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I fainted after drinking the juice and he raped me." “One day,” she said, “he called me and said: 'Come to my house, we need to talk.' I went there and realised there was no-one there but me, Ehsan and Ehsan's friend. The plaintiff had said Hadadi had first promised to marry her, but then gone silent for a while. In 2016, around the time of the Rio Olympics, it emerged that Ehsan Hadadi – who had previously left Iran for America in 2013 – had been sentenced by an Iranian court to 100 lashes and imprisonment after being found guilty of raping a 30-year-old woman. Olympic sprinter Farzaneh Fassihi, who also competed in Tokyo on Friday, used her marriage loan to pay for training. National taekwondo practitioner Soroush Ahmadi had to explain to reporters that he drives a cab “so as not to have to climb people’s walls”. Other sporting champions, meanwhile, have struggled to make ends meet at home.Īmir Reza Qomi, Iran’s first ever Olympian in martial arts, now works at Tehran’s Shahr-e Rey metro station. Hadadi has boasted that if asked, the Athletics Federation would stump up $20,000 a month for him if it might help bring home a medal. This was not quite true he had in fact petitioned the Ministry and the National Olympic Committee to let him go to America for months on end.

"I went to the US against my will," Hadadi proclaimed at the time.

OLYMPIC DISCUS 2021 MAC

Then in February this year, the Ministry of Sports and Youth quietly sent Hadadi on an all-expenses-paid trip to the United States to train for the Tokyo Olympics with his American coach, Mac Wilkins. The average cost of this operation in Iran is five to 10 million tomans ($217-$430). It came despite the explicit, stated opposition of the Iranian Sports Medicine Federation. Last August, Hadadi requested – and was granted – 250,000 euros (US$297,000) from the Ministry of Sports and the Athletics Federation to go to Germany for heel spur surgery. On top of this, he receives a $10,000 a month stipend from the Federation. in May this year, Hamshahri newspaper reported that the 35-year-old’s training bill, footed by the Iranian Athletics Federation over 39 months, had come to around $704,000. Iran’s 25-Billion Toman, US-Trained Discus ThrowerĮhsan Hadadi is probably one of Iran’s most expensive athletes. But as the country’s sole field and track Olympic medalist, he has received plenty of support from sporting and security bodies. "I came to Tokyo to honor the Olympics."įor numerous, well-founded reasons, Hadadi is a divisive figure inside Iran. The 135kg, 1.93m athlete left the competition after coming 26 th overall on Thursday. Ehsan Hadadi has finished 14 th in his group for men’s discus throw at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.