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Awful news. RIP. Some additional context - evidently he suffered a cardiac arrest in August while playing soccer.

Yeah looks like 5am repechage then right into medal rounds. https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/wrestling?day=11-august

Acosta defected from Cuba during the 2015 Pan Ams in Chile. Don’t think he’s ever going back. https://www.cubaheadlines.com/articles/286511

The Olympics main site is very helpful- has real time mat sequence, schedule, and scores. https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/wrestling?day=9-august

Yianni and Vito need to be selfish and focus on their own training in the small window of time most have to be successful on the world stage. Being a coach requires you to prioritize your athletes over your own training (or at least compromise, especially in-season). So not surprised either is throwing their hat in the ring for coaching just yet.

I think Dake’s Olympic podium finish will be a big factor on his future plans. If he wins gold he really doesn’t have anything left to prove. It would have to be tempting to retire while he’s at the top. If he doesn’t win gold I could see him aiming for another world title but I can’t see him making it all the way through the quad to 2028.

Possibly but it would have to be at 92kg.

If you look at the schedule it says match 3 (if necessary) for unqualified weights would happen before they begin match 2 for the qualified weights. It’s the same intent- let’s get these out of the way before the main event.

It’s because tonight is all about the Olympics. Everyone who wins tonight is punching their ticket to Paris. The guys at 57 and 65 (and several Greco weights) punched their their ticket to a tournament where maybe they can qualify for Paris.

I think they wanted the evening to be all about the Olympics. The evening winners will all be Olympians. The winners at unqualified weights might eventually be but they still have work to do. Hence the separation.

Top three wrestlers at each weight are considered the "national team". Only the top wrestler in each weight is "Olympic team" or "world team". You can see national team members here (at least the national team leading up to the trials). https://www.themat.com/team-usa/national-team I'm not sure exactly how they handle the non-Olympic weights. My guess is they stay as-is until the next world team trials.

That makes those unbalanced brackets even worse. I have no problem with the bye to the semis but it would tough even with plenty of rest. Whoever wins the Yianni / Mendez match is going to have a tough time with a fully rested Retherford 8 hours off the scale.

Anyone know if the 65kg and 86kg "quarterfinal" matches prior to Retherford and Valencia are happening in this session?

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Vito and Yianni are the same age. Not sure Vito waiting for Yianni to be past his peak is a good strategy.