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from 5 Point Move 01/17/22 10:48 PM
Three events transpired overseas this past weekend with two Eastern Bloc countries holding their respective national tournaments and the Herman Kare International coming and going in Finland. Bulgarian Results The most notable action unfolded in Bulgaria (Silven to be precise) with ’20 Europea...
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from 5 Point Move 01/16/22 6:07 PM
It’s an adjustment, college. Wrestling in college might be, as well; but when it is the lone bastion of familiarity for a young man, progression ceases to become a choice and instead offers the only comfort on which they can rely. The concept of development? It’s controllable. A “r...
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from 5 Point Move 01/14/22 3:14 AM
Five Point Move is proud to host USA Greco-Roman National Team head coach Matt Lindland each week for Coach Lindland’s Report. Here is where you will find detailed perspectives from Coach Lindland pertaining to recent results, upcoming events, training plans, and other Greco-related news that isn’t ...
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from 5 Point Move 01/10/22 11:56 PM
Only two more days remain until “January Camp 2022” wraps at the US Olympic & Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Training began this past Thursday (January 6) and reaches its conclusion on Wednesday. On Sunday, US National Team head coach Matt Lindland shared his pleasur...
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from 5 Point Move 01/08/22 4:55 PM
Exceeding expectations is quite very often a surefire way to generate buzz in the sport of wrestling. The larger the tournament, the more stakes involved, and the scope in which the athlete is viewed all blend together. People enjoy when this happens, but not because of some wistful attachment to pe...
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from 5 Point Move 01/07/22 9:15 PM
Three international tournaments. One gold, two silvers, and a lot of miles logged, including roughly 7,800 from California to Kuwait (and then to Egypt) in November. A busy, productive year for Randon Miranda (60 kg, Rise RTC) it was, which is why he was named our Impact Performer for 2021. Miranda&...
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from 5 Point Move 01/04/22 3:39 AM
On Sunday, 2021 National Champion/U23 World Team member Spencer Woods (82 kg, Army/WCAP, 5PM #2) announced that he had signed on as a sponsored athlete with the Interior Grappling Academy, a prominent wrestling club from Alaska whose main focus is on age-group development . The circumstances involve...
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from 5 Point Move 01/02/22 10:06 PM
The Illinois Regional Training Center, hosted on campus at the University of Illinois in Champaign, became a hot attraction the very moment its doors opened back in 2018. A deep talent pool in the state did not hurt the IRTC’s instantly-high profile, but most of the buzz centered around the c...
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from 5 Point Move 01/02/22 4:15 AM
It took a while but, eventually, 2021 did unfold a competitive schedule that resembled something close to what ’19 offered. The last event to feature an American athlete before year’s end was in November, when Randon Miranda (60 kg, Rise RTC) won gold in Egypt. By then — and counti...
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from 5 Point Move 12/31/21 5:29 AM
The end-of-year opportunity to justly recognize the United States’ top Greco-Roman athletes has at last arrived. Not unlike 2020, ’21 was a different, and at times, difficult year for competitors. Although most events of substance were eventually held, many were not. Travel was, and by a...
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from 5 Point Move 12/28/21 4:18 AM
2016 Olympic gold medalist Davit Chakvetadze (87 kg, RUS) is still considered a premier competitor, even though he has not been able to replicate the type of success that made him an international star prior to the Rio Games. The very next year at the Paris Worlds, Chakvetadze — who had entere...
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from 5 Point Move 12/23/21 2:15 PM
Plans are plans, and plans change, especially these days. The good thing about digital spreadsheets is their malleability. If an item requires amendment, tapping the “backspace” key (or for Mac users, “delete”) is all it takes to undo an idea and start over. Canceling flights...
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from 5 Point Move 12/21/21 4:10 AM
Three-time World Champion Frank Staebler retired from international competition following his run to bronze at the Tokyo Olympics this past summer. He did not retire from wrestling altogether. Staebler, 32, still competes in Germany’s Bundesliga for Red Devils Heilbronn and is undefeated throu...
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from 5 Point Move 12/19/21 10:09 PM
As reported last Monday, the United States Greco-Roman program is gearing up for “January Camp 2022”, which begins on January 6 at the Olympic & Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. The gathering encompasses seven days, including two days set aside for “active recove...
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from 5 Point Move 12/14/21 3:40 AM
For the first time in two years, there will be a “January Camp” in the US when the calendar flips to 2022 — and it will take place at the Olympic Training & Paralympic Center. The camp is set to run from January 6 through 12 featuring a large number of Greco-Roman athletes, whi...
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from 5 Point Move 12/12/21 3:47 AM
The Illinois Regional Training Center, hosted by the University of Illinois and led by head coach Bryan Medlin, announced on Friday that four-time US National Champion Kamal Bey (77 kg) has become the latest addition to an already-packed roster. Bey, 23, is joining a stable of elite Senior Greco-Rom...
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from 5 Point Move 12/11/21 10:26 PM
Since November, 2021 World Team member Alan Vera (87 kg, NYAC, 5PM #2) has been in Kiev, Ukraine. And he is not hurrying back to the States. Vera, who turned 31 at the end of October, resides in Jersey City, New Jersey with the brunt of his workouts taking place at the NYC Regional Training Center [...
