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Nah, they are too good to be kicked out. I presume anyone who is currently in the teams will remain, but they won't be naturalizing new wrestlers going forward. For now at least

Wrestling is getting a complete overhaul here and the scandals have began as usual. I will lay a not so quick summary of the situation. Last month there were Elections for the Wrestling Federation, where the legend Stanka Zlateva (2 OG medals, 5 World & 6 European titles) was elected President. Earlier in the year she very vividly blamed in the media the old guard for bringing in an armada of foreigners and allegedly destroying the Bulgarian kids in the sport. She also said, that they wanted to take away her junior wrestlers from her club and move them to national selections with different coaches, while she wanted to continue working with them. After getting lots of attention Zlateva decided to run in the elections. She again was mentioning, that it was unacceptable to have so many foreigners and wrestling needs an overhaul. Going into the elections she had support, but wasn't a favourite. Don't know what exactly happened on the day, but everyone else (including the old regime) withdrew and Zlateva was the only one left. A few days after she was elected there were news, that the majority of the Federation's employees were quitting and didn't want to work for her (probably encouraged from the old regime). At one point there were concerns that the teams could miss the European Championships, because of these organizational issues, but luckily they sorted it out. Now that the Euro is over, today they announced that all National team coaches were fired. The new NT coaches are: Men's Greco - Stoyan Dobrev - UWW Coach of the year in 2023, he led Serbia to 4 Golds at the 2022 Worlds. After the revolution he did for Serbian Greco he is coming home to take over GR. Men's Freestyle - Radoslav Velikov (Olympic Medalist, World Champion). As a coach, alongside Simeon Shterev, he had coached the Women's National teams of China, Azerbaijan and Russia until Covid. Then they returned to coach clubs here. Women's Freestyle - Simeon Shterev - A veteran of coaching Women's wrestling for 20-30 years. He discovered Stanka Zlateva and was the biggest figure here during her reign. After her career there were some issues and he was practically exiled, hence why he went to lead the NTs of China, Azerbaijan and Russia like i mentioned above. We will see what happens next and how they will try to "revive" Bulgarian wrestling, but it's not been a good start. Yesterday there was another semi scandal. The Greco team returned from the Euro with a Gold and Silver and there were many people to greet them, but no one from the new Federation....

Мнението ми е, че в България всеки се смята за вечният Президент, Премиер, Кмет, Директор и прочие. Седнеш ли на стола и вече си мислиш, че ти се полага пожизнено. Стефка много ми падна в очите. Уж големите изказвания на конгреса, че приема резултата, така гласували, пожелава успех и т.н, а на следващият ден почна циркът. Може и тя да не го иска това, ама е цялото лице на този комитет дето оспорват и едва ли някой ще тръгне да го прави ей така от скука. Просто тези хора 20 години са в БОК да цоцат и са си втълпили, че им се полага всичко. Ти можеш ли да си представиш 20 години да си там, та това е една трета от живота на хората. Съмнявам се да са обновявали персонала всеки 2-3 години. Белчо Горанов обиколи светът десет пъти, а до ден днешен знае ли някой какво точно върши? Важното е да придружава състезателите всеки месец не знам къде си на форуми. А колко ли такива като него има още. Той Томислав Русев по Дарик много добре го беше казал на скоро в Спортното шоу - "Хората асоциират БОК с 2 неща, че закупуват самолетните билети за спортистите и че ушиват униформите за Олимпиадата на всеки 2 години. Какво друго правят не се знае" Иначе и Лечева не ми е от най-симпатичните. И тя 20 години се бута ли бута в политиката къде ли не. То за депутат, то за кметове, то за БОК, то за Министър, къде ли не се кандидатира. Където има пост тя е там. Но гласуваха за нея, така че да поеме управлението и да се види какво ще излезе.

Weightlifting Euro starts today and will be the last with the bloated 10 categories. Karlos Nasar will be here, even though he had some shoulder issues and they were thinking of doing an operation, but looks like things were fixed without one. He is going up to the 96 kg weight, so people at 89 will be very happy to see that Especially one host competitor named Marin Robu. Don't know in what form Nasar will be and if he has been thinking about attacking the 96 world record or just play it safe with getting the gold.

Класиците много добре, чак да се учудиш. Жалко, че Новиков не успя вчера, дано днеска поне единият грабне титлата. Ако и някога Едмонд се оправи (което май не върви на добре, след като вече отсъства години) може да имаме наистина един супер качествен отбор в класическата, както едно време. Но разбира се везната се обръща и за сметка на това женската ни борба взе да пропада. Десетилетие там винаги отивахме с надежда за 4-5 медала едва ли не и се борихме с Русия, Украйна и Турция за отборната титла, а сега тези новите момичета и един мач не вземат..

