Wrestling Coaches Strip in Protest at the 2016 Olympics, a breakdown
What Happened
The 2016 Olympic wrestling match between the Mongolian and Uzbekistani wrestlers is a dramatic and emotional affair. Trailing 6-4 late in the bout, the Mongolian wrestler, Ganzorigiin Mandakhnaran, pulls off a stunning three-point move to take a 7-6 lead with just seconds remaining. His ecstatic Mongolian coaches erupt in celebration, believing their wrestler has secured the bronze medal. However, the judges award an additional point to the Uzbekistani wrestler, Ikhtiyor Navruzov, tying the score at 7-7. With the match now deadlocked, the wrestler who scores the next point will be declared the winner. The Mongolian coaches are outraged, protesting vehemently and receiving a warning from the officials. As the final seconds tick away, Mandakhnaran begins celebrating his apparent victory, running around the mat. But the Uzbekistani wrestler Navruzov manages to score a late point, snatching the bronze medal with a 8-7 victory. Navruzov's coaches erupt in jubilation, while the Mongolian coaches are left devastated. One of the Mongolian coaches, Tserenbaatar Tsogbayar, strips off his clothes in an emotional protest, throwing his shoes at the judges' table. His fellow coach, Byambajavin Bayaraa, joins him in the display of outrage, also removing his clothing. The wrestlers look on in awkward silence as the coaches' dramatic protest unfolds. "Please, I beg you," Tsogbayar pleads with the officials, falling to his knees. But the judges uphold the final decision, handing the bronze medal to Navruzov and the Uzbekistan team. The Mongolian coaches are later banned from international competition for three years due to their unsportsmanlike conduct. But in the immediate aftermath, the raw emotions of the moment are on full display - the agony of defeat, the thrill of an unexpected victory and the unrestrained passion of the coaches who feel their wrestler was wronged. It's a chaotic, unforgettable conclusion to a hard-fought Olympic wrestling match.
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Click timestamps to jump to that momentthis is from 2016 and i know zero
technical aspects about wrestling so
don't get offended if you're a wrestling
die hard but this saga
is amazing someone requested it and i
watched it and i was like i remember
this kinda but i didn't realize it was
this insane
it's six to four the mongolian wrestler
in
red is currently losing but he's gonna
do all this ninja
floaty rotation spinny stuff with
eventually
nets him three points and again i don't
i don't know where they came from but
his coaches on the left
they know he's about to get it you push
him outside the boundary it doesn't
really matter
he's excited this is for the bronze
medal
they go to the review all the judges are
watching the replay
on the screen and they say yep two
points
then they give him another point to make
it seven to six
and this coach is livid now that they
gave him the third point i don't know
what it was for but he gets a warning he
gets a yellow card they say go sit down
so he sits down now they keep wrestling
now it's at six minute mark
it's done so there's 13 12 11 10 seconds
left
and now the mongolian wrestler starts
celebrating his victory putting his
hands up and just running around
celebrating the victory and the other
wrestlers like come on man
how am i able to get points if he won't
engage me so wrestling has a rule where
you know you can't be passive you have
to actively be engaging
so they ask look but look at this look
at this first i mean mongolia gets a
bronze medal i think they didn't get a
lot of medals this year
imagine bringing that home to your
country the emotions are so
pure and happy and they're crying and
they're lifting
it's all about to change the whirlpool
of emotions these guys went through is
amazing
they're crying carrying them around like
an eagle he's kissing the middle of the
mat
meanwhile the judges have awarded a
point to the other guy
because the mongolian wrestler wasn't
engaging
and was being passive or whatever and
now he sees the scoreboard he's like hey
wait coaches look
they say it's tied and in wrestling
whoever scores the last point
wins if it's tied so this means this
dude just won uzbekistan i believe
now he's on the mat he cannot believe it
he's like wha
what happened his coach takes him down
with the
takedown and he's celebrating like crazy
they're both going to get into dual fist
pump action there
which we all like insane ending now this
guy
these coaches are gonna come throw a
stuffed animal at the judge and say what
the hell's that about
what are you guys doing how did you give
him a point
now he's kissing the mat so the matt's
getting kissed by the second
player and uh also on his knees this
coach just covering his face and shame
this dude is praying to the ringworm
gods saying
please kill me i'd rather oh no sliding
so
sadly looks up at the gut judges and
they're like
reviewing this decision and he starts
banging them and it's really actually
pretty sad he starts going like
please please i beg you please please i
beg you
now the coaches come over and they just
no no no
no no please please and they reward the
decision and they say no
it stands and now the coach starts
stripping and protest throws one shoe
it lands on his own player throws the
other shoe it double bounces into this
judge's lap
he's like hey i caught it say what i got
this shoe anyone
anyone care no one cares i guess i'll
just hang on to the mine now
my shoe so he's stripped and is
screaming the other coach tries to calm
him down picks up his clothes says like
hey calm down
calm down but he hears that the crowd is
starting to
cheer for the stripping so now he's like
yeah you want more get up get up
get up and he starts putting on you know
like portman in the penalty box
uh you know just going crazy and
stripping he slams his shirt down
he takes his shoes off calmly meanwhile
the wrestler is just like
you know good job opponent like i'll try
to be as classy as i can looks over what
are my coaches doing oh my god now this
dude took his pants off
what all right i'm gonna get out of here
it's kind of embarrassing
no no no
no no no
no take my clothes take all my clothes
sir we don't want your clothes we'd
rather if you put them back
on no no
takes a cell phone got no pocket to put
it in so kind of just got to carry it
now
you probably wish you had pants on no no
no
no no these guys got
banned the three-year ban i think the
mongolian coaches
for being um utter embarrassments
to everyone uh i mean imagine that one
second you're crying because you're so
proud that you're gonna bring
uh a medal home to your country and
less than a minute later you're now like
you know embarrassing your entire nation
the wrestler daps up the other wrestlers
says congrats on the victory and the
judge says will you stand over here and
he says no
no no i'm not going to accept your
decision i'm cool with him
you're you're a piece of [ __ ] and
now this guy's just celebrating
accordingly get the flag out
he's screaming it's like a weird way to
win in bronze but he gets to bring a
metal home
oh wait where'd that shoe come from i
never even saw this while making this
edit a shoe
who threw that through that shoe there's
a shoe that flies across i didn't see
this while editing it
ah where is it who throws this shoe
come on ah
where the hell did that shoe come from
anyway someone else what else their shoe
has a third shoe involved
what a saga what an unreal saga thank
you to whoever
put this in the request form because
this needed a second looking even though
we're four years late and i know nothing
about wrestling
what what an amazing saga