akzent

Besides Prizreni for Albania (http://www.thewrestlingtalk.com/inte...n-beijing.html), several other wrestlers will carry the flag of their countries at the opening ceremony in Beijing.


President Raul Castro hands the Cuban flag to Mijain Lopez



Egypt – Karam Gaber



Turkey – Mehmet Özal



Azerbaijan – Farid Mansurov



Moldova – Nikolai Ceban



Peru – (Dantzler's nightmare) Sixto Barrera



At least 12 judoka will be flag-bearers of their countries,
among them Mahgal Bayarjavhlan of Mongolia
who is also a wrestler in the Mongolian folkstyle

pinartist

prety cool, im suprised Saitiev is not a flag bearer for russia

akzent

Russia's flag bearer will be a basketball player

A female rower will carry the Iranian flag.

COL66

if Gatsalov were going, do you think he wouldve been the flag bearer?

Hubbard

Why would the Cuban Olympic Fed. give the flag to Lopez since he took a dive against Russia?

arm-spin

Is this "dive" confirmed? Maybe he just lost. (And yes I've seen the match.)

dangun

Cool thread.

dirtyholt

azkent, what are the boots that the traditional mongolian wrestlers wear called?

Hubbard

Who confirms a dive?

He dove. As have many other Cubans.

akzent

Just gutal or (for better understanding) Mongol gutal [u = oo]

http://2046fan.blogspot.com/2006/08/mongol-gutal.html

What wrestlers wear were (and in some areas still are) the traditional everyday boots of the Mongolians. The word for them was gutal. They didn't have shoes. When Western shoes were introduced in Mongolia, the Mongolians called also them gutal. If you go in a shop in Mongolia and ask for gutal, they will offer you shoes. To get what wrestlers wear, you must say Mongol gutal.

One important shopping tip for you:
The Mongol gutals for wrestling don't differ in their form from the everyday Mongol gutals, but they have two additional things which don't belong to the everyday gutals: strings which are to be bound around each boot: one around the low part (blue pointer), one in the middle (green) which has a decorated oval piece of leather (red) to hold the string stable.





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