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Well yeah we don't use the backward technology called toilet papers over here

53 kg and 57 kg looked to be injured for sure in the preliminary rounds. Don't know about the other two

Last night we had only 3 withdrawals if I'm not wrong but tonight the second session was one of the most bizarre wrestling sessions, we had no real gold medal match at all ! out of 14 matches listed for second session, (6 finals and 8 bronze medal matches) 9 of them didn't happen and someone won by walkover  I guess only Canadian wrestlers showed up completely mostly because they were the host.
 
I wonder what happened since last night that the number of withdrawals increased massively this is interesting because in wrestling you can't simply withdraw ! you need medical proof that you are injured. of course everybody knows the real reason and it's mostly UWW's fault for even having these senseless finals but still rules are rules. I assume since UWW wasn't strict last night with 3 withdrawals, everybody decided to not show up tonight
 
imagine what will happen if UWW decides to act seriously and disqualify all of these fake injured wrestlers all 4 American wrestlers withdrew from the final, Team USA doctor had a busy afternoon making fake excuses or fake injuries

only probably ?   
 
I assume we have a bit more than 2 hours left ?
 
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oops my computer shows today is 15 March but I didn't notice that's only because we are past midnight here, so nevermind, 24 hours is more than enough for me

only probably ?   
 
I assume we have a bit more than 2 hours left ?
 
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oops my computer shows today is 15 March but I didn't notice that's only because we are past midnight here, so nevermind, 24 hours is more than enough for me

All of them was part of the same country in "the beggining", Gran Colombia was that country.

Just some data:
 
Active case 17.750 Death 1441 (+175) Recovered 1996 (+557) Total case 21157 (+3497)

well  you never can be 100% sure about anything in sports but I can tell you that's 99% not possible. he has Retherford in his bracket , Retherford most probably will run over him. men's freestyle is more predictable
 
but I somehow think Bermudez got robbed today, I was looking both mats at the same time and I really didn't understand what happened, Bermudez threw Castillo for 4 and was about to pin her but the center ref stopped the match for a reason I'm not sure if I understood. a second before the throw mat chairman told the center ref to "stop" to probably warn one of the wrestlers for passivity but the match is stopped only when the center ref below the whistle so to me that throw was legit and they should let her continue the action which was most probably pinning Castillo.

indeed  they really should won at least 2 quotas. I don't know what happened to Valverde , Cuban girl was weaker than her but she woke up very late,
 
also very bad tournament for Venezuela and also Colombia (despite winning 1 quota) not a good weekend for countries with similar flags

WOW. what a surprising quota for Mexico  Morais did the same mistake 3 times, she escaped twice but finally Valencia pinned her.
 
that probably made up for Romero's heart breaking defeat in last 2 seconds,

wow. what a match 97kg final I'm glad they didn't cancel the finals. you rarely see such high scoring match in this level between two World level wrestlers specially at heavyweight. Cuba won 11-8 but Hancock threw him for 4 to win it 12-11 which later annulled because it was a moment after 0:00

Yes. There's no easy way out of this mess now. In my opinion, prize money and medals should be distributed based on the results of qualifications. Not the ideal scenario, but it's still better than nothing for the gymnasts. Points for Olympic qualification, though, is a way more complicated matter. If they award points based on qualifications, there will still be hope for Petrounias. If they cancel the results altogether, Petrounias will be out of the Olympics. Not to mention Kheika, Urara and other gymnasts who heavily relied on this stage to make it to the Olympics.
 

You mean the final tomorrow ? wow I thought you are talking about the final World Cup event.
cancelling the event in middle of it is nonsense, it doesn't change anything,

to give you an answer, I refer to an interview I heard from one of Afghan top health officials. he was worried that people in Afghanistan don't take those advises seriously. that they are in big trouble but still nobody knows that. he said Iran has a "very very strong" health system and look how much trouble they have right now. if they consider our health system very very strong. you can imagine how good they are.
 
as far as I know so many people from Iraq and Afghanistan come to Iran for medical treatment. even though in this case I believe this is more about management rather than having very good doctors. but mismanagement in Afghanistan is pretty common. they are even worse than us.
 
I guess you guys don't follow the news (who does these days) but Afghanistan is deeply in trouble politically, two guys announced themselves president at the same day !! and the president "had" to sign an order releasing 5000 Taliban members (against people's wish) just because USA ordered them to do. right now Corona is not really their concern, and that's very dangerous.

Cuba will have a full team in Greco-Roman, they qualified 2 in Nur-Sultan and 4 more here. Pena and Orta had hard time in at least one of their matches but it was easy for Gregorich and Rosillo. I think only Egypt is capable of doing that, it will be hard for any other country even Russia to qualify all 6 weights.
 
and Cuba can also do great in Tokyo in Greco-Roman, Borrero and Lopez are big favorites for gold. and winning a medal is not really impossible for Gregorich and Rosillo.

