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Dec 7-11, 1998 / Azar 16-20, 1377

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* Weightlifter prays to prophets, wins gold
* Friday's Asian Games medals table

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* Iran resurrect hopes with 5-0 win
* Iran's medals: 14
* Coach blamed for Iran's loss to Oman
* Judo: Bronze medal
* Iran ninth in medal standings
* Soccer: Iran tumble to shock defeat
* Iranians do not live up to hopes
* Iran's first gold
* Hard-fought win over lowly Laos
* Asian Games medals standing
* Australian ex-stars upset at tough World Cup task

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Friday,
December 11, 1998

* Weightlifter prays to prophets, wins gold

BANGKOK, Dec 11 (Reuters) - With a prayer to the prophets and look towards heaven, Shahin Nassiri Nia clean and jerked 210 kg in the men's 85 kg division and grabbed Iran's fourth gold of the Asian Games on Friday. Nassiri Nia said he regularly clean and jerked 215 kg in practice, and said he would go for the world record of 218 kg next year. ``I'm happy for my country to win the medal,'' Nassiri Nia said after the competition where he also tied an Asian record in the snatch with 170 kg... FULL TEXT

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* Friday's Asian Games medals table

BANGKOK, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Following are medal standings after the sixth day of competition at the 13th Asian Games on Friday ... FULL TEXT

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Thursday
December 10, 1998

* Iran resurrect hopes with 5-0 win

BANGKOK, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Favourites Iran resurrected their hopes of a quarter-final place in the Asian Games soccer tournament on Thursday with a crushing 5-0 win over Tajikistan. Iran, stunned in their opening second round group match by a 4-2 defeat at the hands of tiny Oman despite bringing their World Cup squad to Bangkok, went for goals from the start against Tajikstan and were 3-0 up after only 17 minutes ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran's medals: 14

BANGKOK, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Following are medal standings after the fourth day of competition at the 13th Asian Games on Thursday ... FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
December 9, 1998

* Coach blamed for Iran's loss to Oman

TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - A stinging attack on the soccer head coach Mansour Pourheydari: "Does he know anything about football? On what basis was he selected? ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Judo: Bronze medal

BANGKOK, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Results of judo finals at the 1998 Asian Games on Wednesday: Men's over 73-81 kg 1. Cho In-chul (South Korea) 2. Kwak Ok-chol (North Korea) 3. Kazem Sarikhani (Iran).

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* Iran ninth in medal standings

BANGKOK, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Following are medal standings after the fourth day of competition at the 13th Asian Games on Wednesday ... FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
December 8,1998

* Soccer: Iran tumble to shock defeat

BANGKOK, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Oman stunned Iran 4-2 on Tuesday in their opening second round group match at the Asian Games with a victory that left their normally voluble Brazilian coach Valdeir Viera groping for words. ``I don't know how I feel,'' said the coach Iran sacked last year after only three games in charge. ``If we played Iran 10 times, I don't think we would win more than one or two.'' ... FULL TEXT

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* Iranians do not live up to hopes

BANGKOK, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Chinese swimmers sank at the Asian Games on Tuesday, failing to win a single gold medal in five events they were favoured to dominate. There was another major upset on the third day of the Games when World Cup contenders Iran were beaten by lowly Oman in a qualifying round of the soccer tournament. China was saved from one of its most humilating days in recent Asian Games when their women gymnasts easily won the team title, dedicating their medals to paralysed team mate San Lan... FULL TEXT

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Monday
December 7, 1998

* Iran's first gold

BANGKOK, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Iran's first gold medal at the Asian Games in Bangko went to Seyed-Mahdi Panzvan who won the snatch title with a lift of 122.5 kg. Chinese weightlifter Liu Xiuhua fought off a bout of Thai flu on Monday to set a new world record and raise China's first gold medal at the Asian Games in Bangkok... FULL TEXT

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* Hard-fought win over lowly Laos

BANGKOK, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Iran, parading most of their World Cup team, also came out on top of their first round group with a 6-1 win over minnows Laos which was not as easy as the final scoreline suggested ... FULL TEXT

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* Asian Games medals standing

BANGKOK, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Iran is in fifth place in the medal standings at the end of the second day of competition at the Asian Games:... FULL TEXT

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* Australian ex-stars upset at tough World Cup task

SYDNEY, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Former Australian soccer stars are fuming after a decision to reshuffle the distribution of qualifying spots for the 2002 World Cup left the country facing the prospect a showdown with a South American opponent for a place in the finals. FIFA said on Friday that the winners of the Oceania zone, likely to be either Australia or New Zealand, would play a team from South America for a place in the finals, being co-hosted by Japan and South Korea. Australia failed to reach this year's World Cup finals after losing to Iran in their final round play-off, while Argentina beat the Socceroos for a berth in the 1994 finals ... FULL TEXT

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