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Turkmenistani wrestlers were a bit more competitive in freestyle. but still after losing 7 matches in a row FINALLY they won a match in the 97kg repechage

apparently. I still have to check Japan wrestling website to see the reason but that's usually the reason when you got a VFO on your scorecard.

Quotas for today 57: 65: 74: 86: 97: 125: have to add that Olympic silver medalist Rei Higuchi of Japan apparently didn't make weight at 57 and got eliminated.

our freestyle team finished the job here, winning all 3 remaining quotas all 3 of them won all of their matches by technical superiority. I was sure about Mohammadian and somehow about Emami. but Yazdani junior teching that Russian guy of Bahrain was a bit surprising. it was a great tournament overall, 5 of our wrestlers dominated their matches and won the quota convincingly, only if it wasn't for the "Nouri disaster"

Ilyas Bekbulatov got pinned wow he was leading 8-0 but then bang. fall. he is a European Champion from Russia and was supposed to be a medal contender in Tokyo. now he has to travel to Bulgaria.

Semifinals: 57: vs /// vs 65: vs /// vs 74: vs /// vs 86: vs /// vs 97: vs /// vs 125: vs /// vs

I think this result will move him up to 6th/7th place or something like that, I can guarantee you that he will qualify. some of those guys in top 15 won't go to Tokyo. I can say those 2 Iranians are already out, CHN too, RUS has to pick just one. Michalski is 99.99% safe I couldn't watch this one live but wow Martirostyan bombed out ?! I know this is an "Armenian" thing to bomb out on unnecessary high weights but this is the World Record holder , you expect more from him.

considering how the current regime/dictatorship in Iran is unpopular among the people (at least the majority, they have their own "people" and they are hard to understand) most athletes who just leave the country and say something bad about the regime will get automatically popular. doesn't matter even if they lie or not. but I can't say the same about her. people really didn't feel sympathy with her, she was OK with everything as long as she was getting paid. and she received prize money probably more than any other athlete in the history of Iran. her medal was historical and she deserved it probably, she was getting paid for her TV interviews (that's a very uncommon thing in Iran) but then all of a sudden when her TKD career was in trouble and the national team coach (who happened to be her childhood coach) said she better think about retirement, Alizadeh found out she is being used and you know the rest of the story. I still can't wish her bad, she is still just a kid, I think 21. too much happened for her at this young age, Olympic medal, becoming a VERY famous person, marriage, leaving the country, that's too much to handle. she will probably regret some of her decisions when she gets 30. Beigi ? yeah, you know his coach (who is Iranian too) always claims Beigi lost his semifinal because he was "feeling guilty" after destroying Khodabakhshi in the QF. I believe Beigi probably lost his concentrations after dominating the world champion from his own country. but feeling guilty ? no way he was probably tooo happy

the number of Iranian athletes in this event is probably higher than the number of them in the Asian Championship if I didn't miss anybody else I counted at least 11, Ghobadi, Alizadeh, Naghibzadeh, Mehdipournejad, Zolghadri, Khodabakhshi, Asemani, Beigi, Noghandoost, Hosseini, Pouryounes. most of them were in our national team before. there are couple of "nobodies" among them though. it's really amazing that everybody with any claim can be a member of this refugee team even people who are not officially "refugee" ! Kimia Alizadeh had her first competition after a while, she lost the QF handily to a girl from Croatia. I don't expect her to achieve anything considering how many injuries and surgeries she had already but we know she is good if healthy. it will be "interesting" if she (or other Iranian fake refugees) steals an Olympic quota from Europe. if IOC wants to give them a wild card that's a different story but this is completely unfair for European athletes. btw wish the best of luck for Khodabakhshi

won the last quota of the day, they will have at least 5 female wrestlers in Tokyo.

I think so but still can't be sure about it.

because that quota goes to Nigeria, but Nigeria (unlike Ecuador) is already qualified in Africa. what about that ? they can't give that to the 3rd wrestler in Africa because of that less than 8 wrestlers rule, it probably goes to the tripartite. of course UWW can read the rules differently and simply give it to Poland (8th place at the worlds), I'm not sure how they are going to deal with this one but there is no question about Ecuador getting that quota if/when PRK officially withdraws.

nope wrong, I wasn't talking about the Pan-Am qualifiers, Ecuador was 7th at the World Championships

this is probably nonsense, I can say 100% nonsense, the Olympic Ranking is way too much complicated , so many variables, nobody can calculate points like that especially before the other continental championships, and 4kg more or less won't make a huge different. she will probably qualify even without her results from this competition.

