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You guys are focussing on freestyle earlier which is helping you guys with junior level success. The razer sharp conditioning that you get from folk is showing. Completely deserved u17 and u20 title wins. It's just frustrating that our guys are performing so poorly.

I don't have a problem with the style it comes down to everything else. Compared to the American guys their conditioning is woeful and the wrestling IQ is virtually non-existant from half of these guys that competed. The only wrestler that has impressed me is Ahoura Khateri and even he purposely handicapped himself for no reason in his earlier matches. It feels like their is a big disconnect between what the coaches want from our guys and them actually performing it.

I think, with this tournament under his belt, that a lot of folks are seeing Luke in a different light. The kid works HARD for his craft... and always seeking improvement. Don't underestimate him. D3

Not much is happening (two US women still up but not in awhile anyway... ) After what's left of the action here... the remaining day's schedule: Wednesday, August 20 *all times listed are Eastern 10:00 am: Women's Freestyle 55-62-65-76 Semifinals 11:00 am: Men's Freestyle 61-86 & Women's Freestyle 57-59-68 Medal Matches Until then, I'll see ya later. D3

TD & 2 more exposures via leg lace makes it a TF for Leydecker... she advances. D3

Leydecker out to a 4-0 lead (TD & leg lace exposure.) D3

Leydecker is the next match on Mat B after the Romanian/UWW match on now... D3

Mat B Upcoming Matches WW - 62 kg 1/8 Final 364 (CAN) Annika Loretta FINES (4) (UZB) Nigina SABIROVA (5) WW - 55 kg 1/8 Final 365 (ROU) Alexandra VOICULESCU (6) (UWW) Kira SOLOBCHUK (7) WW - 55 kg 1/8 Final 366 (USA) Everest Shea LEYDECKER (12) (GRE) Evdoxia PAPADOPOULOU (13) D3

Kitade won 3-2 in this step out parade of a match. D3

A game of chess on Mat A 65Kg between Akkus of Turkyie and Kitade of Japan... Akkus leading 2-0 @ the break. D3

Mat A is a pinball contest between Nugent and the Uzbek wrestler Nugent leading 12-10... AND... It's OVAH! Nugent won D3

Got ya, tanxs JB... I was typing that when I was interrupted by my cat knocking something down off the kitchen counter. (Clever cat... ) D3

Hmm... just looked at the 61Kg bracket and the score for the Blaze/Begoyan match didn't show Begoyan as being DQ'd at all. Cautioned out? D3

The DQ wasn't for brutality, it was for three cautions. So he wasn't punted from the tournament.

"You screw up big time"

Mat C Upcoming Matches WW - 59 kg Repechage 376 (TPE) Kai Yi LI (17) (ESP) Rosa MOLINA RODRIGUEZ (16) WW - 65 kg Qualif. 377 (MGL) Narkhajid NYAMSUREN (7) (KGZ) Asema Ulanovna ANARKULOVA (8) WW - 65 kg Qualif. 378 (TPE) Kang Yu CHIANG (18) (GRE) Nikoleta BARMPA (19) WW - 76 kg Qualif. 379 (KAZ) Alina YERTOSTIK (6) (MGL) Tuvshinjargal TARAV (7) WW - 76 kg Qualif. 380 (UZB) Sevinchoy POLVONOVA (12) (KGZ) Aizharkyn ZHANYBEKOVA (13) WW - 62 kg Qualif. 382 (GRE) Mairi MANI (3) (CAN) Annika Loretta FINES (4) WW - 59 kg Repechage 383 (CAN) Ella Marie FINDING (19) WW - 65 kg 1/8 Final 384 (IND) Bhadana MANSI (6) WW - 65 kg 1/8 Final 385 (UWW) Margarita SALNAZARIAN (16) WW - 65 kg 1/8 Final 386 (SRB) Emilija JAKOVLJEVIC (20) (KAZ) Kyzzhibek ZHARKYNBAYEVA (21) WW - 62 kg 1/8 Final 387 (UKR) Anna KARBOVSKA (6) (UWW) Karyna FISHCHUK (7) WW - 62 kg 1/8 Final 388 (FIN) Nella Maia Matleena HONKANIEMI (14) WW - 55 kg 1/8 Final 389 (HUN) Gerda TEREK (1) (POL) Amelia Zofia TOMALA (2) WW - 55 kg 1/8 Final 390 (UKR) Diana KOTVYTSKA (8) (ESP) Pau GIMENO FRANCO (9) WW - 55 kg 1/8 Final 391 (FRA) Lilya Yasmina Agnes Tugba COHEN (17) (CAN) Madisyn Kathleen Ibolya GROF (18) D3

