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Exactly the same as last year.

She was gassed

When I always talk about Japan's womens team and their depth, this is a great example. She was the 2021 55kg senior world champ, bumped up to 57 and and won last year.

Time for Douglas vs Sidakov!

The thing that's interesting is that.....earlier this year Team Serbia was training in Japan with the Otoguros and Yuki Takahashi at their alma mater.

They're pumping a new airborne covid vaccine for you to breathe. Before you know it, a microchip will miraculously form into a solid state and be implanted by said fog as well.

Snyder lost. Must be because we have a bad qualifying process! SO bad!

Off the Vitamin S or the long layoff from competition?

Nice! At work, not watching

JP should be fine. Nanjo usually doesn't score a ton of points. It'll be super close and JP could win

DT must be so dominant now that they've created a new weight class for him.

Exactly.

But if Richards would have won this match, the qualifying system is good? Richards beat Gilman for the spot, so he's the rep at 57kg.

Good to know!

Womens probably won't even be up until tomorrow.

It looks like that's the case. I'm not even sure you can access it within the US anyways. I saw in the UWW+ FAQ that there is a GeoBlock on the US. IN WHICH COUNTRY IS UWW+ AVAILABLE? UWW+ is available worldwide. Some live content may vary by location due to local television broadcast restrictions. Current Geoblock Restrictions on Live Content: United States

He was training in Japan for a little bit a few months ago with Yui Susaki and wrestlers at the college she graduated from. He also met up again with his ol' buddy, Otoguro and trained at another university.

This is why I wanted to see her actually challenge for the 68kg or 76kg spot rather than go win another 72kg title with really watered down international competition. We all know that the better wrestlers from other countries dropped to 68 or bumped up to 76 to try and secure an Olympic weight spot.

Had to go into a meeting, so I wasn't able to finish above. Kiyooka lost to Okuno in the 55kg World team playoffs recently(Kiyooka also got teched by Fujinami in the Meiji Cup finals so Kiyooka had to bump up to 55kg), so that's why she had to compete in Juniors. She'll only be able to compete in U23 as well this year. Moro lost to Kagami in the 76kg playoff match and is in the same boat as Kiyooka as far as U23 goes. You've got to give a lot of credit to India and their age group womens teams. As I've said plenty of previous times, their age group womens wrestling has tremendously improved, but that hasn't translated over to the senior level.

It was an enormous underperformance by Japan's team and our team still couldn't win... The main thing to remember is that Japan's team is comprised of wrestlers would normally not be there. They'd be filled with the much better competitors at most of the weights, but the better wrestlers chose to compete for the 2023 World Championships Olympic and non-Olympic weights for seniors instead. The only two who did compete in juniors that lost in Japan's national tournament were Moe Kiyooka and Ayano Moro. Kiyooka made on TINY mistake and got pinned in the semis. Was definitely the favorite to win gold for sure.

I caught the match starting about where Moro got to her leg for the td. Good explanation

But, no idea if anything happened prior.

She had a huge battle with Moro in the quarters Barely escaped that one with a win because she was completely gassed at the end of that match.

