but an impressive finish and by far the best an Iranian has ever done in the shooting competition—in fact, the best an Iranian has ever done outside its core sports.
In cycling, on the other hand, where Iran sent three men, two of them didn’t even complete the 156-mile road race and the third finished so far behind that the Olympics didn’t even both to record his time.
Wrestling, weightlifting and taekwondo, where Iranians are expected to win medals, are still to come.
The Iran Times reports thus week on how every Iranian athlete in the Olympics performed in the first four days of the Games. See Page 10.