'25 U20 World Championships, 8/17-24
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Agree—Henckel gave it his all. Another 30 seconds, and he breaks that dude completely.
Yeah he was excellent. Thought he might have a big tournament in him and he surely did.
Henckle has limited international experience. Gave it everything he had and has a ton of upside. Future is bright. Good job young man!
Will did great. Something needs to be done with the gamesmanship in the sport. Tired? Call injury and take a lunger.
Absolute domination from Connor. What a difference a year can make.
The obvious lungers are the biggest annoyance about freestyle. Easy fix, but with conditioning being a typical advantage US there won't be any big incentive to fix that.
If Connor weighs in sub-197 for certification, I will officially be sounding the alarm. This dude can beat Rocco.
Holy crap. Not sure I've seen a more obvious club to the head. Even worse than a fist to the back.
Great day for the PSU boys. Even Henckle in defeat kept pushing the pace. Love it.
So we get 9 8 medals out of 10 weights. Is that good? 5/5 Lions with hardware. DT’s boys: 0-1. Pay attention recruits. 
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Ben Askren just received some of the best medicine he can get and it came from his pupils!
It's like they spend as much time on learning to game the system than on training. He doesn't get the injury time, next step is to try to point out blood on your opponent. It's pathetic.
What an overall great performance from this team!!
I know Blaze isn’t forgotten about by any means but I feel like all of us, myself included, don’t give him enough praise. I’m sure it’s because he is soft spoken and doesn’t want the attention as well as PJ and Jax making the senior team. That said, no one can tell me that he wasn’t the best guy in this entire tournament. He has demolished some really tough guys. So impressive
Henckel was quite impressive as well. Beating Amit and going 8-6 with Yousefi is a great tournament. Yousefi won senior Asians this year where he teched Saipudinov 10-0 in the finals. Saipudinov is the guy Levi just beat 10-5 at the ranking series event. Henckel is absolutely the real deal. I think he forces himself into the lineup after this coming season
I know Blaze isn’t forgotten about by any means but I feel like all of us, myself included, don’t give him enough praise. I’m sure it’s because he is soft spoken and doesn’t want the attention as well as PJ and Jax making the senior team. That said, no one can tell me that he wasn’t the best guy in this entire tournament. He has demolished some really tough guys. So impressive
Henckel was quite impressive as well. Beating Amit and going 8-6 with Yousefi is a great tournament. Yousefi won senior Asians this year where he teched Saipudinov 10-0 in the finals. Saipudinov is the guy Levi just beat 10-5 at the ranking series event. Henckel is absolutely the real deal. I think he forces himself into the lineup after this coming season
Let’s just hope he didn’t get his new lungs from the Caucasus region.
That was a great match by Connor. His only hiccup in the tournament was against Kurugliyev, especially giving up the counter 4 on the edge instead of settling for a step out. That 5 point swing was a killer.
Considering UWW is all about trying to reward active wrestling, allowing these ridiculous injury breaks only rewards those who are out of shape and have no ethical qualms about feigning an injury to get a breather. Those wrestlers who are in shape and those who have enough character to not feign an injury are the ones who are punished. I also agree with you that the fact most American wrestlers are in great shape weighs against UWW addressing this problem. Also, the Indian and Japanese wrestlers tend to be in good shape. In watching numerous matches from this tournament it sure seems like the Eastern European wrestlers feign injury the most along with possibly Iran.
Knox and Lockett?So we get 9 medals out of 10 weights. Is that good? 5 lions with hardware. DT’s boys: 0-1. Pay attention recruits.
Only eight, Knox didn't medal either.So we get 9 medals out of 10 weights. Is that good? 5 lions with hardware. DT’s boys: 0-1. Pay attention recruits.
My bad. Someone had posted we had 8 medals this morning and I assumed they weren’t counting Connor at that point. Forgot about Knox.
I'm not so sure about an easy fix. There are options, but none is perfect. Part of the dilemma is that you don't want to compromise on a competitor's safety. And when it comes to injuries, it's usually only the competitor that knows what they are feeling. Folkstyle, in HS and in college, has come up with injury time clocks, and in college the opponent has the choice of position on the restart. And yet even in those disciplines, head injuries are an asterisk with special rules.
As in any competitive sport, there are those that will take advantage of any rule to try to get themselves/their team an advantage. I've seen it take place in HS competitions that I was reffing (in terms of using injury time), and have suspected wrestlers in international competitions of doing the same.
Pyles had some thoughts on the subject yesterday:
Freestyle seems to have no problem drawing a line in the sand and enforcing it.
Just like a challenge. Challenge if you believe a mistake was made, lose a point if incorrect. Take a moment, it's a point. Take a second and it's another point with injured wrestler par terre. A third, done. Try it for an Olympic cycle, make an adjustment if necessary. But address it.