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I know… that last round was his nerves crashing  
 
Just like Zavala 5 years ago in women’s air pistol

Mexico really choked at the end

youre welcome and obviously I also forget to add like other users already mentioned in the qualifiers you use 2 shots for each target.

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

I think I speak for everyone on this forum when I say we are all genuinely happy for you and for Slovakia.

It is a different venue. The athletes had no training on the final venue, just on the qualification one some meters behind.

Medal ! and a gold one  Kurva yessss !!!
 
Bravo Zuzana.

In the qualifications athletes can shoot each target twice.

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!

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.

same thing happened with us here , that's why i like epee the only event where i'm sure everybody gets his right 

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.

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

2 bronzes for Egypt, Thanks God BTW this is Hedaya's 2nd consecutive medal after bronze in Rio Alhamdulilah

Looks like the  athlete was disqualified for being pregnant:
https://sportnewsafrica.com/en/breve/olympic-games-pregnant-taekwondo-fighter-naomie-kasumpata-disqualified/

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

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

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

Iran's roster in Tokyo, US and France should be careful
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRoql8QHNa-/
 
btw even being here was a miracle, thanks to Poland and Nigeria and also Venezuela some of our veterans deserved another Olympics for their last NT competition, so it was some kind of gift from nowhere for them
 
there are 3 athletes in our whole delegation who didn't born in Iran, all of them in our basketball team. (they have Iranian fathers though)
none of them are important or key players but having them in the final squad just shows our current situation. we couldn't find better players inside the country

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

my point is even 4 years ago he was better than our entire team, he is an all-rounder while those few guys we have are only focusing on one or two events. and as you know it's just really hard to qualify for the Olympics for apparatus specialists. they dismissed him like he is just another below average gymnast we already have.
 
that's very interesting, I didn't even know we will have a World Championship later this year. I didn't hear from Keikha since he failed to qualify. I hope they are seriously training but our gymnastics federation is in kind of trouble. FIG might even suspends our federation. the former GYM president was accused of stealing money (still nothing proved) and she wasn't allowed to run for another 4 years term. FIG found it government's interference and they postponed the election to find a solution with FIG. (which wants that lady to continue in her position) so right now we don't have a proper gymnastics federation and in middle of the Olympics nobody cares about it, also we will have a new "government" in office in 12 days which will postpone everything for a good amount of time.
 
so I'm not sure if Iran even participates in the World Championships, but a world medal in this sport will be HUGE, since I was a kid everybody was talking about "we have to take Gymnastics (and Swimming) more seriously" and they are still talking about it just talking of course.

Milad Karimi from Kazakhstan made it to the finals in two apparatus.
 
he has an Iranian father (and a Kazakh mother) few years ago his dad really wanted him to represent Iran, he came here and talked with our Gymnastics federation in two different times. it didn't work out and our federation eventually said "he is not really good enough"
 
so the guy who according to our so-called experts wasn't good enough to make our Gymnastics team (which is very poor) is now in the Olympic final