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it was a big day for Crescenzo of Italy, he made it to the final and his direct rival lost in the first round. he will take Samdan's position in the next ranking and will have a good lead over him with only 2+1 events left.
 
also even a bigger day for Figueira of Brazil, he is in the final and El-Sawy (EGY) lost in the first round to our Mehdizadeh, and since it was Figueria's lucky day, Mehidzadeh got injured in the next match and therefore eliminated the Egyptian and also made it much easier for Figueia to go into the final. (I just hope that's nothing serious, we need him for the Paris qualifier)
 
also at 75kg, Stanislav Horuna had a good chance to catch up with the American Thomas but lost in the repechage, still he will receive something like 300pts from here and will be very close to the 4th place in the next ranking. interestingly we will see another Busa/Aghayev in the final, like old days I think Busa already guaranteed his Olympic quota with this.
 
no big change in women's kata, women's 50kg and 55kg. even though it could be a disastrous day for our Bahmanyar as she lost early to Spain but luckily for her the Spanish girl made it to the final and Bahmanyar will fight for bronze on Sunday. if she wins she will have something like 1000pts advantage over the rest. which is good (but not safe) with only 2 events left.

it was a big day for Crescenzo of Italy, he made it to the final and his direct rival lost in the first round. he will take Samdan's position in the next ranking and will have a good lead over him with only 2+1 events left.
 
also even a bigger day for Figueira of Brazil, he is in the final and El-Sawy (EGY) lost in the first round to our Mehdizadeh, and since it was Figueria's lucky day, Mehidzadeh got injured in the next match and therefore eliminated the Egyptian and also made it much easier for Figueia to go into the final. (I just hope that's nothing serious, we need him for the Paris qualifier)
 
also at 75kg, Stanislav Horuna had a good chance to catch up with the American Thomas but lost in the repechage, still he will receive something like 300pts from here and will be very close to the 4th place in the next ranking. interestingly we will see another Busa/Aghayev in the final, like old days I think Busa already guaranteed his Olympic quota with this.
 
no big change in women's kata, women's 50kg and 55kg. even though it could be a disastrous day for our Bahmanyar as she lost early to Spain but luckily for her the Spanish girl made it to the final and Bahmanyar will fight for bronze on Sunday. if she wins she will have something like 1000pts advantage over the rest. which is good (but not safe) with only 2 events left.

it seems Korea, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan refused to host the Asian qualifier ! now UWW is offering Kyrgyzstan to take it.

Both Chinese men and women national team are currently training in Montenegro, Men's team kept training in Spain for a long time before Montenegro and Women's team went there from China at the end of January. Even the event is not suspended, the quarantine time should be still enough. I hope China men's team could win the asian quota because they are the last and only hope of the collective ball games.

Yeah, China is pretty much sending all of their athletes overseas and having them quarantined so they can still participate in qualifiers and the Olympics. By the end of the month/March all their athletes should be fine to compete anywhere.

well it's easy to predict that Asia #1 will be and Asia #2 will be . but if they want to participate here that's another question.
 
but according to Iranian Swimming Federation, they received a letter from organizers and the Asian Qualifiers are postponed to 24 February, in the same venue, Kazakhstan. but this is just a proposal and not confirmed yet. it seems they want to kill time as much as possible because both Chinese teams are in Europe (in Spain if I'm not wrong) and in a kind of quarantine

there will be two Italian wrestlers in SF later today, no surprise about Kakhelasvhili but I think nobody expected this guy Russo to beat Russia and Armenia !
 
60kg: Magisalu vs Gharibyan /// Kamal vs Shavadze
67kg: Thoresen vs Liavonchyk /// Abdullaev vs Aslanyan
72kg: Stabler vs Kurak /// Can vs Lomadze
82kg: Russo vs Huseynov /// Wagner vs Aleksandrov
97kg: Aleksanyan vs Kuosmanen /// Golovin vs Kakhelashvili

they don't know it...they have reserved 2 places for Asian teams...if they won't participate, their slots will simply remain empty (like the other teams that withdrew from Africa and Pan-Am)...

WKF is really quick in updating rankings ! we have some major changes after the African champs. the Egyptian guy at 67kg won silver medal but he lost 300pts because he didn't defend his gold medal from 2019, therefore he is tied with Figueira on pts and the Brazilian will be higher because of his better result at the World Champs. of course this is just for now. they still have 3 more events left.
 
this is the list of virtually qualified athletes by now. El-Sawy still receives the African quota but that causes some other changes in the list. but keep in mind even if the deadline was today those additional athletes (continental quotas) are not guaranteed a spot because it's possible to see some changes in the list after the last chance qualifier mostly because of max 2 quotas per event rule. for example if El-Sawy qualifies directly from the Paris tournament, the African quota goes to another Egyptian athlete at 75kg and that means the Kazakh guy can't grab the Asian quota at 75kg.
 
