Sr.Worlds... Day 4

[ScottishSteel]

China beats Italy 8 - 0; Jimenez is eliminated

[ScottishSteel]

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

[ScottishSteel]

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

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

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

[ScottishSteel]

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

[ScottishSteel]

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

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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

[ScottishSteel]

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

[ScottishSteel]

grounded and out

24 seconds left

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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

[ScottishSteel]

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

[LemonPie]

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

[CA_Wrestler]

37 minutes ago, ScottishSteel said:

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

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

[CA_Wrestler]

10 minutes ago, LemonPie said:

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

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.

[Tripnsweep]

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

[ScottishSteel]

1 hour ago, CA_Wrestler said:

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

Fair, in the heat of things w/ all the mats going I hadn't looked into it - just caught the "Cuba techs Japan" and was like whoa