Wrestling
Greco-Roman Style, Under-82 KG
- Gotsha Tsitsiashvili – 5th place
- 1st round: beat Tuomo Karila Finland 2:0
- 2nd round: beat Park Myung-Suk South Korea 4:1
- Quarterfinal: bye
- Semifinal: lost to Thomas Zander Germany 1:3
- Repechage, 6th round: lost to Daulet Turlykhanov Kazakhstan 0:4
- 5th-6th place: beat Martin Lidberg Sweden by walk-over
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Famous quotes containing the word wrestling:
“There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“We laugh at him who steps out of his room at the very moment when the sun steps out, and says: “I will the sun to rise”; and at him who cannot stop the wheel, and says: “I will it to roll”; and at him who is taken down in a wrestling match, and says: “I lie here, but I will that I lie here!” And yet, all laughter aside, do we ever do anything other than one of these three things when we use the expression, “I will”?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)