Olympic watch (2016 Rio news, qualifications, athletes)

[Babak agha]

We have 2 wrestlers tommorow and 1 in Taekwondo. Mardani will be our last hope for Taekwondo tommorow!

Milad Beigi didn't make the finals? So no repechage?

[Tehranto]

Milad Beigi didn't make the finals?

No. It shows Mehdi was just weaker than we expected.

Really shame our men didn't grab gold in TWKD. It was there for the taking.

[Tehranto]

guys over this course of olympics ive had a hard time finding good highlights and PICTURES.....can anyone post pictures of the medals and ceremonies or celebrations? i have seen only a few and im not sure what sites put these up. Footballitarin used to show a lot of stuff but they're not showing anything.

Get on Twitter man. Everything is there. Best source of information, in real-time.

One more thing, our young 21 year old won. This is a recipe we should follow in future. They have the physical tools to do it!

[O-ZoNe]

It didn't work to our advantage. Yazdani's pure talent did.

The last point tie has always gone against us. And refs have always awarded challenges and stupid penalties against us. Take nothing away from Yazadani, but if the ref wanted to screw us out of a gold, he had chances, and the Russian's tried to take them.

guys over this course of olympics ive had a hard time finding good highlights and PICTURES.....can anyone post pictures of the medals and ceremonies or celebrations? i have seen only a few and im not sure what sites put these up. Footballitarin used to show a lot of stuff but they're not showing anything.

CBC.ca/olympics
They host all the live streams afterwards as videos, and they always include medal ceremonies. Also, they live stream every single event!

[Mani]

No. It shows Mehdi was just weaker than we expected.
Really shame our men didn't grab gold in TWKD. It was there for the taking.

No, Mehdi is the best in his class in the world by far and a head and shoulders above Milad. Mehdi would beat Milad 9 out of 10 times, and he has done that already in terms of head-to-head record. The problem here is that Milad was a practice partner of Mehdi and has played with him for years, they were teammates, so Milad had an unfair advantage in the fight knowing all of Mehdi's tactics/styles etc, essentially the team secrets so to speak, being a former teammate of Mehdi and luck was on his side too. So the main problem here is this unfair advantage which cost Iran a Gold medal. As I said on another thread:

Iran should introduce a law that strips the citizenship, the right to travel to Iran, for any Iranian citizen who take parts in the Olympics under another country's flag. This is different from dual citizenship under normal circumstances. Milad Beigi, for example, who lives in Iran and was developed with Iranian public/tax payers' money, essentially cost Iran a Gold medal at the Olympics, for his own personal gain. if there was a law against this, guys like him would think twice before joining Azerbaijan or Qatar etc. If they don't put a stop to this ASAP, you gonna have every national team reject joining another team and then eliminate fellow Iranians at major events like Olympics with whom he or she is familiar with in terms of style and play, being former teammates.

[Keano]

Damn, just remembered how many medals we got in 2012 Olympics:

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[Abtin]

Damn, just remembered how many medals we got in 2012 Olympics:

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Had the GR team not shocked unbelievably, Behdad not robbed, Farzan not looked at the clock, and Abedini a bit more lucky, it could have looked better this time 😐

[perspolis#1]

We always end up being in the top 15 for Medals to Athletes ratio anyway.

[Keano]

Had the GR team not shocked unbelievably, Behdad not robbed, Farzan not looked at the clock, and Abedini a bit more lucky, it could have looked better this time 😐

It's ok, that's the whole beauty of sports competitions. Nothing is predictable, and anything can flip. Imagine always the favorites beating the underdogs, watching sports would have been quite bland and boring.

Let's cherish the games and our athletes participation while it lasts and enjoy the spirit of the games. Afterall it was the whole and entire purpose of the olympics games when it was first launched!

Cheers!

