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You seem to be solidly locked into your chosen political party over what's good for the people of this country. Everything about you as a poster sucks donkey dick... but at least you have conviction. The donkeys appreciate that.

JimmySpanks posting from Spanks HQ - aka his trailer park.

Yes, it's a shame Cuba's freestyle program is completely dead. They sent a 40 year old Garzan to the olympics last year. They must have cut what little funding they had to it.

Same place as now... nowhere to be seen. I neither whine nor act as a malcontent. I'm merely a rational person who applies logic to reality. Then again, rational logic does seem to seriously rattle you. You should try it. It'd be a better path.

I don't think folk gives them an edge. I think, like us, they just have a lot of wrestlers and going off olympic medal counts they also produce the best athletes in the world. I mean we are talking about USA but they flopped in the Olympics also for mens freestyle. We flopped too with that ridiculous 3 silvers but not as bad as them. I think Iran's main problem is winning olympic freestyle golds. We have 3 olympic champs since 2000. 1 of those was due to half his weight class failing the drug test. We are now at back to back olympics with no freestyle gold. That is really, really bad for a country that considers itself a major wrestling country. I don't like Dorostkar either. Guy randomly resigns a year prior to the Olympics then randomly comes back the year after. But it's not all his fault. As for the coaches, we have weight class coaches, Taghavi is is the coach for the lighter weights for example but yes they work under the federation and head coach. Difference is in the USA they mostly train at their own wrestling clubs with their own coaches for the majority of their preparation whereas in Iran they all train at the national camp almost year round. You can't take that system and put it in Iran because while the national camp is certainly an impressive facility, we only have one of those. They have comparable facilities throughout the country. As for wearing guys out, not all their guys are like that. We currently have and have in the past had guys like that too. Zare wears guys out. Firouzpour wears guys out and will likely be a world champ this year even though he has a terrible style of wrestling. In contrast their 86 this year struggles to wrestle 6 minutes. I think that is more to do with the individual athlete.

You gave it away in your first sentence. Trump projects constantly. If you ever want to know what he's doing, just look at what he's accusing others of doing... and you'll immediately know what he's doing. Trumpsters think he's getting away with it, but he isn't. His 80-something mush brain fools none of his opponents or adversaries. He's a decrepit senile fat old orange man who offers nothing to our country, just his intent to grift and personally profit. His followers are blinded by some preconceived ideas they have and don't see how obvious it is. Now, YOU, on the other hand. Are obvious to everyone. You are bipolar and are projecting that onto me. You are one crazy biatch... but only about half the time. I'm pretty much done arguing with your crazy, and gambling about it being on your bi-good days or bi-bad days. You be you. Best of luck to you. Just leave me out of your future crazy.

It's like Biden chose to withdraw from the election for his own reasons and chose to endorse Kamala Harris. Harris had no competition. So, she became the Democratic candidate. It really was as simple as that. (But keep on with conspiracy theories... you tools love that garbage.)

It’s like people that back a party that lied for an entire term until they couldn’t any longer. Then they thru the weekend at Bernie’s president out with the trash and appointed a replacement without people having any say. But they’re all telling the truth.

Is he not technically in the portal anymore?

Hopefully whoever told Sammy Alvarez he could get another year isn’t giving Gabe any advice about this

Its like people believe that a convicted felon, racist, and shady businessman who has cheated on all of his spouses and doesn't release his taxes is somehow telling the truth.

from what it sounds like he was working out there and was likely to end up there, but as of now, he is not officially enrolled

A few will likely grow but I don't see any getting bigger than 174, so likely just growing from one crowded weight into another crowded weight.

I don't think guys leaving will ultimately effect OSU much. They will each likely give it 2 or 3 years of attempting to make the starting line-up and transfer for their last year or two of eligibility if that's what they want to do. The guys on the roster will still have plenty of training partners on the college roster and with the cowboy RTC to where training shouldn't take a hit. OKST will massively benefit from all of these guys knowing that their spot isn't guaranteed and knowing they can't take a day, or a match off.

not as good as the samuel L black snake moan gif but right up there.

Nah

There's probably some growing boys in that group though don't ya think?

Guerrero has the bloodline though.

Pan am's at the age level has largely turned into US vs other US guys that are representing Brazil or PR so often times they are matches that have occurred multiple times already in folkstyle.

the kid from ukraine I believe is a 2 or 3 time euro finalist and now a 2 time u17 medalist probably one of the best guys there. Iran has a shot at 71 James is one of americas best guys for sure but the Tajikistan guy was really really good that iran beat.

I think the way Americans train in folkstyle gives them an edge that carries over into freestyle. Folkstyle just has way more constant engagement - there’s way less downtime where you can just stand around and wait or handfight endlessly. So they grow up learning to wrestle non-stop, and that kind of pace wears our guys out. Also, this whole “one coach makes all the calls for every weight” approach is outdated - especially at the senior level. They’re spending millions, so clearly there’s money. Why not bring in specialized coaches for each weight?

Goat Sanderson

I didn't know that Japan and Russia did that but it makes sense since I saw that their teams were different to what they had at the continental tournaments. I don't think its a bad idea if we do the same but I think at this age level getting these kids to wrestle is the most important thing. I would much rather our guys lose now then at senior level. An olympic/world medal is worth 1000s of these junior golds. I think it would be better if we sent guys to the u15 asians and u23 asians than anything else. I reckon send like the second string guys to u23 asians so they can also wrestle even if japan and some of the other countries don't send guys there.

I'm surprised you're able to not suffocate by forgetting to breathe.

Japan sends the trial runner up to asians, you will see they have a totally different team between worlds and asians. They do the same for juniors also. I think it's a good way to let more guys get international experience. Russia also sends their trials runner up to euros. USA is wrestling pan ams which is a terrible continent for wrestling.