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Ha ha, you green eyed monsters. Your jealousy is understandable. Swimming is the greatest sport known to man...or beast, for that matter. Making swimmers, by extension, the greast athletes in the known world. 71% of the earth is covered by water where we reign supreme. Leaving a measly 29% for wrestlers. Swimmers clearly deserve more medals. And more medals we shall have. We shall stroke our breasts and backs, and butter our flies with a total freedom of style. I educate you on this from a position of complete objectivity.

Oh man, WKN.....if anybody else posted this on here instead of FloSwimming, they would be put in forum prison....only you could get away with this I guess......lol Fadz

What, you don't think a single athlete should be able to win 15 Gold medals in a single Olympics? Fascist.

The lack of backlash to this thread is a testament to our collective appreciation for the dear chap WKN

Au contraire, my friend. https://www.worldaquatics.com/competitions/4795/world-aquatics-open-water-swimming-world-cup-2025 Thank you for pointing out that we now control 71.0001% of the earth

Having multiple strokes is ridiculous. It’s the aquatic equivalent of adding backwards run, one legged hop, sideway shuffle, etc. to track. Just jump in the pool and swim whatever is fastest.

If Hunter joined Hamas.

57kg: I do not really know what to make of Anthony Knox. He dominated the open against a field that was not super proven and then dropped a match to Ignacio Villasenor who just Dnp'd at fargo and got 4th at cadet trials. Knox showed really good counter wrestling a lot of chest wraps and he has always been great on top. I worry that if he allows guys in on his legs like he did Ignacio he may not be able to convert points like he did at trials. The biggest threats are going to be Bagirhov of Azerbijan he won the u20 European championships and took second to pavlov at u23's (pavlov is who Luke beat in the finals last year). Zangaladze from georgia took silver at Euros and beat a guy who I was very high on Ozdamirov who went on to get Bronze. Caio Aaron won pan ams over Antonio mills and he will be a tough out he is a USA guy representing Brazil and another guy wrestling in the united states that will be competing is Rin Sakamoto who took 5th at senior Asians and I think will present Knox with some serious issues. Prediction for Knox: DNP (I think he has the upside to win the entire thing I just was not thrilled with his last performance) 61kg: I fully expect Blaze to win this weight and dominate. His biggest test will likely come from Toktamotov from Kyrgestan who won the asian championships or Japans rep who did not compete there. However the guy from japan that did compete took second and I assume this guy beat him out for the spot. Jax beat the Japanese rep at cadets back in 2022. Adlan satiev (adam satievs son) is also in the field but I do not think he has much for Blaze but he is very fun to watch. Prediction for Blaze: Gold 65kg: This weight is very tough and we only have domestic data points for Blaze. Toprak and Dhzandubaev are going to be the main tests for Stanich. Toprak has been competing at juniors since he was cadet eligible and has always been in bronze medal matches, I think he is a legit top 20ish in the world senior level guy. Dhzandubaev owns two wins over him this year one by tech at u20's and one 6-4 at u23's both tournaments he won gold. I think given those results Dhzandubaev is the guy to beat but I think Stanich can certainly do so. I worry a bit that international refs may be quicker to hit stanich with passivity and for that I think I am giving Dhzandubaev the edge but again I think he can win the entire thing Prediction for Stanich: Silver 70kg: I mean I do not think there is a ton to go into here PJ should demolish this field. I think the second and third best u20 guys in the world could very well be Melvin Miller and Landon Robideau. Baitukaev has aged out but even if he was in this field I would still confidently pick PJ. Prediction for PJ: Gold 74kg: This weight is good. Khaniev took 5th at u23's last year as a 17 year old and won u23 euros this year. He did however lose to Manuel wagin at u20 euros who is also in this field and beat Melvin miller 7-0 last year at cadets. After saying all that I am still picking Ladarion but he will definitely be tested. Prediction for Lockett: Gold 79kg: For my money this is the deepest weight at worlds. Fortunately Shamispour is not competing for Iran he is a monster won cadets last year beating Wagin and was firmly in the running to potentially make Irans senior team. Begenjov from Turkmenistan is the returning champ and is an absolute monster he beat Ryder soundly in the finals. However he did lose in the asian semis to Amit from india who went on to beat shamispour in the finals. He was leading 6-1 at the time of getting pinned though so he is still my pick. Saidulov the russian rep is also good he took 5th last year but he lost to LJ Araujo who Henckel just handled so I dont see him as being a huge threat. Prediction for henckel: Bronze 86kg: This weight is kind of a 2 horse race for me. Papinashvilli from Georgia is very good he beat the returning bronze medalist from Turkey in the Euro finals and I think he is really the only guy that can go with Max. That being said I really like Max's pace and offense against the European guys. prediction for Mcenelly: Gold 92kg: Poyonov is a legit probably top 10 guy senior level at this weight. He took silver at senior asians last year and fifth this year only losing to firouzpour 5-0 who is probably the favorite to win worlds and dauletbekov 2-1 who is a former world medalist. Togoev I do not know anything about he is 18 and won Euros but his age makes me optimistic Connor will have a physicality advantage. Prediction for Connor: Silver 97kg: Erfan the Iranian is a monster he won bronze at cadets in 2022 but dominated his way through u20 asians and lost 3-2 to Yoshida in the finals of the ranking series (Yoshida beat Snyder this year). He will be a decided favorite over Radamacher but I expect Radamacher to able to medal against this field like he did last year. Genos brother? Konstanine Petriashvilli is also in this field and he won Euros. I think he has improved a lot but he had a very close match with Elijah Diakomihlais last year who got the spot because Dreshaun was hurt and Dreshaun teched him to make the team so I like Radamacher in that one. Prediction for Radamacher: silver 125kg: I truthfully do not know much outside of Gogolaev obliterated the field at euros and the Russian people seem to think he is going to fix their heavyweight issues. Cole is going to be able to wrestle with everyone there I do worry about his size a bit and giving up ground. I would have loved to see him hit Merill at some point to see how he handles that. Prediction for Cole: Silver

