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| | Letters Home: Naj Wikoff in Ulan Ude, Russia |
 | | People then dashed from the arena and wedged themselves into the school gym for round one of wrestling; for athletes amongst each other in four categories (weight divisions plus a veterans division of those over 45); and for the rest of us for seats, heating pipes to stand on, and other places to squeeze into. |
 | | After the wrestling we trooped back to the resort where a huge festival of food and crafts was waiting for N.D. Petukhov, the Governor of the Tunkinsky region, Vladimir Prokopyev, the Republic of Buryatia Minister of Culture, various vice governors from Mongolia and other regions, and myself as it turned out, to open the festivities. |
 | | This technique, aka "Buryat" rules, was clearly something quite new for the Mongolian who made two false starts easily plucking his opponent off the ground, but before the ref has blown the whistle to commence. |
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