Iran at the 2008 Paralympics

[Ali]

Our wheelchair basketball team lost 73-63 to Germany but didnt matter as we had already qualified for the quarter final. the team also play canada in their final group match.


our volleyball team will be versing Russia in the semi-final. if we win we secure either gold or silver!

[Super Shojaei]

man our paralympic team kicks ass

[tashakor]

^ ya at the last paralympics we won like 23 medals....this yr we have less athletes.

[Ali]

yey! we won another silver medal!
Abdolrezah Jokar got it for us in Javelin.

[Ali]

Our goalball team defeated the hosts china 8-6 but failed to advance to the quarter finals. we still will play belgium in the 9th place match.

[Ali]

Our volleyball team defeated Russia in 3 straight sets and advanced to the final. We look set to win the gold medal as we are versing Bosnia who i dont think have a team as good as us. We have defeated Japan, Brazil, Egypt and Russia all without dropping any sets. We will win this!

[Ali]

Our wheelchair basketball team will face USA in the quarter final.

Our football 7-a-side lost to Ukraine 4-0. We advanced to the semis anyway and will face Russia.Inshalla our boys will win.

An update on our medal tally:

Gold 1
Silver 3
Bronze 1
Total 5

[Ali]

Pics from Jokar's silver medal win in javelin.

[Karimi_1]

Pics from Jokar's silver medal win in javelin.

great pictures goooo irrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

[pajamNL]

great, soo proud !

thanks for the updates everyone

[Super Shojaei]

man we kick ass at paralympics.

[mayhem]

man we kick ass at paralympics.

lol

is it me or is it whenever we dont pay attention at a sport we do well! it happens with futsal and our basketball, our youngsters won the world championship like 2 years ago in volleyball, and now paralympics!

will done to them!

[Ali]

^why dont our true heroes get any attention. Our heroes who have are disabled but don't lie down in bed for the rest of their life and go and compete for their country.

[Ali]

Pics from the Volleyball semifinal which we won 3-0 against Russia.
http://www.mehrnews.com/fa/newsdetai...?NewsID=748278
http://www.mehrnews.com/fa/newsdetai...?NewsID=748279

[Ali]

Iran won another silver medal!

I won it for us!

lol Ali Hosseini won it in Powerlifting -67.5 kg. my name is Ali Hosseini too
He lifted 215 kgs

Pics: http://207.97.215.42/fa/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=694363

We now have 1 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze