili gave everybody a heart attack, not once but twice when the ref below the whistle the first time it was like the whole world is falling but then a desperate challenge showed the Armenian was completely outside of mat before pinning him. and then few seconds later bang another near fall situation. that would be devastating to lose a match like that against someone much much weaker than yourself. the gold is his to lose now. but Saravi was the man of the day by beating the great Aleksanyan finally , after losing to him 3 times.

yes I would really liked her to win a medal if it wasn't against our athlete. have to thank her though, if it wasn't for Abutaleb's first round win, Nematzadeh couldn't participate in the bronze medal match. and Mobina became only the 2nd Iranian woman to win an Olympic medal. she deserved better but that's still great

I thought only in China we saw weird calls in favor of them but I was very wrong that was clear robbery, the kick was clearly after the stop . it was both grabbing and kicking after kalyeo . two fouls at the same time. looks like China is not hosting lots of WT tournaments for nothing, they receive something in return

that was the reason UWW changed the weight-in rules, made it twice in the competition day morning (it was the day before the competition until few years ago) but it's really hard or even impossible to change a culture. cutting weight like that was always a part of wrestling.

we have an entry in 57kg draw the only available wrestler, and he is now waiting for a ticket to make it to Paris in time tomorrow morning. and he got the best guy in the draw for the first round. I wouldn't accept the quota to be honest, even if he makes on the mat he will lose badly. but today was good in general so far. Mohmadi had two easy wins but Esmaeili did something extraordinary and dominated the Olympic Champion Luis Orta. That was a sweet revenge for this accident couple months ago

TV Graphics are terrible. in case of tie scores (which happens a lot) you can't see who is winning the round in usual TKD competitions you can see the scoreboard on the background and anybody with a yellow number (and not white) is winning the round. here you can't even see the scoreboard.

I'm not so sure if they really do that. but let's wait and see . the rules are not very clear for a situation like this there is still nothing on both UWW and IOC websites

wow that's unbelievable. but if the whole news of being overweight is correct I'm afraid the rest is true too, if you are overweight you are disqualified unless you completely withdrew from the 2nd day with medical reasons which is not the case here. I'm just speechless. this is really a rookie mistake I have to say I can't remember this ever happened in serious international competitions, let alone the most important competition most people make up a fake medical document for this case, UWW easily accepts this. but based on the link you posted looks like the Indian team wasn't prepared for this

sorry for Boskovic and co but I think they paid the price of not playing in VNL. that was a dumb decision really happy for Italy men's team miraculous comeback yesterday probably gave the girls some confidence too btw I know Italy and Turkey faced in the group stage but this is different for Mr Santarelli, playing the most (or one of the most) important match of your coaching career against your wife's team ? I don't know how they can handle it. I assume he will sleep on the couch for couple of months at least if Turkey wins.

when I watched him yesterday I seriously thought he may give it another try in 2028. but I think that was a real goodbye. he looked a bit tired in his 3rd match (semifinal) yesterday, probably showed some signs of being human at last. from what I heard he is much heavier than 130kg in his normal life, has to cut 20-25kg to wrestle. that's why he doesn't wrestle outside of the Olympics. that was disappointing he stole a 99% gold medal from our team but it was great watching him for the last time, the best Greco wrestler of all time.

in wrestling (specially in my country) when you reach 30 people talk about your retirement , winning Olympic gold at the age of 42 in such a tough sport is beyond unbelievable. I think all super heavyweight wrestlers were relieved when he left his shoes on the mat, which means someone else finally can win the olympic gold

well. it's really sad to read something like that near the end of the games. but better late than never

obviously Fumita Cao's win will be a huge huge surprise (not impossible though, nothing is impossible in Greco) Cao had a dream draw and beat a couple of below average wrestlers on his way to the final. he probably couldn't survive a match if he was in the other half of the draw.

we knew Tuskaev started the process of changing nationality but it's probably too late for him and since our wrestling federation reported receiving the quota I highly doubt they are wrong.

I just received the news that they gave the quota to Iran, they will try to send a wrestler but only if they can get a visa in 1 day !! not sure if that's possible

this is the end of the day and there is nothing else to watch (except football which I'm watching on the other screen) I watch every singly Olympic final (as much as I can of course) but it doesn't mean I enjoy watching all of them. and Surfing is definitely in the very bottom of my list. I seriously try to enjoy every single Olympic sport but some of them are simply impossible to watch.

don't know what you are watching, but I only see 2 guys floating in the water waiting for something to happen very entertaining

This is pathetic Acosta did nothing the entire day. absolutely nothing, yet he is going to the final by doing nothing. by being more passive and receiving the first caution (which means winning the match 1-1) 5 years and they still didn't change this rule

that's common knowledge in wrestling community , Cuban wrestlers sold lots of matches before in the World Championship (never at the Olympics) feel free if you want to think Kayaalp and Baroev really beat him in those 3 matches though. he was well paid to make people believe that

of course not, you will get a caution immediately for doing that. I watched this match, really heartbreaking .

without doubt but well, we can consider Karelin as the best male Greco wrestler ever, because Lopez is probably not even human.

Lopez is simply unbeatable. he is just not human, I knew nobody can beat him but still tried to be positive and gave Mirzazadeh some chances to challenge him and I think he tried his best. that's the best you can do against Lopez. nobody even scored against Lopez since 2008 at the Olympics! Lopez knew he already won the gold after beating his only possible opponent, that's why he was happy after the win. SF and final will be too easy for him. Lopez lost 3 matches since 2005 and everybody knew he lost on purpose, he never really lost a match since 2004 QF vs Baroev which he lost narrowly. he is surely the best Greco wrestler all time and he confirmed it once again. I won't be surprised if he tries his luck again in LA. he is not human after all. both of our wrestlers today simply lost to better wrestlers, no complain but still it feels bad to lose again, even in our favorite sport I hope Mirza wins the bronze tomorrow which I think he will (probably easily) we badly need a medal of any color.

Iran is next in line to get the quota as the next best ranked athlete at 2023 Worlds. but I think it's too late . the wrestling competition starts in few hours. and beside that we don't have a 57kg wrestler ready to jump on the mat right now. they are mostly 3-4 kg heavier in their normal life. still it would be nice to have a full team. it's kind of obsession but I assume they will leave it to 15 wrestlers.

is Serbia sending someone else instead ? I assume not