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After watching the interview my opinion on Brooks is that he's a great wrestler, but he's a) not a very inteligent person and b) it sounds like he needs to wrestle someone multiple times to get a grip. But he'll probably wrestle Yazdani just one time (if that) given that he said he's moving to 92 for the 3 years to come (2025-27). So, his chances vs Yazdani aren't as good as I thought. Particularly now that we know that Taylor isn't helping him out (shit, after listening to the interview Taylor might even support Yazdani vs Brooks lol). Man, I hope someone supports Brooks for the bouts to come in Paris, whether it's Yazdani, Kurugliev, Naifonov or whoever. Mostly Yazdani though. 86 is pretty weak compared to 65, 74

LOL would be crazy, but in the extremely unlikely case that Brooks has botched the TUE thing and is not allowed, there's 99% chance David Taylor will be competing. And yea Hidlay did beat Kenchadze, but barely and Kentchadze is competing at 74 this weekend.

I mean probably off the scale is worse for Aman than for Lee? Lee is a very small person.

Now Turkey added Karavus instead of Atli and the he'll be the 2 seed. I got the info from UWW, which sometimes shows the full rankings. Also, if you want you can just add up the rankings this is off of - the 2023 world champs, the continental championships of 2024 and the Zagreb Ranking series. Also, for African wrestlers you have to add African Games. You can use the system - https://cdn.revolutionise.com.au/cups/wai/files/hhezgc8rlkkke8hr.pdf So the current 57 rankings are below. Only top 4 are seeded, the rest are alternate seeds as it were. 1 Aman Sehrawat (IND) 2 Muhammet Karavuş (TUR) 3 Roberti Dingashvili (GEO) 4 Zandanbudyn Zanabazar (MGL) -- 5 Roland Tambi Nforsong (CMR) 6 Horst J.J. Lehr (GER) 7 Spencer Lee (USA) 8 Georgi Vangelov (BUL)

1 Aman Sehrawat (IND) Maxim Saculțan (MDA) Frank Chamizo Marquez (ITA) DEC Osman Göçen (TUR) Erik Thiele (GER) Dániel Ligeti (HUN) 2 Roberti Dingashvili (GEO) Joshua Finesilver (ISR) Taimuraz Salkazanov (SVK) Magomed Sharipov (BRN) Zbigniew Baranowski (POL) Robert Baran (POL) 3 Zanabazar Zandanbud (MGL) Nino Leutert (SUI) Soner Demirtaş (TUR) Magomed Ramazanov (BUL) Vladislav Baitcaev (HUN) Aiaal Lazarev (KGZ) 4 Roland Tambi Nforsong (CMR) Abdulmazhid Kudiev (TJK) Murad Kuramagomedov (HUN) Benjamin Greil (AUT) Ahmed Bataev (BUL) Oleksandr Khotsianivskiy (UKR) These are the seeds for each category. Chamizo is top seed per UWW decision - if he's not, then Salkazanov is 1, and Kaipanov is the new 4. Spencer Lee is 6th, so he may be the 4 seed or higher if those above him are replaced. For Greco, see below: 1 Gevorg Gharibyan (ARM) K. István Váncza (HUN) Alexandrin Guțu (MDA) Kiryl Maskevich (AINB) Arvi Savolainen (FIN) Iakobi Kajaia (GEO) 2 Léo Tudezca (FRA) Alejandro Sancho (USA) Iuri Lomadze (GEO) Alex Bjurberg Kessidis (SWE) Mihail Kajaia (SRB) Heiki Nabi (EST) 3 Pridon Abuladze (GEO) Mihai Mihuț (ROU) Kamal Bey (USA) Daniel Grégorich (CUB) Aleksandar Stjepanetic (SWE) Alin Alexuc-Ciurariu (ROU) 4 Sadyk Lalaev (AINR) Julián Horta (COL) Zoltán Lévai (HUN) Park Sang-hyeon (KOR) Felix Baldauf (NOR) David Ovasapyan (ARM) For some reason, Sancho is in the entry list, however he is bound to be replaced and Amaev will be the new 4 seed as others move up.

What is situation with Fujinami, is she going to be healthy for Paris? I mean I heard that she was planning to go 57 at the olympics - is that a think or just a rumor? Probably the latter. Even though Susaki might win 53 in Paris too if they let her.

IOC has gender-balanced almost every sport. Wrestling is out of balance (currently men are twice as many). I think the writing is on the wall that it's either going to be 6 weights for women and 3 for each of Greco and Freestyle, or some other combination where men and women get the samen number of athletes in. Also there is no way IOC is expanding the overall quota for wrestling at the Olympics. Wrestling is not popular. Also there's corruption scandals and overall governance is lackluster. See Chamizo incident, the Russian stuff, Countries hosting and not allowing other countries in (Albania not allowing Iran, Azerbaijan not allowing Armenia). Currently there are 288 wrestlers total competing. IOC is probably looking at cutting this to 250 or less. One option is adding GR for women and then having 3 weight classes per sport. (3 for FS, 3 WW, 3 GR, 3 GR-W). Or, with addition of Beach Wresting, GR is removed and it's 3 weights each like 3 FS, 3 WW, 3 Beach Wrestling Men, and women). Maybe FS/WW keep 16 wrestlers in each weight class and Beach wrestling gets 12, so it's about 250 total wrestlers. Or - having 4 weight classes for FS, WW, BR-M and BR-W, but cutting quotas for each. This is the future, like it or not

What exactly was he talking about in his interview, saying that he was not sure he was going to wrestle in this tournament? Some adversity at home? Sure as hell sounded like this was his last tournament.

Aliyev -Tumur Ochir, Aliev won 3-3 by on last second singlet grab caution https://uww.org/brightcove_video/16275 There's likely others too