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WATCH: 10 Greco-Roman finals from #WrestleBishkek

By Vinay Siwach

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (June 13) -- Iran brought some of its best Greco-Roman wrestlers to Bishkek for the third Ranking Series event and they did not disappoint, winning five gold medals in the tournament to finish at the top of the team rankings.

Georgian and Uzbekistan won two gold medals each while Kazakhstan won a single gold as well.

Watch all the 10 gold medal bouts from the third Ranking Series event here.

GOLD: 55kg - Marlan MUKASHEV (KAZ) vs. Ikhtiyor BOTIROV (UZB) 

GOLD: 67kg - Danial SOHRABI (IRI) vs. HUSIYUETU (CHN) 

GOLD: 97kg -  Mohammadhadi SARAVI (IRI) vs. Yiming LI (CHN) 

GOLD: 130kg - Amin MIRZAZADEH (IRI) vs. Oscar PINO (CUB) 

#WrestleParis

IOC approves Individual Neutral Athletes for 2024 Paris Olympics

By United World Wrestling Press

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