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Things are getting worse and worse here, and we are back to square 1 like February/March with almost 150 deaths per day with more than 2500 infected. and that's just the official number. who knows what's the true number. and exactly like 4 months ago everyday we hear news about famous people getting infected too, celebrities, athletes, politicians.
 
from today wearing mask is mandatory ! (even though I don't know how they are going to "force" people into that) , 7 provinces are in critical situation and 7 more (including where I live and also Tehran where I travel regularly) are almost in critical situation ! and that means half the country, we have 28 provinces.
 
while to be honest I don't care much about the politicians (well except only few of them) I do care a lot about our athletes, Iran football league started something like 10-12 days ago and now half players from those two teams played the first match are tested positive for coronavirus ! it will probably take few more days to hear the same thing about other 14 teams. (I hope I'm wrong though)
 
and last but not the least, one of our current top wrestlers is in critical situation  Hossein Nouri, 2017 world bronze medalist and 4 times Asian Champion. I don't know how bad is his situation but moving him to the best hospital in Tehran and to the ICU doesn't sound good.
 

UWW wants to have World Senior Championship this year , 12-20 December, in Belgrade, Serbia.
https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/executive-board-develops-plan-remaining-2020-events
 
but only if
this is funny, 2019 WCh was the Olympic Qualifier, we always have more countries for the Olympic Qualifiers, even without COVID-19 it was possible to see less than 70% teams comparing to 2019 Worlds !

new day, new disaster !  pretty normal these days !
 
still not much information, we just know that's a clinic. (not a hospital with lots of patients ) and probably gas explosion. still no report on causalities  they are fighting to stop the fire right now.
 
btw that street is where I used to go to college.

new day, new disaster !  pretty normal these days !
 
still not much information, we just know that's a clinic. (not a hospital with lots of patients ) and probably gas explosion. still no report on causalities  they are fighting to stop the fire right now.
 
btw that street is where I used to go to college.

I think @Olympian1010 is a spy from another planet trying to convince Totallympics users to cancel the 2021 Olympics. well but unfortunately it's not up to totallympics users.
 
 

I think @Olympian1010 is a spy from another planet trying to convince Totallympics users to cancel the 2021 Olympics. well but unfortunately it's not up to totallympics users.
 
 

Three people I knew died, all three of then under the age of 40. They were very cautions and aware of the dangers of this virus, and they did everything they could not to be infected, but all the other morons who lived near them were not nearly as cautious.

I moved back to Rio de Janeiro, and while I'm happy to come back to my home place, I'm very, very, very surprised at how fearless everybody is. It's like they all want to die. I'm really angry at all the shitheads who live in Rio.

lowest weight in Taekwondo 54kg, highest weight +87kg
lowest weight in Karate 60kg, highest +84kg
but
lowest in GR wrestling 55kg, highest 130kg
 
how you can have just 4 weights in 70kg range ?
 
and there is a big big difference here, in Taekwondo and Karate, bodyweight is not a big deal. it's not even important, it's mostly about height. they easily compete against someone 10kg heavier but that's impossible in wrestling. even 4-5kg difference matters a lot. 6 weight classes is already very low for men's wrestling. it's OK for women because there is only 26kg gap between highest and lowest weight. but 75kg gap is much much bigger.

lowest weight in Taekwondo 54kg, highest weight +87kg
lowest weight in Karate 60kg, highest +84kg
but
lowest in GR wrestling 55kg, highest 130kg
 
how you can have just 4 weights in 70kg range ?
 
and there is a big big difference here, in Taekwondo and Karate, bodyweight is not a big deal. it's not even important, it's mostly about height. they easily compete against someone 10kg heavier but that's impossible in wrestling. even 4-5kg difference matters a lot. 6 weight classes is already very low for men's wrestling. it's OK for women because there is only 26kg gap between highest and lowest weight. but 75kg gap is much much bigger.

an interview with some Azerbaijani official (also has a position in UWW) made some headlines in wrestling community , that guy claims Greco-Roman will be replaced by Beach Wrestling ! they did that for 2022 YOG and will do the same for 2024 Paris. (according to the Azeri guy)
 
to me it's really hard to believe that UWW will propose such a thing ! the current UWW president is from Serbia , and in most European countries Greco is more active than freestyle. in fact we usually have more wrestlers in Greco-Roman compeititon comparing to freestyle. replacing this with beach wrestling nonsense is like crime against humanity !

an interview with some Azerbaijani official (also has a position in UWW) made some headlines in wrestling community , that guy claims Greco-Roman will be replaced by Beach Wrestling ! they did that for 2022 YOG and will do the same for 2024 Paris. (according to the Azeri guy)
 
to me it's really hard to believe that UWW will propose such a thing ! the current UWW president is from Serbia , and in most European countries Greco is more active than freestyle. in fact we usually have more wrestlers in Greco-Roman compeititon comparing to freestyle. replacing this with beach wrestling nonsense is like crime against humanity !

