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Rio 2016: Olympic wrestling preview day 2: Greco-Roman 85kg & 130kg
- Updated: August 14, 2016
We’ll begin this preview of Day 2 as we will all future previews, with a link back to our Olympics Wrestling primer, which has a cheat sheet and live stream details.
Also a note that wrestling brackets are random draw and uneven. You can check out the brackets from the 2015 World Championship and the European Olympic Qualification Tournament to give you a better idea of what the Rio brackets will look like.
All to the point that picking place finishers before the weigh-ins are completed and brackets are released (which happens the day before the tournament) is a fool’s errand. Which is perhaps why I find it so much fun.
Greco-Roman 85kg
PICKS
GOLD: Zhan Beleniuk UKR
SILVER: Saman Tahmasebi AZE
BRONZE: Rustum Assakalov UZB
BRONZE: Viktor Lorincz HUN
CONTENDERS
Ukraine’s Beleniuk has been a consistent elite performer over the last couple years, and arrives at Rio as the reigning world champ. Azerbaijan’s Tahmasebi got the better of Beleniuk in 2014 but was revenged in 2015. Hungary’s Lorincz has a brace of world bronze medals and I picked Uzbekistan’s Assakolov because his name makes me giggle.
OTHERS OF NOTE
American Ben Provisor is back for his second Olympics looking for his first medal. He’s wrestling up a weight class from …
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