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from 5 Point Move 12/07/21 4:30 AM
Familiar foes Sergey Emelin (60 kg, RUS) and Victor Ciobanu (MDA) represented the first of three Greco-Roman matches on the Moscow Cup card, and it was Emelin who triumphed in what was Saturday evening’s most thrilling offering. The pair of World Champions (Emelin in 2018, who defeated Ciobanu...
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from 5 Point Move 11/30/21 4:27 AM
Wednesday begins the 2021 Junior Pan-American Games in Cali, Colombia. Greco-Roman kicks off the festivities with the six Olympic weight categories represented. Competition is scheduled to start at 9:00am ET and will air live in the United States on FLOWrestling. The tournament is being run using th...
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from 5 Point Move 11/28/21 9:52 PM
Book Randon Miranda (60 kg, Rise RTC, 5PM #4) a flight to another country and he will take care of the rest. On Saturday, Miranda earned gold at the 2021 Ibrahim Moustafa Tournament in Sharm El-Shekh, Egypt on the strength of three victories (two of which were recorded via VSU). The event win caps w...
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from 5 Point Move 11/27/21 10:24 PM
Unless the context aligns with career-ending implications, perhaps the worst part about injuries is that they are disruptive. Athletes tend not to sweat the pain so much. Nor do they even mind surgeries or rehabilitation. Rather, it is what all of the above represents: time away from training and co...
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from 5 Point Move 11/25/21 3:22 PM
Six weeks, more or less. Days tend to blend into one another when you’re not careful, when you’re not “living in the moment” or are mired in the general busyness of everyday life. So call it “six weeks”, which is the amount of time that has now elapsed since GR...
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from 5 Point Move 11/23/21 4:01 AM
Two-time U23 World Champion Semyon Novikov (87 kg) has recently voiced a desire to discontinue competing for his native Ukraine and, instead, switch over to Bulgaria. On Friday, Bulgaria’s official federation outlet reported that Novikov, 23, had recently been expressing interest in the change...
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from 5 Point Move 11/21/21 10:05 PM
“Okay, let’s get tired.” A simple few words, uttered inwardly, and Ben Sanchez would be just fine. The self-directed manifesto acted as his primer for competition. He would mentally agree to “get tired” and go slap hands. Originally from Massachusetts, Sanchez broke ont...
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from 5 Point Move 11/16/21 4:14 AM
Last week, the Russian Federation confirmed that three-time World/two-time Olympic Champion Roman Vlasov (77 kg, world #2) and ’18 World gold Sergey Emelin (60 kg, world #4) would be participating in the “Moscow Cup”, which is a small twist on the country’s annual Alrosa Cup....
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from 5 Point Move 11/15/21 3:40 AM
How impactful are the 30 seconds that separate periods in a Senior Greco-Roman match? Do the words said matter as much as outsiders might imagine? Can the complexion of a bout change based on a few choppy sentences? In the Corner aims to find out. To begin this multi-part feature, we call upon the e...
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from 5 Point Move 11/09/21 3:43 AM
Thor Masters, Denmark’s grand annual event, is normally held in the winter but 2021 offered an exception. Rather than March (or even January, ala ’20), it was mid-September this time around, which for some athletes fit quite nicely as a pre-Oslo warm-up tournament. The scheduling anomaly...
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from 5 Point Move 11/04/21 2:57 AM
The United States will not return home from Serbia with a medal after all three remaining athletes fell in the repechage round on Wednesday morning. Day 3 of the 2021 U23 World Championships began at 10:30am local time in Belgrade, Serbia and aired live in the US on FLOWrestling. Dylan Gregerson (60...
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from 5 Point Move 11/03/21 3:51 AM
After two days of Greco-Roman competition at the 2021 U23 Worlds, the United States has five individual victories, two of which were forfeits. One athlete wrestled for bronze earlier on Tuesday, and three more still have a pulse for when repechage begins in their respective weight categories tomorro...
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from 5 Point Move 11/02/21 3:26 AM
He already has one under his belt, and now Taylor LaMont (55 kg, Sunkist/UVRTC, 5PM #2) is staring at an opportunity to double up right out of the gate. Day 1 of the 2021 U23 World Championships began at 10:30am local time from Belgrade, Serbia and aired live in the US on FLOWrestling. ’16 Jun...
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from 5 Point Move 10/31/21 5:54 PM
The progression of an athlete is sometimes hard to notice until there is a step up in competition. Cleaner technique doesn’t tell the story, nor do slight changes in physical appearance. A lift that lands with just a little more impact is nice, and the same thing is true of an opportunistic bo...
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from 5 Point Move 10/30/21 5:05 PM
Northern Michigan University’s Greco-Roman athletes have enjoyed a more familiar beginning to the season than was the case a year ago. As relayed by NMU/National Training Site head coach Andrew Bisek below, practice schedules and participation are ticking like normal — which is a good th...
