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The US women's team is so far laying an egg. Maroulis and Blades are going to carry this thing.

Terrible performance. As I was saying in a different thread a month or so ago, this is the weakest Womens FS team Japan has sent since 2019. Their 2025 World team is literally all 3rd-4th string besides 50kg(2021 50kg WC) and 62kg(2024 Olympic champ) since the 2024 Olympic reps(minus 62kg) aren't competing this year.

you have to give your coaches credit for getting them to your expectations! And congratulations on a most powerful team!!

Not really. Japan's 76 this year isn't very good. The only good wrestler they have at 76kg is Kagami, the OIympic champ.

Yazdani is still recovering from his Olympic injury. Geno was contacted by a flo personality, he said that he's taking a year off to celebrate his Olympic Gold medal. Akgul was given a cushy administrative job (president of the wrestling federation) and is retired (that type of culture helps explain why Turkey is so down in Freestyle).

Ditching folkstyle doesn’t seem to help the women’s team. Woof. Looks like Budapest wasn’t a fluke.

Yes. Let the kid be a kid. Let him enjoy his family, and high school, and being on a team with his little brother. One of the Sanderson brothers recently had a post about the average parent has already spent 75% of the time they will ever spend with their child by the time the child is 12 and 90% by the time the kid is 18. I have no idea if there is any truth to it, but it hard for me as a parent. Hold on to your time with the kids! I used to work at an elite prep school and really didn't understand the parents who sent their kids away to high school (and even elementary school.)

Some comments from others in the discord chat after the shooting: Prior to Robinson's message, members of the chat posted their reactions upon the news of Kirk being shot at Utah Valley University's campus. “Charlie Kirk got shot,” one friend wrote Wednesday afternoon. “I just saw the video holy s---,” another user wrote about an hour and a half later. “Bro didn’t deserve to go out like that sad.” Robinson was silent. His only activity in the chat following Kirk's assassination was when he confessed that he was responsible for it. When Robinson confessed in the Discord, no one responded until the next day when a friend asked the group to "pray for Tyler and his repentance." He then asked for prayers for Kirk. “While Charlie Kirk’s politics were not acceptable to some I ask that we all say a prayer for him and his family during these confusing times,” the friend wrote. https://wjactv.com/news/nation-world/tyler-robinsons-shocking-discord-admission-it-was-me-at-uvu-yesterday Doesn’t really sound like a group of far left violent transtifa activists to me.

It was about the only beautiful thing in that match...

Brit claimed he never said that since they don't exist in the UK either.

Welker gives up a TD at the end to lose 8 - 3

Kyrgyzstan gets the underhook again and Welker tries to go out of bounds and Kyrgyzstan shucks it by for the TD and adds at turn 6 - 3 w/ 6 seconds to go

grounded and out 24 seconds left

Kyrgyzstan really driving w/ an underhook now; wants that stepout point

Lmfao. He didn't celebrate it, plus it's an anonymous board.

Kyrgyzstan picks up a stepout; officials are conferring to see if it's a step out or a TD Officials call it a TD 3 - 2 Welker w/ a minute to go

Welker runs Kyrgyzstan right off the mat; 3 - 0 w/ 2 minutes to go

Looks like Ecuador tech'd Italy; if Welker holds on that will be 3 Pan Am women into the semi's at 76 kg

Both wrestlers content to hit the break at 2 - 0 Welker

Welker gets a single leg and gets behind to take a 2 - 0 lead on Kyrgyzstan

Or at least go grocery shopping with him haha

Sidebar . . . the Cuban woman just tech'd Japan in under a minute . . . that was unexpected

Welker coming out on Mat A for the last bout of the session (for both America and the session in general)