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Calm urself. He does one a day.
Nice, dead square between two active wars.
Hopefully the plane won’t take a wrong turn in Albuquerque…
This is why I’m a proponent of moving the trials up a few months to maybe January if we have unqualified weights. Now 2 weights will have a short turnaround to travel and get acclimated for last chance. I think our rep should get the two shots. It would also force the hand of those ncaa hopefuls to just take the ORS or not have to if they don’t qualify.
If your focus is on college kids…
I think that’s the point. If you qualify for an ORS, then take it semester 1 to train exclusively freestyle and try to get yourself qualified for the OTTs, which would then be in January. If you win, stay in ORS and train for the Olympics. If you don’t, then burn the shirt and wrestle NCAAs semester 2.
It would be based on the previous year's NCAA championships. That would seem actually better because those champions would be able to focus on freestyle in the months leading up to the trials instead of having to win a folkstyle season and then flip the switch to freestyle within a month to go to the trials.
You said "practice." There is absolutely nothing that would stop you from practicing freestyle.
Hmm, team workouts, match travel, attend classes, and course work all while cutting weight on a limited feed. I guess they can practice free in their “spare time.”
We shouldn’t be catering to NCAA athletes if we haven’t qualified the weight. And they have the ORS available. Which all of the entrants in the 57 and 65kg trials could have used.
That's what world class athletes do - and it was also "who gets to practice freestyle leading up to Jan?" That means well before the bulk of the folkstyle season. If you are going to try and be smart assy about it, at least look for the original statement.
