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Olympics dreams turned to nightmares for Herbert and Dlagnev
Jake Herbert was “officially” eliminated from competition Jake Herbert, like many a wrestler, has heard to never put a possible victory in the hands of an official. The 185-pound native of...
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BVK: America’s most recent gold medalist has vowed to return in 2016
By Bryan Van Kley There’s a famous sports story about the New York Yankees’ great Babe Ruth once “calling his shot” in the 1932 World Series Game 3 against the Cubs...
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Burroughs backed up his Olympic confidence with a gold medal
By Bryan Van Kley Defending World champ Jordan Burroughs whose Twitter says a lot about his personality: alliseeisgold. The supremely confident Burroughs had a very specific game plan to how to...
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Sam Hazewinkel’s Olympic family tradition was short-lived
Sam Hazewinkel was part of the first father-son combination of wrestlers who wrestled in the Olympics. His father and uncle competed in 1968 and 1972 in Greco-Roman. Unfortunately for the former...










