During the past six months, Frank Molinaro has improved as a freestyle wrestler by leaps and bounds. And on Aug. 21, he showed the world just how far he’d come.
With his goal of winning gold squashed after a quarterfinals loss to the London Olympics gold medalist, Molinaro rebounded to reach a bronze-medal bout against a returning world champion.
Unfortunately, time ran out on Molinaro and he finished fifth in the 65-kilogram weight class at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“I thought I wrestled really tough,” Molinaro said during an interview with trackwrestling.com. “I gave it my all.
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