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I see , didn't notice the difference, people here mostly consider Shemshak, Tochal, E. Hashem and Dizin as parts of Tehran !
 
yes they are all ski resorts near Tehran, Tehran is next to mountains, so many ski resorts here.

It's not about the results, but the way they play. Italy didn't create much chances against a team like Macedonia today, no much time left till the crucial playoffs. I hope all main players return for those 2 matches. as I said before I can't even imagine a world cup without Italy.

watching Italy-Macedonia match, this Italian team is a complete disaster, a year ago they had a good team with Conte, now with Ventura
 
I can't believe if my favorite team Italy misses the world cup but that's now very possible, this Italian team won't be favorite against any team in the playoffs.

IRAN 
 
Faramarz Aslani - Age Ye Rooz (If One Day)
 

 
 

Guys you can count me too

Guys you can count me too

Guys you can count me too

Guys you can count me too

That's a shame actually. they already cheated by adding toooooo many similar sports to the program.
 
I have to admit the organization is great, some of Iranian officials in the competition claim that's even better than the Olympics in Rio ! even though most of the top organizers are foreigners and not from Turkmenistan. but the problem is Turkmenistan (which is usually a poor country in everything including sports) wants to use this for propaganda as you said, I watch the competition for most of the day and if you watch their TV channels, they show a counter for their medal count which changes minutes by minute and they sound very proud of their "dominance" ! if you watched the competition, Turkmen Goresh (Traditional wrestling), Belt wrestling and Alysh are exactly the same ! the only difference is in scoring system.
 
Another problem is they have two competitions in almost all events. I know it's not cheating, they had that in their handbooks long time ago but almost no other country used that opportunity to send two athletes in each event. mostly in martial arts it's NOT common to see two athletes from the same country in the same weight.
 
and one thing about that girl and belt wrestling, as everybody know the "real" wrestling is not active in Iran for women and wrestling is somehow the national sport. there are so many girls here love to wrestle and this belt wrestling thing is probably the best and only chance for Iranian girls who love wrestling to try something at least a bit similar. I don't really care about belt wrestling medals (they are only good for the medal count) but I know that gold medal would mean everything for that Iranian girl. that's why she was crying on the podium. and btw I just found out that she is a cousin of our Olympic Champion Hassan Yazdani !
 

 

Syrian players are celebrating/crying like they are qualified for the World Cup. ,
 
I highly doubt they can win the playoffs but that's still a huge success for them. Syria used to even barely qualify for the Asian Cup ! let alone thinking about going to the World Cup during the war.
 
 A Syria-USA would be interesting in the playoffs and Syria should win 3-0 since Trump travel ban won't let Syrian players entering the US !

UWW website
https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/new-weight-categories-2018-host-cities-among-wrestlings-bureau-announcements
 
that was in their summary, they are supposed to publish more details later.

Asian Champs quarterfinal
 
South Korea vs China
Chinese Taipei vs Kazakhstan
Iran vs Indonesia
Japan vs Australia
 
before the tournament I was sure that Korea, China, Japan and Australia will make it to the semifinal but now two of them will be eliminated tomorrow ! TPE surprised everybody by beating both China and Australia, but that was also very surprising that Iran U23 beat Australian A team today !
 
If Iran make it to the semifinal that would be a GREAT result for this team, they will be favorite against the host team Indonesia.

well I watched all Karate finals and seriously this sport has no place in the Olympics. specially Kata

http://v2.ustreamix.com/stream.php?id=polsat-sport

They now boradcast climbing instead of gymnastic qualification as our athlete has serious hopes for medal

well, not so long, maybe...
now he has to face the surprising Argentinian Di Tella (and we can't say he's not the favourite)...
and if he does it, then it's a quarterfinal against France (Apithy or Anstett)...in this case he's not going to be the favourite, but still the 2 Frenchmen are among the less dangerous athletes qualified for the round of 16...
for Italy, shame that Curatoli and Samele have to face each other in the round of 16...I hope that the winner can go straight to the semifinal against Szilagyi (frankly, I don't see anybody beating him once again)...
pity for Montano, but he's no longer the athlete he used to be...I guess it's time to think about something new in his life...

I see all of our five 2016 World medalists in the start list so I assume that tournament was the main (or maybe the only) qualifier.
 

Does it mean you think Canada is not qualified yet ? because that's wrong, that 3-0 win secured a SF place for Canada. , Canada's set ratio is bigger than 1,
 
if Russia beats Brazil 3-0 (which is almost impossible) they will be qualified alongside Canada, otherwise Brazil and Canada will be in semifinal.

Father can coach his own daughter outside the national camp, not the whole team

is this serious ? Philippines are in both category 1 and 3 !!!

I was extremely surprised to see Iran in the list ! but then I remembered we are neighbor to 3 war-torn countries. so that makes sense. even though most of them are probably Afghans. we sometimes forget to remember they are migrants !

Tomorrow 9 am Korea time
we will have Round of 128 and Round of 64 for both M74 and W49 in the 1st session
 
session 2 starts 14pm with Round of 32, Round of 16 and Quarterfinal for both M74 and W49
 
and then we will have the finals from today weights M54 and W46, starting from 19pm
 
 

Vito Dell'Aquila is the youngest and brightest talent of the Italian Taekwondo...he's not even 17, but he already won quite a few titles and medals among elder ranks in the last 2 years (Cadets World Champion in 2014, Junior European Champion in 2015, European sub-21 Champion and Italian senior champion this year)...
here some more data about him (I'm not sure at 100%, but I think he's from the same small village of Carlo Molfetta - for sure he fights for the same club in Mesagne, Puglia region, southern Italy)...
http://www.taekwondodata.com/vito-dell-aquila.ambh.html#body

Looks like FIFA is testing a new rules for the penalties. I was watching Portugal-Uruguay at the U20 World Cup. when it went to the penalties the order of that was something like tie-break in Tennis, Portugal took the 1st penalty but then Uruguay had 2 penalties instead of normal 1 and they continued like that.
 
I don't know if I like this "change" looks a bit unbalanced but I guess that's more fair than the current format when one team always takes the first penalty

Congratulations! 

2-0 at the end! Congratulations!