Special shoutout to Arash YOSHIDA (JPN), who won gold by beating Snyder in SF and Erfan ALIZADEH in Finals.
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Mohamdipiani wins Gold in GR 87kg in TiranaComment
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Mirzazadeh in GR 130 finals vs. Bakir (Turkie) in Tirana.Comment
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Mirza wins GOLD! We dominate heavy weight wrestling.
Our GR team didn't do as great overall (not a surprise, we're much stronger in FS). GR team came in 4th overall in Tirana.Comment
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Next up: Asian Championships week after Nowruz.Comment
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Why is so much wrestling in Albania now?
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Maybe because it's an easy geographic location between Europe and Asia? I personally don't like having tournaments there since they harbor MEK and also banned our wrestlers in the past.Originally posted by Nokhodi View Post
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We are STACKED at GR (and FS) heavy weights:
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'I was destroyed, couldn't sleep': Ghasempour recalls painful loss to Sadulaev at World Championships
TIRANA, Albania (March 10) -- "I've thought about it a lot. Of course, it's in the past and thinking about it won't change anything. But I've thought a lot about why I made a mistake in those four seconds and I could have managed the wrestling differently and finished it very easily."
"The reality is that the fighting spirit and the feeling I had on the first day of the competition caused all those feelings to disappear and I was destroyed. I couldn't control myself and I just wanted the competition to end and go back," Ghasmepour says, with his voice breaking as he recollects his thoughts.
"It was also very difficult for me to come to terms with the loss," Ghasempour recalls. "After the match, I felt very bad and didn't sleep all night. I was awake from the intensity of thought and pressure, and it was very difficult for me. Due to the pressure I was under, I took four painkillers after the match."
"When I was going up to the podium [after winning gold in Tirana], I thought again that I could have been standing on the Worlds podium a few months ago, not this tournament," he said. "But that's how sports is, and if a professional athlete wants to continue their path, they must know that winning and losing are part of sports."
"People gave me a lot of good energy and praised me constantly, which shows the kindness of the people," he says. "But what I wanted didn't happen and the result wasn't as I wanted. It would have been better if it ended with a good result."
"There are three more World Championships left before the Olympics [in 2028]," he says. "The World Championships are very important to me, and after that, it's the Olympic medal that I want to have in my medal showcase. In the year leading up to the Olympics, I will make the decision and compete in a weight class so that I can participate in the Olympics."
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