2018 Asian Games

[maniei]

Handball used to be the one sport Saudi Arabia was better than us in.

[_Navid_]

The diversity of our gold medals in 2014 and 2018 is not at all comparable. We won gold in various sports in 2014 while combat sports is doing nearly all the job alone this time. I highly doubt we can reach 21 golds now.

[Ab-Gosht]

Why Taftian barely participate to international competition like diamond league and such?

taftian has made the 100m finals in diamond league many times last 2 seasons

[Irannn]

taftian has made the 100m finals in diamond league many times last 2 seasons

not the real Diamond league, but the side event. Diamond league is not a free competition, only top athletes get invitation. Taftian is not a top athlete yet. even Haddadi could not get the invitation in past few years. only this year he is back to the Diamond League level

[Irannn]

What exactly happened that the Saudi goalkeeper in Handball went full retard? Dont even see a provocation?

in handball throwing the ball to the face of GK is considered a very bad thing and refs usually penalize that with a direct red card ! but they were pissed off because they "believed" our player threw that after the whistle but to me he did nothing wrong. he threw the ball exactly at the same time as the whistle. and that was no way intentional to hit the GK's face.

[Irannn]

The diversity of our gold medals in 2014 and 2018 is not at all comparable. We won gold in various sports in 2014 while combat sports is doing nearly all the job alone this time. I highly doubt we can reach 21 golds now.

Yes unfortunately I doubt that too . right now I'm only confident about 3 more golds. (Weightlifting +105, Volleyball and Discus throw) of course we still have more gold medal chances. but none of them are a sure thing. we still have 2 more in Karate, and Kurash, maybe Basketball and maybe Canoeing or Judo.

last time we won gold medal in Archery, Shooting and Rowing. we got much weaker in Archery. thanks to some stupid decisions. but I don't think we got weaker in Rowing and Shooting. in rowing we are much better now , just last time we had a star in Mohsen Shadi. (we still had him this time but he was coming back after 2-3 years of retirement) Iran got some great results in last year Asian Championship. but for some stupid reasons they fired the Romanian coach, the same person went to India and India stole one of our gold medals in Men's quadruple sculls. I believe with some better decisions we could get fantastic results in Rowing. 2 or 3 golds.

and in shooting, we know luck plays a big factor in shooting. sometimes you win and the next day you can finish last in the same competition. we had more shooters in final this time. Sebghatollahi and Sadeghian lost the medal in their last shoots.we won less medals mostly because they removed team events from the competition. but I agree we got slightly weaker in shooting. they changed the rifle team coach a bit late and the Serbian guy didn't have enough time to adjust his style into the team.

[Irannn]

Iranians in action for tomorrow

Archery: our mixed compound team will face Singapore in bronze medal match, Iran is strong favorite here.
Athletics: we have Amir Moradi in 800m heats and Hossein Keihani in 3000m steeplechase final. Keihani is the current Asian Champion but we know the level of Asian Games is much higher. still he has a chance for medal.
Basketball: quarterfinal vs Japan. we played terrible against Syria but I think we will play better this time. this incomplete Japan is no match for Iran.
Boxing: we have two boxers in Round of 16. Omid Ahmadi-Safa against North Korea and Shahin Mousavi against Syria. our boxers did well so far. I think they are both slightly favorite for tomorrow.
Cycling Track: we will compete in Team Sprint tomorrow. we used to be a top 3 team in this event but not anymore. I don't think there is a chance for medal.
Equestrian: tomorrow is the first day of Jumping competition. we have a good team but there are so many better teams here. I don't think we have realistic chance for medal but we can judge better after tomorrow.
Karate: we have 3 more athletes in last day of Karate competition. the official website doesn't show the matches in order so it's really hard for me to analyze the bracket. we have Pegah Zangeneh, Bahman Askari and Zabihollah Poursheib. I think Zangeneh at best can win a bronze but both Askari and Poursheib have their chances for the gold. Poursheib has his archrical Araga in the draw, he will face Araga either final or semifinal. I hope at least one of them wins the gold. I expect 2 or 3 medals and hopefully at least one gold.
Speed Climbing: we have "Speed Relay" competition and of course we have chance for medal in both men and women competition. but I see some countries entered 2 teams per gender. our main rivals are Indonesia and China in both events but they have two teams ! even though I believe they put their best climbers in one team and their 2nd team is probably not that strong. our men's team has a star in Reza Alipour but our other climbers (his cousin Mehdi and Ehsan Asrar) are not as good as him. accident happens a lot in relay event. so everything is possible. our women's team also has a chance for a bronze. I hope for a medal tomorrow.
Squash: at the start of team competition, our women's team will play India. no chance.
Table Tennis: our men's team will play Thailand and Maldives tomorrow. today they lost narrowly to Japan. so they have to win both matches to qualify as the 2nd team of the group, if it happens we also have the QF match tomorrow.
Weightlifting: +105kg competition with Behdad Salimi and Saeid Alihosseini , they are expected to finish 1st and 2nd and fortunately they are not stupid like Rostami to bomb out trying to catch his own teammate ! there is an Uzbek guy who was good in the Worlds last year, but still I think Salimi and Alihosseini will finish 1-2. but it's not a sure thing.

in general weightlifting and Karate are sports to watch tomorrow. beside that we only have medal chances in Sport Climbing and athletics, plus our archery team challenging for bronze.