 
Men
Kata:     
67kg:    
75kg:     
+75kg:   
 
Women
Kata:     
55kg:    
61kg:    
+61kg:  

in a game nobody cares about Nigeria outscored USA 19-6 in second quarter !! and now leading the game 40-26 at half time !

There were some important results for the Olympic ranking
 
Ali ElSawy lost the final which means he can't defend his 930pts from the previous continental champs. by losing something like 200pts the gap is very small between him and Vinicius Figeuira of Brazil.
 
Feryal Abdelaziz (+68kg) and Ibtisam Sadini (61kg) also improved their result from the previous edition and therefore increased their chance to grab that Afrian female quota. most probably it will be between one of those girls and Radwa Sayed who failed to improve from her silver medal in 2019 and won the silver medal once again.
 
I hope WKF acts fast again and updates the ranking today ! only 3 K1 events + European Champs left before the deadline.

even though I agree with all you said
 
but BRA-AUS will be the first game of the day, I know Puerto Rico can't beat France but Australia can't take that risk. they will play 100% tomorrow.
 
Edit: just saw your post moments before mine, btw South Korea wasn't lucky like this though, they have to beat China , if not they have to pray for Spain to play "fair" against GB.

because someone at the FIBA headquarters got heavily drunk before developing the Olympic qualifications' format...
 
you know...in the French speaking part of Switzerland (where the FIBA HQ are located), absinthe is legal...you can easily find places where they sell it...it's not even expensive (for Swiss standards)...

it was 14/15 for me and I missed only the player I hate the most
 
 

yeah I was expecting a very one sided match but it wasn't really easy for Canada
 
Canada just scored. and from what I saw this Costa Rica is not going to score and tie the match. they fought well though against a much better team.

Wasn't Canada suppose to dominate and beat Costa Rica relatively easily ?
after 60 minutes it's still 0-0 and Canada isn't creating much chances. right now it looks like it will be 120 minutes of football

Kaz-Brazil-istan also qualified after beating Czech Republic.
 
playoffs in Europe are also set
vs
vs
 
3rd place match in Africa is also a World Cup playoff
vs
 
Finland and Angola have chance for their World Cup debut
 
in South America, it will be most probably and the winner of /. if Venezuela qualifies it will be their first time.
 
while in Asia, they postponed the Asian Championship to an unknown date and it seems nobody knows when !   even though 5 quotas is too much for AFC and Iran is 100% safe to qualify

this will be the 2nd world Cup in history without Italy
 
so far and are in
 
and are qualified for the playoffs

oh yes. that was too good to be true
 
participating at the Asian Championship is mandatory to be eligible to participate at the Olympic qualifiers, which means if China misses that event, technically they won't be allowed to wrestle at the Asian Olympic qualifier, but I think UWW will consider the situation even if Chinese wrestlers don't make it to India

Thank you for your great reponse ! 

this will be the 2nd world Cup in history without Italy
 
so far and are in
 
and are qualified for the playoffs

yes that's possible
 
but there are already two profiles for him , one for Iran, and one for UAE (empty profile though) with some differences in his surname
https://worldtkd.simplycompete.com/playerProfile/11e6eef4-55bc-66dc-92b4-12f817a4f090
https://worldtkd.simplycompete.com/playerProfile/11ea3bad-b911-96f1-8f4c-02dd56220184

well at least someone was interested at 81kg competition
 
but weightlifting qualification process is way too complicated, it's impossible to have an idea about who is going to qualify and who is not. some athletes are appearing in ranking in more than just 1 weight class, comparing points is really hard because some athletes participated in less events and still can move up massively but the most important thing is those limitations, for example Belarus has just 1 quota, and the same goes for so many countries (including Iran) and we don't know what will be their picks until the end of the qualification process.
 
I really think this qualification format was a total disaster, yes the whole idea was good but it needs lots of modifications for the next Olympics

Olympic medalist and multiple World Champion in wrestling Bilyal Makhov tested positive for doping
https://tass.com/sport/1115731

I just finished watching 96kg competition where Rostami bombed out AGAIN !
 
but I assume you are interested in lower weights because there were some Indonesian entries, it's a bit hard to find that in the archives since it was yesterday, but let me see what I can find
 
but just to give you an answer (which I'm sure you are not interested) this is 81kg competition
https://www.telewebion.com/episode/2204534