The tragic incident that happened to two Iranian superstars on the first world day of freestyle wrestling in Kazakhstan surprised the world. Of course, after the defeat of Yazdani and Rahman, we saw that Abdol Rashid Saadullah F also lost, Ahmed Tajuddinov, who was 6-1 ahead of Arash Yoshida, was hit by a technicality, and tomorrow we are waiting for the bronze medal. There is no wrestling and the fact that great heroes fall down is not new at all.
But on the other hand, this issue, which has wins and losses behind facts such as competition and wrestling, is hidden and we do not see the flaws, problems, and deficiencies, which is wrong. Of course, it should be analyzed why and how our two heroes lost, but maybe a new phenomenon in this always happening in the world of sports is the loss of our two heroes who both gave up the slave ships at the last second.
Surely, every loss and every defeat is very bitter and painful. It is more bitter in a sport like wrestling where the champion works hard for a whole year just for one day and in a moment, with a negligence or even bad luck, all his efforts are wasted. Now if this hero has a big name and eyes are on him and expectations are high, this pain and bitterness is much more. But when the result of the match changes at the last second, everything will be multiplied by 1000, from the same pain and bitterness to the effective reasons for this failure.
Hasan Yazdani was leading 5-4 with Arash Yoshida until one hundredth of a second to the end of the match and won. On the other hand, Rahman Amouzad changed the 2-1 lead to a 3-2 defeat against Vazgen Tovanian in 3 seconds before the final whistle. When we know that Yazdani won ten medals and Rahman was the defending champion, then the excuse of youth and lack of experience is no longer involved in these losses. Just like taking less, with this preparation of children and fat ego, the story does not return to bodybuilding.
Especially when the hand of wrestling went up against these two greats of ours who do not even have a tenth of their honors. Here, the main question is whether the pain of these losses was more or the lesson? For a moment, put aside all the consequences of its impact on the other 8 national team players and all the maybes and ifs, leave all the analysis of the reasons for the failure and the technical events, incidents and referees, and think about what was the most important lesson of this incident?
For years in wrestling and other individual sports or even team sports, when a youngster faced a very big name, he would be so intimidated by his grandeur and his record that he would lose by the time he came to his senses. Persepolis and Esteghlal were two goals ahead of the opponent at the start of the game, and the holder of a world medal, had a mental advantage over the rivals forever, and with a tenth of their efforts and efforts, he would wear the national team again.
But what happened to Hassan and Rahman in the World Championships and then repeated in the case of Saadullah and Tajuddinev, proved that the culture ruling today’s generation has drawn a false line on the beliefs of the past. In this period of time, names, titles and medals do not cause fear of the opponent and today’s youth have nothing to do with the achievements and great honors of the opponent.
Arash Yoshida and Vazgen Tawanian were not afraid of Yazdani’s or Rahman’s name and title and Olympic and World Championship and tried to win until the last second. Young energy and motivation came to their aid, many believe that the win was their right because they did not give up until the last second and did not stop attacking. Technical issues and mistakes and lessons aside, this was the most important thing that happened today so that the rest of our children know that no one is looking at their medals and records anymore!
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