Serbian sport shooter Bobana Veličković passed away today at age of 30
She was part of Serbian Olympic Team at London 2012 and Rio 2016, former 8th times European champion and world champion in air pistol
 
I cant believe it happened. She is younger than me. Life really sucks 
Rest in Peace our angel 
 

 
She become mother for the first time only 20 days ago 

Ahmed Radhi ( Football ) - represented Iraq in 1988 OG , one of the most iconic figures of Iraqi football has died today at age of 56 due to Corona Virus , he scored his country only goal in WCs in 1986 WC 

the last thing I heard from him, he wants to wrestle in Tokyo but his normal bodyweight is higher than 130kg, he has to control his weight for another year and considering his age I won't be surprised if Cubans decide to send Oscar Pino who is also a gold medal candidate
 
but if they send Lopez, he will be unseeded.

https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/bureau-approves-bundle-updated-options-competition-calendars-2020-2021
 
UWW still thinks they can have Worlds Junior and U23 Championships this year. you can't see this in the article but they are also asking national federations about having a World Senior Championships late in 2020. Georgia is the possible host.
 
but there is also important that UWW says the ranking events in 2021 won't change the seeding for the Olympics, so the current ranking in UWW website is almost final. only Chinese and North Korean wrestlers can add some points from the 2021 Asian Championships but that won't make lots of changes.
 
important points for the men's freestyle (if nobody withdraws)
57kg: Zaur Uguev and Ravi Kumar will face in the SF, I was expecting that to be the Olympic final
65kg: Otoguro will be unseeded, so being seeded isn't necessarily a good thing here.
74kg: if Burroughs makes team USA (he has to beat 79kg World Champion Kyle Dake) he and Frank Chamizo will face in the SF, and if Russia sends Sidakov he will be in the other side of the draw.
86kg: if Russia sends Naifonov, he won't face our Yazdani before the final. David Taylor is still unseeded.
97kg: if Kyle Snyder makes it (he has to beat Jden Cox) he and the great Sadulaev won't meet before the final
125kg: Petriashvili and Akgul won't meet before the final
 
 

https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/bureau-approves-bundle-updated-options-competition-calendars-2020-2021
 
UWW still thinks they can have Worlds Junior and U23 Championships this year. you can't see this in the article but they are also asking national federations about having a World Senior Championships late in 2020. Georgia is the possible host.
 
but there is also important that UWW says the ranking events in 2021 won't change the seeding for the Olympics, so the current ranking in UWW website is almost final. only Chinese and North Korean wrestlers can add some points from the 2021 Asian Championships but that won't make lots of changes.
 
important points for the men's freestyle (if nobody withdraws)
57kg: Zaur Uguev and Ravi Kumar will face in the SF, I was expecting that to be the Olympic final
65kg: Otoguro will be unseeded, so being seeded isn't necessarily a good thing here.
74kg: if Burroughs makes team USA (he has to beat 79kg World Champion Kyle Dake) he and Frank Chamizo will face in the SF, and if Russia sends Sidakov he will be in the other side of the draw.
86kg: if Russia sends Naifonov, he won't face our Yazdani before the final. David Taylor is still unseeded.
97kg: if Kyle Snyder makes it (he has to beat Jden Cox) he and the great Sadulaev won't meet before the final
125kg: Petriashvili and Akgul won't meet before the final
 
 

Tibor Benedek, 3-time olympic champion in water polo, one of Hungary's greatest sportsman, died today, aged only 47. I'm shocked 

Welp, because he who run this thread hasn't been here for a week

Its boxing that is missing. Technically they cannot ask for any changes lol

They are probably canceled. I don't think there is any domestic league, that will continue the season. And the clubs sent their players home a long time ago. 
 
As far, as i know, our men's and women's national teams will gather for training by the end of the month. The Euro qualifiers have not been canceled yet, though i'm not sure for what date they can happen. 

I heard from some UWW officials that they plan to add Beach Wrestling and/or Traditional wrestling but I'm almost sure they will never ask to replace Greco with them. they will ask for some new events and IOC will say no. I would say just keep the current number of events. you can't get more. while freestyle is more interesting but Greco-Roman is the oldest version of wrestling. more countries win medal in Greco, more popular in Europe. I can't imagine UWW dropping that at will. IOC once pushed for dropping Greco in 2004 but FILA/UWW didn't give up.
 
is that a serious question ? lol or just joking ?
unlike Taekwondo for example in wrestling this is impossible for wrestlers to compete against someone heavier. even in Judo that's possible but no chance in wrestling for lighter guys. for having a team event, you need teams to qualify full team in all styles (or full team in specific weights) I think only 1 or 2 countires are capable of that making the whole idea impossible. Judo can do that because of the huge number of quotas.

And remember, we’re cutting 1,000 quotas (more than actually) along the way...

Tokyo 2021 has 10,616 quotas among the core sports +248 for the new sports. So among the core spots we are looking at 363 cuts to quotas. Amazing. I would say drop Artistic swimming (-104) an rhythmic gymnastics (96). That still leave 163 spots to cut. THIS IS INSANE. What difference does an extra 200-300 quotas make to a multi billion dollar budget? The pure stupidity of the IOC is just beyond me now. 

Taekwondo already asked for a mixed team event for the 2020 Tokyo, actually there was supposed to be a team event as demonstration or exhibition event in Tokyo. they even had qualifiers for that.
I assume they will ask for that again.
 
can't IOC stop adding nonsense events like 3x3 basketball or BMX freestyle instead of dropping something else ? I wonder how many other smart idea Bach has.