Irani

Wow Pejman Dorostkar predicted that Aaron Brooks will defeat David Taylor
 
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6A3-mVo6s8/?igsh=amV0eGh3cnE1ODA3

The undecided weights are 86 Kg and 97 Kg
 
For 86, they are waiting to see how Yazdani recovers from major surgery.  If he recovers well, it's him, if not, it will probably be a wrestle off between Ghassempour and Hadi Vaffaeipour.
In 97, I expect it to be Azarpira, now that Mohammadian lost to the Bahraini/Russian world championship.
 
If Yazdani does not recover well, and if Ghassempour can make weight at 86, I personally expect it to be Ghassempour.  Ghassempour vs Taylor would be a match of the Olympics.

I think we now have some clarity for the Olympics team
 
86 -   If Hassan recovers, he goes If not, and if Ghassempour can make weight, he will go If not, then Vaffaie goes, no medal for Iran 97 If Azarpira qualifies, then he will go if not, no one goes Iran so far has only qualified for 65, 86, and 120.  I think Iran will most likely qualify for 74 and 97,  It would be nice to qualify for 57 just to gain experience, no chance of medal

Iran 190 (5 gold, 8 medals)
Japan 130 (2, 5)
Kyrgyzstan 121 (1, 4)
Kazakhstan 118 (1, 4)
Mongolia 92 (0, 4)
Uzbekistan 85 (0, 3)
India 84 (0, 3)
Bahrain gets the 10th gold and 3 other medals...4 for 4 in medals from their import participants.

Big test for vafaeipour in 1/4 final against dauletbekov tomorrow.

This is not a very reliable source, but apparently Karman is still in the running for the 86 spot
یزدانی تمرین تیم ملی را ترک کرد و به شهر خودش بازگشت/ کامران و حسن در خانه کشتی رودررو شدند (khabarvarzeshi.com)
 

Iran sending three FS and two wrestler to Olympic qualification tournament in Kyrgyzstan 
 
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5Fv0jxIg58/?igsh=MzY1NDJmNzMyNQ==

We spoke today. He's going to go to Iran and get some scans. Will find out more. Hopefully nothing serious

Not much happening at the moment.  Here is a clip of the freestyle team training for your viewing pleasure  https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4DehGSISxK/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Ghassempour injured
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3YNdCXIZ9R/?igsh=MzY1NDJmNzMyNQ==

Khorramdel is in the repechage after Rashidov made it to the finals and unfortunately Habibi lost his quarter final match to Deng. Looked good in his first two matches so not bad overall.

Very interested to see how Savadkouhi and Babaloo get on today.
 

اعزام آزادکاران به اولین تورنمنت رنکینگ‌دار و سرشاخ رقیب یزدانی و قاسم‌پور با حریفان به گزارش خبرنگار ورزشی خبرگزاری فارس، مسابقات کشتی آزاد و فرنگی تورنمنت بین‌المللی زاگرب (اولین مسابقه رنکینگ‌دار اتحادیه جهانی) روزهای ۲۰ تا ۲۴ دی‌ماه برگزار خواهد شد که کشتی‌گیران کشورمان در این رویداد حضور خواهند داشت که ۱۸ دی ماه به زاگرب سفر می‌کنند. در کشتی آزاد کشورمان در اوزان ۵۷ و ۶۱ کیلوگرم کشتی‌گیری نخواهد داشت. قرار است ملی‌پوشان در ۵ وزن راهی زاگرب شوند. اسامی به شرح زیر است: ۶۵ کیلوگرم: عباس ابراهیم زاده و رحمان عموزاد ۷۴ کیلوگرم: یونس امامی و قاسم ابوذری ۸۶ کیلوگرم: هادی وفایی‌پور ۹۷ کیلوگرم: کامران قاسم‌پور و امیرعلی آذرپیرا ۱۲۵ کیلوگرم: امیرحسین زارع و امیررضا معصومی روز چهارشنبه ۲۰ دی مسابقات کشتی آزاد در اوزان ۵۷، ۶۱، ۶۵، ۷۰، ۷۴، ۸۶ کیلوگرم برگزار خواهد شد. فینال این اوزان نیز عصر همان روز برگزار می‌شود. روز پنجشنبه ۲۱ دی‌ماه مسابقات در اوزان ۷۹، ۹۲، ۹۷ و ۱۲۵ کیلوگرم در مرحله مقدماتی تا فینال پیگیری خواهد شد. پایان پیام

The title says something like “shocking news right before the Olympics “
it just says he resigned , does not say anything about the reason

79 and 92.

Savadkouhi beat Nokhodi convincingly 6-0 in the league final. Azarpira beat Firouzpour 3-0. 

I think you missed the key point.  Yes, many countries refuse to issue visas to citizens of other countries.
 
UWW is obligated to picks hosts that will not refuse visas to citizens of counties.
 
Iran had not been given the opportunity to host a world championship, because it refused to grant visas to Israelis athletes.  I personally agree with the UWW’s decison not to grant the hosting roles because of that.
 
it is really pretty simple, you want to host a championship?  Great, you yoi have to give visas to all participants.
 
UWW should have never let Albania host the championship.
 
I think counties like Japan, Canada, New Zealand, and most western and Northern European countries are far better choices.
 
 
 
 

تیم منتخب کشتی آزاد نوجوانان برای شرکت در جام بووایسار سایتی اف وارد شهر کراسنویارسک شد.
 

 

پاسخ رسمی اتحادیه جهانی کشتی به ندادن ویزا به ایران (khabarvarzeshi.com)
 

The non Iranian athletes are also cheated because this ridiculous maneuver.  Both Hendrickson and Massoumi would have benefited from such a match.

It was officially announced tonight on the UWW site. I don't understand how this happens? They put it in Albania to be sure Russian and Belarusian neutral athletes can participate, but then overlook the fact that Iran could be left out? What a tragedy. That's awful. Sorry, guys. I feel for you.

This is absolutely incompetence by UWW.
 
UWW should have the authority to ban specific countries, and that by itself is questionable.
 
Hosting countries should not have the authority to ban countries.  UWW should never pick a country to host without first confirming that they will issue visas to all the participants.

I hear Savadkouhi is considering going up to 86 for Olympic cycle.
 
Doubt he can topple Yazdani. But I admire his decision to try. Did suspect he may be too big for 74. He shouldn't have any issues with weight cutting now so should be fresh and Reza Yazdani will be coaching him, so let's see what happens.

Yep he Ravi’d him. The Indians very good though, if he can put that pace on hasegawa think he’ll beat him and pull Khari back in.

Nah man. I'm exhausted after Belgrade haha

Alexander Medved won about 10 in a row in heavyweight