heywoodu 13,499 Posted March 8, 2019 #41 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Just now, bestmen said: they are not recognized as a country here , so not eligible to complete , the 2 women just lost points to qualify for tokyo Plenty of countries did not or do not recognize for example Kosovo, but at least they let their athletes compete against athletes from Kosovo if that's the draw. Refusing to compete against athletes simply because of their nationality is just as damaging to sports as stuff like doping and fraud (which it basically is). Disgusting that governments destroy careers of young athletes in that way (I'm sure Asselah and Ouallal themselves would very much prefer to actually compete and show their skills...?). If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amen09 384 Posted March 8, 2019 #42 Share Posted March 8, 2019 35 minutes ago, heywoodu said: Guessing Laghnaoui and Bjaoui are going to fight to try and lose? That's got to be interesting to watch, see who ippons themselves.. no, Moroccan players dont have any problem to play against this state heywoodu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,499 Posted March 8, 2019 #43 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Just now, amen09 said: no, Moroccan players dont have any problem to play against this state One learns something new every day apparently If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bestmen 2,537 Posted March 8, 2019 #44 Share Posted March 8, 2019 i never heard of this judoka and he defeated one UK , the Egyptian is strongest than him so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,499 Posted March 10, 2019 #45 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Aaaaand the two Algerian women drawn against an Israeli athlete completely disappeared from the draw, surprise! If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,531 Posted March 15, 2019 #46 Share Posted March 15, 2019 (edited) Grand Slam (Ekaterinburg, RUS) Day #1 Recap Time for another Grand Slam tournament, this week in the heart of Siberia... and this means that we have about half the usual Nations at the start, and some of them (most notably, Japan) not even with their best judo players... as said, Japan is here with their 100th tier team or so...and...surprise, surprise...in day #1 they didn't win a single Gold Medal... last time it happened, it was quite a long time ago... so, many other Nations had a good chance to step up and take advantage of this situation... and in fact, today's 5 Gold Medals went to 5 different Nations: Argentina (Paula Pareto, women's -48kg); Israel (Gili Cohen, women's -52kg); Canada (Christa Deguchi, women's -57kg); Mongolia (Unubold Lkhagvajamts, men's -60kg) and France (Kilian Le Blouch, men's -66kg)... Full Rankings, here: https://live.ijf.org/gs_rus2019/results Edited March 15, 2019 by phelps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,531 Posted March 16, 2019 #47 Share Posted March 16, 2019 (edited) Grand Slam (Ekaterinburg, RUS) Day #2 Recap Second day of the Russian Grand Slam and once again we have 4 different Nations winning the 4 Gold Medals up for grabs on today's schedule (2 of them adding another Gold to yesterday's success) and still no Gold for Japan, despite today they had a couple of players more credited than yesterday's lineup... and finally, we also have the first win for the Host Nation, until now one of the most disappointing teams in this tournament... Today's champions are: Darya Davydova (women's -63kg); Marie Eve Gahie (women's -70kg); Tommy Macias (men's -73kg) and Sagi Muki (men's -81kg)... in the medal standings, France and Israel are the only 2 Nations with 2 Gold medals, meanwhile all the remaining winners from yesterday and today have 1 Gold Medal each... Full Rankings, here: https://live.ijf.org/gs_rus2019/results Edited March 16, 2019 by phelps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,499 Posted March 16, 2019 #48 Share Posted March 16, 2019 Khojazoda (73kg) apparently won Tajikistan's first ever GS medal If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,531 Posted March 16, 2019 #49 Share Posted March 16, 2019 36 minutes ago, heywoodu said: Khojazoda (73kg) apparently won Tajikistan's first ever GS medal yes, if we only count Grand Slam tournaments, this is their first medal... until now, they only collected a bunch of 5th places as their best results... and fun fact, today's medal didn't even come from their best athlete by far (Komronshokh Ustopiriyon, who has already a few Grand Prix wins and Continental Champs medals in his palmares)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,499 Posted March 16, 2019 #50 Share Posted March 16, 2019 5 minutes ago, phelps said: yes, if we only count Grand Slam tournaments, this is their first medal... Which is exactly what we do when looking for a first ever GS medal If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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