In an exclusive interview with the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) in Moscow, Dzhambolat Tedeyev added, 'Iranian wrestlers are our main competitors like the Americans and the Georgians. Iran’s wrestling class is high and everyone knows it. Rasul Khdem, Alireza Heydari and Hasan Yazdani are those who have been shining in the Iranian team, which has been the traditional Russian rival in the wrestling.”
He said, 'We always have to face the Iranians in the world championship and the Olympic Games to win the championship and get acquainted with their wrestling to achieve success.'
The head coach of the Russian national freestyle wrestling team, which his students recently won four gold medals at the World Championships in Hungary, said, 'I do not like the wrestlers to weigh-in twice as they cannot sleep well or rest for the night before their race. How can we get a good wrestling when we haven’t given the athlete a chance of recovery, and he didn't have the opportunity to regain his power.”
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