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    With rezazadeh gone others have a chance!!(read the bottom)

    Bulked-up Steiner guns for strongman title
    By the Associated Press

    Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 7:41 AM ET
    Germany's Matthias Steiner (left) finished just behind gold medalist Viktors Scerbatihs of Latvia at the 2008 European Championships in March. The two will face off in the 105+kg final in Beijing.


    BEIJING (AP) - Four years older and 88 pounds bulkier, Germany's Matthias Steiner enters his second Olympics craving the adrenaline rush of competing for the heaviest title in weightlifting.

    The 24-year-old muscleman is among the front-runners for the gold medal Tuesday in the men's super heavyweight class, a title that carries with it the bragging rights of being the world's strongest man.

    "I'm in good shape," Steiner said before a training session Monday. "I've had good training the last month. We are prepared for this. I think."

    Steiner has overcome great adversity since placing seventh in the 105-kilogram category in Athens 2004, where he was competing for his native Austria.

    He changed his citizenship to German after a falling-out with the Austrian Weightlifting Federation. Then last year, tragedy struck when his wife died in a car accident.

    The hardship seems only to have helped him focus on the sport.

    He placed second in the European Championships in March, only 1 kg (2.2 pounds) behind Latvia's Viktors Scerbatihs - one of his main rivals on Tuesday.
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    Steiner went on to set a personal-best total of 451 kg (994.3 pounds) - the weight of a small cow - in qualifying for the Olympics. That's nearly 50 kg (over 100 pounds) more than he lifted as a regular heavyweight in 2004.

    "Until Athens, I was always trying hard to lose weight (to stay below 105 kg). But I couldn't lose weight any more," he said.

    That's a problem he no longer has to worry about since there is no upper weight limit in the super heavyweight class.

    Built like a tank, Steiner now weighs 320 pounds, slightly more than Scerbatihs but less than Ukraine's Artem Udachyn, another medal contender.

    He expected that a total of 455 kg (1,003 pounds) would be needed to medal in Beijing. The total score adds the heaviest weights lifted in the two events: snatch and clean and jerk.

    That's a lot more than he takes in training, but Steiner said he cannot find the willpower needed to take the biggest weights unless he's competing.

    "Some lifters take more in training, but I need the adrenaline of the competition," he said.

    Missing from the competition is weightlifting legend Hossein Rezazadeh, who announced his retirement before the Olympics after doctors said his health was in danger. Also known as the "Iranian Hercules," Rezazadeh won gold in the past two Olympics and holds the world records for snatch, clean and jerk and total.

    Steiner said he understood Rezazadeh's decision.

    "He's quitting as double Olympic champion," Steiner said. "That's a good way to be remembered."
    ----1990 TM, You will always have a special place in our hearts
    Goalie-----------abedzadeh----------
    Defense----hassanzadeh-----zarincheh-------moharami----
    midfield---namjoo motlagh---shahrokh bayani---cyrus ghayeghran---eftekhari---Abtahi
    forward-----pius-----marfavi-----

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    "Iranians are fiercely nationalistic", Michael Rubin, an Iran expert at the American Enterprise Institute
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    Sports doesn't build character. It reveals it - Legendary UCLA coach, John R Wooden

    #2
    Steiner said he understood Rezazadeh's decision.
    In other words he's saying "YES Finally...I gotta shot at this"....lol Latvia and Germany prolly had parties when they heard Rezazedh retired.

    Rezazadeh's health to me is way more important than a Gold medal.

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      #3
      weightlifting legend Hossein Rezazadeh
      thats right!!
      I got no time for a signiture

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        #4
        guys hes not even injured! its all BS put out by the govnt. there not sending him because of the stupid commercial he did for robinson real estate, where the govnt got mad over him doing it. if you go to iran, everyone in the street is talking about how its all BS injury, plus he said he will continue to weightlift in the following years to come

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          #5
          behzad12 isexactly right - all is political. Their excuse was rezazadehs commerical was not khat e emam.

          hell be in london 2012 hopefully.

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            #6
            it can only mean a chance for one kind of people - Not from Iran.

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              #7
              and germany (Steiner) won gold finally as Rezazadeh wasn't here.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Behzad12 View Post
                guys hes not even injured! its all BS put out by the govnt. there not sending him because of the stupid commercial he did for robinson real estate, where the govnt got mad over him doing it. if you go to iran, everyone in the street is talking about how its all BS injury, plus he said he will continue to weightlift in the following years to come

                yea i heard that too


                what a great gov't we have, dont we?

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                  #9
                  I know by saying this story you guys will be all over me and I dont care because I have to say this since it is very improtant to have your own judgment. I have a close source in Iran( by close source I mean Doctors, insiders and those who train with Rezazadeh) telling me Rezazadeh not being at the olympics has nothing to do with his health.

                  He was supposedly using illegal drugs and the level of those illegal drugs (doping) was so much that they (the doctors and his entourage) decided not to include him at this olympics and not ruin his career. Now I know you will bash me and Foshe khar madar bedin be man vali man bayad ino migoftam ke behtar bood bedoonid. Hala its up to you to believe it or not.

                  Once again it has nothing to do with his health. For once in your life use your own logic and intelligence and try to analyze the siatuation yourself. Because how come they just decided this 1 month before the games???????????????? why?? why??? it sounds very fishy and yes indeed it is fishy. You just dont decide not to go to olympics in daghigheye Navad. He had BIGTIME amount of doping drugs in his blood and I would have ruined his career forever. Thats why they did not send him to China.

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