Iran Men's Weightlifting National Team @Rio

[Keano]

Wow what a blatant robbery. So Unfair!

[O-ZoNe]

Salimi is distraught, pacing around.

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[persianbruin]

He opened too high. He should have gotten a lower weight like 240-242 in the bag like Talakhadze did. At worst, he would have locked in silver

my thoughts exactly

[Shah Abbas]

Lanat be in jury, haroomzade ha...
Behdad is the real Gold winner for me Ba gheirat

[Ab-Gosht]

behdad only needed 240kg for silver. the coaches took stupid risk all championschip even with sohrab they took a stupid risk

[Payam_Ali]

Has anyone here watched weightlifting before? They were close calls but Behdad's elbows were too soft. It's not always the judges fault

[mahestan]

Does he have another lift? If he does, please tell me his trainers are smart enough to have him sit out and not risk damaging his knee any further.

[Camran khan]

Guys eitherway if he made 245kg he would win Silver, not Gold. The injury killed him, he has done 255kg before but he can't now so soon after his surgery.. Poor guy.

[Ab-Gosht]

He opened too high. He should have gotten a lower weight like 240-242 in the bag like Talakhadze did. At worst, he would have locked in silver

yes but the coaches did this all olympic. its unbelievble they knew behdad knee and still they open too high. 240 was enough for silver

[Abtin]

He opened too high. He should have gotten a lower weight like 240-242 in the bag like Talakhadze did. At worst, he would have locked in silver

Exactly. But the Iranian Olympics comitee should do something about this. They have discriminated us in all sports they knew we could sweep the floor for medals.

[04041374]

Just give all the medals to USA and let it be. Screw Olympics, a politics-minded show.

[O-ZoNe]

Armenian guy just swore at fans for making noise. He swore at the Iranian fans!

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[Adesor Vafaseya]

F*CK this shit! This is getting out of hand now!
Ok I can somehow understand the first one being disapproved but wtf was wrong with the second attempt that the so called jury had to step in while 3 fckin referees had given 3 white lamps already?!

exactly, first one OK i can accept, second lift was fine!
the refs gave all three white lights!
it was robbery!

[Abtin]

Has anyone here watched weightlifting before? They were close calls but Behdad's elbows were too soft. It's not always the judges fault

His first lift was completely fine.

[DR Strangemoosh]

they need someone more intelligent. anoushiravani was great to get silver in 2012 but he isn't a coach. they fucked up the arithmetic for barari's lift and their tactics for Behdad's C+J were completely wrong.

The olympic weightlifting is also really unlucky. what is the point of having three referees when one jury member can overturn them (all three gave behdad a pass for his second lift but one jury member disagreed, then conferred with the rest of the jury, then they decided to appeal)

On the other hand, the pundits did say that both lifts were fouls but we have seen other people get away with fouls in other weight categories.