Cuban wrestler Lopez to finals in Rio

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug 15 (acn) Cuban Mijain Lopez (130 kg), double Olympic champion, will be in the gold medal discussion in the Greco-Roman wrestling tournament of Rio 2016 Olympic Games, based in this Brazilian city.

The also five-time world monarch defeated 3-0 in semifinals Russian Sergey Semenov, twice World Cup runner-up, and in his rival in the final will be Turkish Riza Kayaalp, who beat 8-0 German Eduard Popp.
That will be a very tough bout as Kayaalp, twice world monarch and executioner of Lopez in the 2011 and 2015 editions, and the Cuban wrestler both reach the finals unbeaten.
Lopez has already beaten Estonian Heiki Nabi (3-0), Swedish Johan Euren (4-0) and the aforementioned Semenov (3-0), while the European athlete has defeated so far Venezuelan Erwin Caraballo (8-0), Azeri Sabah Shariati (5-0) and last victim was the German Popp (8-0).