Pan Am Qualifier
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Says rescheduling for the beginning of June.Thats when I think trials will be 1st or 2nd weekend of June.USAW calendar allows for it and the BJC is available.
I don't know if we should hold our breath on that, we were supposed to have NCAAs, then NCAAs without fans, then no NCAAs. I think everything is still very much in flux.
He just had his chance. I’d be surprised if it’s not JO at Last Chance honestly
Whoever wins the trials will be our rep to try to qualify us, that's how it works.
If it's Zain, all the haters can just deal with it. Go to another team's board or a community forum like TheMat if you want to s*** talk Zain Retherford, not here.
If it's Zain, all the haters can just deal with it. Go to another team's board or a community forum like TheMat if you want to s*** talk Zain Retherford, not here.
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How 'bout DT!!
After injury & layoff.
When it was 2-0, Cuba hit that arm drag / slide-by on DT & looked like he was going to score easily.
Damn ... like lightening, DT stepped laterally for quick whizzer and into his own counter takedown. I don't think many wrestlers get out of that danger + hit his own TD there.
Was a thing of beauty.... looked like... Magic.
After injury & layoff.
When it was 2-0, Cuba hit that arm drag / slide-by on DT & looked like he was going to score easily.
Damn ... like lightening, DT stepped laterally for quick whizzer and into his own counter takedown. I don't think many wrestlers get out of that danger + hit his own TD there.
Was a thing of beauty.... looked like... Magic.
DT tweets that he is wrestling in the finals.
Probably wants the work & no MFF.
Probably wants the work & no MFF.
Dude is angry, he wants to wreck people
Nah . . . I just think he's soaking it in.
After the buzzer to his 8-0 win, he stayed kneeling on the mat for several seconds & didn't move... seemed to soak in the moment & accomplishment.
Long layoff & all that rehab will do that.
It sucks for Zain and the team. Such a flukey thing. The finals would have been a better place to let it fly, but that’s Zain. He never wrestled scared. Such a bummer.
that was a mistake that he should not have made in that spot.
can't imagine what he is feeling right now
if his bronze opponent decides to wrestle, I expect an ass kicking
The double Zain hit for the TD was so quick & crisp.
Vintage Zain.
If the match would have played out, Zain would have beaten the ARG opponent.
USA wrestling Twitter saying everyone is expecting to compete in the medal matches., but I guess their opponents could MFF if they wanted to.
Yianni wasn't in Rome. Zain lost first round to Bajrang and beat Joey McKenna in repechage. JO lost to Bajrang in finals.
It looked to me like Zain rushed the lace and didnt have it quite locked up. Fluke for sure, with a tight LL he prolly would have finished that match just like the previous match.
Anyway, trivia time, who was the last person to pin ZR?
Anyway, trivia time, who was the last person to pin ZR?
When did individual wrestlers get "qualified"? It's the country that gets qualified for the Olympics at a given weight. Had Zain won that match, the US could send whoever it wanted to the Olympics (IIRC) at 65kg, including JO, Yianni, or Zain. Or Nick Lee, for that matter. But no...
That was as fluky as anything I've ever seen. I mean, if Zain gets out of that he probably still gets a tech. I think you're right, he rushed the lace, plus the guy was well planted--he didn't have to adjust much, just turn in. He looked great otherwise. I don't know when the last time Zain was pinned but I'd guess grade school.
David Taylors comments after qualifying 86kg for the Olympics.
https://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/P...5534&twSessionId=uxjuodwvdl&videoId=778139135
Nick Gwiz's interview:
https://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/P...5282&twSessionId=uxjuodwvdl&videoId=778131135
Thomas Gilman's interview:
https://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/P...6155&twSessionId=uxjuodwvdl&videoId=778130135
https://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/P...5534&twSessionId=uxjuodwvdl&videoId=778139135
Nick Gwiz's interview:
https://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/P...5282&twSessionId=uxjuodwvdl&videoId=778131135
Thomas Gilman's interview:
https://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/P...6155&twSessionId=uxjuodwvdl&videoId=778130135
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Trying to force a leg lace like that is asking for trouble...so in fact, that didn't need to happen.
Yes one more, typically AFTER the OTT, everything has been postponed as of now, and hoping they have time to squeeze in the Last Chance before Tokyo.
