Jim L

Yes, seems like an a$$hole attitude to me. Why not make the sport as accessible as possible? Some kids who are insecure and face difficulties will stick with wrestling and grow and some will even have a valuable life changing experience. Most kids will move on and wrslting will not be a big part of their youth. Everyone will face difficult times in their lives. I don't see how a kid's lack of confidence at age 11 dooms him for the rest of his life.

To me if feels different because the state of college wrestling is in much worse state than during the Gable era, based on the number DI teams. Also NIL and transfer rules seem that they will negatively effect 95% of the remaining college teams. Having one dominant team and a very limited number that can even compete for a podium spot makes the future of NCAA DI wrestling uncertain.

Starting watching 100%. I started watching this last night and quickly l lost interested. I saw it happen in real life and a movie that is somewhat inaccurate is not of interest to me. IMO, one of the greatest moments in any sports was seeing Robles "sprint" out of the tunnel onto the finals mat and hand off his crutches and hop to the center of the mat. No movie can come close to capturing that moment.

Adding some international flavor. Lopez Azcuy(Cuba) v. Hasasnov (AZE) for Bronze in 2012 Olympics in the bad, old, best- of-three period format. Hasanov gets the go ahead with 30 seconds and Lopez losing with 11 seconds to go, gets a 5 point throw, then a pin, and pounds the chest of the still flat Hasanov, then pounds his chest and then rips his singlet. Epic! Starting at 22:00 https://youtu.be/pdS0LXb7d4k?si=c0mMpdE0jqZMgjsQ

WTF are you doing that is so intense that you cant even hold water down?

Except that he has a Olympic gold medal, so its not like he failed at the next level. More like the baseball player who dominates AAA and then goes to the big leagues and is MVP in his first year and takes a few years off to pursue an acting career and decides to return to baseball but returns to AAA

Yes making weight has been easy post-college, losing weight is the hard part

If I recall correctly, they come from a Land of Up Over

A middle schooler training with a DII wresler is insane

Famously though the 7 Tour de France victories were not give to the runner-up or anyone else because virtually all of the top riders in those races were caught doping, confessed dopers (like Lance) or at least credibly accused dopers.

No. I really don't get what you are trying to say. BBall and Football are not stealing all the best athletes, just the majority of the unusually tall/large ones.

Only if you equate size with being the best.

Seems logical, but the top average-sized US athletes (5'8"ish, 160lbs or so) are not going to be football or bball stars. Coaching and competion is why regions excel in a particular sports

USA wrestling does fair much better than USA soccer. well at than men's soccer. Do or women's soccer results mean that we are doing youth development right right for girls, or is it more likely that there is just less competition worldwide for woman's soccer, similar to wrestling.

Wasn't part of the controversy in Kurt Angle's gold medal match that his opponent could have got two points for a turn where the ref ruled it hand to hand, but his elbow possibly touch so it should have been 2 points instead the 1 that was scored?