Olympics Day 3 Discussion

[TripNSweep 741]

Alejandro Sancho gets the Russian world champ right off the bat. Not the best draw.

Stefanowicz gets a match vs Croatia who won a silver at 2017 U23 worlds. Winnable.

Kayla Miracle draws China who has only competed internationally twice. Kind of a crapshoot here. 

[HawkY 112]

19 hours ago, TripNSweep said:

Alejandro Sancho gets the Russian world champ right off the bat. Not the best draw.

Stefanowicz gets a match vs Croatia who won a silver at 2017 U23 worlds. Winnable.

Kayla Miracle draws China who has only competed internationally twice. Kind of a crapshoot here.  

Sancho gets the second favorite. One tiny  positive you can take out of it is he will probably get into repechage if he loses. Might be better than getting a 3 or 4 guy and losing to them.

For Stefanowicz, . Hukleks not super young so his lack of silverware should be encouraging.  I don't know though. Stefanowicz is almost 30 and he has never won a match at worlds. At that age, how much better can you get? 

 

There is no dominant favorite are 87. Its a pretty open weight, but Stef lost 7-0 to someone in this field. 

[GoNotQuietly 1,168]

Ismael Borrero Molina goes out the first round. This is why I don't gamble on wrestling.

[HawkY 112]

Wow Ismael is out.  Greco at the lower weights for you. 

Edited August 3, 2021 by HawkY

[CB 91]

Is there just 1 mat on the NBC coverage...thanks in advance.

[GoNotQuietly 1,168]

3 minutes ago, CB said:

Is there just 1 mat on the NBC coverage...thanks in advance.

They switch mats on NBC and sometimes go spilt screen. NBC sports app has feeds for all three.

[CB 91]

Ok thanks GN Quietly

[GoNotQuietly 1,168]

Way to end the period strong from Miracle

[uncle bernard 1,112]

Begging the announcers to do the bare minimum research before showing up. Long has beaten Miracle soundly before and they're acting like this is a monster upset.

[TripNSweep 741]

Miracle quit attacking for a minute and then realized she had to score to win and China defended well and avoided her. Bad decision. 

[HawkY 112]

And Sancho is out. Leaving Stefanowicz as the last long shot chance for a US gold. Sancho still alive in bronze hunt for now.  

[jbai3_12 47]

Damn, Kayla with the headoutside single, but didn't switch off to a double or crack down.  The Chinese girl wrestled very well

[Drew87 349]

5 minutes ago, TripNSweep said:

Miracle quit attacking for a minute and then realized she had to score to win and China defended well and avoided her. Bad decision. 

Miracle looked like she had a baaad weight cut.  I only say that bc the only times I ever laid an egg like that was after a long, bad weight cut the day before.

 

[TripNSweep 741]

I get the feeling the refs are biased against US Greco. 

[GoNotQuietly 1,168]

I normally think US Greco has a persecution complex, but that was a terrible series of calls.

[GockeS 534]

3 minutes ago, TripNSweep said:

I get the feeling the refs are biased against US Greco. 

agree.

why the continuation was allowed...

[uncle bernard 1,112]

18 minutes ago, Drew87 said:

Miracle looked like she had a baaad weight cut.  I only say that bc the only times I ever laid an egg like that was after a long, bad weight cut the day before.

 

Looked like nerves to me. The hardest I ever gassed in my career was when I couldn't control my nerves and dumped adrenaline right away. Looked like she couldn't feel her hands after a minute. Been there.

[TripNSweep 741]

0-3 this session. Sancho has the best chance of being pulled back in. 

[AnklePicker 643]

19 minutes ago, jbai3_12 said:

Damn, Kayla with the headoutside single, but didn't switch off to a double or crack down.  The Chinese girl wrestled very well

She needs to eliminate the crackdown from her repertoire. Learn to always finish looking over their back. She made a lot of mistakes in that match. 

[Wrestleknownothing 1,452]

And now she is out of the repechage too.

[denger 339]

Stefanowicz might still get pulled in.

Tough day for USA. 

[The Genius 368]

Reza Geraei in the final at 67kg after defeating Frank Stäbler and the Georgian that defeated Borrero. He'll wrestle Nasibov (UKR) for Gold tomorrow. 

I have never heard of Nasibov, has he ever medalled before?

Hadi Saravi at 97kg avenges his 2019 U23 world 2019 loss to Arvi (FIN) and beats him 9-2, winning Bronze and becoming an Olympic Bronze medalist at 22 years old. He's my favourite Iranian GR wrestler and I expect him to be a force at 97kg in the coming years, especially if Aleksanyan (30 soon) retires and he's 6 years younger than Evloev.