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Oh no don't dare bring that up. 57/65/74/86/97/125 are the chosen weights for a reason. Did you know that John Smith, a legendary American Cowboy from a previous generation, found them inscribed on golden tablets in the ancient caves of Fila. Declaring himself the chosen one, he presented his mythical findings to his deacons at the village of Lausanne, SUI. As a result he was declared a Prophet of United World Wrestling and his lineage leads the Church of Tweener Gripes of Latter Day Weights. The most prominent of his kin, Markus, was recently anointed bishop of one of those Latter Day Weights where his flock presented him with a medal of bronze in the city of Belgrade.

The Sadulaev I saw looked like he was working on a move to 125, not 86.

Isn't this an annual meeting? He is in his 6th year at Iowa. Did he skip it 5 straight years?

Full consolations in combat sports is pretty much just an American concept. There isn't a push for this (and hasn't been) other than my published pitch for the repechage to expand to at least the semifinal losers to wrestle out to eight spots for potential qualification purposes back in 2013. Although I do find it amusing that you titled this the same way I explain repechage when not in a professional setting. "A French word that means ... completely stupid." I'd prefer a full consolation, but it's not something the international federations seem interested in to even bring it up for consideration. From a timing situation, international matches average about 5 bouts an hour, so how many more matches are you going to add on the four mat (won't be changing) format?

Perhaps the difference in build has something to do with the fact that Dake wrestles 74kg and Snyder wrestles 97kg?? I knows it’s an out there thought but just throwing mud at the wall to see what sticks…

i think missing one year of eligibility is a fair punishment. anything less than a loss of 1 ncaa tournament is meaningless. i just wish it wasn't their last year of eligibility.

You have had 2 to Ionel and 2 to NHS in the last like 5 minutes ..... You went back and looked at all of Ionel's references to you over the last 21 hours...then called him a stalker.... On another note, can you guys stop ruining threads.

Thanks to Caitlin Clark, I watched the most NCAA Women's Basketball this past season than I have in my entire life. Great for the sport. Rooting for her.

I don't think an NCAA athlete should be betting on college sports, especially the football team at their own school. Presumably they could be privy to insider information, which makes this betting problematic. Also, in sports where athletes are underpaid, the availability of easy ways to wager is an issue, could be tempting to make a buck. These look like somewhat small bets, so I don't think he was doing anything unethical, especially as some have pointed out that this is totally legal now! Oh well, I guess losing your final year or whatever of eligibility is just the idiot tax for this situation. We all pay a version of that at some point for various mistakes.

The Moldovans have been bringing the heat on the noise …

Blair Academy would do better at NCAAs than our greco team does at Worlds.

I'm with you on this, repechage sucks. The current ruleset has picked up the pace of matches and thus the tempo of tournaments. Having a standard backside bracket wouldn't drag on like it did back in the day. There's no reason not to have a full consis.

Repechage is nonsensical in the way it is practiced at the World Championships. We have multiple wrestlers in the repechage who have a shot at 3rd place who are 0-1 in the championship bracket. Meanwhile, there are wrestlers in the same bracket that are 3-1 with no chance to advance beyond 7th place. There has to be a better way. In large brackets like 65kg and 86kg there is no good reason to include 0-1 wrestlers in the repechage simply because they had the good fortune to lose in the first round to a finalist. And that is what it is, fortune. The point of these tournaments is about earning, not fortune.

Mirzazadeh over Kayaalp???

It was a Tuesday, a rotten stinch filled the air. Dark clouds rolled in like a group of hells angels, pissed off.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330 Lisa Littman, then an adjunct assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, became interested in the possible role of social contagion in gender dysphoria among adolescents and young adults after noticing a few teenagers in the same friend group that began identifying as transgender. Based on parental feedback in 256 cases, parents described that the onset of gender dysphoria seemed to occur in the context of belonging to a peer group where one, multiple, or even all of the friends have become gender dysphoric and transgender-identified during the same timeframe. Parents also report that their children exhibited an increase in social media/internet use prior to the disclosure of a transgender identity. "Rapid-onset gender dysphoria" (or ROGD) is a term used to describe "a hypothesized new clinical subgroup of transgender youth, which would be characterized by coming out as transgender out of the blue in adolescence or early adulthood." In 2022, Littman stood by the core claims she made in her study, adding that ROGD "does not apply to all cases of gender dysphoria" and "doesn't imply that nobody benefits from transition".

