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WATCH: 10 freestyle finals from Asian Championships

Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 17:19 By Vinay Siwach

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ASTANA, Kazakhstan (May 9) -- Kazakhstan gave its best-ever performance at the Asian Championships in freestyle, winning the team title with ease. It won four gold medals out of 10. Six other nations -- Japan, Iran, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, India and Bahrain -- won a gold medal each at the competition.

Watch the 10 gold medal bouts from the Asian Championships.

GOLD: 57kg - AMAN (IND) vs. Almaz SMANBEKOV (KGZ)

GOLD: 61kg - LIU Minghu (CHN) vs. Taiyrbek ZHUMASHBEK UULU (KGZ)

GOLD: 65kg - Rahman AMOUZAD (IRI) vs. Tulga TUMUR OCHIR (MGL)

GOLD: 70kg - Sanzhar DOSZHANOV (KAZ) vs. Zafarbek OTAKHONOV (UZB)

GOLD: 74kg - Kirin KINOSHITA (JPN) vs. Darkhan YESSENGALI (KAZ)

GOLD: 79kg - Bekzod ABDURAKHMONOV (UZB) vs. Bolat SAKAYEV (KAZ)

GOLD: 86kg - Azamat DAULETBEKOV (KAZ) vs. Alireza KARIMI (IRI)

GOLD: 92kg - Arash YOSHIDA (JPN) vs. Rizabek AITMUKHAN (KAZ)

GOLD: 97kg - Awusayiman HABILA (CHN) vs. Akhmed TAZHUDINOV (BRN)

GOLD: 125kg - Lkhagvagerel MUNKHTUR (MGL) vs. BATIRMURZAEV Yusup (KAZ)

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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