Robbed
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I don't understand. It's a fighting sport. The guy lost because he KO'd the winner.
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I don't understand. It's a fighting sport. The guy lost because he KO'd the winner.
I think the commentator said that he kicked him "too hard." To me it looked like the kick landed on the Iranian's neck.
Ah...
https://www.insider.com/tareg-hamedi-looked-destined-for-olympic-gold-got-disqualified-2021-8
Hamedi, 23, was leading 4-1 in Saturday's high-stakes event at the Tokyo Games, and knocked Ganizadeh out cold with a brutal high kick to the neck after a minute of competition.
In many other combat sports, that would be it. Hamedi would win the championship, and perhaps go on to even bigger things.
But in karate, at the Olympics, Hamedi got disqualified.
Ganjzadeh, who had been beaten to the floor, was motionless on the canvas. And so medical professionals rushed to the mat, placed him on a stretcher, and removed him from the main Nippon Budokan area.
Though Ganjzadeh was unconscious, he was adjudged to be the winner as officials decided Hamedi broke the rules of the game by inflicting an unchecked attack, injuring his opponent.
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Oh, well...I'm sure Saudi Arabia will still celebrate cold-cocking an Iranian...
