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A Russian Olympic official’s dust-up with a Russian-born wrestling champion representing Albania has sparked a controversy in the Russian sporting world as the Kremlin continues to lobby for a ...
Kyle Snyder, who became the youngest American wrestler to win Olympic ... Russian sports officials said on Sunday. Vince McMahon, the former World Wrestling Entertainment chief executive, settled ...
Russian three-time Olympic freestyle wrestling champion Buvaisar Saitiev has died at the age of 49, Russian sports officials said Sunday. Sports Minister Mikhail Degtyarev told Tass news agency ...
March 2 (Reuters) - Russian three-time Olympic freestyle wrestling champion Buvaisar Saitiev ... Degtyarev told TASS news agency that Saitiev's death was "premature and tragic," but provided ...
For context: That's about ... crowned Olympic gold medalist Amit Elor described to USA TODAY Sports earlier this year as "the dark side of the sport," particularly in women's wrestling: Cutting ...
Many high-profile Ukrainians had called for all Russian and Belarusian athletes to be banned from this year’s Olympic ... In wrestling, we managed to prevent all four Olympic champions from ...
It is not normal, the way that people in the women's wrestling community ... In 2016, he placed fourth at the U.S. Olympic trials in Greco-Roman wrestling. A few years later, after Amit won ...
Medals were issued to deserving wrestlers during Olympic competition ... across three events, the men's freestyle 74kg, men's freestyle 125kg and the women's freestyle 62kg. Each event had two ...
In total, UWW reallocated 16 wrestling quota spots after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) released its list of Russian and Belarusian ... That means the U.S., which will have wrestlers ...