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Tamyra Mensah-Stock became the second American woman to win a wrestling gold medal with victory in the 68kg freestyle category on Tuesday.
The reigning world champion appeared to sustain a leg injury 40 seconds into the six-minute bout but recovered to win 4-1 on points, spinning her opponent over, scoring points from a pair of takedowns and defending solidly as the seconds ticked away.
The result means that Nigerias first Olympic wrestling medal is a silver for Blessing Oborududu, the 32-year-old 10-time African champion.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/aug/03/tamyra-mensah-stock-wrestling-gold-medal-tokyo-2020-olympics
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Anyone who complains has only them self to blame.
jalan48
(13,842 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(9,941 posts)Her mom is getting the food truck she dreamed of. Which is altogether great.
Sympthsical
(9,041 posts)The treadmills at the gym have little tv's on them. This morning they were showing men's wrestling. So of course I left the channel on (attractive men in singlets = yes, please). No idea what was going on. I kept wondering why the one guy was constantly being re-positioned to be on his stomach. I also realized this is how a lot of gay porn starts.
I had ear buds in, so no idea what was being said. Wrestle wrestle wrestle. Stop. Reposition. Wrestle. Stop. Position. Wrestle. It went on for ages. I wasn't complaining, but without commentary, it's truly baffling to understand how any kind of scoring works.
And this got wildly off track.
Congrats to Tamyra!
Jilly_in_VA
(9,941 posts)Sort of, anyway. My son wrestled in middle school and the first two years of high school, and now I have a grandson who is wrestling in middle school again. It's kind of complicated. The best I can explain is that you have to pin your opponent's shoulders to the mat for a specific amount of time in a legal move to win. The repositioning has to do with "illegal" moves, as I understand it. That's regular wrestling. Then there is Greco-Roman wrestling, which is a whole other thing entirely, and I don't understand it AT ALL.