WIN Magazine’s Olympic Commemorative Issue now available

Updated: August 30, 2024

How will the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris be remembered? Seven Americans left France with medals, including gold medalists Amit Elor and Sarah Hildebrandt, as well as plenty of emotional moments earlier this month.

WIN Magazine was there to capture all those great moments and have placed those stories in the latest issue of WIN Magazine, which was printed Aug. 29 and will be soon available in digital form.

Click here to call 888-305-06006 to subscribe to WIN to receive this Commemorative Olympics Issue. Buying a Digital or Combo Subscription (which includes Digital) will unlock immediate access once Digital Edition is live. Add Note “Olympics” to start your subscription with this issue.

Plus, you will also find WIN Magazine’s 2024-25 Preseason Tournament Power Index and Individual Rankings that indicates that Penn State will once again be the team favorite next March … and just ahead of Iowa, Oklahoma State, Ohio State and Nebraska.

The following is a list of features stories that appear in the latest issue of WIN Magazine:

Page 7 – OLYMPIC ROLLER-COASTER RIDE – Team USA in women’s freestyle left Paris with four medals, including two gold. Men’s freestyle took home three medals in six weights and despite not winning a Greco match, coaches pleased with effort.

Page 23 – SPENCER’S JOURNEY – Paris was a bit of a homecoming for former Hawkeye Spencer Lee, whose mother is French, and he came close to winning a gold medal before those family members seeing him wrestle for the first time.

Page 24 – GUTS & GLORY – Kyle Dake suffered a tough semifinal loss but the two-time Olympic bronze medalist, who lost his dad in April, kept things in perspective by rallying late to claim another medal.

Page 25 – A YEAR TO REMEMBER – A last-second semifinal loss may have kept Aaron Brooks out of the gold-medal bout, but the former four-time NCAA champ from Penn State will look back at the past 12 months with hope for the future.

Page 30 – AMERICA’S YOUNGEST GOLDEN GIRL – Amit Elor, who at 20 years/7 months old, broke Kyle Snyder’s record as the youngest American wrestler to claim Olympic gold, surprising even herself with her success in Paris.

Page 31 – SARAH SMILE – After coming up short of her goal of gold in past Worlds and Olympics, Sarah Hildebrandt saw the U.S. flag raised highest from the medal podium as she became the fourth U.S. woman to win the Olympics.

Page 32 – TOSSING FOES & FEARS ASIDE – Kennedy Blades became the second 20-year-old American woman to reach the Olympic finals in Paris because the native of Chicago chose a “child-like mentality” towards competing in her first Games.

Page 33 – HELEN MAKES HISTORY … AGAIN – No American woman has created more emotional moments than Helen Maroulis, the 2016 Olympic champ, who also became the first woman to claim three Olympic medals with a bronze in Paris.

Page 36 – GRECO-ROMAN STILL LOOKING FOR ANSWERS – With four athletes competing in Paris, the Greco team, which has not won an Olympic medal since 2008, had another tough Games with three of the four wrestlers drawing former champs in the first round.

Page 41 – PREVIEWING WORLD TEAM TRIALS – USAW is hosting the Senior Trials in Omaha, Neb. on Sept. 14-15, in the four non-Olympic weights in all three styles. Seven-time World/Olympic champ and former Husker Jordan Burroughs will be at 79 kg.

Page 44 – RMN EVENTS FEATURE – Rivals on the mat, Braxton Rodriquez of Arizona and Nixon Mendoza of California and their families have become quite close over the past three years at national events.

Plus, Columnists …

WIN publisher Bryan Van Kley putting in perspective Team USA’s performance in Paris, and talks about the Senior level of wrestling, which he compares to the NFL for football;
Legendary coach Dan Gable gives his critique on what went right and what went wrong in Paris;
High school coach John Klessinger suggests how wrestlers can tackle weight management after an Indian women’s freestyler failed to make weight before her gold-medal match;
WIN assistant editor Tristan Warner points out that sportsmanship was on full display in Paris;
Flowrestling’s Kyle Klingman examines the forced goodwill between Olympic competitors when the silver medalist was asked to take a “selfie” of the medal winners;
WIN founder Mike Chapman talks about his past experiences with former Olympians who special the Games truly are;
High school columnist Rob Sherrill names WIN’s winners of his high school summer RPI, based on what other ranked wrestlers they met.
WIN editor Mike Finn is eager to see the impact that women’s Senior-level stars — like Kennedy Blades, the Olympic silver medalist and new Iowa Hawkeye — will have on the growth of women’s college wrestling.