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Not even theoretucally could you swim 18 of 35 events.

No because swimming >> wrestling. I am not sure Lopez was the best at all 5 Olympics even though he was the best at his style at his weight. Phelps was definitely the best at 3 of his 5 Olympics and an argument can be made for 4 of 5 as he was most accomplished 4 times. His first Oly at 15 he got nothing.

Sure it does. You mentioned it is harder to make the Olympics with six weights. A big part of that is how crowded the domestic competition is to be the guy at that reduced number of weights. Amine did not have to run the US gauntlet for the World team before getting a chance to get an Olympic quota. In San Marino Amine gets a bye. And he chose that route because he could not beat the domestic competition.

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I think it is about control of middle rather than who is aggressor.

The market is up today. Does that mean Bidenomics is working now? Should we count the up days and subtract the down days?

I saw that in track in field yesterday too.

I can also be talked into putting the 1970 Cyclones with Dan Gable and Ben Peterson (2 Oly gold, 1 Oly silver, 1 World gold, 1 World bronze, 2 Pan Am golds, 2 NWHOF, 1 Presidential Medal of Freedom) number 2 on the list.

Michigan doesn't fit the criteria. They did not win at the collegiate level, going 5, 5, 2 in the three years these guys overlapped. As for 6 weights versus 10 weights. It is really not the same when it is 3 countries to access the 6 weights. At a minimum it is 3 of 8 weight equivalents, or 37.5% versus 4 of 10, or 40%. The knock on the 1981 Hawkeyes is that they won all of their Olympic medals at the boycotted 1984 games, but it is hard to ignore the four HOFers, or coaching accomplishments. Given time maybe the Wolverines could match the coaching success, but I do not see a fourth HOFer on any f their rosters.

Using @blueandgold's original premise of a single year (2001 Hurricanes) I think it has to be the 1981 Hawkeyes. In addition to winning the NCAA tournament that year, the roster went on to produce four Olympians (Barry Davis, Randy Lewis, Ed Banach, Lou Banach) who won three golds and a silver. They also produced 2 silvers at Worlds. That roster also produced five Hall of Famers. All four of the Olympians are in the Distinguished Members wing of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame along with Jim Zalesky. In addition, Lennie Zalesky, Jim Zalesky and Mike DeAnna each went on to have distinguished coaching careers.

This was a fun tidbit from The New Yorker article "How to Buy a President" last week: The upshot was that even with the SPAC maneuver and its $300 million in limbo, there would be enough capital to build a social network. And the executives had decided on a name. At a meeting at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Moss and Litinsky pitched him on Virt, short for virtuous. Trump suggested Truth instead. They looked up the domain TruthSocial.com, saw that it was available for a little more than $2,000, and bought it. When they ran the name by Melania, she burst out laughing. “Truth?!” she said, pointing at her husband. “This guy?”

You guys act like any of this matters. Her single greatest accomplishment is also her single greatest qualification in the minds of voters. She is not, has never been, and will never be Donald J. Trump. The J stands for insurrection.

I do not doubt that. I just think it is smart to not be on Facebook. While you miss out on good stuff, like this interview, you avoid a lot more bad stuff that the Facebook engagement algorithm pushes on you.

Smart

USA is showing the US matches on delay. Just showed Rau and have Hilldebrandt right now. JB on the mic.

Welcome back and let's hope you are celebrating.

While you may think this, this is very dumb.

She was born in the US. Has always lived and wrestled in the US. Why not wrestle for the US?

Donovan Ball

There were 12 seeds from 1979 until 2013. There were 16 seeds for only five seasons from 2014 until 2018. From 2014 to 2018 Cody Brewer was, indeed, the highest seed to win followed by Myles Martin as an 11 seed. There were no other double digit seeds to win in the 16 seed era (or in the 33 seed era).

In my world we call this overfitting the data.

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Nah, then it is just transportation.

Another fun fact. In high school I swam with a guy who was a 50 flat 100 yard flyer, and about a 52 flat freestyle. In practice he would swim our 10x200 freestyle sets doing butterfly instead. He would also occasionally swim butterfly in freestyle events just to mess with people.

The answer is simple. Swimming is the highest form of sport.