Our only hope of a Gold medal [Live Report]

[Super Shojaei]

come back in 3 hours and 15 min and the game will be over 45 minutes prior to that!!

[The]

it's 8:15 AM!!! Est

Guys, it's in 2:10 hours.

[Hadi]

this is the first time I feel we have a shot at gold.

I didn't expect Saie to make this far because of him moving up a weight and rumors saying that he is no longer competitive.

[K. Nader]

^^^
I agree. Although inferior in height compared to the Italian, Hadi has a chance because as the Brit (who is the same height as Hadi) showed, it is not a difficult task to score on the Italian. In addition, Hadi is much smarter than the Brit who in many situations, looked like a barbarian. Anyway, the final shall make for a good match.

[Armani]

I wonder what the members that talk shit about rezazadeh and hadi saei will say now...

[Farhad-7]

I wonder what the members that talk shit about rezazadeh and hadi saei will say now...

who the f... would say that?

[Farhad-7]

either read the post before or after yours. Your pick!!

hahaha I must work on my basic math skills

[Super Shojaei]

iam so proud of him he is true iranian hero regardless of what happends in the final

[Simorgh]

The BBC commentators were full of praises for Hadi in all 3 of his matches. Including how he auctioned off his previous medal for the survivors of the Bam earthquake.


btw, I'm not sure that AN and his gang will be happy about a dovvom khordadi winning the gold medal.

[Spyder]

God bless him. His such a lovely guy....I SO hope he wins...even if we get no other medals Id be very happy with him to win gold here...

[MahdiG35]

Even tho that the Italian is taller, it shouldn't be a big problem for Saie...Really what he has to do is keep getting inside and make him miss the kicks, he just really needs to watch out for penalties for holding or not working hard. I think he should be ok, specially because of his experience. I think really the reason that he got this far was because of him being more experience most of his competitors. Also I don't know if it was just me, but I thought Last years world taekwondo championship and Athens 2004 was a lot more competitive. I think the lack of Koreans, also lack of experience, and finally really Lopez didn't have a good tournament and this caused the competitiveness of the event to come down. I guess it is also kinda good because it made it for Saie to get up to gold pretty easily.

[Super Shojaei]

The BBC commentators were full of praises for Hadi in all 3 of his matches. Including how he auctioned off his previous medal for the survivors of the Bam earthquake.

btw, I'm not sure that AN and his gang will be happy about a dovvom khordadi winning the gold medal.

how much did he get for the medal?

[Super Shojaei]

Even tho that the Italian is taller, it shouldn't be a big problem for Saie...Really what he has to do is keep getting inside and make him miss the kicks, he just really needs to watch out for penalties for holding or not working hard. I think he should be ok, specially because of his experience. I think really the reason that he got this far was because of him being more experience most of his competitors. Also I don't know if it was just me, but I thought Last years world taekwondo championship and Athens 2004 was a lot more competitive. I think the lack of Koreans, also lack of experience, and finally really Lopez didn't have a good tournament and this caused the competitiveness of the event to come down. I guess it is also kinda good because it made it for Saie to get up to gold pretty easily.

yeah i wanted to see iran's flag rising above the american flag

[Farhad-7]

wow I just watched azebaijan vs lopez bronze medal match. it was 2-2 and in the last second they both at the same time kick and lopez hits it first and wins.

great game!

next game up is 17 year old brit against the host chinese for another bronze medal match...

[Farhad-7]

and china wins it 4-1. great effort by the brit tho to come this FAR as a 17 year old!