Wrestling at Rio kicks off Sunday with 2 Greco-Roman weights. Here’s what you need to know.
We’ll begin this preview of Day 1 as we will all future previews, with a link back to our Olympics Wrestling primer which as a cheat sheet and live stream details.
Also a note about the wrestling brackets. As with most other head-to-head competitions at the Olympics, there are no seeds in wrestling. The entire pool of competitors in each weight class receive a random draw into a single elimination bracket.
Wrestling brackets are also uneven, so all the “pigtails” go on the bottom half of the bracket.