Mat B Upcoming Matches WW - 65 kg Qualif. 354 (CHN) Zaixue RUI (14) (SVK) Viktoria FOELDESIOVA (15) WW - 76 kg Qualif. 355 (USA) Naomi Lee SIMON (4) (CAN) Rupinder Kaur JOHAL (5) WW - 76 kg Qualif. 356 (JPN) Ayano MORO (10) (UWW) Diana TITOVA (11) WW - 62 kg Qualif. 357 (JPN) Shirin TAKEMOTO (16) (USA) Haylie Emma JAFFEE (17) FS - 61 kg Repechage 358 (ARM) Sargis BEGOYAN (6) (KGZ) Askat Zhangazievich TOKTOMATOV (1) WW - 68 kg Repechage 359 (BRA) Eduarda RODRIGUES BATISTA (14) (SRB) Masa PEROVIC (17) WW - 65 kg 1/8 Final 360 (GER) Leonie STEIGERT (5) WW - 65 kg 1/8 Final 361 (UKR) Iryna BORYSIUK (12) (CAN) Mackenzie Jules CAYER (13) WW - 62 kg 1/8 Final 362 (BUL) Ivena Todorova BLIZNAKOVA (10) (CHN) Yangzhen YANGZHEN (11) WW - 62 kg 1/8 Final 363 (UWW) Ekaterina RADYSHEVA (18) (MDA) Gabriela RUDOI (19) WW - 62 kg 1/8 Final 364 (UZB) Nigina SABIROVA (5) WW - 55 kg 1/8 Final 365 (ROU) Alexandra VOICULESCU (6) (UWW) Kira SOLOBCHUK (7) WW - 55 kg 1/8 Final 366 (USA) Everest Shea LEYDECKER (12) (GRE) Evdoxia PAPADOPOULOU (13) WW - 55 kg 1/8 Final 367 (ITA) Fabiana RINELLA (14) WW - 76 kg 1/4 Final 368 (SRB) Evelin UJHELJI (14) D3

Qualif Day 4, Repechages Day 3 Mat A Upcoming Matches WW - 65 kgQualif.328(HUN) Viktoria PUPP (9)(JPN) Momoko KITADE (10) WW - 76 kgQualif.329(CHN) Cancan LIU (2)(UKR) Nadiia SOKOLOVSKA (3) WW - 76 kgQualif.330(HUN) Veronika NYIKOS (8)(IND) Priya PRIYA (9) WW - 55 kgQualif.331(TUR) Tuba DEMIR (15)(CHN) Jing HONG (16) WW - 62 kgQualif.332(MEX) Neevis Milena RODRIGUEZ CANTU (12)(IND) Anjli ANJLI (13) WW - 68 kgRepechage333(TUR) Ayse ERKAN (7)(UKR) Oleksandra RYBAK (11) WW - 65 kg1/8 Final334(USA) Daniella Inez NUGENT (1)(UZB) Mukhayyo NARZILLOEVA (2) WW - 65 kg1/8 Final335(TUR) Beyza Nur AKKUS (11) WW - 65 kg1/8 Final336(EGY) Mouda Badawi Hamed Ahmed HAMDOUN (17) WW - 62 kg1/8 Final337(KAZ) Aidana SHORAYEVA (1)(AZE) Ruzanna MAMMADOVA (2) WW - 62 kg1/8 Final338(TPE) Tzu Ling WU (8)(TUR) Busra EFE (9) WW - 62 kg1/8 Final339(GER) Naemi LEISTNER (15) WW - 55 kg1/8 Final340(MGL) Khaliun BYAMBASUREN (3)(IND) Reena REENA (5) WW - 55 kg1/8 Final341(KAZ) Aliana MAKHAMBETOVA (10)(JPN) So TSUTSUI (11) WW - 76 kg1/4 Final342(TUR) Elmira YASIN (1) D3

AND Begoyan (Slapppy) blitzed the Switzerland wrestler w/ a 10-0 TF. Keep on slappin' D3

Meanwhile... Fouse was TF'd by Turkyie and is bounced out of repechage rounds. Oh well... D3

Wow... Slappy the Armenian is wrestling in the repechage match. I thought his DQ would disqualify him from the rest of the tournament. I guess not, eh? D3

Not a bad summer for Stanich... (world medals in parentheses) US Open Andrew Collier, TF 10-0 Mason Gibson, TF 10-0 Connor Ritonya, FALL Michael Olson, TF 11-0 Smokey McClure, TF 10-0 Daniel Zepeda, DEC 8-8 Bo Bassett, DEC 5-2 (U20 Bronze; Cadet Gold) Pierson Manville, DEC 6-0 U20 WTT Bo Bassett, DEC 3-2 (see above) Bo Bassett, LOSS 3-2 (see above) Bo Bassett, TF 10-0 (see above) U20 Pan-American Championships Erick Vera Olave (Ecuador), TF 10-0 Angel Ramirez Guardia (Peru), TF 10-0 Diego Peraza Aguilar (Mexico), TF 10-0 Yandro Soto Rivera (Puerto Rico), TF 10-0 U20 World Championships Abdullah Toprak (TUR), TF 18-8 (U23 Bronze; U20 Bronze; 2x Cadet Bronze) Omurbek Asan Uulu (KYRG), DEC 9-3 (U17 Gold) Alessandro Dante Nini (ITA), DEC 3-3 Amal Dzhandubaev (RUS), DEC 3-1 Reiji Uchida (JAP), DEC 4-3

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/dhs-secretary-says-entire-southern-border-wall-to-be-painted-black-to-stop-people-from-climbing-it/ What a dumb idea.

Poor Jimmy.

I think most of Mohammad’s marriages were political. Aisha’s father was one of the most powerful men of the time, and Mohammad was just a shepherd claiming to be a prophet. Marrying her definitely boosted his influence. Even before that, his marriage to Khadijah - who was old enough to be Aisha’s mother, maybe even her grandmother in an age when girls married super young - was clearly political too, since she was a wealthy merchant. I’m sure politics played a role, and probably desire as well. I don’t know if Abu Bakr had other daughters, but if he did, I don’t get why Mohammad went for Aisha instead of, say, a 20-year-old daughter (if there even was one). Anyway, I’m not really an expert on Islamic history, so these are questions you should ask someone who’s actually a Muslim or claims to know the history. But no matter how I look at it, whether it was politics or desire, what Mohammad did still makes a hell of a lot more sense than believing a woman had a baby without ever having sex.