Toghrul Asgarov News

This year's Olympic freestyle wrestling tournament brought us excitement unparalleled by any Olympic sport.

But the results from London suggest that Iran and Azerbaijan are ready to push Russia, the sport's dominant force, over the next several years.

It's a hard slog for Australian wrestler Farzad Tarash. But minutes after ending his London Games, the determined Melburnian was already setting his sights on the next Commonwealth Games and even beyond to Rio.

Two candidates voted by London Games athletes to represent them as International Olympic Committee members have been removed from the election for breaking rules by campaigning too hard.

Uzbekistan's Artur Taymazov won a third consecutive wrestling gold at the London Games on August 11 to become the most successful freestyle competitor in Olympic history.