You mean the final tomorrow ? wow I thought you are talking about the final World Cup event.
cancelling the event in middle of it is nonsense, it doesn't change anything,

@mrv86 huge win for Mexico at 77kg first round over Venezuela, I think your guy is almost there.

the center ref almost disqualified Soghomanyan for celebrating too much . this is not MMA. you are not allowed to do such things after the win

Every country has its own traditions hence lots of habits can't be changed in a short time. I've been to Iran for traveling, people are truly very very enthusiastic, warm-heated and talkative. But as long as you keep staying at home, you are safe. It's the stupid and effective way we handle it.

ah again, another dumb American journalist tries to play smart
 
first everybody knows the number from health ministry is not accurate, because they only count those who pass the final Corona test, but because of limited resources they can't test everybody. that's why I never trust the numbers, the real number of infected people is MUCH higher, 10000 is just a joke and the number of deaths is also higher (but not the way those dumb journalists try to picture) even the number announced by health organizations in each province is different, if someone sums up those numbers that gives a total number of 780 deaths at least so far for the whole country. remember local health organizations are still part of the same government, (if there was a "cover up" they wouldn't do that) the difference is they don't limit themselves to only count 100% Corona positive deaths. they also count suspected deaths too. they are almost sure about most of those suspected deaths through CT-scan but still health ministry doesn't count them because they only believe in their own 100% confirmed tests. if Iranian economy wasn't crippled and the healthcare system wasn't ruined because of financial troubles, I'm sure we would have the accurate number by now
 
as someone who knows Iranian social media , 90% of these kind of videos are fake or exaggerated, no matter who makes them, government or anti-government organizations. I mean of course there were dead bodies but Qom is a city with more than 1 million population, mostly old population unlike the rest of the country , everyday is a busy day in the cemetery . and with the news of Corona coming out, they treat all dead bodies the same, just to not risk their own lives.
 
that mass graves things is nonsense unless they are preparing something for the future in case that's necessary, I have first hand information about this one since I had a relative who died from Corona (as I said 2 days ago) the funeral and the grave was like any other death, they just didn't let anybody to be there when they were burying the body and they buried it much deeper than normal, his family visited the grave the next day.
 
the Iranian government is to blame for sure for so many reasons, for not informing people about the danger very clear and very quick at first, mostly because they wanted to finish their stupid parliament election which had a very low turnout after all. (lowest ever in history)  and also to not quarantining Qom, because of stupid religious reasons, only because it was Qom. and also for not cancelling all nonsense religious events immediately. (they did that but when it was too late) also for not cancelling all flights from China immediately, if someone checks the map, only central provinces are deeply involved which means the virus came through plane and directly from China. (guess why Iran is this much dependent on China and didn't cancel the flight soon) there are so many reasons to blame the Iranian regime but please, don't believe whatever you read. some so called stupid "oppositions" believe they can spread any bad thing (truth or lie) just because they hate the current regime (which I do hate too, but I hate lying more than anything else) and they feed some dumb foreign journalists with these nonsense. everything happens for a reason, and there is no reason right now to cover up anything. actually from what i see people are too much relaxed I would love to see "panic" here. if I was on charge I would announce the numbers 10 times bigger just to make people understand the danger. if people continue not listening we will reach that disastrous day your journalist tries to picture soon. we need to do something like Italy.
 
ps: American journalists better work on their own country's problems, the last time I checked USA is no paradise regarding the coronavirus treat because of mismanagement. and maybe solving problems there, solves some problems here too. after all when you throw 10000 disasters on a country and make life miserable for people there (and you are even proud of doing that), some of those disasters come back to you too. who knows maybe some of those Iranian-Americans bought coronavirus to the United States.
 
this is disgusting when people politicize such worldwide disasters

hard to be calm these days that was a very good example. I'm not mad at American journalists, they usually write these kind of nonsense without knowing a shit about other countries. I get used to it. I rarely remember such things from journalists who actually traveled to Iran though
 
I'm mostly mad at those Iranians giving them these kind of information. specially twitter is full of these kind of videos. most of them by fake accounts. this is their way of "fighting" the current corrupt regime, by being more corrupt ! this is disgusting to consider this as an opportunity.
 
China did a remarkable job monitoring everybody, tracking every single infected person, that's simply not possible here, and if officials don't take a drastic decision like what Italy did we are going that path to need mass graves . I give up  on people to be responsible. we have the Persian new year in few days, which means more traveling, more partying, more kissing, more hugging and of course more coronavirus.

ah again, another dumb American journalist tries to play smart
 
first everybody knows the number from health ministry is not accurate, because they only count those who pass the final Corona test, but because of limited resources they can't test everybody. that's why I never trust the numbers, the real number of infected people is MUCH higher, 10000 is just a joke and the number of deaths is also higher (but not the way those dumb journalists try to picture) even the number announced by health organizations in each province is different, if someone sums up those numbers that gives a total number of 780 deaths at least so far for the whole country. remember local health organizations are still part of the same government, (if there was a "cover up" they wouldn't do that) the difference is they don't limit themselves to only count 100% Corona positive deaths. they also count suspected deaths too. they are almost sure about most of those suspected deaths through CT-scan but still health ministry doesn't count them because they only believe in their own 100% confirmed tests. if Iranian economy wasn't crippled and the healthcare system wasn't ruined because of financial troubles, I'm sure we would have the accurate number by now
 
as someone who knows Iranian social media , 90% of these kind of videos are fake or exaggerated, no matter who makes them, government or anti-government organizations. I mean of course there were dead bodies but Qom is a city with more than 1 million population, mostly old population unlike the rest of the country , everyday is a busy day in the cemetery . and with the news of Corona coming out, they treat all dead bodies the same, just to not risk their own lives.
 
