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and Taliban still doesn't recognize the government of Afghanistan. and they don't talk to the government as they still consider it "USA's puppet" ! it's still hard to think how peace is possible this way. they may make peace with USA but not with Afghanistan people.
 
as we share the same language I was following the social media today and people in Afghanistan are mostly worried about this "peace deal" they think Taliban just wants its prisoners released and when American troops (or some of them) withdraw they will start again.
 
btw Taliban can't be "part" of the government, because they want it all.

and Taliban still doesn't recognize the government of Afghanistan. and they don't talk to the government as they still consider it "USA's puppet" ! it's still hard to think how peace is possible this way. they may make peace with USA but not with Afghanistan people.
 
as we share the same language I was following the social media today and people in Afghanistan are mostly worried about this "peace deal" they think Taliban just wants its prisoners released and when American troops (or some of them) withdraw they will start again.
 
btw Taliban can't be "part" of the government, because they want it all.

2nd day review
 
Men's Kata
we knew about , now Mattia Busato is also qualified which means the end of qualification in this event.
 
Men's 84kg
Ugur Aktas guaranteed an Olympic spot today, Ivan Kvesic also made sure he will be 3rd in the final ranking. he can't go up or down, it's not in his hands anymore. ironically it's better for him to lose the final to Aktas ! he needs some help from Aktas and also another Iranian Ganjzadeh at +84kg
 
Men's +84kg
3 athletes left for 2 quotas, Ganjzadeh, Horne and Arkania. none of them made it to the final and only Arkania will be in bronze medal match. Ganjzadeh will have something like 1500pts advantage over both Horne and Arkania which means he will have a good chance to finish 1st, still that won't be enough if Poursheib tops 84kg. Arkania is also closing the gap with Horne, in case Ganjzadeh qualifies, Arkania needs to beat Horne to qualify himself. complicated situation for all 5 athletes involved !
 
Women's 61kg
it was a big day for Coban and Jumaa the both made it to the final, Merve Coban is very close to qualify now. Haya Jumaa also moved up the ranking, if she wins the gold she will be next to Prekovic. but since there will be 1 more event for the Europeans, Coban and Prekovic are still big favorites for the quotas to join and . there is still slim chance for Alipour and two French girls.
 
Women's 68kg
we knew is already qualified, Gong Li and Feryal made it to the final only 100 pts separate these 2 girls, so whoever wins the gold tomorrow will be in 2nd place . that final can act like a direct Olympic qualification at the end of the day. there is still chance for Quirici (and also very slim chance for Semeraro)
 
Women's +68kg
It was a great day for Hamided Abbasali, she is not mathematically qualified yet but I can say it's 95% safe for her, she will qualify if she wins the gold tomorrow. but after her there is a close battle between Berultseva, Ferracuti, Hocaoglu and Chatziliadou. right now Berultseva is leading and she can add more points if she wins the bronze tomorrow but all other girls are European and have one more chance. Ferracuti is in the final and winning the gold will be very important for her. but still less than 400pts separate those 4 girls.

actually I think that was the right decision. first Pakistan has no "real control" over its borders, if someone really wants to cross the border he does. better let people do it legally and at least monitor them to see if they are infected or not.
 
beside that, I'm quite sure almost nobody from Iran travels to Pakistan, it's not like Turkey or Iraq where people have business there or travel for holidays, even Afghanistan has lots of cultural similarities with Iran, but Pakistan ? no way. all of those guys were Pakistanis in Iran and after all Pakistan had to let its own citizens in.

it seems so
http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/australia-new-zealand-and-tonga-secure-places-at-tokyo-2020-olympic-games/
 
The W-49kg saw no athlete qualify after an athlete disqualification due to being over the weight limit for that category and two athletes no shows.

quick review about what happened in 1st day of Austrian K1 event regarding Olympic qualification
 
Women's Kata
I think the qualification is done, we know the name of 4 qualified athletes here, Grace Lau  and Sakura Kokumai joined and
 
Women's 50kg
only 3 athletes are left to grab the last quota and join it will be between Bahmanyar, Plank and Hubrich. despite poor result here Bahmanyar still has a much better chance.
 
