MHSN

of course I'm not complaining, more competition, more fun for me my point is, this is not as prestigious as World Juniors (U20) because at the juniors we have all best U20 wrestlers in the world. not the same here.
 
and the level is relative, very good in  some weights and very poor in some other weights.
 
btw your 61kg Ravinder is the biggest surprise of the competition, he dominated the Russian wrestler 11-0 and then pinned the European Senior Champion Harutynyan in the semis considering he didn't medal in World Juniors this year, that's quite an improvement for such a short time, I have to say 61kg was one of those weights in a very high level.
 
the same goes to our 74kg, he didn't medal at World Juniors but he was impressive here, beating the Russian wrestler of Hungary (who was very good in World Seniors this year)

Protests are about the whole system which is terrible
 
not sure if you guys are familiar with politics in Lebanon. but there are 3 big groups in Lebanon. Sunnis, Shias, and Christians, they had bloody civil war for years and to make "peace" they created a unique political system. they have election , which is probably fair and democratic but per rules. the prime minister should be a sunni, the president should be a christian and the parliament speaker should be a Shia. and it doesn't matter who has the majority in the parliament , that rule never changes. and if I'm not wrong (I'm not sure about this part) people only can vote for their own groups. I mean christian people only vote for christian members of the parliament and etc.
 
it seems people don't like it anymore. this is a terrible system to be honest but there is no alternative right now, any other system may lead them again to another civil war.
 
PS: what I wrote here is probably not 100% accurate about the political system in Lebanon ( there should be more details and ifs) but you can consider it almost correct.

Asian Qualifiers Draw
 
Group A)
Group B)
 
It was supposed to be 8, but India withdrew, even tough the draw doesn't really matter, it will be Thailand-South Korea in the final after all

I'm no expert in Hockey , but it looked like a dive to me

the match is not done yet. they are reviewing for a last second penalty for Canada

Congrats to Bahrain, they deserved it more than anybody else here. I don't like some of Bahrain teams (in other sports, specially football) but their handball team is great for such a small nation. Bahrain's population is smaller than the city I live !
 
Korea had the lead for something like 40-45 minutes but Bahrain finally took the lead and never gave it back to Korea. I hope they play good at the Olympics and don't make a joke of Asian Handball
 
and South Korea has no chance in the qualification tournament, if it was Qatar (or even Bahrain) yes maybe but Korea no way.

Congrats to Bahrain, they deserved it more than anybody else here. I don't like some of Bahrain teams (in other sports, specially football) but their handball team is great for such a small nation. Bahrain's population is smaller than the city I live !
 
Korea had the lead for something like 40-45 minutes but Bahrain finally took the lead and never gave it back to Korea. I hope they play good at the Olympics and don't make a joke of Asian Handball
 
and South Korea has no chance in the qualification tournament, if it was Qatar (or even Bahrain) yes maybe but Korea no way.

surprise surprise, Bahrain just beat Qatar to face South Korea in the final.
 
Bahrain played great from start to finish and if it wasn't for some miraculous saves from Qatar GK Saric the gap could be 7-8 goals. well I guess it was just our bad luck Bahrain had a bad day against South Korea to eliminate Iran (folks here think Bahrain lost intentionally which is nonsense I watched the match)
 
and that big mistake from the refs in IRN-KUW match also changed lots of things here, they did a favor to all those teams in intercontinental Qualification group by letting Qatar and Bahrain play in the semifinal and not the final. I'm sure in Asia only Bahrain can beat Qatar, they are just a bad matchup for Qatar. Bahrain-Korea will be close but I think Bahrain will win this time.
 
and special thanks to whoever made the seeding for the draw, Qatar and KSA only had to beat Hong Kong and India in the group round !!!

Well, Sohi recently took over the ride on former British team horse Don Carissimo. She scored 61.6% on debut in early October, and then just a little higher last weekend. Of course, nobody expects her to get 72-74% scores that Gareth Hughes was getting on that horse. And she doesn't need that for Tokyo anyway - 66% or more would be enough to challenge Morocco and Palestine for the individual quota places.
 
However, Tokyo will probably come too soon for them. Qualification period ends on December 31st, and that leaves them very little time for improvement. I watched them compete on their debut. Potential is there, but there were oh-so-many cheap rhythm mistakes, which can be only rectified with more training = more time. Participation at 2022 WEG is more realistic.

