(WRESTLING IS IRAN'S MOST SUCCESSFUL SPORT)
(AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES)
(WHERE 43 OUT OF IRAN'S 69 OLYMPIC MEDALS)
(ARE FROM WRESTLING)
(43 OLYMPIC MEDALS)
(9 GOLD)
(14 SILVER)
(20 BRONZE)
I am the double leg master of Iran.
In the 2024 Olympics, I'll be the champion.
(AT THEIR THIRD OLYMPIC GAMES IN 1956,)
(IRAN RECORDED A 5-MEDAL HAUL IN WRESTLING.)
(AT LONDON 2012, IRAN RECORDED THEIR BEST PERFORMANCE)
(WITH 6 MEDALS, 3 OF WHICH ARE GOLD.)
Wrestling is the way of Iranian warriors.
And Zoorkhaneh has been like a gym
for our champions
where they would prepare themselves to show
the Iranian battle skills.
(VARZESHE PAHLEVANI IS A TRADITIONAL RITUAL COMBINING)
(MARTIAL ARTS, MOTOR EXERCISES,)
(STRENGTH CONDITIONING AND MUSIC.)
(THE TRADITION IS AT THE FOUNDATION OF THE STRENGTH)
(AND POPULARITY OF WRESTLING IN IRAN TODAY.)
(ZOORKHANEH IS A TRADITIONAL PERSIAN GYM AND CLUB)
(WHERE WARRIORS AND ATHLETES ARE TRAINED.)
(ATHLETES START THE SECOND PART)
(OF THEIR TRAINING WITH CHARKHIDAN.)
(THIS EXERCISE NEEDS MORE SKILL AND EXPERIENCE,
(ESPECIALLY IN MAINTAINING BALANCE DURING SPINNING.)
Our wrestling is very close and direct
with Zoorkhaneh, as it should.
(THE WORKERS' GYM, A FAMOUS LOCAL GYM MANAGED)
(BY FORMER WORLD CHAMPION AKBAR FALLAH)
I started my career here. You can see the pictures
of my coaches on the walls. They helped me a lot.
(OVER THE YEARS, AKBAR FALLAH HAS COACHED AND MENTORED)
(THOUSANDS OF YOUNG AND AMBITIOUS WRESTLERS.)
I owe a debt here, to my old neighbourhood, my old gym.
That's why I came back here.
I don't train the young kids only.
The little champions, children,
teenagers, young adults and adults.
I teach all the ranges, you have filmed some of them.
But the range I love working with the most
is the little champions and children.
They are pure.
They form very fast.
You can easily see which ones are meant to be champions.
In 2024, I will be the world champion in 74kg.
He can be part of the Olympic team three Olympics from now.
I'd like to be the champion in the 2024 Olympic Games.
I want everybody in the world to know
that Iranians are great wrestlers.
(TEHRAN, IRAN'S FREESTYLE AND GRECO-ROMAN)
(NATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE)
If you're in the USA, when two kids want
to prove themselves, they'd box.
In Brazil, the sport you can see in the streets
or schools is football.
In Iran, whenever there was a reason to show off
their strength or in Shahnameh, the book of ancient and epic
tales and poems of Old Persia,
the greatest achievements were made by wrestling.
One minute.
It is true that the modern
sports are very popular in Iran,
but how proud people feel when a wrestler becomes
a champion, it is different.
The Farsi word for wrestling comes from killing.
You have to sweat for a win.
In Juybar, you will see most of the men have broken ears.
They know a thing or two about wrestling.
They are very serious about it.
(JUYBAR, NORTH OF IRAN (MAZANDARAN)
(274KM FROM TEHRAN)
(POPULATION ABOUT 70,000)
(IRANIANS CONSIDER JUYBAR AS IRAN'S CAPITAL OF WRESTLING)
The people of Juybar love wrestling.
Maybe it is because of its geographical position.
(IN THE COASTAL CITY OF JUYBAR, WRESTLING TRAINING TYPICALLY)
(TAKES PLACE NEAR THE SEA)
(AND OUT IN THE WILDERNESS WHERE CONDITIONS ARE ROUGH.)
(MOST OF JUYBAR'S POPULATION ARE FARMERS AND FISHERMEN)
In Juybar's gyms,
you can find many children and teenagers.
There are five or six gyms, and more than 600 people are wrestlers.
Most of the kids in Juybar would do anything
to go to the Olympics and become champions.
Maybe one day, we can be that good.
The wrestling community worldwide,
when the dispute over the elimination of wrestling
from the Olympics started,
they put aside their differences and united.
IOC was then faced with a huge number of people who wanted
to save the oldest sport in the world.
Finally, with a high percent of the votes,
IOC was forced to keep wrestling.
It is not fair for the sport of our ancestors
to be eliminated from Olympics.
If wrestling is eliminated from the Olympics
Iranians will lose their spirit.
It would be so unfortunate to
eliminate wrestling from the Olympics.
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