Wrestling 2020 Discussion Thread

[Gianlu33 6,008]

Italian government decided to give the Italian nationality for special merits to Nikoloz Kakhelashvili

 

[Grassmarket 4,296]

 

 

 

International Olympics Committee president Thomas Bach is "extremely concerned" about the death sentence passed down on an Iranian champion wrestler who took part in protests two years ago.

 

[MHSN 3,813]

On 10/09/2020 at 22:17, Grassmarket said:

 

 

 

International Olympics Committee president Thomas Bach is "extremely concerned" about the death sentence passed down on an Iranian champion wrestler who took part in protests two years ago.

 

fortunately this is the internet age, and every results are archived, otherwise they would make this guy a former Olympic champion or something like that. "Champion wrestler" ! yes sure, he was a wrestler a decade ago in his town. by IOC standards that surely qualifies him to be a "Champion"

 

since IOC/FIFA/ AAA/BBB/CCC are worried about the murderers, I wonder why they didn't defend Oscar Pistorius, he was an Olympian and a Paralympics champion after all, he had the right to kill people and walk free, they were cruel to deny him that right. #FreeOscarMurderious

[LDOG 2,477]

1 hour ago, MHSN said:

fortunately this is the internet age, and every results are archived, otherwise they would make this guy a former Olympic champion or something like that. "Champion wrestler" ! yes sure, he was a wrestler a decade ago in his town. by IOC standards that surely qualifies him to be a "Champion"

 

since IOC/FIFA/ AAA/BBB/CCC are worried about the murderers, I wonder why they didn't defend Oscar Pistorius, he was an Olympian and a Paralympics champion after all, he had the right to kill people and walk free, they were cruel to deny him that right. #FreeOscarMurderious

I don't think his achievements or status as athlete or the political use of IOC should be a point of discussion here. Rather if he's actually guilty and if it's true or not that his confession was extracted under torture (I don't know anything about the specifics of the case so I won't pass judgement on that).

[MHSN 3,813]

5 minutes ago, LDOG said:

I don't think his achievements or status as athlete or the political use of IOC should be a point of discussion here. Rather if he's actually guilty and if it's true or not that his confession was extracted under torture (I don't know anything about the specifics of the case so I won't pass judgement on that).

that's true but then this guy is an ordinary person, this is like any other murder case. and it has nothing to do with IOC, FIFA (seriously, FIFA ?) and other non-clean organizations. even though even if he was an Olympic champion that still had nothing to do with the IOC. do they interfere in every single case in China, Saudi Arabia or any other country ? or it's always easier to act like a fake "hero" when it's about Iran ?

 

I don't want to get into details, this is a sport forum, but from what I read, heard and watched, I think he is guilty, of course I don't trust the system though. but this is just a simple murder case, not a security/political matter. (where they feel they have to lie) the Iranian regime is notorious for dishonestly, so you always can say something against them and hope for people to believe it.  that's what this guy's family is doing. but I don't think this is going to help him, his claim doesn't have much support inside the country (unlike another case a month ago about 3 other kids and they survived eventually) this is mostly twitter and naive western journalists trying to make a story

 

[Vic Liu 1,701]

12 hours ago, MHSN said:

that's true but then this guy is an ordinary person, this is like any other murder case. and it has nothing to do with IOC, FIFA (seriously, FIFA ?) and other non-clean organizations. even though even if he was an Olympic champion that still had nothing to do with the IOC. do they interfere in every single case in China, Saudi Arabia or any other country ? or it's always easier to act like a fake "hero" when it's about Iran ?

 

I don't want to get into details, this is a sport forum, but from what I read, heard and watched, I think he is guilty, of course I don't trust the system though. but this is just a simple murder case, not a security/political matter. (where they feel they have to lie) the Iranian regime is notorious for dishonestly, so you always can say something against them and hope for people to believe it.  that's what this guy's family is doing. but I don't think this is going to help him, his claim doesn't have much support inside the country (unlike another case a month ago about 3 other kids and they survived eventually) this is mostly twitter and naive western journalists trying to make a story

 

Just another routine news for China, Russia and Iran. Just calm down and chill.

[MHSN 3,813]

1 hour ago, Vic Liu said:

Just another routine news for China, Russia and Iran. Just calm down and chill.

yes I know , that's true about the western media, I don't care much about them

 

but I can't remember the great clean lovely IOC ever publishes a statement like this about any other country.

 

https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-statement-on-the-execution-of-wrestler-navid-afkari-in-iran

 

next time they should ask IAAF/WA permission, since everybody runs at least once in a while.

 

btw an Iranian kid, this time a real wrestler, youth Olympic medalist was facing death because of cancer and because of lack of special medicines in Iran, I can't remember if anybody cared. specially the great IOC. you can't even find a line in English about him.

[heywoodu 16,460]

9 minutes ago, MHSN said:

yes I know , that's true about the western media, I don't care much about them

 

but I can't remember the great clean lovely IOC ever publishes a statement like this about any other country.

 

https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-statement-on-the-execution-of-wrestler-navid-afkari-in-iran

 

next time they should ask IAAF/WA permission, since everybody runs at least once in a while.

 

btw an Iranian kid, this time a real wrestler, youth Olympic medalist was facing death because of cancer and because of lack of special medicines in Iran, I can't remember if anybody cared. specially the great IOC. you can't even find a line in English about him.

He was facing death? What's the current situation there?

[Grassmarket 4,296]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

He was facing death? What's the current situation there?

Executed this morning.

[MHSN 3,813]

7 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

He was facing death? What's the current situation there?

his treatment process faced more difficulties because of the coronavirus but a week ago he said he beat the cancer, probably a bit of exaggeration, cancer is not easy to beat but at least he is not in danger anymore, at least for now

 

his pics before and after the cancer