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I read on Happy Valley Insider that on IG he posted that he was deciding within the week. Not on IG so take that with a grain of salt.

https://www.themat.com/news/2024/august/15/willie-saylor-of-matscouts-wins-journalist-champion-picks-contest-for-2024-olympic-wrestling#:~:text=Saylor was able to predict,second (with 8 medals). This stat surprised me: Men’s freestyle was the style that confounded the journalists, as no journalist had more than two of the men’s freestyle Olympic champions selected.

Everyone seems to be giving Yui Susaki a free pass. While bronze is nothing to sneeze at, I do not think there was a bigger favorite.

Then why are you spending so much time talking about it?

I think the best we can hope for is 8 weights. Eight or fewer weights is historically more common than 10 for the Olympics and for Worlds. But the real shame of it is that it was FILA/UWWW that started cutting back on weights, not the Olympics.

@FWwrestling It has been all over the place over the years. From 1928 to 1980 a bad points system was used. Accumulate 6 bad points and you are eliminated. From 1984 to 1992 it was two pools with double elimination in the pools. Top from each pool wrestled for gold, second from each for bronze, third from each for fifth, etc. For 1996 it was a single elimination bracket with repechage. From 2000 to 2004 it was pools of three or four with the winner of each pool moving to a single elimination bracket. Since 2008 it has been a single elimination bracket with repechage.

You're asking for receipts? You offering any?

You sure about that? He got a concussion on a take down in CO and was in the hospital. Then he had a pretty weak OTT.

I would be happy if he stuck to building ice rinks.

Perhaps with a time machine.

1972 was the first time there was 10 weights. It was 8 prior to that.

You have a future in politics

I've got Amit Elor on my list. She beat two world champs in her four matches.

What the hell happened on Twitter tonight? 40 minute wait, 30 minutes of techno before Trump comes on slurring his words while saying Kamala Harris on the cover of Time looks like Melania Trump. Apparently these should be on the Separated at Birth thread. Then Musk doubles down by claiming the delay was a denial of service attack while there are suggestions that is not true. https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24219121/donald-trump-elon-musk-interview-x-twitter-crashes

I feel the same way about Bruce Baumgartner, John Smith, and Jordan Burroughs.

Sorry I missed this the first time where the post-grad transfer window is spelled out: 13.1.1.3.2 Notification of Transfer -- Postgraduate Student-Athletes. A student-athlete who will participate as a postgraduate student at another institution following the next regular academic term or academic year (two semesters/three quarters) may initiate the notification of transfer process at any time between October 1 and the end of the final period specified for the applicable sport in Bylaw 13.1.1.3.1 by providing the student-athlete's institution with a written notification of transfer and completing an educational module related to transferring. The student-athlete's institution shall enter the student-athlete's information into the national transfer database within two business days of receipt of a written notification of transfer from the student-athlete or receipt of confirmation of the student-athlete's completion of the educational module, whichever occurs later. (Adopted: 9/21/22, Revised: 4/18/24, 6/26/24) Then there is this about eligibility for post-grad: 14.6.1 Competition in Year of Transfer. A postgraduate student-athlete who initially enrolls at the certifying institution after the conclusion of the first term of the academic year shall not be eligible for competition in which the student-athlete's performance could be used for NCAA championship qualification or consideration if the student-athlete participated in competition at the previous four-year institution in the same sport in which the student-athlete's performance could have been used for NCAA championship qualification or consideration. (Revised: 4/18/24)

Looks like this is the academic year definition: 14.4.3.1.1 Regular Academic Year. For purposes of Bylaw 14.4.3.1, the regular academic year shall be defined as the time beginning with the opening of the institution's fall term and concluding with the institution's spring commencement exercises. (Adopted: 4/2/03 effective 8/1/03, Revised: 6/1/06)

Though I just found this. It implies that the portal opens with the opening of the academic year (not sure what the definition of that is) for transfer students only, and that it closes for transfer students at the same time it closes for undergrads (early May): https://www.ncaa.org/news/2024/4/17/media-center-division-i-council-approves-changes-to-transfer-rules.aspx "Student-athletes who plan to enroll as graduate students at their next school can enter the portal at any time during the academic year but must enter the portal prior to the conclusion of their respective sports' final transfer windows."

Not really sure what the answer is, but maybe he was in the portal and we just didn't know it? But as for the portal they only have a single window for wrestling now, from mid-March to early May.

always and everywhere.

Trump is using it to get his crowd size up. Because that is the issue of our day. How big was his crowd? The people need to know. I only care about crowd size. I need to know who has the biggest crowd so I know how to vote.

Something carastrophic.

Time for an @Iwrite history lesson.