What a roller coaster ride!
I never though a sport, other than football, can take me through so many emotions in a matter of minutes.
However, Navab Nasirshelal's faith in the weightlifting really moved me.
Almost two hours have passed since he finished his competition and I still can't recover...
When he made his penultimate try, which took him to the top of the standings, I was in ectasy.
It suddenly found myself standing in my chair and clapping like crazy.
And, then I realized something else:
I was standing all alone in the middle of the office with no one around.
I was so captured by Nasirshelal's performance that I didn't realize when everybody else in the building left one by one, leaving me all alone
And then came the dissapointment.
The fall from the top.
The ukrainian who stole Nasirshelal's gold with his LAST EFFORT.
I was shattered.
I can't even describe how I felt.
My only consolation was Nasirshelal's reaction.
When I saw him smiling, even though his gold had just became silver, it calmed me to some extent.
I'm convinced that had I seen Nasirshelal crying, I would have broke into tears as well.
However, I made a promise to myself:
To NEVER forget this guy's name.
He made me so emotional.
He came from NO WHERE, nobody expected him to win any medal, and he stole the show.
In MY "standings", he is a champion.
Navab Nasirshelal stroke GOLD in my heart.
Forever!
Which brings me to my second point:
I hope we won't forget these names:
Hamid Sourian
Omid Haji Noorozi
Navab Nasirshelal
These guys:
- Come from no where
- They make peanuts compared to our over-paid, lazy footballers
- They get zero media coverage compared to those same footballers
And, despite all this:
They make us SO PROUD at world stage.
Vaghan dameshun garm!
A question:
Does anyone know how much Iran will reward its athlets for gold, silver and bronze medals?
For example, in Romania, if you win an Olympic gold medal, then you'll get:
- 70.000 euros in prize money
- A car worth 30.000 euros
- A life-time income of over 1.000 euros per month.
I never though a sport, other than football, can take me through so many emotions in a matter of minutes.
However, Navab Nasirshelal's faith in the weightlifting really moved me.
Almost two hours have passed since he finished his competition and I still can't recover...
When he made his penultimate try, which took him to the top of the standings, I was in ectasy.
It suddenly found myself standing in my chair and clapping like crazy.
And, then I realized something else:
I was standing all alone in the middle of the office with no one around.
I was so captured by Nasirshelal's performance that I didn't realize when everybody else in the building left one by one, leaving me all alone
And then came the dissapointment.
The fall from the top.
The ukrainian who stole Nasirshelal's gold with his LAST EFFORT.
I was shattered.
I can't even describe how I felt.
My only consolation was Nasirshelal's reaction.
When I saw him smiling, even though his gold had just became silver, it calmed me to some extent.
I'm convinced that had I seen Nasirshelal crying, I would have broke into tears as well.
However, I made a promise to myself:
To NEVER forget this guy's name.
He made me so emotional.
He came from NO WHERE, nobody expected him to win any medal, and he stole the show.
In MY "standings", he is a champion.
Navab Nasirshelal stroke GOLD in my heart.
Forever!
Which brings me to my second point:
I hope we won't forget these names:
Hamid Sourian
Omid Haji Noorozi
Navab Nasirshelal
These guys:
- Come from no where
- They make peanuts compared to our over-paid, lazy footballers
- They get zero media coverage compared to those same footballers
And, despite all this:
They make us SO PROUD at world stage.
Vaghan dameshun garm!
A question:
Does anyone know how much Iran will reward its athlets for gold, silver and bronze medals?
For example, in Romania, if you win an Olympic gold medal, then you'll get:
- 70.000 euros in prize money
- A car worth 30.000 euros
- A life-time income of over 1.000 euros per month.
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