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Rivera wanted it and his coach wouldn’t hit the button. Takes some balls as the coach to stand up and make the right call but he did. Watching live I actually thought there was a chance Rivera didn’t expose, but the coach had a perfect view. I went back and watched the replay… and looks like the coach made the right call. Well done

Wow!!! Incredible match by Rivera! I was a little upset the coaches didn’t challenge that 4, but now I’m happy!

So sad to hear this!

Of course

I think that would be tougher than it sounds and the takedown is irrelevant here. Basically, you could say I got to my feet and the exchange was 1-1 instead of 1-0. I’m ok with that

I agree but at that point, I think you just need to go full freestyle. The main difference between free and folk is control vs exposure. If you change that, you totally change the sport. I’d be in favor of it, but I know we are in the minority

You simply use the step out rule as it is in freestyle.

I agree. I think the best realistic solution is to implement more freestyle concepts in to folkstyle. A step out would be a great way to start

I agree with everything except the last sentence. I think a lot people (especially those only watch international wrestling once every four years) started crying doom and gloom because they thought USA was so much better than the rest of the world. Then others had to chime in with how it’s not as bad as it seems because the rest of the world is just phenomenal too. As usual there’s a little truth to both sides. Zain and Snyder both ran into a better wrestler. Their game plans and preparation looked sound IMO. I think Spencer could’ve opened it up a little more but he needed to slow down Higuchi, so not a real bad strategy either. Brooks made one rookie mistake and it cost him. Your suggestion would help with that, but I’m not going to crucify Brooks over that one mistake after wrestling folkstyle his whole life. Dake and Parris definitely had bad matches and I can understand some criticism there. They did not make in match adjustments and that’s a problem that needs fixing. I think all your suggestions are excellent… I doubt #3 will ever happen though

Gotta spray it on the lungs because that’s what it helps most Love it!

Maybe thats one thing he can beat Steveson at?

Wow! Ugly way to win but he finally got that elusive Olympic gold

Tough to go from thinking you won the Olympics to having to wrestle but that’s the right call

Rooting for Geno to get his Olympic gold, but not feeling optimistic!

Sorry but I feel like Lazarev should’ve let Akgul have his moment

Yeah but his coach WAS trying to challenge that sequence. Dake just didn’t know what his coach was challenging

Wow! Awesome move but he was not pinned. That sucks. I wanted to see more of that

Here’s what I think happened (pretty confident) Cody was trying to challenge the earlier sequence (was just a bit late, but it was confusing with the score). Good challenge IMO because it was very close to two for dake Dake didn’t realize the challenge button was hit so long ago because he was wrestling Dake thought they should be looking at the last sequence (but I don’t know what was even challenge worthy there). Dake was upset because he thought he was getting screwed and started screaming that the first sequence was from the first period (which it was not).

It was hard to tell if that was two or not in real time, so I think it was definitely worth a challenge. I’m surprised they didn’t even look at it. Guess they were fed up with Dake’s disastrous challenge, but that’s no reason to hold it against Tsabolov. Regardless Dake wasn’t losing that match. He was just going ape $h!t til he won lol

That was a bad look for Dake though… I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone yell so much, and I really don’t think he had a legitimate point

Wow!! Dake should’ve got pissed against Takatani

Shouldn’t have challenged and at all and Dake would be in the lead!

Wow that’s bad. Get it together Dake

Awesome match! Congrats to Blades!

Wow. Bummer. We’ve got to make some adjustments