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from 5 Point Move 10/30/21 1:57 PM
He had once referred to folkstyle as the “f-word”. That clever little phrasing, uttered after claiming top honors inside of the Fargodome over five years ago, is what ingratiated Tommy Brackett (82 kg, Gator) to every Greco hardcore in the country. Brackett, then a high schooler in Tenne...
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from 5 Point Move 10/27/21 5:09 PM
Five Point Move is proud to host USA Greco-Roman National Team head coach Matt Lindland each week for Coach Lindland’s Report. Here is where you will find detailed perspectives from Coach Lindland pertaining to recent results, upcoming events, training plans, and other Greco-related news that isn’t ...
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from 5 Point Move 10/26/21 2:15 AM
The 2021 U23 World Championships start one week from today in Belgrade, Serbia. To view the entire schedule (with all of the action set to broadcast in the US on FLOWrestling), simply jump over here. And because the U23 Worlds arrives on a Monday, there will not be a Roundup next week. Instead, look...
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from 5 Point Move 10/20/21 2:07 AM
If you bother to take a peek at the top of your browser, the category level of this article’s URL reads “all-marine-wrestling”. As in, ALL MARINE WRESTLING, or the All-Marine Team — or, better put, one of the cornerstone programs for United States Greco-Roman throughout the s...
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from 5 Point Move 10/19/21 3:14 AM
Hello. The dearth of competition throughout the calendar year has meant a lower number of opportunities for athletes to travel abroad. Less travel = less chances to earn medals. For example, the 5PM International Medal Count update for United States Greco-Roman as listed on November 4 of 2019 was d...
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from 5 Point Move 10/11/21 12:56 PM
G’Angelo Hancock (97 kg, Sunkist, 5PM #1) had willfully carried the burden, listening and reading and thinking many of the same things as the outsiders who have spoken his name. Success at home helped make him a star, but of insular proportions. It wasn’t why he was here. And when disappointment str...
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from 5 Point Move 10/07/21 3:46 AM
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from 5 Point Move 09/15/21 3:24 AM
It is one thing for an athlete to gain momentum during a big tournament. It is decidedly another to sustain it, and exhibit the confidence necessary to push their limits just a little more once the stakes couldn’t be higher. That was Peyton Omania‘s (67 kg, NYAC/CYC, 5PM #8) deal when ac...
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from 5 Point Move 09/12/21 4:18 PM
The faces, most of them pass for “mainstream” when discussing and dissecting American Greco-Roman wrestling. Two of Sunday evening’s finalists just came back from the Olympics. Another athlete was on a pair of Olympic Teams himself throughout his remarkable career and is quite accu...
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from 5 Point Move 09/09/21 9:25 PM
The rankings are back to baseline, as the 2020 Olympic Trials were responsible for resetting the points and criteria-breaking head-to-head concerns. In other words, the moment action wrapped in Fort Worth on the night before Easter, everyone received a clean slate. But there have been tournaments — ...
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from 5 Point Move 09/09/21 2:31 AM
Things are different. Not just some things, nearly everything having to do with the manner in which USA Greco-Roman has been forced to function over the past year is at least a little different. Tournaments unfolding out of order, practice plans being reshuffled, and, now, with an Olympiad fresh in ...
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from 5 Point Move 09/07/21 2:02 AM
The sport of wrestling in the United States keeps plowing ahead as the 2021 Senior World Team Trials takes the spotlight this coming Saturday live from the Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska. FLOWrestling will have the broadcast for what should be a fast-moving tournament considering that a co...
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from 5 Point Move 09/06/21 3:18 PM
Five Point Move is proud to host USA Greco-Roman National Team head coach Matt Lindland each week for Coach Lindland’s Report. Here is where you will find detailed perspectives from Coach Lindland pertaining to recent results, upcoming events, training plans, and other Greco-related news that isn’t ...
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from 5 Point Move 09/05/21 4:25 PM
Even if it is premature to declare that Roman Vlasov (77 kg, RUS) has now reclaimed the throne in his home country, he sure took a big step in that regard on Saturday. Vlasov, who turns 31 early next month, was methodical and poised throughout his march to gold, though he also did not earn a single ...
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from 5 Point Move 09/04/21 12:44 PM
Those who have been speculating as to what the future might hold for multiple-time World/Olympic Champion Roman Vlasov (77 kg, RUS) now have a definitive answer. Vlasov is back in action today at the 2021 Ljbomir Ivanovic Gedza Memorial in Mladenovac, Serbia and has thus far appeared in fine form. T...
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from 5 Point Move 08/31/21 3:05 AM
The 2021 Junior World Championships ended just over a week ago and four athletes who were on the US roster are keenly interested in remaining active. Billy Sullivan (55 kg, LOG-LV), Chayse LaJoie (63 kg, Spartan Wrestling RTC), and Justus Scott (72 kg, LOG-LV) are already registered for the Senior W...
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from 5 Point Move 08/29/21 6:25 PM
63 kilograms for the United States heading into the 2021 World Team Trials is not “deep”, certainly not in terms of registrants. But the number of athletes scattered throughout a bracket is only one side of the discourse. On the other side is a concept with which those inside of Team USA...
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