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Olympics Hit by Crisis Over Iran-Israel Contest

ATHENS (Reuters) – Iran's world judo champion Arash Miresmaeili refused to compete against an Israeli Sunday, triggering a fresh crisis at the Olympic Games where race, creed or color are not allowed to interfere with sport.

A few thoughts:

a) They say this as if Iran had a chance to win anyway. Iran is the "Washington Generals" to Israels "Globetrotters".

b) Yeah!, more medals for Israel!

c) I guess Iranians dont like to fight unless its with someone elses kid with a bomb strapped to them.

d) When losing to an Israeli means you and your family will be fed into meatgrinder at home, you begin to understand his reticence, and in an odd way, you sympathize.

e) This was a simple translation mistake, Iran thought "Judo" translated into the "hostage taking" event, when they disovered that the Israelis get to fight back on equal terms, that changed everything.

f) Now you know how little Israel beat the entire arab world in the six days war.

g) This is the perfect metaphor for the Islamic world " cant compete - wont compete"

h) How long till people stop wanting to compete with Americans?