You’ve gotta be pretty insecure to have a complete breakdown over a minor issue. Really makes Irans government appear weak.
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Yeah, all this does is broadcast weakness. It’s a pathetic reaction.
Islamists are fragile nut cases
Soft as puppy shit
Where have you been?
Didn't a Ukrainian women get disqualified from Fencing recently for understandably not shaking hands with a Russian opponent? What are the rules, would this bloke have been disqualifed if he hadn't shook the others hand?
Fencing has a customary handshake.
And an alternative tapping of the swords, which the Russian refused.
and holding of the sword for tapping was one of the pictures circulated, that made the ukraine fencer look aggressive.
Fencing is kind of different, as far as I know you shake hands (or tap swords) before fencing to indicate that you aren't actually going to try and murder each other. Weightlifting isn't the same in that regard. Though I'm just speculating on the specific rules around this
With the protective gear they're wearing, I'm pretty sure that you couldn't murder your opponent even if you wanted to.
The injury rate in fencing is just marginally higher than the injury rate in synchronized swimming or table tennis.
They are opposed to even the most basic form of civility. Yeah, we already knew that, this just makes it clear to the doubters.
"Unforgivable". These idiots...
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Meanwhile, Iran actually has a seat in parliament that is reserved for a Jewish representative.
That's Iran-ic
I'll show myself out
We refuse to normalize Zionist settlers.
Djeezus... Sports should be above politics. Shitty stuff.
Yeah none of that politics stuff like how Jackie Robinson playing baseball definitely wasn't political, and the US vs Soviets 1980 Olympics definitely wasn't politically charged, and people definitely were expressing their dislike of the Soviets during the game or the entire point of the Olympics being a peaceful gathering of nation states for competition ia definitely not political, or all the taxpayer money that goes to building stadiums also isnt political, or that the owners of sports teams are politically active isnt... political. Oh... wait.