Hmm, this seems rather ..... unusual swim from a European in mid-April.

Prevolaraki finally getting a Gold Medal at a big championships is probably going to be the most wholesome moment at this Euro.

Ah yes, today was the dreaded "IOC news day"... As usual there is barely anything to smile at. Men's boxing losing more weights is absurd, especially since their "gender parity agenda" is out of the window after switching the football. Swimming getting the 50s in an already bloated program was sadly inevitable. With US and AUS the next hosts, I'm surprised swimming doesn't have 100 events to begin with. All the new mixed stuff is Frankenstein as usual, especially the tennis and gymnastics. No one asks for these, even within these sports, but the IOC only care about "Let's have all the stars interact more with each other for maximum TV talk and social engagement, who cares about sporting traditions". Climbing splitting the events is a positive, though for me personally I didn't see any problem with the combined. It actually showed the true overall best climbers, while now the specialists in one event will get more chances to sneak a medal. Host sports with 6 teams are a joke and shouldn't award medals! Have them as exhibition events with a trophy etc. for the winners, but shouldn't be included in the medal table. But what do I know. And still no news on the most important thing for me - extending the Games to 3 full weeks. Things will be crammed, crammed again..

So it beats the purpose of having this rule in the first place...

When were the new UWW rules for foreigners going to start.

Don't know about the world feed, but commentary here is from our usual guy, that has been doing athletics commentary for 20+ years, so this was the best part of the event so far

It's on regular Eurosport here and I'm catching a replay now after I woke up. The whole thing still feels weird and not having full stands is not helping the excitement And the graphics they are using are atrocious.

Maybe you need to clear the cookies and cache on your desktop browser. I think i also had some trouble accessing the site a few years back on my laptop, but when i cleared the data everything was fine.

Bulgarian swimming has been on the rise for the past couple of years and we certainly have our best period, since the 80s. But as with most things in , a lot of good can't be without some bad to compliment it... First Antani Ivanov, who is having a 3 year ban for missing tests (and who is a real moron and i am happy he hits the road) got busted and started feuding with practically everyone and is never at fault for anything. Last year he said he was retiring and getting away from swimming, but recently made the news sites (for more attention) saying, when his ban ends in spring 2026 he is going to start competing for a new country. But like i said, good riddance. But more importantly, today one of our brightest swimmers Josif Miladinov shockingly announced his retirement at 21.. This comes out of the blue without much explanation. He made the 100 m butterfly finals at the Tokyo Olympics and the Doha WCH last year, had won a Silver & Bronze at the Euro. There seems to be no conflict between him and the Federation and he just mentioned in his post, that he wants a new path in his life... Don't know if he is burned out from all the trainings and regimes from a young child or there are some other reasons that are being kept secret, but it's a big blow for this sport here.

Can someone explain the rules for these series?

Mid May, end May, June, we will take whenever

Why cancel them, when they could schedule for Monday. Sun Valley doesn't live up to it's name.

Oh man, I'm really rooting for Preuss, but the nerves seem to be getting to her.

Amazing achievement for us to cap off a remarkable winter sport season After 3 Junior World titles and a breakthrough World Cup season, everyone here knew Tervel Zamfirov is a big name for the future, but to actually end the season with a senior World Championship Gold medal is something else. I am not sure, but this could actually be our first senior WCH title in any snow sport!

Well, that is a good start. But Bach also had a good start and then it became a train wreck.

So we get another decade of Bach ruling What is her position on trans athletes? Is she for or against them? Also please no new 50 m events in swimming.. There are already enough swimming events as it is, these will bring nothing new. Did anyone mention at all the idea of making the SOG 3 full weeks with the 3 pillars (athletics, swimming and gymnastics) headlining each week? That's something i'm totally onboard.

So, in the end who are we rooting for?

Absolutely no surprise. I have been saying for 2 years now, that boxing will be in LA 28, regardless how they'd formulate, organize it etc.

Lots of chaos in Australia today to start the season. As usual, i lost the count of safety cars, that were in the race. The unpredictability and position changes were more frequent, though that was always going to happen in a wet race, but i'll take it as a promising start for 2025. Antonelli made a memorable debut after all the hype around him. This kid could actually be the real deal.

IBA has become the Serbia - Russia - Uzbekistan - Kazakhstan organization at this point. We have been setting up joining World Boxing for a while, so they made sure to chastise us here for that. Thankfully this will be our last competition for them.