Olympic Wrestler Bites Opponent To Escape Leg Lock And Gets Away With It

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The Olympics might be over but people looking back on the event are still picking up on stuff we missed the first time, including the tactics employed by one wrestler in the men's freestyle 65 kg quarter-finals on Sunday.

The ref failed to spot the Ukraine's Andriy Kvyatkovskyy, 26, sinking his teeth into the arm of the USA's Frank Molinaro, 27.

Kvyatkovskyy used his teeth to free himself after Molinaro began to get his opponent in a leg lock.

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Molinaro pointed to his arm to indicate the illegal move, but the ref could not act on it as he hadn't seen the bite.

Much like how WWE wrestlers are disqualified for hitting their opponents with steal chairs, Kvyatkovskyy would have immediately lost the contest had the bite been spotted.

Molinaro went on to win the contest 3-1, however, neither went home with a medal. Molinaro finished fifth in the competition and Kvyatkovskyy came 13^th.

Russia's Soslan Ramonov won gold, Azerbaijan's Toghrul Asgarov won silver and Italy's Frank Chamizo Marquez went away with bronze.

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This isn't the first instance on one sportsman biting another during the heat of competition. At the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Uruguay's Luis Suárez was handed a four-month ban after biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini.

And in 1997 American boxer Mike Tyson bit off chunk of Evander Holyfield's ear during a world title fight.

What the fuck is wrong with people?

Words by James Dawson

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James Dawson is a Journalist at LADbible. He has contributed articles to LADbible’s ‘Knowing Me, Knowing EU’ series on the EU referendum, the 'Electoral Dysfunction' series on the 2017 general election, the ‘U OK M8?’ series tackling mental health amongst young men, and for its ‘Climate Change’ initiative in partnership with National Geographic.

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