Well the tournament is over in Russia (Yarigin), which is one of the toughest tournaments in the world. It is so tough because of the amount of Russians that are entered in the tournament. For example when you go to the world or olympic championships only one guy from Russia is allowed to wrestle, unless of course there is a Russian wrestling for another country, but in this tournament there are multiple russians in a weight. Supposedly they made a rule limiting the amount of russians into the tournament which would be around 6-8 at each weight, but there were more than double that in each weight class. My weight class (96kg) had 17 russians in it. I like the fact they can enter as many as they want because it makes it sweeter when you beat them. But anyway back to the tourney. We ended up having 6 guys place, One medal in tervel dlagnev, and five 5th place finishes in Brent Metcalf, Jake Herbet, Tommy Rowlands, Les Sigman, and me. We wrestled pretty well but there is always room for improvement and this is just another step to the goal of being an olympic champion. I made the Semis of the tourney and ended up having to default out to the eventual champion. I was confident in myself to win this tournament and was in a groove to do so. But thats the way the cookie crumbles sometimes and things get in the way. I am dissapointed that I could not finish the tournament but I wrestled pretty well and have made some gains so I guess thats a plus. But my goal everytime I step on the mat is to win and it did not happen this tournament so makes me hungrier for the next competition and makes me want to get better in all positions I can to be ready for every match. It has been a long trip and I am on my way home now which is going to be another long trip. We already had a 5 and a half hour flight from krasnoyarsk (where we wrestled the tournament) to Moscow where we had to then drive to another airport about an hour away and now getting ready to fly to Munich, where I will be separating from the rest of the guys and I then fly into Newark and then to Harrisburg. So it is a long trip and long day but that is how it goes for these things. Thats all for now and ill be back soon. Thanks for you support!