Speaking of the ones which are not scripted of course. Right now, it seems like we have three primary ones which are: Real American Freestyle: Modified version of freestyle, broadcast on Fox Nation CLAW: rules are hybrid of freestyle and folkstyle with a few other tweaks like the pilons; broadcast on YouTube and FloWrestling Championship Wrestling Association: 9 minute matches of folks style - three minute periods. Broadcast on Rokfin I'm happy the those that are taking these business risks on behalf of wrestling are adhering to game theory and attempting different approaches. Maybe we can learn something about how to grow wrestling into a professional sport by watching the evolution of these leagues as well as remembering those that came before them. I have a personal bias toward folkstyle, but I'm not too insistent that the product be one style vs another. I think production value and quality of wrestlers will make the biggest different to me personally. I'm looking forward to following all three

not before this one

When will you have this plot ready?

Ben Askren just went from hero to "eff it, put this game on Legendary mode and I'm about to set the world record." I've never been more pumped to see someone spit out 5 pound curls in my life. If this guy is any more inspirational we may not have any brick walls left because we ran through them all thanks to him.

Non-dummies can thrive in this environment...

Good news, they are adding even more swimming events to the LA Olympics so you'll have no shortage of things to complain about

Pretty close to what Smith said in this interview with the exception of Bates more likely at 197.

Great choice

I think this story made a some waves on socials last week because a lot of ppl misinterpreted the headline. The $147M budget gap is what Iowa State is projecting in additional costs through 2031 with the $20.5M NIL/revenue sharing cap increasing by 4% each year (and because its own conference revenues have been diluted due to the Big 12's expansion to 16 teams), assuming they max out their cap sheet. I mean, ISU is 100% right to raise red flags about its financial horizon, given that the department has historically been self-funding up until last year, Covid season excepted, but that's pretty much the case for for most of the opt-in schools outside the P2. By comparison, Iowa was $235M in the red at the start of FY24. Most of that remaining debt is from revenue bonds issued for capital projects (CHA, Kinnick, etc.). The athletic department also took out a $50M loan from the university during the Covid season to keep things running and has pretty much only been able to repay the interest so far. They've only knocked about $2M off the principal so far, and have 15 years to pay back the University, who like most public schools is also not in fantastic financial shape these days and wants the money ASAP. The Hawkeyes' revenue should increase by around 10% this year from the B1G's tv deal, but will level off over the next 5 years (I think) as Oregon and Washington are phased into revenue sharing. The other big question is whether WBB and Wrestling can sustain their sport's revenues, which got a pretty nice bump during the Caitlin & Spencer years. Anyway, the big takeaway from that news for us I guess is that the construction of ISU's new wrestling facility and the (Hilton Coliseum renovation) has been put on hold indefinitely. Kind of a bummer for Dresser's guys.

... well, that went swimmingly. D3

Being lazy. Problem is news peeps like to cut it up and add their opinions

There is a full clip on YouTube somewhere. Maybe I’ll find it …. the bidens are totally not bitter about the coup the Ds played on them

I like the SwimSwam crew.

If Hunter promised to rid the world of all tarriffs and the election were this coming Tuesday would rv vote for him?

He is getting thick he said to seabass when he called him in that video that he was between 150-155 right now.

Were you silenced while typing this?

While you’re holding your breath, think of how many dire predictions you’ve made that were wrong?

You have your own woke definition of cancel?

Make a real point. Should people be forced to support or buy shyte they don’t agree with their politics? It’s not like conservatives are running around town tearing down statues in the middle of the night of folks they don’t agree with. Or shooting law enforcement officers for enforcing the law. Or burning teslas. Or taking over city blocks. Or throwing paint on nice coats. Or gluing themselves to the highway. Or supporting terrorists in Palestine by shutting down high ways.