[Ab-Gosht]

Iranians in action for tomorrow

Archery: our mixed compound team will face Singapore in bronze medal match, Iran is strong favorite here.
Athletics: we have Amir Moradi in 800m heats and Hossein Keihani in 3000m steeplechase final. Keihani is the current Asian Champion but we know the level of Asian Games is much higher. still he has a chance for medal.
Basketball: quarterfinal vs Japan. we played terrible against Syria but I think we will play better this time. this incomplete Japan is no match for Iran.
Boxing: we have two boxers in Round of 16. Omid Ahmadi-Safa against North Korea and Shahin Mousavi against Syria. our boxers did well so far. I think they are both slightly favorite for tomorrow.
Cycling Track: we will compete in Team Sprint tomorrow. we used to be a top 3 team in this event but not anymore. I don't think there is a chance for medal.
Equestrian: tomorrow is the first day of Jumping competition. we have a good team but there are so many better teams here. I don't think we have realistic chance for medal but we can judge better after tomorrow.
Karate: we have 3 more athletes in last day of Karate competition. the official website doesn't show the matches in order so it's really hard for me to analyze the bracket. we have Pegah Zangeneh, Bahman Askari and Zabihollah Poursheib. I think Zangeneh at best can win a bronze but both Askari and Poursheib have their chances for the gold. Poursheib has his archrical Araga in the draw, he will face Araga either final or semifinal. I hope at least one of them wins the gold. I expect 2 or 3 medals and hopefully at least one gold.
Speed Climbing: we have "Speed Relay" competition and of course we have chance for medal in both men and women competition. but I see some countries entered 2 teams per gender. our main rivals are Indonesia and China in both events but they have two teams ! even though I believe they put their best climbers in one team and their 2nd team is probably not that strong. our men's team has a star in Reza Alipour but our other climbers (his cousin Mehdi and Ehsan Asrar) are not as good as him. accident happens a lot in relay event. so everything is possible. our women's team also has a chance for a bronze. I hope for a medal tomorrow.
Squash: at the start of team competition, our women's team will play India. no chance.
Table Tennis: our men's team will play Thailand and Maldives tomorrow. today they lost narrowly to Japan. so they have to win both matches to qualify as the 2nd team of the group, if it happens we also have the QF match tomorrow.
Weightlifting: +105kg competition with Behdad Salimi and Saeid Alihosseini , they are expected to finish 1st and 2nd and fortunately they are not stupid like Rostami to bomb out trying to catch his own teammate ! there is an Uzbek guy who was good in the Worlds last year, but still I think Salimi and Alihosseini will finish 1-2. but it's not a sure thing.

in general weightlifting and Karate are sports to watch tomorrow. beside that we only have medal chances in Sport Climbing and athletics, plus our archery team challenging for bronze.

iran olympic comitte should hire you as adviser

[Javeed]

[Games Today, August 27, GMT+7]
1. Clash Royal (eSports)
- Indonesia vs. China
2. Basketball (Men)
- Iran vs. Japan

3. Football (Men)
- Uzbekistan vs. South Korea

[Javeed]

Iran in football worldcup impressed everyone suddenly i see them in 4th position in medal tally. This is the revolution we need to learn.

[ehsan singapore]

who know karate where they will show it?

[Irannn]

Bahman Askari in the final. and his opponent is no big deal from Saudi Arabia. all of his main opponents are already out. this is his gold to lose.

Pegah Zangeneh also blew away a good chance for gold. she will fight for bronze

both finals in 30 minutes.

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and with stupid Pencak Silat finals today and tomorrow. Indonesia will win 10 more gold medals and they will be untouchable for 4th place. they already tied Iran with the number of golds. we have to compete with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Thailand for 5th place. don't let the current medal table fool you, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan will win lots of gold after Boxing, Sambo, Kurash and Canoeing finals.

[Ab-Gosht]

who know karate where they will show it?

Search asian games on utube they have live broadcast

[Irannn]

watching Zangeneh destroying his good Vietnamese opponent for bronze makes me believe we threw another gold medal away. she was very passive in his first fight and that Kazakh girl went all the way to win the gold. she only beat Zangeneh 0-0 (on Hantei) where the score was 3-2 (means 2 refs gave it to Zangeneh, but 3 to Kazakh)

well deserved gold for Askari. so far 7 out 7 medals in Karate. but I think either Zangeneh or Abbasali should win the gold for the women's team. and of course Mehdizadeh got robbed yesterday.

one word to describe our cycling, pathetic !! not so long ago we were 3rd or 4th in Asia in Team Sprint but now even Indonesia and Kazakhstan are much better than us ! we didn't even send a team in team pursuit as we know how bad we are ! if we finish the cycling competition with no medal. it will be the first time in history !

[Ab-Gosht]

weight is on now. uzbek dude is really bothering the gold silver combo