Wrestling 21-22

[ugarte]

the Dake story in the paper makes it pretty clear that he was not near 100% for much of his time over there.

link? but also... i don't care if someone claims they were hurt after losing! he's already saying that he's going to worlds in october!

[upprdeck]

i can find the story that was in the paper.. it said there was some issue and that finding the right medication took time..

watching how hard he was breathing it may be that he needed something to help that but they needed to make sure it was something that would pass the drug test?

[George64]

Not the article you're looking for, but interesting . . .

Lansing wrestler captures bronze medal
Kyle Dake, 30, dominates two-time world champ

Andrew Legare
Ithaca Journal USA TODAY NETWORK
Kyle Dake went from disappointment to dominance at the Tokyo Olympics and is coming home with a bronze medal.

Dake, from Lansing, closed his first Olympics with a 5-0 victory over twotime world champion Frank Chamizo of Italy on Friday morning in one of two bronze-medal matches in the men's freestyle wrestling 74-kilogram (163 pounds) class.

That followed a 10-0 win against Cuba's Jeandry Garzon Caballero in the first repechage match late Thursday night (Friday morning Tokyo time).

"I'm feeling pretty good," Dake told The Associated Press. "A lot of different battles went into it, and a little bit of a gut check to go get a medal."

Dake tweeted later in the day, "Not what I came for, but glad to bring back some hardware!"

Dake, 30, had been seeking Olympic gold to add to a storied career that includes two New York state titles at Lansing, four national championships at Cornell and two world titles, but he was stunned by Mahamedkhabib Kadzimahamedau of Belarus in the quarterfinals. Kadzimahamedau, the 2020 European champion at 79 kilograms, won by technical fall, 11-0, after building a 9-0 lead through the first period.

Kadzimahamedau, originally from Russia, then beat Chamizo, 9-7, in the semifinals, giving Dake renewed medal hope because opponents of finalists are put into the repechage.

Dake came out with a flurry of eight quick points against Caballero and closed the technical fall with one second to go in the first period.

In the showdown against Chamizo, Dake grabbed a 2-0 lead after forcing two stepouts. A counter throw later in the period made it a 4-0 score.

Dake, the aggressor throughout the match, added a stepout point with 10 seconds remaining in the match.

The most recent meeting between 2016 Rio Olympics bronze medalist Chamizo and Dake prior to Tokyo came in July of 2020. Dake won, 4-3.

In 2018 and 2019 Dake won world championships at 79 kilograms. He beat 2012 Olympic gold medalist Jordan Burroughs, 3-2 and 3-0, at the Olympic Team Trials in Fort Worth, Texas, in April to qualify for Tokyo.

Dake finished with a 3-1 record in Tokyo, opening the tournament with a 4-0 win against Mostafa Hosseinkhani of Iran.

Kadzimahamedau lost to Russia's Zaurbek Sidakov, 7-0, in the gold-medal match. Bekzod Abdurakhmonov of Uzbekistan won the other bronze-medal match by technical fall, 13-2, over Dani yar Kaisanov of Kazakhstan.

[David Harding]

Parade in Lansing for Kyle Dake https://ithacavoice.com/2021/08/lansing-holds-parade-for-local-bronze-medalist/

[blackwidow]

Jonathon Fagen transferred to ASU. What gives?


https://thesundevils.com/news/2021/8/20/wrestling-fagen-commits-to-asu-set-for-greco-roman-competition-at-junior-worlds.aspx

[klehner]

Jonathon Fagen transferred to ASU. What gives?


https://thesundevils.com/news/2021/8/20/wrestling-fagen-commits-to-asu-set-for-greco-roman-competition-at-junior-worlds.aspx

He has nowhere to go on Cornell's team (Darmstadt, Loew, Cardenas all ahead of him).  Maybe he's anti-vaxx as well?

[Swampy]

Jonathon Fagen transferred to ASU. What gives?


https://thesundevils.com/news/2021/8/20/wrestling-fagen-commits-to-asu-set-for-greco-roman-competition-at-junior-worlds.aspx

He has nowhere to go on Cornell's team (Darmstadt, Loew, Cardenas all ahead of him).  Maybe he's anti-vaxx as well?

Cyber Ninja?

[George64]

Yianni Diakomihalis to compete in the 65-kilogram division at the 2021 Senior World Team Trials.

[ugarte]

Yianni Diakomihalis to compete in the 65-kilogram division at the 2021 Senior World Team Trials.

Vito Arujau was supposed to compete too but he tested positive a couple of weeks ago and it either DQ'd him or messed up his training regimen.

Nahshon Garrett '16 is competing at 61kg IIRC and new assistant coach Nick Gwiazdowski is competing at 125kg.

[ugarte]

Nahshon Garrett '16 is competing at 61kg...

Garrett went 1-1 and was eliminated in the QF.

[ugarte]

Yianni Diakomihalis to compete in the 65-kilogram division at the 2021 Senior World Team Trials.

only six entrants at 65kg. as the top seed, Yianni got a bye. won the semi on a 10-0 tech. in the best of 3 final he'll face joey mckenna, who he beat for his second ncaa title.

[ugarte]

YIANNI US NATIONAL TEAM REPRESENTATIVE

[ugarte]

YIANNI US NATIONAL TEAM REPRESENTATIVE

Lost the first match 8-7 at the last second but came back to win 5-2 and 12-2 to take the best-of-three final. He'll represent the US at the World Championship in Oslo.

[cu155]

He has always had amazing scrambling ability but looked to me like he's made significant improvements in defense (not letting guys get to his legs) and in taking more controlled shots that put him at a lower risk of someone else throwing funk at him (not withstanding the end of that first match).

[ugarte]

He has always had amazing scrambling ability but looked to me like he's made significant improvements in defense (not letting guys get to his legs) and in taking more controlled shots that put him at a lower risk of someone else throwing funk at him (not withstanding the end of that first match).

Yeah, Yianni was not going to get that call unless McKenna landed on his back and Yianni held him there. The last two matches were all Yianni.