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WATCH: 10 freestyle finals from Ibrahim Moustafa

Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 09:33 By Vinay Siwach

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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (March 2) -- The Ibrahim Moustafa Ranking Series closed off with freestyle. The gold medal bouts in Alexandria were nothing short of thrilling with gold medals to Turkey, the USA, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Georgia, Ukraine and Slovakia.

Here are the 10 gold medal bouts from the second Ranking Series event of the year.

GOLD: 57kg - Suleyman ATLI (TUR) vs. Andrii YATSENKO (UKR) 

GOLD: 61kg -  Taras MARKOVYCH (UKR) vs. Taiyrbek ZHUMASHBEK UULU (KGZ)

GOLD: 61kg - Vazgen TEVANYAN (ARM) vs. Joseph Christopher MC KENNA (USA)

GOLD: 70kg - Lucas CHITTUM (USA) vs. Ernazar AKMATALIEV (KGZ)

Semifinal: 74kg - Iakub SHIKHDZHAMALOV (ROU) vs. Soner DEMIRTAS (TUR) [The at 74kg did not take place after Vincenzo JOSEPH (USA) got injured]

GOLD: 79kg -  Avtandil KENTCHADZE (GEO) vs. Amirhossein Morteza Gholi KAVOUSI (IRI)

GOLD: 86kg - Vasyl MYKHAILOV (UKR) vs. Zahid VALENCIA (USA)

Semifinal: 92kg - Khaled ELMOATAMADAWI (EGY) vs. Kollin Raymond MOORE (USA)

GOLD: 97kg - Batyrbek TCAKULOV (SVK) vs. Zbigniew BARANOWSKI (POL)

GOLD: 125kg - Kamil Tomasz KOSCIOLEK (POL) vs. Taha AKGUL (TUR)

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IOC approves Individual Neutral Athletes for 2024 Paris Olympics

Friday, December 8, 2023 - 14:53 By United World Wrestling Press

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CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (December 8) — The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee has approved Individual Neutral Athletes (AINs) to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Individual Neutral Athletes, qualified through the existing qualification systems of the International Federations on the field of play, are athletes with a Russian or Belarusian passport. The strict eligibility conditions based on the recommendations issued by the IOC EB on 28 March 2023 for International Federations and international sports event organisers will be applied.

The full eligibility criteria and IOC’s decision can be read here: IOC Press Release about AIN for Paris Olympics