thepharoah

i'm only 24 and i still remember very well Euro 2000 and WC 2002 , Especially Euro 2000 i wasn't even 7 , but i can remember many of things happened there and i think it's one of the best tournaments i've ever witnessed

Cuper has led Valencia to 2 consecutive UCL finals in 2000 and 2001 and led Inter Milan also at some period when they had Ronaldo in the team, in addition some other Spanish clubs , he wasn't active like Renard in recent years , but he's much known i think in Europe than Renard who's much known in Africa for sure for his achievements with Zambia and Cote d'Ivoire

But I'm not satisfied with our coach , he's very old schooled one , even Cuper is much known globally than Renard , but he's always defending and always has the same tactics despite who's the opponent

I wished he was our coach

1 - 1 after day 1 of FED Cup final in Minsk

0 - 0 1st leg of intercontenintal play-offs , 2nd leg will be held in Lima Nov.15th

Australia missed a lot of chances to score , they have been by far the better side in this game

by fault i entered submit without completing my reply ofc Italy still has all chances to qualify , but plz start with el shaarawy and Insigne

Italy failed to qualify to WC only once in 1958 , which's their only 2nd absence in history of WC , with 1930 when there wasn't qualifications for the tournament

Australia needed 30 hours of travel to reach Honduras for this play-off game ! , they could have saved their energy if they defeated Thailand 3-1 back in Sydney !

qualifies to WC 2018 for 2nd time in their history and 1st since 2002

Senegal is leading 2-0 over SA at the 1st half , a result makes Senegal qualifies officially for the 1st time since 2002

no Egyptian Rider thanks

Do u have start list of global champions tour final in doha?

Very interesting

Olympic marathon champion banned 4 years Olympic marathon champion Jemima Sumgong was banned four years for EPO after a doping tribunal rejected her explanation that the blood-boosting hormone was in her system because she was treated at a hospital in Kenya days before her failed test. The tribunal found no legitimate record of the hospital visit and treatment for an ectopic pregnancy claimed by Sumgong, it said Tuesday in a decision released by the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya. The panel ruling on her case said the 32-year-old Sumgong’s hospital story was “inconsistent at best.” “We might go so far as to state that the athlete’s attempt to explain how the substance entered her body bordered on an attempt to deceive the panel,” the ruling said. Sumgong became the first Kenyan woman to win an Olympic marathon in Rio. She failed an out-of-competition test on Feb. 28 and was banned for four years from April 3, the date her provisional suspension was announced. It makes her ineligible for the 2019 World Championships and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Sumgong is the highest-profile athlete on a long list of Kenyans to be banned for doping in recent years. Her case follows that of Rita Jeptoo, who was the top women’s marathon runner in the world when she also tested positive for EPO in an out-of-competition test in Kenya in 2014. Jeptoo also received a four-year ban. Sumgong waived her right to have her backup “B″ sample tested and said she had taken EPO unintentionally after visiting Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi six days before her doping test to be treated for an ectopic pregnancy. She claimed she was suffering from severe abdominal pain and was given a blood transfusion and unidentified medication by an unnamed doctor. The Olympic champion couldn’t provide the name of the doctor who supposedly treated her or reliable documents showing she was admitted to the hospital, the tribunal said. It said documents she provided were denounced as fake by the hospital. The hospital visit was not disclosed by Sumgong at the time of the doping test. She said that was because of the “taboo” surrounding ectopic pregnancies and she wanted to hide it from her husband, who is also her manager. The only record the hospital had of a visit by Sumgong was in April, when she inquired about treatment for ectopic pregnancies. The Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya said it believed Sumgong was taking EPO ahead of the defense of her London Marathon title in April. Sumgong has also won the Rotterdam and Las Vegas Marathons and finished runner-up in the Boston, Chicago and New York races. Source : http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2017/11/07/jemima-sumgong-doping-ban-marathon/

