Beijing Olympics 08 - Lebanese Participants

[Qwiw]

Hi all,
Do you know who are the Lebanese participants? Is there an official list? I think that inscriptions are closed for most of the sports now.

[Qwiw]

Voici la liste des sportifs libanais à Beijing:

Mohammad Siraj Tamim (athlétisme - 100m je pense)
Gretta Teslakian (athlétisme - 200m je pense)
Nibal Yamout (natation)
Waël Kobrosli (natation)
Ziad Richa (Tir)
Rudi Hachach (Judo)
Hani Itani (Canoë-kayak)
Andréa Paoli (Taekwondo)
Élie Saadeh (Wushu Kung-Fu)

[dodzi]

Originally Posted by Qwiw

Mohammad Siraj Tamim (athlétisme - 100m je pense)
Gretta Teslakian (athlétisme - 200m je pense)

I happen to have competed with Mohammad Tamim on many occasions. The guy is impressive! He pulverized the Lebanese record on 100m! Although he doesn't stand a chance (for obvious reasons), it is good to see him compete there! He's probably the best athlete Lebanon ever had!

Gretta is great too! Good luck to them both!

[Danny Z]

Originally Posted by dodzi

I happen to have competed with Mohammad Tamim on many occasions. The guy is impressive! He pulverized the Lebanese record on 100m! Although he doesn't stand a chance (for obvious reasons), it is good to see him compete there! He's probably the best athlete Lebanon ever had!

Gretta is great too! Good luck to them both!

10.59 is hardly a good run, the final heat will have all of them running below 10 secs, but it is good for him to go to the Olympics maybe he will get tested and banned for steroids, there have always been doubt about Ansar sprinters getting doped, they start their careers with 12secs and in a couple of years start running the 100 between 10.50 and 11, fishy

[dodzi]

Originally Posted by Danny Z

10.59 is hardly a good run, the final heat will have all of them running below 10 secs, but it is good for him to go to the Olympics maybe he will get tested and banned for steroids, there have always been doubt about Ansar sprinters getting doped, they start their careers with 12secs and in a couple of years start running the 100 between 10.50 and 11, fishy

Ansar runners are paid, unless most teams in Lebanon... I competed with Tamim for the first time when I was my first year minimes (I was 2nd in Lebanon). Back then, Tamim was skinny and not very muscled. I got the chance to compete with him 2 years later (Tamim was a year older, so we only competed every 2 years together) and the guy looked like Maurice Green. He was huge, muscled and everything! I remember the first thing I thought was "steroids"... His performance also skyrocketed!

On the other hand, the guy is practically a professional. He trains many hours every day, goes to the gym, and has professionals training him...

[Danny Z]

Originally Posted by dodzi

Ansar runners are paid, unless most teams in Lebanon... I competed with Tamim for the first time when I was my first year minimes (I was 2nd in Lebanon). Back then, Tamim was skinny and not very muscled. I got the chance to compete with him 2 years later (Tamim was a year older, so we only competed every 2 years together) and the guy looked like Maurice Green. He was huge, muscled and everything! I remember the first thing I thought was "steroids"... His performance also skyrocketed!

On the other hand, the guy is practically a professional. He trains many hours every day, goes to the gym, and has professionals training him...

I can name a few other at Ansar that also passed through the same transformation, so either wled tarik el jdide are genetically superior or they are genetically modified, but given they lost in 30 minutes against HA, i think they are more genetically modified, unfortunately there is no testing for drugs in Lebanon.

[dodzi]

Originally Posted by Danny Z

I can name a few other at Ansar that also passed through the same transformation, so either wled tarik el jdide are genetically superior or they are genetically modified, but given they lost in 30 minutes against HA, i think they are more genetically modified, unfortunately there is no testing for drugs in Lebanon.

Well it can be that surely, but I mean, they were paid very well for athletes in Lebanon, many of them barely went to school! So I guess that could give them more incentive to do better and work harder... I know most of us in Jamhour stopped before reaching Junior category, either because it got difficult to mix school and sports, either because it got boring...

When you see the Lebanese records for the under 14 years, 1/3 of them are from Jamhour, the rest are also from schools like Antonines or Champville (besides the 3000m record, held by Khodr Abdo, Ansar, who it was known was 3 years older than his ID said). It remains so until the cadets category, and after that, Ansar takes over... I don't know if all there take steroids, enno what's the point?

[Danny Z]

Originally Posted by dodzi

I don't know if all there take steroids, enno what's the point?

For me and you there is no point because we have something else to excel with, but for those who only do that in their life, even if they are not going to make more money out of it, they try to do better, people look to achieve high, some people's highs are not high enough, so they get high on other things.

[Qwiw]

Did anyone watch Osport today? (It will be rediffused on thuesday)
It was very wel3ané!

The selection of Mohamad Tammim is very contested. There are Jean-Claude Rabbath, Ali Hazer and Thomas Semaan who deserved (more than him) to be part of the Lebanese athletics team, accordinf to athletic points gathered by each Lebanese athlete.

The scandal: The Lebanese Olympic Comittee didn't include the trainer of Gretta Taslakian in the list of the Lebanese delegation.
In the same time, an illegal member of the Lebanese Olympic comittee was part of the Lebanese delegation (in addition of other unuseful members of Lebanese delegation).


Our best chance of medal is Rudi Hachach who got the bronze medal in the asiatic championship of Judo some months ago.

[Danny Z]

Originally Posted by Qwiw

Our best chance of medal is Rudi Hachach who got the bronze medal in the asiatic championship of Judo some months ago.

hopefully they won't check names for doping