Iran @ The 2012 Summer Olympics: Day 10 [August 6] - Live Updates

[iraniboy]

yes we got gold again!! silver is good too but gold metals are pretty much in a whole other league..wish we can get more gold metals and make this our best olympics ever!

[manchooo]

1 more gold would put us solidly around the 15th position overall.

... which brought me 2 day dream the idea that if our good 'ol iran of shah's time had continued on, without us going back 100 yrs. in 1979, we would easily ... in fact, most definitely ... been in the top 10 of the world in every summer olympics ... still, a big khasteh nabashid 2 all our pahlevans 4 doing us proud, despite all the shortcomings.

Definitly. At the very least, our women would be bagging some medals as well.

[Camran khan]

What is impressive about our wrestlers is that most of them are poor kids who do it for the love of the game, so I believe one of the reasons for their success is their gheyrat
It's a shame that our football players don't have such gheyrat.

[Prince of Fasa]

Originally Posted by Ario Barzan

1 more gold would put us solidly around the 15th position overall.

... which brought me 2 day dream the idea that if our good 'ol iran of shah's time had continued on, without us going back 100 yrs. in 1979, we would easily ... in fact, most definitely ... been in the top 10 of the world in every summer olympics ... still, a big khasteh nabashid 2 all our pahlevans 4 doing us proud, despite all the shortcomings.

What are you talking about in the 1976 summer olympics (the last one of the shahs time) we only had 2 medals one bronze and one silver, I hate this government just as much as you but don't try to glorify the shah. The fact is that our athletes put their heart, effort, blood, and sweat into representing their country so we shouldn't try to take anything away from that.

[manchooo]

man wtf

Turkey has zero medals lol
Spain has only 2 silvers and 1 bronze wtf
India hasn't got a gold yet
and Kazakhstan is owning

[Ario Barzan]

Definitly. At the very least, our women would be bagging some medals as well.

no doubt ... i was watching turkey vs. USA in women's VB over the weekend and couldn't help but think that exact same thing ... our beautiful, sar-boland, shir-zan would have nothing less than turkey's.

[Siavash]

What is impressive about our wrestlers is that most of them are poor kids who do it for the love of the game, so I believe one of the reasons for their success is their gheyrat
It's a shame that our football players don't have such gheyrat.

Football players used to play with Ghyrat but so much money got the best of them. They sold their Ghyrat.

[manchooo]

What are you talking about in the 1976 summer olympics (the last one of the shahs time) we only had 2 medals one bronze and one silver, I hate this government just as much as you but don't try to glorify the shah. The fact is that our athletes put their heart, effort, blood, and sweat into representing their country so we shouldn't try to take anything away from that.

baba, this is 2012, that was 1976. We would have had a much better growth in economy and sports under the shah.

[iraniboy]

man wtf

Turkey has zero medals lol
Spain has only 2 silvers and 1 bronze wtf
India hasn't got a gold yet
and Kazakhstan is owning

how could such a s*** country like Kazakhstan been in 8th place? lol ahh life is just not fair..

[Shogun_Rua]

We are now 24th.
Any other medal hopes till the end of the games?

Sure we can get atleast 5 more, my predictions

Weightlifting:

Behdad Salimi - Gold
Sajjad Anoushiravani - Silver/Bronze

Taekwondo:

Mohammad Bagheri Motamed - Gold/Silver
Yousef Karami - Gold/Silver/Bronze not sure which one.

Greco Roman Wrestling:

Saeid Abdevali - Tomorrow - Gold
Ghasem Rezaei - Tommorow - He could medal

Freestyle Wrestling:

Mehdi Taghavi - Gold
Reza Yazdani - Gold/Silver
Hassan Rahimi - Bronze
Sadegh Goudarzi - Silver/Bronze

and the rest of the freestyle team have a chance as well depending on who they get on their side of the draw but I wouldn't count on it.

[Ario Barzan]

what i'm talking about is something perhaps u don't comprehend!?! ... read manchoo's logical post again about our women, and maybe u'll understand the significance.

also, as i repeatedly said in my other posts -----> sepas 2 all our pahlavans so far 4 doing our motherland proud in these olympics and may we see more hardware

What are you talking about in the 1976 summer olympics (the last one of the shahs time) we only had 2 medals one bronze and one silver, I hate this government just as much as you but don't try to glorify the shah. The fact is that our athletes put their heart, effort, blood, and sweat into representing their country so we shouldn't try to take anything away from that.

[Soroush-IK]

Turkey has zero medals lol

1 Bronze, wrestling 120kg!

[manchooo]

how could such a s*** country like Kazakhstan been in 8th place? lol ahh life is just not fair..

lol jokes aside, Kazakhstan is becoming a proper country. They already have a GDP/capita of 13K. They have a good future.

[Shogun_Rua]

how could such a s*** country like Kazakhstan been in 8th place? lol ahh life is just not fair..

Because there are a lot of Russians/Soviet people who live in Kazakhstan, also a lot of them go to compete for Kazakhstan if they can't make it for their country. Also because Kazakhstan is the greatest country in the world.

[soniq]

Sure we can get atleast 5 more, my predictions

Weightlifting:

Behdad Salimi - Gold
Sajjad Anoushiravani - Silver/Bronze

Taekwondo:

Mohammad Bagheri Motamed - Gold/Silver
Yousef Karami - Gold/Silver/Bronze not sure which one.

Greco Roman Wrestling:

Saeid Abdevali - Tomorrow - Gold
Ghasem Rezaei - Tommorow - He could medal

Freestyle Wrestling:

Mehdi Taghavi - Gold
Reza Yazdani - Gold/Silver
Hassan Rahimi - Bronze
Sadegh Goudarzi - Silver/Bronze

and the rest of the freestyle team have a chance as well depending on who they get on their side of the draw but I wouldn't count on it.

Going by what you are saying this could be our histories best olympic games ever. I'm not sure if I can trust you

1900 Paris	0	0	0	0	—
1904–1936	Did not participate
1948 London	0	0	1	1	34
1952 Helsinki	0	3	4	7	30
1956 Melbourne	2	2	1	5	14
1960 Rome	0	1	3	4	27
1964 Tokyo	0	0	2	2	34
1968 Mexico City	2	1	2	5	19
1972 Munich	0	2	1	3	28
1976 Montreal	0	1	1	2	33
1980 Moscow	Did not participate (Boycotted)
1984 Los Angeles	Did not participate (Boycotted)
1988 Seoul	0	1	0	1	36
1992 Barcelona	0	1	2	3	44
1996 Atlanta	1	1	1	3	43
2000 Sydney	3	0	1	4	27
2004 Athens	2	2	2	6	29
2008 Beijing	1	0	1	2	51
2012 London	2	1	1	4	24