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It was a glorious championship. Our players are weaker in individual skill than most teams, and even weaker than all Russian teams of the past. But they have a strong character. I want to say thanks to these guys for giving us hope for a miracle. Now the tournament was really strongest teams. I hope for the final Belgium - Croatia. And let the strongest win.

I really don't think that's possible. just not Iranian thing to rely much on the Iranian diaspora , only very few athletes born/raised outside of Iran managed to have success. or inspire the rest for something new. I think the only way is someone makes Ice rinks here.
 
btw I just took a look at their website and they are a member of ISU and also IIHF alongside with FIRS. quite busy as a single federation

not a "thing" . just another sport people don't really care about and never makes the headlines.
 
but at least they have a separate federation called "Skating Federation" makes them a bigger "thing" than likes of Baseball at least !
 
there is no Ice Rink here. and nobody really cares about the "Winter Olympics" to think seriously about moving the whole sport to the ice !

I can analyze Iran's chance sport by sport or even athlete by athlete but what will be long and boring for other users.
 
but in summary we won 21 gold medals in 2014 and 20 in 2010. I expect more or less the same this time. probably a bit less because two of our top sports wrestling and Taekwondo are not in great situation. still some of these new sports. mostly Sport CLimbing and Kurash can make up for that. even in weightlifting we could win more golds because of suspensions of China and Kazakhstan.
 
here is my prediction about the number of gold medals for Iran
 
4-5 in Wrestling
2-3 in Weightlifting
2-3 in Karate
1-2 in Taekwondo
1-2 in Rowing
1 in Sport Climbing
1 in Wushu
1 in Athletics
1 in Kurash
1 in Volleyball
2-3 in Other sports, Shooting, Basketball, Canoeing, Archery, Fencing, Judo, Cycling, Jujitsu

well yeah. there are so many extra events . specially this year. Indonesia completely ruined the competition by adding Bridge, Pencak Silat, Paragliding, Dragon Boat and Jet Ski ! we also have Sambo, Kurash and Ju-jitsu. I would drop all of them plus Soft Tennis . the only good addition IMO is Sport Climbing. but even in Sport Climbing, we won't have a normal 6 events program. we will have combined event, speed and speed relay ! guess why ? because Indonesia is only good in speed events !
 
there are so many bad things in this current program. they dropped 3 heaviest weight in Boxing !! 75kg will be heaviest weight in Boxing !! they also wanted to drop super heavy weight in Weightlifting and Karate but at least this time the Asian Federation didn't let them . another funny thing is we will have team compound events but not individual events !!! I never heard such thing, having the team event but not the individual event !! we have the same situation in Paragliding Cross-country events !
 
but the biggest change is in Shooting program, we used to have team events for all individual events. that was a good idea to drop them all. China and Korea will lose lots of easy gold medals. still China, Korea and Japan will be in top 3. even though this time Japan probably stands a chance to surpass Korea. but it will be hard to predict the rest of the table because of so many new events we will have. I believe Kazakhstan is still the favorite for the 4th place . I won't surprise if Indonesia or most probably Thailand beat the rest for the 5th place. the new events are mostly good for these two countries plus Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

IWF announced new weight classes , non-Olympic weights in bold
 
Men: 55, 61, 67, 73, 81, 89, 96, 102, 109, +109
Women: 45, 49, 55, 59, 64, 71, 76, 81, 87, +87
 
so say goodbye to all current world records.

IWF announced new weight classes , non-Olympic weights in bold
 
Men: 55, 61, 67, 73, 81, 89, 96, 102, 109, +109
Women: 45, 49, 55, 59, 64, 71, 76, 81, 87, +87
 
so say goodbye to all current world records.

I just finished watching the match, I think Piroddu will remember this for a while, he gave up two takedowns both of them on his own attack. he could easily score on both but instead he gave up points ! I think the first action was definitely a 2 and not 4. cuz the action started on the ground. that wasn't a 4pts throw. and the last action was also just one point pushout . that was no way a takedown. they used to penalize these kind of actions as fleeing with 2pts + caution but if I'm not wrong the new rules say 1pts + caution ! (they change the rules day to day so even for me it's hard to be up to date about the rules ) but I didn't understand what happened after the challenge , they removed the caution and gave the challenge thing back to the Italian coach !! if their challenge was wrong (which it was) they should gave another point to the Uzbek guy.
 
and yeah success in cadet level doesn't necessarily mean success in Junior/Senior levels. specially in Greco because Greco is less technical. but this kid has the talent, i believe he has a Greco background, he needs more experience in freestyle competition to not lose the single leg twice. this semifinal was his match to lose.

