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Making weight outside of Serbia or knee injury?

I dunno, avoiding spoilers during the Olympics by clicking on an international wrestling forum is about as effective as avoiding arm ties with Amit Elor by choosing to wrestle against Amit Elor.

Lopez did not wrestle from 2016 to 2020 and surprised with his entry at Tokyo. He has not done anything since then and is in the finals in Paris. This guy has basically wrestled 1 tourney since 2016 and is likely to be 2024 gold medallist in just his second tourney since 2016. mspart

It's not a refusal to engage: it is an impossible task against Elor, who when her career is finished will be acknowledged as the greatest US wrestler in history.

this didn't age well...

Ok, you guys are right. I wish Micic a speedy recovery, and it sucks he had to pull out of the Olympics.

I was going to post something mean, but then it dawned on me that you might just be jealous. I imagine that is a bad headspace to be in. Mental health awareness in men is important and I am here for you, if you need soemone.

Okay... I'll play the part of the Old Maid and start this thread. Day 1 will start the GR tournament @ 60 & 130Kg. Adam Coon @ 130kg will be the first one up (literally, folks as he's going up against the Iranian who nabbed the first seed (do anyone thing he's lucky today?) No US rep @ 60Kg... but we DO have Amit Elor @ 68Kg going up against the #1 seed from Turkiye (I'm so used to sayin' Turkey here... muscle memory!) I would think the Turkish woman would be wondering here, about who she ticked off to get Elor as a 1st round opponent? LET the WRESTLING BEGIN! D3

not a single human being says she's unqualified b/c of race

Elor has been so dominant. Hopefully NBC gives her some coverage.

Amit Elor is the current P4P best wrestler in the world. Her coronation ceremony kicks off at the conclusion of the 15th match on Mat B tomorrow afternoon.

JC

Elor, 10-0, in under 2 minutes. Takedown to leg lace.

Biden was voted in the primaries and had the delegates. Harris did not. But Biden endorsed Harris and it appears the delegates followed to her. So legitimate and not at the same time. There was no competition in the primaries. If Joe had not run, and Kamala had to duke it out with other Ds, she would have lost. in 2020, she dropped out before a vote was cast. She is that bad. She has not held a news conference fielding questions for 2 weeks. Why? Because she sounds like a HS student trying to fill a void with word salad hoping to impress everyone with the amount she can talk while actually making no sense. To wit, her comments on inflation https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/kamala-harris-admits-inflation-heavy-weight "Prices have gone up and families and individuals are dealing with the realities of the bread costs more, the gas costs more, and have to understand what that means," she said. "That’s about the cost of living going up. That’s about having to stress and stretch limited resources." Harris said that is a "source of stress for families" that is "not only economic, but is, on a daily level, something that is a heavy weight to carry." "It is something we take very seriously, very seriously," she said, adding that historically, when prices go up, "it has a direct impact on the quality of life for all people in our country." "It’s a big issue and we take it seriously and it is a priority for us," Harris said, adding that the administration has addressed it "in a number of ways." That gives me loads of confidence that she knows what she is talking about. She is just inane. mspart

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68Kg women SF... Elor vs Pak, PRK on the top half. NGR Oborududu vs KGZ Zhumanazarova on the bottom half... D3

Uguev. 5th last year and multiple time champion (2 Worlds, 1 Olympic), including three straight from 2018-2020(1).

16-man tournament. Opportunity to run a true double elimination with no wrestler competing in more than three bouts per day. But, FILA/UWW have never cared to use/understand the American bracket (you should've seen some of their attempts in 1995-96) and they never will.

He is. Left Cuba because he was behind Lopez. Smart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmani_Acosta#:~:text=Acosta started wrestling in Cuba,and the Cerro Pelado International.

It isn’t making anyone “not people”. They aren’t being put in a smaller box. You can’t impregnate me any more than you can any other man. It’s just reality. Laugh away. It won’t change facts or reality.

Not much of a size advantage, but a very large talent advantage. Elor dominated bigtime.

Doubt there is a head on conflict between Iran and Israel/US with boots on the ground. Most likely Iran through back channels will tell Israel and the US their plan. It will get thwarted but it will be enough for the Iranian leadership to go to their followers and grandstand. The US has been tolerant of Iran because of their large secular population and believe in the long run Iran will join the West again

Nope. They are women. Women become pregnant. Since the dawn of time and until the end of the earth. No amount of woke nano nonsense will change that.

