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What? It’s belittling to make assumptions about a whole group of people based on some anecdotal experience.

It’s good of you to not stereotype dwarves and minimize the diversity of said dwarves… do they like being called dwarves now? I sure hope so… much more whimsical than “little people” or whatever Disney wanted to call them.

If it were such an advantage, given the number of looney toons in the wrestling world, someone would’ve had an unfortunate chainsaw “accident” by now to gain that advantage.

Remember the argument that Anthony Robles having one leg was an unfair advantage?

To be fair, the whole FRL crew was in agreement and acknowledged this is where there was some confusion (which leads me to believe they looked into it further for clarification). The above copy & paste was directly from the UWW website, and it certainly makes it sound like it is not based on a country’s combined ranking points. However, a wrestler’s seed at the Olympics, earned with ranking series points, stays with the country, not the wrestler. A key change is that at the Olympic Games, the seed belongs to the country, which keeps the seed even if it replaces the athlete who earned it. In all other events, the seed belongs to the wrestler, and a nation loses that seed if a different athlete competes.

CP said that’s how it is, and he seemed pretty sure of it… It’s part of the reason for determining the team early. The second phase will be the UWW Rankings in which the first three wrestlers of the rankings, not qualified in the first phase, will obtain one quota place for their NOC for the LA28 Olympic Games.

Quotas are earned for the country, but ranking series points are earned for the athlete. The same athlete needs to wrestle in multiple ranking series tournaments to get enough points to earn the country an allocation through that route.

I do the same thing. It basically signifies I have a lot more to say and/or trail off about, but I’m not going to type it… usually because it would be offensive.

I believe, over time, the RAF championship belts could mean “something”.

Yeah, Infowars going off-air has made me have to listen to a lot of trash, too.

The post I made with the twitter from College Sports Communicators is going to be the law of the land. CSC isn’t just some random group… they award the Academic All-American honors to NCAA athletes, for example. Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, Fifth Year, will be how all colleges and media classify athletes. All of the RS/ORS/MRS are basically irrelevant now.

… but I’m sure he learned how to get the top guy called for stalling, so he will cut him. Folkstyle mat wrestling is mostly two guys pretending to wrestle, so they don’t get called for stalling and their opponent does.

The Freemasons/ Knights Templar/ Illuminati at PSU would get AJ squared away and winning NC’s again…

Prepositions and verbs are overrated.

I have nothing against Knox and wish him well in the future. My problem is with the adults not letting him be accountable for his actions and running to the court. If I remember correctly, Knox initially owned up to it, acknowledged he’d be a three-timer and was looking forward to what’s next in a twitter. The association’s decision to bar Knox sucked for him. The judge’s decision to bar the association from enforcing their rules sucked for everyone. Keep sports out of the court room. I’d love to see state associations (and NCAA) require all athletes (and/or parents/guardians) sign an arbitration agreement as a requirement for participation.

I personally don’t think he should’ve been charged with a crime (even if it was one), but it’s hard to say it wasn’t unsportsmanlike. Knox was barred from competing for breaking the association’s sportsmanship code, not for being charged with assault. The judge should’ve never issued the injunction. Whether Knox was ultimately convicted or found not guilty in court had no bearing on the association’s decision to bar him, so the judge’s reasoning to protect his right to due process was erroneous. Knox’s due process was to appeal the association’s decision to bar him per the bylaws of the code. He did. They upheld the decision. That should’ve been the end of it. Knox is the one who brought the “law” into it by suing the association instead of honoring the code by which he, like every athlete, agreed to abide. Knox could’ve flipped off the crowd after his match or got caught with a dip in his mouth in the locker room, and the association could’ve barred him from competing at state, just as well. No “crime” committed, but obvious violation of the code. Would people be crying “innocent until proven guilty” then? No, they would say it’s a harsh penalty, but he should’ve been smarter. Knox stormed the stands and punched a kid, and somehow that’s more defensible, because he was charged with a crime? Doesn’t make sense.

He should’ve worked out an NIL deal with an attorney in exchange for retainer while his stock was up.

This thread is… weird.

Who cares? Nolf was never world class and won’t be even if he beats another World Champion… so we’ve been told.

Calories aren’t real. They are just a social construct. Eat away.

I know… and now we give out two bronzes, which is just dumb… I also want to make sure I’m on the opposite end of every issue as Agave, who probably thinks there should be a wrestleback for “true-silver” at the Olympics. I think competitors like brackets with the semi-final losers go for bronze, while the fans don’t. Consi-semis are the most “unfair” matches anyone could come up with (next to “true-second” matches)… you have one guy who just had his world destroyed losing his chance to go for gold who now has to wrestle someone jacked-up about getting a second chance at a medal. Nah. If you want to medal, make it to the semi’s. Watching two guys who just got their dreams crushed in the semi’s wrestle each other is usually far more exciting, too.

RAF found someone to make JB look tall… should be a fun match.