Agreed. I've been going back & forth, but I'm really hoping Dake shows up w/ his serious game face on for the finals. So far, he just hasn't shown any real fire.
Great for Micic. Also means the Iranian at 57kg is out of repechage.
This Greek guy at 74kg's been on fire. Going to be an interesting semi w/ Dake seeming off kilter to far
Team race update going into the semis:
A few notes on today's action:
Iran didn't make a single semi today
USA has 1 in semis (Dake)
Russia has 2 in semis (Sidakov and Usmanov)
Head-to-head finals w/ Iran at 65kg (Zain vs lil Yaz) and 86kg (Taylor vs Yaz) could very well determine team race. 125kg head-to-head bronze w/ Parris vs Kurbanov is important as well both for unofficial team race as well as qualifying the weight for olympics.
head's up if you're watching on Flo, it looks like the order of the streams doesn't match the mats today. You'd expect them to be A, B, C, D, but it's currently D, A, B, C so double check you're watching the right mat.
Feel free to make a copy of this google sheet and play around with the "Prediction" columns. They auto-update the points and totals, so you can game out different scenarios.