Women's 55kg
it's not over yet for Jana Messerschmidt, she is in the final and if she wins the gold she will be closer to Wen (TPE) , Wen herself will fight for bronze. was already qualified before the event.
 
Men's 60kg
we knew is already qualified, it was between Creszezo and Samdan and the Italian beat the Turk in the SF. which means he will have something 1000pts advantage before the last 2 events.
 
Men's 67kg
was already qualified, Figueira had a good chance to seal the deal today but lost to some random guy from Austria. the Egyptian El-Sawy is now in bronze medal match he will close the gap to something like 300/400 before the last event for both of them.
 
Men's 75kg
despite not making to the final. both Luigi Busa  and Rafael Aghayev  are guaranteed an Olympic quota to join . the last quota will be between Horuna and Scott (with slim chance for Eltemur). Horuna made it to the final today to increase his chance massively

that's a good question, but let's hope things will get better in two months and beside that in this specific sport there is a simple solution. they simply can let Asian weightlifters to participate in other continental Champs ,
 
yes I'm sure Chinese coaches monitor Moradi (and Rostami) situation but that guy Fares El-Bakh is now one of the favorites, Tian beating him is not a sure thing. and maybe (just maybe) Tian being unpredictable doesn't make him a "safe gold" for the Chinese coaches.

that's not true, Iranian Wrestling Federation is as puzzled as everybody else, they called Kyrgyz NF to make sure about the news, the answer was Kyrgyzstan won't host the event not in March, not in April.
 
nobody knows who will host the event and when. actually I can't see any country in Asia interested to host the event right now. all wrestling nations in Asia are either dealing with the virus or has strict travel ban . only Jordan was brave enough to accept to host Boxing and Taekwondo AQT but they don't want wrestling that's for sure.

Sohrab Moradi set a very poor record in Dubai 370kg (163+207) this is disappointing but I guess that's just normal only few months after a shoulder surgery. this will be very funny/interesting if he doesn't qualify for the Olympics despite setting a new World record inside the qualification period ! well done to whoever created this qualification system.
 
his chance is not dead yet, but if he wants to qualify himself (without thinking about other things) he needs something like his 416 WR at the Asian Championships , he has 2 months to prepare and gets better. but I think improving more than 30kg is almost impossible in 2 months. but Colombia's possible disqualification and the slim possibility of China "not picking" Tian Tao gives him a slim chance to qualify with even something like 390kg.
 
I was looking at the ranking and it seems the following athletes are qualified for sure
Tian (only if China sends him)
El-Bakh
Pliesnoi
Santavy
Yu (or someone else from Korea)
Vallenilla or Luna
 
I didn't count Rivas and Mkrtchyan and Tsikhantsou. assuming COL will be banned and ARM/BLR won't use their quota in this weight with no medal chance.
 
next in the ranking are
Yamamoto 3412
Saez 3264
Rasulbekov 3211 (will be 3219 when they update the ranking)
Khugaev 3195 (probably won't be picked by Russia)
 
 
Sohrab will be 2136 with this new result. if we count Saez as 8th placer, Sohrab needs something like 405kg to beat his score but if China decides to not send Tian, Rasulbekov will be in top 8 and Sohrab can grab the quota by 385 or 390 as the best ranked Asian weightlifter. and there is also another complication , if Iran has two top 8 at 109kg and +109kg, can Iran reject one of those quotas to get this one as "Asian quota" ?
 
considering all those possibilities it seems our Olympic Champion won't be able to defend his title in Tokyo imagine someone like Saez (who is in fact a 89kg weightlifter) qualifies while his best result is just 366kg ! 50kg lower than Moradi's WR

Haha, you know what. Chinese begin to consider China may be the safest place right now and Chinese national team training in Europe began to go back. The first team in Women's basketball in Serbia, they will come back 1st March. Also, lots of people ask government to quarantine all passengers from Korea regardless of nationalities to prevent imported cases.

