Would you rather-Oylimpic Set-up

[Wrestleknownothing]

On 8/13/2024 at 6:54 PM, 152lbs said:

1996 and before used an A and B pool system.  1992 John Smith lost to Reinoso but teched Aliev? (who beat Reinoso) and thus won his pool.

@FWwrestling

It has been all over the place over the years.

• From 1928 to 1980 a bad points system was used. Accumulate 6 bad points and you are eliminated.
• From 1984 to 1992 it was two pools with double elimination in the pools. Top from each pool wrestled for gold, second from each for bronze, third from each for fifth, etc.
• For 1996 it was a single elimination bracket with repechage.
• From 2000 to 2004 it was pools of three or four with the winner of each pool moving to a single elimination bracket.
• Since 2008 it has been a single elimination bracket with repechage.

Edited August 16 by Wrestleknownothing

[Wrestleknownothing]

On 8/13/2024 at 5:41 PM, Eagle26 said:

Definitely we want more weights. The issue that a lot of people don’t realize is that it has nothing to do with the number of medals. It’s all about the number of participants. So to get more weights you’d have to make the brackets smaller than 16 (which no countries outside of the top 3 or 4 would vote for), or cut Greco which might sound like a good idea to US but not the rest of the world. So we are pretty much stuck

I think the best we can hope for is 8 weights. Eight or fewer weights is historically more common than 10 for the Olympics and for Worlds. But the real shame of it is that it was FILA/UWWW that started cutting back on weights, not the Olympics.

[152lbs]

I barely even watched the Olympics this year.  FILA/UWW made it as boring as paint drying.

[Wrestleknownothing]

34 minutes ago, 152lbs said:

I barely even watched the Olympics this year.  FILA/UWW made it as boring as paint drying.

Then why are you spending so much time talking about it?

[152lbs]

Because this is a wrestling forum and there is nothing else going on right now.  I didn't realize I needed your permission to be here.

[Wrestleknownothing]

36 minutes ago, 152lbs said:

Because this is a wrestling forum and there is nothing else going on right now.  I didn't realize I needed your permission to be here.

[152lbs]

And you are an azzhole

[Wrestleknownothing]

1 hour ago, 152lbs said:

And you are an azzhole

[PNWfan]

17 hours ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

I think the best we can hope for is 8 weights. Eight or fewer weights is historically more common than 10 for the Olympics and for Worlds. But the real shame of it is that it was FILA/UWWW that started cutting back on weights, not the Olympics.

Eight weights would be ideal. I'm sure lots of folks on here would like 10, but I fear that things become a bit watered down with that many weights.

[NormMacDonald]

On 8/12/2024 at 4:26 PM, Bigbrog said:

10 weights with double elimination and true wrestle backs to 3rd.

This!! And get rid of all basketball from the games 

[NormMacDonald]

On 8/12/2024 at 10:02 PM, GrandOlm said:

Wrestling would die everywhere but the US and worlds would become an amateur event that the US techs and pins everyone at. 

We could all take turns getting medals!

[NormMacDonald]

On 8/13/2024 at 8:29 AM, FWwrestling said:

Have pools every been tried at the Olympics? I think it would be a solution to get some of the wrestlers a few more matches and give a better idea of who is the best at that given event.

They were tried once but too many drowned.