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As someone else said, Kamal owns a Ranking series win over the Hungarian Levai last year--but Levai is very, very tough. He was World silver as recently as 2022.

I made a mistake above..the Chinese didn't tech the favored 1-seed yesterday. That was the German, who the Chinese then beat.

Yes, if the True 3rd ends up being Leval of Hungary, Kamal's beaten him relatively recently. But he's got great credentials and was the 1-seed at Worlds just last year because of it. The Chinese was a monster yesterday, though, so it could just as easily be him. He only fell 1-1 in criteria to the Bulgarian that won the bracket and looked amazing otherwise.

The Georgian gave the Russian a war yesterday, so Kamal will probably need his best match yet to keep things going this afternoon. Then the Olympic qualifying True 3rd match will also be a war. He could have the Chinese, who teched the 1-seed that beat Kamal recently. Or it could be the 4-seed Hungarian that is also very, very tough.

Bey came to play today. He'll have the Georgian at 4:45pm local time (9:45 ET) for the traditional bronze. Then if he wins, he'll have a True 3rd place match after the women's evening semi-finals at maybe 8pm local time (1pm ET).

Bey with a good start this morning. He techs the 2-time World 5th place Belarusian. Sweden next

I see they changed the bout numbers for the repechage rounds tomorrow. Bey will be the 3rd match on Mat 1 against the Belarusian; then, if he wins, he'd get about 2 hours of rest before wrestling the Swede, who will have had a bye. Glad this component was done right after all.

Bey brought back in. He needs to beat Belarus and Sweden in quick succession tomorrow morning, beat Georgia in the regular bronze in the afternoon, and then beat the upper half bronze in the special True 3rd Olympic qualifying bout at night.

So discouraging to see these international Greco results for us. We're so often just not even in the same stratosphere as the contenders. Roberts loses to Ukraine who loses to Sweden who loses to Korea who loses to Russia.

Oof...I just saw the match numbers for the repechage matches tomorrow. I have no idea why they do this, but they put the first, second, and third round repechage matches with only 4 matches of separation between each (about a half hour)--even though they're happening during the lengthy morning/afternoon session of the next style. It would be easy to give first round and then second round winners 90 minutes or 2 hours of rest. That, along with not necessarily wrestling the R64 pigtails before the R32 matches for some of the weights, is just so bizarre and blind to what should be obvious "fairness" protocols (Zain has to wait until match 11 for his R64 match on his mat on Saturday, and almost all of the first 10 matches are R32 matches at weights that don't have any R64). Makes no sense.

Kutuzov of Russia did end up winning his quarter and will wrestle for Paris in a few minutes with the potential impact for us of Bey being brought back in tomorrow.

You seem to deal with disappointment in the same way as my daughter: with weird, distracting comments and pretend joy

Coleman also officially eliminated. He finishes 1-1. Bey's Russian opponent ran through Belarus in the R16 and is about to wrestle his QF against a Swede who's been through 2 wars and doesn't seem super impressive. A win would leave only a semi-final OG Qualifier match later on to bring Bey back in to tomorrow.

Yeah, Greco is going way over today. It doesn't matter much because they can head straight into the semi-finals at 11am ET since there's no program this afternoon. The women's event tomorrow also won't matter because there are many less entrants But I wonder if they'll make time adjustments for the freestyle day (maybe start weigh-ins earlier or push the evening program back). The freestyle quarterfinals won't be done until way past the scheduled women's bronze matches if they don't change something.

Yeah, the fact that the winner of Ochir/Zain will have only a little over an hour of rest and will have wrestled one other solid opponent prior to their matchup--while Kudiev wrestles opponents he can finish quickly--is worrisome. I posted estimated start times on another thread, and I will say that the amount of wait between the R32 and the Ochir match gives me some hope for a good, weight-recovered Zain performance in that match. He won't face Ochir until probably close to 8 hours after weigh in, 3 hours after his R32, and maybe 4.5 hours after the Coman R64 match.

Saturday is going to involve a LOT of sitting around in the first couple of rounds for Lee and Zain. As we speak, almost 6 hours into the event, they are just now wrestling the Round of 16 matches for some of the weights of Greco. And freestyle matches take longer than Greco. Historically, freestyle matches take about 9 minutes per match over a day for these events. Using that as our marker, estimated local and US ET for their matches on Saturday are below. These are ESTIMATES. Obviously some mats go faster or slower than planned. And these projected times will eat into the scheduled women's 3rd place matches at 4:45pm, so they may have to make time adjustments based on how long things are going today with Greco. Spencer Lee: Weigh-in: 7:45 to 8:15am (12:45 to 1:15am ET) R32: 10am (3am) R16: 2pm (7am) QF: 4:30pm (9:30am) Semi-finals session starts at 6pm (11am) Zain Retherford: Weigh-in: 7:45 to 8:15am (12:45 to 1:15am ET) R64: 11:20am (4:20am) R32: 12:50pm (5:50am) R16: 3:50pm (8:50am) QF: 5:20pm (10:20pm) Semi-finals session starts at 6pm (11am)

Roberts officially eliminated. He finishes 0-1.

Coleman went 1-1 and needs to depend on a repechage shot too. The Russian can definitely get through and bring Bey back in. The Ukrainian and Swiss that beat our other two don't seem likely, though.

Nope. That opinion was clearly your point from the beginning. It's way over diagnosed. That part is true. My sister and some others I know have been diagnosed and they don't take or need meds and I don't get the diagnosis at all. But with a stimulant, my father and my daughter, on the other hand, go from level 2 life functionality with hyperactivity and agitation through the roof to calm, relaxed, level 8 functioning human beings with virtually zero hyperactivity or anxiety. You know there are hundreds of studies of brain chemistry and brain function on the ADHD mind, right? With physical results, not theoretical psych mumbo jumbo. You know this, right? Anyway, your second point about ease of getting a diagnosis and accessing Adderal is 100% correct too. Brooks not having a TUE is irresponsible at best and probably points to cheating, sadly. You're not wrong.

Great points, as always. Really annoyed about the R64 nuisance vs Coman. Zain will beat him, but a tech is unlikely and he'll go into Ochir having invested himself already. Silver lining if he loses to Ochir is obviously that Ochir would then be favored to the final and bring Zain into day 2. But with Kudiev's first 2 being easy, that QF becomes much tougher for a spent Zain/Ochir winner too. Really, really tricky day for Zain.

I like Lee's chances. Zou here feels like the scary landmine. He's very athletic and gives everyone problems. He doesn't get blown out. Egorov hasn't had amazing results the past couple seasons, although he's a real opponent, certainly. Sarlak has been MIA the last 2 seasons and wrestling behind Iran's weakest starter, so not sure the story there. Dingashvili is solid, but I'd definitely favor Spencer if that was the semi's match and everything was on the line. All in all, if he wrestles anything like trials, I think he controls his own destiny.

Coleman may have the most workable bracket of the Greco guys: Belarus, then a non-Greco nation, then probably Bulgaria, then probably Hungary in the semi's. His quarter seems much more doable. If he can get to the semi's, he obviously gets 2 shots to qualify

Dalton Roberts: Ukraine, Sweden, Armenia/South Korea, Russia the four he needs to get the final...again, brutal.

Brutal draw for Kamal Bey, also. Russia, Belarus, Sweden...then probably the Georgian or Nemes the Serbian. All coin flip type of matches.

It doesn't seem like you've been around anyone with genuine ADHD symptoms. For the "normal", non-divergent mind that may have experimented with Adderall or Ritalin, it's almost impossible to imagine how different the effects are.