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Here’s all you need to know about Greco-Roman wrestling heading into the Olympics, from the rules to what makes it unique compared to the freestyle discipline.
The 41-year-old Cuban defeated Yasmani Acosta Fernandez of Chile 6-0 in the 130-kilogram final at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday to win his fifth consecutive gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling.
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Greco-Roman wrestling was the first style of wrestling included in the Games, with freestyle added in 1904. Wrestlers engage in intense battles full of powerful and swift moves.
G’Angelo Hancock’s meteoric rise to stardom in Greco-Roman wrestling makes Fountain native a gold medal contender in Tokyo Olympics Hancock’s confidence on the international stage began to ...
The Kennard-Dale High School graduate swept the favorite in his 87-kilogram (192-pound) Greco-Roman weight class in a best-of-three championship series at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Forth ...
Greek Wrestling (Image credit: Photo courtesy Walters Art Museum, through Wikimedia, CC Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Unported) Flavillianus also excelled at wrestling.
United States Greco-Roman wrestler Alan Vera died Monday night after health complications from a summer cardiac arrest while playing a club soccer match in New Jersey.
Kourtzidis added that there have been talks of excluding Greco-Roman wrestling, a discipline based on the ancient wrestling style and which bars holds below the waist, and keep the freestyle event.
The 41-year-old Cuban defeated Yasmani Acosta Fernandez of Chile 6-0 in the 130-kilogram final at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday to win his fifth consecutive gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling.