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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'm guessing fear for the safety of their athletes is not in the top 100 reasons this is happening.
They know they will get caught doping is my guess.
I believe the brackets will be out the night before each weight competes.
if you go by English oddsmakers, Lee and Dake are favored for gold. Snyder, Brooks, and Parris for silver, and Retherford for bronze.
Here’s the official media guide
They don’t. And they never did. It WAS a simple case of who happened to pay more.
And home soil was huge. When worlds were in New York, we got some gift calls. And we did ridiculously well at the 1996 Olympics.
But now? UWW has done a phenomenal job of being pretty non- biased. (Mongolian belly dancing notwithstanding)
And it really isn’t like the old days where the entire bracket was random.
There’s a mechanism in place to get seeded now. Compete and win some matches.
If anything, the #1 in GR heavy got SCREWED. He has Mijain second round.
Amit Elor is into the semis for women’s 68kg. Should be around (pending previous matches) at 230pm CT on peacock. She’s 5th on Mat B for session starting at 2pm CT
Adam Coon lost his GR match against Iran and then was not pulled back in as his guy lost to Cuba.
His draw was one of the worst I've seen - former world champ first round and 4-time gold medalist in round 2. Didn't even have a shot at repechage
Amit with a leg lace. 10-0 and into the Finals tomorrow night.
Hildebrandt wins 10-0 and then 7-4 over China to make the semis. Starts at 1115 and she is 6th up.
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.
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.
Hildebrant beats Dolgorjav (Mongolia) 5-0. She wrestled a great match.
On to the finals against Vinesh of India, who had a the MASSIVE upset against Susaki in the opening round.
Sara 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.
I think any medal would be great for her.
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.
I'm good with it. Ensures there is a match. The IOC would have lost their minds if a gold medal was given by forfeit.
Not an expert by any stretch, but IMO the best two wrestlers are Sakurai (Japan) and Helen, so I would expect that to be the top side semi final match. Helen is looking at two tough but winnable matches to get there. She's pinned her first round match in the finals at Oslo and won a close one against her presumptive second round match, which really only got close when Helen shut down her offense and let Lysak (Poland) go on a late burst to make it close.
The Semis against Sakurai though... is going to be tough. Sakurai completely shut down Helen in Finals at Worlds in 2022 and again in the Semis at Worlds in 2023. If Helen lets it fly she has a much better chance, but if she plays into Sakurai's more methodical/technical focused style, it's going to be really hard to find the points to win. Who ever wins that match should win gold, and the loser should clear the repechage easily enough for Bronze.
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.
Agreed. But the bigger issue is that there are too little weight classes. 6 at the pinnacle is absurd.
Spencer Lee won 3-2 and 12-2 to advance to semis.
Aaron Brooks won 4-3 and 11-1 to advance to semis.
Helen Maroulis 7-2 and 7-4 to advance to semis.
Semis start at 11:15am CT and we are the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th matches.
Aaron Brooks won 4-3 and 11-1 to advance to semis.
Helen Maroulis 7-2 and 7-4 to advance to semis.
Semis start at 11:15am CT and we are the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th matches.
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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.
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.
Aaron Brooks lost. Not sure what to say. Had no business losing that one it felt like.
Was in deep on a foot hanging on with 12 seconds left and gets exposed from that position. Just have to be smarter there. Hanging on wasn’t enough. Have to hang on and dictate the position. Shame.
Was in deep on a foot hanging on with 12 seconds left and gets exposed from that position. Just have to be smarter there. Hanging on wasn’t enough. Have to hang on and dictate the position. Shame.