Homicide is the killing of one human being by another. When a physician terminates the unborn, this is homicide. When the unborn is putting the mother's life at risk, and the physician performs a medical procedure to save the woman's life, and the unfortunate outcome is that the unborn is killed... that's still homicide. Not all homicide deserves 'charges.'

Ban

@BobDole

Aaron Burr pistol range target?

Those matches can be wrestled in the small gym or cafeteria on split mats with coaches or parents ref'ing and the JV kids keeping time and score.

I was on a flight one time with who I thought was Richard Sherman... turned out to be Waka Flocka Flame

1984 (4) - Los Angeles 1988 (1) 1992 (2) 1996 (3) - Atlanta 2000 (3) 2004 (1) 2008 (1) 2012 (0) 2016 (0) 2021 (0) Two of the three best performances were on American soil, with one of them devoid of the Eastern Bloc.

Great comeback ...anywho, I personally couldn't care less what an adult does to their body, who they sleep with, how they identify themselves, etc.; however, in the subject of children, you'd have to be out of your freaking mind to take a child and alter/remove their sexual organs, or give them drugs to change their natural sexual development hormones...absolutely disgusting for people to defend doing this to kids. These are KIDS!!! How can people not get that?!?!

With 16 person brackets in the Olympics, you could easily run a true double elimination bracket. No one would wrestle more than three matches per day. Of course, when FILA tried to implement a double elimination bracket in the 1993-96 quad, let's just say the results were...interesting.

Pat Smith is out. Sad to see, as he's fun to watch. Hafizov still with a chance at repechage, but his opponent will have to beat last year's World Champion. Joe Rau still in with a very good repechage chance. On another note, some folks think that Tazhudinov's two wins over Snyderlaev were the best matches of the tournament; others go with Musukaev's gas tank performances or Giant Stevan Micic's improbable run, but the match of the World Championships is still going on: Jason Bryant's voice versus the Iranian crowd noise. So far, Bryant has held his own, but the Iranians have upped their game.

Cheers to you, as well!

The repechage system seems like someone asked a mathematician what's the fewest matches you need to determine the top 3 wrestlers. Then they decided that was one too many matches. The thing is whilst this would be just fine if you are only interested in determining the top 3 the logic doesn't work below 3rd. It's possible the 4th best wrestler is not even involved in the repechage. And it's not like they don't care about the places after 3rd. They give out a second 3rd, sometimes 5th and/or 6th get Olympic qualification, and they award rankings points based on more than just the top 3 placements.

We did in 2007. Somehow.

We just don't, and seemingly never will, figure out a training system to create a competitive team at this level. I wish it'd change for them because you know they work hard, but for now it feels like sending Blair Academy to the NCAAs and being surprised when nobody medals .

By the way, the crowd is as loud for Greco qualification matches as they were for Freestyle medal matches. A lot of those three-dollar clarinets smuggled into the arena. These folks are pumped the F up for Greco!

Good Morning! Today, the alarm clock won. Cheers!

And even if you don't have full consis, since the repechage participants cannot even be determined until the semis are over, why not take the time to have the right partial consis? 0-1 should never trump 3-1.

I like Islands! Just not the North Sentinel variety

3 ÷ 10 = 30% to spell it out thirty percenters

Dresser said he would host one so we could qualify 5 per weight!

Anyway... time for me to fly. I'll check in when I can... tootles. D3

No matter how far behind you get in a match... if get a fall, it doesn't matter. You WIN. D3

Nice comeback for Pat Smith via fall Nice! D3

Right back, atcha! cheers squared. D3

Mornin' IWB. D3

Bey won 6-3 (7-3?) pending a challenge by Finland... D3

On Pete. He agreed to the lifetime ban and no Hall of Fame eligibility. Now he whines about what he agreed to. Brands is dumber than a cooler full of night crawlers and his posts show it.

Anyone catch this? Hahahaha

one of the greatest things i've ever seen on these boards. well done.

Twist it anyway you want, you are still stupid.

I think I am on an island here, but I think it is a bunch of crap that these guys got these punishments. The punishment does not fit the crime in my decidedly not humble opinion.

Exhibit A, folks. WOWZA!