'25 Senior World Championships, Sep. 13-21

GregPickel

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For PJ Duke to have a chance to win bronze after losing to Nurkozha Kaipanov of Kazakhstan in Round 2, he needed Kaipanov to make it to the finals to qualify for the repechage tournament. But, it is the defending champ who will instead go for third on Sunday. He lost to Tulga Tumir-Ochir of Mongolia in the semifinals, 5-2. That eliminates Duke from the tournament.

Duke finishes his first Senior Worlds with a 1-1 record. He beat Shuang Chen of China by technical fall in Round 1 before falling to Kaipanov.

Off to fully football I go. See you all tomorrow morning.
 

Shifty15

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It seemed a strange remark from Yianni, but how is It sour grapes? I imagine there are plenty of guys at these 2-day tournmaments with healthy weight cuts. Even if Duke was cutting a lot of weight for this event, why would it matter?

Maybe I'm just being dense here.
Well, considering that YD was the one who totally gassed versus PJ that remark is somewhat perplexing!
 
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El_Jefe

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Zain had this problem early in his senior freestyle career, where he'd lose a close match but leave the opponent with nothing for the next match, and that would eliminate Zain.

Sounds like Duke + Gomez -- who both had high-scoring intense matches -- combined to do the same here.

It's a problem with the repechage format -- losing 10-0 in 30 sec is advantageous vs losing a competitive match -- but UWW is never going to full consis, so just gotta win instead.