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Although he was formally disqualified for being chubby, Miresmaeli was awarded US$125,000 in prize cash by the Iranian government, an amount paid to all Iranian gold medal winners. He was formally cleared of deliberately avoiding the bout, however his receipt of the prize cash raised suspicion. The introduction of the state-sponsored “full-time novice athlete” of the Eastern Bloc countries eroded the ideology of the pure novice, because it put the self-financed amateurs of the Western international locations at an obstacle. The Soviet Union entered groups of athletes who were all nominally students, soldiers, or working in a career, however all of whom were in reality paid by the state to train on a full-time foundation. The situation significantly deprived American and Western European athletes, and was a major factor in the decline of American medal hauls in the Seventies and Eighties.

Ultimately, such a remembrance was held on the opening …