Official Beijing Olympics Thread

[Payam_Ali]

Okay, the olympics are around the corner. I thought we would start a thread about what Iranian athletes have already qualified, and the best chances for medals at the games. Also, who will be the flag bearer?

and i swear if bob costas says anything about axis of evil in the opening ceremony this year i am going to kick his ass

[Irannn]

50 Iranian athletes are already qualified and be sure we have a wild card entry in Swimming. (50+1=51)
and we can win some places in Athletics and 1 place in Archery.

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by Sport

Archery - 1
Athletics - 4
Basketball - 12 (team)
Boxing - 3
Cycling - 3
Judo - 6
Rowing - 2
Table tennis - 1
Taekwondo - 3
Weightlifting - 3
Wrestling - 12

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chances for medals (in my opinion):

Athletics:
Ehsan Haddadi: he is big favorite for olympic gold

Boxing:
Morteza Sepahvand: he reached quarterfinal at WC !
Ali Mazaheri: he need two wins for a medal ! he is World number 3 at AIBA World Ranking

Judo:
Masoud Haji-Akhondzadeh: 5th place at Athens , he can beat everyone
Arash Miresmaeili: double world Champion !

Taekwondo:
Behzad Khodadad: ex-World Champion
Saei or Karami: both of them can beat everyone

Weightlifting:
Hossein Rezazadeh: World Strongest man !
Asghar Ebrahimi: he is near the medal's record !

Wrestling:
all team members can win a medal but favorites are :
Hamid Sourian: World Champion (05,06,07)
Ghasem Rezaei: World Bronze medalist and Asian Champion
Morad Mohammadi: World Champion 2006
Reza Yazdani: he can beat everyone even his russian rivals
Fardin Masoumi: World Bronze medalist 2006

[oh oh oh]

lol no women? iran is really a joke!

[Babak agha]

Didn't know our boxers where that good.., Hope the Taekewando guys and wrestling boys do better than their recent preformance..
And only 3 wieghtlifters is a bit dissappointing.

[Nokhodi]

lol no women? iran is really a joke!

I think the archery athlete is a woman.

[Irannn]

I think the archery athlete is a woman.

no, two Iranian women are already qualified:
1- Sara Khoshjamal Fekri (Taekwondo)
2- Homa Hosseini (Rowing)

[oh oh oh]

they both will be last position 100 %

[Nokhodi]

Actually the tae kwan do one has a good chance of medalling.

[oh oh oh]

I think I read she is only 19, so thats hard to get something, but we will see.

[Irannn]

today we had 2 important trials in Taekwondo :

Hadi Saei vs. Yousef Karami

1st match / Karami 5 - Saei 4
2nd match / Saei 12 - Karami 10

Sara Khoshjamal Fekri vs. Fatemeh Nemati (Asian Champion)

1st match / Khoshjamal 9 - Nemati 2
2nd match / Khoshjamal 6 - Nemati 3

Series : (best of 5)
Saei 1 - Karami 1
Khoshjamal 2 - Nemati 0

next matches, on next thursday

[Ghormeh Sabzi]

lol no women? iran is really a joke!

don't make imam mad now


LOL are we really going to have swimmers?? cuase that pool is going to be filled with hair man

[Payam_Ali]

was it arash mirasmaeli who pulled out in athens because he was paired with an israeli?

[teammelli34]

i cant wait for olympic taekwondo!
predictions-karami and saei take gold, behzad with either bronze or no medal
I AM SO PUMPED!

[Nokhodi]

i cant wait for olympic taekwondo!
predictions-karami and saei take gold, behzad with either bronze or no medal
I AM SO PUMPED!

Apparently due to the stupid rules set for the Olympics, only Saei or Karami can go, and Saei just beat Karami in a playoff which means no karami in the olympics.

According to wiki this is our olympic team (up until July 3, 2008)
[edit] Archery
Men's individual:

Hojjatollah Vaezi
Women's individual:

Najmeh Abtin

[edit] Athletics
Men's 800 m:

Ehsan Mohajer Shojaei[1]
Sajjad Moradi[2]
Men's 1500 m:

Sajjad Moradi[2]
Men's shot put:

Amin Nikfar
Men's discus throw:

Ehsan Haddadi[3]
Abbas Samimi[4]

[edit] Basketball
Men:

Team

[edit] Boxing
Men's 64 kg:

Morteza Sepahvand[5]
Men's 81 kg:

Mehdi Ghorbani[5]
Men's 91 kg:

Ali Mazaheri[5]

[edit] Cycling

[edit] Road cycling
Men's road race:

Ghader Mizbani[6]
Hossein Askari[6]
Mehdi Sohrabi[6]
Men's individual time trial:

Hossein Askari

[edit] Judo
Men's 60 kg:

Masoud Haji Akhondzadeh[7]
Men's 66 kg:

Arash Miresmaeili[7]
Men's 73 kg:

Ali Maloumat[7]
Men's 81 kg:

Hamed Malekmohammadi[7]
Men's 90 kg:

Hossein Ghomi[7]
Men's + 100 kg:

Mohammad Reza Roudaki[8]

[edit] Rowing
Men's single sculls:

Mohsen Shadi
Women's single sculls:

Homa Hosseini

[edit] Swimming
Men's:

Wild card

[edit] Table tennis
Men's singles:

Afshin Norouzi[9]

[edit] Taekwondo
Men's 58 kg:

Reza Naderian[10]
Men's 80 kg:

Hadi Saei[10]
Women's 49 kg:

Sara Khoshjamal Fekri[11]

[edit] Weightlifting
Men's 94 kg:

Asghar Ebrahimi[12]
Men's 105 kg:

Mohsen Biranvand[12]
Men's +105 kg:

Hossein Rezazadeh[12]

[edit] Wrestling

[edit] Freestyle
Men's 55 kg:

Abbas Dabbaghi[13]
Men's 60 kg:

Morad Mohammadi[13]
Men's 66 kg:

Mehdi Taghavi[13]
Men's 74 kg:

Meisam Mostafa Jokar[13]
Men's 84 kg:

Reza Yazdani[13]
Men's 96 kg:

Saeid Ebrahimi[13]
Men's 120 kg:

Fardin Masoumi[13]

[edit] Greco-Roman
Men's 55 kg:

Hamid Sourian[14]
Men's 66 kg:

Ali Mohammadi[14]
Men's 84 kg:

Saman Tahmasebi[14]
Men's 96 kg:

Ghasem Rezaei[14]
Men's 120 kg:

Masoud Hashemzadeh[14]

[teammelli34]

Apparently due to the stupid rules set for the Olympics, only Saei or Karami can go, and Saei just beat Karami in a playoff which means no karami in the olympics.
According to wiki this is our olympic team (up until July 3, 2008)

WHAT? no! wtf man karami and saei are our two best fighters.
i havent seen much of them for a while, but i saw karami in asian games and he was amazing. so we only have two men competitors in taekwondo this time?

btw, thanks for the info.