Thursday, August 9, 2012

Wicked wrestling

Even though it's one of the very few sports remaining from the ancient Olympic Games, I've never watched wrestling before. What a beautiful sport to experience live, too! A front row view of one 120kg gladiator throwing another over his shoulder has been one of the most powerful images of my Olympic adventure thus far.

 

Of course due to the most basic laws of physics there is much more action in the lower weight categories. But the schedule is very smart, showing you a number of categories throughout the evening. On day one, I witnessed men's greco-roman style under 60, 84, and 120 kilograms. On day two, it was the ladies' freestyle 48 and 63.


And it's all well if it ends well, so the Polish bronze medallist Damian Janikowski throwing his coach to the mat in jubilation was the cherry on the cake!


The ladies didn't finish that well, but definitely fought bravely on a night dominated by the Japanese. The latter took both gold medals, including the third consecutive Olympic win for Kaori Icho!



PS
If any of you ladies out there feel intimidated in men-dominated jobs, here's some inspiration:

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