Wrestling Qualification for Summer Olympic Games 2016

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Feel sorry for Roman Amoyan, got robbed against (guess who) Turkish wrestler. poor guy was attacking for the entire match but no caution for Turkey as expected

[De_Gambassi 1,225]

From the comments here, the sport seems even more corrupt than boxing... 

 

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And at least, boxing is somehow entertaining to the non educated eye

 

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  On 5/6/2016 at 8:49 AM, De_Gambassi said:

From the comments here, the sport seems even more corrupt than boxing... 

 

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And at least, boxing is somehow entertaining to the non educated eye

 

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I just even remembered that wrestling had been removed from the Olympic program in February 2013, before it was reinstated for sport inclusion seven months later. So shameful for the wrestlers.

[MHSN 3,651]

  On 5/6/2016 at 8:49 AM, De_Gambassi said:

From the comments here, the sport seems even more corrupt than boxing... 

 

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nope nothing can beat Boxing

 

but the difference is the judging isn't that easy in boxing which opens the door for so many corruption  , while in wrestling it's not that hard. we have less problems in freestyle while in Greco-Roman there are still so many corruption because of not clear rules

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[De_Gambassi 1,225]

  On 5/6/2016 at 8:51 AM, MHSN said:

 

nope nothing can beat Boxing

 

but the difference is the judging isn't that easy in boxing which opens the door for so many corruption  , while in wrestling it's not that hard. we have less problems in freestyle while in Greco-Roman there are still so many corruption because of not clear rules

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Drop greco-roman then. Problem solved 

 

It was recommended by the IOC 10 years ago IIRC

 

PS: as you seem to be a wreestler specialist, do you know if France has ever failed to qualifie at least one greco-roman wrestler to the Olympics ?

Edited May 6, 2016 by De_Gambassi

[MHSN 3,651]

And as expected the Egyptian guy from Bahrain didn't show up against Israel ! this is probably the only thing in common between Iran and this former part of Iran now called Bahrain !

[MantaRaymarc 132]

  On 5/6/2016 at 9:05 AM, De_Gambassi said:

 

Drop greco-roman then. Problem solved 

 

It was recommended by the IOC 10 years ago IIRC

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Exactly. Add more freestyle events for both men and women, and the program has already set. 

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^ That's not going to happen, yes that's true IOC recommended that long time ago back in 2004 if I'm not wrong but in general Greco-Roman is more popular around the world (not in my country though) specially in Europe. Lalovic (UWW president) himself is from Serbia, freestyle doesn't even exist in his country

[De_Gambassi 1,225]

  On 5/6/2016 at 9:11 AM, MHSN said:

^ That's not going to happen, yes that's true IOC recommended that long time ago back in 2004 if I'm not wrong but in general Greco-Roman is more popular around the world (not in my country though) specially in Europe. Lalovic (UWW president) himself is from Serbia, freestyle doesn't even exist in his country

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Would it been that much of a hurdle for greco roman wrestlers to switch to freestyle ? For the uneducated eye (again), the difference in techniques or physics doesn't seem that obvious.

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Second “Last-Chance” Qualification Tournament (Istanbul, TUR)

now in live

 

https://unitedworldwrestling.org/event/2nd-og-world-qualifying-tournament