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Keep The Flame Alive Daily Podcast Updates (All Sports)
Paris 2024 Olympics: Day 7 – Keep The Flame Alive: The Olympics & Paralympics Fan Podcast
It’s Day 7 of the Paris 2024 Olympics, and Olympic fatigue is starting to settle in. Alison battles a sore throat, but finds another pharmacie and rallies to go to trampoline and 3X3 basketball. Meanwhile, Jill gets into the pin trading game and sees a France podium sweep in BMX. It’s her first visit to the velodrome/BMX racing park, which, of course, means a new toilet to visit!
Les Nouvelles de Paris
Paris Preview: American Adam Coon among athlete standing in the way of Olympic history – TheMat.com
Topping the list of skilled wrestlers at heavyweight as the No. 1 seed is Amin Mirzazadeh of Iran, the current Senior World champion. Mirzazadeh is a two-time World champion and three-time World finalist.
2024 Olympic Preview: 130 kg Men's Greco-Roman – InterMat
It’s early August which means the 2024 Olympic Games are right around the corner. Over the next two weeks, InterMat will bring you individual weight class previews for each of the 18 weights contested at the Olympic Games.
USA Women's Freestyle Preview at 2024 Olympics – WIN Magazine
The following is a preview of all six Americans who will represent the United States in the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France, at the Champ de Mars Arena.
Paris Preview: Age-group sensation Blades takes first shot at Senior medal in Paris – TheMat.com
The No. 1 seed is 2023 World silver medalist Aiperi Medet Kyzy of Kyrgyzstan. Medet Kyzy broke through with her fifth at the 2020 Olympics and added a World bronze in 2021.
2024 Olympic Preview: 76 kg Women's Freestyle – InterMat
It’s early August which means the 2024 Olympic Games are right around the corner. Over the next two weeks, InterMat will bring you individual weight class previews for each of the 18 weights contested at the Olympic Games.
Amir Zare of Iran gets the No. 1 seed at this weight class. Zare has been the top heavyweight in recent years, with 2021 and 2023 World titles, plus bronze medals at the 2020 Olympics and the 2022 Worlds. He won gold medals in the last five international events he has entered.
Aaron Brooks Seeking To Continue Team USA's 86 kg Olympic Success – FloWrestling
An analysis of the countries that have performed the best at 86 kg in men's freestyle wrestling at the Olympics and World Championships.
Will Kyle Dake Continue Team USA's 74 kg Success At The Olympics? – FloWrestling
An analysis of the countries that have performed the best at 74 kg in men's freestyle wrestling at the Olympics and World Championships.
Paris 2024 Olympics: refugee athlete Iman Mahdavi on creating a legacy – Olympics.com
“From Refugee [Olympic] Team, for 100 million, for peace.” That is what Iman Mahdavi wrote on the Olympic Truce Mural at the Olympic Village, located on the serene banks of the river Seine on the outskirts of Paris.
Adam Coon lights up at the memory of a brief interaction he had with Myles Amine back in December 2021. Amine had just won Olympic bronze in Tokyo a few months earlier, and San Marino, the tiny mountain republic in Italy that he competes for, commissioned a set of commemorative Euro coins to pay tribute to its three Olympic medalists that year — the first in the country's history.
At Olympics, India’s top women wrestlers have more at stake than medals – Al Jazeera
Haryana’s dusty villages have given India its wrestling champions. The fear of one man threatens to destroy those dreams. But India’s women wrestlers are fighting back – and the Olympics are their biggest stage.
Olympic sports we’d be terrified to compete in, from high dive to wrestling – SBNation
I keep coming back to the same question: Which of these sports could leave me altered forever? To this end it has to be Olympic wrestling. In every other event I can think of an out, a way to escape danger. There are so many terrifying sports at the games, but there is nowhere to hide in wrestling.
To Go for the Gold, These Olympians Went Into the Red – Wall Street Journal
Next week in Paris, Anita Alvarez will twist, dive and kick in the pool as part of the U.S. artistic swimming team.
College News
Women's Wrestling Releases 2024-25 Schedule – Lindenwood University Athletics
The Lindenwood women's wrestling team released its 2024-25 schedule on Friday.
Hunter Wagner Named Assistant Coach for the Women's Wrestling program – Ottawa University
Ottawa University head women's wrestling coach, Dalton Weidl, is pleased to announce the hiring of Hunter Wagner as the program's new assistant coach.
High School and MMA News
2024 IHPO Registration List – IndianaMat
2024 IHPO Registration List
Mat success helped a young Merlos deal with loss of father – WIN Magazine
The essence of grit is the willpower to endure hardship and the fortitude to persevere through obstacles. Those who have the courage to face life and any opposition head-on with no excuses inspire every one of us to reach for our best.
Wrestling nabs Cody Law a quick submission in PFL debut – PFL
Cody Law made his way to MMA in 2020 after dominating in college wrestling, becoming an NCAA Division-II champion and All-American.
