According to Mehr News Agency and quoting the Wrestling Federation, Alireza Rezaei, the holder of Olympic silver and world bronze medals in freestyle wrestling, said about the performance of national wrestling teams in recent months: In our country, their performance was excellent and unprecedented. In the history of Iranian wrestling, it has never happened that we win gold medals in both freestyle and western heavyweight. This was while in the free heavyweight we won the gold medal for the second time after 32 years of winning the living gold medal in memory of the late Soleimani, and this happened for the first time in the western heavyweight. These results were excellent and I hope they will continue.
“The feedback from the people was great,” he said of the excitement that the ship’s results injected into the community. People greeted us wherever they saw us, and wherever we went, the results of the ship made us proud.
Rezaei said about the federation’s plan to change the technical staff after the Olympics: “In any case, Mohammad Bana’s performance is clear, but in freestyle wrestling, substitution was undeniable and should be done, and doing so was a good and admirable tactic.”
The former director of the national freestyle wrestling teams clarified about the results of the national teams in the Olympics and the world: “In general, I evaluate the results of the Olympics and the world positively, but in the Olympics in freestyle wrestling we did not have the necessary shine, but in France we performed better.” . As for the world competitions, we had 6 finalists in freestyle wrestling, which was unprecedented and winning 3 gold medals is very valuable. In wrestling, winning 4 gold medals was another milestone made by the team of Mohammad Bana and his colleagues, which is very commendable.
He continued: “In general, I must say that we performed much better in the world competitions than in the Olympic Games, and the support of the Wrestling Federation should not be ignored in this regard.”
“This is a big risk to give young people a chance,” the former vice-president of the Wrestling Federation concluded. The Wrestling Federation has given in to the selection cycle, and it is natural that young people should also take advantage of these opportunities so that we can return to our original position in wrestling in the coming years, especially the Paris Olympics, and achieve more success.
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