have a name for this guy?
This is Sitthi Charoenrith from Thailand
world champing in 05 and 06 in the Light-MiddleWeight
Ali,
Why did Tabrzi switch countries to Iran this year.
I thought that he would be competing for Qatar.
I noticed that quite a few athletes did this.
Ali was a part of the Qatar team since 03 ... he won his first gold medal in 01 for Iran at the Asian championship
then golds for for Qatar in 03, 04, 05, 06, 07
and the world title in 05 & 06 (overall)
He was ready at Korea and would have won the overall easily
but they banned him cause the whole Qatar team was banned
so he made the call to go back to his motherland
where he won the Asian Championship + world overall in 08 for them
Thats a good photo of sitti. I do think that the dreamtan is a problem. It does cover an awful lot of conditioning, and that is the reason that i prefer jantana. Last year in Jeju, i spoke to Pawel about it and he did agree that dreamtan masked condition a bit. Apparently next year, they said that they will be enforcing the rule on NO INSTANT TAN at the venue, which will rule out the use of dreamtan backstage.
The judging scores are zero'ed after the semi's, and everyone starts afresh for the finals. This alot of the time really shakes up the placings and can leave some people wondering how athletes placed higher or lower than they shoudve.
Congratulations Chris mate, it was a pleasure meeting you and all your family last year in Jeju!
Robert didnt use dream tan
nor did some of the Europeans
they are catching up very slowly
I think it should be enforced by the judging committee
though the rule book says excessive oil of color are not allowed or will be marked down (cant remember) but they dont follow that
not sure if they will do it next year or not
but I hope they do
I know what happens after the semi
there is a new judging
but what I am pointing out is what actually happens to the athletes in a day
Ali Tabrizi was 2nd in the semi
but he ended up taking overall
but still a lot of the athletes dont understand that or maybe they dont knwo how teh new judging system is carried out
the semis score are optimal for knowing where everyone stood the day before the show and what changed the next day
I even heard from some of the judges that next year they might changed the judges of each category the next day at the finals so they dont get influnced by what they saw in the semis
And that is y it not called prejudging anymore