Israeli Wins World Weight-Lifting Championship: Iranian Refuses to Shake Hands

U-Tube ^ | October 20, 2010 | Unknown

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

Israeli athlete wins gold medal in ceremony in Poland. Iranian athlete behaves like an anti-semitic spoilsport.

[mancini]

Excellent! Babypants Muslim...

[BenLurkin]

Evil never changes.

IIRC Hitler refused to shake Jesse Owens’ hand back in the 30s.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

A picture would be good. Then we could show them side by side.

[O6ret]

Only because he knows he’d have it cut off when he went home.

[Da Coyote]

Heck, the Israelis would have checked if the muzzie was using his left hand anyway.

Gads, muzzies are such children...dangerous children...but children.

[BenLurkin]

[Always Independent]

Probably will be executed for losing to Israeli.

[dfwgator]

Jesse Owens was pure class. One of my all-time heroes.

Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa5QQMH-T8E

[reagan_fanatic]

Childish immaturity on parade.

[Cisco Nix]

He must have taken the old adage to heart,

"Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser".

[BenLurkin]

Found this interesting related contemporary report "Owens for Landon" — http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,756596,00.html

Makes me want to go visit the Queen Mary again — it's still berthed in Long Beach.

[Ronin]

Ye Gads!!! What is he doing with his left hand in that pic!

[Texan Tory]

I’m guessing that the iranian weightlifter was under direct orders not to shake hands with the israeli. Having seen the video, it seems to me like he would have wanted to shake hands, but must have known that doing so could bring about some very negative consequences for him and/or his family. When the israeli reached out to shake his hand, the iranian even made kind of a polite/nervous wave in lieu of shaking hands.

[BenLurkin]

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/chicken.wav

[Christian Engineer Mass]

And remember, this is just some random Iranian. Not some specific "islamo terrorist", but your everyday muslim.

[rahbert]

holding on?

[MarkL]

IIRC Hitler refused to shake Jesse Owens’ hand back in the 30s.

I believe that Hitler walked out and refused to attend the medal ceremony. It's an interesting story, in that the German athlete helped Jesse Owens, who was having problems with fouls during the long jump.

Mark

[Christian Engineer Mass]

ping above

[shalom aleichem]

Jesse was not having trouble with committing fouls. The judge kept saying he fouled. So Jesse marked off a line about a foot shy of the take-off board and told everyone to see that his foot would leave from there, and so it did, and he still won.

When Jesse returned to Ohio State they soon flunked him out or otherwise let him go, and he was running an elevator in a downtown hotel. He was not treated right. Sorta like Jim Thorpe’s Olympics aftermath.