2016 Freestyle World Cup

[Tony Almeida]

The officials didn't have much of a choice as the Mongolian was running away for about ten seconds and then started celebrating with five seconds left as if he was victorious.

Mo Lawal got the same call against him about ten years ago, and he wasn't nearly as bad as fleeing the hold.

After having three officials get suspended earlier in the day in the day because of their suspicious calls in Franlin Gomez's lost, the sport didn't need another black eye like this.

Is there any video of the Mongolian match and Gomez's match, I searched but couldn't find any?

[Christopher Moen]

Is there any video of the Mongolian match and Gomez's match, I searched but couldn't find any?

You have to go to the replays and click on the bookmark within the video's playhead:

Gomez's match is at 1:36:22 of this replay: http://stream.nbcolympics.com/mens-f...inations-mat-a

The scheiße-show match featuring the MGL vs. the same UZB Gomez lost to is at 1:24:31 of this replay: http://stream.nbcolympics.com/mens-f...-medal-matches

[Big Bird]

The passivity calls screwed two aggressive wrestlers out of Gold this week. In the GR 66 KG, Migran Arutyunyan of Armenia was by far the more aggressive wrestler in the match against Serbia's Davor Stefanek. Stefanek spent the whole match wrestling like a statue while Arutyunyan was on constant attack, which resulted in him getting one point after a two-on-one arm-throw attempt to a push-out. Stefanek, despite showing no offense, never got called for passivity while Arutyunyan got called for it three times, the last coming with about a minute left and giving Stefanek an automatic point.

The second time passivity calls affected a Gold medal was at FS 57 KG. The Japanese wrestler (Higuchi) outshot/throw-attempted Georgia's Khinchegashvili 10-1. However, despite being the aggressor, Higuchi was hit late for passivity at 4:25 in the match and hit again 20 seconds later for the shot clock, despite Khinchegashvili not having any real offense (he scored two off a chest-lock counter-attack). This forced Higuchi to have to attack relentlessly for the next 1:15 while Khinchegashvili got to play defense and stall with a two-on-one arm lock.

I have no dog in either of these matches, but the Gold Medalist got awarded for doing nothing. That's a shame.

Awwwww I had forgotten about Higuchi!!! That was awful too. Higuchi wrestled one hell of a tournament