According to the Mehr reporter, Majid Khodaei stated in a TV interview about the national championship freestyle wrestling competitions held in Gorgan: For several years, all experts and wrestling friends have been complaining about the quality level of the national championships and saying that these competitions are colorful. It has lost its scent and lost its credibility. Fortunately, with the cycle that was defined, the national championship was held beyond the previous competitions and like the selection of the national team. All but one of the six medal-winning wrestlers competed.
He continued: “One of the important issues was the presence of young people in the national championship.” Many participants, aged 18-19, competed in the national adult competitions, and this will be a good thing for the future of the country’s wrestling.
The former head coach of the national youth team, referring to the performance of the provinces in national competitions, told the Golden Circle program: “Unfortunately, some provinces have not been like Lorestan or Khorasan Razavi for several years, which of course has different reasons, but Kermanshah is moving forward this year.” And had a good event. So was Hamedan. Mazandaran, which is a few years old, is ahead of other provinces by far. If you look at the team results, Mazandaran came first with 165 points and Tehran had 103 points and was next. This difference is significant. Another case is that we had three wrestlers in a country who were introduced for the first time in the national team, Reza Momeni in 57 kg, Dariush Hazrat Gholipour in 61 kg and Mohsen Mostafavi in 86 kg who performed very well. I hope these people will get good results in the Asian Championship as well.
Referring to the 19 wrestlers who did not weigh in at national competitions, he explained: “Of these, three came on the scales but did not reach the weight despite their best efforts. The other 16, who included members of national teams in the world and They were also Asians, they did not weigh in after the defeat, which was not a good thing at all, and the federation must have a decisive decision about these people. This was a disrespect to both the competitions and their delegation and province. All these delegations are trying to get a team position in the national championship, but in this way, one weight point is lost. The Tehran team had two wrestlers on this list who even had a chance to win a third title, and this affected their team score.
Khodai added: “Our wrestler should not give up with a loss.” A thousand and one things can happen, and it has happened many times that the third person of a competition has gone to an international competition and there is a problem for the first and second people. I hope it is not a heresy in wrestling that the losers leave the match, break the table and deprive people of watching beautiful wrestling.
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