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In the "can"s defense he has had some personal things going on in his country that has turned the world upside down.

Rzazade goes down!

Amine on deck on C, RBY on deck mat A Cruz quarters in the hole A

Zou is tough. Don't read into the scoreboard read into the win. He is a Gwiz-level medal gatekeeper and that is two solid wins in 12 weeks against him.

Be prepared for calls against Lee in P2. They will be coming. Don't get frustrated.

Big time.

To paraphrase that crotchety crotch sniffer LBJ once said, the "women's style" is much better. And significantly more successful. Who wants to waste their morning watching L's?

Lee on deck

Helen on B

He is next on C. You can find the bout order by clicking this link then setting the filter to "Wrestling" https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/wrestling

See you soon.

Don't you put that Rio voodoo on Elor!

Has anyone ever heard the stories of Jordan intentionally destroying Clyde Drexler while practicing for the Dream Team to assert his dominance like godzilla?

HIghly doubt that extremely sensationalized blurb had any truth whatsoever behind it. Like Abraham Lincoln once said, "Don't trust everything you read on the internet."

At least we know that if Brooks makes it to Saturday we don't have to worry about making weight

Well I may be wrong but some quick napkin math tells me there can be up to 3 returning world champs per weight (one UWW weight below, oly weight, up a UWW weight). Weights with defending champs, oly weight listed first. Cut down in bold and bump up italicized On paper, the toughest weight and only with three defending champs was WFS 68kg and we saw what the wrecking ball known as Amit Elor did to that bracket. Overall, only three brackets have multiple defending champs and two do not have a defending champ (both MFS). So as of today, out of 5 champs across 9 weights (excluding Elor obviously) the US has drawn into 4 defending. 45% of matches were against the best in the business right off the bat. If that's not the textbook definition of "tough draw" then I don't know what is, short of being Elor and being literally the best in the world yourself. MFS 57 Micic (57, withdrew) 65 Musukaev (65), Retherford (70) 74 None 86 None 97 Tazhudinov (97) 125 Zare (125) WFS 50 Susaki (50) 53 Fujinami (53) 57 Sakurai (57) 62 Tynybekova (62) 68 Tosun (68), Ozaki (65), Elor (72) 76 Kagami GR 60 Sharshenbekov (60) 67 Orta (67) 77 Makhmudov (77) 87 Cengeiz and Losonczi (87 double champs), Huseynov (82) 97 Rosillo (97) 130 Mirzazadeh

I would trade six Greco qualifiers if it means better WFS draws six days a week and twice on Sunday.

The draws are genuinely tough. Even by Olympic standards. Coon and Elor and Parrish and Bey drew the returning champ round 1. Rau drew returning bronze/ 1x champ/4x medalist. Brooks drew 2x consecutive returning bronze. Hildebrandt and Lee have the most favorable draws so far.

Paris 2024: The Ram Of The East in the ultimate showdown against Dionysus Feast. The holy war to end them all!

When Yazdani comes up with an all-time heel gimmick like "Ram Of The East" then I'll give him some storyline

Exactly! Call those metal chair blows the Iron Cross!

Saturday and Sunday are brutal for me. Do I stay up to watch the marathons then go to bed for a few hours? Or do I get a couple hours of sleep then truck through a 20 hour day?

I know it's the olympics and not worlds and everyone is tough yadda yadda yadda, but the USA draws have been absolutely ruthless this week.

We could see 5 golds or 0 golds and neither would be a shock to me. Lee is a wildcard blitz. Zain has never produced at 65 but is a 2x finalist/1x champ at 70. Dake is on the short list but ask Susaki about massive favorites on the wrong side of 30 being upset. Brooks gets taken down by high school kids and beaten annually domestically. Snyder either figures out Taz or last year was the changing of the guard. Parris has to beat Geno first and then he runs into a very different Zare than junior worlds.