[AIrani]

No, Mehdi is the best in his class in the world by far and a head and shoulders above Milad. Mehdi would beat Milad 9 out of 10 times, and he has done that already in terms of head-to-head record. The problem here is that Milad was a practice partner of Mehdi and has played with him for years, they were teammates, so Milad had an unfair advantage in the fight knowing all of Mehdi's tactics/styles etc, essentially the team secrets so to speak, being a former teammate of Mehdi and luck was on his side too. So the main problem here is this unfair advantage which cost Iran a Gold medal. As I said on another thread:

Iran should introduce a law that strips the citizenship, the right to travel to Iran, for any Iranian citizen who take parts in the Olympics under another country's flag. This is different from dual citizenship under normal circumstances. Milad Beigi, for example, who lives in Iran and was developed with Iranian public/tax payers' money, essentially cost Iran a Gold medal at the Olympics, for his own personal gain. if there was a law against this, guys like him would think twice before joining Azerbaijan or Qatar etc. If they don't put a stop to this ASAP, you gonna have every national team reject joining another team and then eliminate fellow Iranians at major events like Olympics with whom he or she is familiar with in terms of style and play, being former teammates.

Vatan foroshi comes in different forms and styles. There are Iranians who change their names, nationalities, and forget about Iran. Worse, there are Iranians who work for foreign companies that produce military gear which are dropped or used against weaker countries.

To me, Iranian athelets must practice more and people stand behind them. Iranians must NOT expect everything to be done by their governments. Many Iranians who are rich (both inside and outside of Iran) should help Iran and Iranians to excel in their fields including sports. This is HOW Iranians will succeed.

Pa-yan-deh Iran.

[mahestan]

Vatan foroshi comes in different forms and styles. There are Iranians who change their names, nationalities, and forget about Iran. Worse, there are Iranians who work for foreign companies that produce military gear which are dropped or used against weaker countries.

To me, Iranian athelets must practice more and people stand behind them. Iranians must NOT expect everything to be done by their governments. Many Iranians who are rich (both inside and outside of Iran) should help Iran and Iranians to excel in their fields including sports. This is HOW Iranians will succeed.

Pa-yan-deh Iran.

I don't know how familiar you are with the defense industry in the US, but the US economy actually relies very heavily on the defense industry. It is to the point if funding is cut off, many families will end up losing homes because there will be no further contracts and the defense companies will have to lay people off and close up shop. Now, that being said, there isn't actually that many Iranians working for the defense industry based on the fact that Iran is branded as a country in the axis of evil. What i am trying to say is Iranians won't be getting the DoT background clearance necessary to work for defense companies. IF there are any Iranians working for them, they are either grandfathered into the program/company (from the 70s and 80s) or work for a sub contractor that supplies the major defense company.

[AIrani]

I don't know how familiar you are with the defense industry in the US, but the US economy actually relies very heavily on the defense industry. It is to the point if funding is cut off, many families will end up losing homes because there will be no further contracts and the defense companies will have to lay people off and close up shop. Now, that being said, there isn't actually that many Iranians working for the defense industry based on the fact that Iran is branded as a country in the axis of evil. What i am trying to say is Iranians won't be getting the DoT background clearance necessary to work for defense companies. IF there are any Iranians working for them, they are either grandfathered into the program/company (from the 70s and 80s) or work for a sub contractor that supplies the major defense company.

More than 40% of USA GDP depends on military gear. Wars are created to benefit military industry.

Iranians who work in the USA, for example, at Cal Tech, are involved in research which their ideas have been mass produced to drop bombs on weaker countries. Another example, USA gives grant money to many to work on these ideas and worse to go to other countries to collect data. There are Iranians who have used these grants to travel to Baku to help Azeri government. I do not know WHY Iranians are not upset at these Iranians but get upset when another Iranians wrestles or competes for Azerbaijan???

There are many rich Iranians who are not helping Iran or Iranian students or athletes.

Thanks to those Iranians who do not change their nationality for money or better living conditions, Iran has managed to stay active and strong.

Hasan Yazdani who won GOLD on Friday, August 19, 2016 has Phalevan Takhti characteristics. Cheers.

[Mani]

Has anyone else noticed how Hassan Yzadani looks like Takhti?

[Tehranto]

Has anyone else noticed how Hassan Yzadani looks like Takhti?

He is such an AGHA too. Damesh garm. May God provide extraordinarily for him.

[ehsan singapore]

iran is on 8 medal, we have 5 medalist left, if we are lucky we can have 5 gold, or get 12 medal in total