Sohrab Moradi Bids Sad Farewell to Tokyo Olympic Games
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian weightlifter Sohrab Moradi missed the Tokyo Olympic Games in the Ibero-American Championship and the Open Specialty Qualifications held in Cali, Colombia.
The 96kg weightlifter appeared to injure his left wrist in making his second snatch of 170 kilograms and withdrew, leaving Venezuela’s Keydomar Vallenilla to complete a comfortable victory with 173-211-384.
Kianoush Rostami, another Iranian weightlifter, had also missed the Olympics because he did not score any points in phase two of qualifying, and that ended his chances of making it to Tokyo.
The 89kg weight class weightlifter accused the Iran Weightlifting Federation of “lack of work”.
There has not been a good relationship between the federation and Rostami for some time, and he said he was “displaced” and did not feel “part of the family.”
