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Rio Olympics: Men's wrestling campaign ends unceremoniously, Yogeshwar Dutt fails

Rio de Janeiro, Aug 21 (UNI) Much hyped wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt lost without putting up a fight to two-time world championship bronze medallist Ganzorigiin Mandakhnaran of Mongolia 3-0 in the freestyle 65 kg category of the Olympic wrestling competition here today. Since Indian grapplers have made a habit to depend on repechage hoping for at least a bronze, as last ray of hope also was extinguished as Ganzorigiin failed to make the final of the event losing his next bout. Yogeshwar, who had won a bronze at the 2012 London Olympics in the 60kg category, and reigning Asian and Commonwealth Games gold-medallist in 65kg started tentatively as he tried to understand Ganzorigiin strategy. The Mongol went on attack from the go, and Yogeshwar found it hard to tackle him. Though the Indian managed to ward off Mongol for some time it was very apparent that he stood no chance in the bout. Yogeshwar was penalised for passivity at the one minute, 28 seconds mark. The rest of the period it was the Mongolian who kept chasing the Indian. The Indian tried to attack in the second round, but when he tried to go for a leg lock, Ganzorigiin got the chance to turn defence into attack and lodge his first two-pointer. Though Yogeshwar kept attacking through the rest of the second period, especially coming close to pushing his opponent out of bounds with 40 seconds to go, but Ganzorigiin kept his defence intact till the end of the bout. The Indian grappler was not very agile and did not look fully fit. After the bout against Yogeshwar, Ganzorigiin beat China's Katai Yeerlanbieke 3-0 in the round of 16. But in the next bout, the Mongolian wrestler lost to Soslan Ramonov of Russia thus ending Yogeshwar's hope of going into repechage. UNI XC NC CJ AKC RJ 2249
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