Description:Chapters: Arash Miresmaeili, Mahmoud Miran, Masoud Haji Akhondzadeh, Abbas Fallah, Mohammad Reza Roudaki, Hossein Ghomi, Reza Chahkhandagh. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Arash Miresmaeili (Persian:, born March 3, 1981 in Khorramabad) is a retired Iranian judoka who currently is head coach of the Iran national judo team. He is a double world featherweight champion. He won the gold medal in two World Judo Championships, the first one in 2001 in Munich, Germany, and the second in 2003 in Osaka, Japan. He also won bronze medal in the 2005 World Judo Championships in Cairo, Egypt and 2007 World Judo Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Arash Miresmaili was the favourite for the gold medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he was the flag bearer for Iran at the opening ceremonies. Slated to fight Israeli competitor Ehud Vaks in the first round, he was disqualified from competing because he was above the allowable weight limit for his class. It was claimed that Miresmaili deliberately set out to be disqualified rather than compete against an Israeli, which was interpreted from his own comments: "Although I have trained for months and was in good shape I refused to fight my Israeli opponent to sympathise with the suffering of the people of Palestine and I do not feel upset at all." Comments from Iranian officials and politicians have supported this view. The Iranian state news agency IRNA quoted then Iranian President Mohammad Khatami as saying that Miresmaeili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories" and that the nation considered him to be "the champion of the 2004 Olympic Games." Iranian Olympic team chairman Nassrollah Sajadi told Shargh newspaper that the government should give the athlete $115,000 for his action, th...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=899241We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Olympic Judoka of Iran: Arash Miresmaeili, Mahmoud Miran, Masoud Haji Akhondzadeh, Abbas Fallah, Mohammad Reza Roudaki, Hossein Ghomi. To get started finding Olympic Judoka of Iran: Arash Miresmaeili, Mahmoud Miran, Masoud Haji Akhondzadeh, Abbas Fallah, Mohammad Reza Roudaki, Hossein Ghomi, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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2010
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Olympic Judoka of Iran: Arash Miresmaeili, Mahmoud Miran, Masoud Haji Akhondzadeh, Abbas Fallah, Mohammad Reza Roudaki, Hossein Ghomi
Description: Chapters: Arash Miresmaeili, Mahmoud Miran, Masoud Haji Akhondzadeh, Abbas Fallah, Mohammad Reza Roudaki, Hossein Ghomi, Reza Chahkhandagh. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Arash Miresmaeili (Persian:, born March 3, 1981 in Khorramabad) is a retired Iranian judoka who currently is head coach of the Iran national judo team. He is a double world featherweight champion. He won the gold medal in two World Judo Championships, the first one in 2001 in Munich, Germany, and the second in 2003 in Osaka, Japan. He also won bronze medal in the 2005 World Judo Championships in Cairo, Egypt and 2007 World Judo Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Arash Miresmaili was the favourite for the gold medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he was the flag bearer for Iran at the opening ceremonies. Slated to fight Israeli competitor Ehud Vaks in the first round, he was disqualified from competing because he was above the allowable weight limit for his class. It was claimed that Miresmaili deliberately set out to be disqualified rather than compete against an Israeli, which was interpreted from his own comments: "Although I have trained for months and was in good shape I refused to fight my Israeli opponent to sympathise with the suffering of the people of Palestine and I do not feel upset at all." Comments from Iranian officials and politicians have supported this view. The Iranian state news agency IRNA quoted then Iranian President Mohammad Khatami as saying that Miresmaeili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories" and that the nation considered him to be "the champion of the 2004 Olympic Games." Iranian Olympic team chairman Nassrollah Sajadi told Shargh newspaper that the government should give the athlete $115,000 for his action, th...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=899241We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Olympic Judoka of Iran: Arash Miresmaeili, Mahmoud Miran, Masoud Haji Akhondzadeh, Abbas Fallah, Mohammad Reza Roudaki, Hossein Ghomi. To get started finding Olympic Judoka of Iran: Arash Miresmaeili, Mahmoud Miran, Masoud Haji Akhondzadeh, Abbas Fallah, Mohammad Reza Roudaki, Hossein Ghomi, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.