Iran @ The 2012 Summer Olympics: Day 7 [August 3]

[footballeirani]

Do not forget about Ehsan Haddadi the discus thrower. He is also a medal contender.

[manchooo]

Iran will do fine in these Olympics. Just wait until the end and that has nothing to do with the government. Like I said North Korea has 4 golds. lol

It has everything to do with IR. Management is everything. North Korea is an improvished country with barely enough food to keep its people dying from starvation and they get 4 golds, what does that tell you? It says that they've managed to allocatd their resources properly. They're doing marvelously with what they have.

Iran is the 17th largest economy by PPP and we have a bigger pop'n. We should be outperforming them.

I don't understand why some of you call others names for keeping it real. This is not optimism, this is just making yourself feel better.

[Camran khan]

^So far Rostami was expected to get gold, who else? You said two gold medals.

[Kaiser Amir]

very unlucky, we went in to this event with two gold medal hopefuls but came out with one bronze. rostami almost had it too..he won the worlds but finished third in this Olympics. we have many medal hopefuls in free style and greco roman wrestling hopefully that will make it a good Olympics for us.

The first iranian lifter was clearly injured.
Thats why he missed all his attempts and went out.

Rostami's bronz is worth a gold to me because, as Tavakoli (former Olympic gold medalist in Sydney 2000) also said on IRIB, he wasn't 100% fit tonight.

One of his wrists looked weak...

[footballeirani]

Most medals Iran has ever won in Olympics was 7 in 1952. That year we did not win any gold.

Most gold medals Iran has ever won in Olympics was 3 in 2000.

Know Iran's history in Olympics before you call this fail and catastrophe.

[Super Shojaei]

INorth Korea is an improvished country with barely enough food to keep its people dying from starvation and they get 4 golds, what does that tell you? It says that they've managed to allocatd their resources properly. They're doing marvelously with what they have.

this is absolute bs to the highest level. North korea's capital is very rich and a lot of its resources are plowed in to create young athletes and train them to their highest of abilities to show the rest of the world that they are coping just fine. its outside north korea's capital were there is a huge amount of poverty, if you lived in North Korea's capital your standard of living would be decent compared to a large majority of the poorest countries in the world.

[Super Shojaei]

Most medals Iran has ever won in Olympics was 7 in 1952. That year we did not win any gold.
Most gold medals Iran has ever won in Olympics was 3 in 2000.
Know Iran's history in Olympics before you call this fail and catastrophe.

also note that there are 100s of nations that have never won a medal at the olympic games.

[manchooo]

Most medals Iran has ever won in Olympics was 7 in 1952. That year we did not win any gold.

Most gold medals Iran has ever won in Olympics was 3 in 2000.

Know Iran's history in Olympics before you call this fail and catastrophe.

3 was a fail, this is also a fail.

I don't know about you, but I expect a country of almost 80 mln, with the 17th largest economy in PPP to do much better than this. Why is it that you're so content with borderline failure when our potential is so much more?

[palangheTM]

medal ceremony now on jj1 (recorded)

[manchooo]

this is absolute bs to the highest level. North korea's capital is very rich and a lot of its resources are plowed in to create young athletes and train them to their highest of abilities to show the rest of the world that they are coping just fine. its outside north korea's capital were there is a huge amount of poverty, if you lived in North Korea's capital your standard of living would be decent compared to a large majority of the poorest countries in the world.

lmao okay
only on this board you'll find someone saying that living conditions in Pyong Yang are great and use terms such as "very rich."

You guys keep on living in la la land while to world moves on and leaves you in the dust.

[Camran khan]

We've had so much bad luck so far, our boxers getting cheated out, Sohrab who lifted a total of 388kg last year (3kg more than the gold medal this year) was injured, Rostami not 100% fit. Hopefully this badluck streak will turn around very soon.

[Hosseini]

Congrats to Iran

Bad new for the SK lifter, he dislocated his elbow, same competition:

[footballeirani]

I think if our wrestlers do not choke we will break our own record in gold medals. We have 5 world champions in our wrestling teams. We might even break the total medals record as well. We have one world Taekwando world champion. A discus thrower which got bronze in world championship. And Salimi who is also a world champion plus Anoushirvan who is second to him.

[manchooo]

I think if our wrestlers do not choke we will break our own record in gold medals. We have 5 world champions in our wrestling teams. We might even break the total medals record as well. We have one world Taekwando world champion. A discus thrower which got bronze in world championship. And Salimi who is also a world champion plus Anoushirvan who is second to him.

Good luck to them all.

[palangheTM]

us born Amin Nikfar couldn't speak farsi