Rio 2016: Olympic wrestling coaches strip down in protest

And y’all thought the NFL was the no fun league. Sure, an excessive touchdown celebration can get your team penalized or (if it’s really excessive) get you a big fine, but what if it got you kicked out of the playoffs? Okay, that’s not quite a perfect parallel, but it’s a reasonable approximation of what happened to Mongolian national team wrestler Mandakhnaran Ganzorig at the Rio 2016 Olympics.

Ganzorig was facing off against Uzbekistan’s Ikhtiyor Navruzov in the bronze medal match for the Men’s freestyle 65 kg division. Up by a point with the clock winding down, Ganzorig decided to, in the infamous words of Miesha Tate, “just coast” and started doing a bit of early celebrating. Only problem …

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