And hello to weight categories with 5 people.

Iran won the team title in World Freestyle Cadet Championship in Croatia. finally a bit success for our freestyle program ! even though winning 3 out of 10 gold medals is not something to celebrate too much but some of these kids did great and that was the first team title for Iran after 22 years !
 
USA and Russia finished 2nd and 3rd in team ranking . I wonder if Iran already seleceted the wrestlers for the Youth Olympics (cuz Iran qualified 3 wrestlers and have to pick 2) but if not Zare at super heavyweight deserves one of the spots. other two guts won silver and bronze ,it will be hard to pick any of them.
 
btw Italy also won a bronze medal in men's freestyle by a home grown wrestler. which was interesting and the Italian kid almost made it to the final. he lost narrowly to the eventual gold medalist from Uzbekistan (if I'm not wrong)

well refs disqualified 9 Filipino players ! and with only 3 left we had 5 vs 3 basketball for few minutes before the remaining players fouling out intentionally ! what a shame

Qualified athletes after the 1st day of Karate Qualification tournament
 
Female Kumite -53kg: Aika Okazaki (THA) and Yasmin Nasr Elgewily (EGY)
Male Kumite -61kg: Mohammed Alassiri (KSA) and Abdallah Hammad (JOR)
Female Kumite -59kg: Anna Chernysheva (RUS) and Mobina Heydariozomcheloe (IRI)
Male Kumite -68kg: Robert Shyroian (UKR) and Kotaro Nakamura (JPN)
Female Kumite +59kg: Janessa Michelle Fonseca (PUR) and Annika Saelid (NOR)  
Kumite Male +68kg: Keisei Sakiyama (JPN) and Robert Avakimov (RUS)

Yep, hence my ninja-edit which was apparently not ninja enough  

As a drag queen said before, "sweetheart, let's get it together before you wanna read".

As a gay man, I've been attacked numerous times by bestmen, and Sindo does nothing about it. Nothing. He's always given me the same old excuse, that it would make no difference to ban users because they can create new accounts, and for all that's worth, bestmen is still around with his questionable comments. I have my fair share of complaints about OlympicFan, but I decided to ignore him and never reply to what he writes. A few days ago, he made fun of Polish and Senegalese people in a humiliating way; curiously, he wrote a few moments ago that nasty people must lead miserable lives, what says a lot about him.

Now, I replied to his nasty comment in a way that would subvert his own logic. I am always respectful and every time I criticize the results, I present my point of view. I never refer to specific users in any way that would make them feel bad or sorry about themselves. Besides, I've been around for a long time, even before the forum moved to this new format.

You read ONE comment I make and you call me pontificatori. Well, we have a word for you in Brazilian Portuguese: cuzão.

Have a nice day.

what about giving 30 spots to Europe + Brazil and Argentina and kill the rest of the world ? that would be fair I guess . why the rest of the world even exists ?!
 
btw I'm a big fan of Italy. I love Italy NT more or less the same as Iran but they deserve to "not qualify" when they picked someone like Ventura to lead the team.

what about giving 30 spots to Europe + Brazil and Argentina and kill the rest of the world ? that would be fair I guess . why the rest of the world even exists ?!
 
btw I'm a big fan of Italy. I love Italy NT more or less the same as Iran but they deserve to "not qualify" when they picked someone like Ventura to lead the team.

well done Korea. but yeah I know people still make fun of Asian teams even when Panama lose by 6 goals.
 
and who says Sweden can't beat Mexico ? they did actually but I'm glad Mexico got lucky at the end. they deserved a little luck after winning 2 matches.

Exactly... Asian teams might not be the strongest, but they sure have shown better attitude and skills than many other teams.
Anyone who believed Panama and Costa Rica to have a chance in this World Cup were just fooling themselves... they trailed Mexico in both points and style at CONCACAF's final group, so they could just wish for some luck to help them find a chance against stronger teams.

