Aaron Brooks will wrestle for a bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics after a heartbreaking semifinal loss.
Aaron Brooks, Penn State's four-time NCAA wrestling champion who made a strong run through Thursday's opening rounds of the Paris Olympics, will wrestle for a bronze medal following a last-second loss in the semifinals. Brooks fell to fifth-seeded Magomed Ramazanov of Bulgaria, 4-3, giving up a takedown with less than 5 seconds left in the match.
Brooks took a 3-0 lead after one period, but Ramazanov scored a takedown midway through the second to cut his deficit to one. Brooks fended off further scoring after the takedown, forced a stalemate and held his one-point lead until under 10 seconds remained in the bout. Ramazanov will meet second-seeded Hassan Yazdani of Iran in Friday's gold-medal match. Taylor defeated Yazdani 4-3 at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and also bettered Yazdani for world titles in 2022 and '23. Their paths seemed seemed destined for a rematch in Paris until Brooks intervened, sweeping Taylor in a best-of-three series at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials in April in State College.
In a quick turnaround for the quarterfinal, Brooks dominated No. 8 seed Hayato Ishiguro of Japan in an 11-1 technical fall. Brooks scored five second-period takedowns for the win. He did not allow a takedown in the first two bouts of competition.at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials, Brooks went unseeded in the Olympics since he had little senior experience at the international level. However, Brooks has compiled a spectacular body of work in NCAA and freestyle wrestling over the past year.
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