2024 Summer Olympics & Paralympics Thread

[PrinceAli]

Alipour and Olad both competing in shot put now. Alipour is gold medal favorite and just hit his personal best on his 2nd attempt, practically guaranteeing the gold. Olad is a contender for Silver and currently sits in 2nd place after the second attempt

[PrinceAli]

Iran wins the Gold and Silver in Shot put

[diz]

Para Medal ranking update: Iran ranked # 18 in total medals (11) and # 22 by Gold (2)

[PSGman#19]

Athletics : Hajar Safarzadeh finished 1st of heat2, qualified for semi final and broke her personnal record : 56,34s (400m)

Congratulations to her she won a silver medal above ukrainian that was better than her and broke her record, personnal best : 55s35

[diz]

Sitting volleyball in SF against Egypt on Sept 5th.

other SF is Bosnia and Germany. We beat Germany in group stage and beat Bosnia in the past

[PrinceAli]

Saeid Afrooz about to compete in Javelin. Gold medal favorite as he’s the world record (2023) and Paralympic record (2021) holder

[PrinceAli]

He just broke his own world record on his 2nd attempt. Still has 4 more attempts left

Gold already locked in

Edit: Just broke the record again with his 3rd attempt lol

[PSGman#19]

Why aren't we stronger in athletics in Olympics? It doesn't require that much money we have tracks in every football stadiums and tons of worse countries have good results.

Our para athletes show we can do it

[Nokhodi]

Why aren't we stronger in athletics in Olympics? It doesn't require that much money we have tracks in every football stadiums and tons of worse countries have good results.

Our para athletes show we can do it

Honestly you have to have a good doping system like Italy.

10 years ago Italy was a nobody in athletics.
All of a sudden every Olympics they peak perfectly for the tournament and compete very well.

The elite nations control the doping agencies and allow their own to get all sorts of exemptions for treatments that would be illegal usually.

[PSGman#19]

Honestly you have to have a good doping system like Italy.

10 years ago Italy was a nobody in athletics.
All of a sudden every Olympics they peak perfectly for the tournament and compete very well.

The elite nations control the doping agencies and allow their own to get all sorts of exemptions for treatments that would be illegal usually.

Then why non elite nation like Uzbekistan colombia kenya Morocco (dont have the whole list in mind) do go there?

[Nokhodi]

Then why non elite nation like Uzbekistan colombia kenya Morocco (dont have the whole list in mind) do go there?

Uzbekistan dopes like crazy. Look London 2012.

Kenya and Morocco do well in mid-long distance running. It's in their blood, like wrestling is for us.

[PSGman#19]

But what explain our para athletic does good while we are non existant in athletics let alone getting medals

[persian-eagle-13]

But what explain our para athletic does good while we are non existant in athletics let alone getting medals

If I have to guess, it's because of the competition. The Paralympics has a lower threshold than the normal Olympics, so it is easier to win. I could be wrong.

[PSGman#19]

If I have to guess, it's because of the competition. The Paralympics has a lower threshold than the normal Olympics, so it is easier to win. I could be wrong.

I guess it plays + all the categories but still the difference is huge between Olympics when we have only 2 participants (in a competitive race like 100m) and paralympics we have 12 with several medals/one or two golds

[diz]

Para Medal ranking update: Iran ranked # 19 in Total medals (14) and # 22 by Gold (3)