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I was firmly on the side of she did the work and so she should get a silver. I’ve been swayed to the stance of getting DQ’d and not getting a medal, but the finals opponent should get a FFT win. Why does the semi loser get to advance when she already lost? But also why her and not the quarter or earlier rounds? Who’s to say she was the best one of the losers? Just because she had the luck of not drawing the finalist until later in the tournament?

It was not a cramp. It came out 4x.

I’m pretty sure Lee spent some time in Japan within the last year or 2. Edit - Looks like he didn’t train. Just went to get away from everything.

For anyone wondering where and when US wrestlers are up, the Olympic site actually is the best place for a schedule that I have seen. You can also get brackets if you click on any of the bouts (and navigate from there). This is today's schedule and order of bouts. https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/wrestling?day=9-august I haven't used it because I'm in person, but it says you can get live updates/reminders if you sign up by clicking the little ribbon thing for a match you want to favorite. Not sure how well it works or what it actually does though.

This is the good and bad about our system. A guy can train for one opponent or have a great weekend to make the team, but it isn't always going to be the best guy for international competition. There is no perfect system beyond being able to see into the future. I'd rather have this system that rewards the guy that wins than one that just picks guys. They give advantages to the guys that have produced in the past still, but don't just give them the spot. It happened last year with Richards and Marsteller, and probably happened this year with Brooks. It will continue to happen. It's amazing that we are able to argue about a guy still going for Bronze in the Olympics!

Are you watching on mobile/tablet? I always get commercials when I do. But when I use my browser, even this morning, I don't have any commercials on replay.

It's funny that Brooks gets bashed for taking a shot when leading and losing, but had he not taken a shot and taken down or given up a push out, he would be bashed for doing nothing. I think the real problem isn't the shot, but the fact he took it when so long left on the clock and just sat there. Allowing BUL way too much time to move through different techniques until he got to one that worked. If Brooks moves even a bit towards a finish/score, he probably doesn't give up the 2.

But we are tied with Russia!

I thought Higuchi was the favorite coming in, even when Micic was in the bracket. Still think that now. I think he is better on his feet and doesn't have any issues with a full high-paced match. Spencer certainly is more than capable of winning.

Thanks for this. I didn’t realize you were talking defending champs. I thought you were talking a champ at any point. Tracking you now. Another aspect to think about is that anyone that won at a non-only weight wouldn’t be seeded because they didn’t have enough points at the only weight. So if you’re seeded you can only draw a non-ply weight champ and if you aren’t seeded you can only draw an oly weight champ.

That’s part of the entertainment value of Greco. You never really know what is going to happen. Wrestling or reffing.

How many people in each bracket are a world champ at some point and also seeded to be drawn into? If you can provide the numbers for each so we can see the probability, that would be great. I don’t have time to look it up.

I've actually been happy with most of the draws outside of Dom, unless you thought that she was easily the 2nd best at the weight and would've made the finals. She isn't beating Japan at any point in the tournament. Or Coon, there was 0 chance he was going anywhere with that one.

There is also only 8 spots to draw into. Add in that very few of our people are seeded, I don't think it's anything crazy yet.

From my view, the ref made motions and said something about Rau just pushing and keeping his head down when he awarded the passivity. The caution and 2 was for something with Rau’s hip. I didn’t see it live but that’s the motion he made.

Updated bracket -

UWW rules seem to be she gets removed completely from the bracket lien she never existed. Which, I don’t like. I think she should still get silver as she did all the work yesterday. It’s not like it didn’t happen. She earned the finals and should just not be given the opportunity to wrestle for the gold.

Was told that CUB will wrestle Sarah in the finals now.

Wow. Vinesh missed weight and is getting DQ’d. I’ve only seen this in Indian media though.

No US section. People spread out all over and in their own groups. Everyone’s seats change each session it feels like. But the seats aren’t the most comfy or spacey since it’s a temporary structure. I haven’t sat in the car D yet, tomorrow morning I do, but the C was probably the best views in the house for my money.

The mysterious phone!!

It was a phone held by the ladies and given to them to take a selfie and then given back to the girl. It didn’t look like it was expected.

Woller Akos of Hungary. Husband of world champ Marianna Sastin.

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

It was her shoulder. Popped out a couple times. So did her finger. Why she shot with a bad shoulder and up 8 I would never know. Just back around. They aren’t going to caution her out with the 20-30 seconds left.