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crablegs said:
A healthy Spencer is the best in the world, and has been for several years. Not saying he can’t be beat, but he’s the favorite to win this tournament.

I think he’s looked great in his 2 matches so far this tournament. As good as he’s looked in a long time. He was aggressive, scored from a variety of attacks on his feet, and showed no signs of conditioning issues. His parterre is always going to be a game changer.
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Higuchi was better.
 
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cycloneman003 said:
Well I guess at this point I'll be mindly surpised if the men bring any gold medals back. I just dont think Retheford is good enough and I'm not picking Snyder to beat Tazhudinov until I see that happen.
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Snyder is an underdog for sure, but I don’t think that big of one. Tazhudinov was basically an unknown last year. Snyder will be prepared this time.
 
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Push-out to start the second. 2-0 with 2:00 left.

Brooks goes on the clock, then gets a takedown on the edge to wipe it out. 4-0.

Another push-out. 5-0.
 
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CycloneVet said:
I have to think the next cycle will be a good one for us. Brooks and Lee will be improved I’d guess.
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You have to really worry about Spencer’s health, and don’t think that Brooks holds 86 for another cycle. 28 team may have a lot of new blood.
 
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crablegs said:
The Dake result is pretty shocking, but other than that nothing crazy.
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In isolation, not that crazy maybe. But Brooks blowing the semifinal match was bad and Parris going 0-1 and out was not expected I'd say. Espeically given the guy he lost too got teched by Meshvildishvili, who Parris beat earlier this year at Zagreb.

Also, I'm factoring in the brutal draw for Zain. I shouldn't count him out before he steps on the mat but the draw is so tough and he's historically not normal Zain when he's down at 65kg.
 
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cycloneman003 said:
In isolation, not that crazy maybe. But Brooks blowing the semifinal match was bad and Parris going 0-1 and out was not expected I'd say. Espeically given the guy he lost too got teched by Meshvildishvili, who Parris beat earlier this year at Zagreb.

Also, I'm factoring in the brutal draw for Zain. I shouldn't count him out before he steps on the mat but the draw is so tough and he's historically not normal Zain when he's down at 65kg.
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Higuchi is one of the best in the world. Second to him is not a disastrous result by any means.

Parris lost to a 2x world medalist. There was no reason to think that should have been a definite win for him. Anyone shocked by that result doesn’t understand the reality of the top level of international wrestling.

Brooks lost a tough match to a super tough Russian transplant. He wasn’t beating Yazdani anyway. Still took bronze.

We won 5 medals in Tokyo. Only 2 medals in 2016. 3 in 2012. 1 in 2008. I think we still get 4 this year with still a pretty good shot at gold.

American expectations were extremely unreasonable this year.
 
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