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Friday at the Bill Farrell Wrestling Center at USOPTC: The longest day in the busiest wrestling room on earth

BY GARY ABBOTT, USA WRESTLING | AUG. 24, 2019

Yesterday, Friday, August 23, could have been declared Wrestling Day in America.  All three U.S. Senior World Teams are conducting training camps at the Bill Farrell Wrestling Center at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center (USOPTC) in Colorado Springs, in preparation for the 2019 World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan in September. All three of wrestling’s Senior National Teams programs are here: men’s freestyle, women’s freestyle and Greco-Roman. In addition to the 30 Senior World Team members, there are numerous members of USA Wrestling’s National Teams at these camps, as well as other elite wrestlers. Included in the mix were three top women’s wrestlers from Canada, joining in the USA women’s workouts.

Add in dozens of coaches, families, the medical staff and other USA Wrestling staff, and the room is as busy as it gets. In addition, USA Wrestling broadcast partners FloWrestling and Trackwrestling are here collecting content for their World Championships coverage. They needed every one of the eight mats in the Bill Farrell Wrestling Center to accommodate all of them. Another unique person in the house was U15 World champion Aden Valencia, a lightweight wrestler who was working out with many of the top U.S. women lightweights in the room. The future learning from the present. Rest of the story and pictures at
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August 27, 2019 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized