Artur Omarov’s Achilles tendon ruptured during the Paris Games. Due to the absence of the Czech wrestler, Finland’s Arvi Savolainen’s opponents will be considerably tougher.
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PARIS. When Tuomas Sammelvuon coached by Canada was drawn in the Olympic volleyball tournament in the same starting group as the super strong France, Slovenia and Serbia, one could talk about the group of death in sports language.
The concept is not completely unknown even in the individual sports of the Games, such as a wrestler charged with great expectations of success Est from Savoia was able to find out right under his own Olympic tournament.
The Czech Republic Artur Omarov had secured a place in Greco-Roman wrestling for the same to the 97 kg weight class like Savolainen. Neck twisters of classic style will be on the Champ-de-Mars arena from 5th to 8th. August.
Harsh consequences
In the series of sixteen wrestlers, Omarov was ranked 5th and Savolainen 6th in the Olympic ranking. However, it so happened that Omarov’s Achilles tendon broke in training, and he was replaced by the 17th-ranked Georgian representing Serbia Mihail Kajaia.
Savolainen’s ranking went up a notch to fifth, which had potentially very harsh consequences for the Finn’s march towards five-ring glory. He was now rotated from the original lower chart of the block to the so-called upper chart, among the best wrestlers in the world.
– Assuming that Arvi wins his opening match, the next opponent will be the reigning world champion Gabriel Rosillo. Who won in the World Cup final Artur Aleksanyan. Not every boy turns that stance, says Urheilu’s sports expert Jarkko Area–Huikku.
Worst possible
If the Cuban still falls, the Armenian Rio de Janeiro Olympic champion, Tokyo silver medalist and four-time world champion Aleksanyan will step on the mat corner next against Savolai.
– It couldn’t even be worse, assesses expert Ala-Huikku.
In the original diagram, Savolainen was accompanied by a young Belarusian (appears in the games as a so-called independent athlete without a national identity) Abubakar Khaslakhanou and Iran Mohammadhadi Saraviwho beat the Finn in the bronze medal match in Tokyo three years ago.
In Tokyo, Savolainen beat Cuba’s Rosillo in his opening match, but the Cuban, who competes little and rarely leaves the sugar island, has developed drastically in recent years.
– Beating Aleksanyan in the World Cup final tells the essential. The Armenian guy is really brutal and I don’t think he will lose to the Cuban a second time, says Ala-Huikku.
The road to the finals requires an undefeated route, but Ala-Huikku thinks that Savolainen’s chances of applying for a bronze match place through the collection round are completely realistic.
Of course, it requires the Cuban Rosillo to beat the Olympic team for the second time, and the opening or equalizing round isn’t necessarily a done deal either.
Four overs
– Of these eight unplaced guys, four are such that Arvin has to walk over them, the other four are really good wrestlers.
of Tokyo of 2021 seven more of the 97 kilos in the Olympic tournament are now participating. Gold medalist at the time, Russian “independent” Musa YevloyevNot here. Artur Sargsyan acquired an independent country for Russia from the same qualifying tournament in Istanbul as Savolainen, but with a high-level command, Russia decided to leave its country in Paris unused.