Olympic watch (2016 Rio news, qualifications, athletes)

[Ab-Gosht]

And just an hour ago my favorite girl Kimia Alizadeh got us a nice qualification in female lightweight Taekwondo. She is only 17 making her I think our youngest ever Olympian!

do u have all the results from this qualification?

[_Navid_]

do u have all the results from this qualification?

Yes.
Round 1: Bye
Quarter final: 19-0 against Shaleha Fitriana Yusuf (Indonesia)
Semi final: 15-2 Against Neema Gurung (Nepal)
Final: 3-2 against Phannapa Harnsujin (Thailand)

The top 2 qualified from each weight.

[Irannn]

Yesterday was really sad for Iran Taekwondo as Akram Khodabandeh failed to qualify , she only had to win one match but she failed, Kimia made it today quite easily

beside that, Iran got anoher spot in Discus Throw, Mahmoud Samimi threw the disk 65m in Hungary which is the exact equal of the Olympic standard and therefore qualified for Rio, with this we have 41 qualified athletes so far

Archery 1
Athletics 7
Boxing 1
Cycling 3
Fencing 2
Shooting 5
Table Tennis 3
Taekwondo 4
Weightlifting 5
Wrestling 10

Important day this Friday for Iran, Hamid Sourian will try his chance once again in Mongolia, even though there is still one tournament left in Turkey in case he fails but I think it will be his last chance.

[teammelli8080]

Yazdani's knee has been on the rocks for years. You all saw what happened in 2012. As much as I love him, I'm glad it happened now instead of round 2 of the olympics again. Let's get someone else in that weight class.

[Ab-Gosht]

Yazdani's knee has been on the rocks for years. You all saw what happened in 2012. As much as I love him, I'm glad it happened now instead of round 2 of the olympics again. Let's get someone else in that weight class.

wtf there is no one else, he beats the others with one leg

[teammelli8080]

like in 2012?

it's been obvious for a while that reza's knee is a huge liability.

[littlepersia17]

Does anyone know if we are in with any chance of some weightlifting medals?

That's the only event I watch in its entirety from the Olympics. Any Iranians coming up in that sport that I should look out for?




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[_Navid_]

Does anyone know if we are in with any chance of some weightlifting medals?
That's the only event I watch in its entirety from the Olympics. Any Iranians coming up in that sport that I should look out for?
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Last time we won 4 medals which was huge but this time we have 3 realistic chances for medal.

Kianoush Rostami 85kg---2 times world champ. won bronze in 2012. Will most likely win either a gold or silver

Sohrab Moradi 94kg----- In top form and has broken world records in training several times. Has a good chance for a medal if the weightlifting mafia doesn't make him drop his lifts like in 2012.

Behdad Salimi 105+ --- Just back from injury. If he becomes fit he is the number 1 contender in his weight for a gold since the Russian guy was caught with doping.

[Ab-Gosht]

Last time we won 4 medals which was huge but this time we have 3 realistic chances for medal.

Kianoush Rostami 85kg---2 times world champ. won bronze in 2012. Will most likely win either a gold or silver

Sohrab Moradi 94kg----- In top form and has broken world records in training several times. Has a good chance for a medal if the weightlifting mafia doesn't make him drop his lifts like in 2012.

Behdad Salimi 105+ --- Just back from injury. If he becomes fit he is the number 1 contender in his weight for a gold since the Russian guy was caught with doping.

salimi is only doing heavy upper body training. he's lower body is still not fit, he needs a miracle to win gold maybe he can get bronze.

[_Navid_]

salimi is only doing heavy upper body training. he's lower body is still not fit, he needs a miracle to win gold maybe he can get bronze.

3.5 months to go still!! Long time for any injury recovery.

[Ab-Gosht]

3.5 months to go still!! Long time for any injury recovery.

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yes exactly by the time he's injury is recoverd the olympics will start so he will have had no time for any training besides recovery. a weight lifter like salimi neeeds almost 1 year of full training to reach 215kg and 260kg in clean&jerk

[Irannn]

Even a very well prepared Salimi had a hard time to win the gold in Rio, if you follow the European Championship the Georgian guy Lasha Talakhadze (who won silver in worlds behind Lovchev) just did 463 ! and he can lift more. Salimi at best only can win a bronze , there is also a Russian wrestler Albiev.

btw, this year we have no idea about all those weightlifters in the camp they keep their training records as secret ! except for those 2-3, the rest will go Uzbekistan for Asian Championship. I'm curious to know Barari and Molaei records. Barari claims he had some great records when he was banned for doping (he is eligible to compete now)

[Ab-Gosht]

Even a very well prepared Salimi had a hard time to win the gold in Rio, if you follow the European Championship the Georgian guy Lasha Talakhadze (who won silver in worlds behind Lovchev) just did 463 ! and he can lift more. Salimi at best only can win a bronze , there is also a Russian wrestler Albiev.

btw, this year we have no idea about all those weightlifters in the camp they keep their training records as secret ! except for those 2-3, the rest will go Uzbekistan for Asian Championship. I'm curious to know Barari and Molaei records. Barari claims he had some great records when he was banned for doping (he is eligible to compete now)

molaei is doing low records

[Irannn]

molaei is doing low records

Do you know anyhing new about his recent training records ? I don't know anything special honestly. as far as I know they keep everybody in dark this year. except for few short videos in instagram

he had a knee surgery late in 2014, and his 2015 poor results were expected. this year he has time to reach his max for Rio.

[Ab-Gosht]

Do you know anyhing new about his recent training records ? I don't know anything special honestly. as far as I know they keep everybody in dark this year. except for few short videos in instagram

he had a knee surgery late in 2014, and his 2015 poor results were expected. this year he has time to reach his max for Rio.

no only saw him do 225 on insta wasn't that impressed, it seems he might have to much to catch up for medal