Based on Entry list published on IWF site , these're Top 3 of each weight category in next WCH :- Women's -48 Kg : Carolina Hernandez - 191 Kg Yulduz Dzhumbayeva - 190 Kg Sunya Suckshareon - 190 Kg Saikhom Chanu - 190 Kg Anais Michel - 190 Kg Women's -53 Kg : Shu-Ching Hsu - 220 Kg Sopita Tanasan - 210 Kg Suppatra Kaewkhong - 210 Kg Women's -58 Kg : Hsing-Chun Kuo - 240 Kg Rebeka koha - 225 Kg Sukanya Srisurat - 220 Kg Pimsiri Sirikaew - 220 Kg Karina Karool Gonzalez - 220 Kg Camila Maria Viafara - 220 Kg Women's -63 Kg : Isabel Mercedes - 235 Kg Marcela Lina Ordonez - 235 Kg Hsin-Nien Chiang - 230 Kg Loredana-Elena Toma - 230 Kg Women's -69 Kg : Leidy Solis - 250 Kg Sara Samir - 245 Kg Wan-Ting Hung - 245 Kg Women's -75 Kg : Lidia Valentin Perez - 255 Kg Ankgtesteg Munkhjatstan - 245 Kg Aremi Zavala - 241 Kg Women's -90 Kg : Dominga Crismery - 255 Kg Ying-Yuan Lo - 250 Kg Anastasia Hotfrid - 250 Kg Women's +90 Kg : Shaimaa Khalaf - 285 Kg Chitchanok Pulsabsakul - 280 Kg Laurel Hubbard - 280 Kg

Based on Entry list published on IWF site , these're Top 3 of each weight category in next WCH :- Men's -56 Kg : Tchach Kim Twan - 280 Kg Tran Le Quoc Toan - 280 Kg Berna Gonzales Carlos - 275 Kg De Las Salas De La Rosa - 275 Kg Men's -62 Kg : Mosquera Valencia Francisco - 307 Kg Trinh Van Vinh - 300 Kg Vazquez Mendes Antonia - 300 Kg Itokazu Yoichi - 300 Kg Ahmed Saad - 300 Kg Men's -69 Kg : Won Jeongsik - 340 Kg Karem Ben Yehia - 330 Kg Mohd Hafifi Bin Mansour - 330 Kg Kingue Matam - 330 Kg Men's -77 Kg : Mohamed Ihab Youssef - 365 Kg Daniel Godelli - 360 Kg Caicedo Piedrahita Andres - 355 Kg Rodaligas Carvajal Brayan - 355 Kg Qerimag Erkand - 355 Kg Men's -85 Kg : Kinoush Rostami - 390 Kg Swarycz Krzysztof - 365 Kg Yu Dongju - 365 Kg Moreno Torres - 365 Kg Men's -94 Kg : Sohrab Moradi - 413 Kg Dizbalis Aurimas - 390 Kg Mousavijirahi Sayedayoob - 390 Kg Ragab Abdelhay - 390 Kg Men's -105 Kg : Plesnieks Arturs - 405 Kg Soleymani Alireza - 401 Kg Hashemi Ali - 401 Kg Men's +105 Kg : Lasha Talakhadze - 450 Kg Fernando Reis - 445 Kg Behdad Salimi - 440 Kg Saied Alihosseini - 440 Kg Mart Seim - 440 Kg

RIP he was definitely one of the best pitchers of MLB

http://www.iwf.net/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2017/11/2017_Anaheim_Entries_by_cat.pdf Entry list of wch 2017

I'm not saying what happens in some countries are true , if u can't respect others , then don't organize an international event, but why always we see athletes from Muslim countries refused from entering US soil , this also happens with Egyptian athletes a lot , although Egypt doesn't have any problems with USA politically , rostami will not only be the one , Godelli and some Iraqi weightlifters and I'm sure soon I'll know that an Egyptian athlete or 2 were banned , I'm following individual sports closely from 2006 and I can tell u that this's not the first and won't be the last , maybe this time the athlete banned got some interest as long as he's the current Olympic champion and world record holder

At least they don't prevent any Israeli athlete from participating , and if USA does this on purpose , how come we consider it a democratic country , and how come we can believe them when they talk about freedom for Muslim countries , so they are only liers if we consider your hypothesis

