Jim L

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?

Wasn't it a single leg? The upper body clinch was horrible as well. I think the best tiebreaker ever was the original thirty second ride out. I know it was not perfect, though the many changes have made it worse. Also for folkstyle, my opinion is that tiebreakers should only be for tournaments, bring back draws for dual meets.

Unlimited OT is not a good option IMO. Judo has this rule and it has become a travesty. In big matches it seems like more than 50% matches go into OT as competitors seem to wait for OT to really try to score (I see this is Folkstyle matches with tied matches later in the third period, both wrestlers seem to slow down saving a good attack for OT) Additionally with close matches in Judo it is really hard to score and then as competitors tire, it is even harder to score. Too many big matches end up being decided on penalties.