His position is not official as yet, but Mike Zadick is in Beijing, has been working out and had planned to make weight just in case. He wouldn't wrestle until the 19th so there plenty of time on the clock. Let's hope he has Damion Hahn in his corner.

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/app...ORTS/808090315

i'm sorry, but zadick is not very good.

he's had ONE good international tournament --worlds 06. he adapted to the clinch very well initially, and beat people in that tournament by being very stubborn when locking, and very stubborn to let people lock. since the 06 world's, his clinch approach has backfired on him, and has lost a lot of points by not permitting a proper clinch start.

and yes, he hit one nice ankle pick on batirov. since then, he has been using that pick non stop, and it has not worked for him. why? because the world wants to figure out how to beat batirov, so i'm sure they have studied that video hundreds of times.

in the chicago cup he 'opened' up his arsenal by attempting doubles against batirov. i'm sure we all remember what happened there.

besides that, he was DQed for not getting his medicines properly registered.

Yeah I really don't understand all the Zadick hype either but, I'm an American so it will nice to see him wrestle in Beijing, if that's the case.

The clinch approach backfired on him at the 2 Olympic Qualfiers he entered. Not good.

Chicago Cup was against Dudaev.

Originally Posted by COL66

i'm sorry, but zadick is not very good.

he's had ONE good international tournament --worlds 06. he adapted to the clinch very well initially, and beat people in that tournament by being very stubborn when locking, and very stubborn to let people lock. since the 06 world's, his clinch approach has backfired on him, and has lost a lot of points by not permitting a proper clinch start.

and yes, he hit one nice ankle pick on batirov. since then, he has been using that pick non stop, and it has not worked for him. why? because the world wants to figure out how to beat batirov, so i'm sure they have studied that video hundreds of times.

in the chicago cup he 'opened' up his arsenal by attempting doubles against batirov. i'm sure we all remember what happened there.

besides that, he was DQed for not getting his medicines properly registered.

World Silver Medalist = Not very good? I'd say he's pretty good.

Originally Posted by COL66

i'll tell you what though..... jim zalesky, most successful US coach of this olympiad. Zadick, Schwab & Mocco..... ALL ZALESKY TRAINED WINNING MACHINES. hahaha.

Zadick & Schwab have actually been training Freestyle under Brands. You even fail at trying to bait people.