I'm guessing fear for the safety of their athletes is not in the top 100 reasons this is happening.I wonder how much of this is a political stunt and how much of it is fear that their athletes will be targeted and harmed. With the anti Russia sentiment in the western world and the seemingly consistent attempts to start WW3, I can see where the Russian athletes could feel unsafe. Anyone have similar thoughts or is this just more politicians doing things and not caring about the people it affects?
I believe the brackets will be out the night before each weight competes.Anyone know when the brackets will be filled out with the wrestlers that are unseeded?
When does freestyle start?if you go by English oddsmakers, Lee and Dake are favored for gold. Snyder, Brooks, and Parris for silver, and Retherford for bronze.
They don’t. And they never did. It WAS a simple case of who happened to pay more.Tough draws for the US wrestlers on day 1 of wrestling, both going in unseeded and getting randomly drawn in against the 1 seeds. I feel like international wrestling hates the US! I would say it is even a tougher draw for the 1 seed in Amit's bracket though! She is a beast!
Hildebrant beats Dolgorjav (Mongolia) 5-0. She wrestled a great match.Her opponent from Mongolia placed 2nd the last two years at worlds. Sarah is 1-2 against her with their last meeting being a 10-0 win.
She beat her 10-0 at pan ams last yearSara Hildebrandt's opponent didn't make weight for the gold medal! She now will face the semi loser for the gold who she should beat handily
I wouldn’t say good shot lol but she is a beast and you never know. Also def not an expert so grain of salt and all.Do we have any resident women’s wrestling experts? Does Helen have a good shot this go round?
I was surprised that a finalist misses weight, and someone takes their place in the gold medal match. I would have thought it would have been a silver for the person that missed weight and gold for the person they were supposed to wrestle.
Do we have any resident women’s wrestling experts? Does Helen have a good shot this go round?
I was surprised that a finalist misses weight, and someone takes their place in the gold medal match. I would have thought it would have been a silver for the person that missed weight and gold for the person they were supposed to wrestle.
So missing weight is a disqualification from the tournament not just a forfeit or something similar. I think it is absolutely the right call, because as, anyone who's done it can tell you, a two day weigh is a whole 'nother animal if your cutting any significant amount of weight at all.
With modern knowledge professional athletes can make MUCH greater one-day cuts than two-day and still maintain performance. Being a DQ for missing weight, instead of a forfeit(s), discourages bad behavior from athletes from weaker countries trying to put all there eggs in one basket for a run a silver by trying to weight bully with no concern of making weight day 2. Not saying this is what Vinesh did at all, I'm pretty sure she just pushed too low (should have been wrestling at 53) and then mismanaged her rehydration/nutrition intake, and couldn't recut fast enough, but the I still think the rule is a good one.
Yeah that little whizzer kick to take those 4 points was pretty slick. He knew he was going over, so he made it his move. But yeah... didn't matter in the slightest, Spencer is a BEAST. LFG USA.Spencer Lee! Into Gold medal. His opponent had a nice move to prevent the first tech but Spencer comes back out and immediately gets 4 more. 14-4 win in first period.