Good news after so much controversy. Frank Chamizo will be present at Paris 2024 Olympic Games. In fact, the blue received the reallocation of the quota in the -74 kg of freestyle wrestlinginitially won by the neutral individual athlete with a Belarusian passport Mahamedkhabib Kadzimahamedau.
For the Italian Cuban it is therefore the third token at the Gamesremembering the bronze won in Rio 2016 in the 65 kg and the fifth place in Tokyo 2020 in the 74 kg. In this way, two Italian wrestlers qualified for the Five Circles event, namely Chamizo and Aurora RussoThat she had already won the women’s -57 kg category.
A complicated situation. In the list issued by AINERP, the panel for the review of the eligibility of Neutral Individual Athletes, together with the IOC, in the weight category in question, another wrestler with a Belarusian passport was invited, namely Yahor Akulich.
The Belarusian Wrestling FederationBut, has established that of the six invited wrestlers, ovvero Viyaleta Rebikava (-53 kg, female), Krystsina Sazykina (-62 kg, female), Yahor Akulich (-74 kg, style libero), Uladzislau Kazlou (97 kg, style libero), Abubakar Khaslakhanau (97 kg, greco-romana) and Dzmitri Zarubski (130 kg, greco-romana), only one will go to the Games.
It’s about Abubakar Khaslakhanau (97 kg, Greco-Roman), selected as the only one of the invited to have earned the Olympic pass on the field. Consequently, the reallocation for the other quotas was triggered. Specifically, in the -74 kg of the freestyle, the pass obtained by Mahamedkhabib Kadzimahamedau (for which Yahor Akulich was then invited), had been won at the European-based Olympic qualifying tournament held in Baku in April. In that event Chamizo was the first of the non-qualifieddefeated in the match that was worth the Olympic pass at the end of a highly contested match by the Azerbaijani Turan Bayramov.