Game of Thrones redux

I think I'm fine with that to not see Iran in headlines related to war
 
but seriously this is stupid to start a war right now (I know it's always stupid but sometimes it's more stupid) when there is a bigger enemy for the whole world to face !

Iran 
 
Evan Band - Alijenab (Majesty)
 
 
 
Lyrics
 
 

Zaza after her victory today , way to go kid 

China reported a Chinese patient back from Iran today, disclosed every flight, train, taxi number she took, and try to find everyone seats near her requiring quarantine.

and Pakistan too. both passengers coming from Iran

you know since today morning I heard lots of people making joke specially about the last line in social media but I didn't know what's the source of that. thanks to you now I know
 
the answer is "not at all" !
 
being Ayatollah is in fact is not such a big deal. specially these days. there are religious schools in some cities (specially in that damned city of Qom, source of Corona) and when you graduate from them you will become a cleric, let's say being Ayatollah is equal to become PhD graduate in normal science. so there are lots of Ayatollahs here. only some of them are important, for example I never heard of this guy. I really don't know if this guy is this stupid or just try to say something "very stupid" to make a name for himself. both are possible.
 
but I googled his name just now before clicking the send bottom and it seems this is not just one time, he has a story of saying super crazy things like this. and he even has an online shop for "Islamic medicine" ! I see some "Islamic soap" and "Islamic toothbrush" in the list !
 
there are crazy people everywhere in the world but what's disappointing is to see 107K people following this guy on telegram !   but I guess that's Qom. that's why I never visited that city and will never do.
 
ps: I prefer to think maybe some of those guys just followed him to have something to laugh.

Well the measures I mentioned above are actually taken after the outbreak. Chinese government at different level all take measures to contain the spread at any cost. And it does cost too much. So if doesn't reach that level, other government are not willing to make every effort to contain it. After all, fatal rate is just 1-2% and most people are just like getting flu.

that sounds good and fair. can you send some of those officials here to manage things ? only if they had quarantined Qom in the first place the situation would be much better now. but then that's a big city with more than a million , of course it's ghost town now
 
here we were told to "stay at home" if we think we have symptoms and don't rush into hospitals ! (that's what I did myself ) cut contact with everybody and use mask if there is other person living at home. if you don't get better in 3-4 days then go to the hospital or go to hospital at any time you feel worse (and fortunately I still don't know what will happen after that) this is the flu season too that creates more problems.
 
we were told that everything will be back to normal on Saturday but I'm sure most people won't let their children going to the schools.
 
this map (from today) show how fast this is spreading here, you can't read anything but still you can see the colors Tehran and Qom are next to each other in darker orange . and I live in that tiny little province in yellow next to Tehran.
 

Moradi is in Dubai and will participate on Friday, his entry is 360kg, while I'm sure he knows he needs something like 390 or more at least, assuming he will be in better shape in April and will lift more at the Asian Championships
 
and that early trip turned out to be a smart move, other Iranian weightlifters (coaches, etc) missed the event because of flight's cancellation

Sports is never of last concern  

Hi @MHSN, would be great to have you back! And yes, that song would indeed be eligible according to the rules so if you decide that’s the one you want it is fine to use that 

since I'm in kind of quarantine and have nothing to do in next 40 or 45 days I thought maybe I can spend some of my now less precious time here
 
but before even saying "I'm in" here I thought I should check first to see if there is something I like from last year music. mostly because last year was total disaster for my country from start to finish, (and counting) therefore you can imagine it was less passion to make better works. I found one but that's a bit old, it was released in November 2018. even though apparently the whole album released later in March 2019. so I don't know if that's eligible or not.

since I'm in kind of quarantine and have nothing to do in next 40 or 45 days I thought maybe I can spend some of my now less precious time here
 
but before even saying "I'm in" here I thought I should check first to see if there is something I like from last year music. mostly because last year was total disaster for my country from start to finish, (and counting) therefore you can imagine it was less passion to make better works. I found one but that's a bit old, it was released in November 2018. even though apparently the whole album released later in March 2019. so I don't know if that's eligible or not.

Thanks, I fixed them!