if MGL wins the last female quota in the Asian QT, this is how women's wrestling quotas are distributed 6 5 4 3 2 1 I didn't count 2 PRK quotas and 1 SWE quota (disqualified for doping ) it's just 81, if I understand the rules correctly, those 2 PRK quotas will go to Ecuador and Moldova.

in case anybody is interested, Kianoush Rostami will participate at the non-Olympic weight of 89kg here , another desperate try from him to collect more points. if someone checks the ranking, Iran has some guys in top 15 in 96kg and 109kg but none of them are participating here, which means you can remove them from the Olympic ranking, Ali Hashemi (2 time world champion, 7th in WR at 109kg) didn't make the team and won't go to Tokyo.

they never had a chance, they just sent a big team they had 4 wrestlers yesterday, their results: 60kg: 0-10 67kg: 0-9 , repechage 2-11 77kg: 0-8 87kg: 0-9 and men's freestyle results won't be much better tomorrow. absolutely no chance for a quota.

summary of qualified wrestlers 50: 53: 57: 62: 68: 76: at 76, it will be between MGL, UZB and IND. MGL will qualify if she beats UZB. which is very likely to happen * China and Japan will have a complete team in women's wrestling. MGL (if qualifies at 76) will have 5 female wrestlers.

looking at the results. we already know 2 qualified wrestlers in 2 weights with round robin 50: 76: MGL at 76 is not 100% qualified but she is almost there. the other 3 are 100% qualified and the semis are set for the other 4 weights 53: vs /// vs 57: vs /// vs 62: vs /// vs 68: vs /// vs

Taking a look at how 84 Greco quotas are distributed 6 5 4 3 2 1

I know this is way too early but after the Greco competition in Asia, we know the name of 14 qualified countries in each Greco-Roman weight. we still don't know who is going to Bulgaria, some countries may use a different wrestler but this is the list of "better wrestlers/countries" without quota. there will be seeding, I will list two seeded wrestlers I think European wrestlers will win most of the quotas, probably 9 or 10. maybe even all 12 ! 60: seeds) Gharibyan and Angelov ( and are next in line in case Bulgaria uses a different wrestler) I believe it will be only between European wrestlers, only slim chance for and to make a difference there is no clear favorite left, but I think have a better chance + those 2 non-European wrestlers are next. 67: seeds) Bakhshilloev and Ashu (, and are next if UZB uses another wrestler) again no clear favorite but they are lots of good guys, are better here, I can name 10 other countries with decent wrestlers but I'm going to stop here. this weight will be crowded in Bulgaria 77: seeds) Liakh and Rivas ( and are next) Kim and Nemes (both former world champions) are the biggest name not qualified yet and they can easily fall in the same part of the draw. have good wrestlers left, I can add few more names too. for example 87: seeds) Sunil and Avendano ( and are next) some big names are still left without quota, the biggest name is ! I don't know who they are going to send to Bulgaria but I assume that will be Chakvetadze defending Olympic Champion. Basar is a two time World Champion plus former world medalists like Shahinyan and Nouri, even though I believe Iran will send a different wrestler, (too early though, Nouri just lost today) after these guys I can add to the list too. 97: seeds) Kakhelashvili and Omarov (next is ) another European competition, I believe only in this weight the top seed is indeed the best remaining wrestler. are probably the best after him. maybe from Asia too. 130: seeds) Perez and Coon (next is ) this is a week weight in general, the level was low even in Europe. I think all notable wrestlers are already qualified but are a bit better than the rest. even and

well I'm alive , but still can't walk. it was a U-turn and the car was driving slow still didn't notice me at all and hit me hard on both knees. one of them is almost OK now, the right knee still not so good. didn't go to the hospital yet because the situation is getting worse in my town regarding corona but since it doesn't heal itself I'm getting an appointment for the next week. hopefully it's nothing serious.

I think @Mecki83 is right, I also never heard any complain about this rule from the WL community. it seems everybody likes it and nobody is going to change it. it makes sense actually, before 2005 it was minimum 2.5kg between your 3 attempts. which was a relatively big jump, now it's just 1kg. if your rival lifted 200kg, just go and beat him by 1kg more. if you lift the same number "after him" you probably don't deserve to rank higher than him.

Yes everybody here was sure about that but well, having that good draw was too good to be true. I knew something bad will happen I guess this is why we all love sports. being unpredictable. so. short summary of qualified nations 60: 67: 77: 87: 97: 130: if we also count quotas from the World Championships for the Asian countries, 5 4 3 2

sure, I can wait for the freestyle competition to be done or I can write what I think about Greco today. even though right now I feel like someone who got hit by a car (actually I did got hit by a car 8 days ago)