Olympic Wrestling

[Marmot]

IF YOU S-MELLLL... WHAT THE ROCK... IS COOKING.

Starts today (5th) at 12:55. I for one shall be tuning in to see what wrestling is actually like when it isn't being acted out for entertainment. Will anyone be joining me?

 

[Weebull]

You've never seen amateur wrestling before?

I have a feeling you're going to be disappointed.

 

[Marmot]

I've never seen it!

I hope not.

 

[dante6491]

It's boring and exciting at the same time. They rarely do much, but it is incredibly technical. I probably wouldn't enjoy it f I hadn't taken up MMA as that has given me and understanding and things to look out for.

 

[Marmot]

Here we go! I feel fairly optimistic.

 

[Mr Jones]

I've never seen it before, apart from South Park pee take... But this is just Judo/Sumo Ring without leg trip, no?

Edit: Now I want to watch the female light weight fights...

 

[Marmot]

Not quite sure what I was expecting, but this wasn't it. Entertaining none the less.

 

[Firestar_3x]

Unless Stone Cold Steve Austin comes out, I'm not watching.

 

[Jonny69]

I have a feeling you're going to be disappointed.

I've got Greco Roman wrestling tickets from the second ballot. I have a very strong feeling I'm going to be disappointed.

I knew there wouldn't be togas or sand, but OMG it looks like it's going to be dull

 

[Jonny69]

Well that was... enlightening

Mainly dominated by Middle East and Eastern Europe. We saw Iraq v. Iran, Russia v. Georgia and USA v. Cuba, which raised a few chuckles between us. The Georgians are really into it and had a massive turn out in the crowd, along with the Iranians, Egyptians, Swedish and Norwegians. I only took a couple of pics but I'll upload some of the qualifying and semis.

 

[markweatherill]

They should get Kent Walton to commentate.

 

[gigeorge]

Ukrainian in team GB?

 

[Kimi]

I prefer Kurt Angel when he was in WWE to real wrestling

 

[Weebull]

Did anyone see the Korean guy with the massive shiner winning gold? His eye was huge by the end of it, I'm surprised he could see through it.

 

[craarc]

what happened to the undertaker ? tbh olympic wrestling is split into 2 types afaik


greco roman and normal ..... why ?


its got to be the least watched surely ?

be interesting after to see the stats per time covered..