Takahashi now in for Japan

[lu1979 565]

The UWW site is now showing Yuki Takahashi as their entry at 57 kg.  The leaders of the Japanese wrestling federation must have been reading this forum and caught their mistake.  The Georgia entry at 65 kg is TBD.

[IronChef 1,103]

Anyone else remember when Zadick had a shot to get into the Olympics at the last minute and every post about it was deleted as soon as it went up? Clearly the mods thought international wrestling officials paid closer attention than we think.

[MadMardigain 1,611]

1 hour ago, IronChef said:

Anyone else remember when “he who shall not be named” had a shot to get into the Olympics at the last minute and every post about it was deleted as soon as it went up? Clearly the mods thought international wrestling officials paid closer attention than we think.

[TripNSweep 765]

On 5/1/2021 at 3:20 AM, IronChef said:

Anyone else remember when Zadick had a shot to get into the Olympics at the last minute and every post about it was deleted as soon as it went up? Clearly the mods thought international wrestling officials paid closer attention than we think.

Or when they deleted the video of Simmons catching Velikov in a spladle because they didn't want the Europeans to see it prior to world's that year?

[MadMardigain 1,611]

11 hours ago, TripNSweep said:

Or when they deleted the video of Simmons catching Velikov in a spladle because they didn't want the Europeans to see it prior to world's that year?

You mean “That which must not be a stranglehold”

[ShakaAloha 429]

On 4/30/2021 at 3:29 PM, lu1979 said:

The UWW site is now showing Yuki Takahashi as their entry at 57 kg.  The leaders of the Japanese wrestling federation must have been reading this forum and caught their mistake.  The Georgia entry at 65 kg is TBD.

Good choice by Japan.  I think Takahashi gets the weight qualified.

[CA_Wrestler 328]

On 5/5/2021 at 12:07 AM, ShakaAloha said:

Good choice by Japan.  I think Takahashi gets the weight qualified.

Well, he did it.

 

Now he's going to have another playoff match with Rei Higuchi because of this whole situation of Higuchi missing weight and having to go qualify the weight.  That match is going to be really interesting because their last match that Higuchi won to be Japan's rep was 7-6 and really damn close.

[ShakaAloha 429]

40 minutes ago, CA_Wrestler said:

Well, he did it.

 

Now he's going to have another playoff match with Rei Higuchi because of this whole situation of Higuchi missing weight and having to go qualify the weight.  That match is going to be really interesting because their last match that Higuchi won to be Japan's rep was 7-6 and really damn close.

Looking forward to seeing this play out.  I hope they treat both Takahaski and Higuchi fairly; however, it does seem like the Japanese federation really wants Higuchi to be their rep.

[NJDan 1,097]

22 minutes ago, ShakaAloha said:

Looking forward to seeing this play out.  I hope they treat both Takahaski and Higuchi fairly; however, it does seem like the Japanese federation really wants Higuchi to be their rep.

The announcer said they will wrestle off.

[lu1979 565]

Congrats to Yuki Takahashi for getting the job done in Bulgaria (Takatani too at 86kg)

[CA_Wrestler 328]

4 hours ago, ShakaAloha said:

Looking forward to seeing this play out.  I hope they treat both Takahaski and Higuchi fairly; however, it does seem like the Japanese federation really wants Higuchi to be their rep.

I don't know about that.

All Higuchi had to do was make weight for the Asian qualifier and he had a very good chance to beat everybody if he did.

Takahashi was called on and did what they wanted him to do.  As far as Japan's World team goes, Takahashi has been more consistent as Rei has jumped all over the place since his 2016 silver(robbed) and I mentioned this before, but he was up at 70kg a few years ago when he couldn't beat Otoguro at 65kg.  61kg was too light for him at the time. 

[CA_Wrestler 328]

Takahashi vs Higuchi June 12th for the Olympic spot at the National Training Center.  Should be really interesting.

[Gantry 1,872]

Seems like the best way to do it

[CA_Wrestler 328]

And there you go.  Takahashi won to be Japan's rep.

 

A chain of events all caused by Higuchi missing weight at what would have been an extremely easy qualification tournament.

 

If you also think about how Higuchi jumped up to 61kk/65kg after Rio, but couldn't beat Otoguro, then he went up to 70kg and couldn't make the team, then back down to 57kg just for the Olympic trials during one quad....

[Shiraz123 829]

Who stopped him at 61? I would think he could do great there.

[CA_Wrestler 328]

1 hour ago, Shiraz123 said:

Who stopped him at 61? I would think he could do great there.

Rinya Nakamura.  He was 61kg U23 World champion in 2017 and he was 6th at the 2017 Senior World Championships.  He lost to Bonne Rodriguez in the 2017 World Championships bronze medal match.  After 2017, Nakamura went up to 65kg, but wasn't able to beat Otoguro for a few years.  With the 2020 Olympics being postponed, he left for MMA.