merlinsbeard

Disgrace. I can only describe Turkish wrestling at this olympics with this word. We are yet to win a match (not including repechage) and 3 of our eliminated wrestlers were world champions. Disgrace. I hope the responsibles for this idiocy will answer after the olympics but I doubt that

Did you reallu watch the match? There was a huge difference between two boxers.

But who paid him? And why cannot they pay now?

Why do you say he lost on purpose?

Please check olympic betting sites. She is shown a clear favorite. I do not know her background but this woke craziness keeps ruining everything. She obviously does not have the same levels of testesterone with other contenders and it was proven by test last year.

Is Imane Khelif trans? If so, will they let a man (biologically) fight in boxing against women (biologically) and expect any one of them to have a chance?

I still believe we were robbed the finale. Congratulations to our men. It is incredible to see that we become one of the important countries in archery in less than 10 years. Hopefully it will go on. Our mixed team is also pretty good.

That arrow was clearly a 10. I do not understand how can they make it 9. I guess being in France helps.

Merih suspended for two games, I do not support what he did but I cannot see how this is fair. Shakiri and Xhaka made a similar gesture in 2018, all they got was monetary fine. I believe these kind of penalties make things bigger than necessarry, this thing was going to blow over, but now it will become a Turkish ultranationalistic propaganda, and unfortunately they will be right saying this is one-sided and not fair

Taha won the gold and brought the freestyle title to Turkiye. It’s the first time after 1993. Was not expecting this. We also won the greko title. We lost the women title by just 5 points. I know the Russia is not here but still a great success.

Not even Russia, it seems like the half of semifinalists were from Daghestan. There must be limitations on this for sure, maybe giving permit for only one weight for each country

Iran has been impressive in both heavyweights. Congrats. I think Rıza was the better wrestler but he is very old now, he lost all momentum in the last minute. I guess our heavyweight domination days are more or less over with Taha and Rıza getting old. But it was a great decade. The unfortunate thing is we do not have any followers in any weight class. We will probably experience a very bad decade now. But before those dark times we still have a chance to win 3 golds next year in the heavyweights (Taha, Rıza and Yasemin)

Busenaz is a true superstar, maybe our only superstar in sports right now

Not liking the decision is one thing, blaming judges and winner with being dirty and wanting the sport to be removed is another thing. As I said I did not watch the match and you are probably right, it might be the wrong decision, but I see that the points were close and Serra won the last round. I do not think judges were bribed and made our guy win. There were many cases in this tournament that I definitely thought we won the round and it was 4-1, 3-2 for the opponent. I never blamed the judges, our TV does that and I find it cringy, I also find it cringy when it is done here.

Have not watched the game but obviously whenever an Italian loses a close match the judges and the management of boxing become biased and dirty. Yesterday they blamed the fact that judges were from Muslim countries, today 4 out of 5 judges were from Asia or Australia or South America but again they lost because this sport is dirty. By the way we lost a very close semifinal today against Romanian but hey I guess their lobby even topped our lobby.