Mostafa Rajaei, a veteran weightlifter, finished second in his category in the 2023 World Master Weightlifting Championships in Poland and stood on a podium with an Iranian flag wrapped around him on Saturday.

On anther step of the podium stood Maksim Svirsky from Israel, who finished third.

The two athletes shook hands and took a picture together, which led to the Iran Weightlifting Federation banning Rajaei from all sports for life due to what it called an “unforgivable” transgression.

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[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was like a 2/10 on the “being a dick” scale

[–] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know that's not true.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, its pretty true. It was very mild sarcasm lol

Are you okay?

[–] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop. Just stop. Act normal.