Road to Olympics 2020 Tokyo

[PSGman#19]

We have a gymnastic champion in a competition in Qatar. Maybe we will have an additional athlete in Tokyo

Also we beat Japan 72/67 in basketball (friendly)

They gave the Olympic qualifications to a Japanese gymnast instead of the Iranian

[diz]

[PSGman#19]

2 iranian swimmers broke iranian record in Bulgaria. It seems it counts as olympic qualifiers but not sure if they qualified for Tokyo2020

[PSGman#19]

Taftian finished 2nd in a 100m race (10s24) in Germany

[PSGman#19]

We have a new Olympian (badminton woman).
We have currently 67 athletes for Tokyo2020!

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/462468/Aghaei-becomes-the-first-woman-to-represent-Iran-at-Olympics

[_Navid_]

There will be a 29 person refugee team in the Olympics. 5 Iranians have been selected to be included in this team including Kimia Alizadeh (Taekwondo) and Javad Mahjoub (Judo).

Really happy to see Kimia in the Olympics again.

https://olympics.com/ioc/refugee-olympic-team-tokyo-2020

[inarsenewetrust]

As psgman mentioned, fasihi is IN. awesome news

[PSGman#19]

Farzaneh Fasihi, Iranian woman sprinter will participate at the Olympics :

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/462422/Woman-sprinter-Fasihi-to-represent-Iran-at-Tokyo-2020

[PSGman#19]

We have a new Olympian (badminton woman).
We have currently 67 athletes for Tokyo2020!

[_Navid_]

A terrible news has just came out. Iran's #1 gold medal chance in the Olympics has tested positive for doping. Apparently it was a medicine given to him by his doctor.

https://video.varzesh3.com/video/234773/%D9%84%D9%88-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%86-%D8%BA%DB%8C%D8%B1-%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%AF%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%86-%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF-%D9%85%D8%AB%D8%A8%D8%AA-%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C-%D9%BE%D8%AE%D8%B4-%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87

[_Navid_]

We have a gymnastic champion in a competition in Qatar. Maybe we will have an additional athlete in Tokyo

Also we beat Japan 72/67 in basketball (friendly)

Believe it or not if he qualifies he even has a shot for medal in Tokyo. Keikha has even patented moves in Pommel Horse to his name.

[PSGman#19]

We have a gymnastic champion in a competition in Qatar. Maybe we will have an additional athlete in Tokyo

Also we beat Japan 72/67 in basketball (friendly)

[Ostad_Goosfand]

Mehdi's situation was a bit different to our other athletes who refuge to other countries. He married this beautiful Serbian taekwondo athlete and since he had been living in Serbia for a few years he directly asked permission from Iran's Taekwondo federation to represent Serbia. Anyway his career was over after Rio, he hasn't achieved anything since.
From 2014 to 2016 we had the 2 best Taekwondo athletes in the world. Khodabakhshi and Ashouzadeh were so good that they had received nicknames "The terminator" and "Tsunami" respectively. I don't know what the hell suddenly happened to them in the Olympics. I was expecting gold from both!

Ahh that’s interesting I did not know that! I remember farzan ashourzadeh too, #1 in the world and favorite and lost in the first round to some Moroccan scrub

[_Navid_]

not sure if posted already, you guys remember our 2016 #1 taekwondo guy Mehdi Khodabakhshi who lost to Milad Beigi (who is Iranian but represented Azerbaijan because we had already sent Mehdi)? well Khodabakhshi now represented Serbia LOL. he did not qualify though due to injury

Mehdi's situation was a bit different to our other athletes who refuge to other countries. He married this beautiful Serbian taekwondo athlete and since he had been living in Serbia for a few years he directly asked permission from Iran's Taekwondo federation to represent Serbia. Anyway his career was over after Rio, he hasn't achieved anything since.
From 2014 to 2016 we had the 2 best Taekwondo athletes in the world. Khodabakhshi and Ashouzadeh were so good that they had received nicknames "The terminator" and "Tsunami" respectively. I don't know what the hell suddenly happened to them in the Olympics. I was expecting gold from both!

[Ostad_Goosfand]

not sure if posted already, you guys remember our 2016 #1 taekwondo guy Mehdi Khodabakhshi who lost to Milad Beigi (who is Iranian but represented Azerbaijan because we had already sent Mehdi)? well Khodabakhshi now represented Serbia LOL. he did not qualify though due to injury