Olympic Thoughts XI: Inexperience means nothing, Taimazov one of the best, Cejudo face of Wrestling and Finding a bride

Here is my latest blog about the final day of wrestling. Coming Monday will be my freestyle awards.
Young and Inexperienced
When the final three Russian wrestlers took to the mat on Thursday, they proved that age and experience is often overrated when it comes to Olympic success. With an average of 22 and only one senior level [...]

Olympic Thoughts X: Golden Company, 15 members, Stadnik Family, Sahin and US Thoughts

Golden Company:
While much of the media focus of the Olympic Games has been on the historic accomplishments of Michael Phelps, eight gold medals and Usain’ Bolts, two world records in track, wrestling was seeing history of its own being made. With his gold medal at 74KG, Bouvaisa Saitiev (Russia) joined a select company in becoming [...]

Olympic Thoughts IX: Cejudo and More Cejudo, Japan, Yellow Medals and a New Player in H.S. Recruiting

Since I am getting this blog out late today, I am going to try to keep it fairly short which is probably a good thing considering the books I have written.
Cejudo Conditions to Gold
Enroute to becoming the youngest Gold Medalist in USA Wrestling history, Henry Cejudo relied not only on talent but tremendous conditioning to [...]

Olympic Thoughts VIII: My final thoughts on the Abrahamian Situation and how it might clean up our sport

Should Abrahamian Been Stripped of His Medal and Will it Lead to FILA Being Cleaned Up
This was something I thought long and hard about for quite some time. I was clearly upset with his actions but should his actions have resulted in being stripped of his medal and erased from the record books? He did [...]

Olympic Thoughts VII: Women impress, Miller medals, Heartbreak, and Replacement goes Gold

Here is my latest blog with a summary of my thoughts on the women’s tournament.
Women’s Wrestling Impresses
Unfortunately, I didn’t get to see all of the matches of the first two weights but I did get to watch all the of the last two weights. I was really impressed on how far women’s wrestling has evolved over the [...]