I don't care if it worked, 4 out of 8 teams are going to qualify for the Olympics (and the other teams coming from the OQTs also depending on ranking) through a ranking which is flawed, open to manipulation (like Mongolian schoolgirls playing each other) or plain cheating (who knows how many fake or irregular tournaments are included) and also not public anymore while they try to check and fix it. This is not funny anymore, it's a disgusting system, IOC should step in and force FIBA to organize a qualification tournament, or  use next year's World Cup as a qualification tournament.

I never saw Dominican Republic achieving anything in Beach Volley. but Oman is a top 8 team in Asia regularly. so I assume they are simply better than Dom Rep in this sport.

On November 1, FIBA will organize a livestreamed show in Utsunomiya, Japan to reveal the teams who have qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, directly or indirectly via the FIBA 3x3 Olympic Qualifying Tournaments.
To avoid spoilers and make it a special event, the FIBA 3x3 Federation Ranking is invisible up to that date.
 
The different national federations still have access to their individual data on the backend and worldwide activity and individual ranking points are still visible on https://play.fiba3x3.basketball!

I am sure that I read on World Taekwondo website that the sixth ranked athlete in the Olympic ranking would qualify. Can't find the page now.
 
Edit: it's here @MHSN
http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/world-taekwondo-grand-slam-series-offers-road-to-olympic-games-2/
 
 

https://clasificacionolimpica2020.blogspot.com/search/label/Taekwondo?m=0
 
but they few mistakes as well

I just checked, your calculations for Hosseini are wrong, he has now 292 points 
your mistake is probably related to Asian Games, they are counted as 2019 result 

I can say I understand the basic Arabic (probably more than just the basics) but that doesn't apply to everybody here. yes everybody has to learn some Arabic (in a very low level) at school but then almost everybody forgets it right after the school. (I was a good student and still remember everything and probably even learned more)
 
if you turn your TV in Iran and switch channels, 100% sure you will find at least 1-2 channels showing something in Arabic but it doesn't mean people understand it most of religious people just listen to Quran without understanding a word.
 
but beside that, we have Arabic speaking Iranians, I think for 2 million people Arabic is their first language and Persian comes second.

I can say there are only 2 countries in the world we understand their languages , Afghanistan and Tajikistan. but well that's still Persian of course with some differences .
 
but we also have many different languages in Iran, but I think in past 80 years (or something like that) the government forced everybody to learn Persian at school as the official language. but I think for half of the population (or maybe 30%) Persian is not their mother language. if someone travels to the west of the country, no chance you hear people speak Persian in the streets, it's either Kurdish, Azeri or Arabic. (depends on the region) we also have Turkmeni , Balochi and few more derivation of Persian in North and East of the country but it's only Persian in middle of the country (Tehran and nearby provinces)

From what I saw, I didn't see a single "hairy" guy and there is no "rolling" in beach wrestling, you lose a point even if your knee touches the sand, there is no par-terre. it's a combination of Sumo, normal wrestling and Judo (minus ne-waza)
 
btw when IOC once dropped wrestling from the Olympics program. FILA/UWW genius idea to make wrestling "attractive" was to remove singlets in Greco-Roman and make everybody wrestle half naked.

This Shia-Sunni thing is mostly made by western media. I never fell such enmity at all just because of that. and beside that the majority of people in Iraq are Shia.
 
the problem is that city of Basra was invaded by Iran not long ago. it's like Iraq playing in Khorramshahr, or Ghasre-Shirin or Sardasht. (where Saddam's army invaded and killed hundreds of people) of course people won't forget these things easily.
 
of course after something like 30 years, there is no hatred in general , no at all . something like a million Iranians are already in Iraq for a religious thing these days but people who live in those cities directly involved in the war and lost their family still very well remember that. specially nowadays Iran isn't that popular in Iraq because of meddling in their local businesses.

You almost jinxed them
 
what a crazy match, the best beach soccer match I ever seen.

Per my understanding the following qualified
 
LM2x:
LW2x:
M1x:
W1x:

no I was looking at the semifinals (instead of the finals) for women's result. just fixed it but you were fast to catch my mistake
 
you said "don't trust those Facebook pages" I also have to add "don't trust your national federations" I heard lots of nonsense and false news before

Per my understanding the following qualified
 
LM2x:
LW2x:
M1x:
W1x:

technically it wasn't the first time. it happened before with limited number and under special situations.
 
but yes that, (first time in football though)

For Mongolian events there are links to their Facebook live stream, you can watch their top 100 or 200 players being held captive to play each other every day 
 
https://play.fiba3x3.com/events/b1e1f878-3185-4c5d-8ee1-c2cb5a0b72fc