Kneel during the anthem in the nfl. Conservatives just stop going. Have a tranny be your spokes man for your beer. Conservatives don’t buy it…. The product. It’s called the free market. I don’t like the aunt Jemima or uncle Ben’s logo? The left cancels different. They force/make the thing they want to cancel go away. Why can’t they just not buy the syrup or rice like regular adults. I dunno. as far as Colbert. Cry me a river. The program is a thing medium and was not profitable. What on earth does that have to do with Trump. Why would abc want to keep losing $40m a year Tranny drag shows and blow job books still exist. Just not in kiddy schools where they never belonged in the first place. Seems to me nut job lefties are burning teslas their plants etc. so I’m not even sure what this is. climate change is a 6,873 page thread. I’ll let that one sit.

Wow... man on a mission!

The executive order is plainly unenforceable as impermissible executive legislation. Though directionally appropriate it's also ill considered and will serve only to inject added chaos to an already messy environment.

steak prices are currently high in the U.S., reaching record levels. Several factors contribute to this, primarily related to a shrinking cattle herd, increased feed costs due to drought, and strong consumer demand. Here's a more detailed breakdown: Shrinking Cattle Herd: The national beef cow herd is at its lowest point in decades, with fewer cattle available for slaughter. This reduction is due to a combination of factors, including ranchers selling off breeding stock during previous droughts. Increased Feed Costs: Drought conditions across major cattle-producing regions have led to higher costs for ranchers to feed their cattle, as they rely on more expensive feed instead of grazing. Strong Demand: Despite the higher prices, consumer demand for beef, particularly ground beef, remains strong, further contributing to price increases

no one is taking pendleton. its like jake rosholt vs pre scandal synder at this point.

https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-state-athletic-department-budget-gap-147-million-2031/65513078

That said, it was interesting that an 141lber went in to 157lbs and dominated all season and a fringe AA 165lber dropped and won it all... then the 157lbers beat up the 165lbers at the WTT at 74 KG.

I'm staying in a basement room right now ... tried to jump but failed just like a red viking.

Just wait until Oregon St wins a team natty under Pendleton!

To be clear, your examples are.. Ben bumping up a weight class and beating beat a returning national finalist (the score was 5-1 with 30 seconds left.. Ben cut him with looking to score another takedown.. he gave one up at the end and the match finished a deceiving 5-4) and Ben making the Olympic team at a non-ideal weight class 1 year after graduating college.. Both examples show him failing to beat the top guys zero times. Again, who are these "top guys" you speak of?

Watch the Roger Kish match where Ben bumped up a weight in the dual against Minnesota. Ben stopped bumping up after that against the top guys. Same in freestyle. Cut way to much weight to make 163 in my opinion. This is one of many. He was just not natural physically strong. He was very fortunate to make an Olympic Team. Great trials win that year for Ben! Just can't put him on the 25 year team. Close but a few guys deserve it over him.

I want you to answer genuinely. Whose career would you rather have? 4x finalist with over 90 career pins, 2 undefeated championship seasons and two Hodge trophies. (How many 4x finalists were there in the history of college wrestling in 2007?) 2x finalist, 0 undefeated seasons, 0 Hodge trophies, but you beat the guy above 6 out of 7 times during his first two years of competition?

Exactly. And was able to eventually handle Pendleton pretty well as well. Had something like 90 pins, so I'm not sure about "father of the tech fall." And everyone says how strong he was on the mat.

Are you aware that he was our Olympic rep?

Bro.... come on... you know what cancel culture is because you all screamed about it when it happened when the shoe was on the other foot... Now the sides reverse and your response is seriously "how is it cancel culture?!?!?" And "define cancel culture!!!" You are the party of cancel culture and it's obvious and doesn't need explaining.

Askren was the guy that could score 50 points in a match against guys he was better than. He was the father of the funk and the tech fall! Askren simply was not strong in comparison to the very top guys and when he met an equal opponent it was evident. Never could beat the top group of guys. He had an amazing marketable niche but should not be considered the greatest of an era.

Conservatives lose a presidential election? They riot, damage property, storm the capital, beat cops and *I poop my pants, don't laugh at me* on people's desks. Someone believes in god? They can't just go about their day but make legislative changes to put up the 10 commandments in classrooms in an entire state. Are there people that do stupid *I poop my pants, don't laugh at me* on both sides and destroy property? Yeah no doubt... To pretend like conservatives have some more high ground because they didn't break a window on a Tesla is laughable. The fact that Trumps DOJ is making a deal with a pedofile to save his own ass after campaigning on release of the unvarnished truth is morally evil and reprehensible. I actually was hopeful there for a bit there was finally a bipartisan issue we could all get behind but low and behold MAGA is marching in place. I'd rather not associate myself with the party protecting pedofiles. I'll let that one sit for a while...

That's right, baby. Swimming is back. Tough start for the Americans as two swimmers dropped out due to illness and a third dropped out of an individual event to focus on a relay. Apparently during training camp in Thailand several swimmers got sick. But the highlights of tonight's (tomorrow morning - it is in Singapore) are the women's 400 Free with Katie Ledecky the fastest in the prelims, but Sumer MacIntosh just set the world record at the Canadian trials. Should be tasty. The men's 4x100 Free relay also features today. The US will be pushed hard by Italy.