OlympicCoach's Blog

Since the opening cermonies, things have been pretty much low-key as far as our team goes. This is actually a good thing that the athletes are focused and ready to go.  All of our training sessions are now left up to the individual wrestlers.  Sometimes they will ask the coaching staff for suggestions but for the most part they are on there own and us coaches are there to support them as they get their weight down. 

Our first wrestler to weigh in is Spenser Mango who wrestles at the 55 kg weight class.  This morning he woke up at about 58kg or 6.6 pounds over his weight class.  He will spend most of this morning exercising and spending some time in the sauna getting his weight down to 55kg.  Weigh-ins are from 3:15-3:45 this afternoon.  At the time of weigh-ins Spenser will also draw his first opponent for tomorrow.  Then its time for us coaches to pull out all the footage we of his first oppontent and come up with a "game-plan" and strategy for his first match. 

Taking care of our wrestlers has given us little free time since the ceremonies but I did however, get to see some boxing last night.  I watched two weight-classes fight, one US fighter lost, the other won.  Definitely some good fights going on. 

I have tickets for my family, who came to visit, to see the US Women's basketball team play China tonight. Unfortunatley I, myself do not have a ticket as of yet, but I will work my magic and see what I can come up with. 

Greco competion starts tomorrow.