Ildar Hafizov's wife won the green card lottery in 2014, so they packed up and came from Uzbekistan. Now he will be representing America in the Olympics.
Who would have ever thought Arkansas would be the first state to have boy’s and girl’s high school wrestling while also having a D1, D2, D3, JUCO, NAIA, and women’s college program?
Want to know how much winning a state title means to high school wrestlers? Justin Gaethje is 30 years old and a top 10 UFC lightweight and he still has the fact that he was a two-time state champion in his Twitter bio
7. A standard Muszukajev sequence: crazy cartwheel defense, go out of bounds, starfish, convince referees to meet and discuss while you get a breather, get a step out point
Rudy (yes that Rudy)'s nephew is on the Nebraska wrestling team and Mikey Labriola wore his singlet with the name Ruettiger tonight. Just like the movie.
5. I don’t know what I like more here, basically yolo challenging for a breather but winning or donkey kick stretching on all fours in the middle of the mat while the challenge is going on
Echemendia defected from Cuba a year ago. He didn’t go into much detail, but when I asked him if he one day hopes to represent the US at the World/Olympic level, his response was “that is my greatest dream. America is greatest country.”
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Wesley Dawkins of Nebraska-Kearney uses a four point toss in the first period to defeat two seed D’andre Brumfield of Colorado State-Pueblo. Brumfield pinned Dawkins in the regional final two weeks ago.
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In a letter obtained by
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to IOC President Thomas Bach — World Athletics President Sebastian Coe says the time has come to postpone Tokyo 2020.
“Olympic Games in July this year is neither feasible nor desirable” he said.
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Me ~ blocking out the haters ~ after tweeting about how superior criteria is to overtime and how high school/college wrestling should transition to freestyle