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Paris Olympics: Indian wrestler disqualified from gold medal match in women's 50kg after missing weight
This girl should never have tried to drop that much weight.
Something needs to be done about this practice of severe weight cutting. It's dangerous. I saw it quite a bit when my oldest son wrestled in High School and college. Coaches would pressure kids to cut as much as 15 lbs to make a lower weight class. The weighs ins would be an hour or more before the meet started. Sometimes they were even the night before for tournaments.
So after the kid made weight he would chug a half a gallon of gatorade and eat a couple of doughnuts and be 10 lbs heavier when he stepped on to the mat for his match. My son's natural weight in High School was around 175 and he wrestled 171 so he'd cut maybe 4 lbs for a match. Piece of cake. But one time the day before a match his coach said "I need you at 160 tomorrow" So my son cut the weight and made it but he lost the match. Got sick in the middle of it and puked right in the middle of the mat.
This girl should never have tried to drop that much weight.
Something needs to be done about this practice of severe weight cutting. It's dangerous. I saw it quite a bit when my oldest son wrestled in High School and college. Coaches would pressure kids to cut as much as 15 lbs to make a lower weight class. The weighs ins would be an hour or more before the meet started. Sometimes they were even the night before for tournaments.
So after the kid made weight he would chug a half a gallon of gatorade and eat a couple of doughnuts and be 10 lbs heavier when he stepped on to the mat for his match. My son's natural weight in High School was around 175 and he wrestled 171 so he'd cut maybe 4 lbs for a match. Piece of cake. But one time the day before a match his coach said "I need you at 160 tomorrow" So my son cut the weight and made it but he lost the match. Got sick in the middle of it and puked right in the middle of the mat.
