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I was pulling for DT bc I felt like this was his last real shot, and that his interest was clearly waning. I was hoping he'd go out on top. Brooks is many things, stalling and defensive isn't really one of them. Taylor did NOTHING in the first match. Legit just stood there and watched the clock run out. Then...he did...very little in the second match. Across 12 minutes of wrestling he wrestled less than he would in 20 seconds against Yazdani. He looked like he just didn't care. I am legitimately wondering if he stayed because him retiring would cost the US its olympic qualification credentials for this year. He looked like he was just ready to hand off the baton and be done with it. There's nothing wrong with that, wrestling is a very unrelenting sport, but you can see it on a wrestler's face when they are done. Mark Hall has been done for awhile, and this is the first time I've seen DT have the same look that Mark Hall did in his eyes. The "I'd like to be done with this and move on with life please" look.

I smelled it in March but didn’t call it, I didn‘t think DT would show up this untrained/under motivated. He looked like one of those old fighters the UFC drags out for old times’ sake to throw homie a paycheck and eat an ‘L’ This is not to be critical, we all have stages of life, and it is very hard to transition from something as all-consuming as wrestling. He looked like he made that transition mentally at some point since worlds.

I'd liked to say otherwise, but I think this DT finishes 5th/6th if he isn't given protection from the entire process. If taylor cared, I think he could very easily have taken this series from Brooks, but he looked like a dude who legit didn't give a crap. JB still had the fire at least, Taylor looked like he was more towards the Mark Hall end of the spectrum, ready to be done with the process.

Coon getting an olympic trip might be my favorite moment of this trials.

Sumo is very badass. Those dudes are animals.

Coon has some very fresh cauliflower ear going on.

I would be very curious to know where the level of Greco is globally right now. Has all greco gotten bad/cheap the way freestyle did during the ball grab era? Or has US greco just…done what US greco does…no offense intended to the athletes whatsoever.

Daton Fix’s nutritionist puts another athlete on the world team!

Tweedle dork and tweedle pork, go to another thread

“Grabbing hands…butting heads…grabbing hands…doing a dance…grabbing hands…stand and push…I…wrestle…Greco!”

I was about to ask, what the heck was that?

God had a really strong batting average in interviews today.

I was thinking about this too. Really notably absent, just got bounced and that was that.

Internet Jesus doesn’t judge, it’s God’s hand God’s plan.

Well, that’s what you get when you stop training…Taylor talked about that around the start of the college season. Not getting so much mat time and really focusing on recovery.

That was really unceremonious.

David Taylor reading from the Jordan Burroughs book of offense? Wtf is this?

Taylor doesn’t look like he gives a shit.

He was trying to go to a stepover to hook the leg and stop the gobehind.

Well…that’ll be that folks

Taylor already done more 20 seconds in than he did all last match

So, today I learned David Taylor has clearly stopped lifting weights.

Playing Toto in the background is kinda weak during olympic trials finals…

This is very dismissive of how good dake is. Nolf walked through all kinds of good wrestlers to get to Dake. Dake’s a horse, and he’s the best wrestling mind since Cael.

Hahahaha, NBC has decided they aren’t interested in giving God a platform anymore, so snyder got a 5 second interview. I think the message gets a bit boring, but 5 seconds for a 3 time olympian is pretty weak.