Posted by: madhesi August 22, 2008
Deepak Bista : What a disgrace !
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Repeatedly, it was mentioned here in this thread that Deepak was "qualified" for Olympics, that means, he was selected by IOC to compete in  the Olympics, not elected or selected by Nepalese "connected" people.  To be qualified in Olympics, one has to compete against other international athletes and be one of the best to be in the Olympics.  If you know anyone, who was not sent to qualifying games, we would like to know that.

Having said that, I do not think it was disgraceful game for Deepak.  I watched the game and saw the sense of respect in both athletes towards each other.  Both looked nervous.  Although, Iranian had already defeated Deepak in earlier games (Was that in Asian games or/and World champinships????), he did not come to the ring looking at Deepak as a "piece of cake".  To score 7-0, Iranian had to work very hard!

See the link below. It is over 4 hour long tape.  Deepak's game starts at 3 hr 50 min

http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/player.html?assetid=1418507&channelcode=sporttk

 

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