Couldn't post more last night, but I did watch most of the matches. 59kg- Risako was beating Nanjo 6-0 with a little over a minute remaining off of a few tds and turn. Nanjo finally got a td with around 40 sec left to make it 6-2. Challenge brick thrown in to see if Nanjo had also exposed Risako's back and after the challenge, it was 6-4. Very short time and Nanjo is trying everything to get a td and she finally gets Risako off balance right in the orange circle at the literal edge and throws Risako, but Risako fights it and Nanjo also stepped over. After a review, with .3 seconds left, you can see that Risako's back barely went past 90 and Nanjo wins. I can see both sisters coming back, but Risako has a little kid and I don't see Yukako beating Ozaki or Motoki even though the matches are close. 2 more of Japan's Olympic champions from 2 years ago fall to younger wrestlers. The only Tokyo Olympic champs that still have their spots are Susaki and Otoguro. 55kg Okuno vs Kataoka Both hand fighting for the first few minutes. Okuno scores 1, Kataoka was on the clock for passivity. More hand fighting, Okuno got poked in the eye, but Okuno leads 1-0 at the break. Okuno holding center, both hand fighting and looking for an opening and Kataoka on the clock, 2 min left. Kataoka can't find anything, 2-0 Okuno. Okuno gets put on the clock, 1 min left. 2-1 Okuno after the clock, 50 sec left. Okuno holding center, Kataoka trying to tie up and look for a trip, but Okuno defends well, 30 sec left. Some serious hand fighting going on and Kataoka goes for a trip again, ends up behind Okuno with Okuno still standing, Okuno grabs onto Kataoka's leg and it basically sitting on top of Kataoka while Kataoka has her own back on the mat. Okuno gains control in this position and scores 2 on the td, 4-1. Time expires and Okuno wins and is now the rep at 55kg. 72kg Morikawa vs Shindo. Both know each other, same university. Morikawa definitely giving up around 15 pounds/strength wrestling at 72kg. Hand fighting and tying up. Shindo ends up pushing Morikawa out, 1-0 with 4:38 left. Morikawa on the clock, but both tying up and score is now 2-0. They're right at the edge, Morikawa trying to push Shindo out. Shindo tries a throw and lands on her own back, Morikawa gets 2, score now 2-2. Morikawa trying to get in on the legs, but nothing at the break. Hand fighting, both in center, Morikawa shoots, but nothing with a little over a minute left. Both tie up in the center, Morikawa goes for a throw by and gets Shindo a little off balance. Shindo is at her knees and goes for the legs, Morikawa sprawls and goes behind for the td, 4-2. Less than a minute left, Morikawa looking for a turn. Restart and Shindo looking to get in, but can't. Morikawa wins and is the 72kg rep. 65kg Ozaki vs Yoshitake Hand fighting to start out, then Ozaki gets in really fast on a low single. 2-0 with 15 sec gone, Ozaki looking for a lace. Gets a quick turn and it's 4-0. Gets another turn and spins over the top with Yoshitake laying on the mat and has Yoshitake's legs, going for a standing pin, but Yoshitake turns onto her own belly, 6-0. About 30 sec gone by, Ozaki looking for another turn and gets it, 8-0. Ozaki still in great position looking for another turn and gets it, but also has Yoshitake flat and gets the tech/pin in 50 seconds. Big hug from Shoko when coming off the mat. Ozaki is now the rep at 65kg. 59kg- Nanjo vs Nagamoto. Masako Furuichi has been cornering Nanjo the entire tournament. Furuichi was also coached by Shoko. Both hand fighting for a little bit, then at 4:34, Nanjo hits a nice swing single and looks to turn but nothing, 2-0. Nanjo hits a high c and gets the td at 3:27. 4-0. After the break, Nanjo scores off of a throw by to single, 6-0. 2 min to go, Nanjo hits almost the same throw by, 8-0. 1:02 left, Nanjo gets in on a single and wins, 10-0. Nanjo is now the rep at 59kg. Final Japan World Team below: 50kg- Susaki 53kg- Fujinami 55kg- Okuno 57kg- Sakurai 59kg- Nanjo 62kg- Motoki 65kg- Ozaki 68kg- Ishii 72kg- Morikawa 76kg- Kagami

For those that don't know, Shoko Yoshimura was the high school wresting academy coach for Yui Susaki, Mayu Shidochi, Nonoka Ozaki, Takuto Otoguro, Sae Nanjo and many others. She was hired as a National Team coach for Japan to coach the cadet/junior teams. If you've watched Yui Susaki at all of the world championships and Tokyo Olympics, you would have seen Shoko in her corner. Shoko is a former 5x senior world champion, 1x silver and 3x bronze. I think she's Japan's best coach and has been for a long time now.