Wrestling at the Summer Olympic Games 2016

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  On 10/22/2018 at 4:16 AM, Olympian1010 said:

I know it’s odd to comment on such a long ago event, but as an Olympics fan who never expressed their opinion on the Mongolian incident I would like to now, since I’ve just watched the complete replay on the Olympic Channel.

 

My feelings the day of were like the same as users above. I think WTF this is the Olympics what a disgrace. However, after NBC showed the actions the led to incident I felt bad for the Mongolian guy and pretty good about wrestling being close to being axed from the Olympics.

 

Now 2 1/2 years on I feel as though the Mongolian wrestler was still wronged, especially since the Uzbeki coach had an outburst and yellow card of his own. The Mongolian was obviously the better and more dominant wrestler. I think it was poor judgment to give the Mongolian the penalty especially since the Uzbeki didn’t make a real effort to attack an easily attackible opponent. I think the judging of subjective sports is a huge problem and issue currently. If it were up to me I’d axe subjective sports, save gymnastics because there’s an actual outline as to how points are earned, completely and replace them with sport Climbing, Squash, Bowling, and quite frankly more exciting sports. I realize this would hurt a lot of countries that count on combat or artistic sports, but quite frankly fans deserve better than what was given in Rio.

 

P.S. Props to the Rio fans for booing the ref, made my day 

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There are/were lots of bad calls. biased officiating. bribing etc in wrestling but that one was actually the correct call. not even dubious . this is wrestling not Karate you can't "run" on the mat . it doesn't matter who was the better wrestler. there are rules against "running" like that in wrestling. what Ganzorig did in last 10 seconds deserved a penalty caution , no doubt about it

 

btw Novruzov didn't deserve that medal at all, there was a robbery in one of his matches, but not this one. but against Franklin Gomez of Puerto Rico which was unbelievable.

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  On 10/22/2018 at 4:16 AM, Olympian1010 said:

If it were up to me I’d axe subjective sports, save gymnastics because there’s an actual outline as to how points are earned.

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Wait, what? What are "subjective sports"? The only sport with completely subjective scoring is diving, and one can argue that part of the score in artistic swimming can be subjective (technical merit is okay, but the artistic impression is totally subjective). Now, when referees make bad calls this is not because the sport is subjective, it's because they are bad refs.