Iran @ The 2012 Summer Olympics: Day 14 [August 10] - Live Updates

[Adesor Vafaseya]

Yikes! Iran got OWNED! Good effort by our guy but that American guy was incredible! Incredibly rude by not shaking Goudrazi's hand as well.

So thats 5 Silvers? Ouch!

Does anyone know how many more chances for a Gold we have left remaining? Real chances?

Taghavi, Yazdani are current world champs
Lashgar, Esmaeilpour, Komeili have also serious chances...

Our Freestyle used to be way stronger, while in Grecko-Roman wrestling we literally had no say at all in international scenes, it's all changed now I guess!

baba why soo soon to conclusions? This was day 1 freestyle and we got 1 nice Silver.
we have some world champs in our freestyle squad, we have 5 more wrestlers to come. all with serious medal chances!
This Freestyle squad that we have is one of the strongest we ever sent to olympics.... yekkam sabr kon janam and enjoy the silver

[soniq]

Its really hard to go up the ranking now unless we win some Gold

1	United States of America	40	25	26	91
2	People's Republic of China	37	25	19	81
3	Great Britain	25	15	16	56
4	Russian Federation	14	21	25	60
5	Republic of Korea	12	7	6	25
6	Germany	10	17	11	38
7	France	8	9	12	29
8	Hungary	8	4	3	15
9	Australia	7	14	10	31
10	Italy	7	6	7	20
11	Kazakhstan	6	0	3	9
12	Japan	5	14	16	35
13	Netherlands	5	5	8	18
14	Islamic Republic of Iran	4	5	1	10

[Shogun_Rua]

With all due respect all that information is in Wikipedia. Spend 5 mins there and you would know or can at least tell who the favorite is.

Goudarzi was not favored in this match. Yazdani and Taghavi are our best chances. Again that is also on wikipedia.

I don't get my information from Wikipedia (well I do go back sometimes to check on a few things), I actually follow Wrestling and in particular Iranian wrestlers..

[theDCpersian]

Burroughs was the better wrestler, congrats to him eventho he is rude for not shaking Sadegh's hand, silver is still good no shame in silver.

[Ali_reza]

Close final. Goudarzi was the one taking iniative all the time, but the american was a solid wreslter.

Goudarzi could've definatley beaten this guy.

Congrats for the silver medal.

[Spyder]

I missed that ...... did he refuse to shake his hand or did he just forget?

Nah too busy celebrating. Watch on reply. Totally ignored Goudrazi. I gotta admit though - he is damn good! Sad to see him such an a$$ though

[Makan]

Incredibly rude by not shaking Goudrazi's hand as well.

I was looking to see if he would shake his hand too though he never did. But interestingly, Burroughs shook the hands of the two Iranian coaches on the side.

[footballeirani]

Shogun_Rua is one of the only people on this board, if not the only one, who knows something about wrestling.

Based on his knowledge, he is predicting Goudarzi to lose and, as always, he is getting critisised by fellow members who know very little / nothing about wrestling

Reminds me of my situation in the football forum

Of course, right now, because I know nothing about wrestling, I predict Goudarzi to win gold.

Its sometimes a good thing, if you don't know much.
It allows you to be optimist

With all due respect all that information is in Wikipedia. Spend 5 mins there and you would know or can at least tell who the favorite is.

Goudarzi was not favored in this match. Yazdani and Taghavi are our best chances. Again that is also on wikipedia.

[Martin-Reza]

The American is simply the best wrestler in that weightclass, so no need to be bitter, Silver is great for Goudarzi, he was lucky to have avoided the Russian, who actually would probably would have beaten him too.

[Payam_Ali]

If I'm not mistaken karami fights in 10 mins.. right?

[Kaiser Amir]

And, Shogun_Rea, the REALIST, gets it right.

Dame Goudarzi garm.
Did a very good job, but the better PLAYER won fairly.

Thats medal NUMBER 10 for Iran.

Simply A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!

Last week, when Romania got its 6th or 7th medal, one of my collegues laughed at me (innocent joke), saying:

Amir, you guys will never catch us now in the medal standing.

Now, one week later, look at the standings:

Iran is 14th, Romania is some where in the 23rd place.
Iran just won its 10th medal, Romania will most probably finish with the current 9

Dame shir bache-haye Iran garm.

[50Toman]

the american was just too fast

[Spyder]

shogun says that we are favorites for two more wrestling golds

I hope so. It seems these are the Silver olympics for us.

[OFFSIDE_1]

Yikes! Iran got OWNED! Good effort by our guy but that American guy was incredible! Incredibly rude by not shaking Goudrazi's hand as well.

So thats 5 Silvers? Ouch!

Does anyone know how many more chances for a Gold we have left remaining? Real chances?

I missed that ...... did he refuse to shake his hand or did he just forget?

[Kiarash]

He went for the legs from the beginning..and that was fatal for Goudrazi