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Aug 20, 2006 0:03:59 GMT -5
Post by quicksingle on Aug 20, 2006 0:03:59 GMT -5
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BigJohn
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Aug 20, 2006 0:10:48 GMT -5
Post by BigJohn on Aug 20, 2006 0:10:48 GMT -5
I am forever in your debt!!!
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Aug 20, 2006 0:11:59 GMT -5
Post by bambam on Aug 20, 2006 0:11:59 GMT -5
You know when you don't see the films in quite some time you forget just how great Sergei was. He defines the word Relentless. Unreal talent!
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Aug 20, 2006 0:26:18 GMT -5
Post by Big on Aug 20, 2006 0:26:18 GMT -5
I heard that Granit Toropin, their coach, found Sergei and Anatoli begging for some change at a store to buy some food when they were really young. I don't know what happened to their parents but Toropin took them under his wing and turned them into Olympic champs.
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Aug 20, 2006 0:33:40 GMT -5
Post by bambam on Aug 20, 2006 0:33:40 GMT -5
I guess they turned that hunger into their ferocious wrestling. These brothers were just plain animals. They just went after you with a nonstop super aggresive technique filled attack! You can see that all of their opponants are almost helpless when trying to wrestle the brothers. Remarkable job by Granit. I think he helped Jantzen a lot at Harvard when Jesse first got there.
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Aug 20, 2006 0:36:28 GMT -5
Post by BigJohn on Aug 20, 2006 0:36:28 GMT -5
Big, anywhere you know of to confirm that? What a great story if it is indeed true, I'd love to read more about it.
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Aug 20, 2006 0:41:05 GMT -5
Post by quicksingle on Aug 20, 2006 0:41:05 GMT -5
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Aug 20, 2006 2:16:17 GMT -5
Post by DH on Aug 20, 2006 2:16:17 GMT -5
Big, anywhere you know of to confirm that? What a great story if it is indeed true, I'd love to read more about it. BigJohn, if you want I can call Granit and ask him about that. Granit is an amazing coach, and has an interesting sense of humor to boot. Whenever there was an odd number of people at practice, Granit would wrestle with me (although he was about twice my size). He didn't speak a lot of English but he managed to spit out some pretty funny insults while wrestling with me, such as "mosquito attack me" and "wind blow, Danielle fall down."
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Aug 20, 2006 10:33:39 GMT -5
Post by quicksingle on Aug 20, 2006 10:33:39 GMT -5
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Aug 20, 2006 11:06:54 GMT -5
Post by sgallan on Aug 20, 2006 11:06:54 GMT -5
Damn, the amount and variety of technique he used was just amazing.
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Aug 20, 2006 15:34:32 GMT -5
Post by quicksingle on Aug 20, 2006 15:34:32 GMT -5
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Aug 20, 2006 17:13:46 GMT -5
Post by Big on Aug 20, 2006 17:13:46 GMT -5
Its amazing how much better Jordanov was at 36 years old than he was at 24.
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Aug 21, 2006 12:28:16 GMT -5
Post by quicksingle on Aug 21, 2006 12:28:16 GMT -5
Jordanov was actually better when he was in his mid-late 20s. he was more exciting to watch anyway. when he got older he became more defensive on his feet and the rules at the time were in his favor because you could put your opponent down in par terre, where he was deadly. he just didn't look as sharp IMO.
interesting note about the Trstena/Jordanov match is that Jordanov was the defending World champion when they wrestled. this could have been the Gold Medal match in Los Angeles later that Summer. obviously the boycott left the field wide open in most weights and the Americans were expected to win most of the medals. some of the weight classes however, still had some tough competitors even without the Eastern Bloc. the 52 kg weight was a prime example. here you had Trstena from Yugoslavia (still curious how Yugoslavia was able to compete BTW) who just won the Europeans by beating the defending World champ, and the great Takada from Japan. 19 year old Trstena wound up defeating Takada in Los Angeles.
57 kg was pretty tough with Tomiyama. 74 kg was no walk in the park either with World Champ Knosp from West Germany and a tough Yugoslavian.
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Aug 21, 2006 12:38:06 GMT -5
Post by quicksingle on Aug 21, 2006 12:38:06 GMT -5
maybe tonight i'll post Mark Schultz dislocating the Turk's elbow at the 1984 Olympics.
you guys want to see it?
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Aug 21, 2006 12:39:11 GMT -5
Post by JensenS on Aug 21, 2006 12:39:11 GMT -5
Uhhhhhhhh....YEAH!
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