that mass graves things is nonsense unless they are preparing something for the future in case that's necessary, I have first hand information about this one since I had a relative who died from Corona (as I said 2 days ago) the funeral and the grave was like any other death, they just didn't let anybody to be there when they were burying the body and they buried it much deeper than normal, his family visited the grave the next day.
 
the Iranian government is to blame for sure for so many reasons, for not informing people about the danger very clear and very quick at first, mostly because they wanted to finish their stupid parliament election which had a very low turnout after all. (lowest ever in history)  and also to not quarantining Qom, because of stupid religious reasons, only because it was Qom. and also for not cancelling all nonsense religious events immediately. (they did that but when it was too late) also for not cancelling all flights from China immediately, if someone checks the map, only central provinces are deeply involved which means the virus came through plane and directly from China. (guess why Iran is this much dependent on China and didn't cancel the flight soon) there are so many reasons to blame the Iranian regime but please, don't believe whatever you read. some so called stupid "oppositions" believe they can spread any bad thing (truth or lie) just because they hate the current regime (which I do hate too, but I hate lying more than anything else) and they feed some dumb foreign journalists with these nonsense. everything happens for a reason, and there is no reason right now to cover up anything. actually from what i see people are too much relaxed I would love to see "panic" here. if I was on charge I would announce the numbers 10 times bigger just to make people understand the danger. if people continue not listening we will reach that disastrous day your journalist tries to picture soon. we need to do something like Italy.
 
ps: American journalists better work on their own country's problems, the last time I checked USA is no paradise regarding the coronavirus treat because of mismanagement. and maybe solving problems there, solves some problems here too. after all when you throw 10000 disasters on a country and make life miserable for people there (and you are even proud of doing that), some of those disasters come back to you too. who knows maybe some of those Iranian-Americans bought coronavirus to the United States.
 
this is disgusting when people politicize such worldwide disasters

hard to be calm these days that was a very good example. I'm not mad at American journalists, they usually write these kind of nonsense without knowing a shit about other countries. I get used to it. I rarely remember such things from journalists who actually traveled to Iran though
 
I'm mostly mad at those Iranians giving them these kind of information. specially twitter is full of these kind of videos. most of them by fake accounts. this is their way of "fighting" the current corrupt regime, by being more corrupt ! this is disgusting to consider this as an opportunity.
 
China did a remarkable job monitoring everybody, tracking every single infected person, that's simply not possible here, and if officials don't take a drastic decision like what Italy did we are going that path to need mass graves . I give up  on people to be responsible. we have the Persian new year in few days, which means more traveling, more partying, more kissing, more hugging and of course more coronavirus.

I usually don't predict women's wrestling because I'm not much informed about it. I mean about men's freestyle and Greco I follow almost all competitions during the year. injury news etc. but for women's wrestling it's mostly about world champions and Olympics. someone can be world champion 2 years ago but we don't know about her current shape. but let me try my chance
 
50kg: looks like a good draw for Castillo, bottom half is most probably about USA and CAN in the SF.

 
53kg: no room for luck with this format, I would go with USA/CAN naturally but that ECU girl dominated everybody at PanAms hard to write her off,

 
57kg: again 2 group format,  I go with most obvious prediction even though ECU isn't that bad, but both USA and CAN are World Champions !

 
62kg: this one is really hard to predict, I think it's easy to say who will make it to the SF but both semies will be close. there are 4 favorites here, COL and BRA alongside usual favorites.

 
68kg: no USA in this weight, Canada looks like huge favorite in top half , maybe BRA can challenge her. bottom half is more balanced, I say Cuba but then there is not much difference between them

 
76kg: I think only COL is a real treat to BRA and CAN.

I usually don't predict women's wrestling because I'm not much informed about it. I mean about men's freestyle and Greco I follow almost all competitions during the year. injury news etc. but for women's wrestling it's mostly about world champions and Olympics. someone can be world champion 2 years ago but we don't know about her current shape. but let me try my chance
 
50kg: looks like a good draw for Castillo, bottom half is most probably about USA and CAN in the SF.

 
53kg: no room for luck with this format, I would go with USA/CAN naturally but that ECU girl dominated everybody at PanAms hard to write her off,

 
57kg: again 2 group format,  I go with most obvious prediction even though ECU isn't that bad, but both USA and CAN are World Champions !

 
62kg: this one is really hard to predict, I think it's easy to say who will make it to the SF but both semies will be close. there are 4 favorites here, COL and BRA alongside usual favorites.

 
68kg: no USA in this weight, Canada looks like huge favorite in top half , maybe BRA can challenge her. bottom half is more balanced, I say Cuba but then there is not much difference between them

 
76kg: I think only COL is a real treat to BRA and CAN.