The freestyle wrestling matches of the Zagreb Open Cup, the rating competitions of the World Wrestling Union, ended whereas the wrestling from Iran didn’t attain the load restrict because of the presence of two representatives of Israel.
Hadi Vafaipour, the nationwide wrestler of Iran in weight 86 kg, who changed Hasan Yazdani within the Zagreb wrestling matches, grew to become a sufferer of the Islamic Republic’s unwritten rule of “you should lose” because of the presence of two Israeli wrestlers within the first stage of the World Wrestling Union rating competitions in 2024.
According to the draw of the event desk, Vafaipour ought to have gone to the mat within the second spherical in opposition to one of many Israeli wrestlers or Mateo Fainsilver, and for that reason, he withdrew from the event below the excuse of not reaching the load.
Vafaipour, the champion of Iranian seaside wrestling, who additionally received the championship within the nation’s qualifying competitions, confronted an opponent from Switzerland, Samuel Scherer, within the first spherical of this competitors. . Mateo Finesliver confronted a break draw within the first spherical.
If Vafaipour misplaced within the competitors in opposition to the Swiss wrestler, he would face the loser of the struggle between two Israeli wrestlers, Mateo Feinsilver and Yuri Kalashnikov, within the odds desk once more.
Last 12 months, Amir Mohammad Yazdani needed to miss the weightlifting on the earth championship wrestling competitors in Belgrade because of the presence of Matthew Finesilver’s brother, Israeli Josh Finesilver. The world silver medalist simply misplaced one other world medal.
The World Wrestling Federation, in keeping with the previous process of the World Federation, Fila, has ignored the interference of politics within the sport of the Islamic Republic and stopping the confrontation with Iranian and Israeli athletes.
Apart from Rasul Khadim, the holder of the Olympic and world championship titles and the previous president of the Iranian Wrestling Federation, no authority in Iranian sports activities has challenged the coverage of not competing in opposition to Israeli opponents. Rasul Khadim, who, as a member of the chief board of the National Olympic Committee and the World Federation, couldn’t proceed to lie in worldwide sports activities gatherings, needed to resign from all his positions in sports activities.
The coverage of complacency and never reaching the load or compelled failure overseas and the face of the champion of the Palestinian individuals inside have prevented many athletes from profitable world and worldwide titles and the coverage of not competing with Israeli athletes in worldwide competitions for greater than 4 many years. It has grow to be a nightmare for athletes in varied disciplines
Of course, Iranian athletes overseas have tried to be the voice of home athletes in recent times.
The efforts of the Islamic Republic within the 2019 World Championship in Tokyo, and stopping Iran’s judoka Saeed Melai from competing in opposition to an Israeli opponent with Melai’s disclosure, led to a four-year suspension of the Iranian Judo Federation by the choice of the Court of Arbitration for Sport because of the politics and non-sports of the Islamic Republic. According to consultants, Vafaipour is the primary athlete sufferer of the Islamic Republic’s anti-Israel coverage in 2024. But it in all probability will not be their final.