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The prominent Iranian judo and former world champion, Saeed Moulay, arrived to participate in the “Grand Slam-Tel Aviv” judo tournament with the participation of players from different countries.
Said Moulay landed last Sunday evening at Ben-Gurion Airport in Israel, coming from Turkey on a plane chartered by the Israel Judo Federation, and the wrestler will be under intense surveillance, according to the “Israel Hayom” newspaper.
Moulay, the former world champion, will participate in the tournament under the Mongolian flag after being allowed, since he fled Iran last year, amid a dispute over competing against the Israelis, to represent another country before the Tokyo Olympics, and after the International Olympic Committee agreed to change its refugee status to a holder of Mongolian nationality.
Saeed Moulay received instructions from the Iranian authorities to lose in the semi-finals of the international tournament held in the Japanese capital Tokyo in August 2019, not to face Israeli wrestler, Sagi Muki, in the final match of the tournament at the time.
In the context of the Iranian ruling, the International Judo Federation released a statement in September 2019, in which it clarified the suspension of the Iranian Judo Federation’s sports activities, due to the Iranian wrestler’s refusal to face his Israeli counterpart. .
It should be noted that Said Moulay is the world judo champion with a weight of less than 81 kilograms for the year 2018. He fled to Germany after being ordered not to wrestle with the judo player Israeli, and although Moulay did not fight him, he refused to return to his country “for fear of his arrest”.
Source: Agencies
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