Why not TWO per weight for each team at Worlds and real Double Elimination?

[bnwtwg]

23 hours ago, ionel said:

Odd ... most fans felt the World Cup was too short this year.  

No way! This is the longest I have paid attention to the World Cup in my entire life!!

Oh...

[ionel]

4 minutes ago, bnwtwg said:

No way! This is the longest I have paid attention to the World Cup in my entire life!!

Oh...

So you wanted more no? 

[mspart]

I would like to see 2 per nation but someone said earlier the IOC don't like that because it concentrates a few nations above all the rest and they wanted more equanimity. 

mspart

[ionel]

2 minutes ago, mspart said:

I would like to see 2 per nation but someone said earlier the IOC don't like that because it concentrates a few nations above all the rest and they wanted more equanimity. 

mspart

Give everyone a participation trophy then let em wrestle two per country double elimination.    

[MPhillips]

20 minutes ago, ionel said:

Give everyone a participation trophy then let em wrestle two per country double elimination.    

[Simpleman424]

Am I the only one thinking this is starting to develop into a tag team matchup between nations…I don’t know how the particulars would work but I gotta be honest that could be awesome

Edited August 5 by Simpleman424

[ionel]

9 minutes ago, Simpleman424 said:

Am I the only one thinking this is starting to develop into a tag team matchup between nations…I don’t know how the particulars would work but I gotta be honest that could be awesome

LJB has a gif of approval ... no leg grabbers there.  

[Lucho]

I think if countries could send "teams" to the olympics it would be cool. Like have each country wrestle off and then progress through a knockout bracket for gold, silver and bronze. I think that would make the olympics more exciting although it might not reduce the number of matches. The only issue is that apart from 3 countries no one else has enough depth across 6 weights for it to be a fair match up

[Simpleman424]

16 minutes ago, ionel said:

LJB has a gif of approval ... no leg grabbers there.  

Look at that upper body lock! Tell me he wouldn’t approve?!

[LJB]

Body lock???

[Simpleman424]

3 minutes ago, LJB said:

Body lock???

If his body wasn’t so oily and chest hairs tangled I that dudes back hair he’d be launching him right now…

[LJB]

Baby oil and tangled body hair…

The stupid thread has finally delivered…

Edited August 5 by LJB

[ionel]

1 hour ago, Simpleman424 said:

Am I the only one thinking this is starting to develop into a tag team matchup between nations…I don’t know how the particulars would work but I gotta be honest that could be awesome

 

1 hour ago, ionel said:

LJB has a gif of approval ... no leg grabbers there.  

 

1 hour ago, LJB said:

 

... told ya ^^^

[JMill]

This thread is… weird.

[Sulyvahn]

On 8/3/2026 at 6:04 PM, CHROMEBIRD said:

Wrestling was almost eliminated from the Olympics because the tournaments took too long. The IOC and world/national federations are trying to shorten events, not make them longer. If that's what the powers that be want, I wouldn't be against a more robust qualifier system. Do pods, do 2-pers, whatever, then the winners of the qualifiers can advance to the existing Worlds or Olympics format, even if some countries have 2 entrants. But UWW is also trying to expand the sport, not have the same countries dominate every year.

Wrestling is not a major revenue/cultural power house sport. Wrestling also has no appeal in France, northern Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria these places where the EU aristocrats that run these sport governing bodies are from (*yes I know Switzerland has this belt wrestling folk style in some areas, it really has no meaningful connection to olympic wresting). 

So swimming, sailing, horse events get a lot of love and favors while wrestling, weight weightlifting are treated like the step children. 

To be fair even though Judo gets a lot of favorable treatment through the French connection, they still only have on competitor per weight. Maybe going head to head in the combat sports is a sticking point for them (countries fixing matches). 

Edited August 5 by Sulyvahn

[ionel]

2 minutes ago, Sulyvahn said:

Wrestling is not a major revenue/cultural power house sport. Wrestling also has no appeal in France, northern Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria these places where the EU aristocrats that run these sport governing bodies are from (*yes I know Switzerland has this belt wrestling folk style in some areas, it really has no meaningful connection to olympic wresting). 

So swimming, sailing, horse events get a lot of love and favors while wrestling, weight weightlifting are treated like the step children. 

To be fair even though Judo gets a lot of favorable treatment through the French connection, they still only have on competitor per weight. Maybe going head to head in the combat sports is a sticking point for them (countries fixing matches). 

But what if we added women's Greco?  

[Simpleman424]

9 hours ago, LJB said:

Baby oil and tangled body hair…

The stupid thread has finally delivered…

[Gene Mills Fan]

10 hours ago, Lucho said:

I think if countries could send "teams" to the olympics it would be cool. Like have each country wrestle off and then progress through a knockout bracket for gold, silver and bronze. I think that would make the olympics more exciting although it might not reduce the number of matches. The only issue is that apart from 3 countries no one else has enough depth across 6 weights for it to be a fair match up

Can we get Paycom to sponsor an International Duals Championship???

[Jim L]

On 8/4/2026 at 11:44 PM, Sulyvahn said:

Wrestling is not a major revenue/cultural power house sport. Wrestling also has no appeal in France, northern Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria these places where the EU aristocrats that run these sport governing bodies are from (*yes I know Switzerland has this belt wrestling folk style in some areas, it really has no meaningful connection to olympic wresting). 

So swimming, sailing, horse events get a lot of love and favors while wrestling, weight weightlifting are treated like the step children. 

To be fair even though Judo gets a lot of favorable treatment through the French connection, they still only have on competitor per weight. Maybe going head to head in the combat sports is a sticking point for them (countries fixing matches). 

OTOH, Judo has multiple competitors per weight class from the same country at their Worlds.

I don't follow international Judo anymore. so maybe the rules changed