How will you feel should Spencer win Olympic Gold for 🇫🇷?

[98lberEating2Lunches]

The US qualification process and competition may not comport with his health.

French competition and qualification of the weight at 57kg may be easier and better allow him to more fully recover.

His mother is French.

2024 is in Paris.

A Parisienne audience may be a kinder gentler one.

Amine, Micic, and Gomez have already paved the way.

Maybe just get comfortable with the idea.

(I understand 4/28 may be 'Create Your Best Cinnabon Thread' Day.)

[ionel]

This sure looked and smelled like a French pastry thread.  

[D3 for LU]

French= pastries= soft & gooey= cinnamon= Cinnabon-like-thread.

You didn't have to try that hard, did you?

D3

[Wrestleknownothing]

4 minutes ago, 98lberEating2Lunches said:

The US qualification process and competition may not comport with his health.

French competition and qualification of the weight at 57kg may be easier and better allow him to more fully recover.

His mother is French.

2024 is in Paris.

A Parisienne audience may be a kinder gentler one.

Amine, Micic, and Gomez have already paved the way.

Maybe just get comfortable with the idea.

(I understand 4/28 may be 'Create Your Best Cinnabon Thread' Day.)

What an interesting concept. I am all for it. I know this is at least partly tongue in cheek, but I am starting to love the idea.

[98lberEating2Lunches]

Petits Pains au Chocolat

très magnifique

[ionel]

1 minute ago, D3 for LU said:

French= pastries= soft & gooey= cinnamon= Cinnabon-like-thread.

You didn't have to try that hard, did you?

D3

I was saving that gooey cinnamon center for later.

[PortaJohn]

There's a widespread pastry infection running rampant on this forum

[D3 for LU]

Go ahead, just tell them...

D3

[JeanGuy]

Can France qualify the weight? I don't believe they did in 2020 and if Lee is too injured to wrestle that might not be an option either.

[CHROMEBIRD]

Don't even go there. Spencer would be dropped by his sponsors and the Iowa fanbase would lose their sh!t if he competed for another country. 

Not an option.

[Jimmy Cinnabon]

 

les excuses sont pour les mauviettes

[jackwebster]

33 minutes ago, JeanGuy said:

Can France qualify the weight? I don't believe they did in 2020 and if Lee is too injured to wrestle that might not be an option either.

I thought the host country got special dispensation.

[jchapman]

23 minutes ago, Jimmy Cinnabon said:

 

les excuses sont pour les mauviettes

8/10!!!! Good one!

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

1 hour ago, jackwebster said:

I thought the host country got special dispensation.

In the past.  I think this is disappearing. 

[ionel]

4 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

In the past.  I think this is disappearing. 

like little bit at a time, say a weight class every year or two or more like just gone gone?  

[CHROMEBIRD]

13 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

In the past.  I think this is disappearing. 

I thought the UWW said France would be given 2 spots to spend in any of the 3 styles but Olympics.com explicitly says that no spots will be allocated for the host country for wrestling so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://olympics.com/en/news/pathway-to-paris-2024-wrestling-qualification-system-explained

 

[1032004]

I just wanna see a Lee/Gilman match

[98lberEating2Lunches]

3 hours ago, JeanGuy said:

Can France qualify the weight? I don't believe they did in 2020 and if Lee is too injured to wrestle that might not be an option either.

He can qualify 57kg for . 

[98lberEating2Lunches]

3 hours ago, CHROMEBIRD said:

Don't even go there. Spencer would be dropped by his sponsors and the Iowa fanbase would lose their sh!t if he competed for another country. 

Not an option.

Don't be so sure.

A big Iowa donor liked my similar train of thought on GIA (formerly HR).  Several HR posters and WkN like the idea.

Rudis could love the publicity associated with the storyline.  That storyline could include French mother who hasn't seen her son wrestle live since NCAAs, due to boorish American fan behavior, returns to her homeland to see her son win gold.

And maybe Rudis wants to be an international brand.

Edited April 28, 2023 by 98lberEating2Lunches

[nhs67]

I would absolutely love if he were to defect for the sake of wrestling.

His parents seem to be quite intelligent so I imagine he might already have dual citizenship.

[nhs67]

The more US wrestlers we have representing elsewhere the better it is for US Wrestling.

[ionel]

4 minutes ago, nhs67 said:

The more US wrestlers we have representing elsewhere the better it is for US Wrestling.

Really?  What if they all went elsewhere, would that be the very best scenario? 

[CementMixer]

He will not wrestle again.

[Jason Bryant]

Hypothetically, he couldn't apply for an athlete transfer until December (the one month window UWW allows for it). Not sure the time they have to sit out, though. Also, France has picked up a number of new athletes. They're allowed one transfer per style, per age group a year. So if they already picked up a senior freestyler, they can't pick up another one for another year. 

Can't seem to find the time someone has to sit out in the rulebook. France would also have to qualify the weight in Belgrade.

I wouldn't even think it's possible so close to 2024. 

[AgaveMaria]

To wrestle for France won't he first have to take classes to learn how to say "I Surrender" in German?