In freestyle wrestling, American Jordan Burroughs defeated Iran's Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi to earn gold in the men's 74-kilogram event.

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He is one of the main characters in the professional wrestling league Lucha Libre USA, which aims to spread into the American market one of the most popular forms of entertainment in Mexico - freestyle wrestling.

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In London, the work Reiss and Boltersdorf have done is being applied by Alexander Leipold, coach of the German men's freestyle wrestling team (he was stripped of his 2000 Olympic gold medal for a doping violation and maintains his innocence).

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First, the type of wrestling engaged in during the Olympics, freestyle, is different than that wrestled at the collegiate level.

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The decision to nix wrestling is also a blow to the United States, recently one of the more successful nations in both freestyle and Greco-Roman events.

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