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It's a full blanket of disregard for the sport at the highest level, that just like anything else good or bad, trickles all the way down to the grass roots level.
The suits in CS don't want to give it the attention and support it deserves, therefore the coaches that want to coach at the top level don't give it the focus it deserves, there for the athletes don't give it the training it deserves, then those athletes become coaches and the next generation only knows it as a sport of pushing and shoving. I said the day USAW signed on for a folkstyle series and recognized championships, the plug just got pulled on Greco in this country. It's been dying a slow death ever since. And as long as there is a strong push for folkstyle wrestling from the organization whose absolute priority is to produce world and olympic medals, The United States will continue to be an early round warm up match on the world stage.....most of the time....
Fortunately, we do still have a few folk floating around that get it, and understand that just like any other discipline, if you want to be the best in the world your focus can't begin in your 20's. You're too far behind. God speed to 'em.
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