2017 world Taekwondo championships (June 24 - 30)

[Irannn]

Guys you better watch the women's quarterfinal today between Iran and Sweden, that was just sad. she lost by an extremely stupid mistake. something you never see in this sport.

on other hand Mirhashem Hosseini dominated his way to the semifinal , I believe he has a great chance for the gold medal tomorrow. to me only Hosseini, Hadipour and Yaghoubi performed well here in Muju.

[_Navid_]

Just finished watching both quarter finals. Well done to Hosseini. Didn't know about him before but he did great.

WTF happened there???? She lost because she didn't get up the ground after 5 seconds?? Is that a new rule? I thought they have 1 minute for treatment. She clearly was hit in the stomach and was in pain. Seconds away from a medal and she threw it away like that!!!

[Adesor Vafaseya]

I'd rather they mess up now than in the next Olympics.
Hopefully lessons learned.

Exactly.
This is the same way I see our Volleyball performance as well... they have to lose and learn and better now than when it matters most!

[Irannn]

Erfanian is also out losing to Russia, if we consider HajjiZavareh losing by walkover as well out of our 8 athletes, 4 of them lost to Russia !!!

in my first post I wrote we have good chance in 4 lower weights but I didn't expect us to be this weak in higher weights ! Rajabi and Mardani were extremely bad, Erfanian was a bit better and to me he was unlucky. still far from being good.

if Hosseini fails to win the gold later today this will become our worst result in past 20 years ! and they need his gold to at least finish 3rd in he team ranking, we have never been off the podium as far as I remember.

Kimia Alizadeh is still alive in the competition winning 2 matches but she almost lost to Canada, despite the big gap in points she was sitting on 9 penalties, 10th penalty means disqualification no matter what, she just survived that match but she is physically in terrible shape. she barely could stand after the match. I hope she recovers for the next match in 1/8 final.

[Irannn]

Kimia in semis, secured her 2nd world championship medal

remember she was injured after Rio and started training only couple months before this tournament, this is a Great result for her.

[Ab-Gosht]

Kimia in semis, secured her 2nd world championship medal

remember she was injured after Rio and started training only couple months before this tournament, this is a Great result for her.

What time cet is her semi? Do u have link?

[Adesor Vafaseya]

live on iranproud.net go to varzesh channel NOW!
Hosseini semis on!

[Adesor Vafaseya]

Hosseini won. He is in the final!!!

hopefully he brings us Gold.

[Adesor Vafaseya]

KIMIA ALIZADEHS semis are now on!

[Adesor Vafaseya]

KIMIA WINS! SHE IS IN THE FINAL ROUND!!!

[Ab-Gosht]

Kimia was limpin off i expect her to get silver.

[Adesor Vafaseya]

Hosseini grabbed Silver.
Chinese fighter was better.

[Adesor Vafaseya]

Kimia grabbed silver too.
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[_Navid_]

Some comments I want to make:

-Extremely well done to Kimia. After months of operation and injury getting a silver in her new weight is incredible. Her medal is the greatest in history of our female Olympic sports. What kind of an unfair competition is this?? All other weights are played in 2 days and they get 1 day of rest between quarter and semi except the 2 weights played today including Kimia's!! She was clearly tired and had pain in foot and shoulder and even her final opponent practically didn't play a semifinal and was fresh.

-Screw the IOC laws and our federation for letting Milad Beigi play for Azerbaijan. The guy was hands down the best athlete in the whole competition and destroyed Aaron Cook with 40 points margin and his final opponent by almost 20 point margin!!!!! Aaron Cook by the way is the most popular Taekwondo athlete around the world for his entertaining matches.
Milad went to Azerbaijan because we had Khodabakhshi in his weight and didn't get play time and now we practically have lost both of them.

-This was the best ever performance by our female team and worst in the past 25 years of our Men's team.

[Adesor Vafaseya]

^
agree with you, except no one plays taekwondo, but everyone fights in taekwondo