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What is yout argument? Do you think transgender women should be able to compete against biological ones? Why do you think so? How do you respond to effects of hormonal differences? You should defend your approach rather than just blaming others of not caring and just shouting

This is bullshit, why would you measure the closest shot, just let them shoot, just one more arrow what is a big deal, what kind of rule is this?

Is there live stream?

What are the chances that Vietnam, Romania and Colombia will be banned?

Well I understand staying in defence and looking for counterattacks against Italy but I think we overdid it with the fear of losing the first game. We need to have better counterattacks in the second half. Also I also think it was a penalty, it is a shame the hand rule is still not clear after 150 years of football history. They should stop changing it it.

That is interesting, as Turkey we also have these kind of excuses for not being reguees but not being successful. I wonder does it ever happen in Germany or France that a sportsman or sportswoman say they are not successfull/happy because their spouse are not their coach

Including kata into olympics rather than 4 kumite events was a hugr mistake. It gives a great argument to those who do not want to see karate at olympics.

Sorry, I thought of European championships

I do not understand this, Mete Gazoz eliminated before quarterfinals, how come we have a qf in mens? Aren’t we talking about recurve?

How much point difference can be created by only this tournament? I do not think so but is it possible to close 1300 points? I am asking for Men 67 kg

Thanks, made the correction

My predictions for Turkey I think we will exceed 2016 (1G-3S-4B) because we have almost 2 times more medal contestants thanks to better athletes in Karate, Gymnastics, Taekwondo, Boxing and Judo. Gold: 2 Candidates for gold: 1) Rıza Kayaalp (Greco-Roman wrestling - Men)2) Taha Akgül (Freestyle wrestling - Men)3) Serap Özçelik (Karate - Women)4) Uğur Aktaş (Karate - Men)5) Busenaz Sürmeneli (Boxing - Women)6) Nur Tatar (Taekwondo - Women) Silver: 3 Candidates for silver: 1) Süleyman Atlı (Freestyle wrestling - Men) 2) Vedat Albayrak (Judo - Men) 3) İbrahim Çolak (Artistik Gymnastics - Men) 4) Hatice Kübra İlgün (Taekwondo - Women 5) Yasemin Adar (Freestyle wrestling - Women) 6) All gold medal canditates who cannot win gold Bronze: 6 Candidates for bronze: 1) Ramil Guliyev (Athletics 200 M- Men) 2) Yasmani Copello (Athletics 400 MH- Men) 3) Kerem Kamal (Greco-Roman wrestling - Men) 4) Kayra Sayit (Judo - Women)5) Ferhat Arıcan (Artistic Gymnastics - Men)6) Ali Sofuoğlu (Karate - Men)7) Merve Çoban (Karate - Women)8) Buse Naz Çakıroğlu (Boxing - Women)9) Hüseyin Emre Sakçı (Swimming - Men)10) Rukiye Yıldırım (Taekwondo - Women)11) Women volleyball team (Volleyball) 12) Mete Gazoz (Archery - Men) 13) Muhammed Furkan Özbek (Weightlifting - Men) 14) Salih Korkmaz (Athletics - Men) 15) All gold and silver medal canditates who cannot win gold or silver

My predictions for Turkey I think we will definitely exceed 2016 (103 athletes) and we might exceed 2012 which is our best (114 athletes) Total Sports: 19 Optimistic Total Athletes: 128 Realistic Total Athletes: 106 Pessimistic Total Athletes: 95 Archery: 2-4 (depending on team qualifications in which I think we have a decent chance) Artistic Swimming: 0 Athletics: 20-25 Badminton: 2-3 Baseball: 0 Basketball: 0-12 (I think our men team's chance to qualify is around 30%) Beach Volleyball: 0 Boxing: 4-7 Canoeing - Slalom: 0 Canoeing - Sprint: 0 Cycling - BMX: 0 Cycling - Mountain Bike: 0 Cycling - Road: 2 Cycling - Track: 0 Diving: 0 Equestrian: 0 Fencing: 1 Field Hockey: 0 Football: 0 Golf: 0 Gymnastics - Artistic: 5 Gymnastics - Rhythmic: 0 Gymnastics - Trampoline: 0 Handball: 0 Judo: 4-6 Karate: 5-7 Modern Pentathlon: 1-2 Rowing: 1-3 Rugby Sevens: 0 Sailing: 8 Shooting: 4-5 Skateboarding: 0 Softball: 0 Sport Climbing: 0 Surfing: 0 Swimming: 8-10 Table Tennis: 0-1 Taekwondo: 5 Tennis: 0-1 Triathlon: 0 Volleyball: 12 Water Polo: 0 Weightlifting: 2-3 Wrestling: 9

I think your understanding and explanation are correct, this is what I understand from the wording in the official document as well. Thanks for the reply.

By the way what happens to host quota if Japan already qualifies in top 8? Also how does tripartite commission quota is selected, are there any criteria?

That’s saddening, I do not understand why don’t they just qualify the weightlifters with best record. Thank you for the comment though

Do you think Daniyar İsmayilov will be able to take a quota?

Will Petrounidas receive a quota in rings?

Wrestling not being cool is your own opinion, for many nations wrestling is one of the coolest sports. Like every olympic sports there are nations which like them and there are which do not. It is only fair that the ones which like the sport are more successful. Anyway, I do not like naturalizing, buy I also have a problem with people acting like only Turkey or Azerbaijan do it. Maybe they do it more, but what I saw today was almost any country does it if they see a good opportunity.

Our own Kılıcsallayan lost against Mukhtarov from 8-0 lead. I guess it was better for him not to go to the olympics if he cannot keep an 8-0 lead. Also I know that Turkey often is criticized for naturalizing athletes but I see names from Dagestan everywhere in this tournament, mostly in European teams. Are all these guys were born in Europe rather than Dagestan really?

I have no words, Ibrahim Colak was my school-mate in the middle school, he was such a nice and humble guy, 5 years ago we could not imageine a world medal in gymnastics. He came 5th back in 2017 but last year he could not get into the final. I was not expecting this result, incredible. I am very happy for our medal but as a person who knows him I am very happy because I know that he really deserves this. I hope he can win a medal next year in the olympics. He already has written history for Turkey, why not expand the history.

Disaster, complete disaster, how can there be a this huge difference between last year and this year Yasemin Adar who was the two-years ago champion and last year runner-up is eliminated in the first match. Our grekoromen team was a complete disaster. Huge disappointment

Pretty excited about the tournament, so sad and angry about what has been done to Iranian team. Politics should not interfere with the sports. I hope this problem will be solved and Iranian team will take their rightful place in the tournament. About our team, I believe we have a good chance of winning medals almost every weight in women. However our men team has been lacking for a long time now. Emre Kutalmış (only 18 years old) is a hope for us alongside with Hakan Reçber. I think it is gonna be a great tournament with the competition and the exciting nature of taekwondo.

Well, great success for the freestyle team of Turkey. We were pretty close to winning the teams and as MHSN pointed out it is a rare thing to see Russia in the second place. We just lost with 6 points, but Bölükbaşı would not have been enough anyway. I congratulate the team and the coaches but I wonder why Soner Demirtaş (74kg) was not on the team. He is the last European Champion (after defeating Chamizo in the semi-final). If he had been on the team and won at least a medal, we would have taken the first place. Anyway, good tournament so far. Taha was quite dominant against the Georgian, it is good to see his on his feet strong again.

Did Çolak fall down, what happened, how come he is not gonna make the finals