Rashid Sharifi Men's Weightlifting +105Kg. [Live Report]

[persianbruin]

baba let this thread go.

our lifter was placed in group B, that means only 10% chance of medal.

As a statistician I would love to see the statistical analysis that backs up this 10%

[PFS]

who knew rezazadeh was gonna win gold?!?
in his first olympics

[Payam_Ali]

i have a question:

Weightlifting is supposed to be one of Irans best sports. Are these 3 weightlifters that we brought to the olympics truly the best in iran in their weightclasses(obviously with exception of rezazadeh)? If so, maybe we arent so good at weightlifting after all. I mean two of the guys were in the B group, and the other one got 7th. They are supposed to be the best weightlifters in our country!

Or... are these just the athletes that are so religious and display it so proudly that they were selected by the government to be allowed to represent Iran even though there were others better than them?

I suppose this applies to all sports, but i just thought of it after are weak performance overall in weightlifting which is supposed to be one of our best sports

[EKBATAN]

^^^ well said


and the same goes for wrestling




i think the sad fact is that over the years because of the lack of attention and money spent on these sports, we've gotten worse....or better yet other country's have gotten better. Also another thing is the rules are kind of weird and dont give fair chances sometimes. Alot of athletes really just get 1 chance and thats it.

[Payam_Ali]

^^^ well said
and the same goes for wrestling
i think the sad fact is that over the years because of the lack of attention and money spent on these sports, we've gotten worse....or better yet other country's have gotten better. Also another thing is the rules are kind of weird and dont give fair chances sometimes. Alot of athletes really just get 1 chance and thats it.

ya.. i just keep thinking that if there there must be young athletes that are amazing in iran that arent allowed to participate on the world stage because they arent religious enough to please the mullahs