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when I watched him yesterday I seriously thought he may give it another try in 2028. but I think that was a real goodbye. he looked a bit tired in his 3rd match (semifinal) yesterday, probably showed some signs of being human at last. from what I heard he is much heavier than 130kg in his normal life, has to cut 20-25kg to wrestle. that's why he doesn't wrestle outside of the Olympics. that was disappointing he stole a 99% gold medal from our team but it was great watching him for the last time, the best Greco wrestler of all time.

in wrestling (specially in my country) when you reach 30 people talk about your retirement , winning Olympic gold at the age of 42 in such a tough sport is beyond unbelievable. I think all super heavyweight wrestlers were relieved when he left his shoes on the mat, which means someone else finally can win the olympic gold

well. it's really sad to read something like that near the end of the games. but better late than never

obviously Fumita Cao's win will be a huge huge surprise (not impossible though, nothing is impossible in Greco) Cao had a dream draw and beat a couple of below average wrestlers on his way to the final. he probably couldn't survive a match if he was in the other half of the draw.

we knew Tuskaev started the process of changing nationality but it's probably too late for him and since our wrestling federation reported receiving the quota I highly doubt they are wrong.

I just received the news that they gave the quota to Iran, they will try to send a wrestler but only if they can get a visa in 1 day !! not sure if that's possible

this is the end of the day and there is nothing else to watch (except football which I'm watching on the other screen) I watch every singly Olympic final (as much as I can of course) but it doesn't mean I enjoy watching all of them. and Surfing is definitely in the very bottom of my list. I seriously try to enjoy every single Olympic sport but some of them are simply impossible to watch.

don't know what you are watching, but I only see 2 guys floating in the water waiting for something to happen very entertaining

This is pathetic Acosta did nothing the entire day. absolutely nothing, yet he is going to the final by doing nothing. by being more passive and receiving the first caution (which means winning the match 1-1) 5 years and they still didn't change this rule

that's common knowledge in wrestling community , Cuban wrestlers sold lots of matches before in the World Championship (never at the Olympics) feel free if you want to think Kayaalp and Baroev really beat him in those 3 matches though. he was well paid to make people believe that

of course not, you will get a caution immediately for doing that. I watched this match, really heartbreaking .

without doubt but well, we can consider Karelin as the best male Greco wrestler ever, because Lopez is probably not even human.

Lopez is simply unbeatable. he is just not human, I knew nobody can beat him but still tried to be positive and gave Mirzazadeh some chances to challenge him and I think he tried his best. that's the best you can do against Lopez. nobody even scored against Lopez since 2008 at the Olympics! Lopez knew he already won the gold after beating his only possible opponent, that's why he was happy after the win. SF and final will be too easy for him. Lopez lost 3 matches since 2005 and everybody knew he lost on purpose, he never really lost a match since 2004 QF vs Baroev which he lost narrowly. he is surely the best Greco wrestler all time and he confirmed it once again. I won't be surprised if he tries his luck again in LA. he is not human after all. both of our wrestlers today simply lost to better wrestlers, no complain but still it feels bad to lose again, even in our favorite sport I hope Mirza wins the bronze tomorrow which I think he will (probably easily) we badly need a medal of any color.

Iran is next in line to get the quota as the next best ranked athlete at 2023 Worlds. but I think it's too late . the wrestling competition starts in few hours. and beside that we don't have a 57kg wrestler ready to jump on the mat right now. they are mostly 3-4 kg heavier in their normal life. still it would be nice to have a full team. it's kind of obsession but I assume they will leave it to 15 wrestlers.

is Serbia sending someone else instead ? I assume not

I'm a bit (more than a bit) tired but if I have to write something short 60kg draw is very unbalanced (we already knew it based on the seedings) I expect Sharshenbekov vs Mammadov in the final . the bottom half is much easier with 3 relatively weak wrestlers. I think Mammadov only has Ciobanu as a serious threat. on the top half, everybody expects KGZ vs JPN semifinal. the winner of Basar vs Tibilov might be able to change that. I don't expect too much from our guy. he can beat Fumita but I don't think he will. in 130kg we will have the early final in the 2nd round. Mirzazadeh vs Lopez. I think only Mirza has a chance to challenge the Cuban monster. he is 42 and we didn't see him wrestle for a while. still I think he will be clear favorite. no chance for anybody else in that half to even win a bronze everybody in bottom half can consider himself lucky. 4 or 5 wrestlers are capable of winning bronze and silver. TUR, EGY, CHN and maybe LTU (he was a late addition and probably not ready)

maybe it was different because today was not a competition day 13:30 is weird though, that's in middle of the competition and some team staffs probably have to leave the competition to attend this ! this is the whole "schedule" https://cdn.uww.org/2024-06/infos_08_paris.pdf

nope , sooner 13:30 each day

they just finished the draw. which had a live stream our 130kg world champion will meet Mijain Lopez in the 2nd round. WTF

that was really sad. really hard to watch hopefully this is nothing very serious. at least she already has an Olympic gold

Yes that's correct but any last minute withdrawal/change can change this for example 74kg bracket is wrong, because Tsabalov is added now and he will be seed #7

Sorry if this is a silly question but did they change something about the false start rule ? I saw some FS in the heats and the athlete was allowed to run . they are not disqualifying for the 1st false start anymore?

well, blowing up 8pts lead mostly against the reserve guy. this will be really hard to swallow. 2021 Tokyo quarterfinal and now this. if I remember correctly we always had problems with this evil Bulgarian ref. never mind, what's done is done not sure if they can pull it together for the bronze medal match, which will be another uphill task against the refs. I expect a big loss, it's near impossible to come back from this. looks like another 4th place in fencing and we have to wait another week for a medal.

This is probably the last chance for these guys to win a major medal. they are all 30 or older if Abedini didn't retire earlier we could have a better shot, our 3rd guy is simply not in this level and Pakdaman/Rahbari have to make up for him too. 4th place is already a great result but hopefully they can go one step further this time