Iran has paid a judo champion who avoided an Olympic match against an Israeli the same $125,000 prize money it awarded its gold medal winners, the official Islamic Republic News Agency said Wednesday.
Though Arash Miresmaeli "did not get a gold medal, he earned eternal honor by his refusal," Mahmood Ahmadi Nejad, Tehran's conservative mayor, said, according to IRNA.
The funny part is this - he got disqualified for being overweight anyway. He wouldn't have had the match in the first place.
Is this an example of institutionalizing racial or ethnic hatred?
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