UWW has a Bout Board: https://arena.uww.org/sport-event/show/1ef379e8-e875-691a-8523-7b7ebc03fc97/live

Since both her and Coon have the 1st seeded wrestlers right off the bat... as soon as the wrestling comes on the air today @ 9am EDT, they'll be on the mats., first. Mat A will wrestle the 60Kg GR bouts... Mat B will wrestle the 68Kg women's FS... Mat C will wrestle the 130Kg GR bouts D3

I’m guessing he’s like 30lbs overweight. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Whatever you do don’t talk about your favorite international replacement on a wrestling fan message board. The UWW is always looking for a reason to disregard the entire careers work of “he who should not be named” if he is discussed as a replacement.

That is a nuanced point that is fair. I’d argue it’s not a political winner compared to focusing on immigration or inflation because when you have parents from different races you don’t have to decide which you identify with-you can identify with both. And you can emphasize the different experiences at different times. However, he didn’t make that nuanced point. His exact words were “all of a sudden she’s black” when she has always been biracial. If anything, she has identified more with being black since she went to Howard. I don’t think she had some political plan in mind when she did that. If he focused on her being far to the left of Biden, I think he’d be much better off than what he has done.

Terrible news! I can only imagine how devastating it must be to train your whole life for an event only to lose that opportunity due to an injury from practice a few weeks before take the Olympics!

Anybody want to start the Olympic wrestling thread? The action begins @ 9am EDT w/ the weights mentioned above. (Let's Get This party Started... ) D3

I think her platform is just that she isn't Trump. It's stupid that we are basically having the exact same election for the third time in a row. If Desantis had won the nomination, I don't think this would be close. Trump is probably still the favorite, but it is way closer than it should have been given the circumstances...And Trump keeps self-sabotaging with things like picking J.D. Vance as V.P. and pretending to not understand that people can be biracial to attack her for being black (neither of those things will play well in the suburbs). When Biden was the nominee, Trump was running an extremely disciplined campaign and basically just letting Biden implode with his ineptitude...Now that whole thing is out the window and we have one candidate attacking the other for being "weird" and the other attacking based on racial identity. Not our finest hour.

Hope this is what you're looking for. I had to put it in a google sheet since the table was too big to past here. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x77sZJUx5rsgzDikS-M6DoUWhJ8OV6dig7LSZ-26-rM/edit?usp=sharing

To answer my own question: +160. This is free money, people! The guy never loses unless it's on purpose!

For some reason I doubt Aaron Brooks was handed a cut sheet of the exact, scene-by-scene events of opening ceremony, with which to make a decision on whether or not to attend.

Damn. https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/12767116-knee-injury-forces-world-champ-stevan-micic-to-withdraw-from-2024-olympics?fbclid=IwY2xjawEdhvVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHXqPpKE5j9eW_Csqm5pfwU37KXIh0ZQ8gszvhAFkqADXFfFecLfGW-Bmtw_aem_lvBpe5ZTxM1vZik1GEQbtA

i don't disagree. personally, at this point, i find the racial identity back and forth (from both sides) juvenile and boring. to me, where it may once have served a real purpose for change, that ship has sailed. i'd much rather get back to the constituency having their focus on policy and data.

Scratch that Abdelnasar was already on the start list. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I get they “seed” the wrestlers but with the top UWW point acquirers aren’t often the weight class favorite. For most of the women being on the opposite side as Japan is probably the slightly easier route to a final.

Gamal Abdelnasar (Egypt) is now listed on the UWW site as a 57kg participant. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I think she’s qualified technically, but interviewing for the wrong job.

Evidently you haven't listened to her talk about important issues.

would not hate Guchi off the scale Id obviously much rather him have a cake walk draw but I think Guchi match 1 is probably at his weakest although they have like 4.5 hours off the scale which is insane.

I think he's got a better chance at beating Tazhudinov than Sadulaev. I know he was out of his mind at worlds last year, but Snyder just kept getting rolled through on his shots. I think if he just Wrestles a bit more conservatively, tries to grind him down... Or maybe I'm wrong and he'll affirm his WC with an OC. But, I like Snyder's chances.

Doesn't take a seed to be a major force in the olympics

100%?

Explains why you aren't seeded in this year's Olympic Games.

Chances Aaron Brooks gets drawn into the bracket with Yazdani and Amine?

We're just waiting for the wrestling... Just waiting... D3

With Michael North moving on from college wrestling, Dario Lemus completing his redshirt and ready to start at 141, the younger brother Kal Miller is bumping from 141 to 157 while Ethen stays at 149. Separately David Szuba, heavyweight MAC champion last year is redshirting this year as a senior.