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    How to follow 2009 World Wrestling Championships

    The 2009 World Wrestling Championships have started in Herning, Denmark. There are many ways that wrestling fans can follow the action.

    TheMat.com will have comprehensive coverage of the competition, with Craig Sesker and Jason Bryant reporting from press row.

    TheMat.com will provide interactive live text reports from the World Championships each session on all seven days. The coverage comes from the Cover It Live software, which allows fans to sign in and participate in the discussion.

    To see the Cover It Live text coverage from Herning, visit TheMat.com World Championships Special Section at:

    http://www.themat.com/specialevents/2009/worlds/default.php?EventID=21976

    TheMat.com will also provide news updates from each session, focusing on the U.S. team as well as the overall World Championships news. These will be posted in the Special Section and on the home page of TheMat.com.

    TheMat.com will also be posting video updates from the World Championships, with interviews of athletes and coaches as well as summaries of the day’s action. These videos will appear on USA Wrestling’s YouTube channel, as well as in the Special Section.

    TheMat.com will also be posting updated brackets throughout the tournament, allowing fans to follow the results promptly each day.

    USA Wrestling will also be doing regular Twitter updates from the event. Sign up and get World Championships tweets at:

    http://twitter.com/USAWrestling

    Audio coverage of each session is being provided by Joe Williamson of Flowrestling. Jason Bryant is also providing commentary. You can hear Williamson’s audio reports from the Special Section or from Flowrestling’s website.

    UniversalSports.com will webcast the medal-match finals from the World Wrestling Championships each day from Sept. 21-27. The live video stream will be provided at 1:30 p.m. each day on their website:

    http://www.universalsports.com

    There will be no audio provided on the UniversalSports live stream, so wrestling fans are encouraged to listen to Joe Williamson’s updates while watching the action.

    There will also be four different one-hour tape-delayed television broadcasts of highlights of the World Championships. It will air on the Universal Sports network, starting Thursday, Oct. 1 - Sunday, Oct. 4. starting at 7 p.m. ET nightly. The broadcast team is Olympic champion Rulon Gardner and play-by-play announcer Jim Watson.

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