Wrestling at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

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  On 8/2/2021 at 2:14 PM, heywoodu said:

Round of Stupid Questions continues, here is number two!

 

What was up with that Geraei vs Starcevic challenge?! First Geraei got four points when he jumped up the Croat and pulled him down, right. Then the Croat challenged, and won the challenge, but still Geraei was left with two points, which made it 5-5 and gave him the win anyway. The Croat was of course angry and was certain he was leading, but this was on a stream without commentator (not that that'd be useful anyway), so I have really no idea what was going on exactly  

 

When seeing the replay I thought Starcevic fell on Geraei and not on the mat and maybe he would win the challenge because of that, but I'm still puzzled why - even though the Croat won the challenge - the Iranian only lost two of the four points.

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in wrestling it's not about "falling on the mat" the offensive wrestler gets points when the defensive wrestler's back is exposed past 90 degrees. in that action Starvevic claimed he was initiating the action and therefore he should get the points (which was obviously not correct)

 

personally I didn't get why they shaved 2pts of it . to me it was a 4. but they probably thought it wasn't directly from "feet to danger"

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Expected easy one for Naifonov.

 

oh well, Paris 2024 then I guess, this time hopefully with Salkazanov

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First ever Olympic victory in wrestling by .

 

San Marino has done a great job developing wrestlers by... lucking out that a good American wrestler happened to have a great-grandmother form San Marino :P

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Taylor looking good

[Federer91 2,904]

Final for  with Ravi. Very good performance from him all day, but he will be the underdog in the final.

[Federer91 2,904]

Uguev wins the first Russia - Iran battle. Now Yazdani has to equal the score against Naifonov.

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Ravi Kumar Dahiya will become the FIRST Indian man to win an Olympics medal after ???? days.

 

[Federer91 2,904]

Pure class by Yazdani and a well fought win! 

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Yazdani

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This David Taylor the Third has some potential in him.