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No its not our wrestling program is shit
Our wrestling star silver medalist Deepak Punia hounded like dogs by Iranian Hasan yazdani
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/2ZtXJ8fNaKE?si=g-w0Xp2bZjEPKErA
Really? Yazdani is a legend. Possibly one of the greatest wrestlers ever. Former Olympic champion and a triple world champion. He is 30 year old now but In his prime, he used to maul every other wrestler barring David Taylor.
That career threatening injury has done him real dirty but Deepak was a solid wrestler before that. There is a reason he made it to the bronze medal bout at Tokyo 2020. Noobs don't make it that far.
Not just this case compare performance from indian wrestler and then Russian , american, japnease , post Soviet country
Do you really want me to spam random bouts on a thread meant for fitness discussion?
Ravi vs Y Takahasi (JPN);
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ginuionUyR8&pp=ygUgUmF2aSBkYWhpeWEgdnMgamFwYW5lc2Ugd3Jlc3RsZXI%3D
Ravi vs Sanayev (from Kazakhstan, definitely a post Soviet state) - Tokyo 2020 semi Final;
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iygKOmf0nI&t=1s
Aman vs Zelimkhan Abakarov (represents Albania but hails from Russia, also a former world champion);
View: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IVQLKLU2-Q4&pp=ygUWYW1hbiBzZWhyYXdhdCBvbHltcGljcw%3D%3D
Chirag vs Karachov (from Kazakhstan, a post Soviet state) - 2023 u23 World championship gold medal bout;
View: https://youtube.com/watch?v=b8Suns8pNtY&pp=ygUlQ2hpcmFnIGNoaWthcmEgd29ybGQgdTIzIGNoYW1waW9uc2hpcA%3D%3D
And I can keep going.
Wrestling, shooting and hockey are the three sports where we will do way better in future because the structure is there. And Russian wrestling went to the dogs the day they got suspended for invading Ukraine - their youth structures have dried out, the most talented wrestlers have since moved out to represent other nations (fun fact: Aman beat 2 Russian wrestlers en route to his bronze medal finish at Paris 2024 - neither represented Russia).