Taremi Taremi Taremi Taremi Taremi he broke 80 millions heart tonight by missing that almost one-on-one chance in extra time. as when he missed that header against Spain. either of them could send us to the next round . he was crying like a baby after the match, I just hope fans don't be harsh on him. to me he played great despite missing big big chances in these two matches.
 
and what about the ref ? looks like VAR is only there to help the big teams, there were 3 accidents in Portugal's box and if that Ronaldo's dive was a penalty, then they were penalty as well. but the funniest thing was the extra time. we had 3 VAR review in 2nd half, each one of them wasted at least 3 minutes plus that was a tense game full of fouls and protests. still he gave us only 6+1 minutes !
 
and Ronaldo was lucky to get away with a yellow after elbowing Pourali-G. even though I believe that was the correct decision but still any other player would get a red card for that.
 
ppffff. so this is it. our players gave their everything in such a tough group. even Morocco was the best African team. to me all of them did their job and they were great. I didn't expect more but damn we were close this time. really close

Taremi Taremi Taremi Taremi Taremi he broke 80 millions heart tonight by missing that almost one-on-one chance in extra time. as when he missed that header against Spain. either of them could send us to the next round . he was crying like a baby after the match, I just hope fans don't be harsh on him. to me he played great despite missing big big chances in these two matches.
 
and what about the ref ? looks like VAR is only there to help the big teams, there were 3 accidents in Portugal's box and if that Ronaldo's dive was a penalty, then they were penalty as well. but the funniest thing was the extra time. we had 3 VAR review in 2nd half, each one of them wasted at least 3 minutes plus that was a tense game full of fouls and protests. still he gave us only 6+1 minutes !
 
and Ronaldo was lucky to get away with a yellow after elbowing Pourali-G. even though I believe that was the correct decision but still any other player would get a red card for that.
 
ppffff. so this is it. our players gave their everything in such a tough group. even Morocco was the best African team. to me all of them did their job and they were great. I didn't expect more but damn we were close this time. really close

Taremi Taremi Taremi Taremi Taremi he broke 80 millions heart tonight by missing that almost one-on-one chance in extra time. as when he missed that header against Spain. either of them could send us to the next round . he was crying like a baby after the match, I just hope fans don't be harsh on him. to me he played great despite missing big big chances in these two matches.
 
and what about the ref ? looks like VAR is only there to help the big teams, there were 3 accidents in Portugal's box and if that Ronaldo's dive was a penalty, then they were penalty as well. but the funniest thing was the extra time. we had 3 VAR review in 2nd half, each one of them wasted at least 3 minutes plus that was a tense game full of fouls and protests. still he gave us only 6+1 minutes !
 
and Ronaldo was lucky to get away with a yellow after elbowing Pourali-G. even though I believe that was the correct decision but still any other player would get a red card for that.
 
ppffff. so this is it. our players gave their everything in such a tough group. even Morocco was the best African team. to me all of them did their job and they were great. I didn't expect more but damn we were close this time. really close

Taremi Taremi Taremi Taremi Taremi he broke 80 millions heart tonight by missing that almost one-on-one chance in extra time. as when he missed that header against Spain. either of them could send us to the next round . he was crying like a baby after the match, I just hope fans don't be harsh on him. to me he played great despite missing big big chances in these two matches.
 
and what about the ref ? looks like VAR is only there to help the big teams, there were 3 accidents in Portugal's box and if that Ronaldo's dive was a penalty, then they were penalty as well. but the funniest thing was the extra time. we had 3 VAR review in 2nd half, each one of them wasted at least 3 minutes plus that was a tense game full of fouls and protests. still he gave us only 6+1 minutes !
 
and Ronaldo was lucky to get away with a yellow after elbowing Pourali-G. even though I believe that was the correct decision but still any other player would get a red card for that.
 
ppffff. so this is it. our players gave their everything in such a tough group. even Morocco was the best African team. to me all of them did their job and they were great. I didn't expect more but damn we were close this time. really close

and probably this Colombian referee will be a bit richer tomorrow. or maybe a lot richer.
 
and this is what we always see with Saudi Arabia when they play in Asia. but didn't expect that in a world cup match !

Fun Fact: German online newspaper welt.de did a research on this and asked FIFA. Apparently 2nd place would be detrmined via fair-play-Points if Germany and Sweden win their matches 2-1. Here you can see all possibilities for german team: