Jordan Burroughs Misses Olympics
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Jordan Burroughs failed to qualify for the Olympics, after making all nine previous Olympic or world championships teams dating to the start of his senior career in 2011.
Kyle Dake ended Burroughs’ decade of dominance in American wrestling, making it to the Olympics for the first time with a sweep in the men’s freestyle 74kg finals at the US trials Saturday night.
“It just sets in that a run is over for me,” Burroughs, a 32-year-old who said before trials he planned to continue wrestling beyond 2021, said on NBCSN.
Burroughs gave no indication he planned to retire.
“It’s hard. It’ll be hard for a while. … The future is still bright for me, although it just might not be in Tokyo,” he added.
