Olympic wrestling’s vicious takedowns are gone but not forgotten

Olympic wrestling's vicious takedowns are gone but not forgotten

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Martin Klein (Russia) wrestles Alfred Asikainen (Finland) in the 1912 Summer Olympics. The match went on for eleven hours and forty minutes. (Wikipedia Commons/Miyagawa)

Shamil Serikov (USSR, right) and silver medalist of the 1980 Olympiad Jozef Lipien (Poland) go to the mats. (Wikipedia Commons/Vladimir Rodionov, RIA Novosti)

Silver medal winner Slavko Chervenkov of Bulgaria (up) and bronze medal winner Julius Strnisko of Czechoslovakia during a men's Freestyle Wrestling 100 kg match at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. (Wikipedia Commons/Vladimir Rodionov, RIA Novosti)

U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program Spc. Faruk Sahin throws Minnesota Storm's Jake Deitchler during the 66-kilogram Greco-Roman finals of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. (Wikipedia Commons/Tim Hipps)

U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program 1st Lt. Leigh Jaynes wrestles Sunkist Kids' Tatiana Padilla in the women's 55-kilogram freestyle semifinals of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. (Wikipedia Commons/Tim Hipps)

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Dremiel Byers wrestles China's Deli Liu in the second round of the Olympic Greco-Roman 120-kilogram tournament during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. (Wikipedia Commons/Tim Hipps)

Sushil Kumar of India competes with Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu of Japan (in blue) during their 66-kg freestyle wrestling gold medal match at the 2012 Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Men's 120-kg freestyle wrestling competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Freestyle wrestling in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. (Flickr Creative Commons/simononly)

Freestyle wrestling in the 2012 Summer Olympics, Sunday in London. (Flickr Creative Commons/simononly)

Liván López (in red) vs. Jabrayil Hasanov at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. (Wikipedia Commons/Simon Q)

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