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Dake’s style at the world level has become increasingly more agitating. And it’s why magic man has surpassed him. Anyone who’s ever watched Dake in his career knows he can do so much more offensively. But he’s content to try and win every match against a competent opponent 3-0 while hugging his opponents in chest wraps as often as he can. I have no idea why he’s decided to pigeonhole himself into that. Meanwhile, DT says I’m going to pour it on anyone, anywhere as much as I want to. I wish Dake would start wrestling with that mindset.

Time for a Mongolian Protest!

No way micic knows the words to that anthem. Milli vanilli could do a better job

Belgrade is an interesting intersection between Europe and Russia. The old part of the city is a great walking city. The streets are always busy and very safe. All day and night there are woman in groups and singly walking everywhere. There are large swaths of pedestrian only streets and interesting things to see. An uncountable number of resteraunts and cafes lined all of the inner city. And we hit a fair number. The Soviet feel comes from the immense amount of crumbling concrete. Crumbling building facades especially. But near the arena it is a spectacular amount of very bad concrete as far as the eye can see. The steps up to the arena are down right comically bad trip hazard on top of trip hazard. And the plaza is full of ankle breakers. None of this would pass building codes in the US. It is really hard to describe just how bad the concrete was. They would be amazed at the advances in concrete the west has made. The inside of the arena was completely different and quite nice. Except for the bathrooms. Those were a weird experience. Apparently they do not have toilet paper or paper towels. There are not even holders for them. No soap. No working hand dryers. We took to bringing TP from the hotel just in case. On the plus side, the wrestling and running of the event were great. All very professionally done. Excellent production values to support amazing athletes. On the non-wrestling plus side, the hospitality was fantastic. One of the bartenders from the hotel came to watch wrestling with us today. The food was amazing. And the portions were ridiculously large while the prices were ridiculously low. The wife and I really enjoyed the trip.

What a run for Stevan Micic. Beats Uguev (World and Olymic Champ), Abakarov (World Champ) and the Higuchi (world champ) to win a world championship!

Stevan Micic, University of Michigan grad and representative for Serbia - World Champion.

If Dake had tried anything except a chest wrap for the entire tournament he would have been better off. In his final four matches he failed on every chest wrap attempt he made.

How about that... MICIC WON the GOLD, 7-4 score. He took out a lot of champs doing that... D3

I think all-time and p4p rankings are fun, but they don't really mean much. Too many variables involved. JB and Taylor are both really fun to watch, and they both have proven themselves over and over. That said, if Taylor wins a second Olympic title, it would indeed be special. I think among US wrestlers, only Smith and Baumgartner have done that.

Gotta hand it to David Taylor. His reign as the most "dominant and dynamic" freestyle wrestler lasted for almost 20 hours

I hadn't seen the pic

I can relate to the Russian fans right now, reminds me of when Sidakov beat Burroughs (before he was Sidakov) and I thought "Now a clear path for my sweet innocent Chamizo" but then Sidakov beat him as well. Or when Kadi beat Dake and I thought, " Now a clear path for my sweet innocent Chamizo" but then Kadi beat him as well. It hurts a little extra

Kyle Dake just got done with his daily functional pattern movements in his Belgrade Hostel room of red light bulbs and organic fish matter. He is now in a deep trance, sleeping naked upside down, hanging from copper leg shackles that are wired into the heart of mother Earth. The New Dawn will not be kind to Sidakov

Complete surprise to see him dismantle both Snyder and Sadulaev back to back. Was anyone aware of this guy and that he was this good coming into this tournament?

A number of wrestlers from Indiana are worlds, which is incredible given that the state didn't produce an NCAA champ during the modern era until the mid 90s. Here are the wrestlers from Indiana I know about: FS -- 57kg -- Micic (silver/gold) FS -- 65kg -- Lee FS -- 125kg -- Parris (bronze) WW -- 50kg -- Hildebrandt WW -- 62kg -- Miracle Not bad for a lower-tier state!

Dake shot one time and scored cleanly. When it was 3-3 he should have went on the attack. Sidakov was well prepared for the chest wrap. Kept shelving that leg and getting it off the mat. After the first time Dake should have know. Better but that’s his natural reaction. Great match.

I like Erica Wiebe as an announcer.

So he won the challenge but lost the match because the match was scored 10-7 rather than 8-7.

My prediction.

I do not think that is a fair comparison. It took me many hours, two flights and thousands of dollars to get here. I have often just driven to the NCAAs. Worlds and Olympics will always have lesser crowds due sheerly to logistics. But I suspect David Taylor's Olympic gold means more to him than his two NCAA titles.

They're different events, thus, records are kept differently for those events. This isn't a sport that's good with assumptions.

It pays to do the ranking series!

Musukaev just beat the current Russian not 15 minutes ago.

But not like this ... sorry, couldn't resist.

Meanwhile Alieve loses the battle for life falls to his back widening the razor thin paper cut of a lead to a gaping wound of a gap. Tough match

doc performing a full backiotomy here

Obviously you can prefer what you want. But you're looking at it with a decided folkstyle bent and then deciding that it doesn't make sense because it doesn't follow a folkstyle philosophy. People in the rest of the world would go nuts if it were scored just 2 for Blue. Folkstyle philosophy wants decided control over a period of time. International styles are more about making the other move the way you want him to move- in particular by exposing his back. Even if only for a split second.

Sadulaev and Snyder

You aren't speaking with cultured folk here. We assumed Worlds and Olympics with that question. In either case, Gomez won silver in 2010 and Espinal 2012.

Espinal was in the Olympics, not the World Championships.

Snyder vs Saduleav for Bronze is fun

This is true in every universe as well. I hope I am wrong about this one too. I won't be. I hope I am.

He's down to 150 a day.

Only about half a million people now speak Aramaic. Since the Middle Ages it has largely been replaced by Arabic, but it survived as a spoken language in a number of Jewish communities in the mountainous regions of northern Iraq, south-east Turkey and western Iran down to modern times.

D3

Iran should've done what I've suggested in the past: Start celebrating with :09 to go. Run around inside the circle with your hands up shouting "I beat Sadulaev in Arabic!"

Considering he has won 2 world titles and an Olympic title since then, I would say he has improved

I'm at work and furtively watching the FLO stream... but a lot of work-related interruptions. Sudalaev certainly pulled a rabbit out of the hat w/ his win over the Iranian. D3

That happened to Dake at the Tokyo Olympics... got down and tried to hit it out of the park only to get TF himself, no? D3

Bullshit. Sadulaev wins easily because Russia. They don't even try.

Where is that coming from? A career of doing best in the biggest tournaments.

And Musukaev definitely won't be expecting much from him, so maybe Nick Lee can surprise the Moose.

Hazewinkel's too? Sam in free and his father in greco.

Musukaev must be on the patch, dude is wrestling into the second period now. Really impressive win, not sure that was a fall but I'm certainly not an expert on the freestyle quick pin.

Yes, they did.

Big win for the moose!

Everyone pray for Jason Bryant’s voice. Seems like it is showing signs of degradation.

No, Tonya Verbeek is on the Iowa staff.

Jimmy? Is that you?