Imagine this: A wrestler training three to four times a week for 10 months straight. Each practice roughly two hours long. Starting with a 15 minute warm up consisting of tumbling and gymnastic style activities, followed by 45 to 60 minutes of intense drilling to perfect technique, and finally a 20 to 30 minute live wrestling practice against partners from around the state. Are you tired yet? Continue reading at maplegrovemag.com
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Eight U.S. wrestlers to visit White House with fellow Olympians and Paralympians on Friday
Eight members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic wrestling team will join other members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team and the 2012 U.S. Paralympic Team in a White House visit on Friday morning in Washington, D.C.
The wrestlers who will attend the White House visit and meet President Barack Obama include men’s freestyle wrestlers Jordan Burroughs, Jake Herbert, Sam Hazewinkel and Tervel Dlagnev, Greco-Roman wrestlers Spenser Mango and Dremiel Byers and women wrestlers Clarissa Chun and Ali Bernard. Burroughs was an Olympic gold medalist and Chun won an Olympic bronze medal. Continue reading at themat.com
Day 5 Recap: Disappointing finish for U.S. women’s freestyle team
LONDON — A day after Clarissa Chun won the first medal for the U.S at the 2012 Olympic Games, Kelsey Campbell (55 kilos) and Ali Bernard (72 kilos) bowed out prior to the medal rounds on the final day of Olympic women’s freestyle competition Thursday at the ExCel Center in London.
Aside from Chun’s bronze medal performance, the other three U.S. women’s freestyle wrestlers went a combined 0-4 at the 2012 Olympic Games. Continue reading at intermatwrestle.com
Olympic Podcast: Ali Bernard – Video Interview
Ali Bernard dropped her opening match to Jenny Fransson of Sweden 3-0, 2-1 and was eliminated after Fransson lost. Bernard addresses the media after her competition completed.
Day 4 Recap: Chun gives U.S. first wrestling medalist in London
LONDON — It took four days, but on Wednesday the U.S. claimed its first wrestling medal of the 2012 Olympic Games in London when Clarissa Chun earned a bronze medal in women’s freestyle at 48 kilos.
Ironically, Chun, a 30-year-old Hawaiian, defeated the same wrestler who defeated her four years ago for the Olympic bronze medal in Beijing, Irini Merleni of Ukraine, an Olympic champion and five-time World champion. Continue reading at www.intermatwrestle.com
Flowrestling Video: Ali Bernard can beat the best
Ali Bernard is now a 2x Olympian and is gunning for a medal in this year’s Games. She was also a 2011 world bronze medalist and knows that she can hang with anyone in the world. USA head women’s coach Terry Steiner believes in Ali and says its the things that you can’t teach, toughness, and scrambling.
Olympian Ali Bernard during Olympic Team women’s training in France
USA Wrestling’s Gary Abbott interviews Olympian Ali Bernard during training for the U.S. Women’s Olympic Team in Marquise, France prior to the London Olympics.