I believe if you medal the spot is yours. I could be wrong, as I often am in life, so somebody can correct me if I am wrong.
2021 Olympic Wrestling Match Thread and USA Wrestlers.
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I believe if you medal the spot is yours. I could be wrong, as I often am in life, so somebody can correct me if I am wrong.
Wow!! I may have to go see a cardiologist! What a match. The last six seconds scared me, though. At eight seconds you can hear Casey screaming, "Stay there! Stay there!", but David switched sides and Yazdani nearly trapped David's right elbow for an exposure. A sport of inches! I stayed up all night to see this and it was worth it!
So glad I told work "I'll be in when I get in..."
So happy for Thomas and David!!
So happy for Thomas and David!!
Any medal earns a wrestler the weight class, if they choose to wrestle worlds.
Greatness don't happen on accident. Wow, what a morning.
Maroulis now up, wrestling for Bronze!
No score through one minute.
Snap down for a takedown, 2-0 Maroulis.
One minute to go in the first.
Another Maroulis takedown, now up 4-0.
End of 1.
Another takedown for Helen. She’s wrestling great!
2 minutes left.
Now 9-0 Maroulis, minute and a half to go.
And that takedown will finish it, 11-0. A challenge is upheld, back to 9-0.
And there’s the winning takedown…11-0!! Maroulis wins the BRONZE!
Congrats Helen, after all you’ve been through, what an awesome result.
No score through one minute.
Snap down for a takedown, 2-0 Maroulis.
One minute to go in the first.
Another Maroulis takedown, now up 4-0.
End of 1.
Another takedown for Helen. She’s wrestling great!
2 minutes left.
Now 9-0 Maroulis, minute and a half to go.
And that takedown will finish it, 11-0. A challenge is upheld, back to 9-0.
And there’s the winning takedown…11-0!! Maroulis wins the BRONZE!
Congrats Helen, after all you’ve been through, what an awesome result.
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My wife says Helen is much prettier...
What a morning, congrats David, NLWC, and Lion nation, what a time to be alive!!!!!
Not going to lie. I enjoyed watching the Iranian in the crowd in tears.
"Russian call!", "Russian call", "come on, against Americans we all Russians, make-up a call!"
He is also good for wrestling.
Yeah, Olympic bronze medalist and not even top 3 in the US.
Well at the end of the match
Taylor had scored 4 points
Yazdani scored 1 point
Olympic official scored 2 points, both awarded to Yazdani.
Great morning (evening) for USA wrestling:
Dake pulled back into repechage. Winchester pulled back into repechage. Amine gets a Bronze. Gilman wins Bronze. Maroulis wins Bronze. Steveson wins in the semis and gets to the gold medal match. And, above all, DT takes gold in dramatic fashion. What more could you want ... besides a celebratory cup of coffee ... or maybe something stronger?
Dake pulled back into repechage. Winchester pulled back into repechage. Amine gets a Bronze. Gilman wins Bronze. Maroulis wins Bronze. Steveson wins in the semis and gets to the gold medal match. And, above all, DT takes gold in dramatic fashion. What more could you want ... besides a celebratory cup of coffee ... or maybe something stronger?
All other schools are at a huge disadvantage when recruiting against Cael. Now they see not only will his collegiate program help them reach their dreams but now they wont have to go anywhere else when it's time to fulfill those World and Olympic dreams. And they laughed all of us of their board (HR) several years back when we told them Cael was beginning to take on the second step of his plan and that was to not only have the best college program but to have the best club.
Hate for everyone else (not really) but it's now so easy to see why kids wrestle for less and PSU doesnt have to dish out big to full scholarships to its athletes.
Hate for everyone else (not really) but it's now so easy to see why kids wrestle for less and PSU doesnt have to dish out big to full scholarships to its athletes.
Nicely done, Helen, two time Olympic medalist. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Beat me to it.
It's called preparation, recognizing your opponents strengths and backing up when you need to.
Missed Gilman, but watched everything after. Great stuff.
Top 6?
DT
Yaz
Bo
Russian
Amine
Brooks
FYI - if you check things out, you'll find that when Taylor injured his knee a while back, Yazdani sent a very gracious tweet wishing him well and a fast recovery.
Btw, dont be afraid to give the NLWC credit when it comes to Gilman medaling here. This was a different Gilman we watched wrestle. Not sure I ever seen him wrestle quite like this before. He was confident and he didnt wrestle afraid to give up points or lose. Cael and staff can coach technique but to me even more impressive is the way he has his guys going after it.
17 wrestlers represent the USA, 2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze. 1 in final, 2 in Repachage and 2 wrestlers yet to go.
That is a damn good showing!
3 and maybe 4 medals from the NLWC.
That is a damn good showing!
3 and maybe 4 medals from the NLWC.
He did. Though Yazdani always showed alot of class, humility and respect to his competitors.
Hall, Zahid, Dieringer, Dean, maybe Jackson (at least) all ahead of Amine, Olympic medal or not.
If you say so Skippy. I'm guessing that there are some Iranian fans claiming that their guy didn't lose, he just got caught. Philly 2011 style.
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Thank you. I think I read on here that Dake got pulled back in? So if he gets Bronze and Snyder medals like he always does then 65 will be it.
Smh I forgot about the non olympic weights.
Anyone have video of the DT match?
Gilman has had good results in freestyle since he left college. Iowa gets some credit aswell as the HWC and the NLWC. It's ok to admit that. I'm proud of him! So close to the gold medal match
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