Two-time world champion and Olympic bronze medalist Frank Chamizo has claimed he turned down a bribe of $300,000 to throw a match at last week’s European wrestling Olympic qualification tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan.
MILAN — Two-time world champion and Olympic bronze medalist Frank Chamizo claimed he turned down a bribe of $300,000 to deliberately lose a match at last week’s European wrestling Olympic qualification tournament in Baku , Azerbaijan.
“So I want to say it, they came to me and offered me $300,000 to lose. I don’t want to say who but it happened on the morning of the weigh-in.” He wrote on the post of the video: “I want to apologize to those who are looking at this, my sport is beautiful. This is just a group of bribed and corrupt people. How sad. My heart is crying.”
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