Flo - How UWW Leadership Rigged The Olympic Games

[tikk10]

Link.

In short, Christian Pyles does the tough investigative work, looking at the mat assignments of particular referees to Russia, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan matches to note disturbing statistical anomalies, and laying the blame at chief ref Antonio Silvestri's doorstep, alleging that Silvestri assigns the matches, supposedly at random but clearly not.

 

[dunkej01]

Link.

In short, Christian Pyles does the tough investigative work, looking at the mat assignments of particular referees to Russia, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan matches to note disturbing statistical anomalies, and laying the blame at chief ref Antonio Silvestri's doorstep, alleging that Silvestri assigns the matches, supposedly at random but clearly not.

Interesting in deed.

Nice work CP!

 

[Real-Lion]

Link.

In short, Christian Pyles does the tough investigative work, looking at the mat assignments of particular referees to Russia, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan matches to note disturbing statistical anomalies, and laying the blame at chief ref Antonio Silvestri's doorstep, alleging that Silvestri assigns the matches, supposedly at random but clearly not.

They MUST do something about Russia !!!! Bottom line.

 

[Dogwelder]

I want to see whether the mainstream press picks up on this story. They really should.

I hate to say it, but the IOC has to address this issue. I hope actually kicking wrestling out of the Olympics is not the only tool left in their arsenal, given that the threat of kicking wrestling out seems to have not made the sport's organization enough better.

 

[matter7172]

It's as likely to be picked up as FIFA's pretournament admission that it rigged the brackets to make it easier for the USA and Canada to advance in the 2015 Women's Soccer World Cup.

 

[El-Jefe]

I want to see whether the mainstream press picks up on this story. They really should.

I hate to say it, but the IOC has to address this issue. I hope actually kicking wrestling out of the Olympics is not the only tool left in their arsenal, given that the threat of kicking wrestling out seems to have not made the sport's organization enough better.

"IOC has to address corruption" -- now THAT'S funny!

 

[PSU Mike]

"IOC has to address corruption" -- now THAT'S funny!

Let's see, we can use the Holy Hand Grenade to get results, or the ... FULL COURT PRESS!!!!

 

[Ja1339]

I'm somewhat perplexed after reading this article. It doesn't make sense to me that any top college wrestlers would put a higher priority on their international weight class than their folk weight class.

I've read that the 65 and 84 weight classes are more popular, and hence 74 is weaker, because they line up better with the Freestyle weights. That just doesn't make sense to me. It seems logical to me that folkstyle goals should take precedence. Do others agree or disagree?

 

[dicemen99]

I'm somewhat perplexed after reading this article. It doesn't make sense to me that any top college wrestlers would put a higher priority on their international weight class than their folk weight class.

I've read that the 65 and 84 weight classes are more popular, and hence 74 is weaker, because they line up better with the Freestyle weights. That just doesn't make sense to me. It seems logical to me that folkstyle goals should take precedence. Do others agree or disagree?

Strongly disagree. Since most of the very top college wrestlers have international/Olympic goals AND college wrestlers or very recent grads are having early success it seems logical that 65 and 84 are stronger.

If you have a guy who is ranked 8th in the country - he may be focused on AA, but the very top guys are focused on more. Olympian/World Medal is the ultimate goal for these guys.

 

[Ja1339]

Strongly disagree. Since most of the very top college wrestlers have international/Olympic goals AND college wrestlers or very recent grads are having early success it seems logical that 65 and 84 are stronger.

If you have a guy who is ranked 8th in the country - he may be focused on AA, but the very top guys are focused on more. Olympian/World Medal is the ultimate goal for these guys.

Thanks for the feedback Dice. I'll respectfully ask a follow up question. What if this ultimate individual goal negatively impacts the team goal?

 

[Dogwelder]

"IOC has to address corruption" -- now THAT'S funny!

Yeah, you are right.

I didn't realize how bad the IOC is until I googled and found that the IOC has pretended to investigate corruption in the past, when there was a well-publicized smoking gun in ice skating. But even then they only papered over the corruption and did not really try to find or fix corruption.

Here, the flowrestling article is only a warm gun, but not a smoking gun, and the Olympics are not happening now, and so the mainstream press won't make a fuss, and so the IOC won't even pretend to address corruption.

From wikipedia on the ice skating scandal:

"In March 2003, a group of skating officials who were unhappy with the ISU's leadership and handling of the crisis in the sport announced the formation of the World Skating Federation, in an attempt to take control of competitive figure skating away from the ISU. This attempt to set up a new federation failed, and several of the persons involved with its formation were subsequently banished from the sport by the ISU and/or their national federations."

So, based on the ice skating example, we would say that the IOC won't do anything, and the grass roots cannot do anything, either.

I guess everyone else knew that already.

 

[diggerpup]

Cael w/ a tweet on the CP link. (I can't link from my phone )