At the World Masters Weightlifting Championship in Poland, Israeli competitor, Sergio Britva, took first place in his class. Britva lifted an astonishing 300kg of weight, beating the second-placed competitor, the Iranian Hossein Khodadadi, by 4 kilos.
The two athletes mounted the podium to receive their medals, together
with the third-placed competitor from Germany. Britva and the German
shook hands. But when Britva offered his hand to Khodadadi, the Iranian refused it...
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Monday 15 November 2010
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Matters have moved on - http://notasheepmaybeagoat.blogspot.com/2010/11/ever-pleasant-iranian-regime.html - 'Mir Rasool Raisi, Head of Delegation to Iran's Weightlifting Team, and Hossein Khodadadi, a veteran weightlifting champion, have been banned from all sport activities for life. Mr. Khodadadi appeared on the platform beside an Israeli weight champion during the Poland competitions.
Jalal Yahya-Zadeh, head of Physical Education Committee for Youth Committee announced this news and and added: "The fact that an Iranian weightlifting veteran has competed against an Israeli during the worldwide competitions and has stood beside him during the distribution of medal is unjustifiable."'
Given what's likely waiting for him at home he probably should have asked for asylum
I can't blame Khodadadi for not shaking hands.
Not because I think Israelis have horrible Jewcooties, but because he'd have been in a tight personal spot when he returned, most likely.
(Look at, as above, the reaction from merely standing on the same podium.)
So now they have made enough progress to actually say Israel? Maybe the Iranian Spokesbigot will get the old heave-ho himself for not saying "Zionist entity."
These people need to learn Humility and they need the lesson repeated good and hard and in public.
The Persians (now Iranians) have had an inferiority complex since they were trounced repeated by ancient Greeks. A few Spartans and the Iranians were toast.
And even at that he is probably much better off than the torture and mutilation that Saddam Hussein's son performed on Iraqi atheletes.
But hey, it was totally wrong of us to remove him from power. Bad, Bad America.
Maybe the Israli lifter shouldn't have whispered "molon labe" to the Iranian.
So insensitive.
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