I'm the best, I don't understand it" says Iran's Weightlifter of the Year Rostami after US visa problems Kianoush Rostami, the popular Olympic champion from Iran who was overwhelmingly voted male Weightlifter of the Year last February, has been refused a visa by the United States. His hopes of competing in the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships, which run from November 28 until December 5 in Anaheim, California, rest on a second application to the US Department of State, which he made last week. "“I don’t understand it," Rostami told insidethegames from his home in Iran. "They tell me I must wait but they don't explain anything." It is a race against time for Rostami, the Olympic champion and world record holder at 85 kilograms, whose first application was a "214b denial" - which means the Department of State was not fully satisfied of his intent to return to Iran after the World Championships. Athletes from Iraq and Albania are also waiting on the Department of State to approve their visa applications. There is no US embassy in Iran, so Rostami travelled to Dubai last week for a second interview with consular officials. Part of the application process involves providing proof of a bank account and, said Rostami, on his second visit to Dubai: "I showed them I have two million dollars in my country. "I told them: 'I am the best weightlifter in the world, I am the most popular weightlifter in the world, I am the world record holder'. "I am not trying to get a green card, and I don't know what the problem is. "Is it fear? "I am proud of being Iranian, and I want to come back to my country. "They said 'we don’t need more, everything is okay, we will give you an answer, you must wait'. "But I said 'I have a competition in 25 days. I want to participate in this competition.'" Rostami, a Kurd who trains alone without a coach, and who has criticised Iran’s coaches in the past, said he would never seek asylum in the US. "I love Iran - we owe much to our martyrs and war veterans," he said. "I just think about winning gold in the World Championships, and about a world record. "For me a world record is more important than the gold medal - winning the gold medal is not always beautiful. "The world record is the person that wants to fight me." Phil Andrews, chief executive of USA Weightlifting, said: "We remain in daily contact with the US Department of State through the USOC (United States Olympic Committee) Government Relations Team and remain hopeful that all athletes who have applied in sufficient time will be issued visas for the World Championships. "In particular, we look forward to welcoming the Islamic Republic of Iran, who are among the top teams in weightlifting." Rostami, 26, was announced as male Weightlifter of the Year by the IWF in February after polling 20,000-plus votes, more than three times as many as his nearest rival, the Georgian super-heavyweight Lasha Talakhadze. Two days later Rostami was dropped by the Iran national team for failing to attend a training camp. Iran's head coach, Sajjad Anoushiravani, said at the time: "Rostami has been dropped from the national team after not participating in the training. "He will not be a member of our team in the fourth Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku in May. "Rostami has been also dropped from the national team in the 2017 Asian Weightlifting Championships [in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan in April]." Rostami did not compete in either of those events because, he said, he rested after the Olympic Games for 11 months, and returned to high-intensity training only about two months ago. He is back in the team now. "I don’t have any problems with the Iran Weightlifting Federation but my training programme, the way I use my time, is different to all others, it's my own," he said. Rostami has not competed since Rio, where he broke his own world record with a total of 396kg. If Rostami is absent from Anaheim, a beneficiary could be Safaa Al-Jumaili from Iraq ©Getty Images The next-ranked Iranian in the same weight class is Ali Miri, whose best of 361kg leaves him a long way behind Rostami but very close to the top-ranked Anaheim competitor should Rostami be absent, Safaa Al-Jumaili from across the border in Iraq. The rest of Iran’s team have their visas. Among them is the super-heavyweight Saeid Ali Hosseini, whose eight-year suspension for a second doping offence expired on October 24. Hosseini, 29, who has been lifting huge weights in training, is joined in the over-105kg by Behdad Salimikordasiabi, who broke the snatch world record in Rio then controversially failed to register a total when his final lift was overruled for a press-out. Georgia’s Talakhadze, runner-up to Rostami in the awards voting, won that super-heavyweight contest in Rio and broke Salimi’s snatch record in April, at the European Championships. He bettered that snatch effort by 3kg yesterday with a lift of 220kg at the Georgian Championships, where his total of 474kg also exceeded his own world record. Neither attempt will go into the record books, though, as they were not achieved in an international competition. If Rostami - whose Olympic bronze in 2012 is due to be upgraded to silver after a doping disqualification - does not compete, his absence would take the number of no-show Olympic champions in Anaheim to nine. One retired, Colombia’s Oscar Figueroa, and the others will not be there because nine nations are banned for multiple doping offences, and North Korea is not sending a team for political reasons. The reduced field makes the competition wide open, and gives the host nation a chance of winning its first men’s World Championship medals since 1997. "Many Olympic and World champions will be present in Anaheim,"said Andrews. "Although the entry list shows chances for many different nations, including the United States, to grace the podium."

and what's the point of having 2 consecutive wchs in the same country , to this limit no one cares about weightlifting in the world anymore !

USA should be banned from organizing big sports event , because always same VISA problems happen , especially for Muslim countries , if they can't separate sport from politics , why they organize such tournaments , what's the danger Rostami has for American security to be banned from participating and i'm sure he'll not be the only one , here in Egypt all athletes say America is the hardest Visa , they apply for it before the tournament with a very long period , sportsmen shouldn't be treated as ordinary people , sportsmen should be treated as diplomatic persons IMO